No home for LSC x-country

By Sam Monroe
Special to the Critic

Without a single home meet, X-country athletes at Lyndon State College will have to travel away.

LSC Cross Country is running away.
Running away is the only type of running the Lyndon State College men’s and women’s cross country teams will be doing this season, as they do not have single home meet.
“It is just the nature of the sport,” Athletic Director and cross-country coach Chris Ummer said. Not every team has home meets every season; this is much to do with the amount of teams in the league, and the rotating schedule of the leagues championship meet. Most teams will want to run on the course that the championship is on at least once that season so they can prepare themselves for the course.
Ummer also said that there is a lot of “sweat and sometimes blood” that goes into preparing the course for a race. The entire course has to be raked of any leaves or branches that may have fallen and all other hazards that may cause any of the athletes to slip or possibly get injured.
The school’s cross-country course is deep in the woods and the construction has nothing to do with the scheduling.
“I would have loved to have them race here and give Lyndsay (Calkins) a chance to break the course record, but it just didn’t work out,” Ummer said. Ummer went on to say that both the men’s and women’s teams are looking good and should be exciting to watch this season. Unfortunately the Hornets will not get a chance to run in front of their hometown fans this year but expect them to be running through the Lyndon campus sometime in the near future.