{"id":1722,"date":"2021-11-02T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:58:12","slug":"falcons-alyssa-johnson-qualifies-for-state-cross-country-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/falcons-alyssa-johnson-qualifies-for-state-cross-country-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons&#8217; Alyssa Johnson Qualifies for State Cross-Country Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1729\" width=\"729\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-1024x875.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-768x656.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-1536x1312.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21-570x487.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cross-Country-Alyssa-Johnson-districts-10-28-21.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><figcaption>Cross-country coach Eric Carman with junior Alyssa Johnson after she placed third at districts on Thursday, qualifying her for state. (Photo by EHS assistant coach Derek French)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elmira High School cross-country team competed in the district meet at Lane Community College on Thursday in a bid to qualify for the state meet. Junior Alyssa Johnson placed third overall and will represent the Falcons at state on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the last meet of the season for those who didn\u2019t qualify for state and the last one ran with seniors Shark Zhao and Cosette Fowler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls race started at noon and was spectacular. The boys ran strong races and held tough throughout the race. All of the girls competed in the varsity race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fowler clocked in at 24:43, and Olivia Fatooh finished at 26:46. Johnson placed third overall with a state-qualifying time of 20:23. She said she is excited to go to state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhao and Jude Carman competed in the varsity race. Zhao finished at 20:15, placing 27th, and Carman placed 21st with a time of 19:22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garrett Flores and Jacob King-Todd ran in the JV race. Flores placed 12th with a time of 21:45. King-Todd finished with a time of 25:26 and came in 22nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Eric Carman said he is proud of how the team performed this season and how much they&#8217;ve improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls race of the state meet will begin at 11:45 a.m. Saturday at Lane Community College. Good luck, Alyssa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The junior places third at the district meet; other EHS runners also finish strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}