Pretty good day over in "The City". I haven't had a chance to type up splits yet, but they will be posted here when I have them. The following is a link to
Our race results, on the Record Timing website
Here is a quick run down. Pleases bear in mind that the varsity course runs about 50 seconds faster for the boys and about a minute faster for the girls than a full 5k.
Freshman Boys, FS Girls, Sophomore Boys:
After a couple of solid performances from this group at Lodi and TVL opener, we kind of laid an egg. Austin, Derek, and Andrew ran pretty hard in the frosh race, but none finished remarkably well. Perhaps the younger group was a little intimidated by their first truly "big field".
JV Girls
This group ran extremely well. Gabby Mays led the way for us with a 23:52. This is a full 2:02 better than her time on the same course last year. Also in the field with a big improvement was Valeria Mendoza who was able to knock her time down to by 1:02 to finish in 24:02. A number of other JV girls got their first taste of a longer race and passed with flying colors. Teagan and Silvana both set 2 mile PR's en route to the 2.93 mile finish line. Jazmine was right up with Gabby for the whole race right until the end and finished at 24:00. This group finished 13th in a field of 23 complete teams, most of which were large school.
JV Boys
Also another very good race. Timmy Jackson led the way for us with an 18:50 and Anthony Powers was not far behind in 18:59. Both boys broke into the top 40 (out of 180) of what turned out to be the significantly faster of the two heats. Noah Martin put in a fine effort in his first attempt at a race longer than 2 miles (and only his 3rd cross country race ever) to finish as our 3rd man. The boys finished 10th out of 19 teams in our heat.
Varsity Girls
This was THE RACE of the day for our team. Kinsey was our top dog today, placing 22nd out of a field of 135 girls and the team finished 6th out of 18. We were the first small school in our heat by a long way. While Kinsey ran near the time that Maddy Mays set here last year, the big improvement came from positions 2-6. All of our top 5 ran faster than our #2 girl last year (Taylor) and our #6 girl Priscilla ran faster than our #4 from last year. We were missing Emily yesterday for a church retreat, but her presence in the pack would have only made us stronger. When looking at year over year improvements, Taylor improved by 1:26 (22:32 in 2014 and 21:06 this year) and Heavyn improved by 1:28 (22:34 in 2014 and 21:06 this year). 2 more newcomers really strengthened our pack. Abby Mitchell and Esmeralda Campos Finished in 20:30 and 20:39 respectively.
Varsity Boys
This group has struggled out of the gate so far this year. While talent abounds, this group has not figured out yet how to run as a team. We took a step toward that end yesterday; not the giant step that we were hoping for, but a step nonetheless. Daniel continues to lead our pack. He was a bit flat yesterday, perhaps the 6 mile run he did when arriving at the park had something to do with his flatness. Still, he was only 13 seconds slower than his time on the course last year. So far this year, Carson has been struggling to find his racing legs. He found them in a big way yesterday, coming in as our second man in one of the faster times any Hughson boy has put up on the course over the past 3 years (16:42). Only Daniel, Ian Brooks, Zach Morrett and Anthony Arce have been faster than that time in the past 3 years. Jaymie, who had been feeling a bit sick on Friday, struggled a bit yesterday complaining of a sore throat. Garret continues to improve, knocking 50 seconds off of last year's time on the course. Newcomer Josue Esquivel was looking to make a big improvement yesterday, but lost his shoe right at the start. He lost time putting it back on, but caught up to our pack but then faded a bit in the last mile. Still in all, yesterday's effort was his best so far.
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