SA XC LM#2 2011, a set on Flickr.
League meet on our home course - SA dominates!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
A Few Words from Coach Danny:
I want to thank all the parents for the support at the Stanford Invite. We appreciate you driving the kids there and getting them to the race on time. It was great to have that many people cheering on the sidelines.
Thank you, Erika and all the helper parents that put together a fun pasta feed for the kids. It was a great team bonding event!
Thank you, Erika and all the helper parents that put together a fun pasta feed for the kids. It was a great team bonding event!
What's been Happening:
This past week, in the midst of a heat wave, we had our first league competition against Rincon Valley Christian, with all three teams earning league wins. That would be Varsity Girls, Varsity Boys and JV Boys, as there are no JV girls teams in our league. Because of the high temperatures, we didn't really have any earth shattering times, but we did have some highlights. Most of those coming from Saturday's competition at Stanford.
League Meet #1:
Our first league meet was at Spring Lake where we competed against Rincon Valley Christian. Kelseyville and Lower Lake were also competing that day. The first race of the day was comprised of the JV Boys and Varsity Girls. As is custom in our league meets, the JV Boys and the Varsity girls run together. Top ten JV Boys were: Eli Rosen-Duran (SA, 20:31); Justin Nichols (SA, 21:53); Hayden Kinney (SA, 22:20); Tristan Stillman (SA, 22:23); Chauncey Johnson (SA, 23:59); Noah Peterson (RVC, 24:47); Chris Reed (SA, 24:50); Sean Kneeland (SA, 25:10); Zach Tracy (RVC, 26:17).
The highlights for this race was SA sweeping the first 5 places. Johnny lead the way with a very fine PR of 20:31. Another fine performance came from Chris Reed who had a PR time of 24:50. Score: SA 15 – RVC Inc.
In the varsity girls race Katy and Kiana placed first and second. Both girls ran very controlled races, saving their big efforts for their race in Stanford on Saturday. Placing 6th over all was Claire in a PR of 24:33. Seventh place was Katherine in 26:27 seasonal best. Score: SA 15 -RVC Inc.
The second race of the day was the Varsity Boys. Because of the heat, we had all six boys run together through the first 2 miles and at the end they went 1 through 6 in the race. Lead by Jacob (18:37), then Jax (18:38), Aaron (18:39), Austin O. (18:40), Patrick (18:46), Austin G. (19:22). And they still saved plenty of energy for their race on Saturday. Score: SA 15 – RVC Inc.
Stanford Invite:
At the Stanford Invitational we sent two teams consisting of our top seven girls and top seven boys. Before their race, the boys seemed relaxed, yet confidant, ready to take on the best teams in the state and even a few teams from out of state. When it was all said and done the boys placed third overall, beating the Urban team which was ranked one place ahead of them in the last NCS rankings. This should move them up one or two spots and I wouldn't be surprised if they were ranked second or third when the next rankings come out. The boys were lead by Jacob (17:11) in 14th overall with a 32 second PR. Next came Jax (17:12) with a 14 second PR. Our third runner for the day was Aaron (17:50) in 34th place after running a very intelligent race. Following Aaron was Austin O. (17:53), who continues to compete well, coming in 36th place. Our 5th runner was Patrick (17:56) in another amazing effort for 38th place. Number 6 runner of the day was Morgan (19:14) in 96th. Even though Morgan was running with a sore back he had a 1:20 PR. Our seventh runner was Austen G. (19:18) who continues to show nice improvement, coming in 100th place. This puppy wants to get off the porch and run with the big dogs. There were 150 boys in the race and 18 teams. All seven boys had great last miles and they each managed to pass several other athletes in the final stretch. Nice team running boys! The best kick of the day goes to Patrick.
