Members of Wrangell High School's cross country team, and their parents met in the high school commons Aug. 7 to meet with the team's new coach. Drew Larrabee, who teaches the high school's CTE class, is the team's new coach after Jen Davies decided to step away from the position this year. The first thing he told everyone in attendance, about 20 people in all, is that he does have experience in cross country.

"Rest assured, I have coached cross country for quite a few years previous to this," he said. "Before that I ran all of my middle school and high school career ... I used to run in c...