Wilson goes for repeat state title today

Saturday, October 27, 2018
Greencastle senior Emma Wilson is looking to win her second straight cross country state title.

TERRE HAUTE — Greencastle senior Emma Wilson will try to repeat her 2017 cross country state title today in the IHSAA state finals at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course.

Wilson is the defending state champion after running away with the title a year ago by nearly 15 seconds.

Wilson has comfortably won each tournament race up to this point and would become the first back-to-back girls’ winner since Culver Academies’ Alex Banfich won three championships in a row from 2005-07.

Twenty-four full teams and 80 more individuals who qualified without their squad (208 runners each race) will compete in each race over the 5,000-meter course with a reputation as one of the finest in the nation.

Senior Austin Haskett (eighth last year as a junior) and sophomore Analyssa Crain (last year’s sixth-place finisher as a freshman) of Edgewood are the only other two Western Indiana Conference runners in either race.

The Carmel boys team stands as the defending state champion after winning its second title in three years in 2017.

Third-ranked Zionsville is the defending team champion after capturing the school’s first title a year ago and is a prime contender again.

Watch Emma run

The state finals will be broadcast online at ihsaatv.org, with the girls’ race starting at 1 p.m. The boys’ race will start at 1:45 p.m.