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BOYS 2008, 2009 AND GIRLS 2007, 2008, 2009 PAC 7 LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
Girls 2008 13th Place Finishers in Div.2 State Meet
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9/2/10 AG Girls XC Team is ranked 43rd in the state out of all the divisions in dyestatcal's preseason rankings. Please click on the link on the picture to view the rankings. 43.
| Arroyo Grande Eagles (Southern Section)
Coach: Sean Ricketts
League: Pac 7
2009 Finish: 8th at CIF-Southern Section Division 2 Finals
Returnees: Three scorers (1/3/5) among 5 of Top 7
2010 Outlook: The Eagles were solid in the big races last fall, just barely missing a big ticket to the state meet in the stacked Division 2 field at the end. Junior Hannah Stevens (18:32 at CIF Finals) and classmate Emily Johnston (19:00) lead Coach Ricketts' returning cast, which seeks to snare one of those tough berths to Fresno. |
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6/6/10 Talley Vineyard 5k
Thank you parents for all of your and help support with the Talley 5k. All of you contributed to making the races run very smoothly and we made some money for the XC team. Congrats to Hugo (16:12) and Emily (19:28) for being the overall male and female race winners. Everyone ran very well considering the heat. Farewell seniors and on we move to and look forward to the next XC season.
Results:
1. Hugo G. 16:12 (5:13 pace) *2009 Time: 16:34
2. Coach Ricketts 16:23 (5:17 pace)
3. Cullen Cali 16:36 (5:21 pace) *2009 Time: 17:06
4. Daniel Smith 17:33 (5:39) *2009 Time: 17:33
5. Trevor Cowan 17:47 (5:44)
6. Jonathon Corely 17:52 (5:45)
7. Blair Libby 17:56 (5:47)
Nate Mash 18:28 (5:57)
Blake Maule 19:05 (6:05)
David Avila 19:27 (6:16)
Emily Johnston 19:28 (6:16) *2009 Time: 20:03
Brian Talley 19:46 (6:22) "The Vinter"
Ben Watson 19:58 (6:26) *2009 Time: 20:40
Katie Lewis 20:07 (6:29)
Bill Shires 20:55 (6:44)
Natalie Hagler 20:57 (6:45) *2009 Time: 22:54
Jacob Berdar 21:08 (6:49)
Amanda Trecartin 21:36 (6:58)
Jeff Williams 21:37 (6:58)
Adam Shires 22:29 (7:15)
Yezenia Romero 22:43 (7:19)
Garrett Owens 23:12 (7:29)
Christian Crichton 23:16 (7:30)
Steven Dunbar 24:11 (7:48) *2009 Time: 21:13
Rebecca Cruz 24:40 (7:57)
Emma Lewis 28:16 (9:07)
Kids 1 Mile:
1. Christian Ricketts 5:58 |
5/30/10 Strawberry Stampede 5k
Great Job distance squad athletes and parents for braving the heat and running tough at the strawberry festival 5k. Highlights of the meet included Coach Reid and Hugo Gutierrez running away from the field in the 2nd half of the race. Hugo ran a pr to take 2nd place. Hannah Stevens won the overall female division with a pr time.
Blair Libby and David Avila both also had big pr's in the race. Next Cross Country season is looking very bright!!!!
Results: www.strawberrystampede.com
Name, Gender, Age, Place, Time, Pace
Reid, Phillip M 24 1 15:56 5:08
Gutierrez, Hugo M 18 2 16:08 5:12
Ricketts, Sean M 28 3 16:42 5:23
Cali, Cullen M 18 4 16:48 5:25
Cowan, Trevor M 15 6 17:30 5:38
Libby, Blair C M 16 7 17:37 5:40
Smith, Daniel 18 8 18:03 5:49
Corley, Jonathan 14 M 11 18:37 6:00
Avila, David M 15 5 13 19:02 6:08
Ricketts, Christian M 10 14 19:04 6:09
Stevens, Hannah F 16 15 19:07 6:09
Maule, Blake M 14 16 19:38 6:19
Johnston, Emily F 15 17 20:01 6:27
Nichols, John M 14 20 20:12 6:30
Berdar, Jacob M 14 23 20:29 6:36
Lewis, Katie 18 24 20:38 6:39
Hagler, Natalie 15 27 20:54 6:44
Trecartin, Amanda 17 29 21:08 6:49
Williams, Jeff M 18 30 21:09 6:49
Shires, Bill M 16 34 21:33 6:57
Miles, John M 14 53 23:34 7:36
Gasbarra, Austin M 14 55 23:53 7:42
Cruz, Rebecca F 16 56 23:59 7:44
Dunbar, Steven M 15 58 24:04 7:45
Dunbar, David M 54 60 24:05
Shires, Paul M 57 63 24:10 7:47
Berdar, Jan F 46 64 24:11 7:48
Owens, Garrett M 16 5k 66 24:16 7:49
Johnston, Sarah F 15 76 24:46 7:59
Lewis, Emma F 15 79 24:56 8:02
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12/5/09 Footlocker Western Regionals at Mt. Sac 5k
Click on the Picture of Hannah S. and Emily Recieving All West F/S Regional Honors for Dyestatcal coverage of Footlocker Western Regionals. |
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11/22 and 11/26
Coach Reid Rolls at PAUSATF XC CHAMPS and San Jose Elite 5k Turkey Trot
Coach Reid placed 1st in the PAUSATF XC Champs in Golden Gate Park last Sunday 11/22 in a super fast 30:23 and then came back on Thanksgiving Day 11/26 and placed 6th in the San Jose Elite 5k. He was the first American finisher! WOW!!!!He was beat by a Irishmen and some Kenyans/Ethopians. He tied his track P.R. for 5k 13:55 (Thats rolling). His splits were 4:24 - 1 mile; 8:57 - 2 mile and finished in 13:55.
| Open Men Results - 6.06 miles PAUSATF XC Champs |
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Last Name |
First Name |
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Club |
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Reid |
Phillip |
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23 |
Asics Aggies |
30:23 |
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Kloos |
Thomas |
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32 |
Transports adidas |
30:31 |
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Freeman |
Crosby |
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25 |
Asics Aggies |
30:36 |
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Coe |
Michael |
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21 |
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30:49 |
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Mora |
Jameson |
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25 |
Asics Aggies |
30:52 |
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Reyes |
Sergio |
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28 |
Asics Aggies |
30:55 |
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Chavez |
Chris |
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23 |
Transports adidas |
30:57 |
San Jose Elite 5k Turkey Trot
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Julius Kogo |
Chapel Hill, NC |
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13:39 |
4:24 |
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Robert Letting |
Nyack, NY |
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13:42 |
4:25 |
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Christopher Thompson |
Eugene, OR |
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13:46 |
4:26 |
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Kevin Chelimo |
Eugene, OR |
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13:50 |
4:27 |
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Alistair Cragg |
Boston, MA |
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13:51 |
4:28 |
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Phillip Reid |
San Luis Obispo, CA |
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13:55 |
4:29 |
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Yosef Ghebray |
Union City, CA |
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13:59 |
4:30 |
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4th Edition of AGHS XC Annual 1 Mile Time Trial
11/24/09 ***Note Venue changed from AGHS Track to Cal Poly
Race 1: Boys Leaders through 800m in 2:15
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Time Trial Time |
Personal Best |
| Hugo G. |
4:29 |
4:23 |
| Dan Smith |
4:33 |
4:33 |
| Cullen C. |
4:35*PR |
4:36 |
| Josh Davis |
4:45*PR |
4:47 |
| Jose Corona |
4:51 |
4:47 |
| Bill Shires |
4:52*PR |
5:13 |
| Trevor Cowan |
5:03*PR |
5:04 |
Race 2: Girls and Christian Leaders through 800m in 2:42
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Time Trial Time |
Personal Best |
| McKenzie G. |
5:25 |
5:22 |
| Hannah Stevens |
5:26*PR |
5:28 |
| Emily Johnston |
5:33 |
5:30 |
| Katie Lewis |
5:34 |
5:28 |
| Christian Ricketts |
5:34 |
5:25 |
| Lupita Leon |
5:47*PR |
5:53 |
| Kylie Herlihy |
6:00*PR |
6:43 |
| Amanda Trecartin |
6:02 |
6:02 |
| Sarah Johnston |
6:22 |
6:02 |
| Rebecca Cruz |
6:34*PR |
7:12 |
| Emma Lewis |
6:46 |
6:38 |
Time Trial All Time List
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Girls |
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| Hugo Gutierrez |
4:29 2009 |
Karlee Owens |
5:24 2008 |
| Dan Smith |
4:33 2009 |
McKenzie Goldman |
5:25 2009 |
| Cullen Cali |
4:35 2009 |
Hannah Stevens |
5:26 2009 |
| Josh Davis |
4:45 2009 |
Emily Johnston |
5:33 2009 |
| Fernando Zamora |
4:48 2006 |
Katie Lewis |
5:34 2009 |
| Jose Corona |
4:51 2009 |
Dani Jarvis |
5:40 2006 |
| Bill Shires |
4:52 2009 |
Mona Saghri |
5:47 2007 |
| Taylor Castanon |
4:52 2006 |
Lupita Leon |
5:47 2009 |
| Jehan Mirzaei |
5:00 2006 |
Haley MacDonald |
5:53 2008 |
| Juan Alvarez |
5:01 2008 |
Kylie Herlihy |
6:00 2009 |
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11/21/09 CIF Finals at Mt. Sac 2.94 miles (Click on the picture of Katie for Full Results)
Check out the Updated Mt. Sac All-Time List!!!! Hannah #7, Katie #9, Emily #11, McKenzie #16, Hugo #4, Cullen #6, Dan #18)
Girls 8th Place: Missed qualifying to State by 1 place (1:35:22, Prelims Time: 1:37:27)
Hugo Gutierrez 18th Place 15:38: Didn't Qualify on (Prelims Time 15:38)
Great Job!!!!! We ran well again when it counts!!! This course and our division/section is a beast. We are running with the best of the best! We had an awesome cheering squad out there!!! I was very impressed with the body paint, flag and team spirit. We have an awesome team and chemistry. We have something truly special taking place on our team...Seniors, you guys went out with a bang!!! What a awesome year for ny first 4 year crew!!! You guys are leaving a legacy for the future generations to follow.
Hannah Stevens and Katie made the top 10 list and McKenzie moved up on the top 20 list for Mt. Sac
Girls: Wow!!! You ladies have tons of heart!!!I think this years team is one of the best girls teams AG has ever had. Look at what we ran: Hannah (18:32), Katie(18:52), Emily (19:00), McKenzie (19:03), Lupita(19:55), Amanda (20:23), Yesenia (20:35).
We ran 1 minute faster as team than we did last year at Finals when we made it to State with Karlee taking 4th in the race in 17:42. Time Comparison: 1:35:22 compared to 1:36:25. Hannah S. improved by 45 seconds and Mckenzie by 57 seconds from last week. Almost everyone else improved from last week or stayed consistent. Our team time was improved by over 2 min 1:35:22 compared to 1:37:27.
This has to be one of the fastest team times and the best perfomances by an AG squad at Mt. Sac. We beat the 9th ranked team (Sultana) and 10th ranked team (Serrano) in the state. That shows you that we are among the elite in the state. You ladies are tough and know how to run well when it counts!!!! We left everything on the course and you should be happy!!!!!!! We still have Western Regionals were we can have some big improvements to come!
Boys: Hugo, You da Man!!!!You followed the race plan and did exactley what you could to try to qualify onto state. You had to get out with the top 10 and you looked relaxed doing it. You really belong in that group of runners. It's always great to know that you gave it all you had. Thats a true competitior and champion!!! Hugo and the rest of the boys, I hope your ready to run roll at Regionals!!!!!
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Varsity Girls
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1st mile
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2nd mile
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2.95 miles
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Prelims Time
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Stevens, Hannah
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5:39
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12:26
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18:32 29th
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19:17
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Lewis, Katie
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5:44
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12:41
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18:52 45th
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19:09
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Johnston, Emily
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5:40
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12:32
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19:00 53rd
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18:53
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Goldman, McKenzie
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5:46
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12:49
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19:03 56th
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20:00
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Leon , Lupita
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5:53
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13:12
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19:55 89th
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20:08
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Trecartin, Amanda
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6:05
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13:36
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20:23 97th
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20:30
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Romero, Yesenia
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6:01
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13:41
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20:35 103rd
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21:09
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Varsity Boys
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1st mile
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2nd Mile
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2.95 miles
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Prelims Time
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Gutierrez, Hugo
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4:48
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10:22
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15:38 18th
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15:38
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Improvements at Mt. Sac:
Emily Johnston: 18:53, 20:15 (9th grade)
Katie Lewis: 18:52, 19:54 (11th grade), 20:00 (10th grade), 19:51 (9th grade)
Hannah Stevens: 18:32, 19:20 (9th grade)****Hannah is on the footsteps of Karlee's grade level improvements Karlee 18:24 - 10th grade.
McKenzie Goldman: 19:03, 19:30 (11th grade), 20:13 (10th grade), 21:08 (9th grade)
Hugo Gutierrez: 15:38, 16:10 (10th grade)
Cullen Cali: 15:54, 16:15 (11th grade), 17:22 (10th grade)
Dan Smith: 16:34, 16:58 (11th grade), 17:22 (10th grade)
Jose Corona: 17:08, 17:28 (11th grade)
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11/21/09 Santa Maria Times Article on CIF Finals
Arroyo Grande’s and St. Joseph’s girls teams competed Saturday. So did Arroyo Grande’s Hugo Gutierrez (Division 2 boys) and Monica Illes of Santa Ynez (Division 4 girls). None advanced.
Gutierrez finished 18th in 15:38 in his race. Illes placed 20th in 19:25 in hers. Arroyo Grande’s girls wound up eighth in their division. St. Joseph’s girls finished 12th in theirs.
Even though their teams didn’t make it through, coaches Sean Ricketts of Arroyo Grande and Greg Sarkisian of St. Joseph seemed happy enough.
“Division II is a stronger girls division than Division I,” said Ricketts. “Some of the best 10 teams in the state won’t be going to state. Our girls ran well.”
Sarkisian said, “All of our girls improved their time by at least 30 seconds on the course. The trouble was, so did everybody else.”
Hannah Stevens led Arroyo Grande with a 29th-place finish in 18:32. Scoring teammates following were Katie Lewis (45th place), Emily Johnston (53rd), McKenzie Goldman (56th) and Lupita Diaz-Leon (89th). Amanda Trecartin (97th place) and Yesenia Romero (103rd) rounded out the Eagles’ scoring.
Scoring teammates following Peinado were Bridget Adam (54th place), Caitlin Brandt (72nd), Alexis Brandt (79th) and Brittany Brandt (83rd). Paulette Rigali (97th place) and Sara Scott (105th) rounded out the Knights varsity. |
11/14/09 CIF Prelims at Mt. Sac 2.94 miles
(Click on the picture of Mt. Sac to view dyestatcal results and summary
Check out the Updated Mt. Sac All-Time List!!!!
Girls 3rd Place: Qualified onto CIF Finals (1:37:27, 2008 Time: 1:39:10)
Boys 6th Place: Didn't Qualify on (Team Time 1:22:17, 2008 Time: 1:25:17) Hugo Gutierrez qualified to CIF Finals with a 4th Place Finish in 15:38
Great Job!!!!! We ran well when it counts!!! This course and our division/section is a beast. We are running with the best of the best! That should tell you something about us!!!! Emily, Hugo, and Cullen made the top 10 list for Mt. Sac. Dan, Katie, and Hannah made the top 20 list for Mt. Sac
Girls: Wow!!! You guys have heart!!!WE were sick and unhealthy and still came through with P.R.'s and a qualification. Congrats to the team!!!It was a team effort!!!Way to lead the way Emily(18:53) with a studly race. Katie (19:09) ran through a cramp and Hannah(19:17) and Lupita(20:08) ran through sickness. You ladies are tough and know how to run well when it counts!!!! CIF Finals will be exciting!!!!!!! We need to be healthy!!!!I know we will be ready to roll!!!!!
Boys: Great race fellas!!! We improved our team time by 3 minutes from last year!!! This should show you that XC is a team sport. We need to have everybody race well on the same day!!! Hugo (15:38) and Cullen (15:54) had awesome races and P.R.'s and helped lead the way up front. Dan (16:34) and Jose (17:08) ran great P.R.'s. Trevor (17:03) ran an awesome freshman time. P.R.'s and a 6th place finish is great, eventhough we didn't qualify on. I am glad the seniors had great races and finished up on a positive note. We are going to miss you next year!!!! Hugo has a great chance to make it to State individually!!!!
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Varsity Girls
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1st mile
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2nd mile
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2.95 miles
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2008 Time
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Johnston, Emily
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5:46
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12:39
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18:53 10th
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20:15
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Lewis, Katie
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5:46
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12:48
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19:09 12th
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19:54
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Stevens, Hannah
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5:46
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12:58
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19:17 14th
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19:20
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Goldman, McKenzie
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5:55
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13:30
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20:00 33rd
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19:30
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Leon , Lupita
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5:55
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13:15
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20:08 39th
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Trecartin, Amanda
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6:16
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13:46
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20:30 48th
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Romero, Yesenia
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6:08
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13:58
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21:09 61st
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Varsity Boys
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1st mile
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2nd Mile
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2.95 miles
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2008 Time
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Gutierrez, Hugo
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4:49
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10:30
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15:38 4th
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16:10
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Cali, Cullen
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4:52
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10:38
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15:54 11th
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16:15 22nd
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Smith, Dan
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4:56
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11:01
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16:34 27th
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16:58 57th
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Cowan, Trevor
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5:06
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11:15
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17:03 47th
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Corona, Jose
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5:04
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11:19
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17:08 51st
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17:27
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Davis, Josh
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5:01
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11:30
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17:40 67th
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16:59 58th
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Shire, Bill
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5:27
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12:04
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18:04 76th
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Improvements at Mt. Sac:
Emily Johnston: 18:53, 20:15 (9th grade)
Katie Lewis: 19:09, 19:54 (11th grade), 20:00 (10th grade), 19:51 (9th grade)
Hannah Stevens: 19:17, 19:20 (9th grade)
Hugo Gutierrez: 15:38, 16:10 (10th grade)
Cullen Cali: 15:54, 16:15 (11th grade), 17:22 (10th grade)
Dan Smith: 16:34, 16:58 (11th grade), 17:22 (10th grade)
Jose Corona: 17:08, 17:28 (11th grade)
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11/15/09 Santa Maria Times Article on CIF Prelims
WALNUT
Arroyo Grande
“Our girls had a sick, unhealthy team,” Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said in a phone interview Saturday.
