This past weekend our TEAM raced at the grass relays. This is a fun two mile race with hay bales at different points of the course. The varsity ran a five person relay. In this relay our girls placed 4th overall (Autumn Gibson, Hayley Knapp, Sara Hash, Lindsay Schuring, Rachel Warnick) and our boys placed 7th overall (Paxton Patey, Nathan Vance, Isaac Faux, Jonah Hadlock, Kevin Muirbrook). Junior Paxton Patey & Sophomore Isaac Faux both placed in the top 15 overall. In the girls Frosh/Soph race Maddie Ball placed 6th and earned a medal. Also earning a medal in the JV race were Seniors Brette Bennett & Alenia Robertson placing 9th & 10th. There were several other great performances in this meet. Full meet results can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/timomostert/americanforkgrassrelays
This meet was a good early meet and gave us a good idea of where we stack up with the rest of the state. We were very impressed with the improvement that many of you made in this meet. Many of you ran well. However keep in mind that it was an early meet. There is a lot more running and racing to go this season. Let us keep our goals in mind and keep up our hard work and dedication and good things will follow.
Now this week we have practice as usual at MMHS on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Wednesdays practice we will meet at Eagle Rock Park in Mapleton (Eagle Rock Park – 1300 East Eagle Drive (600 South) Information about TEAM night will be given at practice. Our meet this week will be on Friday and the details for that race can be found below. The buses will be leaving MMHS at 3:30pm!
Thank you to all of you and your parents who helped out with our time in the snack shack at the football game. Thank you & Happy Running,
--The Coaches
2011 Utah County Cross Country Inv.
Lakeside Sports Park
400 South 1850 West, Orem, Ut
Friday, September 2, 2011
Time Schedule:
4:30 Packet Pick up
5:00 Freshman / Sophomore Girls
5:30 Freshman / Sophomore Boys
6:00 Junior / Senior Girls
6:30 Junior / Senior Boys
Awards: Awards will be given to the top ten finishers in each race.
A trophy will be given to the top men’s and women’s team.
Scores will be figured by adding the five fastest times for each school. It doesn’t matter if they run in different races. For example team A has four runners in the Junior /Senior race who run 15:00, 15:01, 15:34, 16:00 and a Sophomore who runs 15:25 in the Freshman /Sophomore race. Their team score would be 78 minutes even.
Course: The course is a true 5k (measured and re-measured), 90% grass with some concrete. It is very spectator friendly.
Parking and restrooms: There is ample parking at the park for cars and busses. Clean restrooms are available at the park.
