Junior Kortney Witherow of Hamilton’s Penney High School, left, finished eighth in last Friday’s Class 2 Missouri State High School Activities Association Cross-Country Running Championships at Columbia’s Gans Creek Cross Country Course, easily earning a state medal and All-State status for 2023. She had barely missed a medal and being All-State (top-30 finish in the state race) as a sophomore when she placed 33rd. Her 20:05 time this year was 1:43 faster than she ran on the same course last year. (Photo courtesy of Cody Thorn)
COLUMBIA — Two cross-country runners from Hamilton’s Penney High School, including eighth-place finisher Kortney Witherow, and one each from Braymer and Mendon: Northwestern earned state-meet…
