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. 

Time Trial #1 Results

 8/13/26 - Hughson California!

We had a great time trial result yesterday.  Here are your splits.  We'll go over them at practice.  

If you'd like to compare our team time to previous years, here are the links

27 Years of Team Times

If you want to see how you stack up individually, take a look at our all time best marks list from this website. 

We're off to a great start this year!  Let's keep it rollin'

First Week of Practice

 OK.  HERE WE GO!!!!!

Tomorrow, August 3rd, marks the first day of the 2026 CIF season.  All serious teams in the SJS will be starting practice tomorrow.  Since we're serious.....we goin'!

Please check this week's pracitce schedule

Please note, if you are not cleared to participate, you cannot come to practice.  That will reflect poorly on you, but at this point, it is what it is.  

6 Minute Test Tomorrow

The purpose of any 6 minute test is to give us a snapshot of where we are at RIGHT NOW.  It CAN help to prognosticate how the season is going to go, but please remember, it's only August 3rd.  Give it your best effort tomorrow and if you put up a great mark, congratulations.  If your fitness ends up not being where you want it to be, then you still have a whole season to fix that.  

The 6 minute test will be used to guide our early season training.  Your early season hard workouts will largely be based on how you do on the test tomorrow.

400m Time Trial on Wednesday

I get it, none of you will race the 400 this season.  The purpose of the 400 time trial is to help gauge your aerobic fitness.  If you have a good 6 minute test, but your 400 his bad, this means that you're more aerobically fit than someone who runs the same 6 minute test, but goes 8 seconds faster than you for the 400.  That person is more anaerobically fit, and some of that anaerobic fitness showed up in the 6 minute teset.  

So, the 400m TT is ALSO going to be used to help guide your training paces early on.  

I think we're in a really good spot.

Some of you have had massive summers.  Mason, Sam, Jeremiah, Maggie, Tyler, Grace, Sophia A, Melanie......these are a few of the athletes that come to mind who have really stepped up their training this summer.  I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of break throughs all of that work will lead to.  

Remember, even though we're in a pretty good spot right now, we've got a long way to go.  Some of you are right about where I expected you to be and some of you are a little behind.  If you feel like you're a little behind, don't cry about it, just start stepping it back up.  We'll be fine. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone at 7:00 Tomorrow Morning. 

- Bernard

Welcome to the team

Hello Husky Parents!

Today, I had the opportunity to speak with your son or daughter about our cross country program at Hughson High school.  I'm extremely confident that, should your child decide to try cross country, he/she will have a great experience.  I am including information regarding our team and how to become part of it in this email.  

With your kids, we talked this morning on just being open to the idea of trying the sport for 3 days.  Then, if after that they don't like it, no hard feelings and they can go do other normal high school stuff.  But, I'm confident that if they do come and try our sport, they'll like it.  Although we kind of fly below the radar, doing a sport that seems kind of weird to most kids, we have a great time, learn valuable life lessons, and win more  than any other program on campus.  

Here is the information you need to become part of our team.

1. Get a sports physical and upload it to home campus.  This post from our team web page should help get you started.
2. Check out the rest of our team website to get a feel for our program.  Most of the best information is in the "pages" section.  Specifically, you'll want to look at the Tips for Newbies and Parents page.
3. Check our team page on athletic.net.  Athletic.net is a service that all of the schools in California use for meet registration.  Plus, every result in the state is compiled on the site.  If you want to see how good we are vis a vis the rest of the schools in California, athletic.net can tell you. 

We will meet for practice next week, Monday - Friday, at 7:00 AM.  Practices last about 2 hours (but for newbies, it will be far less) For athletes that are brand new and are not cleared through home campus yet, I still encourage you to come and try for only 3 days. If you're liking what we're doing after that, go ahead and get the physical and become part of the Hughson Cross Country Family.   

Varsity Girls at Camp

Varsity Boys at Camp

Team Beach Trip - 2026

Practice Starts Monday, 8/3 @ 7:00 AM

Hey Team

We're less than a week away from the start of official practice.  Please note, practice begins 1 week before school begins!  As the coaching staff makes determinations as to who will travel and race with the varsity teams, we will be taking into consideration ALL missed practices throughout the year.  Here is our list of who is cleared to practice so far.  

Girls

Abraham, Zuleima

Aguiar, Sophia

Becchetti, Maggie

Benitez, Grace

Gomez, Sophia

Gutierrez, Anahy

Pimentel, Emily

Reynolds, Ava

Sanchez, Melanie

Boys

Alvarado, Jeremiah

Alvarado, Sam

Arambula, Esai

Franco, Noah

Hill, Tucker

Hoyle, Mason

Lockwood, Shane

Marquez, Oscar

Mendonca, Anthony

Montoya, Jacob

Nava, Carlos

Nunez, Juan

Palos, Juan

Phun, Tyler

Ruiz, Manny

Salinas, Diego

Ziya, Jude

Zurilgen, Jace

If you do not see your, or your child's name on this list, please make arrangements to get a physical and upload all documents to your Home Campus Account

See This Blog Post for instructions to create a Home Campus account

Beach Trip Video

 Our trip this year was GREAT!  I should have taken more video while we were there, though.