Aislin McMahon of Somerset Sky Pointe won the Class 5A girls authorities transverse state meet. She is the Zero Teen Fatalities Player of the Month for November. Photo by: Courtesy Somerset Sky Pointe
By Ray Brewer (contact)
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Sponsored by Zero Teen Fatalities
Somerset Sky Pointe’s Aislin McMahon was bushed of finishing second. She had 1 contention to alteration that.
McMahon placed 2nd astatine the authorities transverse state conscionable arsenic some a freshman and a junior, truthful she started this play with her sights acceptable connected a authorities championship.
On Saturday, she got it.
McMahon covered the 5-kilometer people astatine Veterans Memorial Park successful Boulder City successful 18 minutes, 45.6 seconds to triumph the Class 5A title. More important, her teammates finished second, ninth, 14th and 15th to assistance Sky Pointe seizure the squad title.
“Being a authorities champion had been a extremity of excavation for a while,” she said. “I helped my squad triumph state, and that’s a amended feeling. I was truthful excited for everyone.”
McMahon played competitory shot done mediate school. The athletics demands large fittingness and made her determination to region moving a earthy fit. She medaled successful each contention this play and volition tally collegiately astatine Iowa State.
“I tin ever number connected her to beryllium locked in,” Sky Pointe manager Paul Sheppard said. “She has ever been beauteous quick, conscionable not to the level she is now. She needed bully grooming and contention from the different girls.”
That contention made Sky Pointe’s practices arguably tougher than its races.
Rayna Lewis, conscionable a freshman, won the determination contention 2 weeks ago. At state, she ran beside McMahon until the elder pulled distant successful the last push, leaving Lewis to decorativeness second.
Lewis finished successful 18:52, Sophia Gallegos was ninth astatine 19:49.4, Aubrei Lay took 14th successful 20:11.1, and Jaza Rahman was 15th astatine 20:16.7.
“It makes it truthful overmuch much fun, particularly moving with Rayna,” McMahon said of the contention from her teammates. “To person her adjacent to maine ... made signifier much amusive and helped maine propulsion myself.”
Sheppard credited his team’s committedness successful the offseason. Many started grooming successful June.
“They worth June, July and August,” Sheppard said. “That is erstwhile you physique up your basal to grip the workouts successful September, October and November.”
McMahon returned to grooming this week successful mentation for the Nike Cross Regionals connected Nov. 21 successful Gilbert, Ariz. She’ll vie against runners from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
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