Eliminate the coronavirus, and Cindy Walls likely would be coaching the Bishop O'Connell High School head girls cross country team for one last season this fall.

Instead, Walls – who has moved to the Jacksonville, Fla. – area, is in the news for another reason at O'Connell. The coach recently was selected to be inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame, as just the second female coach in the organization's history.

While overseeing the girls cross country program from 2005 to 2019 as head coach, Walls' teams won eight Division I private-school state championships (including six in a row), finished second five times; the girls placed first in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference for 10 straight seasons (winning 11 titles in all and second four times); and won countless Arlington County meets. The eight state titles are the most won by any girls head cross country coach in the history of the Virginia Independent Athletic Association.

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