in meets by coach mike on 05 Oct 2008

Its amazing to me that year after year one school can dominate a sport like York Elmhurst. There they were again, front of the race in their white uniforms with green trim. Top two males runners from York. Coach Newton sitting in his chair yelling at his troops.

I thought we raced well, we looked strong, then we got the results and we were 32nd out of 52 or 53 teams.  The girls were like 37 I think out of 42. Once again the girls were packed in tight. Tiffney was our number one for two meets in a row. She ran a decent time of 20:21. Courtney was number 2 for us, followed by Alyssa, Mollie and Paige was back in the line up for her first race in over 3 weeks. The girls looked stronger to me, better finishes, we will have Kaity back next week end and Chelsea, so we should be full strength. Plus Paige should be stronger after a week of practice.

On the boys side-Nix had a great race running number one for us and Jones also raced very well, running our number 2-both their times were the best we have had up there in several years.  I was hoping someone would break under 16 minutes, they were  close, maybe we will get another chance in a few weeks.  Goff and Hesser raced well-Hesser got knocked down, stomped on and spiked, but got up and ran in our top 4. Kubicki was our number 5, he is in rut, struggling with the mental aspect of racing right now. But he is a senior and has been through the struggles before and will snap out of it!

So we move on-this weekend we race at Centralia and then the following Tuesday is our conference meet. So its time to get serious, time to focus.

The trip to Peoria is always special-the kids have a good time, get to spend sometime together. They get to eat at Cheddars, hang out together. Enjoy that 6 hours on the road.

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