Summer Running Club Update

The 2012 Kids Summer Running Club has been a huge success!  We have our largest group ever with over 250 runners.  A special thanks to those who are sponsoring our club - St. George Running Center - and those who have donated $10 toward our club shirts.  There is still plenty of time to help out!
Today we held our first of two races - we will run a second race later in the summer to track our progress.  The 1st-4th graders run a half mile and the 5th-8th graders run a full mile XC style (on the grass with 1-2 little hills).  Everyone ran great today and many records were set.  Pyper Holt set the record for the 1st-4th Girls; Boston Horspool in the 1st-4th Boys; and Cristina Gaona out leaned Rylee Holt in a thrilling finish for the record for the 5th-8th Girls.  Dallin Gillespie was the winner for the 5th-8th Boys.
Check out the full results at the link below (girls are on one tab/page and the boys on another)
Race Results 6/19/12

Summer Club Info

PVXC will be hosting the 3rd annual SUMMER RUNNING CLUB for 1st-8th graders that feed into PVHS on each Tuesday this summer starting June 5th @ 8:30 am at Washington Elementary.
Click here for flyer
Click here for Summer Club Info and disclaimer than must be brought with students on the first day of participation.

Summer Info

XC is ready start up again soon!  Check out our summer info here.  Remember first day of summer practice is Monday, June 4th - 7:00 am at Washington Elementary.

Hurricane Invite

Another week of great performances - both the guys and girls teams are really improving as the season is moving along. The girls ended up taking 5th at this meet and the boys found themselves winning the invite!
The following were qualifiers for BYU and State* (check out all PV results at athletic.net and see the many athletes with PR's in the past couple weeks):
boys girls
100: Prentiss Miller(7th); Janzen Morgan(7th) and Kali Stubbs
200: Prentiss Miller(8th)
400: Jake Arslanian(1st)*, Jake Wright(3rd), Tyson Boyer
800: Tyson Boyer(1st)*, Timmy Lunt(5th), Mike Finch(6th); Kaylee Boyer(3rd), Rachel Stone, Frida Nilsson
1600: Mike Finch(4th)*, Devin Gillespie(6th), Casey Kimzey, Byron Warby; Frida Nilsson(2nd), Rachel Stone(4th), Jessica Peterson
3200: Devin Gillespie(1st)*
shot: Jason Gunter(1st)*; Raynette Tavita(2nd)*, Tayosha Turek(5th)
jav: Zac Bullock(3rd)
Long jump: Jake Arslanian(2nd)*, Jerome Nielson(5th)*; Kali Stubbs(4th)

PV Invite

The PV Invite was a huge success - a big congratulations to all the athletes, and a job well-done to all our BYU and State Qualifiers*.
100 meters - Austin Gibbs, Janzen Morgan, Kalli Stubbs
200 meters - Jake Arslanian (3rd)*, Janzen Morgan
800 meters - Devin Gillespie, Jessica Peterson, Liz Harrison, Abby Van Orden
1600 meters - Tyson Boyer (3rd)*, Mike Finch, Devin Gillespie, Casey Kimzey, Kaylee Boyer (5th)*, Frida Nilsson, Rachel Stone
3200 meters - Tyson Boyer (3rd)*, Mike Finch (6th)*, Kaylee Boyer (4th)*, Frida Nilsson (8th)*, Rachel Stone*
Shot Put - Austin Mikkleson (2nd)*, Jason Gunter (3rd)*, Lenka Juranova (3rd)*, Raynette Tavita (7th), Tayosha Turek
Discus - Raynette Tavita (7th)
Javelin - Raynette Tavita

We also have our Athletes of the Week for the first two meets of the season:
All-Comers @ Snow Canyon
Sprint distance field
boys: Prentiss Miller 11.89 100, Tim Lunt 2:97.78 800, Austin Mikkleson 48-3 shot
girls: Courtney Honeycutt 14.1 100, Liz Lunt 6:04 1600/13:05 3200, Raynette Tavita 32-1 shot
Pine View Invitational
Sprint distance field
boys: Austin Gibbs 11.74 100, Mike Finch 9:49 3200 (6th), Jason Gunter 48-4 shot (3rd)
girls: Janzen Morgan 13.55 100, Frida Nilsson 11:42 3200 (8th), Lenka Juranova 33-08 shot (3rd)

All-Comers at Snow Canyon

Here is the info on today's meet (sorry it's late):
Start 3:00 @ Snow Canyon HS
bus leaving at 2:00 sharp
order:
(girls them boys)
1600
100/110 hurdles
100
4x100
400
300 hurdles
800
medley
200
3200
4x00

Field events:
boys jav
boys shot
boys long jump
girls disc
girls high jump

boys high jump
boys disc
girls long jump
girls shot
girls jav

Track Starts!

