Bronco Blurb Hills are our friends. Northgate Cross --CC-> Country Sunday, September 9, 2012

3. Montgomery High School 149 5. Vacaville High School 114 Ed Sias Invitational 4. Northgate High School 181 6. Maria Carrillo High School 162 Hidden Valley Park, Martinez 5. 186 7. Bishop O'Dowd High School 189 Saturday, September 8, 2012 6. 205 8. Miramonte High School 207 7. Lick-Wilmerding High 218 9. Justin-Siena High School 213 8. Bishop O'Dowd High 222 10. Castro Valley High School 247 9. 242 11. Clayton Valley Charter High 282 10. Clayton Valley 246 12. Monte Vista High School 314 11. Monte Vista High School 250 13. Sacred Heart Cathedral 359 12. Vacaville High School 251 14. The 371 13. Dublin High School 252 15. Lick-Wilmerding 409 14. Sacred Heart Cathedral 281 16. College Park High School 494 15. Armijo High School 281 17. Acalanes High School 505 16. Crystal Springs Uplands 423 18. Montgomery High School 507 17. The Athenian School 428 19. Northgate High School 521 18. St. Joseph High School 499 20. Berean Christian High 525 21. Tamalpais High School 559 The boys finished 4th as a team out of 22. Livermore High School 570 19 total teams represented. This is a really good 23. St Patrick St Vincent HS 629 finish by our young boys, especially since we pulled Isaac up to varsity. Andrew tried, but was unable to keep up The race started quickly, as did all of the his competitive pace the whole race. Victor races today. Jesue responded to the challenge, shoed the benefits of summer running. Ryan is but it took Laurence a while to get up to speed. still learning the sport. Ross got stuck in a slower Eeyeon looked early on too. As the final hill pace. Eddie got stuck behind Ross. James has Kathleen Narloch poses at the starting line. Our came up, Laurence finally got in front of Jesus. his knee lock up and gimped in the last part of star-in-the-making ran 14:56 in the community Joey had passed Eeyeon, who had to stop to be the race. race. sick (not enough breakfast) but still finished the race. Adrian’s tweaked ankle did not slow him Boys’ Frosh-Soph Boys’ Frosh down much. Alex beat Curtis in their little race- (205 finishers) (204 finishers) in-a-race rivalry. Dennis and Casey, despite just 124. Noah Rinehart 13:28 PR: 51 16. Laurence Seabook 12:34 coming out for the team, survived well. Kailash 140. Michael Anderson 13:55 27. Jesus Rivas 13:01 and Aalap staged their own little battle. Evan 150. Josh Alegria 14:18 45. Joey Harrington 13:35 beat over 50 people today, thanks to his more 175. Chris Shenkel 15:15 52. Eeyeon Kim 13:42 aggressive start. 188. Daniel O’Laughlin 16:03 PR: 09 87. Adrian Valderrama 14:16 did not run: 94. Alex Trees 14:22 Boys’ Junior Varsity Jake Crumpler -- broken toe 109. Curtis Joseph 14:38 (175 finishers) 113. Dennis Hoh 14:56 52. Andrew Locke 12:45 126. Casey Richie 15:12 115. Victor Wong 14:10 PR 1:22 128. Kailash Baas 15:13 126. Ryan Peterson 14:30 132. Aalap Shah 15:16 149. Ross Khorsandi 15:23 150. Evan Carter 15:54 150. Eddie Andrew 15:25 153. James Harrington 15:29 did not run: Joaquin Barrios -- knees

The Frosh-Soph boys practice their intimidation techniques. Needs a little work, I’d say.

