in meets by coach mike on 14 Oct 2008
Congratulations to the Cats and Lady Cats for an outstanding performance at the Apollo Conference Championships! The Lady Cats were able to pull out a 3rd place finish, we knew Mt. Zion would be good and they were better than good, and the Newton Lady Eagles ran a great race for 2nd. Courtney has 12th overall for the Ladies and continues to have a very good senior season. Ms. Knaak had good race finishing 14th. Alyssa was 18th, Kaity 24th, Tiff 25th, Paige 27th, a hurt Mollie 28th. You picked up valuable points toward the All Sports Trophy. We now need to get ready for the post season, and advance out of the regional. Courtney was 20 seconds faster than the last time we ran this course, Al was over 30 seconds faster, Ch Sea was almost a minute faster.
The young men had their sights set on 1st and raced to get 1st. The battle was tougher than we had thought , Charleston was better than, we knew about, except for JJ, who told me on the bus ride over that Charleston would be the team to beat! JJ knows what is going on! Cory had a great start and a great race, finishing 3rd, Jordan was 4th, to lead the way for us. Finally K was back, battling through illness, finished 10th. Congrad’s to Nix, Jones, and Kubicki for their all conference honors. Goff stepped up for a lucky 13th place finish, followed by Hesser in 14th. Tyler returned to the line up, had a very good start and ran in the 6th spot for us. Clark was our number 7 guy.
Good over all effort by everyone, even the bus driver to get us home, quickly and safe.
I think the Apollo conference is getting a little tired of us on the running side. A couple of the boys teams were making fun of our warm up rituals! We just try to bring some fun and team spirit to our warm ups, you see that from the northern schools with their chanting and cheering before the races. Don’t see a lot of it from the southern schools. Oh well-I enjoy it.
I took our pack time for the boys and inserted it into the Centralia Invite-if we could run the same pack time at Centralia, we can move way up in the standings. Thats what we are hoping, no going to work towards-better pack time. Only problem, no room for error, right now we only have 5 guys. We wouldn’t have Tyler at regional, he has to retake his ACT, maybe someone else will step up!
Overall a very good day-good turn out of our parents, the kids raced very well. Guess what, time to start planning towards post season!