In the girls' race, Katy Lee (18:45) came in third overall with a 34 second PR over last year. Katy's goal is to run 6 min mile pace for a 5k and this race averaged 6:03. No doubt she will reach her goal soon. Our second girl was Kiana (21:06) in 33rd place, a 43 second improvement over last year. Nice running Kiana! The team was rounded out by Amy (25:21) in 111, which was a 5k PR. Next was Yzzy (26:05) in 118th place, also a 5k PR. Next was Katherine (28:25) in 126. Our 6th runner was Emily (31:31) for 131st. The 7th runner, Clare, on our team only made it about 50 yards before she took a spill, hurting her knee. She was unable to finish the race. We hope she will be back out running soon.
What’s coming up:
This coming week we will be hosting a league meet on our home course at SA on Thursday against St. Vincents. The other two teams that will be there are Fort Bragg and Kelseyville. We are looking for parent volunteers to help us with the meet. There are positions available for course monitors and finish line crew. The work is so easy that we will take people with masters, or even doctors. Volunteers should be at the school by 3:45 PM. The meet will start at 4 PM.
For those of you who saw the meet at Del Oro High School for next Saturday on the schedule – it is no longer on our schedule, so you parents can all take a break next weekend. (Athletes can still go out and run.)
Some Background:
Now that we have started the league meets, it seems like a good time to discuss how this cross country competition stuff works.
Our school belongs to the Central Mountain Conference. The CMC is comprised of 12 small schools. All these schools are Division 4 (500-1150 students) or Division 5 (less than 500 students.) The CMC is broken up into 2 leagues, CMC-North and CMC-South. We will compete against each of the other teams in our league (CMC-So) once during the season.
Our meets are double, dual meets. Four teams come to compete: 2 from the north and 2 from the south. Although all 4 teams run together, we only score against the other team in our league. For instance, on Wednesday the meet was attended by SA, RVC, Lower Lake and Kelseyville. It was SA vs RVC and Lower Lake vs Kelseyville. SA beat RVC in both the Boys and Girls Varsity races, so they have one win credited in both the boys and girls league competition. (Although it is nice to know that if all 4 teams had been scored as one competition, SA would have still won ;-)
The league championship and the conference championship will be decided at the same race, at the end of the season. The league championship will be the team who has the most wins in both the dual meets and the championship meet combined. So a perfect season would be 10-0. 5 wins during the dual meets and beating all 5 other team in the same league at the championship.
The conference championship will the the overall winner of the 12 teams at the championship meet.
After conference, the varsity teams get to go to North Coast Sectionals. At NCS we no longer compete against the teams in our league or conference but all the Division 5 schools in our Section. The top teams and individuals from NCS get to go to the State meet.
Scoring: In cross country smaller is better when it comes to scores. A team can have up to 7 runners. The top 5 runners count in the score. The score is simply a sum of all the runners' places. So a perfect score would be 15 (1+2+3+4+5.) The 6th and 7th runners on a team do not score, but can help a lot by pushing members of the other team further back in the pack. A team with less than 5 runners cannot score and are indicated as Inc. (incomplete.)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Pasta Feed before Stanford Invite - Friday, Sept. 23rd @ Kiana's House
Highlights:
Although not everybody is participating at Stanford, ALL runners and parents invited. Don’t need to bring anything. If you feel like it, bring drinks or desserts.
Time:
Directly after practice until a reasonable time...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Katy Lee honored as Runner of the Week
She will get a Saucony/Heart and Sole Runner of the Week T-shirt for her performances. Click here to read about her accomplishments.
Monday, September 19, 2011
A Few Words from Coach Danny:
What an exciting week of running for the howling Coyotes! As all of
you know, we had two meets this past week, both at Spring Lake – the
Interlock (3 mile course) on Wednesday and the Viking Invite on
Saturday (2 mile course) Both days I thought the kids ran with a
positive spirit and high intensity as shown by the results which
included many personal course PR's (personal records.) At both meets
the boys have made huge statements that they are an NCS podium team.
The girls continue to show steady improvement and will be contenders
for a league title.
