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The team ran remarkably well to finish in 14th place overall.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, not content with appearing at one Championship, the U13 team made the trip to Malvern College, along with the U11 team, for the annual Prep School National Championship. On a perfect spring morning both teams tackled the steep hills and packed start lines to come away with some fantastic results.<\/p>\n<p>The U13s placed 2nd overall, behind a strong Montkon Combe School and the young U11 team placed 39th overall, with a number of the team returning next year in the same age bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APS cross country squad competed at two national championships last weekend.\u00a0The first saw the Year 7 and 8 team travel to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National cross country success - 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