This weekend’s WIAA State Cross Country Meet will be very special for one local runner.
Two Rivers sophomore Allie Gallagher has had a very consistent Cross Country season on staying at the top of the Eastern Wisconsin Conference.
Placing 7th in the WIAA Waupaca D2 Sectional, Gallagher qualified to run in the WIAA state meet in Wisconsin Rapids.
Allie has been coached by her mom all her life, and now the duo is heading to the state meet; however, this is not the first time for Amy Gallagher.
She went with Allie’s older sister Anna from 2018 to 2021.
Allie loved having her mom as the coach, even if sometimes it wasn’t exactly easy.
“I think that having her as a coach, she was able to be harder than me, which could be both helpful and not helpful,” the Raider sophomore admitted. “She knew me obviously personally because she’s my mother, which I think was able to help with things throughout the season.
The Two Rivers girls’ cross country team kept a very close relationship throughout the entirety of the season.
They had multiple team dinners together and also did all of their runs together, making memories, even playing pranks on their coach.
“At a team dinner, we left my house and we went out to the trails where we run and we went into the woods,” Allie recalled. “There’s this concrete staircase out there that just leads to nothing. We did some research and we think that the steps are possessed. So as a team, we all went on the steps, and then we went home, and we all acted possessed in front of my mom.”
Allie will race in the championship race at 2:25 p.m. this afternoon at Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids.
