The top individual runner on the Panorama Panthers girls cross country team ended her second straight season on the deck of the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge. Sophomore Ella Waddle closed the 2018 season as a member of the Class 2A All-State Girls Cross Country squad. Waddle placed fifth overall in the individual race with a time of 19:31. The Raccoon Valley Radio Network had Panorama head cross country coach Greg Thompson as a guest on Monday’s Wahl McAtee Tire and Service Center Guthrie County PM Sports Page to recap the Panthers’ state-run. Thompson said Waddle looked good the entire race. “She got stuck out (on the course) by herself for a little bit,” Thompson said, “The sixth and seventh place girl weren’t far behind her. She pulled away from them at the last half mile.”

Thompson added he was standing at the halfway mark of the race and felt confident Waddle would be an all-state finisher but didn’t know exactly where she’d land in the top 15. Waddle is coming off a sixth-place finish in last year’s Class 1A field, clocking a time of 21:09. The Panorama Panthers girls cross country team lost a tiebreaker with Cascade High School, taking seventh place overall in the final team standings with 180 points.