Our next competition, the North Bay League Championships, will be held on Friday, November 6 at Spring Lake. For most of our team, this will be their final cross country competition of the season, and for a few, the last cross country meet of their high school careers.
What's at stake this coming Friday?
4 races to determine league Boys JV, Girls JV, Varsity Boys, and Varsity Girls champions. All 8 schools in the North Bay league will be participating in the meet.
The Pumas have a great tradition of "wow" performances at this competition - we take tremendous pride in delivering our very best efforts at league finals. We would like to join many Carrillo teams from previous years that were able to sweep first place team awards in each of the 4 contests.
Varsity Boys: will face a very tough challenge from Santa Rosa High. The Pumas narrowly won when these schools faced off in their regular season league meet. The Puma boys seek to improve on their 12th all-time team time set last week against Montgomery. Santa Rosa's team ran the 13th fastest team time just two weeks ago - so these teams are very evenly matched.
Varsity Girls: will seek to win their 7th consecutive NBL title and extend their league winning streak to 98 consecutive contests. They will try to improve on their 15th all-time ranking as a team at Spring Lake.
JV Boys: This will be the final competition of the year for our JV teams and a final chance to run best times at the Spring Lake course. Conditions permitting, our goal is to see 9 guys run below 18:00 - including 2 guys under 17:00. The team time goal is to beat the all-time best JV time of 1:27:22 (2005). We will challenge the JV boys to be the 4th fastest boys team time on the day - meaning that they will seek run faster than all but the Varsity teams of 2 other schools in league.
JV Girls: If conditions permit, we think its possible to see 7 girls finish under 22:00 - including 5 under 21:00, and perhaps one under 20:00. The team time goal is to beat the all-time JV best of 1:45:27. Similar to the JV Boys, we will challenge this group to post the 4th fastest team time on the day (including varsity results).
We encourage all parents and friends to make a special effort to come out and support the team this week!
Next week is North Bay League Championship week for the Pumas! It's also the beginning of championship season in college running. Follow this link if you are interested in seeing what championship level Cross Country at the NCAA Div I level looks like (has 2008 race highlights and 2009 results).
Washington women held off Oregon to win the women's title on Friday, October 30th, while Stanford unseated Oregon as the Pac-10 men's championship team.
Hey Pumas! How do you feel? You ought to feel GOOD - oh so good. Simply an awesome set of performances today - and great outcomes for every race. Each team - Boys Varsity and JV and Girls Varsity and JV - completed undefeated NBL dual meet seasons today.
At this point, I know what you are thinking. "That's all very interesting, but what about socks?" I was getting to that. Today we had 29 runners earn socks by running PRs. Great job everyone! Following is the list of PRs - led by Desiree Purugannan's 5:06 improvement (say what?) since her previous Spring Lake run earlier this season! While Desiree's improvement was impressive, the coaches noticed all of our less experienced runners were now fully engaged in real cross country racing instead of "just finishing." Congratulations to all of you - you have graduated to the "next level" of your competitive careers.
Join the team for dinner, a
lively slide show featuring season highlights and an awards presentation.
Cost per dinner is $6.00
(includes pork pulled sandwich, pasta primavera, salad and dessert.) Dinner will
be catered by MCHS culinary class students.
Athletes are asked to please
bring drink donations and uniforms to the banquet.
Please submit your
reservation below with payment to teammate Ashley Gundersonat school or by mailing to Kristina
Gunderson at 2327 Rancho Cabeza Dr.
95404 no later than
Tuesday, November 24. For questions, please contact Kristina at Kristina_Gunderson@yahoo.com or 695-6462.
Volunteers are needed to
help as follows:
__4:30 – 5:30 set up __
decorations
__8:00 – 8:30 clean
up* __
ice pick up and delivery to gym
(*athletes are expected to
help)
To volunteer, please
contact Kristin Thigpen at 539-1708 or email
at Kristin@thigpendesign.com.
Total number of dinners Cost per
dinner Total
Amount Enclosed
__________ x $6.00 each = $________________
Please make checks payable to Kristina Gunderson. Submit
this form with payment to Ashley Gunderson at school or mail to Kristina
Gunderson by November 24. Questions? Please contact Kristina.
Athletes
– remember to bring drink donation and uniform to banquet!
25 runners set new "Personal Records" at our dual meet against Rancho - and are thus eligible for socks! Jessica Halverson and Dan Dearden led the group with massive improvements over their time set in early September. Great job everyone!
Maria Carrillo's Lauren Kraus was selected as this week's girls Runner of the Week. Check out the Redwood Empire Running website for all of the award recipients.
