Woodbridge Invitational

Woodbridge Invite, 9/18

Many of you know that the woodbridge invitational is the largest meet in North America with over 520 schools from over 25 states competing.  Some of the best programs in the United States come to CA for an early season test of fitness against each other.  

We will be competing in the small schools  division on Friday night....our very own Friday Night Lights! 

Our top 7 boys and top 7 girls will make the trip to see how we stack up against the best small schools in our state and at lest 5 other states.  

Travel Roster - Girls

• Grace
• Maggie
• Sophia
• Allison
• Melanie
• Maritza
• Jaelyn

Travel Roster - Boys

• Manny
• Mason
• Sam
• Juan
• Shane
• Tyler
• Diego

In the past, our boys have placed as high as 3rd place and our girls have placed as high as 4th place.  Our top individual finisher was Emily Fife, who took 4th in 2018 with a time of 18:03.  The fields will be much tougher this year and a top 10 team finish is possible for both our squads, but not guarunteed.  The top 6 teams in each event will receive commemorative patches for their lettermans jackets.  The top 100 finishers in each varsity race will receive a medal.  

If you are going

Please see our meet itinerary.  Also, understand that your training schedule will be different than the rest of the team next week, since you will compete on Friday night while the rest of the squad will compete on Saturday.  You can preview the course with the "Course Flyover" video   The video makes the course look really long, but you can check the course map here.  It's 3 miles, super fast, and you'll certainly PR

If you are not going but want to watch

Races will be live streamed on RunnerSpace and race splits will be updated in real time on AthleticLIVE

All parents and athletes should can check out the meet website woodbridgexcclassic.com

TVL Opener This Wednesday

 Bus Will Depart From Back Lot at 3:30

• 5:00 JV Girls
• 5:30 JV Boys
• 6:00 Var Girls
• 6:30 Var Boys

Long Cool Downs for varsity athletes.  Monday and Tue will be low volume.  We'll get some of the mileage back on Wed, Thu, and Sat.  

Here's the schedule for the rest of the week. 

Great Day for the Huskies

 Black and Gold Intrasquad (TT #2)

The week prior to the TVL opener, every year since the century began, the Hughson Cross Country teams have run a time trial to help prepare them for the upcoming season.  Every year, we have kept accurate records.  2026 will go down as the FASTEST YEAR of all time for the HHS Harriers!

The Huskies Power off the Starting Line

Boys Highlights.  

The boys beat the all time best team mark by 31 seconds, eclipsing the mark set by the 2019 team.  Manny Ruiz led our group with the #2 mark of all time, narrowly missing the all time team record which is held by 2013 SJS Champion, Zach Morrett. Not only did the Huskies top runners perform historically well, but we managed to put 8 runners into our all time top 25 athletes (on a list that goes back 27 years!).  Mason Hoyle, Sam Alvarado, Juan Palos, Shane Lockwood, Tyler Phun, Jeremiah Alvarado, and Diego Salinas all managed to dip under 10:50 for the 2 mile course. 

Ruiz Leads a Parade of Huskies

Girls Highlights

The boys may have beaten the all time record.  But our girls SMASHED theirs, eclipsing the all time mark (set last year) by 1 minute and 52 seconds!!!  The girls were led by Grace Benitez, who moved to #3 on the all time girls top performers list.  Just like the boys, the girls team put a slew of girls onto our list of top performers of all time.  Maggie Becchetti, Sophia Aguiar, Melanie Sanchez, Allison Landeverde, and Jaelyn Anguiano can now be counted among the top 20 girls to ever put on a HHS cross country uniform.  

Benitez Missed All Time Mark by Only 3 Seconds

Fully Updated Stats Lists

All time teams list

All time individual performers lists

Full Team Results and Splits

Weekly Schedule (Week 14)

 Let's get a little extra sleep tomorrow morning

The forecast for tomorrow only shows 89 degrees, so let's move the workout to the afternoon

Here's the schedule for the rest of the week.  Intra Squad meet on Wednesday

Let's go for the team time records for both boys and girls. 

While you're at it, take a look at our results from two weeks ago. 

And for one more thing to think about, here is our list of all time top individual performances (each athlete only gets one entry on the list).  I haven't updated the list with times set 2 weeks ago because our second TT is always faster than our first.  Once we have our intra squad meet on Wednesday, I'll update the list for this year, using the better or your times from the two TT's

Weekly Schedule

 No Meets This Week.

