Cross Country Newsletter (9-17-2012)

Woodbridge Classic 2012 was amazing!  All night I was moving around, and the excitement , the cheering and competitiveness was thrilling!  I heard so many people commenting about how great the meet was.  This year we had 225 school registered to compete, and around 12000 athletes entered to race.

Thank you to all the Woodbridge family for all you did to make this event happen.  Thank you parents, athletes, coaches, parents of graduated athletes, and relatives of everyone who volunteered their time, expertise, and hard work to make this event run smoothly.  We could not have this exciting meet without all of your help.  All of you, created this phenominal event.  You created a special memory for the Woodbridge athletes, as well as many thousands of other athletes and parents.  While many of those athletes from other schools may never know you personally, you gave all of them a wonderful gift, and I know they will cherish the memories of our invitational their whole life.  Again thank  you!

Our teams had a great night of racing.  The boys ran a team time of 79:58 to end up 65^th overall at the meet.  This is compared to 77:50 in ’11, 78:02, in ’10, 78:51 in ’09 78:42 in ’08,  79:23 in ’07, 79:11 in ’06, 82:56 in ’05, 83:35 in ’04, 83:03 in ’03, 82:50 in ’02, 83:31 in ’01, 85:13 in ’00, and 86:25 in ’99.  The boys are continuing to improve their times, and are working their way towards their goals.  This is very exciting for such a young team.

Our girls ran 91:17 to be 16^th overall. This compares to 88:34 in 11’ (5^th at state for all divisions), 92:04 in 2010, 95:29 in ’09,  96:00 in ’08, 91:03 in ’07,  91:03 in ’06, 92:02 in ’05, 95:37 in ’04, 92:33 in ’03, 95:30 in ’02, 94:53 in ’01, 96:31 in ’00, & 95:11 in ’99 (State champs).  Great job ladies, keep up the training!

Despite the heat, we had lots of athletes get new PR’s and run great races!  Being our home course, and with the excitement generated in a race like this, it shows how much of running is mental.  When you are excited, mentally and physically prepared, you have great races.  If you like what took place on Saturday, then go after it at our workouts.  Learn to put this kind of effort into your workouts.  It is the workouts where you can make the difference.  When the coaches demand your best in these practices, it is because they recognize the awesome potential that is in each of you!  You win races and run fast times long before your race takes place.  “success demands payment in advance” 

Athletes of the week:  (This is a really tough choice to make this week!)  Jake Suiste ran an amazing race, finishing with a time of 15:19 (#10 all time for boys, and #5 for Junior boys), Madeline Bradford ran a huge PR for the season, running 17:54 in the rated race.

Rookies of the meet: Rini Jablonski, who ran 22:22 getting an improvement of almost a 2 minute PR!  Austin Bradford (18:18) and Colin Takushi (18:16) both improving by about 1 ½ minutes!

Most Improved:  Christian Choi ran a great race, finishing with a time of 16:48 to be the 5^th runner by time on the boys side, and Ralphy Lara ran a huge PR finishing at 16:11.  On the girls side, Kyle Oefeline ran the best race of her career thus far and had a huge PR of 18:16

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

  

1)      Sunny Hills Invitational on Saturday at Craig Park in Brea (WHS to 5 North to 57 North to Imperial and left to State College and left into the park).  Gates open at 7:00am and cars are charged $5.  We leave at  6:30 am from the front parking lot. 

2)      Race times are as follows:
 8:30am  Senior Girls, 9:00 am  Senior Boys, 9:30am  Frosh Girls, 10:00 am  Frosh Boys, 10:30am Junior Girls, 11:00 am Junior Boys, 11:30am Soph Girls, 12:00 am Soph Boys

3)      Catch up this week with getting lockers for the athletic locker rooms and uniforms.  Things will settle down now that the WHS invitational is over.

4)      Back to school night is coming up and we will meet in the media center after the general 6^th period meeting.  Pass the word to your parents.

     

We are beginning two weeks of hard workouts before we taper a bit for the league and OC meets.  Be ready for this and make a statement about being serious of going after your goals!  

Coach Pacheco