Name: Bailey Harris
School: Lexington
Years coaching: 18 as xc head coach, 27 years overall
Goals: to help make runners the best runner and person they can be
How often does your number five runner change?
Most years fairly frequently, last year Thomas (Harris) was our number five almost every meet until the state meet.
How do you prepare the number five runner for each race?
We always tell 5-7 they are the difference makers, they are the tie breakers and they can add points to the opponent by beating their number five.
What value is the number five runner on your team?
You can't win a championship without a good day from number five, but number five in the race may not be who you thought it would be as was the case in the state meet for us last year. Thomas had a bad day and Hunter Janus picked him up with a good day, enabling us to win...he was our most valuable runner that day even though we had number one and number two overall, we wouldn't have won our fourth title with out...