The Eagles had still advanced to the Division 2 final. Sophomore Emily Johnston led the PAC-7 League champions to a third-place finish in their heat.
“We’re anticipating a much better team race (in the finals next week), when people are healthy,” said Ricketts.
Johnston finished 10th in 18:53 Saturday. Katie Lewis (12th place), Hannah Stevens (14th), McKenzie Goldman (33rd) and Lupita Leon (39th) rounded out Arroyo Grande’s scoring.
Manhattan Beach Mira Costa won the heat with 23 points. Pomona West Ranch was second with 99. Arroyo Grande finished third with 101.
Arroyo Grande’s boys finished sixth in their heat and did not advance. Hugo Gutierrez, however, moved on as an individual. He placed fourth in 15:38. The top six individuals in each race advanced.
Cullen Cali finished 11th for the Eagles. Teammates following were Dan Smith (27th), Trevor Cowan (47th) and Jose Corona (51st).
11/15/09 Tribune Article on CIF Prelims
Prep Roundup: Nipomo’s Garcia reaches cross country finals
By Tribune staff report
Nipomo High’s Andrew Garcia — fresh off his win at the PAC 7 meet — finished with the top time in his heat Saturday at the CIF-Southern Section cross country prelims at the 2.94-mile course at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut.
Garcia won the Division IV boys second heat in 15 minutes, 51 seconds, highlighting a number of San Luis Obispo County runners who moved on to the sectional finals.
The top five teams and top six individuals per heat all advanced to the finals, which are also at Mt. SAC, on Saturday. Those who qualify there will move on to the state meet Nov. 28 in Fresno.
In the Division III boys race, San Luis Obispo was fourth (with 149 points) in the second head. The Tigers were led by Brayden Schmidt (17th place, 16:27), Stephen Kasper (20th, 16:34) and Seamus Land (22nd, 16:36).
“It’s definitely coming together at the right time,” San Luis Obispo coach Steve Boaz said of both the Tigers’ boys and girls teams. “They’re all healthy and racing together really well.”
In Division II girls competition, Arroyo Grande overcame some illnesses to take third with 101 points in the third heat, while San Luis Obispo took second in the Division III girls second heat (100 points). The Tigers girls were led by Kathleen Uyttewaal (sixth at 18:43), Micayla Rennick (16th, 19:18) and Leah Rife-Dupuy (22nd, 19:36).
Templeton’s girls squad was third in Division IV’s second heat, with 80 points.
Among teams that didn’t move on, Arroyo Grande was sixth in Division II’s boys third heat (130 points).
Arroyo Grande’s Hugo Gutierrez, however, was fourth individually in a personal-record 15:38.
“He just blew right from eighth to fourth in the last mile,” Eagles coach Sean Ricketts said. Cullen Cali was 11th for the Eagles, in 15:54. |
11/5/09 PAC 7 League Finals Fairbanks XC Course 5K
Click on the girls picture for the dyestatcal meet summary and results
Arroyo Grande squads pull out the broom - a sweep!! (headline from Dyestatcal)
Girls Make it 3 In a Row and Boys Go Back to Back League Champioships!!!!
Great Job AGHS!!!Way to Roll Out!!!!
We ran extremely fast when it mattered. There were tons of P.R.'s on this course!
Check out the improvements down below from the past couple of years.
There is nothing sweeter than defending your championship Titles!!!
We are true Champions!!!!!
Girls:
Awesome job in defending your title!
Up front Katie (19:30), Mckz (19:46), and Emily (19:36) really stepped up to sealed the deal for us. Lupita (20:07) and Yesenia (21:20) still ran really fast for freshman. Amanda (21:06) came up big in the end by not letting a Paso girl pass her at the finish line.
Kylie (21:58) also ran really well sprinting into the finish with a 4th place finish in the JV race.
We need to get ready to run fast when it counts and we have Chuck Norris back in action next week!!!!
Boys:
Total Domination!!!!!Way to step up and take care of business. Dan (16:54) and Josh (17:00) really stepped it up for us today racing to the finish line. Cullen (16:30) ran awesome with a great course P.R. and so did Hugo (16:18) -shake this one off Hugo, there's more to come. Trevor (17:05) was our solid 5th man with a blazing freshman time on this course. Bill (17:42) ran an awesome P.R. and so did Sean (17:43) winning the JV race!!!! More P.R.'s to come fellas!!!!
Everyone do everything you can to stay healthy!!!!!!
It's time to race!!!!!!!!!!!!Oh YEEAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!Dream Big and Go for it!!!!!!
Fairbanks Improvements:
Girls
Katie Lewis: 19:30, 20:55(11th grade); 21:57(10th grd); 21:30(9th grd)
McKenzie Goldman: 19:46, 20:36(11th grade); 20:44(10th grd); 22:11(9th grd)
Emily Johnston: 19:36, 20:48 (9th grade)
Amanda Trecartin: 21:06, 23:45 (10th grade)
Brenda Vasquez: 21:10, 26:47 (9th grade) WOW!!!!!
Hannah Goldman: 22:52, 23:57 (9th grade)
Emma Lewis: 24:26, 27:39 (9th Grade)
Boys
Hugo Gutierrez: 16:18, 17:05 (11th grade)
Cullen Cali: 16:30, 17:00 (11th grade); 18:03(10th grd); 18:54(9th grd)
Dan Smith: 16:54, 17:31 (11th grade); 17:58(10th grd)
Josh Davis: 17:00, 17:41 (9th grade)
Jose Corona: 17:23, 17:41 (11th grade); 18:25(10th grd)
Bill Shires: 17:42, 19:28 (9th grade)
Sean Pringle: 17:43, (10th grade), (19:39 9th grade)
Ben Ambrocio: 18:22, 19:02 (11th grade)
Ben Watson: 19:28, 21:04 (9th grade)
Pablo Alvarez: 19:59, 21:24 (11th grade)
Jeff Williams: 20:40, 28:57 WOW!!!!!!!!!
Riley Kennedy: 19:47, 23:57 (9th grade)
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Tribune Article On League Finals
Cross Country: It’s Garcia’s day at PAC 7 final
Nipomo senior repeats with a win over Arroyo Grande’s Gutierrez
By Donovan Aird
As the two best boys cross country runners in the PAC 7 league, Andrew Garcia and Hugo Gutierrez have crossed paths before.
In fact, the seniors finished 1-2 at the annual San Luis Obispo County meet last week, with Arroyo Grande High’s Gutierrez coming in just one second ahead of Nipomo’s Garcia.
Garcia flipped that result Thursday afternoon at the league finals held at the Fairbanks Memorial Cross Country Course adjacent to Cuesta College, winning the 5K race in 16 minutes, 3.4 seconds. Gutierrez was second in 16:18.1.
“Hugo’s a really good friend of mine,” Garcia said. “We have a friendly rivalry going. Any time he wins, I’m happy for him, and any time I win, I’m extremely happy to beat him.”
San Luis Obispo junior Kathleen Uyttewaal won the girls race in 19:05.8.
Arroyo Grande won the boys race as a team with 37 points. On the girls side, San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande both had 41 points, but San Luis Obispo’s sixth-place finisher came in 14th, while Arroyo Grande’s was 19th, giving San Luis Obispo the tiebreaker.
Garcia attempted to pull away at about the mile mark, but didn’t break away from Gutierrez until the half-mile plateau.
“I tried to surge ahead and he came with me,” Garcia said of the earlier try to distance himself from Gutierrez. “Him coming with me really pushed me.”
Garcia won the league championship last year, as well, on the same course, in 16:46.
“I didn’t want to give it up,” he said of the title. “It was something that was special to me, and I wasn’t going to come in second.
“I thought about how cool it’d be to cement myself as one of the league leaders and win two titles back-to-back.”
In the girls race, Paso Robles’ Madison Cline held the lead beyond the midway point before being passed by Uyttewaal and Atascadero’s Mimi Petersen, who came in second at 19:08.4. Although Petersen caught Uyttewaal with two switchbacks remaining, Uyttewaal hung on. Cline crossed the finish line in 19:16.1.
“It’s really humbling,” Uyttewaal said of her win. “I was just doing what (Tigers) coach (Steve) Boaz said, to out-kick everyone at the end.”
As a team, Paso Robles came in second on the boys side with 66 points, followed by San Luis Obispo (81), Atascadero (108), Righetti (116), Pioneer Valley (120) and Nipomo (168).
For the girls, Atascadero and Paso Robles tied for third with 72 points, although the Greyhounds won the tiebreaker with a 26th-place sixth-place runner, as opposed to Paso Robles’ 28th-place counterpart. Righetti’s girls were a distant fifth with 148 points, followed by Pioneer Valley (188) and Nipomo (199).
Earlier this season, Atascadero was routinely ranked in the top 10 of Division III of the CIF-Southern Section, but has fallen out of the most recent polls.
“Our whole team, physically, we’re there,” Petersen said. “We just need to be focused.
“I’m happy with second (individually),” she added.
“I think I could’ve gotten first.”
Katie Lewis of Arroyo Grande was fourth in 19:30.4, and teammate Emily Johnston was one spot behind in 19:36.
Paso Robles’ Jacob Moore was third in the boys race in 16:28.4, followed in the top five by Arroyo Grande’s Cullen Cali (16:30.3) and Atascadero’s Luke Tillmann (16:44.6).
All of Arroyo Grande’s top five boys came in the top 15 overall, including sixth-place Daniel Smith (16:54.2), 11th-place Josh Davis (17:00.7) and 14th-place Trevor Cowan (17:05.8).
The Eagles boys finished atop the league’s season standings for the second year in a row with 18 points, followed by Paso Robles (14), San Luis Obispo (11), Atascadero (8), Righetti (8), Pioneer Valley (3) and Nipomo (0).
Arroyo Grande also finished first in the girls season standings, for the third year in a row, with 16 points.
San Luis Obispo came in second with 15, trailed by Atascadero (13), Paso Robles (10), Righetti (6), Pioneer Valley (3) and Nipomo (0). |
Santa Maria Times Article on League Finals
Nipomo’s Garcia wins boys’ race, SLO’s Uytewaal wins girls’ at Fairbanks course
Eagles boys, girls race to team titles
By Kenny Cress
..Arroyo Grande's boys and girls cross country teams were on top of the PAC-7 League standings when the PAC-7 League Finals started Thursday. They were still there when the meet ended.
The Eagles boys won the finals at Cuesta College's hilly 5K Fairbanks course easily with 37 points to runner-up Paso Robles' 66. Arroyo Grande's girls tied San Luis Obispo for meet honors with 41 points, but were far enough ahead after the mid-season meet to edge the Tigers 16 points to 15 for first place.
Nipomo senior Andrew Garcia repeated as PAC-7 League boys champion by winning in 16:03.4. Kathleen Uytewaal of San Luis Obispo won the girls race in 19:05.8.
Arroyo Grande's girls were without sophomore Hannah Stevens. Stevens, one of the Eagles' top runners, was ill. "We expect her back for (the CIF Southern Section Preliminaries) though," said Eagles sophomore Emily Johnston.
Johnston said wistfully, "(Hannah) was itching to be out here today." Johnston finished fifth Thursday. Katie Lewis led the Eagles with a fourth-place finish.
Arroyo Grande's boys squad won easily thanks to superior balance. Hugo Gutierrez finished second in 16:18.1, Cullen Cali ran fourth and Daniel Smith came home sixth.
Arroyo Grande's girls squad three-peated as league champ. AG's boys repeated. The top four boys and girls teams in the final PAC-7 standings qualified automatically for the CIF Southern Section Preliminaries which take place Nov. 14 at Mt. San Antonio College.
Boys teams advancing automatically included, in order, Arroyo Grande, Paso Robles, SLO and Atascadero. The Greyhounds passed Righetti for fourth place Thursday.
Girls squads advancing automatlcally included, in order, Arroyo Grande, SLO, Atascadero and Paso Robles. Those were the top four teams going in.
"This is huge for us, to repeat as league champs," said Cali, who's a senior.
"We hope to build on this and go all the way to the state meet. We were without Hugo at the CIF Preliminaries last year and didn't advance past there."
Gutierrez has been Arroyo Grande's top runner each of the last two years.
Garcia pulled away over the last 800 meters Thursday. "I'm very excited to repeat as league champion," he said afterward. "Hugo's a good friend and he ran a heck of a race."
Garcia chuckled. "I knew Hugo has a good kick. I did not want to get in a footrace with him at the end." That's what happened at the mid-season meet, and Gutierrez pulled away to win. Garcia finished second.
Gutierrez said, "I'm disappointed that I couldn't win today, but our team's looking forward to the CIF prelims."
Uyttewaal passed Madison Cline of Paso Robles in the last half mile and won the girls race in 19:05.8. Atascadero's Mimi Petersen came up for second place. Cline finished third.
Lewis said, "I thought we did really well today. We usually run in a group, and we tried to stay close together today.
"It gives us confidence to know that we can do this well without one of our top runners." McKenzie Goldman (sixth place) and Lupita Leon (ninth) cracked the top 10 for Arroyo Grande.
Jacob Moore of Paso Robles finished third in the boys race. Atascadero's Luke Tillmann rounded out the top five. He finished fifth.
Steven Youngblood led Pioneer Valley's boys Thursday. He finished 13th. Manuel Perez (15th) paced Righetti.
Cynthia Vasquez of Righetti (25th place), Jasmine Ruvalcaba of Pioneer Valley (34th) and Veronica Ferreira of Nipomo (38th) were area girls team leaders.
Sean Pringle of Arroyo Grande won the boys junior varsity race in 17:43.8. Meghan Arigo of San Luis Obispo took the girls JV race in 21:35.7. Arroyo Grande's Kylie Herlihy and Brooke Ranes finished fourth and fifth respectively. |
TRIBUNE ARTICLE ON SLO COUNTY CHAMP MEET
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Prep Cross Country: Gutierrez, Mooney win titles at SLO County meet
Royals may have found a new star in Mooney; Arroyo Grande sweeps the team titles at Laguna Lake
By Donovan Aird | daird@thetribunenews.com
For the first time in five years, the annual San Luis Obispo County cross country meet featured a girls winner other than Jordan Hasay. But the first girl to cross the finish line was still from Mission Prep.
Annie Mooney, a junior for the Royals, won the 5K race on a cool, breezy afternoon at Laguna Lake Park on Thursday afternoon in 18 minutes, 59 seconds.
“It’s fun to run where Jordan ran,” Mooney said of etching her name into the all-time winners list. “It hasn’t really hit me.”
Arroyo Grande High’s Hugo Gutierrez, right, heads to the finish line to win the boys race at the San Luis Obispo County Cross Country Championships over Nipomo’s Andrew Garcia on Thursday. Tribune photo by Jayson Mellom
Arroyo Grande’s Hugo Gutierrez won the boys race in 16:19, as the Eagles claimed both team titles, with 45 points on the boys side and 47 on the girls side.
Early on in the girls race, Mooney and Templeton’s Kaley Hook broke away from a cluster before Hook dropped out midway through the course with a foot injury. Toward the end, Mooney stayed strong in the face of considerable wind on the back stretch.
“It’s easy to have that take the energy out of you,” Mooney said of the wind on the relatively flat course. “I was kind of trying to draft behind someone, but no one really wanted to take the lead, so I had to stay strong on that back part to take the lead.”
As a freshman and sophomoreMooney went on to finish second at the CIF Division V state cross country championships, both times trailing only Hasay — the former Royals great who set nine national high school records from 2005 through 2009 and is now running at the University of Oregon.
This season, Mooney already has had wins at the Morro Bay Invitational on Sept. 12, the Division V race at the Stanford Invitational on Sept. 26 and the small-school competition at the Brug Invitational on Oct. 3.
“I’m just trying to use each (race) as a learning experience to see what I can do,” she said Thursday.
At about the halfway point in the boys race, Gutierrez was in an even pack with two others for the lead.
“I wanted to go out controlled and not too fast,” said Gutierrez, a senior who was unable to run the race as a junior because of an injury. “It was a little windy, but other than that, it was good. By the second mile, I was getting a little tired, but I knew I had to pick it up and I started leading the race for the last mile.”
Nipomo’s Andrew Garcia placed second on the boys side in 16:20, followed in the top five by Arroyo Grande’s Cullen Cali (16:26) and Paso Robles’ Pepe Gonzalez (16:33) and Jacob Moore (16:39).
Templeton’s Savannah Camacho, who last year was one of just two freshmen to compete in the girls 1,600 at the state track and field championships in Clovis, finished second in the girls race in 19:07.
“It went way better than I expected,” Camacho said. “I couldn’t be more happy.'
Arroyo Grande’s girls won the team title courtesy of placing four runners in the top nine — No. 4 Katie Lewis (19:11), No. 6 Emily Johnston (19:22), No. 7 McKenzie Goldman (19:32) and No. 9 Lupita Diaz-Leon (19:59).
San Luis Obispo, led by fifth-place Kathleen Uyttewaal (19:16), finished second as a team with 61 points. Paso Robles, paced by third-place Maddy Cline (19:08), was third with 84.
Templeton’s girls, ranked No. 8 in Division IV — a slot behind seventh-ranked Morro Bay — finished fourth as a team with 115. Rounding out the bottom half of the girls team scores were Mission Prep (123), Atascadero (141), Morro Bay (204) and Nipomo (326).
Paso Robles was second in the boys race with 71 points, ahead of San Luis Obispo (80), Atascadero (96), Morro Bay (166), Templeton (211), Mission Prep (218) and Nipomo (232). |
10/29/09 SLO County Championships 5K Laguna Lake, SLO
Click on the picture for dyestat results and open the attachment below for full results!
Way to roll out AG!!!!!!! Everyone ran really well and we had tons of P.R.'s.
Coach Reid and I are very proud of the way you guys ran and the way we looked like a team. It doesn't get any sweeter than being both boys and girls county champs!!!!!
