Miller will represent FHS during final cross country race of 2024 season

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November 1, 2024

Fairbanks’ Sadie Miller competes during the 2024 Farmbanks Invitational at Fairbanks High School earlier this season. The Lady Panther is the only member of the school’s cross-country program set to compete in Saturday’s OHSAA state meet. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Miller will represent FHS during final cross country race of 2024 season

By Aleksei Pavloff

Sadie Miller’s second trip to the Ohio High School Athletic Association state cross country meet will be different than her first.

Last season, Fairbanks sent its girls team to the state meet with Miller being one of those competitors.

Placing 17th at the 2024 regional meet at Pickerington North Hig...

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