Hernandez named team MVP at cross-country awards ceremony

Fallbrook High School senior Rene Hernandez was given the Most Valuable Player honor during the Fallbrook High School boys cross-country team’s post-season awards ceremony Nov. 19 at the Bob Burton Performing Arts Center.

“He definitely developed into a distance runner,” said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. “Extremely proud of the work ethic he developed.”

Hernandez played football as a freshman in 2010. He was on Fallbrook’s 2011 track and field team while in ninth grade and first joined the cross-country team as a sophomore in 2011.

“The longer the course is the stronger he gets, so I thin...