Staff Report  Hays High junior Abby Parra stops her watch as she crosses the finish line at the Hays CISD Invitational meet held earlier this year. Parra will run in her third straight state cross country meet Tuesday. On Tuesday, a pair of Hays CISD cross country athletes will take on the state's b...

Below, Hays High senior Abby Parra shows off her speed as she races around a bend about a mile into the Hays Invitational meet Saturday. Parra, who returns after reaching state the last two seasons, claimed second place overall in the varsity girls Division A race. Above, Johnson High junior Kyla Ga...

Navigating through the 5,000-meter UIL 6A state cross country course Saturday was practically a blur for Hays High sophomore Abby Parra. “It just went by really fast,” Parra said. “One second I was starting and the next second, I was finishing.” What happened between that time mattered most for Parr...

History was made Monday when seven Johnson High cross country athletes became the first Jaguars to punch a ticket to state.     By virtue of a 4th place team finish in the Region IV, 4A meet in Corpus Christi, members of the Johnson High girls cross country team, which only began competing as a grou...

Left to right are Omar Guzman, Kip Appleton, Declan Trevethan, Jaden Tumale, Tyler Gabriel, Aidan Vocke and Ivan Guzman. The Region IV, 5A meet is on the horizon for Hays High’s boys and girls cross country teams after the programs earned podium finishes at the 25-6A district championships Oct. 15. ...

Hays Girls Abby Parra – 20:37 Adia Vera – 21:41 Mariah Solis Turner – 22:50 Deasiah Batton – 23:12 Andrea Delgado – 23:18 Yesenia Parra – 23:21 Emma Rice – 23:32 Jennifer Mendoza – 25:24 Lehman Girls Trinity Montalbo – 21:10 Melina Garza – 23:00 Sophie Mullinnix – 23:31 Stephanie Quistan – 24:10 Joh...

A gold medal sweep of the varsity boys and girls competitions was how the Hays High cross country teams closed its weekend as hosts of the Hays Invitational held at Waterleaf Park in Kyle Saturday. Both the Hays boys and girls teams took first place in the meet which included Lehman, Johnson, Ann Ri...

When the first day of preseason practices arrived Aug. 1, members of the Hays Rebel boys cross country team took stock of a trophy displayed in head coach Traci Hightower’s office. The item itself wasn’t the motivation behind the visit. What it took to earn that trophy, claimed by winning the 25-6A ...

Lehman High sophomore Nikayla Fitzgerald plunges into the long jump pit at the 2019 Texas Relays held at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin in late March. Fitzgerald will join two other Hays CISD athletes who will compete at the 2019 UIL state track and field meet in Austin this next week. Fitzgerald, ...

ROUND ROCK – A strong start to Saturday’s UIL 6A girls state cross country meet turned into a record finish for Hays High freshman Abby Parra.  By maintaining a consistent pace after the first mile of the race, Parra not only secured 18th place out of 150 runners with a time of 17.52.46, but also se...