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Girls Cross Country - Florida

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GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Tsion Yared

Distance Runner
PINE CREST SCHOOL
FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
JUNIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-4
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 17:26.63

Class 2A State Championship

2nd - 17:44.7

NXN Southeast

23rd

NXN Final
“Tsion had a remarkable track season last spring and that propelled her into her best summer of training and her best cross country season ever. Her individual accomplishments are staggering, but how she brought the team together—despite our injuries—and to finish on the podium for a seventh year in a row will be something her teammates cherish forever.”
Paul Baur
Head Coach - Pine Crest coach
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-4 junior raced to the Class 2A individual state championship this past season with a time of 17:26.63, leading the Panthers to second place as a team. Yared took second at the Nike Cross Nationals Southeast Regional championships in 17:44.7, and finished 23rd nationally at the NXN Final. She also won the King of the Hill Invitational and the St. Thomas University Invitational, and finished fourth at the prestigious Great American Cross Country Festival.

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Academic Achievement

Yared has maintained a weighted 4.85 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her senior year of high school this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Also a talented musician, Yared has participated in service-mission trips to Ethiopia and has volunteered locally on behalf of the Beta Club and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.