The fun and joy as coaches and even as runners of cross country is seeing the improvement from the very first meet of the season to the last, whenever that may be. Pella High’s team this year has several seniors and a big group of freshmen that are running for the first time ever, and Coach Doug Cutler says that meet number one is a good reference point for them. Meet one for Pella is a race at Cedar Rapids Prairie a week from this Saturday on August 31.