More SCISA schools enjoying running success

Watch practically any high school cross country or track event in the state and chances are the name of at least one, and more often several, SCISA-member schools and their student/athletes will be mixed in with their peers on the public school side at or near the top of the final-results list.

A few weeks back, at the Low Country Invitational on Johns Island, female athletes from three schools in the South Carolina Independent Schools Association – Heathwood Hall, Pinewood Prep and Spartanburg Christian Academy – placed in the top 10.  

At that event, the top two finishers – Spartanburg Christian’s Logan Morris and Heathwood Hall’s Sydney Ellen – finished one and two.  Maryah Nasir of Pinewood Prep and Heathwood’s Molly Joseph also finished in the top 10.

Those three schools, along with Ashley Hall, another SCISA school, also did well in the team competition, each placing in the top 10 at Low Country. It’s a result that’s has become routine for SCISA schools in recent years in cross c...