Big 8 Grade Level Challenge - 6th Place

THANK YOU to all the parent volunteers who helped Madison Memorial host the Big 8 Grade Level Challenge Tuesday night. We had some challenges along the way but learned a lot in our trial run for hosting the Conference Meet next season. Your help with setup/clean up, parking, course marshaling, concessions, and all the little things in between helped JMM put on a great meet at Lake Farm Park.

The night started off with our freshman and sophomores competing against the rest of the conferences frosh/soph competitors. Our group was led by our two freshman Dylan A and Aidan P. they finished 14th & 15th overall in 18:37. Both counted in our team scoring with their 5th & 6th place finishes among freshman. Sam S finished 18th (19:59) in the frosh race to count as one of our top seven finishers on the day in grade level races. Had the freshman race been scored as a meet by itself our freshman would have won with 64 points just ahead of Middleton with 67 points. Cam K (20:13) and Cole W (20:37) combined to be a part of this scoring group but our entire freshman class shows strong promise and potential. It will be fun to see how this group can embrace the sport of the next 3+ years and what that might mean for JMM as a whole. The sophomore group was led by Joey C who was 39th overall (19:43) and finished 26th among the sophomores. We had a tight group behind Joey that looks to continue to improve from meet to meet. Today these sophomores included Avery G (19:51), Brett N (20:13), Peter H (20:36), Jacob T (20:47), and Peter B (20:51)

In the junior/senior race we were led by Elliot B who finished in 17:32 for 14th place. He ranked 8th among seniors. He led a group of seniors who placed 11th, 14th, & 18th to score for us in the team scoring. This included Stryder C (17:40), Malcolm B (17:45), and Will S (18:25). Additionally Mahad O (18:27) had a nice race earning his first varsity spot for our upcoming meet at Smiley. For the juniors, Peter S led the way with his 37th place finish overall and 18th place among juniors. Closely behind him also earning his first spot on varsity was Aidan S running 18:34. He was narrowly ahead of Gavin H (18:39) and Imaad S (18:45). This junior and senior group continues to improve making our varsity and jv1 teams stronger and stronger. They lead with their hard work at practice and are seeing the benefits with strong races too.

On a hot afternoon at Lake Farm Park it was hard to come by a PR but we still got some lifetime best performances out of: Adrian A (19:26), Shaurya K (19:19), Shubh S (23:42), Neil K (19:14), Andrew T (21:34), Lucas V (20:27), and Evan TJ (21:01). This is the time of year where we really need to take care of our bodies as we are working the hardest and many are tired from the start of the school year. If we can stay healthy over the next two weeks and keep up the hard work at practice we will see many more PRs next time we come back to Lake Farm Park for the City and Conference Championships. Hopefully we can continue to close the gap on our Big 8 foes and meet some of our individual and team goals.

RESULTS
All Races

NEXT MEET
Saturday September 16th
Smiley Invite @ American Legion GC - Wausau, WI
Bus - 5:30am (Arrive at 5:15am!! Set TWO Alarms!!)
8:30am - First Race
10:00am - D1 Races Begin (Girls)
11:10am - D1 Varsity Boys (top 8 runners) (2016 Results)
11:35am - D1 JV Boys (2016 Results)
12:00pm - Awards (Varsity - Top 2 teams Top 20 individual, JV Top 1 team & Top 20 individuals)
***Bring $$...we will stop to eat***
Bus will return to JMM around 4:30pm (or later)

NEWS & NOTES
Clothing is not here yet....but we are hoping soon!
I will have some leftover concessions snacks & Gatorade available at practice ($1 per item)
Team Pictures got moved to September 22nd (Fri)