It was nice to see a good turn out of parents at both Wednesday and
Saturday's meets. Although I'm not around the tarp area much during
competitions, I did notice the great enthusiasm the parents bring when
supporting the team.
A special shout out to all our sick kids. Hope all of you are feeling
better soon. We miss you.
We would like to welcome our newest member to the team. Maddy just
joined us last Tuesday and was brave enough to take on the challenge
of a race on Saturday.
What's been Happening:
Super Septo Interlock: I hope all of you got to see the article about
Katy Lee, in the PD after Wednesday's meet, which was well deserved
due to her first place win and school record time.
On the girls' side we started the meet with a win by Kiana in the JV
Girls' race. She continues to work her way back from her IT band
injury, each week getting stronger and stronger. Coming in second for
us was Amy, who ran a nice 25:33. My crystal ball says she will
continue to improve by leaps and bounds. Our number three runner was
Yzzy in a time of 25:43, which was a better than 3:30 PR. Yzzy, you
are DY-NO-MITE! Our fourth girl was Claire. A nice solid performance
after a week traveling back East. Next across the line was Zoe, in
26:32, a very strong effort for this young Coyote. The 6th runner in
was Katherine, in 26:44. Katherine was fighting a touch of the flu and
ran very a gutsy race. Our 7th runner was Nora, in what I considered a
break though race of 27:28. For 8th and 9th , in almost a dead tie
were, Lilly and Shani in 27:29. Both girls continue to show steady
improvement. Our 10th runner was Sinclare, in 27:33, always working
hard through the entire race.
The Varsity Girls race was won by Katy Lee in an outstanding time of
18:30. Katy's time was a 39 second PR, was the 20th fastest time ever
run by a JR girl on that course, and broke her own school record. And
this was all done with very little competition, as she was ahead of
the field by about a minute.
Our first JV Boy was Austin Garcia in a very impressive 19:05. This
was a 1:30 PR for Austin. The second runner was Eli / Johnny Whoop in
a fantastic time of 20:40. Johnny keeps amazing me every time he runs.
Our third and fourth runners were Justin and Chauncey in 21:10 and
21:11. Justin keeps running solid race after race. And Chauncey is a
star just waiting to be born. Our 5th runner was Hayden in 21:26.
Hayden's comment was, “Coach, I felt good.” The sixth Coyote was
Tristan in 22:08. Tristan just keeps turning out quality runs. Next
Coyote across the line was Sean in 22:15, who showed nice closing
speed again. Our 8th runner, Oscar (24:14), had a 1:20 PR. This was a
well deserved PR as Oscar has been working extremely hard over the
last couple of weeks. SA's 9th runner was Billy in 25:00. I would say
he is starting to look like he enjoys this running stuff. Next was
Chris in 25:10, using his own relaxed approach. 11th was Tilloch in
25:14 which was a 0:15 PR, always a proud Coyote.
This was another rocking performance for the Varsity Boys Team. They
ran over 3 minutes faster as a team than last year at this meet. Our
first man today was Jacob, in a new school record for the course of
16:58, becoming the first Coyote to break 17 minutes on this course.
Monster performance! Second was Jax in 17:04, who also finished under
the old school record, Jax continues to run great performance followed
by great performance. The third runner was Austin O. in 17:20. Oh my
gosh can this boy compete! The fourth Coyote was Patrick in 18:08.
Patrick is starting to believe that he belongs right there, running
with the big boys. Patrick had a 2:30 PR 5th for SA was Morgan at
18:22. Morgan continued to show great improvement as he PR'd by 1:40.
Our 6th runner was Graham in 19:14. A little bit off his best time as
he is fighting through some serious knee pain that would have
sidelined a lesser runner.
Viking Opener:
Saturday we came into the Viking Opener off great performances on
Wednesday. I thought we might have a little let down in performance,
but not this bunch, they just raised the bar one more notch.
