When Caribou High School cross country hosts an invitational meet this weekend, it will do so with a new boys coach for the first time in decades.

PJ Gorneault has taken the reins for longtime coach Roy Alden, who led the cross country and track teams at the Aroostook County school for 40 years.

Gorneault, a 1997 Caribou graduate, is a familiar face at the school. He won multiple eastern Maine titles in cross country and track, was an assistant coach when Caribou won a state championship in 2010, coached Nordic skiing at the school and knows students from his job as an elementary school physical education teacher.

“He’s certainly invested in the kids and has seen them grow,” said RSU 39 Athletic Administrator Evan Graves. Graves said Gorneault knows that the success of student athlet

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