"THE
ROAD TO STATE!"
CIF-State Cross-Country Championships
Saturday, November 26, 2005 @ Woodward Park, Fresno
Forecast is changing!!
It'll be cold!
Weather
Watch Saturday's
highs in the mid-50s!
CIF-State
Meet Bulletin -- official details regarding the meet!
Woodward
Park updated all-time records sheet
Final State November 23rd rankings team by division
photo by Joe Hartman
Does Jordan Hasay lead the most talented frosh female class ever?
Read Mike Kennedy's summary of that crew in Section competitions
Those Fabulous Frosh Ladies - Mike Kennedy charts a special class!!
***** STATE MEET HISTORY! *****
Revisiting
the 2000 State Cross-Country Meet! - 1990 Good Affair also!!
photos by Kirby Lee and Elane Rosenfeld
Romping along in 1990 were Deena Drossin (Agoura-2004 Olympic Silver Medalist)
Louie Quintana (Arroyo Grande) never lost that Fall!! - now Arizona State Coach!!
CIF-State
Championships Predictions
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Division V - Defendings champs (Fritzkes) return, but will be
hard-pressed to defend as a dominant newcomer on the girls' side
and a deep boys' field will challenge!
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Division
IV - Super group of girls will battle! Chad Hall, Erick Garcia
and German Fernandez
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Division
III - St. Geme leads best team, and what
about that Coe vs. Sitler showdown?!
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Division II - Tarver leads super Girls group - Boys great contest coming up!!
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Division I - Acosta vs. "Team Mercado" again Boys - Saylor hopes for team/individual wins!!
November 23rd State Rankings Team - Team Predictions coming!
2ndAlexKosinskiJROAKRIDGE18_32_JPG.jpg)
photos by Doug Speck and Joe Hartman
Dyanmite trio Girls Div II - Tarver - Blue - Kosinski!!
WinnerMatthewPetrilloLOSGATOS15_52_JPG.jpg)
photos by George Green - Ernest Velarde/Bill Cockerman progracegroup.com - Joe Hartman - Doug Speck
Four Boys Section Champs look especially tough Boys Div II - Riley Booker - Mikel Thomas
Matthew Petrillo - Ted Price - some super running coming up this weekend!!
photos by Joe Hartman
Acosta vs. "Team Mercado" Boys Div I Highlight!!
photo by Joe Hartman
Buchanan's Lauren Saylor will try to hold off a talented pack
and lead her team to a win in Girls Div I!!
photo by Bill Leung
Nation's #1 ranked team - Corona del Mar has a neat look of
anticipation as they ready to go under 90 minutes at Southern Section!!
They will be in action Division III at the State meet!!
photo by Kirby Lee
Heck of a year!! Sitting at home from tough Southern Section Division II
Stephanie Felix (La Mirada)
Why not open up a can of worms with "at-large" individuals!!
Southern Section Finals -
Saturday, November 19th, 2005 @ Mt. SAC (2.91
miles)
Super Morning at Mt. SAC!! - Corona del Mar Girls start
day with 89:42 Team Time (record for the ages!!!) Day purrs
along from there in super style!!!
Bill
Leung photo collage of SS winners!
Great
"Starting Line" Album from Bill Leung
Southern Section Video
of Finals Races (NEED BROADBAND)
Girls Div
III - Girls
Div IV - Boys
Div III - Boys
Div IV - Girls
Div V
Boys
Div I - Girls
Div II - Boys
Div V - Girls
Div I - Boys
Div II
Southern
Section Finals (updated/reformatted)
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In
Race order (above across top left to right and across bottom same
left to right) and below:
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Girls
Div III - Annie St. Geme leads nation's #1 Ranked Corona del Mar
team to 89:42 and 22
points with Oak Park 47 and 92:54 in second (teams took top seven
places in good race!!)
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Girls
Div IV - Jacqueline turner leads Orange Lutheran 45 (96:09)
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Boys
Div III - Michael Coe (Cabrillo) blasts day's quickest at 14:47
with Barstow super 45 (78:09) win
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Boys
Div IV - Chad Hall (Big Bear) 14:58 leads his team to great effort
- 38 (81:05)
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Girls
Div V - Ashleigh Pratt (Woodcrest Christian) 18:49 win with Flintridge
Prep over Chadwick on the 6th runner rule!
