By Cooper Chadwick
While looking forward to finally having a full team to compete at meets, senior Brady Wells continues to get better so he can lead a group of inexperienced runners.
Through Wells’ first three years, Salina Sacred Heart has struggled to recruit kids to the cross country team so they have not had enough kids to be able to have a full team to run together at meets.
Wells was excited for this new change.
“I think it would be awesome if as a team we could make it to state,” he said. “I have great coaches and am excited to see how this cross country season plays out.
During the offseason, Wells took the initiative to get better, running on his own and meeting with his team twice a week to practice. Improving was the only thing on Wells’ mind.
“I want to improve on my pace during meets as well as my kick at the end of the races. To improve I did a lot of quick training such as 200s and 800 workouts to become quicker,” Wells said.
With a personal best of 16:42, Wells was named all-state twice and his best finish at state was third. He hoped to improve on his time of 17:20 at the state meet in 2023.
