Another great week in the books for the Panthers! After a very LONG and HOT summer, we have started to see the results of all the hard work we have put in. At SUU everyone ran so well! We want to say so sorry to the JV girls that got affected by the race/timing screw up. That is so bumma. I was really mad (and kind of am still - because so many of you ran amazing races and it would have been great to have a time to back that up), but like in life, mistakes happen and there isn't anything to be done to change it now other than pull out all the positives of why each person individually ran so well. So dwell on those and keep doing those things! The race itself was great to watch. Caroline ran a great race; so great she won it twice! We have to guestimate her time a bit, but can fairly safely say it would have been between 18:50 and 19:20... a 19:10 would have placed her right around 7th/8th in the Varsity race. There were also great races run by Carli, Sylvia, Brynnli, Janessa and many others. The JV girls would have taken a very solid 2nd place if all had been run properly. The JV boys then stepped up and opened it up. A pack of Spencer B., Mikey and Nathan took out the early lead and kept it strong throughout the race. In his first full race as a Panther, Spencer B. claimed the JV title in 16:32 (a time that would have placed him in the top 20 in Varsity). Mikey finished a strong 2nd, Nathan 6th; then Corbin, Grant, Parker, and Cooper finished 10th-13th to help secure the team title over DH 30-37. The Varsity Girls eventually got started and we formed a strong pack up front. For most of the race Rylee, Jessica, and Josie led the pack and the race. Rylee's strongest run of the season resulted in her finishing 2nd overall (just 3 secs. off the win; and 5 seconds off our PV course record), following Rylee by just 1 second was Jessica and then two seconds back of her was Josie (for a 2,3,4 finish). Ellie and Jacey finished the last mile strong to get just enough places back to hold on to the win at 32-34 over DH. The Varsity Boys also had a great result through tight packing. Alex led the group out strong and they responded to finish 4th - an exciting kick by Carson - 6th, Mitch; 7th, Dallen; 8th, Julien; 9th, Alex; and 11th, Logan. That 28sec spread nearly overcame DH and we ended up just short at 30-34, but with our best team race in many years (and with times - on both the guys and girls side - that are very worthy of a national ranking)!
Great job to everyone; and thanks parents for all your support. Let's keep it rolling as we move into a very important week of training.
- Please enter Week 12 Minutes - and catch up anything you haven't, because I won't look back past the last week or two to update after Monday.
- Workouts are posted (over on the right); remember...
- Monday morning early - 5:30a in your camp shirts
- Monday afternoon meeting in Coach Holt's room
- Wednesday afternoon we will carpool over to BHNP for the workout
- Friday afternoon we will carpool into Washington for the workout on the Dirt Mile
- Tuesday and Thursday are weights in the morning
- Car Wash - is kind of up in the air right now. The reason; because of district $ and travel guidelines, we cannot hold the car wash at Sandstone (it is a long and often frustrating discussion, ask me later if you want more details). So anyway, we are trying to secure another location to hold the car wash. We would still like to hold it this weekend so we can start collecting $ for our club trip to Nike SW in Phoenix (or Cali for Foot Locker if that doesn't work out). Sorry that this has happened, but sometimes we have to roll with the punches.
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