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Great day of racing at Hughson High. You're all invited next year.

Results page is up and running.

Time trial results and TVL meet #1 results are up on the results page.

Results page is up and running.

Time trial results and TVL meet #1 results are up on the results page.

Summer Period in the books!

The 100 day period leading up to our first meet is over. We have the biggest group ever to reach 500 miles (with one guy knocking out a 12 miler today after practice to get in the miles on time.)

Congratulations to all of the runners who put in the time this summer to make their fall seasons great.

I will post a full list and write up tomorrow after the meet.

Willow Hills Relays

Hughson Cross Country @ Willow Hills Relays

 

The Huskies traveled to Folsom this past Saturday to gain experience on the challenging Willow Hills Cross Country Course, home of the Sac Joaquin Section Championships.  The meet followed an interesting format which had schools enter their top 5 runners in each division as a relay team. The varsity relays were 5 x 5 kilometers, or about 15.5 miles total.  The frosh soph relays were 5 x 2.5 kilometers, or about 7.25 miles total.  The meet mostly featured division one and division 2 schools (with student populations over 3 times that of HHS).  Despite this fact, our runners ran very well and we brought home a number of medals.

 

In the varsity boys relay, Zach Morrett led us off with a strong first leg, that brought us to the first exchange in 2^nd place.   Last spring on the track, Zach was among the top 20 runners in the entire section, regardless of school size, so it is no surprise that we got out well.  From there, however, we were passed by division I power Folsom, then by a strong squad from Divison II Roseville.  The race was one by Division II powerhouse Del Campo, who returns 5 of their top 7 runners from a team that placed 5^th at the California State Championships.  There is no shame in us placing behind any of the three big schools in front of us. Furthermore, we were actually able to beat defending Division I section champion, Oak Ridge.  (I don’t think they ran all of their top guys)

 

We did not run a varsity girls relay.  As a matter of fact, we didn’t run any varsity girls at all. The meet was intended to be a low key intro to competition.  Our varsity girls who didn’t compete, simply ran a workout on the race course.

 

In the frosh soph boys relay, our team showed excellent depth.  Our boys placed 4^th (behind Oak Ridge, Del Campo, and Folsom). All 5 of our boys (Wyatt Mitchell, Jared Williams, Michael Sanders, Austin Zehr, and Daniel Yanez ran splits that were within 11 seconds of each other for the course that was slightly longer than 1.5 miles.   This shows very good depth that should allow our young guys to be extremely competitive once we get to TVL competition.

 

We did not run a frosh soph girls relay, but we did have some of our girls run as individuals.  Maddie Mays took home first place among the individual runners that toed the line.  Sophomore Kasey Renard had a solid race to open her season, while new runners: Taylor Gray, Gabby Mays, and Heavyn Heroz had good efforts in their first ever cross country races.