On Saturday at the Carl Owczrzak Fall Classic hosted by Shawnee Mission West, P. J. Greer won the 12th grade boys race.  With this win he beat his personal record to climb to the number 2 all-time boys 5K record at Aquinas.

He ran the race in 16:06, which was a second faster than his old time.  The next runner finished at 16:20 and teammate Kyle Hanson followed a second later. 

Greer's record sits behind ex-coach Chris Ronan who finished in a 15:58, leaving 8 second to possibly cut off his time.  Ronan was a 1992 grad who came back to coach and left last year to pursue marathons.  He ran in the Boston marathon and finished in 2:38:56.  For more on him follow the link below.

http://www.stasaints.net/s/348/index.aspx?sid=348&gid=1&pgid=991 

After the race, head coach Justin Wrigley congratulated Greer and alerted him to his new record.

The team next heads to the EKL meet on Thursday at Blue Valley High School.  Varsity boys were #1 in the preseason 5A state rankings, #3 in MOKAN and #6 in DyeStat/NIKE NXN Heartland Ranking.

Congratulations P.J. and good luck to the team at state!

(Look for pictures early next week.)