Grandos signs with Warrior women’s cross country team

1-30-08

The Lewis-Clark State College women’s cross country program has signed its first recruit for the fall in Melissa Grandos, who is a senior at South Hills High School in Covina, Calif., Warrior coach Mike Collins announced Wednesday. 

“We are excited about having Melissa in our program,” Collins says.  “She comes form a very large high school outside of Los Angeles where the competition level is very high, so she knows the pressure of having high expectations of a team and individuals and has responded well throughout her high school career to these types of pressures.  She has won multiple all-league honors as well as being her team’s captain.” 

Collins says Grandos has been timed in 18 minutes, 50 seconds for a 3-mile cross country run, and has posted track times of 2:28 in the 800, 5:35 in the 1,600 and 11:52 in the 3,200, with her senior year still ahead of her.  

Collins says Grandos also is an excellent student with a GPA of better than 3.20. She plans to study Pre-Law while at LCSC.   

“She is the first to sign for next year and we anticipate a number more of new runners to officially sign in the very near future,” Collins says. 

LCSC finished 19th at the national meet last season and lost three seniors from the squad.