Girls:
Way to run!!!!!We looked very dominant with out Hannah Stevens with 4 girls in the top 9 and 4 girls going sub 20 min. Katie Lewis led the way with a huge P.R. 19:11. Yesenia dipped under 21 min and we had a handful of girls run in between 21-22 min.
The exciting thing is that you are just going to run faster in the next couple weeks.
We are just getting started!!!!
Boys:
We rolled out!!!!Hugo and Cullen led the way. What a bitter sweet race for Hugo leading the way with a dominating win after being hurt last year. Josh and Jose ran really well shaking the cob webs out. This boys team has alot of potential as we head into the Championship part of the season. We had our top 7 under 18 min and another 5 guys run in between 18-19 min.
Awesome Job everyone! We need to stay healthy!!! The flu is going around!!!!
Improvements at SLO County over the years:
Girls:
Katie: 19:11, 19:57 (11th grade), 21:31 (10th grade), 21:38 (9th grade)
Emily: 19:22, 19:50 (9th grade)
McKZ: 19:32, 19:43 (11th grade), 20:27 (10th grade), 21:38 (9th grade)
Brenda: 21:07, 25:15 (9th grade) WOW!!!!!
Hannah G.: 21:56, 22:58 (9th grade)
Emma: 24:28, 25:49 (9th grade)
Boys:
Hugo: 16:18, 17:00 (10th grade)
Cullen: 16:26, 16:48 (11th grade), 18:22 (10th grade), 18:53 (9th grade)
Bill: 17:55, 18:32 (9th grade)
Steven: 18:32, 18:43 (9th grade)
Riley: 18:56, 19:57 (9th grade)
Ben W: 19:47, 20:27 (9th grade)
Pablo: 20:05, 20:37 (11th grade), 22:57 (10th grade)
Jeff: 20:40, 25:36 (11th grade)
Kyle: 20:16, 22:26 (9th grade) |
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10/29/09 Phil Reid and Karlee Owens continue their great seasons!!!!!
Phil Reid wins Shoreline open XC meet in San Jose (takes home some cash).
He ran this through a tough training week.
12th Annual Shoreline Open 4.2-4.3 miles
Place Age First Last Sex Time Team
1 23 Philip Reid M 21:33.4 Asics Aggies
2 32 Thomas Kloos M 21:38.3 Adidas Transports
3 25 Austin Ramos M 21:42.8 Adidas Transports
4 25 Jameson Mora M 21:44.9 Asics Aggies
5 23 Chris Chavez M 21:45.7 Adidas Transports
6 23 Jonathan Cardenas M 21:59.7 Asics Aggies
7 25 Crosby Freeman M 22:02.3 Asics Aggies
8 23 JK Withers M 22:05.8 Tamalpa
9 24 Jeff Lease M 22:09.7 Asics Aggies
10 26 Keith Hankins M 22:11.4 Asics Aggies
Karlee Owens continues a great red shirt season gaining valuable experience. She beat out ASU's B Team who were running in uniform.
She placed 3rd behind two Kenyans.
Mesa T-Bird Classic 5K
Riverview Park - 10/22/2009
Mesa, Arizona
1 #174 Rose Tanui SO Central Ariz 5:33.0 17:14.5 1
2 #172 Violah Lagat FR Central Ariz 5:34.8 17:20.1 2
3 #151 Karlee Owens SR Unattached 5:45.4 17:53.2
4 #171 Rebecca Hbetamu SO Central Ariz 5:47.7 18:00.1 3
5 #169 Patricia Barela SO Central Ariz 5:48.5 18:02.8 4
6 #159 Brianna Smith JR Arizona Stat 5:49.7 18:06.4 5
7 #160 Maureen Stringham SO Arizona Stat 5:51.0 18:10.4 6
8 #207 Hailey Hanna SO Mesa Communi 5:54.1 18:19.9 7
9 #278 Danielle Higgins SO Pima Communi 5:54.9 18:22.5 8 |
10/17/09 Cal Poly Invite JV Races 2.5 miles
Great Job JV Squads!!! Great racing under hot conditions.
The JV Girls swept their race winning by 39 points!!!
Awesome Job Everyone!!!!!
GIRLS Jr.Varsity 2.5 JV
COURSE RECORD: CHRISTINA BARRIENTOS Harbor HS - D3 16:44.40 10/14/2006
1 ARROYO GRANDE D1 31 2-4-6-7-12 27-28
2 PENNINSULA D2 70 9-10-14-15-22
3 MARIA CARRILLO HS D3 77 5-8-19-20-25 29
4 SACRED HRT CATHEDRAL 80 3-11-13-23-30
5 MADERA COYOTES D1 116 1-18-24-34-39 47
6 LOS ALTOS HS D2 117 16-17-21-31-32 36-37
7 FRESNO HIGH D3 178 26-33-38-40-41 44-45
8 COSUMNES OAKS HS D4 214 35-42-43-46-48
1 1 312 Jessica Petroff FR MADERA COYOTES D1 1 16:47.0
2 251 Sydney Garrett FR LAGUNA CREEK D1 1 19:01.0
3 2 35 Amanda Trecartin JR ARROYO GRANDE D1 1 19:08.7
4 3 418 Marisa Chan SO SACRED HRT CATHEDRAL 1 19:44.7
5 4 28 Kylie Herlihy FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 2 19:48.5
7 6 26 Brooke Ranes JR ARROYO GRANDE D1 3 20:08.2
8 7 29 Hannah Goldman SO ARROYO GRANDE D1 4 20:23.9
13 12 37 Sarah Johnston FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 5 21:21.5
32 27 36 Emma Lewis SO ARROYO GRANDE D1 6 23:09.2
33 28 32 Rebecca Cruz JR ARROYO GRANDE D1 7 23:11.2
42 24 Victoria Sweet FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 8 24:21.7
BOYS Jr.Varsity 2.5 JV COURSE RECORD:
DAVID FLOOD Arcadia HS D1 14:46.50 10/14/2006
1 MIRA COSTA HS D2 28 3-4-5-6-10 15-24
2 SANTA MONICA HS D1 91 14-16-19-20-22 30-43
3 PENNINSULA D2 100 1-2-21-35-41 44-59
4 MARIA CARRILLO HS D3 103 12-17-18-27-29 31-32
5 LAGUNA CREEK D1 113 7-8-11-34-53 57-58
6 LOS ALTOS HS D2 126 9-13-23-33-48 51-52
7 SACRED HRT CATHEDRAL 173 25-28-36-39-45 47-56
8 ARROYO GRANDE D1 194 26-37-40-42-49 60-76
1 1 546 Reo Miranda-Lavertu 10 PENNINSULA D2 1 15:01.6
2 2 545 Gabriel Michaels 10 PENNINSULA D2 2 15:17.0
3 3 354 Pablo Diaz SO MIRA COSTA HS D2 1 15:35.5
4 4 357 Ryan Ascencio JR MIRA COSTA HS D2 2 15:48.2
5 5 355 Evan Tomita FR MIRA COSTA HS D2 3 15:57.0
28 26 16 Ben Ambrocio SR ARROYO GRANDE D1 1 16:43.5
41 37 46 Riley Kennedy SO ARROYO GRANDE D1 2 17:04.4
44 40 51 Blake Maule FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 3 17:05.9
46 42 15 Michael Rogers SR ARROYO GRANDE D1 4 17:10.8
54 49 39 Jacob Berdar FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 5 17:22.9
73 60 17 Jeff Williams JR ARROYO GRANDE D1 6 18:14.7
99 76 49 John Mattimoe FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 7 19:17.2
107 48 Casey MacK FR ARROYO GRANDE D1 8 20:08.0
141 38 Justin Farage JR ARROYO GRANDE D1 9 27:42.4 |
10/15/09 Midseason Meet at Nipomo High School 5k Course
Great Job Eagles!!!!!!
Things are coming together for us. All of our squads looked very strong yesterday.
Way to pack it up and work togther the whole race. We all accomplished our goal of really pushing the 2nd half of the race.
Things get better from here on out!!!!
Coach Reid and I our proud of you guys.
We had alot of personal bests yesterday!!!!!
We won 3 of the 4 races. The scores are below!
Varsity Boys:
Way to lead us to victory Hugo. Cullen, Dan and Trevor you guys all had clutch races to score crucial points. Pringlenator ran until he literally saw Elvis!!!! Great Job in giving it your all to finish as our 5th scorer! We are starting to look like a state quality team. We had a 49 second gap between our top 4 and 1:45 top 5. (better than Clovis).
Varsity Girls:
Wow! We swept that race with a 3rd through 7th place finish and a 28 second gap!
We need to keep this up as our front runners get faster. It looked too easy!!!!
JV Girls:
Awesome Job!!! You guys were dominant!!!Brooke Ranes had a break through race running 22:03. Way to lead us to a victory Natalie!!!!
JV Boys:
We had a solid finish with tons of P.R.'s. We had a 14 second gap between our top 5! Way to pack it up! Jonathon lead us to a 2nd place finish with a p.r. of 18:40 and passing about 10 runners in the last 300m of the race!!!!!
Scores:
Girls Varsity: 1)AG 25 2) Atascadero 60 3) Paso 62 4) SLO 80 5) Righetti 140 6) PV 189 7)NHS N/S
Boys Varsity: 1)AG 50 2)Paso 68 3)Righetti 90 4)SLO 94 5)Atascadero 102 6) PV 109 7)NHS 150
Girls JV: 1)AG 31 2)SLO 54 3)Atascadero 65 4)Paso 109 5) PV 216 6)NHS n/s 7)Righetti n/s
Boys JV: 1)Righetti 31 2)AG 66 3) Paso 87 4) SLO 129 5) Atascadero 155 6) PV 177 7)NHS 252
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SLO Tribune Article on Midseason Meet
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
Prep Roundup: Arroyo Grande teams sweep PAC 7 cross country meet
The Arroyo Grande High cross country team won both the boys and girls races at the PAC 7 midseason meet in Nipomo on Thursday.
The Eagles won the girls race with 25 points, an outcome Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said he expected.
“The girls have been so dominant,” Ricketts said. “Our goal was to have a 30-second gap within our team and it ended up being 28. We had a good pack today.”
Atascadero’s Mimi Peterson won the 5K race in 19 minutes, eight seconds, but Arroyo Grande’s runners took third through seventh place, led by Hannah Stevens’ time of 19:31. Atascadero finished second with 60 points, and Paso Robles was a close third with 62.
On the boys side, Arroyo Grande’s Hugo Gutierrez crossed the finish line one second ahead of Nipomo’s Andrew Garcia in 16:09.
“Hugo went out and did what he needed to and showed that he wants to win league,” Ricketts said.
Gutierrez was joined by teammates Cullen Cali (in third at 16:20) and Dan Smith (sixth, 16:42) in the top 10. They were joined by Trevor Cowan, who finished 11th in 16:58.
The Eagles’ 50 points were better than Paso Robles by 18. Righetti was third with 90 points, and San Luis Obispo finished fourth with 94. Atascadero’s top finisher, Luke Tillman, was fifth in 16:37. |
Clovis Invite 10/10/09 at Woodpark Park in Fresno 5K
Great Job AGHS!!!!!! (Click on the Picture for Full Meet Results)
It was a great trip to beautiful Fresno!!!!!!
We got to run on the State Meet Course and got the opportunity to run fast and compete against some of the best in the state.
The girls varsity took home 1st Place in the Div. 2 race. Our 1-5 pack was spread out by over a minute, but we still managed to dominate and win the race. Coming through the 1st mile we had 4 girls in the top 10.
We have to work on keeping our time gap tight (30 seconds).
Up front Hannah Stevens and Emily Johnston lead the way. Hannah S. was in contention to win it in the last mile, Wow!!!!
Way to race girls!!!
The boys varsity looked good up front with Hugo and Cullen attacking the front of the race. Hugo was in contention to win it, but the leaders made a stiff move in the last half mile for the win. Our 10th place finish was solid, but our time gap was to large (2:24). We have to bring the time gap under 1 min if we are going to be competitive for the league championship and in CIF in order to make it to State.
Me and Coach Reid have faith that you guys can do it.
What a great experience for the JV squads. the JV girls took 3rd place in their race. What a showing. Brenda and Blake respectively lead the JV squads.
Great Job Everyone!!!!
You only get faster from here on and out!!!!!
One thing that I noticed, Was that everyone can work on the 2nd half of their race, especially the last mile "Finish Strong". I am training you guys to be able to do this, especially this 2nd half of the season.
Check out the splits in the attachment below!!!! Varsity, I calculated your mile splits (Pay close attention to them) Lat split is 1800 meters, not 1600 meters.
Improvements at Clovis:
Cullen Cali: 16:27, 16:38 (11th grade)
Hannah Stevens: 19:25, 19:38 (9th grade)
Emily Johnston: 19:44, 20:01 (9th grade)
Amanda Trecartin: 21:55, 22:03 (10th grade) |
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10/11/09 Tribune Article on Clovis Invite
Prep Roundup: Stevens leads Arroyo Grande Eagles to cross country win
By Tribune staff report
Hannah Stevens led the Arroyo Grande High girls cross country team to a victory at the Clovis Invitational on Saturday in Clovis.
Stevens, who finished third in the girls Division II race in a time of 19 minutes, 25 seconds, was the top finisher for the Eagles, who won the team title with 55 points.
“We’ve finished second at this event for the last two years,” Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said. “It was great to have them step up and get the win this year.”
San Ramon Valley finished a distant second with 108 points while Livermore’s Natalie Dimits won the 5K individual race in a time of 19:14.
Emily Johnston (seventh, 19:44) and Katie Lewis (ninth, 20:04) also finished in the top 10 for Arroyo Grande.
“(The girls) still got in there placement wise,” Ricketts said. “Four in the top 10 through the first mile shows that we were a dominant force in this race.”
On the boys side, Hugo Gutierrez finished third in a time of 16:11 to help Arroyo Grande to a 10th-place finish with 273 points. Steven Melena of Eastside won the race in 15:53 while De La Salle won the team title with 93 points.
Arroyo Grande’s Cullen Cali finished 14th in 16:27. |
10/2 and 10/4
Karlee P.R.'s in the 5k and Asst. Coach Phil Reid Rocks his first 1/2 marathon
Asst. Coach Phil Reid takes 6th Place and runs 65min 23 sec. for his first 13.1 mile race. He ran 5 min miles for the first 10 miles and then dropped down to 4:50's for the last 5k. Great Job Philly, we are proud of you!
San Jose Half Marathon Top 10 Results
1 Meb Keflezighi Mammoth Lakes CA 34 1:01:00
2 Bolota Asmerom Oakland CA M 1:03:06
3 Charlie Serrano Chico CA 25 M 1:04:20
4 Luke Humphrey Sidney MI 28 M 1:05:03
5 Chris Chavez Menlo Park CA 23 M 1:05:13
6 Phillip Reid San Luis Obispo CA 23 M 1:05:24
7 Brian Ball Fillmore CA 24 M 1:05:31
8 Greg Reindl Denver CO 25 M 1:05:44
9 Marco Venancio San Diego CA 24 M 1:06:12
10 Miguel Nuci Turlock CA 28 M 1:06:44
Karlee ran her 2nd colligiant race running unattached for ASU. She placed 3rd overall in the race and ran a super fast P.R. of 17:23!!!!!!Blazing!!!!!
We are proud of you Karlee!!!!Keep it up!
ASU Invite Race Summary
At home, Brianna Smith was the top female finisher (fourth) and Daniel Lovell was the top man (third) to help the hosts sweep the meet’s team titles for the first time since 2003. In the team standings, the men went low to score 16 points with the Top 5 being filled out by Pima CC (65), El Paso CC (77), Arizona (89) and Western New Mexico (131). On the women’s side, the Sun Devils pulled a close victory with 30 points and was followed in the Top 5 by El Paso CC (31), Arizona (104), Pima CC (106) and CS East Bay (120).
Smith led the way for ASU’s Top 5 scorers that all placed in the Top 12, including Natasa Vulic (fifth, 17:34.5), Maureen Stringham (ninth, 17:40.4), Catherine Loden (10th, 17:53.5) and Chelsea Caloia (12th, 17:58.4). Also competing for ASU in uniform were Krystal Duke (14th, 18:11.7), Ashley Wimmer (16th, 18:20.7), Rebecca Greenwald (36th, 19:25.7) and Courtney Golden (43rd, 19:48.8). Two redshirts also competed unattached to the team and placed in the Top 3, including runner-up Allie Kieffer (17:06.4) and Karlee Owens (third, 17:23.7). |
10/3/09 JV Time Trial to qualify to Clovis
Great Job JV Crew. Threre were huge improvements from the first 2 mile Time trial 4 weeks ago.
It's awesome to see that and I hope that motivates a lot of you to run faster.
In both boys and girls races there was a dog fight to make the clovis team!
Here's the results from the time trial and the line up for Clovis:
Varsity Girls: McKenzie Goldman, Katie Lewis, Hannah Stevens, Emily Johnston, Lupita Leon, Yesenia Romero, Amanda Trecartin
Varsity Boys: Hugo Gutierrez, Cullen Cali, Dan Smith, Trevor Cowan, Bill Shires, Steven Dunbar
JV Girls: Natalie Hagler , Brenda Vasquez, Hannah Goldman, Sarah Johnston, Kylie Herlihy, Alisha Garcia, Brooke Ranes
JV Boys: James Jarvis, Mike Rogers, Ben Ambrocio, David Avila, Riley Kennedy, Blake Maule, Jacob Berdar
| Rank |
Boys |
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Girls |
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Name |
10/3 Time |
1st Time |
Name |
10/3 Time |
1st Time |
| 1 |
Steven Dunbar |
11:31 |
11:47 |
Natalie H. |
12:56 |
13:28 |
| 2 |
Mike Rogers |
11:33 |
11:49 |
Brenda |
12:59 |
13:29 |
| 3 |
Riley |
11:50 |
11:50 |
Alisha |
13:30 |
13:58 |
| 4 |
Ben Ambrocio |
11:55 |
DNR |
Brooke Ranes |
13:32 |
14:11 |
| 5 |
David Avila |
12:02.1 |
11:59 |
Sarah J. |
13:40 |
14:28 |
| 6 |
Jonathon Corley |
12:02.2 |
12:00 |
Kylie H. |
13:43 |
15:14 |
| 7 |
Jacob B. |
12:12 |
13:24 |
Hannah G. |
14:36 |
13:37 |
| 8 |
James |
12:13 |
13:52 |
Micaila |
14:40.1 |
14:51 |
| 9 |
Blake |
12:20 |
DNR |
Rebecca |
14:40.2 |
DNR |
| 10 |
Jeff |
12:21 |
13:15 |
Emma |
15:02 |
DNR |
| 11 |
John M. |
12:45 |
13:04 |
Alexa |
16:06 |
16:57 |
| 12 |
Sage |
12:46 |
DNR |
Katie B. |
16:42 |
DNR |
| 13 |
Pablo |
12:48 |
12:45 |
Victoria |
16:53 |
18:58 |
| 14 |
Kyle B |
13:27 |
13:06 |
Kaitlyn B. |
17:45 |
18:49 |
| 15 |
Chris |
13:29 |
13:53 |
Bri |
17:46 |
18:50 |
| 16 |
Casey |
14:02 |
15:02 |
Tessa |
18:35 |
22:45 |
| 17 |
Wyatt |
14:16 |
13:20 |
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| 18 |
Abner |
17:18 |
18:19 |
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9/26/09 Stanford Invite @ Stanford Golf Course 5k
Great Job Everyone!!!!!
