Sunday, September 9, 2012

Updated and Complete Ed Sias Recap

We had a really fun and gratifying day at the Ed Sias Meet on Saturday, September 8. It was great to see so many parents and siblings making the trip out to Martinez to help with transit, watch the races, attend to our runners, take some pictures and generally support our team!
This was our first “real” meet, so we learned a lot about the 2012 edition of our squad. Like a Polaroid photo (remember those?) it’s interesting to see a picture emerge. Here’s what we are learning:
  • We have a great group of young people. These guys are a joy to be around, and they seem to enjoy each other’s company. There is a terrific “vibe” of sincere support and friendship! They are also (generally) very good about listening to instructions and taking them to heart.  They also love to race!
  • We have an unusually deep level of talent. Looking over the results of this meet, you can see that the median runner on our team (middle of the pack) is in the top 25% of their peers among the 1700 runners that competed. Our JV squads are faster than 75% of the Varsity teams among the 40+ schools that took part! As someone phrased it, “we have an embarrassment of riches.”
  • The peak is high. The top of our team can be very good – barring injury and illness, we are in great shape to challenge some of the MCHS all-time team marks and to meet or exceed our season end goals at NBLs, NCS and State! The challenge will be to manage our emotions and expectations through the season – want to peak at the big meets at the end.
And now, a recap of the meet...

Personal Records: We always start out by recognizing improvement – this is the foundation of everything we do.
25 of 29 runners that had previously run this course improved their times and set a new PR. Some exceptional, extraordinary improvements included Sam Perry (-7%), Eillie Petty (-8%), Michael King (-9%), Sophia Mahoney (-9%), Evan Drake (-9%), Shannon Palladino (-10%), Zac West (-14%), and Ryan Anderson (-17%) – WHHAAT???? (this is not a typo)
Team Placings:
  • Frosh Boys, 2nd place (out of 18 teams).
  • Frosh/Soph Boys, 1st place (out of 28 teams)
  • JV Boys, 6th place (out of 23 teams).
  • Varsity Boys, 1st place in Large School Division (out of 15 teams)
  • Girls Frosh/Soph, 1st place (out of 19 teams)- this was a remarkable performance! - we had 6 girls finish in the top 9 (140 runners in this race). Only two teams in the Varsity races ran a faster team time.
  • Girls JV, 1st place (out of 19 teams). These girls did a terrific job of running together as a pack and finished with 4 runners in the top 9, and the top five in the first 15 spots!
  • Girls Varsity, 6th place (out of 16 teams). We placed our top junior and senior girls in this race, and they did a really solid job of holding their own against some tough competition.
Individual Placing:
  • Runners that finished in top 10 in their race (there were 21 of them!): Jackson Yates (9th in Frosh Boys), Spencer Jones (won JV race), Michael King (2nd in JV race), Zac West (4th in F/S Boys), Ryan Anderson (2nd in Boys V), Harrison Luft (6th in V Boys), Colin Bartlett (7th in V Boys), Nick Jensen (10th in V Boys), Shawn Cichosz (3rd in JV Girls), Abby Orgish (4th in JV Girls), Castine Jaffe(6th in JV Girls), Emma Wright (9th in JV Girls), Andrea Natoli (won F/S Girls), Shannon Palladino (2nd in F/S Girls), Shaz Breedlove (3rd in F/S Girls), Carolina Avelar (5th in F/S Girls), Allie Ahern (7th in F/S Girls), Sam Perry (9th in F/S Girls), Allison Bartlett (3rd in Fs/JV unltd), Ellie Petty (6th in FS/JV unltd), Tessa Nicklas (8th in fs/jv unltd) - interesting fact:  although we comprised just 4% of the runners at this meet, we took 23% of the "top 10" places in the races we competed in!
  • Runners finishing in top 10% of the runners in their grade: Carolina Avelar (3rd fastest of 160 frosh girls at meet), Allie Ahern (4th frosh), Abby Orgish (9th frosh), Castine Jaffe (14th frosh), Emma Wright (18th frosh); Andrea Natoli (3rd of 239 soph girls in the meet), Shannon Palladino (5th fastest soph), Shaz Breeedlove (6th fastest soph), Sam Perry (14th soph), Shawn Cichosz (17th soph); Brynna Thigpen (10th fastest senior girl of 123); Jordan Scobey (5th fastest of 262 frosh boys), Ean Francheshi (12th frosh), Jackson Yates (19th fastest frosh), Zac West (8th of 307 soph boys), Ryan Nguyen (29th soph ); Ryan Anderson (3rd junior of 257), Colin Bartlett (6th junior), Nick Jensen (8th junior), Spencer Jones (22nd junior), Michael King (26th junior), Harrison Luft (11th of 172 senior boys at meet).
  • Click here to see complete Puma individual report
Finally- posing with all our awards at the end of the day before heading back to the bus...
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