Great Day of Racing at Ed Sias Invitational! (Sep 11)

Varsity Girls Start

The Pumas enjoyed another successful edition of the Ed Sias Invitational this past Saturday!  It was fun going up against some of the finest Cross Country programs in North Coast Section.  For our novice runners, this was a taste for what bigger competitions are about (over 1700 runners took part!)  Following is a list of observations and recognitions from the coaches, in no particular order...

...15 of 22 athletes that had previously raced this course improved their time.  Following are those who improved their times (Name/New PR/Improvement over Previous Time)

• Schuyler Mortimer 12:14 01:05
• Dalin Lowder 13:00 01:02
• Austin Lynch 13:35 01:01
• Lauren Kraus 12:22 00:47
• Brynna Thigpen 12:57 00:46
• Harsimmer Nijjar 12:07 00:45
• Harrison Luft 11:11 00:43
• Emillio Horner 11:42 00:24
• Gus Murray 12:00 00:23
• Myriah Smith 16:28 00:21
• Sam Herniman 13:21 00:20
• Sophia Ramos 14:14 00:17
• Austin Rivas 11:36 00:16
• Grant Silverstein 12:05 00:07
• Taylor Graham 13:03 00:01

...The Freshman Boys team easily won their race over 17 other schools.  In fact, when you combine the results of all the races (including the Frosh/Soph, JV, and Varsity races) our freshman boys were clearly the strongest of the 22 schools at the meet.  Leading the pack for the Pumas was Colin Bartlett  (#11 frosh out of 264 freshman boys at the meet) and Nick Jensen - #15 frosh overall...

Other "top 10%" performances included

• Lauren Kraus - #1 soph out of 225, #5 overall out of 702 girls at the meet
• Brynna Thigpen - #7 soph out of 225, #22 overall
• Taylor Graham - #11 junior out of 184; #25 overall
• Trixi Scolari - #8 frosh out 175; #73 overall
• Harrison Luft - #8 soph out of 296, #53 overall out of 1052 boys at the meet
• Tim Wuu - #35 junior out 268, #88 overall
• Austin Bartlett - #92 among all boys overall

Follow this link for complete meet results...
http://www.northbay.com/running/10xced.html

The much anticipated closing dance party wrapped up the day - then back on the bus back to Santa Rosa!