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Three Course Challenge

Camp Rilea - Oregon

Saturday - September 24th, 2005

2005 Three Course Challenge
Seaside, Oregon - 9/24/05

A Little Bit of Everything up in Oregon!!
Cerritos HS Album of Meet

Cerritos, Sultana (Hesperia) and Stagg (Stockton) from California ventured north into Oregon for the "Three Course" challenge on September 24th, at Camp Rilea, in Seaside, Oregon. This appears to be a Cross-Country meet unlike most others, with three different courses run during the day (check the pictures on some of the area included!!)

Cerritos Report from Coach Jason Wutanabe

As our annual qualifying meet, the Three Course Challenge was an event that many of our athletes were looking forward to. Originally the athletes were to qualify based on academic achievement (including improvement), citizenship, dedication, fundraising, and of course, performance. Thirty-four athletes and five coaches made the trek in our charter bus from Cerritos to Redding to Seaside, OR and back - a total of about forty bus hours!

Upon arrival, athletes were required to randomly draw courses - obviously, most athletes wanted to select the courses with the mud pit - however, all were surprised and enthusiastic with their experience. We stayed in the barracks of the Camp Rilea National Guard facility where they held a movie night and dance following the dinner at Seaside High School.

The race itself was a true cross-country experience! A band played music similar to the music you would hear prior to an army going to war! As the gun went off, the athletes were tested on a variety of surfaces - grass - both short and tall, dirt and rocky trails, elk trails, soft sand hills, mossy hills, and of course mud and water! They also were tested with steep uphills and downhills, logs that served as obstacles throughout the course, among other things! My athletes all responded with "this is real cross-country" as they walked away covered in mud.

I had three athletes finish in the top fifty in their races - Victoria Cerda (18), Kimberly Cooper (30), and Tina Wang (44). The races were large, however, the wide-open start allowed for the race to stretch out a bit! Again, it was the best experience my athletes could have ever had. We will definitely be back in two years if we get approval and I have athletes who qualify!

Girls: Sultana - 2nd behind Snohomish, Cerritos - 8th, AA Stagg - 13th
Boys: Sultana - 3rd, Cerritos - 13th

Each team has two compete on easy, two on moderate, and three on difficult. Each team was required to select at random, the courses on which each runner would compete. There were a total of 2,200 runners and 93 teams - supposedly the largest meet in the Northwest region.

Easy course is long straightaways across grass fields, dirt, soft sand, small rock paths, and moss. Various logs and rolling moss hills made this course interesting.

Moderate course had it's main feature as the mud pit, however, had it's share of difficult hills winding through dirt, grass, water, and soft sand.

The difficult course also shared the main feature as the mud pit, however included some intense uphills and downhills, a long stretch of soft sand and tall grass fields.

Contacts from the 2004 competition -
Jason Wutanabe - Cerritos Coach
John Mahr - Sultana Coach
Seaside HS (Oregon)

Team Results and Individual winners for each division each course.

Saturday, September 24, 2005 at Camp Rilea, hosted by Seaside High School

2,222 finishers from 93 schools. Including St. Thomas More of BC, Sultana from Hisperia CA, Cerritos from Cerritos, CA and A.A. Stagg from Stocton, CA. Other schools pretty evenly split between Oregon and Washington.

Division 1 – Girls (7 runners score)
1. Snohomish (WA) – 67
2. Sultana (CA) - 104
3. Tahoma (WA) – 159
4. Clackamas – 230
5. Centennial – 297
6. Eastlake (WA) – 305
7. Sam Barlow – 519
8. Cerritos (CA) – 537
9. Bothell (WA) – 562
10. Skyview (WA) – 576
11. Mt. View – 621
12. Battleground – 682
13. A.A. Stagg (CA) – 921
14. Shorecrest (WA) – 942
15. Century – 947
16. Medowdale (WA) 951
17. Todd Beamer (WA) 971
18. Federal Way (WA) – 1114
19. Springfield – 1605
Inc – Auburn (WA), Decatur (WA) Forest Grove,
McKay, North Salem

Division 1 – Boys (7 runners score)
1. Tahoma (WA) – 101
2. Snohomis (WA) 113
3. Sultana (CA) – 143
4. Thurston - 206
5. Bothell (WA) – 244
6. Froest Grove – 290
7. Skyview (WA) 347
8. Auburn (WA) – 419
9. Battleground (WA) – 480
10. Shorecrest (WA) – 485
11. Sam Barlow – 510
12. Clackamas – 515
13. Centennial – 644
14. Cerritos (CA) 690
Division 1 – Boys Contintued
15. Todd Beamer (WA) – 692
16. Centrury – 696
17. Medowdale (WA) – 775
18. Decatur (WA) – 896
19. Eastlake (WA) – 835
20. Mt. View – 1039
21. Springfield – 1391
22. North Salem – 1444
23. Federal Way (WA) – 1474
Inc. McKay