What a great experience. We had a great time at the wharf (tore apart the restuarant for a lost cell phone), and a great time at an awesome place (Stanford). The course was awesome.
Girls got to see were they stack up against quality teams and the guys had a rough day, but we need to shake it off and get ready for Clovis and the championship part of the season.
We got to compete against the states best.
JV got to mix up with varsity squads and our varsity teams got to mix it up with the best teams in the state. You guys both got great experience.
Coach Reid and I are very proud of you guys for running through the hot conditions!
Remember, everybody has to do it too. This is what it might be like at Clovis Invite, CIF or even State. Here's a temperature recap:
D3 Boys (81 degrees):
D3 Girls (88 degrees):
D2 Boys (93 degrees):
D2 Girls (97 degrees):
D1 Boys (101 degrees):
Division I Girls (104 degrees):
Seeded Boys (103 degrees):
Seeded Girls (101 degrees):
Here's how are varisty teams faired:
Girls Seeded: 12th out of 24 teams and overall we finished 22nd out of 134 teams
(We beat the 5th ranked team in the state in Div. 1 Oak Ridge and we were 14 points behind the 9th ranked team in the state in Div. 1 Rancho Buena Vista- Remember we are Div. 2)
Not bad for a mediocore day for our girls team.
Boys Seeded: 24th out of 26 teams and 68th overall out of 168 teams
(We got beat by Paso Robles, we need to focus more on the race and less on little things like shaving our legs) |
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9/19/09-9/20/09
Updates on Asst. Coach Phil Reid and AGXC Distance Star Karlee Owens
Karlee Competed in her first college race unattached for ASU. She is redshirting this season (She is overcoming injuries and illness).
She took 23rd overall and ran 18:20 for 3 miles.
1 Sperry, Anna Arizona State 17:03.00 1
2 Callahan, Maggie Arizona 17:05.00 2
3 Murakami, Shannon Ucla 17:06.00 3
4 Bergman, Jennifer Arizona 17:11.00 4
5 Smith, Lauren Arizona 17:16.00 5
6 Goldring, Katja Ucla 17:18.00 6
7 Prescott, Lindsay Arizona State 17:20.00 7
8 Henson, Hanna Arizona 17:21.00 8
9 Jackson, Camilyn Arizona 17:22.00 9
10 Spadafino, Angela Arizona State 17:27.00 10
11 Olson, Camille Arizona State 17:29.00 11
12 Tarver, Kauren Arizona State 17:40.00 12
13 Hardt, Kari Arizona State 17:40.00 13
14 Apgar, Elizabeth Arizona 17:41.00 14
15 McNair, Cherise Arizona State 17:41.00 15
16 Balbier, Heather Ucla 17:49.00 16
17 Lydy, Kate Arizona State 17:55.00
18 Wiemann, Kelcie Ucla 17:59.00 17
19 Murphy, Kevyn U-Arizona State 18:06.00
20 McGrath, Melanie Arizona 18:09.00 18
21 Allen, Chloe Arizona 18:09.00
22 Martinez, Sadee Ucla 18:14.00 19
23 Owens, Karlee U-Arizona State 18:20.00
Asst. Coach Phil Reid Placed 8th Place (American finisher) and 10th place overall in The USA 5k Road Championships in Road Island. Great Job Philly! He ran 14:10 off of just base work and running with our XC kids. He went out in 4:34 the 1st mile and came through 2 miles in 9:05 very relaxed.
1 Matt Tegenkamp 27 Concord MA 13:57
2 Bolota Asmerom 30 Johnson City TN 13:58
3 Anthony Famiglietti 30 Knoxville TN 13:59
4 Jordan Horn 25 Flagstaff AZ 13:59
5 Ian Burrell 24 Flagstaff AZ 14:01
6 Stu Eagon 23 Concord MA 14:07
7 Aucencio Martinez 25 Alamosa CO 14:09
8 Phillip Reid 23 San Luis Obispo CA 14:10
9 Ben Bruce 27 Eugene OR 14:12 |
9/16/09 Lompoc 5 Way Meet (St. Joes, San Marcos, Lompoc, Pioneer Valley)
River Park, Lompoc 3 Miles
Boys Scores:
Varsity: 1. AG 39 2. San Marcos 51 3. PV 64 4. Saint Joes 108 5. Lompoc 110
JV: 1. San Marcos 21 2. AG 60 3. PV 66
Girls Scores:
Varsity: 1. AG 25 2. San Marcos 61 3. St. Joes 73 4. Lompoc 127 5. PV 199
JV: 1. AG 39 2. San Marcos 51 3. PV 64
Great Job AGHS! WE continued to set the tone of looking like a team and representing AG with pride. We looked like a bunch of killer bees out there with our awesome team shirts!
Varsity Girls you followed the plan to a tee and looked too easy cruising in and swallowing up people through out the race, especially the end.
Varsity boys you have to work as a team and be patient! When it's time to race you will roll out!
Coach Reid and I were very proud of the whole team yesterday! continue our team/pack mentality!
Noteable Improvements at Lompoc (Freshman and Sophmores pay close attention)
McKenzie Goldman -19:48 2009, 22:00 - 10th grade, 23:55 - 9th grade
Katie lewis - 19:49 2009, 22:07 - 10th grade, 20:53 - 9th grade
Brenda Vasquez - 20:58 2009, 26:58 - 9th grade
Hannah Goldman - 21:51 2009, 24:54 - 9th grade
Amanda Trecartin - 21:28 2009, 22:21 - 10th grade, 23:34 - 9th grade
Emma Lewis - 23:51 2009, 27:09 - 9th grade
Hugo Gutierrez- 16:46 2009, 16:37 - 11th grade, 17:18 10th grade, 18:28 9th grade
Cullen Cali- 16:47 2009, 17:11 - 11th grade, 19:58 9th grade
Dan Smith- 16:54 2009, 17:05 - 11th grade, 18:09 10th grade, 20:31 9th grade
Juan Alvarez- 17:07 2009, 17:04 - 11th grade, 17:37 10th grade, 21:43 9th grade
Sean Pringle- 17:03 2009, 17:52 - 11th grade, 18:03 10th grade, 20:28 9th grade
Bill Shires- 17:35 2009, 19:30 - 9th grade
Steven Dunbar- 18:29, 19:13 - 9th grade |
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Santa Maria Article on The Lompoc 5 Way Meet
Birds of a feather...
AG's pack mentality gives both boys and girls the win at Lompoc XC Meet
They wanted to stay together. They did.
None of Arroyo Grande's runners won their respective boys or girls races at the Lompoc Meet Thursday. The Eagles' scoring five runners in each race DID stay at the front of the pack for the entire three miles of the River Park Course.
The payoff for each Arroyo Grande team was an impressive win over traditionally powerful San Marcos teams. The Eagles girls finished 3-through-7 and beat the second-place Royals 25-61. St. Joseph finished third with 73 points. Pioneer Valley was fourth with 199 and Lompoc was fifth in the five-way meet with a score of 127.
The Arroyo Grande boys team beat San Marcos 39-51. Pioneer Valley finished third with 64 points. St. Joseph was fourth with 108 and Lompoc was fifth with 110 points.
Junior Quetta Peinado of St. Joseph won the girls race going away with a time of 18:45. Freshman teammate Bridget Adam ran second in 19:33. Evan Bradford of San Marcos took the boys race in a quick 16:28. Sophomore Hayes Dunn of St. Joseph was second in 16:43.
Freshman Lupita Leon led the Eagles girls with a third-place finish in 19:47. Hugo Gutierrez paced the Eagles boys, finishing third with a time of 16:46.
Two seconds separated the top Eagles runners. Leon, Hannah Stevens, Emily Johnston, McKenzie Goldman and Katie Lewis, in that order, who all finished together in a tight grouping.
"We were never worried that one of (our scoring runners) would drop off," during the race, Leon said afterward. "We were pretty solid all the way through.
"We're pretty excited," to beat a traditional powerhouse such as San Marcos, said Leon. The Eagles made it look easy, to boot.
Leon said she ran cross country at Paulding Middle School in Arroyo Grande but, "There's a big difference," between that and running for a high school.
Leon ran her second high school cross country race Wednesday. She was the Eagles' third runner, behind Stevens and Johnson, in her prep debut.
As some of the Eagles were heading toward the finish line, Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts yelled at them not to sprint.
"We're running at Stanford next weekend, and that will be when we really find out how well we can run (full-out) as a team," said Gutierrez.
"Of course, it's a big confidence booster to score a relatively easy win over a team like San Marcos," said Gutierrez after her run.
"We got everything out of this meet that we wanted to."
Peinado and Adam had their second consecutive impressive 1-2 finish.
"This went a lot better than when I raced here last year. I was hurt then," Peinado said.
"I'm feeling a lot stronger than I was at this time last year. The work I did during the summer has paid off."
Adam said that she did a bit of running for the San Luis Obispo Distance Club before high school but, "When I was in eighth grade, I didn't even think I'd make the varsity," her freshman year. She has, and she's made a big impact for the Knights already in just her first year.
Dunn is a relative running novice. The Knights' number two tennis singles player in 2008 took up distance running in track last year, "Mainly to stay in shape for cross country."
Scoring Arroyo Grande runners behind Gutierrez were Cullen Cali (fourth), Dan Smith (eighth) and Trevor Cowan who came in eleventh place for the Eagles.
Pioneer Valley runners Juan Sanchez (5th place) and Steven Youngblood (10th) both cracked the boys top 10. Eduardo Morales was Lompoc's top runner with a seventh place finish.
Ashley Fabing led the Lompoc girls with a 10th-place finish. Jasmine Ruvalcaba (35th) was the Panthers' top finisher.
"I like cross country a lot better (than track). I like the varied courses." |
Morro Bay Invite: 9/12/09 Roughly 2.6 Miles (Runs like a 3 mile race)
Click on the picture of the varsity boys for full results!
Our team stats are in a attachment down below!
Great Job AG!!!!! We looked like a team out there! Warming and cooling down together!
This is just the start and all you can do is improve from here! Varsity, great job keeping it low key and using it as a workout! We got some props on dyestat! The headline is "AG struts it's stuff" and we weren't even running hard. This should give you guys some confidence. Great job Trevor, Lupita, Yezenia and Kylie H.! Ran great freshman times!
Our top 7 varsity Boys had a 42 second gap/top 5 had a 16 second gap!
Our top 7 Varsity girls had a 1:32 second gap/top 5 had a 59 second gap!
In 2006 at Morro Bay our varsity Boys top 7 had a 3min 17 sec gap!
In 2006 at Morro Bay our varsity Girls top 7 had a 4 min 33 sec gap!
Arroyo Grande Cross Country has come a long way in 4 years! Very Exciting!!!!!!
Freshman/Parents check out these highlights of what some of the varisty runners now, ran as freshman at the Morro Bay Invite in 2006. This should give you some confidence and show you how much you can improve in a couple years!
Blast from the Past! Morro Bay Invite 2006
McKenzie Goldman-9th grade: 23:10
Katie Lewis-9th grade: 20:46
Hugo G.-9th grade: 18:09
Cullen C.-9th grade: 18:49
Sean Pringle-9th grade: 19:07
Dan Smith-9th grade: 20:21
Juan Alvarez-9th grade: 20:46 |
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9/5/09 AGHS 2 Mile Time Trial @ AGHS (85% Road, 10% grass, 5% track)
Great Job to everyone. It was a great start to our season. There were lots of improvements and it's great to see plenty of new motivated faces on the team! This is just the beginning. It's going to be an exciting and successful season! Results are coming!!!!
| Rank |
Boys |
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Girls |
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Name |
Time |
08 Time |
Name |
Time |
08 Time |
| 1 |
Hugo G. |
10:11 |
10:28 |
Emily J. |
12:09 |
13:31 |
| 2 |
Cullen C. |
10:12 |
10:39 |
Hannah S. |
12:09 |
13:11 |
| 3 |
Dan S. |
10:31 |
10:48 |
Lupita Leon |
12:36 |
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| 4 |
Sean Pringle |
10:45 |
11:24 |
Natalie H. |
13:28 |
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| 5 |
Don Juan |
11:11 |
11:04 |
Brenda |
13:29 |
16:44 |
| 6 |
Bill Shires |
11:16 |
11:48 |
Hannah G. |
13:37 |
15:00 |
| 7 |
Trevor Cowan |
11:22 |
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Amanda |
13:38 |
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| 8 |
Steven Dunbar |
11:47 |
11:59 |
Yesenia |
13:50 |
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| 9 |
Mike Rogers |
11:49 |
12:26 |
McKenzie |
13:57 |
13:43 |
| 10 |
Riley |
11:50 |
14:23 |
Alisha |
13:58 |
14:49 |
| 11 |
David Avila |
11:59 |
11:55 |
Brooke Ranes |
14:11 |
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| 12 |
Jonathon Corley |
12:00 |
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Sarah J. |
14:28 |
14:14 |
| 13 |
Pablo |
12:45 |
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Micaila |
14:51 |
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| 14 |
John M. |
13:04 |
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Kylie H. |
15:14 |
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| 15 |
Kyle B |
13:06 |
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Natalie J. |
15:52 |
15:25 |
| 16 |
Jeff |
13:15 |
16:26 |
Alexa |
16:57 |
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| 17 |
Wyatt |
13:20 |
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Kaitlyn B. |
18:49 |
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| 18 |
Jacob B. |
13:24 |
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Bri |
18:50 |
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| 19 |
James |
13:52 |
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Betsey |
18:50 |
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| 20 |
Chris |
13:53 |
14:20 |
Victoria |
18:58 |
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| 21 |
Ethan |
14:20 |
14:44 |
Tessa |
22:45 |
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| 22 |
Casey |
15:02 |
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| 23 |
Justin |
15:59 |
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| 24 |
Abner |
18:19 |
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Katie L. |
DNR |
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| 25 |
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Katie B. |
DNR |
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| 26 |
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Rebecca |
DNR |
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| 27 |
Josh |
DNR |
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Caitlin |
DNR |
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| 28 |
Jose |
DNR |
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Emma |
DNR |
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| 29 |
Amos |
DNR |
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Kalie |
DNR |
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| 30 |
Sage |
DNR |
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| 31 |
Kyle M |
DNR |
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| 32 |
Blake |
DNR |
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| 33 |
Ben W |
DNR |
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| 34 |
Ben A |
DNR |
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| 35 |
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| 36 |
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8/6/09 Central Coast Runners 5k Time Trial at Avila Beach (Bob Jones Trail)
1. Hugo G. 17:07
2. Cullen Cali 17:22
3. Juan Alvarez 17:58
4. Ben Watson 19:56
5. David Avila 19:56
6. Hannah Stevens 20:34
7. Riley Kennedy 20:49
8. Katie Lewis 21:15
9. McKenzie Goldman 21:45
10. Hannah Goldman 23:55
11. Brooke Ranes 24:46
12. Alisha Garcia 24:50
13. Rebecca Cruz 26:07
14. Micaela Spisak 26:07
15. Kylie Herlihy 31:00
16. Phil Reid 31:28 P.R. |
.....ATTENTION....
1st Practice: Friday August 14th at AGHS Track 3:00. (Pass out letter Fundraiser Info.)
Monday: August 17th at AGHS Track 3:00.
Tuesday: August 18th at AGHS Track 3:00.
Wednesday: August 19th at AGHS Track 3:00.
Thursday: August 20th at AGHS Track 3:10 after School. (1st day of school)
Friday: August 21st at AGHS Track 3:10 after School. (Letter Fundraiser after practice)
Please have your Physicals and Clearance packets completed or else you cannot practice!!!!
Attached is training up until the 1st practice.
SAT Dates: Please Pay attention to the SAT dates and Meets
Test Dates Registration Deadline
| October 10, 2009 Clovis Invite |
SAT & Subject Tests |
September 9, 2009 |
| November 7, 2009 No Meet |
SAT & Subject Tests |
October 1, 2009 |
| December 5, 2009 Western Regionals |
SAT & Subject Tests |
October 30, 2009 |
| January 23, 2010 No Meet |
SAT & Subject Tests |
December 15, 2009 |
| March 13, 2010 |
SAT only |
February 4, 2010 |
| May 1, 2010 |
SAT & Subject Tests |
March 25, 2010 |
| June 5, 2010 |
SAT & Subject Tests |
April 29, 2010 |
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Marianne Talley 16th Annual Memorial Fun Run
5K Results by ORDER OF FINISH
June 7, 2009
Great Job Everyone!
Everybody ran solid times!
2 Gutierrez, Hugo 16:34 2008 Time: 16:17
3 Cali, Cullen 17:06 2008 Time: 17:37
4 Smith, Daniel 17:23 2008 Time: 17:30
5 Davis, Josh 18:00
9 Alvarez, Juan 18:36 2008 Time: 17:56
18 Stevens, Hannah 19:57 (Top Female Finisher)
19 Johnston, Emily 20:03
21 Adelman, Sam 20:09
27 Watson, Ben 20:40
32 Dunbar, Steven 21:13
39 Goldman, McKenzie 21:41 2008 Time: 22:27
54 Hagler, Natalie 22:54
81 Johnston, Sarah 24:14
82 Garcia, Alisha 24:25
1 Coach Ricketts 16:15
Marianne Talley 16th Annual Memorial Fun Run
1 Mile YOUTH Run Results by ORDER OF FINISH
June 7, 2009
Overall Rank Full Name Runner # Run Time Category Group Rank
1 Ricketts, Christian 5:25 2008 Time: 5:57 |
AG Strawberry Festival Stampede 5k 5/24/09:
Good Job Everyone! P.R.'s all around! Hugo also put Coach Ricketts to shame. Great Job Hugo! Click on the Strawberry Stampede Picture for Full Results!
