Hinsdale Central will send both its boys and girls cross country teams to the IHSA State Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Detweiller Park in Peoria.
Fourteen Red Devils earned spots on the state-meet rosters, The Hinsdalean reported.
The boys squad features five seniors: Mark Dillenburg, Elliot Kotelba, Johnny Krueger, Henry Miller and Noah Mokhtarian. Junior Otis Naito and sophomore David Belgrad round out the seven-runner lineup.
The girls team brings four seniors: Alexandra Furey, Morgan Kohn, Lucy McCormick and Ella Satre. Junior Marin Backus and freshmen Emma Schoenberger and Rory Sullivan complete the roster.
Both squads lean on experience. Eleven of the 14 qualifiers are seniors or juniors.
Kohn, a team co-captain, came to the sport after competing as a gymnast through eighth grade. In an August profile in The Hinsdalean, head coach Mark McCabe called her "a self-made athlete" who "last year was the second runner on a seventh-place state cross country team, missing all-state honors by just nine seconds."
The program's history page lists IHSA state championships in 2013 and 2014, state runner-up finishes in 2021 and 2022, and a Nike Cross Nationals Midwest regional title in 2022.
