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Bell Gardens Invitational
Immaculate Heart’s Cross Country Team powered through a three-mile course to win the Senior Race and place fourth in the Junior Race.
Immaculate Heart’s Cross Country Team powered through a three-mile course to win the Senior Race and place fourth in the Junior Race at Saturday’s 29th Annual Bell Gardens Invitational at Cerritos Regional Park.
Guided by Coach Florence Edi, Immaculate Heart took first in the Senior Race ahead of 11 other teams. Among 152 runners, six Pandas also earned medals, including Amber Creasey (4th place, with a time of 18:40.45); Carolyn Najera (14th, 19:40.93); Katie Hughes (27th, 20:04.20); Catherine Gibson (29th, 20:05.48); Lily Kachikis (30th, 20:09.36); and Ashley Galvez (33rd, 20:16.08).
IH also garnered four medals in the Junior Race, in which 13 teams and 163 runners competed. Those medalists were Madeleine Creasey (7th place, with a time of 19:16.52); Violet Marko (23rd, 20:15.66); Emily Alonso (28th, 20:36.45); and Orla Hladky (61st, 22:26.71).
“All of our girls showed stamina and strength, and their efforts produced amazing results for Immaculate Heart in both races,” said IH Athletic Director Maureen Rodriguez.
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A Catholic, independent college preparatory school for girls in grades 6 through 12, Immaculate Heart has been located on a beautiful hillside property in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles since our founding by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1906. We celebrate more than a century of nurturing the spiritual, intellectual, social and moral development of students as they distinguish themselves as women of great heart and right conscience.