5k Results
Hugo Gutierrez 16:25 1st place overall 2008 time: 16:20
Cullen Cali 16:30 3rd place overall (P.R.) 2008 time: 17:05
Dan Smith 17:15 4th place overall 2008 time: 17:04
Josh Davis 17:26 5th place overall
Juan Alvarez 19:18 10th place overall 2008 time: 18:20
Hannah Stevens 19:33 12th place overall
Emily Johnston 19:41 13th Place overall
Sam Adelman 20:07 16th Place overall
Pablo Alvarez 20:39 19th place overall 2008 time: 20:41
Steven Dunbar 21:31 26th Place overall
Natalie Hagler 21:56 36th Place overall (P.R.)
Sarah Johnston 23:13 46th Place
Emma Lewis 23:48 52nd Place
Honorable Mention:
Christian Ricketts 18:43 (9 yrs. old) 9th Place overall 2008 Time: 18:55 |
1/9/09 Congrats to Karlee!!! She was ranked 3rd team all state senior class by Dyestatcal.
Click on the her picture to view all of the rankings!
Third Team - listed alphabetically
Caroline Draper (Rancho Bernardo, San Diego-SD) - Part of the tough Rancho Bernardo 1-2 duo with Molly Grabill, Draper was fifth in the Section Finals and sixteenth in November’s State D1 run.
Erin Gillingham (Torrey Pines, San Diego-SD) - A top twenty State Finals finish capped a great career for one of the top runners on the highly ranked Torrey Pines squad from the San Diego section.
Olivia Guadiana (Ventura-SS) - Careful, well-timed peak for the latest Ventura HS star had a super run at the State Meet after qualifying as an individual with a “lucky 13th” placing and 18:10 clocking at Woodward Division I.
Karlee Owens (Arroyo Grande-SS) - A pleasant surprise and much-improved this Fall, Owens was fourth Southern Secton Division II and sixteenth at State at that competitive level.
Anne Randall (Saugus-SS) - Part of the nation’s #2 ranked squad, Randall had a couple of super races in the Fall for the top team in California prep history and joined them for their championship exploits.
Mary Reynolds (Mountain View-CCS) - CCS Runner-up Division II Mary helped lead one of the state’s top teams with her top twenty State Finals finish in Fresno
Sarah Tusting (Benicia-SJ) - Super improved since last year, Sarah was runner-up in the Sac Joaquin Section Division II Finals, then placed top fifteen at that level in the State Meeet in Fresno. |
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2008 ARROYO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY BANQUET (POTLUCK)
Who should attend:
All of our awesome athletes and their families!
WHEN: Friday, December 12th
WHERE: New MPR at AGHS next to the Front Office
TIME: 6:00 – 8:00PM
WHAT TO BRING:
Everyone is invited to bring a dish to share with the other X-C
Families.
• Main Dish
• Salad or Side Dish
• Dessert
• Drinks: Sodas, Juice, etc...
• Plates, spoons, forks, cups, napkins
Please let us know what you are going to bring by posting it on our XC message board on the AGHS website under Cross Country: http://www.lmusd.org/education/components/messageboard/default.php?sectiondetailid=14566&
Come and enjoy some great food and celebrate our successful season by Recognizing your outstanding athlete. |
Hannah Stevens Posing for a Picture with The Top Finishers from The Frosh/Soph All Western Regional Race. She finished 15th place in 20:30 and came through the 2.95 mile in 19:23 (close to her P.R.). Not bad for being sick and not running since the state meet! |
Karlee Owens posing with The All Western Regional Team. The teams were broken up into teams of 8:
1st Team: Top 8
2nd Team: 9th - 16th place
3rd Team: 17th - 24th Place
She earned 2nd Team All Region Honors! Great Job Karlee!
Click On The Picture Above For Full Results of The Meet! |
12/6/08 Footlocker Western Regionals at Mt. Sac Course: 5K
States that Competed: CA, WA, UT, ID, AZ, NM, NV, AK, HI, OR, WY, and Overseas Military. Check Out The Athletes Splits Below:
It was a Great Day to Run. Karlee ended her High School XC career with a great performance at Western Regionals. She finished 16th place (6 places away from qualifying to Nationals) in (19:16) a very tactical race that was blasted right open by Jordan Hasay the second half. Great Race for still being sick and on antibiotics. What a gutsy effort. She earned 2nd team All-Western Region honors and was flown out to the University of Arizona for a recruiting trip afterward.
Hannah Stevens finished really well in The Frosh/Soph All Western Regional Race. She finished 15th place in her P.R. pace from CIF Finals (20:30) while being sick and not running for a week. She is showing her true talent.
McKenzie (33rd place) 21:36 and Katie (35th Place) 21:37 cruised in the Open Junior Girls race going out slow and then finishing hard. They had a great time, ran fast and thats what it is all about!
Cullen Cali ran really well in the Open Boys Junior race continuig a break through season with a 20th place finish in 17:24 (he came through 2.95 miles in 16:32) and finished hard. Jose 18:21 and Juan 19:10 ran well despite being sick and not 100%.
Stud Freshman Josh Davis got out well and ran great the first half of the Frosh/Soph All Western Regional Race, but was dehyadrated and faded to 18:52 in the last half of the race. Poor guy, we have to stay hydrated!
Santa Maria Times Article on Western Regionals:
Hasay four-peats at Foot Locker West
By Kenny Cress / Sports Writer, kcress@santamariatimes.com
WALNUT — Jordan Hasay’s plan for her Foot Locker West Regional race Saturday was to go on a glorified tempo run and still win.
The plan worked.
Hasay was part of a lead pack of runners at the two-mile mark. Then she made a move and, “No one challenged me,” the Mission Prep senior said in a phone interview Saturday after she made history.
Hasay, 17, is the only girl ever to four-peat at the West Regional in the Foot Locker series’ 30-year history. Chris Schwartz of Bakersfield won the boys race in 15:43.
“Like state, this is really special,” she said. The Saturday before, she became the only girl other than Sara Hall to win four California state cross country championships when she took the Division V race.
The Arroyo Grande resident won in 18:02 Saturday over the 5,000-meter course at Mt. San Antonio College. San Clemente senior Alex Dunne was the runner-up in 18:12.
The top 10 runners qualified for the Dec. 13 Foot Locker Nationals at Mission Bay in San Diego, the race Hasay said she has been pointing toward all season. Hasay is 6-0 this year.
The 18:02 was a slow time for Hasay over the course. No matter, she said.
“That was the perfect race for me. (All of the qualifiers) just wanted to have a lot left for next weekend. It was really just a tempo run for me.”
Hasay chuckled. “You don’t want to trip or something,” during the regional. “I just wanted to qualify.”
Arroyo Grande senior Karlee Owens also had a big day. In her first seeded girls Foot Locker West Regional race, the same race Hasay won, Owens earned Second Team All-Western Region honors by finishing 16th in 19:16.
“This was a good experience for her,” Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said by phone afterward.
“Karlee has been sick since Thanksgiving, unfortunately. She’s been sick, but she’s run through it. She didn’t have an especially good day at the state meet (16th in Division IV), but she really came through today.
“Afterward, she got to fly to the University of Arizona for a recruiting trip.”
Arroyo Grande freshman Hannah Stevens finished a solid 14th in 20:25 in the Frosh-Soph Girls All-West Region race. A.G.’s Cullen Calli was 20th in 17:25 in the Open Junior Boys race.
As for Hasay, she said her strength was where she wanted it to be after her easy win Saturday.
“I had really good workouts this week,” said the Mission Prep senior. “I went pretty hard in the workouts this week.
“Next week I’ll probably just taper off and get ready for (next) Saturday,” when she’ll try to re-claim the national Foot Locker title she won as a freshman in 2005.
Defending Foot Locker national champ Ashley Brasovan of West Palm Beach, Fla. will join Hasay at the starting line next Saturday. So will South Region champion Kathy Kroeger of Franklin, Tenn. Kroeger won the national Foot Locker race in 2007.
Hasay has had a string of four-peats this year, including the San Luis Obispo County, CIF Central Section, CIF State and Foot Locker West Region meets.
Ricketts’ son Christian ran the two-mile course in 12:34 Saturday to win the fourth grade division of the boys elementary-middle school race. He was 38th overall. |
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Please click on the image above for full results of the 2008 State Meet! |
11/29/08 CIF State Meet WoodWard Park Course: 5K
The Girls Finished 13th in The State in Div. 2! Please click on the picture above to view a video of the race.
Great Job ladies, you are the 13th Best Team in Div. 2 in the State!
We did really well even though we had people suffereing from sickness and cramps. Senior Karlee Owens led the team with a 16th place finish in 18:21. She was in the top 10 in the first two miles of the race and then her cold/sore throat caught up with her in the last mile. Way to tough it out Karlee. Hannah Stevens was are second scorer with a strong finish and awesome freshman time of 19:27. Right behind her was Junior Katie Lewis who ran a P.R. of 19:40. That is awesome for a girl who was sick for half the season with Pneumonia and a full blown asthma attack. Sophmore Haley MacDonald was our next scorer with a solid performance and finish in 20:09. Rounding out are finishers were sisters McKenzie and Hannah Goldman. McKenzie tried to fight off a horrible cramp and finished in 20:48 and Freshman Hannah ran a great race to finish in 23:02.
Ladies you had a great season! Be proud of all of your accomplishments! |
11/30/08 Article on The State Meet from The Santa Maria Times
Hasay wins title No. 4, AG girls take 13th
By Kenny Cress / Sports Writer, kcress@santamariatimes.com
FRESNO — Jordan Hasay earned that fourth state cross country championship she was expected to win, and she drained the suspense out of the race early.
She was 5 meters ahead by the 50-meter mark. Hasay won the Girls Division V race at the CIF State Cross Country Championships over the 5,000 meter Woodward Park course in 17:18 Saturday.
Hasay’s victory margin was 1:19. Sophomore teammate Annie Mooney finished second in 18:37.
Hasay hit the mile-mark in 5:16 and then, “I felt a little tired during the last two miles,” she said.
Hasay was hoping to break the course record of 16:43. She settled for being the only girl other than Sarah Hall to win four California state cross country championships.
Meanwhile Arroyo Grande’s girls finished 13th in the 23-team Girls Division II field. Karlee Owens led the Eagles by finishing 16th, in 18:21.
Freshman Hannah Stevens, Arroyo Grande’s second runner home in 19:27 (53rd place for scoring purposes) said she was excited simply to be in the state meet.
“I’m really happy with the way I ran,” too, she said. “I’m excited and looking forward to more times coming back here.”
Nipomo junior Andrew Garcia qualified for the meet as an individual. He finished 23rd, in 16:26, in the Boys Division IV race. Ty Johnson of Palma won in 15:32.
Hasay ran the fastest time of the day. Division I winner Alex Dunne of San Clemente ran the second-fastest, 17:27.
The four-peat was the second for Hasay this season. She pulled the feat off earlier at the Central Section Finals earlier this month. Mission Prep won its 11th sectional championship. The Royals were sixth Saturday with 190 points. Palos Verdes Peninsula Chadwick won with 72.
“I was a little disappointed with my time,” Hasay said afterward. However, thanks to the four-peat, “This is a good day.”
It was also a good day as far as Arroyo Grande girls coach Sean Ricketts was concerned.
“I hope we finished in the top 15,” he said after his team’s work was done Saturday.
“But any finish here is good. This is the first time we’ve been to the state meet as a team in 17 years.”
Arroyo Grande got the top-15 finish Ricketts was hoping for. The Eagles scored 342 points. Sophomore race winner Kaylin Mahoney (17:34) led Saugus to the team title.
Scoring Eagles included Owens (11th for scoring purposes), freshman Hannah Stevens (53rd), junior Katie Lewis (69th), sophomore Haley MacDonald (93rd) and junior McKenzie Goldman (116th).
Freshman Hannah Goldman (153rd) rounded out Arroyo Grande’s squad Saturday.
Saugus had a dominating performance. The Centurians scored 32 points to runner-up Manhattan Mira Costa’s 141.
Owens was 10th at the 2-mile mark. “I tried to hang on,” for that medal, she said. “But, oh, well.”
The senior said, “This was my personal best for this course, but I was hoping to run better. Now I’ll just try to have a good race at the Foot Locker West Regional.”
Owens will be in the seeded race there next week at Mt. San Antonio College. Hasay will try for her fourth West Regional title in that race.
Garcia, like most of the runners interviewed, gave the Woodward Park course a lukewarm review.
The course features rolling hills and, “I missed my steep hills today,” Garcia said. The legendary Mt. SAC course has those steep hills Garcia loves. He said that’s his favorite course.
“I was hoping for a little better finish today,” said Garcia. “But I have another year. Another year to get stronger. Another year to get better.”
The Mt. SAC course is Hasay’s favorite, too. She said she was “a little sad,” that Saturday marked her last state meet but she didn’t exactly wax nostalgic about being done with the Woodward Park course. She’s run it 11 times and won every time.
James Shipe led the Morro Bay boys to third place in Division IV. The Pirates scored 148 points, behind winner Big Bear’s 44. Shipe finished seventh in 15:55. Individual stale meet qualifier Paul Denlinger of Templeton was a spot behind Garcia, with an identical 16:26. Morro Bay’s girls finished eighth in Division IV. Sophomore Loren Fisher led them, finishing 14th in 19:12.
Atascadero’s Mimi Peterson was 40th in 19:15 in the Girls Division III race. She qualified for the state championships as an individual. |
11/29/08 Preview Article on The State Meet from the Santa Maria Times
Hasay hunts for CIF title No. 4
By Kenny Cress / Sports Writer, kcress@santamariatimes.com
Jordan Hasay said by phone Wednesday night that it won’t be until the Foot Locker National Championship race that it will hit her that her high school cross country career is closing.
Still, “Yeah, it’s a little bit sad,” that her state championship cross country racing is almost done, the Arroyo Grande resident and Mission Prep senior said.
Hasay will run in her fourth, and last, Division V state race at 1:20 p.m. Saturday at Woodward Park in Fresno. She’s a prohibitive favorite to win the girls Division V race at the CIF State Cross Country Championships for the fourth time.
Senior Karlee Owens leads Arroyo Grande’s girls into the first state meet for an Arroyo Grande girls cross country squad since 1991. Pioneer Valley boys basketball coach Greg DeNike was the Eagles’ coach then. The Eagles will run in the Girls Division II race at 10:05 a.m. Saturday.
Nipomo junior Andrew Garcia qualified for the Division IV boys state meet as an individual. He’ll run at 12:45 p.m. All state meet races will be at Woodward Park.
Boys and girls races will be 5 kilometers. The Eagles’ girls squad at the state meet figures to include Owens, Hannah Stevens (freshman), McKenzie Goldman (junior), Katie Lewis (junior), Haley MacDonald (sophomore), Hannah Goldman (freshman) and Amanda Trescartin (sophomore).
Arroyo Grande’s squad took the seventh, and final, qualifying spot in its section finals race. The Eagles did beat eighth-place Canyon Country Canyon by 20 points.
Hasay is the prep girls national 1,500-meters record holder (4:14.50) She said she’ll go after the course record of 16:43 Saturday.
“This will be just my fourth race this year, because I’m really focusing on the Foot Locker Nationals,” where she’ll try to re-claim the national title she won as a freshman in 2005, said Hasay. Hasay was third at the 2007 Foot Locker Nationals.
She said, “I’m going to go hard and hopefully get the course record,” Saturday. Hasay ran 17:01 as a freshman there and 17:05 as a junior.
“I’m a little sad that it’s my last state meet, but I’m happy that I won’t be running that course anymore,” Hasay said with a laugh. “I like Woodward Park. It’s just that I’ve run it so many times.”
Ten times, in fact. Hasay’s run four section finals races, three state meet races and three Clovis Invitational races there.
Hasay led Mission Prep to its 11th consecutive Central Section Division V girls cross country title earlier this month. The Royals have been in the top five in the CIF State division V each of Hasay’s first three years at Mission Prep.
“We’re ranked fourth this year,” she said. “Hopefully we can get that or higher.”
Owens is an 800 and 1,500-meter specialist in track. She considers track her best sport. She’s been plenty impressive in cross country this year, however.
She took her first three races this season. Owens won the PAC-7 League finals race going away and then ran what coach Sean Ricketts described as “the perfect race for her,” in the Toyota CIF Southern Section Division II Finals last Saturday. Owens finished fourth over the 3-mile course at Mt. San Antonio College.
She ran a 17:42, her personal best on the course by 20 seconds.
Garcia has had an impressive season, too. He won the boys race at the PAC-7 League finals. Garcia finished a solid ninth at the section finals, in 16:12. That was his best at the Mt. SAC course by 10 seconds.
Hasay said, “I think the state meet and (Foot Locker) regionals will help me prepare for the nationals. I want to do well at the state meet, but if I don’t do as well as I’d like, that’s OK because I just want to do well at nationals.”
Hasay is the three-time defending Foot Locker West Regionals champion. The West Regionals is a qualifier for the national finals.
Hasay was rated second in a recent Dyestat.com national poll to defending Foot Locker National champion Ashley Brasovan. Brasovan is a senior from Florida.
“They’re still giving Ashley the number one ranking, but that’s OK,” said Hasay. “She definitely deserves it. Ashley set the (prep) national 5,000 meters record at the Nike Outdoor Nationals (last summer). That’s pretty amazing.”
Hasay said she doesn’t know yet whether she will try to defend the Junior Cross Country Nationals championship she won in 2006 and 2007. That race will be in Baltimore this winter. |
11/25/08 3rd Annual 1 Mile Time Trial @ AGHS Track 6:45AM
(Girls used it as a work out!!!) Good Job Everyone!!!!!
