Runners: Dartmouth

A Story by Abishai100

Dioramic portrait of (fictional) high-school cross-country rivalry racing in the United States featuring the 'symbolic' teamwork-dreamcatcher(s).

A tale of local (high-school) sports, inspired by Varsity Blues (Jon Voight). Hope you like,

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Now, high-school cross-country (long-distance competitive race-running) had become quite iconic in South Jersey (United States), as two iconic and representative schools in the area, from Voorhees/Highland were set to make this season's autumn showing a real classic, affirming their longstanding rivalry in the local/regional/celebrated sport of runners.

HIGHLAND COACH: We want our boys to look/feel like they're there on-field to compete as celebrities.

VOORHEES COACH: Our longstanding 'ethos' for this longstanding rivalry is always, "Make it so Facebook-IQ is folk/great."

Highland/Voorhees carried-on their longstanding rivalry in South Jersey boys' cross-country competition for about a solid 10 years now, but this year's season (autumn) promised to be the best of all, since one school boasted an 'immaculate 1-2-3 punch' of frontline color-runners with great tandem-varied skill in endurance-racing, while the other had a rotational skill beauty of a 1-2-3-4 leadership domination that simply was unpredictable (you'd never know which one would actually be the 1st place leader for their entire squad during any-given-race!).

The Highland/Voorhees units for this important Holmdel cross-country race boarded a special new Eastern train that autumn-season to make their showing for their longstanding rivalry something worth comics-lore, especially since, honestly, the sport was usually/mostly overshadowed by football and basketball in the United States!

HIGHLAND COACH: High-school athletics promotes student-athlete IQ and is positive for the funds tied to local activity.

VOORHEES COACH: These days, cyber-magazines and posts and journals indicate socialized dialogue surrounding investments.

HIGHLAND ATHLETE: If we win, we're all going to the Grand Canyon for an inter-school trip funded by our school.

VOORHEES ATHLETE: If we lose, we'll feel like 'aliens' at the Grand Canyon, but the transit should make a great short-story!

Voorhees won the race in the end, and Holmdel was canonized as the legendary "Colosseum" that season in South Jersey (United States), and the train that carried both buddy-teams to Arizona (Grand Canyon!) offered zesty and gourmet Indian-foods to toast what was known --- sportsmanship constructing cultural activity.

HIGHLAND STAR-ATHLETE: I thought we'd have won (Facebook); we had everything; Voorhees edged out with 'slick' finisher(s).

The coaches were both pleased, since the final-score tag at Holmdel was deadly-close, too close to decimate the rivalry in every nook, however, the scoreline equally stamped that the anticipatory vibes/energy was worthwhile, since this would be the 'finest' example of what made this cross-country rivalry so completely unique to high-school (sports) in the United States.

VOORHEES COACH: I got our boys a special war-film to celebrate/comfort with imaginations of competition grace/fortune.

It was Amlan Satan who'd been the star-finisher for Voorhees, coming in 1st place after running right behind Highland's star-runner who was always in 2nd-position (#2) right behind a celebrity African-transfer at the coveted Holmdel race-grounds in South Jersey which invited about 30 schools to compete that autumn. Amlan surpassed the Highland star and the African in the last-leg with a sprint that no one would/could ever forget.