Ashley Judd and Corey Kimzey

Ashley Judd has been selected as Girls X-Country Athlete of the Month by Pine View High School. We all want to congratulate Ashley on her hard work which made this achievement possible. Ashley is a Senior who is in her 3rd year of running for PVXC. During this time, Ashley has battled various injuries and issues to develop herself into one of (if not THE) top runners in Region 9. Ashley ended last track season with some awesome performances in the 1600 and 3200 at Region and has carried it right into X-Country. After a full summer of miles, she won the first meet of the season at Canyon View. As she has continued to get better and gain confidence, Ashley (our Girls' Team Captain) has defeated the highest ranked runner in Region 9 and earned top 20 honors at the Las Vegas Invite! Good job Ashley, you're setting an awesome example for everyone!
Corey Kimzey has been selected as Boys X-Country Athlete of the Month by Pine View High School. A Sophmore, Corey has a passion for the sport of distance running that is infectious to the rest of the team. He is a student of the sport and has been running and studying running for much of his life, but it wasn't until during and just after his Freshman year of X-Country that Corey realized this was his true passion and set all other sports aside to accomplish his goals. Corey started the season by winning the Canyon View Tri and has never looked back. He also has a top 30 finish at BYU, a top 15 finish at Murray, and a top 10 finish at Provo to help establish himself as one of the top Sopmores in all the state of Utah. Congratulations on your achievements Corey, we look forward to many more spectacular performances from you on the course and on the track!

2008 Mid-Season Report

What a great start to the season! We have already had a number of memorable team and individual achievements. Girls - no group has shown more improvement throughout the first month of the season than the Varsity/JV Girls. Led by Senior harrier Ashley Judd; who won the Canyon View Tri, and placed high at Hurricane, SUU, Cedar, BYU (where she was the top Region 9 runner), and a top 20 placement at Vegas; the girls have really taken off in the last couple weeks. As the season has progressed, the girls have not only cut into Dixie's 2nd place ranking among Region 9 4A, they have now surpassed them thanks to the excellent running of 2nd and 3rd runners Rachel Heinrich and Cassidy Ferris. The girls have also gotten strong runs out of Senior Kareena Hudson and first year runner Micci Hafen (all 5 have earned Runner of the Week honors - congrats ladies). The girls look to continue to improve and challenge Snow Canyon for the top spot in Region and qualify for State.
The Pine View High School boys' cross country team has also done really great things this season. All three top Panther harriers have led the team at least once this season - Austin Smith (Jr.), Trevor Thompson (So.), and Corey Kimzey (So.) - and have place extremely well at even the largest of the state invitationals. Trevor Thompson (7th) led the Panthers to a 5th place at BYU where Austin Smith also place in the top 25. The Panthers also took 5th at Murray (Thompson 8th, Corey Kimzey 12th, Smith 26th). The day following Murray, PV took 2nd just two points behind American Fork at the Provo Bulldog Invite where Trevor took home a 1st overall, Austin placed 7th and Corey 9th. This same weekend, the JV boys went to the Las Vegas Invite with the girls and fielded a great effort out of our 2nd 7 taking 13th out of 24 Varsity teams in one of the largest invites in Nevada drawing schools from all over Nevada and Southern California. Pacing the Panthers was Devin Gillespie who also ran very well earlier in the year taking 2nd at the SUU Invite JV race and winning the Fresh/Soph race at BYU - closely followed by Sophmores Dyllen Cafferty and Ryan Nielsen - leading PV to a convincing victory.
We are also proud of all the newest members of our team. Since school started, we have had a large group of runners come join us, many who have never run before. Through hard work and dedication, many of these student-athletes are already showing great signs of improvement and really helping us look forward to the future.

We Made a Dye Stat TOP 20!

To my knowledge this is the first time ever a PVHS X-Country team has made a Dye Stat Top 20! What is Dye Stat? Well, it is a webpage dedicated to cross country and track and field. The site is a great resource for race results and rankings that are based upon actual results compiled by knowledgeable staff from around the country. Dye Stat is listed as one of our favorite links off to the right. In the past, Utah schools have done very well in cross country and have often been ranked nationally, but I don't think Pine View has ever cracked one of their top 20 lists. So write it down in your journals, as of Sept. 11 (the second ranking period of the season) PVXC Varisty Boys hit the 2nd ten (which are listed alphabetically, not in rankings) of the Dye Stat Southwest Region rankings! Great job guys; you have worked very hard for this - now let's keep moving it up!
Check out the link http://www.dyestat.com//?pg=us-2008-NXN-Sept-11-Rankings