Division 2 – Girls (7 runners score)
1. Summit (WA) – 181
2. Hood River – 283
3. Camas (WA) – 468
4. Hazen (WA) – 532
5. Burlington-Edison (WA) – 607
6. Enumclaw (WA) – 625
7. White River (WA) – 730
8. Crook County – 896
9. Cleveland – 925
10. Lebanon – 1092
11. Bend – 1115
12. Centralia (WA) – 1107
13. Lakeridge – 1210
Inc – Aberdeen (WA), Parkrose, St. Helens, Silverton, South Albany

Divisions 2 – Boys (7 runners score)
1. Burrlington-Edison (WA) – 102
2. St. Helens – 157
3. Summit – 292
4. Enumclas (WA) – 327
5. Hood River – 483
6. Hazen (WA) – 512
7. Camas (WA) – 518
8. Lakeridge – 712
9. Bend – 761
10. Silverton – 797
11. Cleveland – 890
12. Centralia (WA) – 1422
13. White River (WA) – 1451
14. Lebanon – 1479
15. Aberdeen (WA) – 1579
16. Parkrose – 2042
Inc – Crook County, South Albany

Division 3 – Girls (7 runners score)
1. Columbia River (WA) – 170
2. Sequim (WA) – 258
3. North Bend – 268
4. Cascade – 687
5. Sweet Home – 694
Inc – Astoria, Cottage Grove, Eastlake (WA),
Liberty, Hoquiam (WA), Madras, Molalla, Scappoose, Stayton, Tillamook, Washougal (WA),

Division – 3 – Boys (7 runners score)
1. Bellarmine (WA) – 292
2. Columbia River (WA) – 489
3. Sequim (WA) – 557
4. Cascade – 678
5. Astoria – 690
6. Cottage Grove – 879
7. Taft – 926
8. Sweet Home – 1012
9. North Bend – 1169
10. Estacada – 1251
11. *Stayton – 1343
12. *Tillamook – 1343
13. Molalla – 1351
14. Washougal (WA) – 1394
15. Hoquiam (WA) – 1609
16. Madras – 1617
Inc – Liberty, Scappoose
Ties are broken by first finisher on difficult course

Division 4 – Girls (6 runners score)
1. Marist – 178
2. Nooksack – 222
3. Port Townsend (WA) – 401
4. Banks – 506
5. Sisters – 525
6. Montesano – 986
7. Valley Catholic – 1018
8. Seaside – 1063
9. La Center (WA) – 1121
Inc – North Marion, Rainier, Rochester (WA), St. Thomas More (BC), Toledo,
Yamhill-Carlton

Division 4 – Boys (6 runners score)
1. Marist – 209
2. Sisters – 589
3. Port Townsend (WA) – 600
4. Eastside Catholic 728
5. LaCenter (WA) – 871
Division 4 – Boys – Continued
6. Yamhill-Carlton – 1013
7. North Marion – 1054
8. Rainier – 1064
9. Nooksack (WA) – 1119
10. Montesano (WA) – 1281
11. Seaside – 1426
12. Valley Catholic – 1566
13. Toledo – 1644
14. Banks – 1743
Inc. Rochester (WA), St. Thomas More (BC)

Division 5 – Girls (5 runners score)
1. Vale – 339
2. McKenzie – 474
3. Kennedy – 567
4. Knappa – 726
5. Blanchet – 851
6. Naselle (WA) – 1095
7. Ocasta (WA) – 1367
Inc. Forks (WA), Harrisburg, Neah-Kah-Nie, North Clackamas Christian, Ocasta (WA), Portland Waldorf, Regis

Division 5 – Boys (5 runners score)
1. Kalama (WA) – 400
2. Vale – 514
3. Knappa – 561
4. Regis – 661
5. North Clackamas Christian – 678
6. Kennedy – 764
7. Portland Waldorf – 1263
8. Ocasta (WA) - 1367
9. Forks (WA) – 1396
10. Blanchet – 1591
11. Naselle (WA) – 1608
Inc. Harrisburg, McKenzie, Neah-Kah-Nie, Oak Hills,

Individual Division Winners, Each Course
Girls Easy Course