North Carolina’s history in the Champs Sports national meet is not great. A boy from the Tar Heel state has never placed higher than fourth in what most runners consider the Super Bowl of high school cross country, an event which has taken place since 1979.
A Greenie has a real chance to alter those fortunes.
There are three ways to watch Christ School senior Rocky Hansen ’23 run live Saturday in San Diego. While it will be a morning race in California due to the three-hour time difference, the boys meet starts here at 1 p.m. (EST).
Following are the URLs for three platforms that will carry Saturday’s livestream:
www.youtube.com/@footlockerxc
Rocky won the Champs Sports South Regional championship on Nov. 26 with the best performance ever by a North Carolina boy in that meet (14 minutes, 40.06 seconds), and is also the state’s overall record-holder for the 5K distance (3.1 miles) with a time of 14:20.90.
Rocky's hometown is Hendersonville, N.C., and he has signed to run college cross country and track for Wake Forest University.