Bad choices, missed practices, and injuries left only 40 of our 78 athletes competing at the Verona Invitational. If our team is going to reach its potential for this season, we must first look at our individual commitments towards cross country. The hope is that our team can get this turned around and quickly. For those athletes who did compete on Saturday they were greeted by sunny skies and warm temperatures. The competition in the Big 8 showed it will be stiff again this season. It is now time for our team to start to chip away at this competition with hard work and dedication.
Our varsity team was led by Joel F who earned an individual medal with his 36th place finish. The varsity scorers included senior Ty B, junior Elliot B, sophomore Gavin H, and sophomore Peter V. This group combined for a team score of 369 points to finish in 13th place (out of 25 teams). We beat Platteville on the 6th place tiebreaker as junior Malcolm B beath their #6 runner and junior Will S rounded out the varsity finishers competing in his first ever high school cross country race. This group stepped in nicely to compete hard for our team today and we hope they earned valuable experience that will help them this season and into their running career.
The JV team scored 255 points to finish in 9th place. They were led by freshman Brett N, junior Eli T, sophomore Peter S, senior Jansen H, and sophomore Martin V. Brett, Peter, and Martin led a group of 20 runners who ran their Personal Record (PR) on this difficult Verona course. Others who improved their PR from last season included Richard T, Joey R, and Walker V. I look forward to see the progression of runners who continue to work hard at practice. It is important that everyone is getting more sleep to allow their bodies to recover, stretching to improve their flexibility, eating healthy & hydrating to take care of their bodies, and putting the time to ice, rehab, etc to keep the improvement going.
VERONA RESULTS
Boys Varsity
Boys JV
NEXT MEET
Saturday September 10th
West Invitational @ Lake Farm Park
Bus Time - 7:00am
9:00am - Boys Varsity (2015 Results)
10:00am - Boys JV (2015 Results)
11:30am - Awards (Var - top 2 teams & 25 individuals, JV - top 20 individuals)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept 5th (Mon) - Captains Practice @ UW-Arboretum - 8:00am
Sept 11th (Sun) - Ironman Volunteering @ Lot 60 on UW Campus 12 - 4pm OR 4 - 8pm (Optional)
Sept 12th (Mon) - Team Pictures @ JMM - 3:45pm
NEWS & NOTES
Order team clothing - HERE
Bucket Hats - limited # of bucket hats will go on sale at practice starting Tues 9/6...cost is $25 (under armour black bucket hat with JMM CC embroidery)
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