When the Wrestling team went to Salem for the State Tournament earlier this year I was awestruck by the fact that those young men would wait 3 hours for a shot at possibly Wrestling for 2 to 6 minutes before waiting 3 or 4 hours to do it again.
Earlier today Freshman Corrie Delp woke up at her home in Carroll County and then had some breakfast before heading to CCHS with her Family 👪 to meet up with the remainder of the Track and Field traveling party.
The next step was the 2 hour and 20+ minute drive 🚗 to the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg. Next you have the check in process ahead of trying to stretch out the body kinks of the day. Then you wait out the heats ahead of you that included hurdles on the track before you are allowed to set up in the lane you have been assigned (Lane 6). Corrie was then 9 hours into her day when the starters gun 🔫 went off and Miss Delp got out of the blocks quickly and flew down the track for 13.25 seconds. Her time was good enough for second place in her heat with three more heats to follow. The top 8 runners 🏃♂️ would come back on Saturday afternoon for the Finals and it wasn’t until the fourth and final heat that Delp fell from the Top 8.
Her time was the second best posted by a Freshman and tied for 10th overall but would later be bumped down to 11th in the tiebreaker.
The margin separating the runners 🏃♂️ was wire thin and I tried my best to catch the blur created by Corrie and came close if not for the late photo bomb by the Hat Lady.
Miss Delp did herself, her family 👪 and her school 🏫 proud during those 13+ seconds !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 