I made the trip out to Johnson City earlier this week to photograph the high school girl’s cross country team for the Statesman.
The team is young, with only one senior, but some how they’ve managed to surprise everyone by making it to this year’s state championships.
Last year the girls went to the regional competition and missed qualifying for state by a mere five points. Coach Jeff Campbell made t-shirts printed with the number 5 to remind them of their narrow defeat and to motivate them for the 2011 season. It must have worked.
The focal point of the story was triplets Whitney, Kiley and Brooke Wood, who all run on the cross country team. I took a few shots of them, then added the rest of the team and the coach.
When the posed shots were finished, I decided to stick around for the first part of practice. Coach Campbell drove me around in a high-powered golf cart to catch the girls in action.
