Perry's Hannah Jernigan, the eventual Far East D-II relay race winner, navigates one of the course's straightaways. (Photo by Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
Guam High accomplished something no other cross country team ever did last season – winning the Guam All-Island boys and girls titles, plus the DODEA-Pacific Far East and Asia-Pacific Invitational crowns.
On the heels of capturing their sixth straight All-Island boys team title and the girls’ fifth in six years on Monday, the question is, can the Panthers make it two straight Far East Division I team championships?
Coach Joe Taitano seems to think so.
“This team is probably better than the team we had last year,” said Taitano, 73, a 1970 John F. Kennedy graduate who has coached on island since the mid-1970s.
“We had a lot of kids in the top 10, four boys in the top eight, and for the girls, five in the top 10. I just hope we’re ready to compete with the DODEA teams (from elsewhere in the Pacific) this week.”
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