Track season is underway! Practice will be held every afternoon starting at 3:00 at Panther Stadium.
A downloadable/printable schedule is posted to the right.
AND...
an ATHLETE/PARENT MEETING will be held Thursday at 3:00 in the PVHS lecture hall. Look for required paperwork to come home as well as fundraising info.

Nike Southwest

Our trip to Mesa, AZ, was a fun one! It was great taking both the boys and girls varsity teams, hanging out, running at the big meet, and making memories (mostly of Holt's continued volleyball domination!)
The boys were off first in their race and ran well placing 8th out of the 30+ team field. Considering we weren't ranked in the "experts" to 20 going into the race, we felt this was a pretty strong effort and matched our goal for the meet (a top 10). Tyson placed very high and finished in 14th (2nd Team All-Southwest) and 3rd alternate for the individual spots to Portland.
The ladies had an eye-opening experience of what it is like to run at this level of meet and took 17th (even though we had the goal of a top 10 finish here as well). It was, however, a great learning experience - for all our runners - one that will benefit them greatly in the future in their running and beyond.

Awards Banquet

Last Thursday (11/10) was our annual Awards Banquet. We want to give a huge thanks to all the parents who helped organize, set up, prepare meals, and whatever else... especially Heidi Frodsham who served as our Booster Pres. this year and organized everything from lockers to team nights to the great banquet.
In addition to our Participation Letters, JV Letters, and Varsity Letters, the following athletes were recognized:

"Unstoppable Award" - athlete voted most Unstoppable PVXC'er - inspirational, helpful, most energy and team spirit by teammates.
9th girl - Kaelie Gillespie
9th boy - Josh Farish
10th girl - Taylor Boyer
10th boy - Byron Warby
11th girl - Rachel Stone
11th boy - Casey Kimzey
12th girl - Kaylee Boyer
12th boy - Tyson Boyer

Outstanding Newcomber:
boy - Ryan Archibald
girl - Frida Nilsson

Most Improved:
boy - Tim Lunt
girl - Liz Lunt

Most Inspirational:
boy - Byron Warby
girl - Rachel Stone

Outstanding Performance:
boy - Tyson Boyer (Region Champ, 3rd State)
girl - Kaylee Boyer (Region Champ - 3 time, 3rd State)

Most Outstanding Runner:
boy - Tyson Boyer
girl - Kaylee Boyer

It was a great night and we were able to recognize every member of our great team. Thanks to the Heinrichs for donating the awards, again Heidi Frodsham for all her work this year, and the 200+ of you who came out to our Awards Banquet.

Nike SW Invites

Both boys and girls teams received invites to the Championship Race of the Nike X Southwest Regional - congrats, the hard work and great racing have paid off.

Alumi Report

So on this section I have been a bit of a slacker this year, so here is a little run-down of former PVXC'ers running in college:
Trevor Thompson ('11) is a Freshman at SUU and ran a few meets this season unattached as he is officially redshirting for the season.
Corey Kimzey ('11) ran very well in his Freshman year at Utah State. Through most of the year he was on the traveling squad and placing 8th or 9th on the team (and 2nd Freshman).
Ryan Neilson ('11) ran at Dixie State this past season for his Freshman campaign and was generally 2-3 on the team.
Also joining Ryan at Dixie was Cassidy Ferris ('09) competing in what she says will be her final year for the team.
And finally, Ruth Hilton ('07) is finishing up her Senior year at Utah State where she has dealt with persistent injuries this year to generally be the top lady Aggie. This past weekend she placed 9th overall at the WAC Championships to lead USU to a 3rd place finish.

