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.