The assistant coach of the Adel-Desoto-Minburn Tigers cross country teams helped this years runners adopt a new mindset on respect for your opponents. Last week, the Raccoon Valley Radio Network sat down with members of ADM’s state qualifying boys cross country team to discuss story lines from the season. The topic of appreciating the opponent came up when talking about the influence this year’s coaching staff had on the team’s run to Fort Dodge.

Senior Micah Moyer praised ADM assistant coach Scott Schroeder for his encouragement and teaching kids how to be respectful when in competition.”If there’s one thing (Coach Schroeder) he’s taught us this year is we don’t do rude, which is very good for us.” Moyer said, “Whenever another runner tries to trash talk us or if another team is or another coach, we step away, we don’t do rude. We try to encourage them and build them up. We don’t want them to bring us down.”

The ADM boys cross country team closed their season this past weekend in Fort Dodge, competing in the Class 3A State Cross Country meet for the first time since 2006. The Tigers placed 14th out of 15 teams with 282 points. Freshman Nathaniel Mueller was ADM’s only all-state runner, placing 11th overall with a time of 16:30.