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Minutes sheet for week #14
The document Week__14.pdf was attached to this post.
We had two revisions to the individual all-time lists yesterday at the Ed Sias Invitational. For the second time in less than a week Aidan Boyle has moved onto an all-time list. This time he ran 10:32 to move into the #4 spot on the Hidden Valley Park List. No longer qualifying for the list is Taylor Peissner, who ran 10:57 in 2010. Taylor would go on to run 4:25 for 1600m and qualify for NCS MOC on the track.
On the girls’ side, Derica Su ran 12:51 on her way to winning the frosh/soph race. Her time tied Jessica Infald for the #3 spot all-time. This is the first time that Derica has qualified for an all-time list and to jump all the way to #3 all-time is impressive. What’s more is that if Derica had run the same time in the varsity race, the varsity team would have been #6 all-time on the course. No longer qualifying for the list is Kelly Parsons, who ran 13:29 in 2010. Kelly was a huge part of our state qualifying teams when she was here and ran 11:24 in the 3200m on the track. She went on to run at Loyola Marymount University.
Congratulations to both Aidan and Derica for their strong performances yesterday.
The document Ed_Sias.pdf was attached to this post.
Yesterday at the Ed Sias Invitational, despite sitting most of our varsity team, the boys’ team of Aidan Boyle, Matthew Duret, Euan Houston, Ryan Haley, and Vijay Sithambaram cracked the all-time top 10 Amador Valley team times on the Hidden Valley Park Course en route to a 9th place team finish. The five athletes slipped into the #8 spot and combined to run 59:44, which is an average of just under 11:57 per runner. No longer qualifying for the all-time list is the team of Will Tagg, Yakov Behrenstein, Ray Park, Marshall Miller, and Kevin Tadevich, who ran 60:21 at the Ed Sias Invitational in 2005. I did not coach them that year, but started as a track coach that spring. Kevin went on to run 2:00 in the 800m and qualify for NCS, Will was a 4:30 1600m runner and 9:55 3200m runner, Ray went on to run 51 seconds in the 400m, and Yak ran about 10:10 in the 3200m if I remember it correctly. Marshall ended up qualifying for the state meet with the 2007 cross country team and was a very strong captain that year for a young group. He was never our best runner, but he was definitely the glue that kept us together.
The document Ed_Sias_Boys__Team.pdf was attached to this post.
The sophomore boys’ team of Jack Gray, Aidan McCarthy, Jacob Lawrence, Ehan Shah, and Ryan Haley ran a combined time of 1:02:41. This time ranks them #9 all-time amongst Amador Valley teams on the course. Their performance was enough to lead them to a convincing win in the sophomore boys’ race as well. No longer qualifying for the list is the team of Danny Joslin, Kevin Rice, Mike Olwin, Sam Aceret, and Mike Chen, who ran the JV race at the EBAL Center Meet in 2007. Back then, there was only a varsity race and a JV race (no frosh/soph), and only the varsity race was 3 miles long. This made the JV teams at those meets pretty strong (although we still ran 10 varsity runners).
The document Monte_Vista_Boys__Team.pdf was attached to this post.