Team Scores: 1. Maria Carrillo High School 80 2. De La Salle High School 107 3. Campolindo High School 132 4. Dublin High School 144 The freshman boys are quite a cluster at the The JV boys pose with smiles before the race. 5. Lick-Wilmerding High School 166 starting line. 6. Miramonte High School 172 Team Scores: 7. Vacaville High School 206 Team Scores: 1. De La Salle High School 79 8. Granada High School 229 1. De La Salle High School 102 2. Campolindo High School 86 9. Bishop O'Dowd High School 281 2. Maria Carrillo High School 112 3. Granada High School 108 10. Livermore High School 301 4. St. Mary's High School 114 11. Crystal Springs Uplands School 325 12. The Athenian School 349 4. St. Joseph High School 111 17. Marin Catholic High 374 13. Armijo High School 362 5. Campolindo High School 136 18. Alhambra High School 412 14. St. Joseph High School 366 6. St. Mary's High School 205 19. Justin-Siena High School 416 15. Monte Vista High School 375 7. San Rafael High School 227 20. Crystal Springs Uplands 427 16. Clayton Valley Charter High 409 8. The Athenian School 255 21. Benicia High School 563 17. Washington High School 416 9. Northgate High School 277 22. El Molino High School 626 18. Piedmont High School 451 10. Alhambra High School 294 19. Acalanes High School 475 11. Sacred Heart Cathedral 310 20. Sacred Heart Cathedral 506 12. Benicia High School 384 21. Justin-Siena High School 603 13. Lick-Wilmerding High 390 22. College Park High School 605 14. Piedmont High School 396 23. Novato High school 652 15. Crystal Springs Uplands 396 24. Montgomery High School 653 16. Tamalpais High School 429 25. Skyline High School 693 17. Berean Christian High 433 26. Northgate High School 696 18. Mt Shasta High School 435 27. 779 19. El Molino High School 500 28. St Patrick St Vincent HS 825 20. Marin Catholic High 535 21. Encinal High School 550 Our frosh-soph boys were running with 22. Justin-Siena High School 579 just the minimum number of bodies necessary to 23. Novato High school 623 score, and Josh was a no-show so they were just 24. St Patrick St Vincent HS 701 going to run for time. Josh scurried in late with flimsy excuses, but made his race. We were down a runner already with The overall team result was not earth- Cole in recovery from an ankle injury, and Jared shaking, but we were trying to run for comparison off . Our emphasis today was on times more tahn team presence. Noah lodged a consistency and race tactics. very good PR for the second race in a row. Danny, in his third race in 6 days, was Daniel nudged his own PR up a bit. Michael was unable to muster the vim to hold off an energized within a seond of his PR. Josh was off his feed Tyler Hanson of Miramonte and only finished today, what with his late arrival. Chris did just fine 2nd. (Which is a statement in itself!) This will set in his first attempt ever on a cross country up an interesting individual battle come North course. Coast Section time. Jake started out much too slowly, and it took him most of the race to finally Boys’ Varsity - Small Schools pull ahead of James. James had his usual (161 finishers) problem of not being able to sustain his rocket 2. Danny Stalters 10:17 PR :09 start through the whole race. Nonetheless, these 28. Jake Egley 11:05 PR :43 three veterans all recorded PR’s. 38. James Sheehy 11:18 PR :56 We did what amounted to tryouts for the 105. Andrew Narloch 12:35 rest of the varsity spots. Andrew Narloch barely 106. Isaac Schick 12:36 held off Isaac, and Jack faded in the second mile. 131. Jack Reamy 13:30 The effort was there, but the times were not. The Varsity Girls exude confidence at the start of did not run: Fortunately, we have two months to get these the race. Cole Fraser -- ankle injury boys into better condition by the end. Jared Bricklin -- scuba certification Again, with two races in five days, our Girls’ Varsity -- Small Schools emphasis was on a professional race, not a (145 finishers) championship race. The girls were running 7. Ami Boucher 12:59 PR :04 against a number of teams who had the 26. Caitlyn Mundrane 13:44 emotional boost of having their first race of the 60. Marilyn Narloch 14:38 season, while we are already veterans of three 71. Kayla Scalise 14:59 PR :26 races. 