'I knew I'd given it my all': Lakota West's Evelyn Prodoehl brings home DI state title
Kori Stewart
The OHSAA cross-country state championships are in the books and the Cincinnati area was well-represented on the podium.
One clear standout was Lakota West's Evelyn Prodoehl who finished at the top of the Division I girls race with a time of 17:23.77. The runner in second place, Ursuline's Bentley Thomas, came in 27.67 seconds later.
Mason boys and girls finished high in the Division I team standings with the boys placing second and the girls finishing third. Madeira girls finished fifth as a team in the Division III race.
Greater Cincinnati had athletes in the top 20 of every race at the championship, see the full results for local runners below. Check back for a large photo gallery from the day's races.
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DI girls
Official results.
No. 1 Evelyn Prodoehl, Lakota West – 17:23.77
No. 2 Bentley Thomas, Ursuline Academy – 17:51.43
No. 11 Lucia Rodbro, Talawanda – 18:22.36
No. 12 Efa Paschka, Mason – 18:27.02
No. 19 Caroline Murnan, Loveland – 18:36.27
No. 20 Molly Deardorff, Lakota East – 18:36.63
No. 29 Delaney Cilley, Loveland – 18:50.40
No. 34 Hannah Hurlburt, Springboro – 18:56.51
No. 35 Eva Hensley, Oak Hills – 18:57.05
No. 49 Carlie Condit, Mason – 19:15.33
No. 53 Ava Dickenson, Lakota East – 19:17.83
No. 60 Ava Shepard, Lakota West – 19:27.80
No. 62 Addison Stephens, Mason – 19:28.14
No. 66 Peyton Dooloukas, Goshen – 19:29.58
No. 75 Aleah Coster, Oak Hills – 19:38.87
No. 77 Bella Teply, Mason – 19:39.51
No. 79 Kaitlin Kaszubski, Lakota West – 19:42.39
No. 85 Sharanya Nair, Mason – 19:49.50
No. 89 Ella Smith, Springboro – 19:52.59
No. 91 Maddy Asher, Lakota West – 19:53.42
No. 99 Atalia Hawkins, Mason – 20:01.35
No. 105 Suzie Cramer, Loveland – 20:05.95
No. 122 Allie Kimnach, Loveland – 20:23.94
No. 127 Savanna Conliff, Loveland – 20:27.98
No. 135 Bethany Griffin, Loveland – 20:35.25
No. 136 Elliot Fuller, Springboro – 20:35.68
No. 138 Amane Ohhashi, Lakota West – 20:41.15
No. 140 Alyese Caldwell Downing, Lakota West – 20:41.95
No. 146 Evie Widjaja, Springboro – 20:49.81
No. 158 Amelia Marusko, Springboro – 21:04.68
No. 162 Cate Bowser, Springboro – 21:09.00
No. 165 Abby Slife, Mason – 21:15.67
No. 167 Laurel Kennedy, Springboro – 21:21.08
No. 173 Anna Feeney, Loveland – 21:26.59
No. 181 Ellie Brite, Lakota West – 22:04.25
Team finishes: No. 3 Mason, 175; No. 8 Lakota West, 241; No. 11 Loveland, 262; No. 17 Springboro, 393.
They said it
"I felt finished at the end of the race for sure. I'm proud of my splits and my time. I think I could have done a little bit better, but at the end of the race, I knew I'd given it my all." —Evelyn Prodoehl after receiving her first place medal.
"(She's) a young lady that certainly earns all the accolades she gets. She does everything right from training to diet, to nutrition, to hydration to rest, and she's a straight-A student. She's phenomenal, I couldn't ask for more from a young lady." —Lakota West coach Sean Hart on Prodoehl.
DI boys
Official results.
No. 11 Max Liao, Mason – 15:28.11
No. 12 Evan Trapp, St. Xavier – 15:28.54
No. 15 Samuel Darmanie, Springboro – 15:38.98
No. 21 Alex Bruns, St. Xavier – 15:47.40
No. 28 Reilly Meyer, Lakota East – 15:50.70
No. 40 Max Bixler, Talawanda – 16:01.76
No. 43 Andrew Wilcox, Monroe – 16:03.89
No. 50 Lucas Towne, Turpin – 16:13.03
No. 52 Ronan Wolfer, Loveland – 16:13.70
No. 53 Jerry Xu, Mason – 16:13.91
No. 59 Miciah Smith, Springboro – 16:17.23
No. 66 Brendan Roe, Mason – 16:19.94
No. 67 David Franz, St. Xavier – 16:20.62
No. 69 Will Buckalew, Mason – 16:21.18
No. 75 Alex Follmer, Mason – 16:26.09
No. 80 Jason Xu, Mason – 16:27.75
No. 85 Luke Fox, St. Xavier – 16:30.75
No. 87 Samuel Thomas, Kings – 16:31.33
No. 106 Max Greco, Mason – 16:46.16
No. 107 Scott Schwetschenau, St. Xavier – 16:46.19
No. 110 Dominic Colussi, Springboro – 16:48.31
No. 113 Dominic Jackson, St. Xavier – 16:49.88
No. 122 Cole Zender, Springboro – 16:55.42
No. 127 Nolan Hicks, Springboro – 16:57.91
No. 168 Owen Paul, St. Xavier – 17:46.08
No. 176 Luke Gifford, Springboro – 18:05.53
No 179 Tyson Andrews, Springboro – 18:29.68
Team finishes: No. 2 Mason, 148; No. 4 St. Xavier, 178; No. 9 Springboro, 279.
