Windermere High girls cross country finishes 2nd at West Orange Invitational

Olympia High's Emily Knopfle was the best finisher from West, Southwest Orange; takes home the bronze.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 6:00 a.m. September 15, 2024

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Following a team win at the St. Cloud Invitational Sept. 7 — its second of the early season — Windermere High girls cross country finished in second at the West Orange Invitational Sept. 14.

This is the fourth consecutive top-two finish for the Wolverines this season.

On the individual front, Olympia High senior girls runner Emily Knopfle finished third and was the best finisher of any runner — boy or girl — from West and Southwest Orange County at the meet. Fellow Titans senior Aubrey Frost finished sixth and Windermere senior Ava Lack led the Lady Wolverines runners with a seventh-place finish.

As for the boys, another Titans senior, Taylor Fritts, led the way for the area's boys at the meet, finishing 22nd with a time of 5:40.4 while the Windermere boys cross country team topped the other participating area squads with a seventh-place finish.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.