76. Kelsey Bowman 15:04 Ami overcame her bee sting of 83. Alex Mora 15:13 Wednesday to run to a medal position and even did not run: a PR. Caitlyn ran well. Meredith Peterson -- deep water certification The rest of the girls continue to run to straighten out the rest of our varsity picture. Team Scores: Marilyn once again turned on the jets at the end 1. Branson High School 82 to pull away, and this time she caught Kayla as 2. Bishop O'Dowd High School 101 well. Kayla was operating on a few hours sleep, 3. Miramonte High School 134 as her shift at Rocco’s ran long. Kelsey edged 4. Acalanes High School 164 out Alex, who herself was determined to be in the 5. Tamalpais High School 177 varsity picture. 6. Lick-Wilmerding High School 210 The efforts in this race were all strong, 7. Sacred Heart Cathedral 219 and it sets a good attitude for the rest of the 8. Northgate High School 235 season. Our back pack needs to get close to our 9. Campolindo High School 236 front pack for us to improve, and our front pack Isaac was not intimidated at all about being 10. Piedmont High School 236 needs to maintain intensity to keep us near the brought up to run varsity. 11. Mt Shasta High School 256 front of major races. 12. St. Joseph High School 329 As a side note, we did beat Campolindo, Team Scores: 13. Novato High school 340 which is a definitely different team than the State 1. Acalanes High School 57 14. The Athenian School 359 Champion team of tow years ago. 2. Miramonte High School 79 15. St Patrick St Vincent 364 3. Bishop O'Dowd High 93 16. Berean Christian High 373 Girls’ Junior Varsity Isaac Schick 12:36 4. There were several excellent spots for us (149 finishers) Ami Boucher 12:59 today. Danny and Ami ran very very well. The 27. Peggy Lau 15:32 Jesus Rivas 13:01 Freshman Boys finished 4th overall. Our GV is 43. Madison Lehmer 16:14 Noah Rinehart 13:28 becoming a more cohesive unit. Cole Fraser is 74. Anna Reck 17:02 Jack Reamy 13:30 recovering quickly from what could have been a 116. Lisa Liu 18:52 Joey Harrington 13:35 season-ending injury. And all of our rookies and 121. Leslie Bridges 19:00 Eeyeon Kim 13:42 newbies are rapidly becoming experienced at this 121. Haley Sutton 19:03 Caitlyn Mundrane 13:44 big meet experience. did not run: Michael Anderson 13:55 5. We have work to do. There will be Maria Silva -- shins Victor Wong 14:10 workouts, there will be more workouts, and there Adrian Valderrama 14:16 will be additional workout out after that. We are Team Scores: Josh Alegria 14:18 just started on this season, and we have a ways 1. Maria Carrillo High School 36 Alex Trees 14:22 to go before we are done. All of you will continue 2. Saint Francis High School 70 Ryan Peterson 14:30 to run, and will continue to improve, and we will 3. Bishop O'Dowd High 79 Curtis Joseph 14:38 continue to beat lots of other teams. 4. Miramonte High School 120 Marilyn Narloch 14:38 5. St. Mary's High School 186 Dennis Hoh 14:56 Brewer Sez: 6. Campolindo High School 186 Kayla Scalise 14:59 7. Tamalpais High School 219 Kelsey Bowman 15:04 State of the Season 8. Monte Vista High School 248 Casey Richie 15:12 We have started our competitively 9. Clayton Valley 275 Kailash Baas 15:13 season emphatically. Three races in two weeks, 10. Granada High School 286 Alex Mora 15:13 travel by bus and by carpool, the arrangement of 11. Northgate High School 316 Chris Shenkel 15:15 logistics to move lots of people around, a pasta 12. Castro Valley High School 319 Aalap Shah 15:16 feed, tons and tons of e-mails . . . and this is only 13. Acalanes High School 321 Ross Khorsandi 15:23 the beginning. 14. The Athenian School 343 Eddie Andrew 15:25 At first blush this may seem like a an 15. Montgomery High School 357 James Harrington 15:29 ongoing whirlwind of social and running chaos, 16. 358 Peggy Lau 15:32 with more of a sense of momentum and not 17. St. Joseph High School 458 Evan Carter 15:54 necessarily purpose. And, in some odd way, this 18. Deer Valley High School 510 Daniel O’Laughlin 16:03 might even be one of the attractions of the sport. 