MT SAC RESULTS (Girls and Boys) and Girls' Week #19 Ahead--and Race Videos!

Link to all (most) of Mt. SAC results are here--scroll down to bottom half of page. (Unfortunately, Races #9, 12, 13, 14 show no times; and incredibly, our school had runners in three of those races. And I'm not convinced we'll ever see any either. :(  ...)

GIRLS


Highlights/Comments:

• Freshman, Anna Frederich, keeps improving and digs a little bit deeper within herself every week. No telling how far she'll go. So, Mt. SAC officials give her an 18:59--that's official! I can't say for sure, but I would bet that this time goes down as the fastest ever for an LCXC girl's MT. SAC debut.
• Meghan Fuelling ran her fastest time by one second with a 19:07! This time is faster than both of South Pas's top two runners!
• Team time: 1:41:17...35 seconds better than our CIF prelims time. It's also over 4:30 faster than last year's Invitational time. We placed 7th in our race out of 22 schools!
• Hannah Yoho wins a medal (12th place) in her Sophomore race. Unfortunately, there is no time for her (not yet), but I would guess she was under 21:25 based on my watch! That time puts her at the #7 spot for the team. Courtney Schulte and Eloise Dimase-Nordling run decent first-time races on MT. SAC's course with  20:59 and 21:06 efforts respectively! And Rachel Thorp's first-time effort was not too far behind at 21:10!
• Michelle Berjikian ran a tough race by taking 16th place in her JV race with a 22:06 (57-second course PR). Angela Fuhrman also had a nice course PR and improved by 21 seconds for 25:29! Our team place 9th out of 16 schools!

Based on our time on Friday, we are sitting at #19 for the Invitational when compared to other CIF D3 teams; however, Oak Park, Orange Lutheran and Palos Verdes did not run full teams, so we're probably more like #22. That means we still have a lot of room for improvement. And our rival, South Pasadena, is sitting at #13 with their 1:38:54 performance. If we run at full strength, we could be at least that fast, and probably somewhere in the low 1:37 range. But when it comes right down to it, times don't matter! We have to race people, not clocks! When you run well against your opponents, the fast times usually follow.

Our outlook is looking good in terms of our depth. We still have a couple more races to determine who represents us at CIF prelims, but based on Friday's race results, our top-seven varsity team for League Finals looks like this: Anna, Meghan, Courtney, Eloise, Holly, Rachel, and Hannah Y.

While a 2-mile performance on the track is not the best determiner for x-country success, I may still factor in the results from the APU meet and re-evaluate that top-7 for the league race, but there would have to be a huge displacement in those 6 and 7 spots that would make me alter that team.


BOYS 

Comments from Coach Thatcher:

Good showing yesterday at the Mt Sac Invitational.

Here's the breakdown:

Freshman race we had a solid top 3 (Michel-35th, Shreckengast-36th and Heileson-39th) with #4 (Glidewell-60th) following close behind to round out our team. Top three went under 19 for their first sojourn across the tough course.

There were 125 runners in the race.

Sophomores ran well and stayed in groups of two.

Bromley-37th, Chris Skaggs-38th

Del Valle-53rd, Horswell-58th

Steinberg-62nd, Bartholomew-64th and Marki-99th

There were 137 runners in the race. The boys took 8th out of 15 teams.

Juniors and Seniors raced well in the National JV Championship Race.

Still waiting on those updated results, but we had solid grouping one through four.

Thomas Han led the way in 17:26 -28th- followed closely by

Matthews-17:33-32nd

Patao-17:34-34th

Jonathan Skaggs-17:38-37th.

Nakasone was our 5th man in 20:20-82nd.

check back later for official times and places

They took 7th overall.

In the Varsity Sweeps race we had a strong top 3 led by Andrew Fisher. They averaged 16:08!

Fisher went sub 16 for the first time and four runners broke 17.

Fisher-24th-15:55

Skaggs-40th-16:07

Greene-61st-16:23

Lankey-85th-16:52

Cwik-130th-17:49

Here is a link to the sweeps race. link

Our team time was 83:07 a 14 second improvement from last years outing.

Good things to come!


GIRLS' 19TH WEEK AT-A-GLANCE

Race #39



Race #35




Race #21

Race #14



Race #12



Race #9



Race #8



Race #5