Avery Hacker’s junior season with Batavia almost perfectly mirrored how she approaches her races.

For the first half of the season, she kept a lower profile among the pack. But as soon as the competition stepped up, she kicked it into another gear and surged.

And it showed on the course.

Hacker finished her junior season with top-3 finishes in eight of her 10 races on the season and also cleared the 17-minute mark in each of her last five races after only doing so once as a sophomore.

And to top it off, she ended off her season with a second-place finish in the Class 3A state championship race, finishing in 16:14.0, a 38-second improvement from her second year.

Hacker was selected as the Kane County girls cross country Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive season for her ef

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