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See larger Estero sophomore Kacy Smith sprints to the finish line as she captures the Class 2A girls cross country individual state championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Smith and the Wildcats also captured the team title. Kevin Johnson/Staff

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Estero sophomore Kacy Smith sprints to the finish line as she captures the Class 2A girls cross country individual state championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Smith and the Wildcats also captured the team title. Kevin Johnson/Staff

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  • Estero sophomore Kacy Smith sprints to the finish line as she captures the Class 2A girls cross country individual state championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Smith and the Wildcats also captured the team title. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples senior Erika Fluehr nears the finish line as she wins the Class 1A girls cross country title in 17:08 on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Fluehr's sister Kathryn finished second. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero cross country coach Jeff Sommer hugs sophomore runner Aja Curth after the Wildcats' girls team captured the Class 2A state title on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. It was the first girls team cross country state championship in Estero history. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples senior Erika Fluehr nears the finish line as she wins the Class 1A girls cross country title in 17:08 on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Fluehr's sister Kathryn finished second. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • As Estero's Kacy Smith sprints to the finish line on her way to winning the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City, her coach Jeff Sommer handles radio duty while trying to keep up with the action. Smith and the Wildcats also won the team title. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero coach Jeff Sommer and freshman Bethany Jenkins celebrate after the Wildcats won the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples teammates and sisters Erika Fluehr, left, and Kathryn Fluehr lead the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples' Vivian Grimes (233) and Seffner Christian's Danielle Dunn (1120) near the finish line at the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Grimes finished 29th followed by Dunn. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Island Rocks' Tori Trador (579) finishes 50th followed by St. John Neumann's Cassandra Fernandez (1167) in 51st at the Class 1A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Tiffany Imbert (1170) leads a group of runners near the finish line at the Class 1A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Spectators fill the grandstand at Little Everglades Ranch for the state cross country finals on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Leaders early in the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City include Cocoa Beach's Shelby Davidson (202), Cardinal Gibbons' Macy Huskey (154), Estero's Kacy Smith (368) and her teammate next to her Maria Frank, Oakleaf's Mary Brown (993), Ransom Everglades' Nicole Carpio and Estero's Katy G. Solis (369). Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Immokalee's Aurora Lopez (560) competes in the 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Lopez finished 113th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Bethany Jenkins (366) and Aja Curth lead a group of runners at the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • From left, Cocoa Beach's Shelby Davidson, Pope John Paul's Stephanie Schappert, Estero's Kacy Smith, Ransom Everglades' Nicole Carpio and Bolles' Rebecca Chandler lead the Class 2A girls cross country championship as the pack passes the grandstand for the second time on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Alexa Cline and Bishop Kenny's Kaczorowski (80) compete in the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Kacy Smith, center, starts her surge against Pope John Paul II's Stephanie Schappert (1115) during final stretch at the Class 2A girls cross country championshp on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Smith won in 17:47. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Katy G. Solis and Maria Frank finish seventh and eighth, respectively, in the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Aja Curth finishes 13th at the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Katie Slater (367) competes in the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Slater finished 19th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples' Vivian Grimes (233) competes in the Class 1A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Tiffany Imbert, center, competes in the Class 1A girls cross championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Imbert finished 65th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Alex Gray (1169) competes in the Class 1A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Nearby are Marathon's Kelsey Wonderlin (770), Geneva's Cassidy Goble (466), Keswick's Savanna Venier (615) and Indian Rocks' Jennifer Nessler (577). Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Community School of Naples senior Kathryn Fluehr finishes runner-up at the Class 1A girls cross country state championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • From left, Estero's Katie Slater, Aja Curth, Bethany Jenkins and Kacy Smith celebrate the school's first girls cross country state championship as a team on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Estero won Class 2A. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Durant's Grace VanDeGrift (332) and Fort Myers' Sarah Spann (437) lead the Class 3A girls cross country championship early in the race on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Spann won the title. