Opening Weekend Action!
Lawrence
over Kosinski - Madera out quick over Jesuit
another super meet at Granite Bay

Stars
out front as Marie Lawrence takes Alex Kosinski (John Dye photos)

Marie
Lawrence takes Alex Kosinski in super run at Granite Bay
Madera HS out charging with win over Jesuit!! Jake Matthews (Folsom)
big win!
Meet
Summary




Jack
Mathhews' Album Joe
Hartman's Boys Album Joe
Hartman's Girls Album
Fast Times Brew At Rancho Cotate

File photos courtesy of Maria Carrillo XC & Joe Hartman
Season opener has Michael Brew rocket up meet's all-time list,
Kristen Sanzari wins as Maria Carrillo sweeps
Keeping It All In The Family

Natalie and Matt Sojka from Mt. Shasta win races at "Siskiyou Warm-up" - Joe Hartman photos
As Mt. Shasta's Fritzke siblings rest out, Sojka siblings
set meet record at Siskiyou Warm-Up; Foothill girls roll!

Natalie Sojka purrs along with beautiful Mt. Shasta in the background
Start of Girls race (Steve Nesheim photos)

Boys Start - other half of the Soja Family, Matt, blazes along with
Mt. Shasta in the background (Steve Nesheim photos)
San Diego opens up at Wolfpack Invite - Fri 9/2

Tony Bareno (L) - Erin Gillingham (R) George Green photos
Junior Tony Bareno of Valhalla had top boys time and frosh phenom
Erin Gillingham of Torrey Pines was among SD's best in HS debut!
Meet Summary
Toro
Team Builder - North Monterey County Affair

Out Charging in 2005 - North Monterey
County Boys and Girls - Gus Ibarra
North
Monterey County Team Sweep - Soph Michael Landry (Santa Cruz)
takes Boys' contest - Tanya Ferreira (NMC) takes Girls individual title!
Meet
Summary - check Meet director
Dwight Smith's novel statistical review
with assistance from results operator Mark McConnell (time gaps, depth
etc.)
Gus
Ibarra's Photo Album!

Coach Andy Chan reported that Sacred Heart Cathedral
had a
great time at Toro!!
Vaquero
Stampede - San Diego Action Sat 9/2

Andrea Jacobs (L) Vista CC - Jesse O'Brien (R) Rich Gonzalez photo
Vista's Jacobs & San Pasqual's O'Brien top Vaquero Stampede!
Meet
Summary
Balboa Open 4-Miler - AJ Acosta flies while unattached

AJ Acosta pictured from last year - Tom Kloos (Dave Casper photo)
AJ Acosta flies in Balboa Park 4 mile contest unattached - State's Best Coach/
Runner? Coach Tom Kloos 5:08 average - AJ 5:12
Dinuba
Invitational

Allison Gonzales
(Exeter) and Spencer Rotan (Reedley) - Winners at Dinuba (Larry
Gonzales photos)
Allison Girls' Winner 14:48
over 2.5 miles - Spencer 12:13 to win Boys' Contest!
Results Top Tens from Varsity
Cal State
Fullerton Invitational

Bonus!! Collegiate
coverage!

UCLA women and Cal Poly Pomona men win
collegiate divisions!
Ceci St. Geme (mom of Anne St. Geme at Corona del Mar) wins women's
race!
CS Fullerton's Jordan Horn is top Californian (2nd overall) while competing
unattached!
Monstrous
238-picture photo album and full results from CS Fullerton Invitational!
Short
story on Cal Poly SLO men beating UC Santa Barbara!
Men's Results - Women's Results
Releases on the Meet - UCSB - M - W - CP/SLO
CIF
Section-by-Section Previews
Individual "Watch Lists" for State Divisions!

Yasmine
White interview
Jasmine White's Second Sport
World
Triathlon Champ Action for NCS Div IV Star
Colleges
Women's
Recruiting Wars!
UC Berkeley's mens program
cleaned up during the early signing period
to hold off a late flurry of commitments by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
in
heading the state. An analysis of the womens' recruiting class will
be next!
UC
Berkeley tabbed as top mens' recruiting class in the state!
SIGNING NEWS

Photo by Doug Speck
Brysun Stately, who equalled the nation's
#5 all-time prep mark and the state's all-time
prep mark with her seasonal best of 13-06 will be vaulting for the USC
Trojans!
Brysun
Stately (Cordova) to USC; Liza
Hitchner (Half Moon Bay) to UC Santa Barbara;
David Berman, Oak Park to Dartmouth College, Ken Brook, Oak Park
to Arizona State
Danielle Dabney (Fountain Valley) to Cal State Stanislaus
Please
email us any signings!
Gretchen
Corrales (you may remember her as Gretchen Lohr)
is named new women's distance coach at Cal State LA
Gretchen
fills us in on her successful running/coaching career

Jesse O'Brien (San Pasqual, Escondido) - Upset State Meet 800m winner
Jesse takes us through the race as he saw it from the track
in pictures and words
!!
Summer
State Track & Field Meet Video Review
Relive some of the
great action from the 2005 State Meet!
9/3 - Girls 3200 Loaded - back and forth struggle over 8 laps for the ladies!!