"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - John Keats
These words came to mind as we looked at the results from yesterday's meet - that was certainly 
a thing of beauty. And it was truly a joy to see everyone's hard work paying off. The coaches are very proud of your efforts!
Great job everyone for setting a high standard this year and consistently working toward it as a team!
It's a good time to remember that we are not any more talented than other teams. Any sustained success we enjoy comes from consistent and focused work on improvement expended over a very long period of time.
So... here is the info everyone has been waiting for. Who gets socks? Well, lots of people, actually.
- Click Here to see PR Report from NBLs (all on this list are eligible to pick out socks next week!)
- Click Here to see where your PR ranks
- 54 of our 73 runners that ran yesterday achieved lifetime PRs! The average improvement was a little over 3%- this means the typical person was dropping about 40 seconds off their previous best time - wow!
- It was great to see our novice runners succesfully complete the transition from a tentative "finisher" mentality to an aggresive and confident "racer" mentality -- welcome to the sport of cross country!
- A few "milestone" improvements we'll call attention to
- BOYS:
- COMPLETELY SKIPPING THE "19's" - Quinn Gavin and Gabe Schoenbach came into the meet with PR's in the 20's - they decided they might as well just skip the 19s and get into the 18's as soon as possible - Gabe improved 6% and ran 18:53, Quinn improved 9% and ran 18:20!
- BREAKING 18: David Eik, Lucas Azcarraga, Antoine Thibault, and Ean Franceschi made big steps forward with efforts dropping them from the 18's to the 17's. 16's are just around the corner now!
- BREAKING 17: Ryan Nguyen - achieves Varsity Letter!
- BREAKING 16: Nick Jensen - he's a big boy now! his name goes on the board
- GIRLS:
- BREAKING THROUGH 22: Clara Daly, Ellie Petty, and Tessa Nicklas - WOOHOO!
- BREAKING 21: Gracie Issel (!), Haleigh Frye, Allison Bartlett, and Emma Wright - each earns their Varsity Letter!
- BREAKING 20: Sam Perry - nice!
- BREAKING 19: Shaz Breedlove - your name goes on the big board!
