PR Report for Rancho Invite & MCHS Runners of the Week!

Overall, excellent effort by the Pumas at the Rancho Invite!  For many, this was their first competitive cross country meet, and the coaches were very pleased with what we saw - some very strong efforts by the rookies!  In addition, there were 39 runners competing that had run the Rancho course at least once before - of those 19 had PR's - GREAT JOB! (the list follows below).  Many more effectively matched their PRs - falling just a few seconds short.  Special congratulations are in order for Dylan Nelson, Drew Gallagher, and Paige VanDenberg - all had huge % improvements over their previous bests!

Complete meet results (plus some photos) can be found at the Northbay Running site.

Click here for more photos courtesy of Stephen Eik.

Runners of the Week:  The coaches have selected Nick Jensen and Ashley Gunderson as the MCHS runners for the past week.  Not only did each have very significant time drops over already solid PR's, they also showed confidence and competitive spirit with some aggressive (but sensible) moves in their respective races! A few others we'll mention with notable efforts: Spencer Jones, Ryan Nguyen, Andrea Natoli, Shannon Palladino, and Sophia Mahoney.  Finally, props to Lauren Kraus for running a very disciplined, even paced race (mile splits 5:56, 6:07, 5:57 [adjusted to full mile]- WOW!)

	Previous PR	Time on 9/3	%Drop
Dylan Nelson	20:07	18:25	-8.5%
Drew Gallagher	18:59	17:59	-5.3%
Nick Jensen	17:33	16:43	-4.7%
Colin Bartlett	17:30	16:48	-4.0%
Dante Hay	17:27	16:47	-3.8%
Spencer Jones	17:57	17:19	-3.5%
Gus Murray	17:39	17:05	-3.2%
Colin Metcalfe	18:20	17:54	-2.4%
Jake Luft	21:19	20:58	-1.6%
Steve Puruganan	16:53	16:40	-1.3%
Austin Rivas	16:28	16:16	-1.2%
Austin Lynch	19:43	19:29	-1.2%
Paige VanDenberg	23:00	22:00	-4.3%
Ashley Gunderson	22:02	21:16	-3.5%
Kelly Birkland	20:42	20:14	-2.3%
Lauren Kraus	18:12	17:49	-2.1%
Brynna Thigpen	19:20	18:57	-2.0%
Jackie VanDenberg	22:29	22:17	-0.9%
Sarah Barker	27:40	27:26	-0.8%