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Naples' Oona Watkins (912) battles Chiles' Sara Lane (179) and Fort Walton's Rhianna Moller during the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Fort Myers' Rachel Petrik (435) competes in the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Naples' Hannah Klopf (907) competes in the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Gulf Coast's Kia Heller-Spencer (509) competes in the Class 3A girls cross country final on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Fort Myers' Haley Emerson (434) leads a group of runners in the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Fort Myers' Sarah Spann nears the finish line on her way to winning the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Gulf Coast's Caroline Barlow (504) battles Fort Myers' Courtney Russo (436) during the final few yards of the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Pine Forest's Crystal Wachob (1094) tries to hold off Fort Myers' Rachel Petrik near the finish line in the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Naples' Courtney Hogrefe sprints to the finish line at the Class 3A girls cross country championshp on Nov. 20, 2010. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Gulf Coast's Kali Heller-Spencer (508) battles Naples' Miranda Rossi near the finish line at the Class 3A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Class 3A champion Sarah Spann, center, from Fort Myers receives a hug from teammate Haley Emerson during a postrace interview on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Seacrest Country Day's Anna Barry, center, competes in the Class 1A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Barry finished 18th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Canterbury School (Fort Myers) ninth grader Emily Edwards nears the finish line in 6th place at the Class 2A girls cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • From left, Palmer Trinity's Luis Asensio, Northside Christian's Joseph Chapman and St. John Neumann's Michael Corso compete in the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Patrick Sweeney (1179) and Christopher Rowe (1176) compete in the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Ryan Gingras nears the finish line in the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Gingras finished 70th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Seacrest Country Day's Andrew Lemay (1185) nears the finish line in the Class 1A boys cross country championship ahead of Pensacola Christian's Jackson Butler (1068) on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Lemay finished 78th out of 182 runners. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Stephan Kohlmeier II (382) of Fort Myers' Evangelical Christian School and St. John Neumann's Alex Bernal (1173) compete in the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Patrick Sweeney (1179) squeezes his way through Shorecrest Prep's Ross Porter (1192) and Miami Country Day's Isaac Manton (825) to finish 101st in the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • St. John Neumann's Christopher Rowe sprints to the finish line at the Class 1A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Rowe finished 107th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Early in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City, Cypress Lake's Jeremy Ploplis leads a pack of runners that includes Estero's Steven Briner (370), Alex Hernandez (373) and Jose Cartagena (371). Estero won the boys title. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Ranson Everglades' Bert Irigoyen is all alone as he nears the finish line and wins the Class 2A boys cross country title on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. He finished in 15:41. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • North Broward Prep's Nicholas Palmermo and Estero's Aaron Rojas compete in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Immokalee's Andres Ramirez (571) competes in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Cypress Lake's Trent Craig checks behind him as Nease's MacKenzie Reynolds, center, and Estero's Aaron Rojas near the finish line in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Craig finished fourth followed by Reynolds and Rojas. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Julian Chavez (372) sprints to the finish line ahead of Pensacola Catholic's Don Kerrigan (1064) in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Chavez finished 43rd. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero freshman Adam Sommer (376) and a lot of runners behind him head towards the finish line in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Sommer finished 70th out of 189 runners. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Palmetto Ridge's Andrei Escobar (1034) competes in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Creekside's William Clark nears the finish line on his way to winning the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Naples' Matthew Martinez (916) competes in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Martinez finished 126th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Palmetto Ridge teammates Carlos Miranda (1035) and Joshua Pelletier (1036) sprint toward the finish line in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Pelletier finished 17th followed by Miranda in 18th place. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Palmetto Ridge's Matthias Baudinet (1031) battles Trevor Touchton (708) and Jesse Close (703), both from Lincoln (Tallahassee) in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Baudinet finished 55th. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Land O'Lakes' Dillon Oergel (676) and Naples' Jovanie Martinez (915) near the finish line in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Wiregrass Ranch's Ermias Bireda (1465), Palmetto Ridge's Jacoby Yoder (1037) and Martin County's John Gonzalez (776) battle near the finish line in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Creekside's William Clark leads the field early in the Class 3A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City. Clark led wire to wire to win the race in 14:58. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • Estero's Jesse Littlefield (374) nears the finish line in the Class 2A boys cross country championship on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Littlefield is the only senior on Estero, which won the team title. Kevin Johnson/Staff
  • The Estero boys and girls cross country teams celebrate their Class 2A titles in front of a horse statue at Little Everglades Ranch on Nov. 20, 2010 in Dade City. Joining the celebration is Estero principal George Clover (at left, front row), next to coach Jeff Sommer. Kevin Johnson/Staff

Estero High won the boys and girls Class 2A state championships on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, at the FHSAA state meet in Dade City. Community School's Erika Fluehr also won the Class 1A girls individual title.

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