State 2011

What an up and down day - emotions were running all over the place.
The day started with the girls running extremely well. They executed the race plan perfectly and moved up each of their positions throughout the race. Kaylee Boyer moved into third at about 2K and held that place finishing in a new school record time of 18:53.8 (breaking her own record set last year of 19:17). Rachel Stone ran excellent placing 6th in 19:16.0. She was followed closely by Jessica Peterson who placed 8th (7th scoring) in 19:26.9. Frida Nilsson (20:08.3) and Mia Hart (20:31.7) finished off our team scoring in the 20th and 25th positions. Rachel and Nicole Heinrich also ran strong in the 6th and 7th positions for the team running 21:14 and 21:37 respectively. The team scoring was very tight, and when we saw we had placed 2nd we were all very excited - we had beaten the 13th ranked team in the nation (Ogden) and placed just 5 points off of Park City. An amazing effort by the ladies... Their combined time broke the old PVXC All-Time State mark by over 6 minutes!
The boys also ran strong, but their day was more of a disappointment. However, it must be noted that the boys ran the 3rd fastest time in PVXC history (just seconds behind the 2009 mark for 2nd) and that 3rd in State ain't too shabby! (Ogden 73, Park City 80, PV 82.) Tyson Boyer capped off his Senior year with his amazing comeback from major ankle trauma (dislocation and severe sprain in late August) with a 3rd place finish (16:10.8). Tyson was followed in the scoring by Devin Gillespie 9th (8th scoring - 16:24.1), Jared Ellsworth 17th (15th scoring - 16:42.1), Casey Kimzey 24th (21st scoring - 16:52.9) and Michael Finch 39th (35th scoring - 17:11.0). Timmy Lunt finished as our 6th scorer in 17:20.5, and Colton Bowler ran strong in his State debut finishing at 17:26.4.

Double Region Champs!

Congrats to the girls and boys who both claimed Region 9 titles last night at the Region 9 South Course! Kaylee and Tyson Boyer brought their stellar Region careers to an end with individual Region 9 victories.
Middle School: The day started strong with the Middle School race where some of our big crew of 6th-8th graders came and raced. Nick Hill ran a great race and outkicked a Hurricane kid for the win. Many other boys also ran great - all of them easily beating their previous course PR's. On the ladies side, we took 4 of the top 6 places - led by Alli Peterson and Josie Bushar; again all of the girls easily beat their course PR's!
JV Girls: The JV Girls have been our biggest surprise this season and they continued to run great at Region. We placed 3rd-6th (Liz Lunt, MaKayla Baxter, Liz Harrison, and Talor Boyer) and took a very close 2nd to Cedar when Abby Doty rounded out scoring at 11th. We hope Kelsi will get feeling better soon after her fall - such a bummer for her and the team... get feeling better Kels!
JV Boys: We knew this was going to be our toughest race coming into the meet. And it played out that way. Our boys had a strong game plan going into the race and executed well, but Desert Hills and Cedar really both brought their A games. However, we were all very excited for Byron Warby's start-to-finish win in a very strong time of 17:56! Congrats Byron!
Varsity Girls: The girls ran an extremely smart and well-paced race. Kaylee made a strong move early and took over the race and pushed for the win in 19:21 on this VERY difficult course - the toughest course we run all year. Jessica Peterson and Rachel Stone pushed close behind and finished in 3rd and 4th. Frida Nilsson ran a strong race and ended up placing 8th; and our scoring was rounded out by a strong run by Mia Hart finishing 14th. The ladies dominated the team scoring and won 30 to 56 over Cedar - for our 2nd consecutive Region Title! Next was Snow Canyon with 98 points and 100 for Canyon View to round out those teams qualifying for State. We do want to recognize Kaylee once again for her victory - especially since it was her 3rd Straight Region Title! That's right... 3 years of XC and 3 Region Titles!
Varsity Boys: The boys ran a strong race, pushing to their 5th Consecutive Region Title and 10th overall! Tyson Boyer (16:31) put himself into the lead early in the race and held off a strong effort by Ingalls of Snow Canyon and Devin Gillespie(3rd 16:41). Jared Ellsworth ran a very strong race to finish 3rd on the team and 6th overall. Michael Finch (9th) and Timmy Lunt (16) finished off our scoring to put us at 35 - well ahead of 2nd place Desert Hills at 72, Canyon View at 78, and Hurricane at 106 to finish off the State qualifiers.
Read the Spectrum article here.

Snow Canyon Invite

A delayed and quick recap of Snow Canyon Invite on Weds. October 5. The temps were amazing and the times matched it! We had strong showings from our JV runners who participated at this meet, especially on the girls side - our JV girls took 5th against all the Varsity teams in the Region! Check out the times posted on athletic.net.