1. Cullen Cali 4:46 **New P.R.
2. Dan Smith 4:47
3. Josh Davis 4:48
4. Jose Corona 4:59
5. Juan Alvarez 5:01**New P.R.
6. Karlee Owens 5:24
7. McKenzie Goldman 5:49
8. Katie Lewis 5:51
9.Hannah Stevens 5:52
10. Haley MacDonald 5:53
11. Hannah Goldman 6:23 |
Click On the Picture of The Girls Start at CIF Finals to View Full results of the Race and Meet. Scroll Down to Girls Div.2 to View individual and Team Results.
CIF-State Girls Individual Rankings
Top 10s, by Doug Speck/Mike Kennedy
Released Monday November 24th, 2008
Girls Individual Rankings by By Doug Speck and Mike Kennedy
DIVISION II
1 SS Kaylin Mahoney SO Saugus
2 NCS Jacque Taylor JR Casa Grande (Petaluma)
3 SS Hillary Hayes SR Edison (Huntington Beach)
4 SS Anne Randall SR Saugus
5 SDS Elizabeth Apgar SR Lincoln (San Diego)
6 SS Amber Murakami JR Saugus
7 SS Karlee Owens SR Arroyo Grande****************
8 SS Savannah Pio SO Mira Costa (Manhattan Beach)
9 SS Brianna Jauregui SR Saugus
10 NCS Heather Cerney JR Carondelet (Concord)
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11/22/08 CIF FInals @ Mt.Sac Course: 2.95 Miles
WOW! Did things really come together for the girls Team! WE DID IT! We finished 7th place and qualified for state as a team for the 1st time in 17 YEARS (1991)! What an accomplishment. Great Job Ladies! The girls team followed the race plan to a Tee! All of our girls got out quickly into the 1st half of the race and fought through the hills to maintian their positions and then finished hard. Our team time was about 3 minutes faster from last week at CIF Prelims. We went from 1:39:10 to 1:36:28. Karlee Owens put her perfect race together that we have been working on in bits and pieces through out the whole season and set a blazing fast school record of 17:42 taking 4th place and running the 6th fastest time of the day across all of the divisions. The rest of the girls team pretty much ran 30-60 seconds faster than last week. WE ALL ROLLED OUT!
Hannah Stevens ran over 1 minute faster blazing a quick freshman time of 19:20, followed closely by McKenzie Goldman in 19:30 who ran over 40 seconds faster. Our 4th and 5th girls who sealed the deal were Katie Lewis 19:54 (25 seconds faster) and Haley MacDonald 20:02 (28 seconds fatser. What a day! Enjoy this ladies! This is the part of the season were we let all of the training we did in the past couple months take us along for a ride and run fast times! |
Great Article On The Girls Team's performance at CIF Finals From the Santa Maria Times!
AG girls, Nipomo’s Garcia run to State
By Kenny Cress / Sports Writer, kcress@santamariatimes.com
WALNUT — Local runners ran the three-mile Mt. SAC cross country course Saturday faster than they had the week before. Much faster.
Their reward is the first trip for each of them to the state meet.
Senior Karlee Owens finished fourth in 17:42 in the girls Division II race at the CIF Southern Section Toyota Championships at Mt. San Antonio College. She led Arroyo Grande’s girls to the CIF State Championships. Nipomo junior Andrew Garcia placed ninth in 16:12 in the Division IV boys race. He qualified for the state meet as an individual.
Owens ran her best time ever on the course with the steep and storied Switchbacks, Poop Out Hill and Reservoir Hill. She was 20 seconds faster than she was last week at the section preliminaries. In fact, “That had been my best time here,” Owens said.
It took Owens awhile to recover from her big race. “Oh my gosh, I’m so tired,” she said afterward. “But I’m so happy. Finally, I qualified for state. I just hope the team did.”
The team did, taking the seventh place it needed to. The top seven teams, plus five individuals from non-qualifying teams (as long as they placed in the top 20) in each division advanced to the state meet. Garcia was the fourth individual qualifier in his division.
Sophomore Kaylin Mahoney ran the fastest girls time of the day, 17:01. She led Saugus to a dominating win in Division II. Saugus went 1-3-6-7-8 in original placing. Most runners’ original placings were revised slightly for scoring purposes.
The state meet is next Saturday at Woodward Park in Fresno. Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said the Eagles are going partly because, “My number two (Hannah Stevens) ran a minute faster here than she ran last week and my number three (junior McKenzie Goldman) ran 40 seconds faster.
“My number four (junior Katie Lewis), and my number five (sophomore Haley MacDonald) ran 25-30 seconds faster.
Garcia ran 10 seconds faster than he did last week. Still, he didn’t know he’d be going to the state meet until after his division’s awards ceremony.
“I’m going to state!,” Garcia exclaimed as some well wishers hugged him and greeted him with the news.
Garcia said, “My season hinged on this race. My whole goal had been the state meet.”
As for the Arroyo Grande girls, “This is the first time an Arroyo Grande girls team has gone to the state meet since 1991, when Greg DeNike was the coach,” Ricketts said. “This is a big deal.”
Stevens finished 43rd Saturday. McKenzie Goldman ran 48th. Lewis was 66th, and MacDonald finished 72nd as she rounded out Arroyo Grande’s scoring. Freshman Hannah Goldman (114th) and sophomore Amanda Trecartin (115th) rounded out Arroyo Grande’s squad. Places listed are original places.
Garcia and the Arroyo Grande girls put themselves in good position early. Garcia was in sixth place at the halfway point, which was just after the switchbacks. Owens was in fourth, and Stevens and McKenzie Goldman were in the top half of the field. They ended up there.
“We went out the first mile a lot harder as a team than we did last week, and that really helped us,” said McKenzie Goldman. “We reached our goal as a team.”
Stevens said, “The weather — it was cooler this time — and my team helped me run a lot better this time. We wanted to get to state so bad. Our team was really pumped.”
Owens and Garcia weren’t overly pumped early. They simply stayed toward the front and stayed out of trouble.
“I knew I had to be toward the lead early,” said Owens. “You can’t let yourself be stuck in the middle in this race or you’ll never move up.”
“We put the plan together for Karlee to run the perfect race, and she finally ran the perfect race,” said Ricketts.
Garcia said, “I didn’t change my routine. I ran Poop Out hill (the second hill) harder this time, so that helped.”
Arroyo Grande’s girls and Garcia made it to the state meet with room to spare. Arroyo Grande scored 220 points to eighth-place Canyon Country’s 240. Owens was third for scoring purposes. Canyon’s top runner was 23rd. |
Click on the picture of the girls team at the starting line at CIF Prelims for the full results of the meet. We were in Division 2 Heat 2 for girls and Heat 1 for Boys. |
11/15/08 CIF Prelims Mt. Sac XC Course 2.95 miles
Click on the image of the boys team above to view the Tribune article of the meet!
Great Job to both Boys and Girls teams! The weather was close to 100 degrees by the time the girls ran with poor air quality and we all still managed to run really well.
Girls: We went down and took care of business in order to move on to CIF Finals pretty easily, despite having somewhat of a off day due to the weather. We finished 4th in our heat (top 5 advanced in each heat). Karlee looked really great up front running nice and relaxed not pushing the pace at all and went on to win her heat by 26 seconds in a p.r. time of 18:01. The rest of the girls team did a great job packing it up and running strong on the hills. Our #2 through #6 girls finished with in 20 seconds of each other. Next week we really have to get after it and run a really strong second half of the race. We have a really good shot at making it to state ladies (This hasn't been done in over 15 years)! Great Job!
Boys: What a way to end the season. All of the boys ran really well and pr'd. Hugo was very smart and sat this one out due to a muscle strain in his leg that he has been battling for over 1 month now. He is teaching the team about patience and doing the right thing. We took 10 place in our heat, but we all need to be proud of how strong we ran. Cullen lead the boys with a 22nd place finish running 16:15 which cracks into our schools All time Mt. Sac top 10 list. He lead Dan , Josh, Jose, Juan and Niko to pr's across the board. I was really proud of you guys and just think of how awesome of a team we are going to have next year!
Noteable Improvements from the Past 2-3 years at CIF Prelims
Girls
Karlee Owens: 18:01; 18:05(last year 11th grd); 18:22 (10th grd)
Haley MacDonald: 20:30; 21:58(last year 9th grd)
Boys
Cullen Cali: 16:15; 17:22(last year 10th grd)
Dan Smith: 16:58; 17:22(last year 10th grd)
Juan Alvarez: 17:38; 18:40(last year 10th grd) |
Cal Poly Invite @ Fairbanks XC Course (SLO) 10/18/08 Course: 2.5 Miles
GIRLS Jr.Varsity 2.5 JV
COURSE RECORD: CHRISTINA BARRIENTOS Harbor HS - D3 16:44.40 10/14/2006
1 503 Lauren Hall So MT. CARMEL HS D2 1 17:53.3
2 524 Mandy Blume Jr MT. CARMEL HS D2 2 18:31.2
16 204 Shanna Angelus Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 20:39.3
208 Freya Granz Jr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 21:13.5
20 206 Caitlin Edgerton Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 22:19.0
21 211 Emma Lewis Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 23:24.3
22 207 Miranda Evangelista Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 23:55.1
BOYS Jr.Varsity 2.5 JV
COURSE RECORD: DAVID FLOOD Arcadia HS D1 14:46.50 10/14/2006
1 588 Daniel Rubin Sr SANTA MONICA HS D1 1 15:00.7
2 227 Andres Pille Jr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 1 15:21.3
3 442 Dominick Triola Sr MARIA CARRILLO HS D3 1 15:22.6
4 561 Alex Megeff So PENINSULA HS D2 1 15:27.8
5 594 Jarvon Greer Sr SANTA MONICA HS D1 2 15:28.4
20 228 Joe Stover (Juan) Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 2 16:04.4
32 212 Sam Adelman Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 3 16:29.0
34 203 Michael Rogers Jr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 4 16:34.5
35 220 Tyler Hubbell Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 5 16:36.8
37 213 Ben Ambrocio So ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 6 16:38.7
62 222 Riley Kennedy Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 7 18:04.9
63 214 David Avila Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 8 18:07.4
68 224 T.J. Ischcomer Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 9 18:39.7
70 219 Ethan Howland Jr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 10 19:02.1
75 218 Malte Horsbrunner Fr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 11 20:21.8
84 215 Justin Davis Sr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 12 21:34.7
85 229 Jeff Williams Jr ARROYO GRANDE HS D2 13 21:47.5 |
What a great Article on League Finals From The Santa Maria Times!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soaring to a Win
By Dan Watson / Assistant Sports Editor, dwatson@santamariatimes.com
Arroyo Grande's Karlee Owens heads to the finish line to win the PAC-7 League girls' individual championship at the league finals, held on Thursday at the Cuesta/Fairbanks Course in San Luis Obispo.
SAN LUIS OBISPO - When it really mattered, Arroyo Grande cross country - a talented team years in the making - came through in the biggest way.
“They reached into their heart and left it all out there,” Eagles coach Sean Rickets said.
Arroyo Grande shook off the injuries, and the doubts on Thursday, as both the boys and girls squads raced to PAC-7 League titles at the always-daunting Fairbanks Course in San Luis Obispo.
The Arroyo Grande girls took the league title with the PAC-7 League Finals win, while the boys turned a fifth-place standing into their own title with the finals win. And Arroyo Grande's Karlee Owens has her individual league title.
“It doesn't get any sweeter than this,” said Rickets.
This was the Arroyo Grande the others feared in the preseason. However, “We've been off and on this season,” Rickets said. “When it was time to perform, we haven't been ready. Today, we put everything together.”
As expected, the girls team was paced by Owens, who was never truly pushed. Owens jumped ahead early and ran going away with a time of 18:55. In all, the Arroyo Grande girls snagged six of the top nine spots, snatching the league title away from rival Atascadero.
The Greyhounds are traditional cross country rivals with the Eagles, and finished second in both divisions.
While the AG girls team - one “predicted to win” and at times ranked among the Southern Section's elite - raced to a win, the boys team did so in much more surprising fashion.
“It's one of those things, we've been struggling the whole season and haven't been able to prove ourselves,” Rickets said. “We were fifth at the mid-season meet, and out of the loop. Our No. 1 guy was hurt, and we've been trying to get him back. The morale of the team was down.”
That No. 1 guy, Hugo Gutierrez, shook off a stubborn injury and raced to fifth place (17:05). Just ahead was teammate Cullen Cali in fourth (17:00). Rounding out the Eagles' finishers were Dan Smith (14th), Jose Corona (19th), Joshua Davis (22nd), Nicholas Ostby (27th) and Juan Alvarez (36th).
“Finally, we're No. 1 as a team, we are No. 1 and it's been a couple years coming,” Rickets said. “We've been building it and building it, and finally it's coming into place.”
The top four finishers in league advance to the CIF Southern Section Preliminaries to be held at Mt. SAC on Saturday, Nov. 15. For the boys, the final standings were Arroyo Grande (14), Atascadero (14), San Luis Obispo (13), Righetti (10), Pioneer Valley (9), Paso Robles (3) and Nipomo (0). With the finals win, AG got the tiebreaker against Atascadero.
Owens - Arroyo Grande's lone girls senior - took home a title, and is still shooting for the CIF State Playoffs. Owens has received some recent collegiate attention, including talks with Arizona State cross country coach, and former Eagles great, Louie Quintana.
“I think I'm going to visit after the cross country season,” Owens said. She has talked to UC Davis, and received e-mails from Stanford and UCLA.
The league title was a long time coming for Owens.
“She's never had a chance to win league, there has always been someone there. A Paso girl's won for a few years, and then last year we had a freshman who came out and won, she's not with us this year,” Rickets said. “She's kind of been in the shadow. In track, she's had titles for the mile. She's putting it all together her senior year.”
Behind Owens were teammates McKenzie Goldman (fourth, 20:36), Hannah Stevens (fifth, 20:48), Emily Johnston (sixth), Katie Lewis (seventh), Haley MacDonald (ninth) and Sarah Johnston (32nd).
The final girls standings were: Arroyo Grande (23), Atascadero (39), San Luis Obispo (87), Righetti (113), Paso Robles (113), Pioneer Valley (179) and Nipomo (n/s). |
11/6/08 PAC & League Championships at Fairbanks XC Course Course: 5K
Click on Karlee's Picture for the Link to the Tribune Article on The Meet!
WHAT A GREAT DAY FOR ARROYO GRANDE CROSS COUNTRY!!!!!!
Good Job Everyone! We really put it together win everything was on the line. It doesn't get any sweeter than winning both boys and girls league titles.
Girls:
WOW! we did not give anybody a chance to beat us today. Taking 6 of the top 9 spots tells the whole story (Total Domination!). We are by far the PAC 7 Champions with a very young team. We will only lose Karlee next year. Karlee cruised to a easy win and her first PAC 7 individual title (way to go!). The rest of the girls did a great job packing it up and finishing in less 30 seconds of each other for our 2nd through 6th runners. If we run like this the next couple of weeks we have a great shot at making it to State! Back to Back league champions is quite a honor!
Boys:
You guys really wanted to win! It was awesome to watch all of you run with heart. From the beginning are goal was to win league and you still did it through all of the obstacles you faced through out the season. That is what makes you guys true champions. Cullen, Hugo, Dan, Jose, Josh and Niko all put it on the line and left everything out there on the course. We raced every team man for man especially SLO and we were the ones who finished the strongest and wanted it the most. Way to FLY SKY HIGH EAGLES! Our next goal is to make it to CIF finals. We have a great chance. Great Job Fellas!
Noteable Improvements from the Past 2-3 years at League Finals
Girls
Karlee Owens: 18:55; 19:06(last year 11th grd); 19:26 (10th grd)
McKenzie Goldman: 20:36; 20:44(last year 10th grd); 22:11(9th grd)
Katie Lewis: 20:55; 21:57(last year 10th grd); 21:30(9th grd)
Boys
Cullen Cali: 17:00; 18:03(last year 10th grd); 18:54(9th grd)
Dan Smith: 17:02; 17:58(last year 10th grd)
Jose Corona: 17:41; 18:25(last year 10th grd) |
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Click on the Picture of McKenzie, Emily and Katie at the County Meet to view the Tribune article on SLO county! |
10/30/08 San Luis Obispo County Meet at Laguna Lake Park Course: 5K
Great Job Everyone! The whole team is back into the swing of things and running really well after a rocky performance at the Midseason Meet! I was really impressed with the way all us of finished strong in both races.
Girls:
We ran really well and up front we were a definte threat. We took 3rd place getting beat by Atascadero by 1 point 78-79. This is exciting, because we were minus 2 of our top 6 girls Haley MacDonald and Hannah Stevens. We had our top 4 girls in front of Atasacadero's #2 girl. This is awesome, because with Haley and Hannah racing, we would have had 5, maybe 6 girls in front of Atascadero's #2 girl. Those two girls will be back in action next week for the League Final Meet. Karlee ran really well up front taking runner up honors behind Jordan Hasay. karlee looked really strong and experienced in her last mile. Katie, McKenzie and Emily packed it up and looked really strong through out the race. They all finished really well, especially Emily with her crazy kick at the end passing up the Templeton girl.
Girls we are looking really good going into League Finals and CIF.
Grreat JOB!
Boys
The Boys are Back! Great Race Fellas! Cullen led the team to a 3rd place finish behind a strong Morro Bay squad and an suprisingly strong performance by SLO. The boys are really stepping it up with out our number 1 runner Hugo. Cullen ran a strong race running with the 2nd chase pack the whole race and then finishing strong. Dan and Josh ran great closing the gap on Cullen. Jose, Andres, and Niko ran really well finishing with in 9 seconds of each other. Fellas, I'm proud of the way you are running and acting like a team. We are putting it together at the right time. We just have to keep stepping it up each race to fill the void of not having Hugo. Great Job!
Check out the meet splits and results below!