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Boys
Div I - Diego (14:55) and Danny (14:56) Mercado chased by surprising
Nathan Sellers (Crescenta Valley) 14:59, with Royal 86 (78:13 without
one of top scorers) - day was getting a bit warmer by this time
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Girls
Div II - Kauren Tarver (Serrano) 17:25 win with Newport Harbor taking
tight division 96 (94:28)
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Boys
Div V - Tim Burdett (15:55) and Kody Peterson (16:13) lead Woodcrest
Christian 50 (83:57)
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Girls
Div I - Christy Adamyk (Glendora) 17:30 well paced effort with Fountain
Valley 68 (92:53)
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Boys
Div II - Ted Price (Camarillo) 15:13 gutty effort with Valencia
115 (81:22) for win
Bill
Foley's CIF-SS Divisional Finals 71-picture Album!
photos by Kirby Lee
Sam Melton led Barstow to super Div III
78:09 run!! - Nathan Sellers (Crescenta Valley) state's
most improved runner? (14:59 behind Mercado's as day heated up) - Chad
Hall (Big Bear) another
who had his team back up his 14:58 win with sterling squad performance
Div IV (81:05) - Courtney
Lightfoot (Oak Park right) led one of State history's great Div III
Girls teams to a 92:54 runner-
up effort with her 18:04 for second (CdM one of nation's great teams
ever 89:42 winners!!)
Kirby Lee Album of CIF
SS finals - Kirby Lee Album #2 (added Tue 11/22)
As Mike Kennedy of Track & Field News said about
CdM's effort:
"Now There is a Record that is going to last for a while!!!
Photo credits (l-to-r) Dave Casper, Bill
Leung. Dave Casper
Torrance star Kent Morikawa outleans El Modena's
Curtis Aukshunas at the line for second and third
place (both 15:24) SS Boys Division II. The Mercado twins of West Covina
are in "lock step" (right down
to the hair bounce) on the way to state! At right, the photo
of the Division V girls tie for 5th place between
Kathryn Iwata (Flintridge Prep) left and Kelly Owen (Chadwick). The
photo timer determined it as a tie at
the line and the two teams tied at 69, with Flintridge Prep winning
via the 6th runner tiebreaker rule!
North Coast Section Finals
Saturday, November 19th, 2005 @ Hayward HS (NCS) 3 miles
Great Day at Hayward - D I - De La Salle (B) College
Park (G)
Maria Carrillo Sweep Div II - III - Campolindo (B)
Miramonte (G) - IV - Piedmont (B) - Arcata (G)
V - SF University (B) - Crystal Springs Uplands (G)!
photos by Craig Stern
Ariel Wright and Ben Gutierrez roll through the
Hayward HS Course
Ranked
Teams do great job at Hayward HS - De la Salle (B) 79:36 day's quickest
Boys Group - Miramonte 93:28 leads Girls - O'Dowd's Ben Gutierrez 15:12
and
Ariel Wright 17:36 lead the days' competitors - off to Fresno now for
honors!!!
Results
photos by Beverly Zalan
Chris Vizcaino (Campolindo) BD4 - Mark
Ceraldi (Piedmont) BD4 - Andrea Amhof (SF University) GD5 -
Mo Huber (Acalanes) GD3 were some of the NCS Stars D3-4-5 - More photos
on way
Beverly Zalan photo
album of above and others D3-4-5 05 NCS
Girls Division V Champs - Crystal Springs
Uplands - NCS
photos by Carol Penskar
Lamorinda area teams 1-2-4 Girls Div III - Miramonte - Campolindo - Acalanes!!
Miramonte Champs strike a pose!!
San Diego Section Finals
Saturday, November
12th 2005 @ Balboa Park 3.04 miles (B) 2.75 mi (G)
George
Green's Photo Album of the Ten Divisional Champions!
photo by Dana Friehauf
Torrey Pines Girls Div I Champs with Coach Brent
Thorne and
team secret weapon - "Biff the Shark"
Scott
Sanders' album of La Jolla Country Day in action!
AJ Acosta (El Camino, Oceanside) warms
up for another battle with Mercados next
week with 15:36 run - Katy Andrews takes Girls DI 16:23 (2.75 mi) but
Torrey Pines
takes big showdown led by frosh Erin Gillingham in 2nd at 16:28- Riley
Booker
(Uni City) 15:55 D2 - with Kyle Suarez (St. Augustine) also under 16
at 15:57 in Div III
Results
Finals
Program (George Green)
photos from the Bareno Family
Boys Division II and Boys Division III
Lead Packs - San Diego Finals!
LA City Section Finals
Saturday, November 19th, 2005 @ Pierce College (LA) 3.0 miles
Photos
by Niles Sundstrom
City Champs Calise and Hartel (Emmaline's
7th individual title ties her with
Valerie Flores (San Pedro) for Section CC/T&F Record - Track still
to go!!
Steve Calise (San Pedro) takes Boys contest with Monroe
team Champs - Emmaline Hartel leads Birmingham Girls win!
Results City Finals - (revised &
updated Tuesday afternoon)
A City Section
Prelims Results!
Oakland Section
Finals
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
@ Joaquin Miller Park
Oakland HS Pulls The Deuce!