Cedar Invite

Sept. 30th's Cedar Invite (check out the article in The Spectrum) was another very strong showing for PVXC. The JV girls started the day well with dominating win - scoring just 32 points. Paced by a top five of MaKayla Baxter (3rd - 21:30), Taylor Boyer (4th - 21:35), Liz Lunt (5th - 21:39), Kelsi Vaka (8th - 21:58), and Mariah Harris (12th - 22:51). The JV boys didn't have their best race, but still placed 3rd paced by Byron Warby who was the top region finisher in 7th at 17:18.
The Varsity girls ran well and placed 2nd to Timpview. Kaylee Boyer ran a great race and placed 2nd in 18:09.
The Varsity boys ran their best race of the year, taking 1st and avenging a loss to Salem Hills from last week. Tyson Boyer won the race in 15:39 and Devin Gillespie finished 5th also breaking 16:00 (15:53).
Both Varsity teams are setting themselves up to do very well at Region and State.

Athletes of the Week - Cedar

After a great team showing at the Cedar Invite, Tyson Boyer and Mariah Harris-Bowles have been selected as our Athletes of the Week.
Tyson, a Senior, has been working very hard to return to elite status after a difficult ankle injury at the very beginning of the school year. Running in his third race since the injury, Tyson looks to be returning to top for as he won the Cedar Invite in a time of 15:39.
Mariah, a Junior, is - like many XC runners - pulled in many directions by her various interests. One of which is drama, where she is highly involved in the school productions. He participation in this year's musical has limited her practice time, but Mariah still works very hard and it shows through her 12th place finish in the JV race at the Cedar Invite. Mariah was the 5th scoring JV runner and helped place the Panthers 1st in the race.
Great job Tyson and Mariah!

Regional Rankings 9/23

Congrats to the both Panther teams who are currently ranked as "bubble teams" in the ESPN/Dye Stat Regional Rankings. Check them out here: boys, girls.
A special yell to the girls - as this is the first time in PVXC history that the girls have earned this honor!

Nebo Invite/Wahsatch Rendezvous

PVXC had a successful trip up North this past weekend. On Friday the Varsity teams competed in the Nebo Invitational at Salem Hills HS, and on Saturday the JV's ran at the Wahsatch Rendezvous.
At Nebo, the girls took a close third to two very strong teams - Lehi and Maple Mountain. Kaylee Boyer added to her individual titles this year with a strong finishing time of 18:22 on the flat grass 3 mile course. Jessica Peterson had a killer kick to take 2nd in 18:28. Following, in the top ten was Rachel Stone finishing 7th in 19:05. The boys took 5th in a very tight race from 2nd-5th. Devin Gillespie paced the team in 18th with a 16:08 finish; followed by Tyson Boyer who is improving from his ankle injury - taking 22nd in 16:17. Casey Kimzey also had one of his better races of the season running 3rd on the team and 30th overall.
At the Wahsatch Rendezvous, both JV's ran very well. The girls took 1st - led by MaKayla Baxter (9th -5th scorer - in 21:28), Liz Harrison (11th - 6th scorer), Kelsi Vaka (13th - 7th scorer), Taylor Boyer (15th - 8th scorer), and Liz Lunt (15th - 10th scorer). Many other ladies ran very well and recorded seasons best on this tough and hilly 3 mile course. The boys also ran well taking 3rd, just 3 points off 1st. Byron Warby took 7th in 17:36, followed by Jason Lindhardt (9th), Wes Plumb (12th), Matthew Young (22nd), and Austin Manuele (29th).

Athletes of the Week - Nebo/Wahsatch

With some great performances at the Nebo Invite and Wahsatch Rendezvous, it was difficult to pick our Athletes of the Week. But we decided on Jessica Peterson and Jason Lindhardt
Jessica, a Junior, has shown great dedication to the team this season. She has balanced soccer and XC very well and in doing so, has helped push the girls team to the next level. Jessica took 2nd overall at the Nebo Invite with a killer kick on the track, helping lead the ladies to a close 3rd place finish.
Jason, a Junior, has shown steady and strong improvement over the season. He finished as the 2nd PV runner - and 9th overall - in the JV race at Wahsatch with a time of 17:44.
Congrats JP and Jason, great efforts this week!

Athletes of the Week - Provo

Athletes of the Week for Provo were Kaylee Boyer and Jared Ellsworth.
Kaylee, a Senior, has been running extremely well this year and despite being sick took her first title of the season by winning the Provo Bulldog Invite leading a pack of Panther harriers to the top three spots and the team title.
Jared, also a Senior, was just recognized as our August Athlete of the Month and he has continued to run well into September. Jared's emergence this year into a solid 2nd/3rd man on the team has played an important role in our team's development and push to earn another Region and State Title.