Name: Averick Wiseman

School: Dixon

Sport: Cross country

Year: Junior

Why he was selected: He ran a personal best time of 15 minutes, 10.4 seconds to open the season on Sept. 6 with a second-place finish at the St. Charles East Leavey Invitational’s 3-mile race.

The performance helped Dixon take first as a team. Dean Geiger was third, Keegan Shirley was eighth, Westin Conatser was ninth and Abram Garcia was 19th for the Dukes.

Expectations are looking high for Dixon after taking fourth at state last year in Class 2A.

“Averick’s run was one of the best openers for the Dixon Dukes cross country team of all time,” coach Simon Thorpe said. “The same is easily said for the entire team, but he is just the one who came across for us first. He has had an exceptional summer of training

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