Norman's Tanner Satterthwaite feels good about cross country season

Norman cross country runner Tanner Satterthwaite is the defending Class 6A boys individual champion.

NORMAN — The Norman boys cross country team, which was Class 6A’s runner-up last season, competed last weekend at the Greenhill Relays in Dallas.

Tanner Satterthwaite, the defending Class 6A individual state champion, and the Tigers finished fourth at the event.

“We went up against some of the best teams from Texas and still got fourth,” Satterthwaite said.

This weekend is the Brookhaven Run, a road race in Norman that also serves as a fundraiser for the team. The Brookhaven Run isn’t a high school meet; it is open to runners of all ages.

The next weekend, however, the Tigers return to high school competition in the OK Runner Classic.

Norman only lost one runner off of last year’s runner-up team, so Satterthwaite said his biggest concern in 2011 is overconfidence.

“Our team is really united,” Satterthwaite said, “but our biggest worry is overconfidence since we returned so many guys and were so close to winning it last year.”