Time Trial #2

Our 2nd Time Trial of the year was held Wednesday at Bloomington Hills North Park.  Conditions were good for an August afternoon and the team took full advantage of them.  Most athletes saw improvements from 20 seconds to a minute from the first time trial 3 weeks ago - very impressive on the difficult 2 mile course.  Check out the results using the PVXC results link to the right.

Thursday, the team hit the trail for the first time since summer.  We headed out to prospector and had a great run.  Take a look at the pics.

SUU Invite and more...

What a great meet Pine View had at SUU - winning 3 of the 4 races and taking 2 individual titles!  The meet started with the JV girls dominating.  A top 3 sweep included Freshmen Sylvia Brown in 3rd, Addi Baker in 2nd and Rylee Holt winning the title.  Megan Finch and Carli Kimzey rounded out the scoring with 6th and 7th place finishes.  The girls went on to win 19 to 67 for Cedar and 71 for DH.  The boys followed suite and also claimed top three and placed all five scorers in the top ten led by individual champ Jake Taylor, Skylar Abel in 2nd and Andrew Nielsen in 3rd.  When Logan Hall and Carson Horspool finished up in 8th and 9th, we ended up defeating DH 23 to 32.  The Varsity girls continued to show pack domination winning 26 to 53 (DH) and 83 (Cedar) by 5 in the top 10 led by Caroline Clements (4th), Meskerem Stucki (5th), Josie Bushar (8th), Jacey Finch (9th) and Ellie Bushar (10th) with a 16 second spread!  The boys also had a strong pack for much of the race and placed a solid 2nd to DH at 17 to 51.  Nick Hill led the team with a 7th place finish and Dallen Gillespie and Mitch Price ran strong to finish 9th and 10th.  The girls crushed the course record set by a '09 Mt. View that took third at NXR and the boys were less than a second off our team record set back in '09 by a team that is considered the 2nd strongest PV boys team ever.  Great Racing Everyone!

The Athletes of the Week from this past week were Seanne Smith and Xander Reese.
Seanne Smith is a Freshman who just joined the team at the start of the school year.  She has already shown great improvement and promise.  She is a very hard worker and looks to continue to be a contributor scorer on the JV team and work her way toward Varsity contention in the future.
Xander Reese is a Junior in his first year of running.  Xander is a strong soccer player and his athletic skills have translated well to the XC course.  At SUU, Xander ran with top JV pack for the first while and looks to continue to work his way up to them throughout more of the race in the future.  This gutsy race led him to a great time and a solid finish on the team.
This week we will be having our Time Trial #2 at Bloomington Hills North Park on Wednesday.  We will meet there for practice and begin the races at app. 3:45 and 4:00.
We also have our FootLocker Car Wash Fundraiser this Saturday.  Please plan on attending and help was all the hundreds of cars.  It will be held at Sandstone Elem. from 10:00a-2:00p.  SELL THOSE TICKETS!

SW Region Rankings

For the first time ever...
OUR GIRLS ARE CRACKING THROUGH!
The first installment of the SW Region Rankings has the Pine View Girls as "receiving votes".  Just wait until they really see how good we are...
Great job ladies.

August Catch Up

Let's get some stuff caught up for the month.
The good:

•      School Started!  (okay maybe not super good, but it means we are back on our "normal practice schedule".  If you have questions with that, check out the XC Disclosure and/or the PV Distance Workouts and see when you should be here - normal time is 3:00p at the HS)
• We've already started running some races:
• PV Time Trial #1 - went very well.  We have really focused this summer on packing and team running.  Our #1 goal at the time trial (and throughout the early season) has been working together as a pack to find our team strength and we did that exceptionally well.
• Cedar All-Comers - A great official start to the season.  The girls started the season off in power-house fashion.  Not only did we nearly score a perfect victory (with 16 points), we place 7 of the top 10 and had all our "Varsity" finish before any team other than DH.  Breaking down to "JV" scores, The girls dominated that race as well.  The boys also ran very strong with the "JV" boys edging out DH and the "Varsity" 7 taking a strong 2nd to one of the top 10 teams in the country.  This race shows that our program and our team oriented focus of finding "Joy in the Journey" is producing great results for everyone on the team who is willing to put in the effort.
• Desert Relays - after having to cancel the first attempt at the Relays after a lightning storm hit during the middle of the girls race, the second version went even better than how the first was playing out.  The girls dominated from top to bottom.  We had two Plate winners: Meskerem Stucki in the 1st Leg and Jacey Finch in the 3rd Leg.  The Black team had the overall fastest girls team time and the girls won by a decent margin over a very good DH team.  The boys showed their team strength to hang close to DH, and even though we didn't take home any hardware, we are continuing to reach toward our goal of being the best PV we can be.  We had very strong runs from Paul Gaona, Skylar Abel, and Andrew Nielsen.
• High Altitude Camp: This year's summer camp at Pine Lake was our best one yet!  The captains did a great job of organizing and leading camp.  The Camp theme was Renegades of Run - focusing on what it means to be a truly elite Panther Distance Runner.  Many ideas were discussed about how a Renegade breaks free of the "normal" high school student (and even runner) to set him/herself up to a higher standard of living in every way.  The year theme of "Joy in the Journey" as also a great topic as the Captains look to help each and everyone of us enjoy each thing we do along this journey of life; including finding joy in all aspects of our running.  The weather was great; the food was great; the games were great; and the team was great.  A great example of why we all love being Panthers!
• Renegades of Run Elite Camp:  The top 10 boys and girls were selected for a two day camp on Cedar Mountain at the end of the summer.  The first day we traveled up to Navajo Lake and had a great run and swim in the lake followed by hours of exploring through Mammoth Caves.  That night we stayed at Preston's family's cabin in Brian Head and just had a great time playing games and hanging out.  The following morning, we had one of the most amazing runs ever up on Brian Head peak at over 11000 feet.  It was an unbelievable team bonding experience.
• A few more Athletes of the Week:
• From this past week we had Meskerem Stucki for her leadership and continued improvement at being at all practices and working with the team concept we are really working to get everyone to believe in - it's working for her (she won Cedar and the Relays) and she is helping everyone around her.  Mitchell Price was our boys Athlete of the Week.  Mitch continues to impress and improve his times and the racing/practicing of everyone around him.  At Cedar, Mitch claimed the all important 3rd spot (the most important scorer on the team!)
• From Camp Week and the Time Trial #1 Week (I think that would be Weeks 9 and 10) our Athletes of the Week were Addi Baker, Mitch Price, Tanner Hadlock and Megan Finch.  Addi is another outstanding Freshman.  She has a huge amount of determination and always looks to help her teammates improve.  We expect great things from her.  Mitch (again...) was picked this week for his awesome work with as a Captain with High Altitude Camp.  Camp was absolutely amazing and the Captains did a great job with it.  Tanner continues to impress every day with his hard work and commitment.  Tanner loves running and the team loves the effort he puts in.  And Megan, was chosen for her great summer and very solid run at the Time Trial.  Megan has been one of our top runners in the past and has had to battle injuries for the past two years.  It has been great seeing her improvement and dedication to the sport.
• SUU Invite - Saturday we are headed up to Bicentennial Park in Cedar for the SUU Invitational.  The bus leaves the HS at 6:30a - race schedule is JV girls at 8:00, JV boys at 8:30, Varsity girls at 9:15, Varsity boys at 10:00 and awards after.  
• Remember to sell your Car Wash tickets
• and Get your SPIRIT PACK STUFF TAKEN CARE OF!

Some Pics

Here are a few of the pics from the summer...

High Altitude Camp

Renegade Camp

Please download, save, print, whatever to any of the pictures from last year (over on the right toolbar).  As the season progresses, these will be removed from the blog.

Summer Running Club Race Results and Club Info

We have had an amazing Summer Running Club!  We had our most runners ever, our fastest times ever, and (from what all the kiddos are saying) our most Summer Marathons ever!  So, check out the Race Results from July 21st and make sure you are at the final club day on August 4th.  Here is the update list of Summer Club Records - check out all the new records and top times from this summer!

For our 6th-8th graders, we will be holding our Youngster Club throughout the XC season.  Practices will be held Monday, Wednesday and Friday at PVHS from 3:00 - 4:15.  These are supervised practices, with workouts geared toward the overall development of our runners for years to come.  Our PVXC Youngsters program is the top program in the area.  Practices and races will coached/supervised by Coach Martha Baker.  Athletes will need a release form signed and returned before being allowed to compete/participate.  This will be available the first few weeks of practice.

XC Schedule Updates

There have been a few changes to the XC schedule.  Please print out a new one and make sure you are good for each of the dates.

• Run-A-Thon has moved to Sept 4th-5th (Fri-Sat) after the football game.
• All Time Trials will be held at the Region South Course (Bloomington Hills North Park) because of construction at PVHS.
• Time Trial #3 has been moved up to Sept 8th (Tues).
• We will make the Herriman Invite a team overnighter; our top 48 eligible runners (those who are at every practice, fill out their Week Reports, and basically are on my good side!) will travel to Salt Lake on Friday the 11th and race at Herriman.  We will then stay overnight in Salt Lake and practice at the State Course in Sugarhouse the next morning.
• The Nebo Invite has been moved to Sept 24th (Thur).  We will still travel up as a team (except the Varsity girls going to Bob Firman) and most will travel back on Thursday night - Varsity boys may stay overnight to practice at the State Course on Friday.

Hopefully that is all the changes!