The Negaunee senior, however, received his due during Thursday’s meeting of Upper Peninsula cross country coaches.

Yesney, who was undefeated prior to his injury, received Male Runner of the Year honors for the second straight year.

He captured the Upper Peninsula Division 1 title a year ago in a course-record 15 minutes, 49.8 seconds for 3.1 miles at Beauchamp’s Grove in Flat Rock, but was unable to run in this year’s finals at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising.

Joining him on the Dream Team were Ishpeming junior Spencer Giroux, Marquette seniors Garrett Rudden and Luke Rambo, Houghton senior Clayton Sayen, Brimley sophomore Austin Plotkin and Gladstone junior Adam Bruce.

Negaunee's Emily Paupore crosses the finish line setting a course record while winning the girls title at the Marquette County Meet held at Presque Isle Park in Marquette on Sept. 7. Paupore was named Female Runner of the Year at a recent meeting of U.P. cross country coaches.(Journal photo by Steve Brownlee)

Bruce captured the M-PC title and placed fourth in the U.P. D-1 finals.

Sayen earned his first U.P. championship, edging Rudden by a step, and was crowned West PAC champion.

Rambo repeated as Great Northern Conference champion and placed third in the U.P. D-1 Finals and Plotkin retained his U.P. D-3 crown and was Eastern U.P. Conference champ.

Giroux took the D-2 title and was runner-up in the M-PC.

Negaunee senior Emily Paupore set a course record of 19:00 in the M-PC meet in Negaunee Township, captured her first U.P. title and earned Female Runner of the Year honors.

Joining her on the Dream Team were Munising junior Madeleine Peramaki, Marquette sophomore Ericka Asmus, Negaunee senior Clara Johnson, Sault Ste. Marie senior Mackenzie Kalchik, Mid Peninsula freshman Daisy Englund and Chassell junior Lela Rautiola.

Peramaki took the Skyline Central Conference title for the first time and was runner-up in D-3, while Rautiola was the West PAC champ and placed third in the U.P. Finals.

Asmus was GNC champion and U.P. D-1 runner-up and Kalchik copped the Straits Area Conference title and placed third in the finals.

Englund gained her first U.P. D-3 championship and placed fourth in the Skyline meet despite running on a sore ankle.

St. Ignace’s Mary Cullen, who led the Saints to their first U.P. title in five years, was selected D-2 Coach of the Year, and the Saints shared large school Team of the Year honors with D-1 champion Marquette.

Traci Welch, who guided the Houghton boys to their first U.P. title in six years, is this year’s D-1 Coach of the Year. The Gremlins were selected Team of the Year and Brimley gained similar honors in D-3.

Chassell was this year’s pick for small school girls’ Team of the Year and Marco Guidotti, who also guided the Chassell girls to their third U.P. title in four years and the boys to a runner-up finish, is Coach of the Year.

Other area boys receiving all-state honors include Negaunee’s Eric Anderson and Elliott Prusi in Division 1, Ishpeming’s Jonah Broberg, Kyle Pruett, Devin Tasson, Coulton Prillwitz and Jordan Longtine, Westwood’s Andrew Dieterle and Newberry’s Ephram Evans in Division 2 and Munising’s Darren Castello and T.J. Wing in Division 3.

Additional area girls’ all-state recipients are Marquette’s Reegan Ketzenberger, Delaney Sall and Samantha Borzick, and Negaunee’s Clara Johnson and Talon Prusi in D-1, Ishpeming’s Katie Loman, Chyanne Gardner, Chloe Sjoholm, Allyssea Smith and Elizabeth Williams and Newberry’s Sophy and Abigail Smithson in D-2 and Superior Central’s Danika Walters in D-3.

Area All-U.P. recipients are Yesney and Ishpeming’s Silas Broberg for the boys and Marquette’s Allison Jette (D-1), Ishpeming’s Brooke Johnson (D-2) and Superior Central’s Betty Jo Swajanen (D-3) for the girls.