The first race of the day was Frosh-Soph Boys with 117 runners. Our
first runner in 17th place was Patrick (11:27), a 1:20 PR over last
year. In 64th was Johnny (12:39) – “Fantastic Mr. Whoop!” 92nd was
Justin (13:37) – “Solid.” 93rd Chauncey (13:38) – “Booyah.” 95th
Tristin (13:38) – “Like it.” As a team they placed 16th out 24 teams.
The Frosh–Soph Girls' race had 95 runners. 60th was Amy (15:22) –
“Here we go.” 72nd , Yzzy (16:25), a 2:05 PR – “On the fast trail.”
75Th, Nora (16:34) – “Just believe.” 80th Zoe (16:56) – “Feel no
pain.” 81St , Sinclare (17:04) – “Pain is my friend.” SA was 17th out
of 20 teams.
The Junior Boys race had 98 runners. 10Th, Jacob (10:52) - “Studly.”
12th, Jax (11:03) - “Coyote Pride.” 14th, , Austin O. (11:08) -
“Hero.” 28th, Graham (11:47) - “Bringing it.” 33rd, Morgan (11:52) -
“Smooth as silk.” The boys were on the podium - 2nd out of 23 teams.
The Junior-Senior Girls race had 95 runners. 2Nd, Katy (11:52 / 18th
all time) - “All world.” 20th, Kiana (13:15) - “Gifted.” 84th,
Katherine (17:07) - “True Grit.” 85th, Shani (17:26) - “Miles of
smiles.” The girls team was 6th place out 22.
Open Girls – 119 runners. 69Th, Lilly (16:52) - “Persistent.” 93rd,
Maddie (18:36) - “Welcome to running.” There were not enough SA girls
for a team score.
Senior Boys – 77 runners. 32Nd, Aaron (11:40) - “Bionic man.”
Open Boys – 189 runners. 19Th, Austin G. (12:38) - “The little Engine
that could.” 61st, Hayden (13:33) - “Bustin' moves.” 95th Sean (13:58)
- “Tenacity.” 174th, Tilloch (16:16) - “Superfly.” 176th Chris (16:28)
- “Silent Thunder.” Team placed 11th out of 18.
Alumni Race - nice to see our two assistant coaches, Michael and
Julia, participating in the alumni race – both of them turned in very
nice performances.
What’s coming up:
On Wednesday we have our first league competition. It will be against
Rincon Valley Christian at the Spring Lake Course (3 mile.) There will
be four teams there, Lower Lake, Kelseyville, Rincon Valley Christian
and Sonoma Academy. Even though there are four teams participating, we
will only be scoring against RVC. Races will start at 3:30. Typically
the league meets will run JV boys and all girls together and then
Varsity Boys. Parents are invited to attend. Reminder to athletes –
please bring your own water bottle!
On Friday we have our second pasta feed at Kiana's house. All team
members and their parents are invited to make their way to 1660
Schaeffer Road, in Sebastopol directly after practice. If you would
like to bring something, drinks and desserts would be welcome.
On Saturday we have the Stanford Invite, which will be varsity only.
The athletes will find out on Monday who that includes.
you know, we had two meets this past week, both at Spring Lake – the
Interlock (3 mile course) on Wednesday and the Viking Invite on
Saturday (2 mile course) Both days I thought the kids ran with a
positive spirit and high intensity as shown by the results which
included many personal course PR's (personal records.) At both meets
the boys have made huge statements that they are an NCS podium team.
The girls continue to show steady improvement and will be contenders
for a league title.
It was nice to see a good turn out of parents at both Wednesday and
Saturday's meets. Although I'm not around the tarp area much during
competitions, I did notice the great enthusiasm the parents bring when
supporting the team.
A special shout out to all our sick kids. Hope all of you are feeling
better soon. We miss you.
We would like to welcome our newest member to the team. Maddy just
joined us last Tuesday and was brave enough to take on the challenge
of a race on Saturday.
