cross country

At section meet, Tigers run well with perfect weather on a difficult course

Oct 29, 2025

A perfect day weatherwise and two perfect races for the Lake City High School cross country teams at the Section 1A Cross Country Championships run on the Northern Hills Golf Course on Thursday. The boys started the day with a goal of running in the top half of the Section. Northern Hills is a...

Four runners named All-Conference at HVL meet

Oct 22, 2025

The Tiger runners ended their regular season at the Hiawatha Valley League (HVL) meet that was held at Kasson-Mantorville High School. The Tigers came away with nice performances as they competed on a day that it rained from beginning to end. The non-varsity junior highers ran their first 5000...

Tiger cross country runners face tough competition in first Jordan appearance

Oct 15, 2025

The Tiger harriers ventured to Jordan to race where they had never been before. They attended a seventeen team race made up of AAA, AA and a few A teams. This was a three day turnaround for them after their trip to Duluth over the weekend, plus, the order of racing was flipped with the varsity...

Yotter victorious as Tiger runners return to Duluth for Swain Invite

Oct 8, 2025

The Tiger cross country team returned for the first time since pre-Covid to Duluth for the Swain Invite on Enger Golf Course. The city and course was much to their liking. Enger has been described many ways on the t-shirts they peddle. One way is that, “It’s a hill of a race”, and that it is...

Track and field Howie Cook designed now bears his name

Oct 8, 2025

When a voter-approved referendum funded upgrades to the Lake City High School track and field complex at the corner of Iowa Street and Garden Street, Coach Howie Cook took inspiration from the best college facilities for the new design. “So at one time we had the premier track, and it’s as good as...

Switch from Durand to St. Charles proves beneficial for Tiger runners

Oct 1, 2025

The Tiger harriers left practice thinking they were competing in Durand and by the time they arrived at school the next day, they were bound for St. Charles due to a Wisconsin restriction that doesn’t apply to junior high on the Minnesota side of the river. This turned out to be a good thing as...

Tigers withstand heat at home cross country meet

Sep 24, 2025

The 48th annual Lake City cross country meet had a change of venue from Hok-si-la to the Bluff View Sports Complex, but that didn’t help with the heat. For the third year in a row the heat and humidity caused a change in the race distance and the number of races run. When things were over, the...

Tiger runners almost a minute faster than last year at Dover-Eyota

Sep 17, 2025

Lake City ventured to Eyota to run in a quad at Dover-Eyota. With a severe storm moving into the area, the decision was made to combine the two varsity races, This turned out to be a positive because it allowed the Tiger front girl, Olivia Yotter, to have the competition that pushed her to a two...

Harriers do well at ‘Crazy Buffalo’ Invite

Sep 10, 2025

The Tiger harriers ventured south to La Crescent to compete in the “Crazy Buffalo” Invite. The junior high started the day with both boys and girls’ lead runners running some crazy times. On the girls’ side, Clara Yotter ran one with Ellie Kohrs a step behind in second, and Teagan Breyfogle not...

Tiger runners compete against larger schools at Irish Invite

Sep 3, 2025

It was Labor Day weekend, and the Tiger Cross Country team was starting it Friday morning at the Irish Invite run at Rosemount High. Lake City was once again the only Class A team there with the rest belonging to AA, or AAA. Why go there? It’s a morning meet to beat August heat, it’s 3200 meters, a...