19. Vacaville High School 523 Madison Lehmer 16:14 Rest assured, however, that there is still a very Anna Reck 17:02 strong focus on the major athletic emphasis of Lisa Liu 18:52 running: individual and team improvement. Leslie Bridges 19:00 So what can we make of what we have Haley Sutton 19:03 seen of our team so far this season? Here are a few thoughts on that. Notes: 1. We have a ways to go. Our team 1. 43 runners ran in races. 1 ran in the performance range is all over the place. We have community race as rehab. 3 were determined our share of top runners, but team depth drops unable to run at the site. 2 others were pre- off quickly. It will take time to develop the rest of injured and showed up to help. 5 were pre- the team to bring together a closer cluster of commiited to other obligations. 1 showed up up, performers at the varsity level. The girls’ squad but is not yet cleared to run. 2 others are waiting appears to be closer to this goal than the boys at to have their paperwork processed and were not this point. in attendance. That’s a lot of folks not running. 2. Workout intensity will continue. If we Incomplete paperwork is not a real excuse this want to continue to improve, there is no far into the season. Other obligations do not substitute for workouts being challenging. really register either, as our schedule has been 3. Attendance will continue to be Peggy was the surprise JV leader for us today. available since the beginning of summer to any emphasized. We have too many daily absences, casual observer. We have over 55 athletes on and we have yet to field a full set of runners in Peggy got all excited and beat the older our roster, and to have only 43 make the race is any race. girls by a large margin. Madison put in a not a good percentage in this coach’s opinion. 4. The apparatus of team management is consistent effort. Anna is also learning just how We are a better team than this. Let’s get humming along in well-tuned fashion. Our parent to race. Lisa is improving with each race. Leslie everyone to the meets, and get rid of the reasons support is second to none. We are the envy of started conservatively and ended strongly. Haley not to be at meets. many other squads on this account. just can’t seem to get untracked. 2. With a short week after the holiday, and 5. We could use more girls on the team, but two races in the week, and a pretty good workout at this point recruiting would not pay off in the Girls’ Frosh-Soph yesterday, there was no expectation of the short term (unless some distance whiz transfers Sam had a late family obligation, and “ultimate race of life” happening. Still, there was in right now). What this means is that we will be Amanda’s toe was swollen from her water the expectation of a strong effort regardless of scrambling to fill in the JV and FS squads as the workout accident, so we had no representatives anything else. All of our runners that toed the season goes along. in this race. line today did just that . . ran to the best level that 6. It is apparent as well that we have the full they had today. range of talent on this squad, both boys and girls, And how do you stack up within the team? 3. The snack table was loaded, the warmup to field very good teams. As the season Here is how the team picture looks after today’s and cooldown procedures were followed (well, progresses, be prepared to see some impressive races: not by everyone) and we were almost all of us in improvement in competitions. uniform. The carpooling got everyone there, and 7. Today gave us a chance also to see our Danny Stalters 10:17 everyone apparently got home again. And when major league competition -- College Park and Jake Egley 11:05 the team was gone, the coach could not find any Clayton Valley. They are both good teams this James Sheehy 11:18 garbage left in the team area. This is all year, and on paper seem to have an edge on us. Laurence Seabook 12:34 exceptionally good. Let’s keep it up. Of course, that’s on paper. We’ll see what Andrew Narloch 12:35 happens in the actual race..