What's been Happening:
Super Septo Interlock: I hope all of you got to see the article about
Katy Lee, in the PD after Wednesday's meet, which was well deserved
due to her first place win and school record time.
On the girls' side we started the meet with a win by Kiana in the JV
Girls' race. She continues to work her way back from her IT band
injury, each week getting stronger and stronger. Coming in second for
us was Amy, who ran a nice 25:33. My crystal ball says she will
continue to improve by leaps and bounds. Our number three runner was
Yzzy in a time of 25:43, which was a better than 3:30 PR. Yzzy, you
are DY-NO-MITE! Our fourth girl was Claire. A nice solid performance
after a week traveling back East. Next across the line was Zoe, in
26:32, a very strong effort for this young Coyote. The 6th runner in
was Katherine, in 26:44. Katherine was fighting a touch of the flu and
ran very a gutsy race. Our 7th runner was Nora, in what I considered a
break though race of 27:28. For 8th and 9th , in almost a dead tie
were, Lilly and Shani in 27:29. Both girls continue to show steady
improvement. Our 10th runner was Sinclare, in 27:33, always working
hard through the entire race.
The Varsity Girls race was won by Katy Lee in an outstanding time of
18:30. Katy's time was a 39 second PR, was the 20th fastest time ever
run by a JR girl on that course, and broke her own school record. And
this was all done with very little competition, as she was ahead of
the field by about a minute.
Our first JV Boy was Austin Garcia in a very impressive 19:05. This
was a 1:30 PR for Austin. The second runner was Eli / Johnny Whoop in
a fantastic time of 20:40. Johnny keeps amazing me every time he runs.
Our third and fourth runners were Justin and Chauncey in 21:10 and
21:11. Justin keeps running solid race after race. And Chauncey is a
star just waiting to be born. Our 5th runner was Hayden in 21:26.
Hayden's comment was, “Coach, I felt good.” The sixth Coyote was
Tristan in 22:08. Tristan just keeps turning out quality runs. Next
Coyote across the line was Sean in 22:15, who showed nice closing
speed again. Our 8th runner, Oscar (24:14), had a 1:20 PR. This was a
well deserved PR as Oscar has been working extremely hard over the
last couple of weeks. SA's 9th runner was Billy in 25:00. I would say
he is starting to look like he enjoys this running stuff. Next was
Chris in 25:10, using his own relaxed approach. 11th was Tilloch in
25:14 which was a 0:15 PR, always a proud Coyote.
This was another rocking performance for the Varsity Boys Team. They
ran over 3 minutes faster as a team than last year at this meet. Our
first man today was Jacob, in a new school record for the course of
16:58, becoming the first Coyote to break 17 minutes on this course.
Monster performance! Second was Jax in 17:04, who also finished under
the old school record, Jax continues to run great performance followed
by great performance. The third runner was Austin O. in 17:20. Oh my
gosh can this boy compete! The fourth Coyote was Patrick in 18:08.
Patrick is starting to believe that he belongs right there, running
with the big boys. Patrick had a 2:30 PR 5th for SA was Morgan at
18:22. Morgan continued to show great improvement as he PR'd by 1:40.
Our 6th runner was Graham in 19:14. A little bit off his best time as
he is fighting through some serious knee pain that would have
sidelined a lesser runner.
Viking Opener:
Saturday we came into the Viking Opener off great performances on
Wednesday. I thought we might have a little let down in performance,
but not this bunch, they just raised the bar one more notch.
The first race of the day was Frosh-Soph Boys with 117 runners. Our
first runner in 17th place was Patrick (11:27), a 1:20 PR over last
year. In 64th was Johnny (12:39) – “Fantastic Mr. Whoop!” 92nd was
Justin (13:37) – “Solid.” 93rd Chauncey (13:38) – “Booyah.” 95th
Tristin (13:38) – “Like it.” As a team they placed 16th out 24 teams.
