By Blake Colston
Sports EditorIf you build it, they will come.That’s what Piedmont cross country head coach Kelly Beck said when he took the PHS job seven years ago.If the Wildcats could have enough success to grow interest in the program, the best athletes in school would want to run, he believed.
Sports EditorIf you build it, they will come.That’s what Piedmont cross country head coach Kelly Beck said when he took the PHS job seven years ago.If the Wildcats could have enough success to grow interest in the program, the best athletes in school would want to run, he believed.
Two state titles (2020, 2018) and two second place finishes (2017, 2019) later, Beck is prophetic.As the Wildcats prep for their season-opening meet at Deer Creek Aug. 21, the defending state champions look as ready as ever to run to glory, despite losing Fares Maarouf and Beckam Hartis to graduation and college running careers at Oklahoma City University.
Piedmont has depth in its lineup and is one of the top teams in Oklahoma, regardless of classification.
“When I first took the job, we’d show up to meets and see Deer Creek or Bishop McGuinness get off the bus and we’d say, look at those guys,” Beck said…
Read the full story in Thursday’s Piedmont-Surrey Gazette.
