High School SportsFriday, November 6
Springs Valley's Calvin Seitz won a second state title and broke a 46-year-old record
The Today in Terre Haute team
Springs Valley senior Calvin Seitz won his second straight Indiana boys cross country championship Saturday, Oct. 31, breaking a state meet record at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course. He finished 25.7 seconds ahead of runner-up Jack Wilbourne of Evansville's Signature School, who ran 15:00.4.
Seitz's second title came by a wide margin
- 14:34.7
- winning time in the 5,000 meters
- 25.7 seconds
- ahead of the runner-up
- 46 years
- the old state meet record stood
- 2
- straight Indiana boys titles
Sources: Dubois County Herald, The Indianapolis Star
Last year he won by two-hundredths of a second. This time he became Southern Indiana's first two-time champion, and after a 4:17 first mile, the only thing near him was the lead vehicle. Barr-Reeve and Reitz boys teams and the Jasper girls also qualified from Southwestern Indiana.
“It's an honor to be among some of the greats.”
- Record beaten: 14:42.3 by Curt Carey, 1980
- Previous finals best: 14:46.9 by Sam Quagliaroli, 2024
- Margin: third-biggest at state since 1968
- Next: Oregon, where he's headed for college
Seitz's record run capped a long chase of the state mark
- 1980Curt Carey sets the 14:42.3 state meet record at South Grove Golf Course.
- 2014Carmel's Ben Veatch wins the first of two straight boys titles.
- 2024Sam Quagliaroli runs 14:46.9, the previous state finals best at LaVern Gibson.
- 2025Seitz wins the state title by two-hundredths of a second.
- Oct. 31Seitz wins in 14:34.7 and breaks the 46-year-old state meet record.
Sources: Dubois County Herald, The Indianapolis Star