Our countdown continues here at VYPE DFW with our Top 10 Moments of the 2018-19 season. While I personally was not a contributor to the VYPE team, the importance - in my mind - is no less significant.
Adoette Vaughan Wins 4th Straight SPC Title
Whether in a team sport or individual competition, it's hard - at any level - to win a championship. Athletes train and practice, battle, sweat and compete - rinse and repeat - and still it's no certainty a title will manifest.
Unless your name is Adoette Vaughan, cross country runner at Hockaday.
Throughout all of her high school years, Vaughan took home individual Southwest Preparatory Conference state crowns - a quadfecta. Vaughan became the first girls cross country runner to win four straight, besting the three-peat set from 2007-09 by Greenhill's Chelsey Sveinsson.
Vaughan ran the five kilometers in 17:25.8 to capture the 2018 title. She beat Greenhill's Maddie Hatfield by a minute and 22 seconds. The 2018 pace was more than 30 seconds faster than her 2017 pace and almost tied her 2018 season best of 17:58.5.
Vaughan signed to continue her cross country career at the University of Arkansas, according to Hockaday's alumnae athlete website.
Tompkins' Drew Merrell (Sr. S), Natalie Kitts (Sr. MB), and Ava Johnk (Sr. OH)Matt Powell (VYPE)