Noteable Improvements from the Past 2-3 years at SLO County
Girls
Karlee Owens: 18:11; 18:42(last year 11th grd); 19:23 (10th grd)
McKenzie Goldman: 19:43; 20:27(last year 10th grd); 22:02(9th grd)
Katie Lewis: 19:57; 21:31(last year 10th grd); 21:38(9th grd)
Boys
Cullen Cali: 16:48; 18:22(last year 10th grd); 18:53(9th grd)
Dan Smith: 17:02; 18:05(last year 10th grd); 19:49(9th grd)
Juan Alvarez: 17:40; 18:08(last year 10th grd); 22:24(9th grd)
Jose Corona: 17:21; 18:40(last year 10th grd)
Will Hunter: 18:18; 19:48(last year 11th grd)
Pablo Alvarez: 20:37; 22:57(last year 10th grd)
Ethan Howland: 21:36; 23:34(last year 10th grd) |
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2008 BOYS and Girls CIF-Southern Section
Divisional Cross-Country Team Rankings
By Richard Gonzalez, DyeStatCal.com
(Released OCTOBER 20, 2008)
GIRLS DIVISION II
1. Saugus, Santa Clarita
2. Canyon, Anaheim
3. Mira Costa, Manhattan Beach
4. Ayala, Chino Hills
5. Simi Valley
6. Redondo Union, Redondo Beach
7. Sultana, Hesperia
8. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
9. Newbury Park
10. Arroyo Grande***********
BOYS DIVISION II
1. Loyola, Los Angeles
2. Thousand Oaks
3. Saugus, Santa Clarita
4. Valencia, Placentia
5. Redondo Union, Redondo Beach
6. North Torrance, Torrance
7. Woodbridge, Irvine
8. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
9. Glendora
10. Mater Dei, Santa Ana
Girls State Individual Divisional Ranks
Top 10 per division Oct 21st - Doug Speck & Mike Kennedy
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Statewide
Divison II
1 SS Kaylin Mahoney SO Saugus
2 NCS Jacque Taylor JR Casa Grande (Petaluma)
3 SS Brianna Jauregui SR Saugus
4 SDS Elizabeth Apgar SR Lincoln (San Diego)
5 SS Hillary Hayes SR Edison (Huntington Beach)
6 NCS Heather Cerney JR Carondelet (Concord)
7 SS Savannah Pio SO Mira Costa (Manhattan Beach)
8 CCS Mary Reynolds SR Mountain View
9 SS Karlee Owens SR Arroyo Grande************
10 SJS Hayley Scott JR Oak Ridge |
2008 CIF-Southern Section Cross-Country
Divisional Top 10 Team Rankings
By Richard Gonzalez, DyeStatCal.com
(RELEASED P.M. OCTOBER 13, 2008)
GIRLS DIVISION II
1. Saugus, Santa Clarita
2. Canyon, Anaheim
3. Mira Costa, Manhattan Beach
4. El Modena, Orange
5. Ayala, Chino Hills
6. Simi Valley
7. Sultana, Hesperia
8. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
9. Newbury Park
10. Arroyo Grande*************
BOYS DIVISION II
1. Loyola, Los Angeles
2. Thousand Oaks
3. Saugus, Santa Clarita
4. Redondo Union, Redondo Beach
5. Woodbridge, Irvine
6. North Torrance, Torrance
7. Mater Dei, Santa Ana
8. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
9. Valencia, Placentia
10. Glendora |
Click on the picture above to view the Santa Maria Times Article on the PAC 7 Mid season Meet. |
PAC 7 Midseason Meet at Biddle Park, AG 10/16/08 Course: 5K
Click on the picture above to view the Tribune's article on the Midseason Meet.
We have our good days and bad days! This day happened to be a not so good day for both boys and girls varsity squads. We had our top boy hurt (not race), we had someone real sick and we had others just have off days. It is better that this happen now then at the end of the season. Both squads are still in the hunt for the League Title.
Girls Varsity:
Took 2nd place to a tightly packed Atascadero team. we should have handled them no problem, but we just had a off day. Karlee Owens won the race individually. She hung with the front pack for the 1st 2 miles and then blasted a 5:35 3rd mile to win by 30 seconds. Emily Johnston also ran a great race to capture 6th place. Ladies shake this one off. We will come back next race healthier and stronger!
Varsity Boys:
We finished in a surprisingly 5th place. Cullen Cali had a great race holding down 5th place with a strong performance. The rest of the team had a off day, which hurt our team placing. Alot of other top teams had off days too, so we are still in the hunt for the league championship fellas! Lets focus on getting healthy and ready to run fast when it counts! Shake this one off!
Noteable Improvements:
Emily Johnston 20:30 Big Ditch Time 21:13
Cullen Cali 17:05 Big Ditch Time 17:22
Hannah Goldman 23:57 Big Ditch Time 24:37
Brenda Vasquez 26:48 Big Ditch Time 27:36
Pablo Alvarez 22:37 Big Ditch Time 23:00 |
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Click on the Clovis Invite Logo to view a Video Clip of the Boys race from Clovis (Dyestatcal)! |
Click on The Clovis Invite Logo to view a video clip of the girls race at Clovis from Dyestatcal! |
Click on the Clovis Invite Logo above for results of the meet and summaries of all of the races! |
Clovis Invite @ Woodward Park in Fresno, CA 10/11/08 Course: 5K
(Note: This is the Statemeet Course)
Click on The Picture above to view the tribune article of AG at Clovis!
What a smooth trip! The boys and girls teams both went and took care of business. We got to measure ourselves against local, southern section and state competition. We are looking pretty good so far! Things are starting to come together for both girls and boys teams. It was a great day for AG!
Girls Varsity
Karlee Owens led the girls team to a 2nd place finish in the Div. 2 Large Schools race, behind #2 ranked in the country and #1 ranked in the state Saugus. Karlee broke up the Saugus sweep taking 3rd place with a school record time over that course 18:20. She ran even splits for her 1st and second mile (5:51, 11:42), which is really hard to do, especially when a large hill is in the second mile. This is showing her true strength. The rest of our girls also rolled out! Freshman Hannah Stevens ran a quick 19:38 (Really fast for a freshman) followed by Junior McKenzie Goldman 19:41 (a 1 minute plus improvement from last year), Freshman Emily Johnston ran 20:01 (really fast for a freshman) and rounding out the scoring with her debut race was sophmore Haley MacDonald 20:35 (She made the big difference with our teams 2nd place finish). These girls are really putting it together and it will be even more exciting when Katie Lewis opens up at the midseason meet. Great Job Ladies!
Varsity boys
The boys really showed their strength today in the Div. 2 Large Schools race. Don't be fooled by their 12th place finish (they were in a very deep race). The boys had less than a 1 minute gap between our #1 runner Hugo Gutierrez and our #5 runner Jose Corona. We are starting to show our depth and the more tight we keep the gap, the more successful we are going to be. Junior Hugo led our team with a 16th place finish in a very fine time of 16:09 followed by Junior Cullen Cali 16:38 (he ran a great race, keep it up!) followed up by our tight pack of boys freshman Josh Davis 16:59, Junior Dan Smith 17:02, and Junior Jose Corona 17:07. These boys are starting to show that they really want it (to win and close the gap)! They went after it today (got out quickly) and held on through out the race to finish strong. We also beat rival Righetti, which is our goal every time we race them. Great Job Fellas!
Noteable Improvements:
McKenzie Goldman 19:41 Last year's Time 20:42
Hugo Gutierrez 16:09 Last year's Time 16:48
Dan Smith 17:02 Last year's Time 17:47
Click on The attachment below for Athletes Splits
Sean Pringle 17:41 Last year's Time 18:48 |
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Tuesday 10/7/08
Hugo Gets Awarded The Tribune's Prep Athelete of the week for his win this past weekend at the Artichoke Invite. Great Job Hugo!
Click on Hugo's Picture to view the Tribune Article of him!!!! |
10/4/08 Artichoke Invite at Half Moon Bay High School Course: 2.3 Miles
It was a great day up in Half Moon Bay. The weather cleared up and it ended up being a perfect day for running. This was a fun meet, because we went to a new place, ran against great bay area competition and had a relaxing trip in the charter bus with plenty of movies. Great Job everyone!
Girls Varsity: They had a great day with out #1 runner Karlee Owens who was having a great time taking her SAT subject matter tests. The girls held down 3rd place againt Bay Area talent Castro Valley. McKenzie Goldman, Hannah Stevens, and Emily Johnston all ran strong as a pack and finished with in 13 seconds of each other finishing in the top 15. In the next 2 weeks we will be having 2 other top girls from last year's team open up (Katie Lewis and Haley MacDonald). It will be exciting to see what this girls team can do. We will have a talented and strong pack of girls with Karlee leading the way.
Boys Varsity: They had a awesome day taking 4th place behind talented Bay area teams Castro Valley and St. Francis. Hugo Gutierrez led the way with another win going toe to toe with Castro Valleys #1 runner in the last 50 yards and outkicked him for the win. Hugo was in 4th place with less than a mile to go when they hit a very steep and long hill and worked his way up to 1st by the top. The rest of the bros got after it today and got out quick (they need to experience this in preperation for CIF) and it caught up with them towards the end, but they still finished tough. Cullen Cali led the pack with a 15th place finish and Dan Smith came in a few ticks behind him.
Our boys J.V. team finished 3rd place running really well. Niko Ostby led our team with a 5th place finish after stopping 200 meters early and then running again to finish. (he was a little confused about the finish line).
Click on the attachments below for splits and full results of the meet. |
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CIF-SS Divisional Team Rankings
By Rich Gonzalez - Released September 29th, 2008
GIRLS DIVISION II
1. Saugus, Santa Clarita
2. Canyon, Anaheim
3. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
4. Mira Costa, Manhattan Beach
5. El Modena, Orange
6. Simi Valley
7. Ayala, Chino Hills
8. Newbury Park
9. Canyon, Canyon Country
10. Arroyo Grande**********
BOYS DIVISION II
1. Loyola, Los Angeles
2. Saugus, Santa Clarita
3. Redondo Union, Redondo Beach
4. Thousand Oaks
5. Woodbridge, Irvine
6. Claremont
7. Glendora
8. Valencia, Placentia
9. North Torrance, Torrance
10. Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Dyestatcal Big Ditch Summary
BIG DITCH INVITATIONAL (Arroyo Grande) - Biddle Park-Talley Farms - 5k - Saturday, September 27th
Large and Small school groupings were held in this Arroyo Grande area meet that had about all Central Coastal area schools in attendance. The host AG group took the individual and team championships at the Large Schools level. Karlee Owens 18:53 continued her fine season with the win, with her Eagles 25 points for the win. Unfortunately, highly rated soph Jana Hayashi, who raced 18:01 for 9th at the SS DII Finals at Mt. SAC last November and 11:25 for 3200m in track has decided not to run this Fall, the area losing one tough little girl in the sport. Hugo Gutierrez (16:50) led the AG boys to their 30 poitns and win over Righetti with 39. Pepe Gonzalez, a tenth grader at Paso Robles, won the Small Schools contest at 16:50, with Cabrillo (Lompoc) the winners there wtih 45-46 over PR. Savannah Camacho (Templeton), one of the nation’s fine middle-school runners last summer with 2:15 (800) and 4:45 (1500) clockings in age-group action, took the Small School Girls’ run at 20:13. Atascadero took the Girls contest there over Templeton 30-34. |
Click on The Image Above for the Tribune article on the Big Ditch Classic! |
Arroyo Grande Optimist Big Ditch Classic 9/27/08 @ Biddle Park, Race Distance 5k:
Click on the Picture of the varsity girl's above for the Santa Maria Times Article of the Meet!
What a day! All of the AG runners ran great and we had lots of Parent help and Support at our home invite! We have a Great thing Going on Here! Thanks Parents! Everbody, thanks for sticking around and helping with the clean up!
Girls
Karlee continued with her winning streak running away with her 3rd victory of the season. She ran 18:53, which was the fastest time of the day by 1 min 20sec. The varsity girls capitalized and won easily! McKenzie Goldman (20:23) and Hannah Stevens (20:25) worked together the whole race and finished together. Emily Johnston (21:13) tried her best to fight off a stitch to finish as our number 4 girl (What a competitor!). We can't wait for Katie Lewis to come back Healthy and add that strength to our top 5 girls. Great Job Ladies!
Boys:
Hugo (16:50) ran a great race to fight off YOUNGBLOOD from Pioneer Valley to take the win for the day! Great Kick Hugo! Our pack of boys followed their race plan and finished all together in the same time (17:22) Josh Davis, Cullen Cali, and Dan Smith which helped secure our win against rival Righetti. Dan finished hard to catch up to the pack (way to go Dan!). Jose (17:46) also was our solid 5th man. Great Job Boys!
Pringlenator and Hannah Goldman were our top J.V. Finishers! Great Job!
Everybody should have felt tired, especially varsity, because this is the time of the season that we are putting in the most work. In the end it will be well worth it! Check out the results below and splits! |
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CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENT BELOW FOR THE BIG DITCH INVITE ITINERARY! BE THERE AT 8:OO AM SHARP!
Click on Karlee's picture to view a video interview of her from dyestatcal from saturdays Mt. Carmel Invite.  |
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Click on The Sundevil for full results and pictures of the meet on the Mt. Carmel website!!! |
Mt. Carmel Invite 9/20/08 @ Morley Field in San Diego
Click on the Mt. Carmel Image for the Tribune Article on the Meet.
What a Trip! The Runners ran great, the weather was beautiful, and we got to enjoy a barbeque and take a dip in a pool. Great Job Everyone!
Girls:
Karlee Owens was the highlight of the meet for us. She won the Senior girls race in the Large schools division beating a quality field and a runner from my old high school. She covered the 2.75 mile course in 15:40, which was the 4th fastest of the day and ranked 12th on the all-time list for the fastest senior girls in course history. This was a big win for Karlee going into her senior season, because she is learning how to race smart, cover moves and finish hard, which is key when competing against the best in the southern section and state. Freshman Emily Johnston and Hannah Stevens looked to easy cruising in together running 17:52 taking 12th and 13th place in a very fast freshman race. Junior McKenzie Goldman is back into the swing of things running 17:54 and finishing 31st in a deep junior race. We would of had a pack of 3 girls come in right together which is key for team scoring.
Boys: The junior boys were the highlight finishing in 4th place behind running powerhouses Poway, Dana Hills, and Mt. Carmel. Hugo led the way with a 4th place finish, while being sick covering the 2.95 mile course 16:14. He moved up from 10th place from the start to 4th by the end. He ran a very strong last half of the race also beating a runner from my old high school. Cullen Cali ran a great race with a 17:04 finish. He is starting off the season on a great note and healthy (he was hurt last year). Dan Smith was our next boy finishing in 17:30 followed by Juan Alvarez 17:43, Jose Corona 18:07 and Sean Pringle 18:09. These boys will really do some damage when they close the gap to Cullen. We have the next month to work on this. Josh Davis ran a solid 17:40 to finish in 12 place in a deep freshman boys race. He fell in the beginning doing a dive roll and scraping his back and shoulder on the side walk, but was able to take the punch, get up and get back into the race, which shows he has alot of potential.
Check out the results and spilts in the attachments below! |
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Lompoc 6-Way Meet River Park, Lompoc 9/17/08
(Righetti, San Marcos, Pioneer Valley, St. Joseph, Lompoc, AG)
Click on the picture links for the newspaper article of the meet (Santa Maria Times). |
Lompoc 6-Way Meet River Park, Lompoc 9/17/08
(Righetti, San Marcos, Pioneer Valley, St. Joseph, Lompoc, AG)
Click on the picture links for the newspaper article of the meet (The Tribune).
Click on the attachments below for the Athletes splits and the top 10 finishers in each race!
What a great way to start the season! Everyone ran really Well! The varsity squad followed their plan and executed their tempo runs as planned! WE did not worry about team scores. The varsity boys packed it up and finished with in 34 seconds of each other. great job boys! Way to follow the plan and look and act like a team.
On the girls side we didn't run a full team due to injuries and sickness, but Karlee followed her plan of doing a tempo run right along with the leader and opening up 40 seconds on the 2nd place girl in the last 1/2 mile. Stud freshman Hannah and Emily worked together and came in neck to neck making it look to easy. Shanna and Sarah also followed the plan and worked together running really well.
The whole team looked awesome and represented AGHS well!
Next up beautiful San Diego!
Note worthy Improvements from last year on this course:
Karlee Owens: 18:27 (ran 19:11 last year)
Shanna Angelus: 22:29 (ran 24:37 last year)
Amanda Trecartin: 22:21 (ran 23:34 last year)
Hugo Gutierrez: 16:37 (ran 17:18 last year)
Dan Smith: 17:05 (ran 18:09 last year)
Jose Corona: 17:13 (ran 19:47 last year)
Brent Buvick: 19:18 (ran 20:59 last year)
Michael Rogers: 19:31 (ran 21:00 last year) |
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AGHS 2 Mile Time Trial (85% Road, 5% grass, 10% Track) 9/13/08
Great Job everyone! This a great start to a awsome season for both the boys and girls. Congrats to the top 12 boys and girls that all hit their time marks for the San Diego meet. I also attached the results below!
Hugo Gutierrez (11) 10:29
Cullen Cali (11) 10:39
Josh Davis (9) 10:48
Dan Smith (11) 10:52
Andres Pille (11) 10:55
Jose Corona (11) 10:58
Juan Alvarez (11) 11:06
Sean Pringle (11) 11:24
Will Hunter (12) 11:29
Niko Ostby (11) 11:43
Bill Shires (9) 11:48
Tyler Hubbell (12) 11:48.5
Sam Adelman (9) 11:49
David Avila (9) 11:55
Steven Dunbar (9) 11:59
Brent Buvick (11) 12:26
Michael Rogers (11) 12:26
Evan Doty (9) 12:50
Isaac Debow (9) 12:51
Ben Watson (9) 12:59
T.J Ischomer (9) 13:21
Till Bodeker (12) 13:13
Jake Milbrandt (9) 14:00
Chris Jordano (9) 14:20
Riley Kennedy (9) 14:23
Ethan Howland (11) 14:44
Malte Horsbrunner (11) 15:12
Thomas Madjedi (12) 15:50
Jeff Williams (11) 16:26
Name (Girls)
Karlee Owens (12) 11:28
Hannah Stevens (9) 13:11
Emily Johnston (9) 13:31
McKenzie Goldman (11) 13:43
Shanna Angelus (12) 14:12
Sarah Johnston (9) 14:14
Alisha Hernandez-Garcia (9) 14:49
Freya Granz (12) 15:14
Natalie Jarvis (11) 15:25
Amanda Trecartin (10) 15:25
Caitlin Edgerton (12) 15:30
Hannah Goldman (9) 15:39
Caitlin Herber (11) 15:45
Miranda Evangelista (12) 16:14
Brenda Vasquez (9) 16:44
Emma Lewis (9) 16:49
Maddi Ravalin (11) 17:42
Paige Billings (11) 18:35
Isabelle Merz (12) 20:52 |
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CIF Dead Period Training (7/28-8/16):
Please follow the Dead Period training. We will meet for our 1st practice on Monday 8/18 at AGHS from 2:00-4:00 at the track. Please have your Physical and Clearance packet completed. Either turn it into the Athletic office or to me on the day of.