This means that we're going to bump the volume of your training up a bit.  The weather is going to be pretty hot this week, so make sure you're staying hydrated.   

For those of you who are still struggling to run without stopping at practice, being able to do that is your number one goal.  It doesn't make any sense to try and run extra on your own if you can't finish workouts at practice.  I'd like for everyone to be able to run the Black and Gold Intrasquad meet next week, but I won't let you run off campus until you've proven that you can run without stopping.  

Here's this week's schedule

First Meet Tomorrow (And other Important Info)

Screamin' Scott Showdown

OK, Team - Here we go for another year of Hughson Cross Country.  This is a list of our entries and the times you are running tomorrow/. You may not be able to open this link, but I wanted to put it up here because we still don't have our bulletin board and Atwater HS has chosen not to publish the entries to athletic.net.  

If you cannot open the link, please check the meet page on athletic.net in order to view the schedule.  None of us will be running the 3 mile course tomorrow.  It's early in the season and we don't need to use up those bullets yet.  For the most part, experienced runners will run the 2.2 mile short course race and brand new runners will run the 1.4 mile novice race.  There will be some exceptions to this rule and if you have specific questions please ask me. 

Some of you are on the competition list, but may not be running for various reasons.  If you were not able to make 20 minutes without stopping or have been dealing with illness or injury, I will scratch you from this list.  I had to submit entries at the beginning of the week and I realize that things change between Monday and Saturday.  If you have questions, please ask me.   

Stanco Distance Fundraiser

This meet is being put on as an unofficial fundraiser for Scott Durham, who runs the Stanco Distance website / Facebook page / Instagram Page.  Scott is a fixture at local meets, taking pictures of the kids and doing more to promote our sport than the Modesto Bee, Turlock Journal, Ceres Courier, Denair Dispatch, and Hughson Chronicle have ever done COMBINED.....  Scott gives t-shirts to kids who achieve certain times.  He determines our "All County and All Region" teams and has special awards for athletes who make those teams.  He even gives $500.00 scholarships to graduating seniors that represent the best of what our are has to offer.  He's done this for years and he's mostly done it out of his own pocket.  

SO......

For the past few years, we've been having this meet.  Each team has taken up a collection to give to Scott at the meet.  2 years ago, we were able to present Scott with an envelope with over $900.00.  Those dollars were given right back to the deserving runners from our area as part of his scholarship fund.

SO.....

If you'd like to donate to Mr. Durham's efforts, please send your son or daughter to school today with a check made out to Scott Durham.  I will personally be making a sizable donation.  If you get this message too late for today, you can always send your donation on Saturday morning.  Cash works too.  Maybe we can collect over $1,000 this year!

Using Athletic.net

All schools in our area (and almost all in the entire nation) utilize a web service called athletic.net.  Each team has a splash page, with the team's roster, schedule, staff, and other information.  Also, every race an athlete runs will have its results uploaded to athletic.net and athletes can track their progress across their 4 years of high school.  Some of us who have run in middle school can see 7 years of progress and some of us, who go on and run in college, will continue to have their progress updated to athletic.net.  It really is  a super cool resource.  

For new parents and athletes, I encourage you to search around on our page.  As the season progresses, you'll be able to see how we stack up against other teams in our area, section, and the entire state by clicking on the "Rankings" tab

Schedule for the Week

We Don't Have Our Bulletin Board Yet!

Until we do, I'm going to send out the weekly schedules on the blog.  Here is the schedule for Week 12

Morning practice on Mondays for groups 1-3.  See you at 6:00 AM. 

You need to wake up well ahead of time, so that you have time to go poop and get water and maybe a small amount of food.  Don't try to roll out of bed and come down for a quality workout.  You'll really need to learn to get yourselves to bed on time EVERY NIGHT, but especially on Sunday Nights.  

Pack your workout bag the night before and pack a snack.  Most of you should have time to get home for breakfast and a shower, but I will make the showers in the locker rooms available for those of you who live far away.  

Uniforms on Tuesday After Weight Room

Only athletes who are fully cleared and have demonstrated the ability to run 20 min without stopiing will receive a uniform this week.   Those who haven't or can't will have to wait a couple of weeks.