The Frosh–Soph Girls' race had 95 runners. 60th was Amy (15:22) –
“Here we go.” 72nd , Yzzy (16:25), a 2:05 PR – “On the fast trail.”
75Th, Nora (16:34) – “Just believe.” 80th Zoe (16:56) – “Feel no
pain.” 81St , Sinclare (17:04) – “Pain is my friend.” SA was 17th out
of 20 teams.
The Junior Boys race had 98 runners. 10Th, Jacob (10:52) - “Studly.”
12th, Jax (11:03) - “Coyote Pride.” 14th, , Austin O. (11:08) -
“Hero.” 28th, Graham (11:47) - “Bringing it.” 33rd, Morgan (11:52) -
“Smooth as silk.” The boys were on the podium - 2nd out of 23 teams.
The Junior-Senior Girls race had 95 runners. 2Nd, Katy (11:52 / 18th
all time) - “All world.” 20th, Kiana (13:15) - “Gifted.” 84th,
Katherine (17:07) - “True Grit.” 85th, Shani (17:26) - “Miles of
smiles.” The girls team was 6th place out 22.
Open Girls – 119 runners. 69Th, Lilly (16:52) - “Persistent.” 93rd,
Maddie (18:36) - “Welcome to running.” There were not enough SA girls
for a team score.
Senior Boys – 77 runners. 32Nd, Aaron (11:40) - “Bionic man.”
Open Boys – 189 runners. 19Th, Austin G. (12:38) - “The little Engine
that could.” 61st, Hayden (13:33) - “Bustin' moves.” 95th Sean (13:58)
- “Tenacity.” 174th, Tilloch (16:16) - “Superfly.” 176th Chris (16:28)
- “Silent Thunder.” Team placed 11th out of 18.
Alumni Race - nice to see our two assistant coaches, Michael and
Julia, participating in the alumni race – both of them turned in very
nice performances.
What’s coming up:
On Wednesday we have our first league competition. It will be against
Rincon Valley Christian at the Spring Lake Course (3 mile.) There will
be four teams there, Lower Lake, Kelseyville, Rincon Valley Christian
and Sonoma Academy. Even though there are four teams participating, we
will only be scoring against RVC. Races will start at 3:30. Typically
the league meets will run JV boys and all girls together and then
Varsity Boys. Parents are invited to attend. Reminder to athletes –
please bring your own water bottle!
On Friday we have our second pasta feed at Kiana's house. All team
members and their parents are invited to make their way to 1660
Schaeffer Road, in Sebastopol directly after practice. If you would
like to bring something, drinks and desserts would be welcome.
On Saturday we have the Stanford Invite, which will be varsity only.
The athletes will find out on Monday who that includes.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
SA XC Viking Opener 2011
SA XC Viking Opener 2011, a set on Flickr.
Great day at the races! Runners at Spring Lake on Saturday 9/17.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Post Viking Pool BBQ Party on Saturday, Sept 17
Come after meet and stay until 5 pm
(Girls Only Sleepover Follows)
For all 35 Runners, Families, Coaches
Bring suits, towels, food
FOOD HELP
Hamburgers, Veggie Burgers, Condiments & Buns (supplied by hosts)
To serve about 8 people:
Boys to bring one of these Girls to bring one of these
Drinks | Fruit plate |
Ice | Salad |
Dessert | Chips |
Please email me what you will bring so I can fill in where necessary. And let me know if you are vegetarian ,“happy with hamburgers” or food allergies?
GIRLS! For sleepover bring sleeping bag, pillow, and sleeping mat. You will be sleeping on hard floors so the mattress will be important. Pickup time on Sunday between 10-11.
SA XC Super Septo 2011
SA XC Super Septo 2011, a set on Flickr.
Coyotes had great times at Spring Lake on Wednesday 9/14. Many thanks to Johnny for being the main photographer.
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