Last Friday, CA’s Cross Country Team traveled to Charlotte to compete in the NCISAA 4A State Championships. 

Our girls team continued its strong improvement this season, emerging as the 4th place team in the state, our highest finish since 2019! To accomplish this, our girls posted huge time improvements from last season and additionally averaged nearly 30 second improvements from a month before on the same course!  

Our boys team became the 3rd fastest team in the 53-year history of the NCISAA, averaging 18 seconds faster per runner than our State Champion team last year! There’s not much more you can do than bring back a state championship team and run nearly 20 seconds better across the board.

In the team standings, our Boys placed Runner-up behind a boarding school team that vaulted from 4th in the NCISAA last year to 8th in the nation after adding nine elite upperclassmen transfers over the past 15 months. Our Chargers can hold their heads high, proud of an outstanding season filled with hard work, growth, and remarkable accomplishments.

CA was the top combined Girls’ and Boys’ program in the state this year, tied with Forsyth Country Day, with an average team finish of 3rd at the State Meet—a huge source of Charger pride. For the past two decades, Cary Academy and Providence Day are tied as the state’s best combined program in the state, both averaging a 3rd-place finish for combined Girls’ and Boys’ teams at the State Championships.

A special shoutout to Kavi Gibson ’26, this year’s individual State Champion, and to our All-State runners, Kavi and Finn Miller ’26. What a finish, Chargers! 

Our State meet squad was: Kajal Parmar, ’26, (12th/19:36), Akshadha Chintu, ’28, (31st/20:31), Maya Murthy, ’29, (35th/20:47), Lorelai Tsang, ’27, (37th/20:53), Piper Miller, ’26, (40th/21:00), Naomi Hammer, ’26, (42nd/21:07), Mira Greenwolfe, ’27, (49th/21:21); Kavi Gibson, ’26,  (1st/14:49), Finn Miller, ’26, (11th/15:39), Cole Harris, ’27, (15th/15:47), Colton White, ’28, (25th/16:22), Ivan Wind, ’27, (37th/16:51), Myles Karra, ’29, (47th/17:20), Oliver Karra, ’26, (50th/17:24).