Keep up the hard work and Consistent training!
I'll see you in 3 weeks!
Click on the attachment for the Dead Period Training!
Thanks,
Coach Ricketts
***UPDATE****
We will meet for practice Monday through Wednesday at 2:00 at AGHS starting on Aug. 18, then at 3:00 on Thursday 8/21 and Friday 8/22 due to Staff Meetings! |
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Central Coast Running Camp 5K Time Trial Results @ Pismo Beach 8/01/08
1. Hugo Gutierrez 17:24 11. Evan Doty 22:52
2. Daniel Smith 18:04 12. Ben Watson 25:05
3. Nick Meko 18:15 13. Chris Jordano 25:44
4. Cullen Cali 18:43 14. Nadine Reed 25:48
5. Juan Alvarez 18:51 15. McKenzie Goldman 28:08
6. Karlee Owens 19:40 16. Katie Lewis 28:09
7. Bill Shires 20:17 17. Emma Lewis 28:25
8. Mike Marquez 21:21 18. Adam Shires 30:10
9. Hannah Stevens 22:21 19. Jeff Williams 38:46
10. Alex Robles 22:52 |
Central Coast Running Camp!
Click on the attachment below for the resgistration form for the Running Camp and mail it in to the address listed. |
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Check out the 2008 seasonal best list below! |
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adidas Golden West Invitational
Saturday - June 7, 2008 - Folsom High School
Karlee finished her season off close to her P.R. in the 800m running 2:16.19 for 9th place in the prestigious Golden West Invite in Sacramento. Great Season Karlee! Click on the picture to view the results of her race! |
Marianne Talley 15th Annual Memorial Fun Run
5K Results by ORDER OF FINISH
June 1, 2008
Great Job Everyone!
Everybody ran solid times finishing most of their season's off in style! Nice P.R. Hugo! Click on the picture for full results!
1 Gutierrez, Hugo 16:17
2 Castanon, Taylor 16:51
5 Smith, Daniel 17:30
6 Cali, Cullen 17:37
7 Alvarez, Juan 17:56
14 Hayashi, Jana 19:07
32 Owens, Garrett 20:01
33 Saghri, Mona 20:09
34 Alvarez, Pablo 20:15
60 Goldman, McKenzie 22:27
61 Lewis, Katie 22:28
Marianne Talley 15th Annual Memorial Fun Run
1 Mile YOUTH Run Results by ORDER OF FINISH
June 1, 2008
Overall Rank Full Name Runner # Run Time Category Group Rank
1 Ricketts, Christian 5:57 (Asst. Coach "Lil Ricketts") |
AG Strawberry Festival Stampede 5k/10k 5/25/08:
Good Job Everyone! P.R.'s all around! Hugo also put Coach Ricketts to shame. Great Job Hugo! Click on the Strawberry Stampede Picture for Full Results!
5k Results
Hugo Gutierrez 16:20 5:15 per/mile pace 1st place overall (P.R.)
Dan Smith 17:04 5:30 per/mile pace 4th place overall (P.R.)
Cullen Cali 17:05 5:30 per/mile pace 5th place overall (P.R.)
Jose Corona 17:39 5:41 per/mile pace 8th place overall (P.R.)
Juan Alvarez 18:20 5:54 per/mile pace 10th place overall
Karlee Owens 19:27 6:16 per/mile pace 15th place overall
Pablo Alvarez 20:41 6:39 per/mile pace 21st place overall(P.R.)
Honorable Mention:
Christian Ricketts(Asst. Coach) 18:55 6:05 per/mile pace (8yrs. old) Yikes!
10K Results
Jana Hayashi 39:21 6:20 per/mile pace 6th place overall (P.R.)
Mona Saghri 44:09 7:06 per/mile pace 31st place overall |
CIF Finals 5/10/08:
Karlee ran tough in 100 degree weather, but didn't have her best races of the season. She ran 5:14 in the 1600m and 2:22 in the 800m. She is going to try to redeem her self and run a fast 800m on June 7 at the Golden West Invite in Sacramento and end her season on a positive note. Congrates to Karlee for making it to CIF Finals in the 800m and 1600m! |
CIF SS Prelims & Moorpark HS 5/10/2008:
What a great day to run fast!
On the girls side, Karlee was put in a 1600m heat with one of the fastest girls in the nation taking a easy 2nd place and qualifying to finals with a 5:09. She came back in the 800m and powered home to finish 3rd with a 2:18 and qualified once again for finals. That was a solid double! Jana ran awesome in the 3200m coming through the mile right around her P.R. (5:31) and picked some girls off in the 2nd half of the race to finish strong in 6th place and an official p.r. of 11:25.
On the boys side, the youngsters Hugo and Morgan both ran with heart and guts in some fast 800m heats. They both went out in 57 for the 1st 400m and both finished 5th respectively in their heats. Hugo ran 1:58.9 and Morgan ran 1:59.7. Taylor ran a solid 4:33 in some fast heats of the 1600m.
Click on the CIF Picture for a link to the full results of the meet!
Check out the Splits below. |
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Here is the itinerary for CIF Prelims this saturday 5/10/08 at Moorpark High School!
Click on the CIF Southern Section Picture for The Entries this Saturday! |
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1st Official Elvis Mile Results: Tuesday 5/6/08 at Cuesta College
Elvis Mile Breakdown:
Run 4 x 400m at your Dream Mile Pace
1 minute jog recovery in between each 400m
By the 3rd and 4th 400m, you should start to see Elvis if your doing it right! |
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Here is the itinerary for league finals on thursday! Meet starts at 11:00AM! |
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League Prelims Results 4/26/08: Great Job Everyone! We had lots of people qualify on both sides. Hugo and Morgan dominated in the 800m with wins. Hugo also won the 1600m with a last minute dash. Taylor and Dan qualified in the 1600m. Dan ran another P.R. (4:46) and Cullen (4:51) and Jose(4:58) also P.R.'d. McKenzie, Karlee, Katie , and Mona all qualified in the 1600m, and Karlee was the lone qualifier in the 800m. Haley is a alternate in the 1600m and 800m. Christine is also a alternate in the 800m.
Check out The splits below! |
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League Finals Results 5/1/08 at Righetti:
Great Job! The distance squad rolled out. Everyone ran really well and there were P.R.'s all around. We had 5 people qualify for CIF Prelims (Morgan, Taylor, Hugo, Jana, and Karlee). Some highlights were: on the girls side Karlee won her back to back league title in the 1600m: 5:08 going out in a blistering 2:26 1st 800m). Mckenzie (5th place) and Haley(6th place) both had great P.R.'s (5:28) in the 1600m. Jana established her league title in the 3200m and set a new league championship record of 11:40.22 just nipping Hanna Huff's record of 11:40.61 from last year.
On the boys side, Taylor busted out a huge P.R. of 4:23 in the 1600m finishing in 2nd place. Hugo and Morgan both dominated the 800m as expected finishing 1-2 in 2:01. Dan P.R.'d in the 1600m 4:44 and Jose P.R.'d in the 3200m 10:51.
Check out the splits below! |
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Here is the itinerary for League Prelims This Saturday 4/26/08: |
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Mt. Sac Relays 4/19/08: Karlee ran a huge P.R. in the invite 800m finishing 8th place in a new school record of 2:15.53. Her splits were 64.8 and 70.73.
Jana ran solid and to a official P.R. in the invite 3200m finishing 8th place in 11:27.90. Her splits were 5:33 for the first mile and 5:54 for the 2nd mile. |
Patriot Games (Bakersfield) 4/18/2008: There were some great P.R.'s at the night meet at Liberty High School. Dan ran a 12 second P.R. in a fast paced 1600m (4:48). Hugo went all out for a huge P.R. in the 800m (2:02) pulling Morgan along in (2:03). Hugo came back in the 3200m to lead a AG 1-2 finish in a solid P.R. (9:50). Taylor was 2nd with a P.R. of (9:51). Mona ran great in the 3200m with a (12:05). Next up League Prelims!
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Arcadia Invite 4/11-4/12: On friday night, the Ladies 4 x 1 mile team of (Haley, McKenzie, Mona, Karlee) got a chance to run in the most prestigous high school track meet in the nation. They ran great and finished in 12th place out of 30 teams. The ladies ran 22:04, which is about a 5:31 mile average per person with a great closing split by Karlee. Karlee came back on saturday and ran a even split mile race (5:07) with a 6th place finish. She came back and ran tough in the 800m (2:19) in the heat. Great Job Ladies!
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Here are the Itineraries for Righetti on Thursday 3/6 and Mt. Pleasant Relays in San Jose on Saturday 3/8! Click on The links below! |
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Nipomo Dual 4/10/08: Last Dual Meet of the season!!!
Boys finish their Dual Meet season in 2nd place with a win and a record of (5-1). Great Job Boys!
Girls also finish their season in 2nd place with a win and a record of
(5-1). Great Job ladies!
Check Out the Splits Below! |
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Here are the Intineraries for the Nipomo Dual Meet on Thursday 4/10 and the Arcadia Invite on Friday/Saturday 4/11-4/12! |
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SLO County Meet 4/5/08: Boys finish 3rd, Girls finish 2nd!
Karlee takes 2nd in the 1600m against Jordan Hasay in a season best 5:09 after going out the first 800m in 2:28. She came back with a nice win in the 800m (2:20) and a quick 59.1 400m split in the 4x400m relay.
McKenzie took 2nd and ran a crazy P.R. in the frosh/soph mile (5:29) and dragged Haley to a 5:38 P.R. Note: Haley couldn't see out of her ear during the race! Mona ran a seaon best in the 3200m 12:02. Hugo ran tough today with a 4:39 and 2:05 double. So did Taylor with a 2:07 and 10:08 double. Dan ran a P.R. with a even split and strong 2:10.
Check out the splits and Newspaper articles below! |
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Pioneer Valley Dual 4/3/08: Boys Won (111-25), Girls won (90.5-45.5)
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If you lost your Spring Break Workout Sheet, Here it is! Lets stay on it this Week! Have a great Spring Break! |
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Santa Barbara Relays 3/22/08: It was a beautiful Day to Run! The girls and boys relays both ran very well. The varsity girls distance medley relay lead the way and took 2nd place. Jana "The Machine" finished 4th in the 3000m against Jordan Hasay with a fast time of 10:33 which equivalent to a 11:19 3200m. Kaelee ran a 2:19 and 2:20 in her 800m splits rolling some people up along the way. Hugo split a 2:03 and Morgan split a 2:05 in their 800's. Christine split a break through 2:31 in her 800m. There were great times all around. Good Job Everyone!
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Here are the Itineraries for the Pioneer Valley meet on Thursday and The SLO County Meet on Saturday! Remember, All athletes need to stay until the end of the meet, because we are hosting it. Thanks! |
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Camarillo Invite 3/15/08: In the morning it was a great day to run, but in the afternoon it was a different story with very windy conditions. We still ran very well. On the girls side Karlee took 2nd place in the 1600m (5:13) and 800m (2:25) showing lots of strength. Jana cruised to an easy win in the windy 3200m (11:42), with some girl trying to draft off of her but ended up getting dropped by the "machine". Shanna had a P.R. in the 1600m (6:12). On the guys side Hugo had a great day on the track with P.R.'s in the 1600m (4:34) and 800m (2:07.2) all with awesome even splits and a great finishing kick. It also payed off for him, because he got a Jamba Juice out of it for his bet with Morgan in the 800m. Jose and Cullen also P.R.d in the 1600m, Jose ran a 5:05 and Cullen ran a 4:55. Great Job Everyone!
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SLO Dual 3/20/08: Boys Won (118-28), Girls recieved their first Loss (58-78)
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Atascadero Dual: The Girls remained undefeated in PAC 7 competition (3-0) with a convincing win against Atascadero (100-36). McKenzie(5:53) and Haley(5:56) battled against Atascadero for 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1600m. Karlee won easily in the 800m (2:25). Jana "The Machine" cruised a even split victory in the 3200m (11:44).
The boys barley edged Atascadero (69-67) to advance to (2-1). Morgan casted out his fishing line and reeled in Atascadero senior Charlie Ashley in the 1600m for a sweet win and awesome p.r. (4:45) for a freshman in his debut 1600m race. Taylor cruised in the 800m for a easy win(2:12). Hugo took a little nap for 7 laps and then sprinted the last lap (62) for the win in the 3200 (10:17).
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Here are the meet itineraries for SLO dual meet on thursday 3/20 and Santa Barabara Easter Relays on Saturday 3/22!
Click on the links below! |
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Here are the Meet Itineraries for the Atascadero Dual on Thursday 3/13 and for the Camarillo Invite on Saturday 3/15!
Click on the links below! |
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Mt. Pleasant Relays! What a beautiful day for Track and Field...
The girls relay team placed 3rd in the 4x1600m with stand out splits from Jana (5:29) and Karlee (5:24) and a qualifying time for Arcadia (Arcadia Qualifying Time:23:23) of 22:18. The girls 4x800m placed 3rd in 10:21 with stand out split from Karlee (2:24). The boys placed 4th in the 4x 1600m in 19:39 (Arcadia Qualifying Time:18:52) with strong legs from Hugo (4:43) and Taylor (4:47) and a P.R. from Dan (4:59). The Boys 4x800m placed 9th in 9:06 with a strong leg from Morgan (2:08) and a great finishing kick from Will Hunter. Great Job Everyone!
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We Dominated our 2nd Dual Meet against Righetti. The Boys (1-1) won 84-52 and the Girls (2-0) won 95-41! All around we dominated, but in the distances we looked great! On the boys side Hugo P.R.'D while winning both the 800m(2:07) and 1600m(4:42) and pulled along our surpise stud freshman Morgan Wack in the 800m(2:08). Dan P.R.'D in 1600m(5:00) and Taylor won the 3200m (10:40) pulling Jose to a P.R. (11:14).
In the Girls competition, Jana P.R.'D and won the 1600m (5:29) with no competition. Shanna Angelus won the J.V. girls 1600m (6:24) in her debut track race. Haley dominated the 800m (2:37) in her 1st race of the season and Karlee won the 3200m (11:35) with a super P.R. showing that she has alot of strength starting out this season.
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3/1/08
This past weekend we traveled to Paso Robles for The Bearcat Relays. The girls took 4th place overall and the boys placed 5th. The Girls 4x1600m relay won 1st place with solid early season performances by all of the girls (Christine, Mona, Katie, and Jana). Jana got a taste of the track in the Distance Medley, when a inexperienced Atascadero girl cut her off on the first lap and they both got tangled and fell. Jana walked away with some road rash. Hugo and Jose had great performances in the 4 x 1600m and Dan ran a nice early season P.R. in his 800m leg of the Distance Medley. Check out their splits below. Next up Righetti Dual at Righetti on Thursday. |
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2/28/08
Track Season is Under Way!!! The Girls Team beat Paso 79-57 and The boys fell to Paso 75-61. On the distance side, We had solid performances from Jana Hayashi winning the 3200m in 11:41 (not bad for her 1st ever track race with nobody pushing her). Mona ran great with two 2nd place finishes in the 1600m and the 800m. Hugo ran a solid 4:49 to take 3rd place against a strong Paso 1-2 punch. Jose Corona ran his heart out, running 11:16 in the 3200m and taking 3rd place. His mile splits were (5:40 and 5:36). This is awesome for someone who's 1 mile personal best was 5:48 last year. These are great performances for our distance squad who haven't done any track specific work outs yet. We have the rest of our distance squad joining us next week. Alot of people didn't run this week due to Health and Fitness reasons. Check out the links below for splits and a newpaper summary of the meet. |
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AGHS 2007
CROSS COUNTRY TEAM PARTY
“CELEBRATING A WINNING SEASON”
FEATURED SPEAKERS: COACH RICKETTS
COACH OWENS
INVITED GUESTS: ALL TEAM MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES
WHEN: NOVEMBER 26, 2007 (Monday)
WHERE: HAYASHI RANCH, 2460 GRACIA WAY, ARROYO GRANDE
TIME: 5:30 PM HORS D’OEUVRES (Provided by the Hayashi’s)
6:00 PM DINNER (Provided by the Hayashi’s)
6:30 PM Awards/Certificates
DIRECTIONS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL:
GO SOUTH ON VALLEY ROAD FOR 1.1 MILES TO HWY 1.
TURN LEFT ONTO HWY 1 FOR 0.2 MILES TO GRACIA WAY.
TURN RIGHT ONTO GRACIA WAY FOR 0.2 MILES |
Click on the picture above for results and pictures.
Congratulations to the Girls Team! They qualified to CIF Finals for the 1st time in 10 years. The last time was in 1997 and our girls team took 10th place and Nicole Tunnel made it to state individually. We ran very solid and have more room for improvement this weekend. Jana and karlee smashed Angela's Orefice's school record for Mt. Sac, which was 18:18. Jana ran 17:57 and Karlee ran 18:05. It has also been 16 years since we made it to state (1991) where we placed 5th and Angela Orefice took 3rd running 18:13.
The boys team ran very solid, with Hugo Guiterrez leading the way with a great sophmore time (16:10) for that course and also cracking our Mt. Sac top 10 list. the boys team will have a great season next year if they all stay on it.
Click on the attachments below to check out the splits and the girls competition for CIF Finals. |
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Check out the CIF Course. Click on the picture of the course to see the interactive course map!
Click below for the itinerary... |
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CIF Prelims Heat Sheets! Click on The Image... |
Congrats Girls for taking away a 3 year winning streak from Atascadero and claiming the Pac 7 League Title. Also, Congrats to Jana Hayashi for claiming the individual title as well. Not bad for a freshman! The Boys Grabbed 4th place and Qualified to CIF Prelims. Click on the Picture for the Tribune Article on the League Meet.
League Final Results and Splits are below: |
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