They said it
"We got into good positions. We just didn't quite hold it like we would've liked to, but the bottom line is if we'd have run a lights-out, great race, we weren't gonna beat (Massillon Jackson). They had a tremendous day and, you know, hats off to them. They did a great job. We were pretty good." ‒ Mason head coach Tom Rapp on his team's second-place finish.
DII girls
Official results.
No. 3 Samantha Erbach, Waynesville – 18:25.20
No. 21 Brady Sterbling, Bethel-Tate – 19:09.15
No. 24 Ashley Williams, Mercy McAuley – 19:15.85
No. 53 May Humpert, Mercy McAuley – 19:43.55
No. 64 Kendal Erbach, Waynesville – 20:01.34
No. 82 Maria Gill, Waynesville – 20:12.47
No. 84 Meredith Guest, Wyoming – 20:18.45
No. 96 Emme Greely, Waynesville – 20:34.69
No. 100 Kyla Harvey, Waynesville – 20:38.03
No. 107 Aislin Turkelson, Waynesville – 20:43.31
No. 141 Zedie Click, Waynesville – 21:30.04
No. 159 Katie Senger, Mercy McAuley – 22:05.74
No. 160 Anna Heitz, Mercy McAuley – 22:07.94
No. 162 Grace Saylor, Mercy McAuley – 22:09.32
No. 172 Sarah Blessing, Mercy McAuley – 22:44.08
As a team, Waynesville finished sixth with 208 points and Mercy McAuley finished 119th with 408 points.
In a few words
"I'm a soccer player. I'm not a runner, so like to even come third, I'd say, is great." —Samantha Erbach after the race.
"I woke up this morning and I was not feeling good... I literally felt like I was dying, but I can't just die off. I need to just keep fighting and try to stay up in front." —Samantha Erbach after the race.
DII boys
Official results.
No. 36 Nathaniel Gockerman, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – 16:29.41
No. 39 Ben Fahnestock, Mariemont – 16:32.41
No. 47 Wyatt Gockerman, CHCA – 16:38.78
No. 56 Ryan Ashton, Madeira – 16:44.43
No. 57 J.T. Hamstra, Madeira – 16:44.51
No. 59 Ben Wetzel, Madeira – 16:45.11
No. 61 James McGrath, Indian Hill – 16:45.90
No. 71 Christian Burt, McNicholas – 16:54.15
No. 90 Silas Baird, Madeira – 17:09.77
No. 96 Jonas King, Waynesville – 17:15.35
No. 109 Aidan Murphy, CHCA – 17:20.05
No. 110 Jagger Dollenmeyer, CHCA – 17:20.64
No. 126 R.J. Poffenberger, Indian Hill – 17:34.42
No. 148 Matt Wetzel, Madeira – 18:06.67
No. 152 Trevor Kuhlman, CHCA – 18:11.41
No. 164 Blaine Causey, Madeira – 18:28.33
No. 169 Andrew Lott, CHCA – 18:41.60
No. 170 Eric Luther, Madeira – 18:43.46
No. 172 Andrew Sandefur, CHCA – 18:47.28
As a team, Madeira finished 10th with 260 points and CHCA finished 13th with 297 points.
In a few words
"I went over to the line, and I just tried to lock in. I started out pretty fast. I thought I wasn't running too fast, but started out in (at a) 4:50 (pace), which was hard to deal with for the rest of the race, but I just tried to hold on." —Ben Fahnestock after the race.
DIII girls
Official results.
No. 35 Cate LeRoy, Madeira – 19:27.4
No. 66 Allie Reuter, Summit Country Day – 20:06.5
No. 67 Ava Henry, Madeira – 20:07.0
No. 68 Ella Garza, Madeira – 20:07.4
No. 98 Annie Meyer, Madeira – 20:35.9
No. 121 Brooke Ashton, Madeira – 21:11.0
No. 145 Hannah Gemmel, Madeira – 21:33.6
No. 159 Keira O'Cull, Madeira – 22:07.9
As a team, Madeira finished fifth out of 20 teams with 206 points.
From the mouths of runners
"The reason we are so successful is because our team is so strong as a family. I think that we have one of the most cohesive teams in the league, which is why we've been led to so much success. And we have a great coach, Josh Dooley, who's really coached us to success and is why we're here today." ‒ Annie Meyer after the race.
DIII boys
Official results.
No. 14 Liam Woodward, Summit Country Day – 16:11.86
No. 20 Micah Katz, Cincinnati Christian – 16:21.4
No. 37 Christian Olson, Cincinnati Christian – 16:41.34
From the mouths of runners
"I was kind of tired this whole race." ‒ Liam Woodward after the race.
"Micah Katz, I wanted to race with him. We've kind of been racing together this whole season. He beat me in regionals and (today). I passed him in the last 800. I say he helped me race." ‒ Liam Woodward after the race.