Frontrunners Thomas DiLeo (boys) and Jessica Phuong (girls)
help lead Oakland HS teams to a sweep of the section titles!
Results
San Francisco Section Finals
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 @ Polo Fields GG
Park (3.1 miles)
Dawit Melsak (Int'l Studies) 17:03 win - Lincoln Boys Team!
Anna Li (21:02) leads Lowell girls to annual win!!
Results
Central Coast Section Finals
Saturday, November 12th, 2005 @ Crystal Springs
(2.95 miles)
Photos by Margaret Gallagher
Ben Sitler of St. Francis (15:03)
and Jen Bergmann of Valley Chr. (17:53)
record top times of the day while Carlmont teams sweeps Division I!
Full
Results Margaret's
Gallagher Album of Winners!
CIF Central Section Championships
Thursday, November 10, 2005 @ Woodward Park, Fresno
Mikel Thomas (Clovis) 15:33 to take Boys
Div II - Lauren Saylor leads Buchanan Girls
to 26 points (95:08) with 18:00 Div I win - Jordan Hasay cranks frosh
CR 17:02 Div V Win!
Jordan Course Frosh Record!! Madera, Clovis, McFarland Boys Teams Hot-Hot-Hot!
SECTION
FINALS Division I-II RESULTS
SECTION FINALS
Division III-IV-V RESULTS
Central
Section Finals pictures by ProRaceGroup!
Central
Section Grand Masters Meet
Results from the state meet tune-up (11/17) at Woodward Park!
CIF Northern Section Championships
Thursday, November 10, 2005 @ West Valley HS (Cottonwood)
photos by Joe Hartman
Hannah Dillard (Chico) leads first half-dozen
all under-class stars in her 18:11 win!
Austin Fritzke (Mt. Shasta) closes down super local career with Section
repeat!
He was 16:06 last year, 15:35 this year (#4 AT on the
Course!).
Varsity Girls - Hannah! Hannah! - Hannah
Dillard 1st, Hannah Hodgkinson 2nd.
Hannah's 18:16 is #2 AT on the West Valley course!
CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championships
Friday, November 11, 2005 @ Willow Hill Reservoir
Davis sweeps the Division
I titles!
Clayton Halliday's photos of the victorious
Davis teams!
Joe
Hartman's SJS Finals Division I Album!
Joe
Hartman's Division II Photo Album
Joe Hartman's
D4 and D5 Boys/Girls Album
Joe Hartman's
D3 Boys/girls Album
D1 Boys: Davis wins 3-way battle over
Fairfield & Sheldon, 48-60-71!
D2 Boys: Jesuit continues domination in 32-58 win over frontrunning
Rocklin!
D3 Boys: Del Campo pulls out 68-74 thriller over Del Oro!
D4 Boys: Colfax has 7 of the top 20 scorers in 40-point runaway!
D5 Boys: Jim Eliot hasd 5 in the Top 10 to win with just 25 points!
D1 Girls: Just like the boys, davis prevails
in a 3-team thriller over Fairfield & Modesto!
D2 Girls: Ponderosa (72) edges out both Oak Ridge (72) and Vacaville
(79)!
D3 Girls: St. Francis (42) holds off Union Mine (49) and Del Oro (56)
in low-scoring battle!
D4 Girls: Riverbank scores just 43 points in deep race with 5 teams
under 100 points!
D5 Girls: Jim Eliot completes D5 sweep with win over Big Valley Christian!
OFFICIAL
RESULTS!~
Girls
Finals Stats - Top Overall and By Grade - Joe Hartman
JOE
HARTMAN'S STAT HIGHLIGHTS~!
2005-2006
Collegiate Commitments
Lindsey Kirschman signs with University of Washington
Enterprise of Redding star with amazing range heads north in Pac-10!
Whitney Blue signs to ASU!
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Lindsey Kirschman (mid dist Enterprise, Red) to Uni Wash; Christine
Jowaiszas (distances-Portland, Or) to Univ San Franc;
Laurel Kleiber (distances-Plymouth, Wi) to Univ San Francisco; Ryan
Shuler (pole vault - Granite Bay-SJS) to UC Berkeley;
Kimyon Broom (hurdles - Serra, Gardena-SS) to UC Berkeley; Carter, Dominique
(sprints - Oakland Tech) to Alcorn State
Annaliza Rizo (XC - Vacaville-SJS) to San Jose State; Amanda Carlucci
(XC - Mission Viejo-SS) to San Jose State
Chris Hart (XC - American River Comm. College) to San Jose State; Janie
James (sprints - Helix-SDS) to San Diego State
Whitney Blue (distances - Newport Harbor) to Arizona State; Sarah Lady
(throws - Arroyo Grande) to UC Irvine
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