Nike surprised Niwot High School's boys cross country team with a schoolwide celebration in recognition of their historic national championship win at the Nike Cross Nationals in December. The Cougars made history as the first national champion team in the school's history and the first boys state championship team in Colorado cross country.
NIWOT, Colo. — Nike surprised Niwot High School 's historic national champion boys cross country team with a schoolwide celebration on Wednesday morning. The Cougars won first place at the Nike Cross Nationals in December and etched their names in both school and state history. 'It's really historic. Our school has never had a team of national champions , and Colorado has never had a team of boys state championships in cross country ,' Principal Eric Rauschkolb said.
That's something the team was on board with, like having this new challenge of being 5A,' Christensen said.Nike dripped out the runners and gymnasium in posters, t-shirts and a digital screen, all with the slogan 'The Boulder The Better' since the school is in Boulder County. 'The fact that Nike came up with their own description of their championship here and specified it to where we are geographically, yeah, that was really cool of Nike to do that for us.
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