XC 2022: Week #7 Sept. 26-Oct. 1st Open Week

Week #7 Practice Schedule 

M-F @ 2:40PM

Sat. @ 8:00AM

Champlin Park 

 

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STMA Invitational

Monday, Oct. 3rd, 2022

St. Michael Rec. Center

Bus leaves CP @ 2:45  W-6

Race Schedule

4:10  JV Girls' 5K   Ribbons 1-25

4:45  JV Boys' 5K 

5:15  Varsity Girls' 5K  Ribbons 1-25, Shirts 1-15 

5:45  Varsity Boys' 5K

 

Location:  St. Michael Rec. Center

3150 Lander Ave. NE

St. Michael, MN  55376

 

Results: GSE   www.gopherstateevents.com

 

 

Results & Pix: 2022 Mustang Invitational

Mustang Results: Here

Meet Pix: Here 

Recap: Running at on the Anoka course for it's first time in meet history the Mustang got underway with the MS Girls and Boy's 2-Mile Races. Ella Kern finished 88th out of 113 runners in the MS Girls' Race.  In the boy's race Caleb Oldroyd led the way with a 32nd place finish followed by Ivan Oldroyd-49th, Noah Osterberg-99th and Henry Grossman in 157th.  There were 160 finishers in the MS Boys' race.  The Green Girls' 5K was up next with Soph. Ellie Kraesen finishing in 131st with a seasonal best. Ellie was followed by 1st timer Kennedy Norsted-178th, a seasonal best, Leila Lyles-184th. Rookie Chloe Kazee made her 5K debut at Mustang sprinting to a 216th place finish followed by Kaylee Kern in 219th.   Blake Frazer led the way for the Rebels in the Green Boy's 5K with a PR of 20:39 finishing 94, followed by rookie Sutton Koss-117th, Conner Morari-189th and Jonathan Samey who ran to a 217st finish.

Our top finisher of the day was Ophelia Schomaker who finished in a 5K pr of 21:48 for 9th place in the Gold Girls' 5K.  Opehlia was followed by Maura Wahl-46 and Joanna Lund-55th. The Gold Boys' 5K was the last race of the day for the Rebels. Akanamo Jones hit a PR running 19:13 and finishing in 48th overall.  Maxwell Simmons finished 71st and also ran a lifetime best in the 5K, followed by Tyler Musto PR -77th overall, Ryan Bolterman-80th PR and Isaac Plessel-126th PR. A great way to finish the day with 5 lifetime 5K PR's  for the Gold Boys' team

Up Next:   STMA Invitational, Monday, October 3rd at the St. Michael Rec. Center

 

Results & Pix: 2022 Griak Invitational

Griak Results: Here 

Griak Pix: Here

Recap: The Rebels Girls' team was moved to the Gold Division this year thanks to our ranking and such a large field of high school teams.  Abby Hibbs led the way as our #1 finishing in 34th follwed by Elise Oldroyd-135th, Vayda Foy 187th, 1st Timer Rachel Miller-277th and another 1st Timer, Kylie Aswegan who finished 310th.  Three members of the team ran to Griak PR's. Elise dropped 13 seconds, Sophie Grossman droped 14 seconds and Gabby Wahl dropped 1:06. The team finished 32nd overall.  The Boy's Team competed in the Maroon Division and finished 7th overall which is our 2nd highest finish in the Maroon Division in school history. Five of the boy's ran in the Griak for the first time with all of the them handling the demanding Les Bolstad course fairly well.  Making the Griak Maroon podium for the first time in his career was Charlie Hibbs who finished 14th overall ( 25 seconds better than 2021).  2nd on the team and Griak newbie was Logan Martinez who finished 42nd followed by Ethan Ibarra - 77th, Caleb Osterberg-105th ( 1:20 better than 2021) and Ryan Kane-119th.  Making their respective debuts at Griak were: Will Maher-184th, Ben Matzke-237th and Will Larson 262nd.  Our #8 on the team was Garrison Finke-250th  ( 64 places better than last season).

XC 2022: Week #6 Sept. 19-24th Griak & Mustang Invitationals

Week #6 Practice Schedule 

M-F @ 2:40PM

Wednesday: Captains with JMS after practice.

Friday: Griak Invitational

Saturday: Mustang Invitational

Griak Invitational :  Updated 9/20

Friday, Sept. 23rd, 2022

Les Bolstad GC: Map Link

Bus departs CP @ 2:15, W-6

Course Map: Here

Race Schedule: High School 

3:45 Gary Wilson Girls' HS Gold 5K

4:30  Lefty Wright Boys HS Maroon 5K

Spectator Parking: S101 (on the corner of Cleveland and Commonwealth) and the Gortner Ave. Ramp. Shuttles will transport to the golf course. Park at your own risk on the city streets. 

 

Tom Watson Mustang Invitational

Saturday, Sept. 24th, 2022

Anoka High School

Bus departs CP @ TBA , W-6

Course Map: Here

Race Schedule

9:30  JH/MS Girls' 3.2K

9:55  JH/MS Boys' 3.2K

11:20 Green Race Girls' 5K

12:00 Green Race Boys' 5K

12:30 Gold Race Girls' 5K

1:00 Gold Race Boys' 5K

2:30 Awards Program 

Race Results: Fast Finish Results

 

 

Results & Recap: 2022 Metro Invitational

Results: Here

Metro Pix: Here 

Finish Line Pix: Here

Meet Recap:   Let's just say that there was a little less mud at Metro than Luther, which made for even faster racing for the 2022 Rebels. Within the team there were 18 seasonal bests and 9 "Lifetime Bests" for the fall 5K.  

Boys' Recap:  The Varsity Boys' finished 6th with 144 points, led by Charlie Hibbs 24 second PR and 9th place finish.  Ethan Ibarra was our #2 in 26th racing within 1 second of his lifetime best.  Will Maher was our #6 dropping a monster 2:26 from his former 5K PR.  Running # 3 was Logan Martinez finishing 29th overall and within 2 seconds of his PR set at St. Olaf this year. Ryan Kane set a seasonal best and finished in 44th as our 4, with Caleb Osterberg in 47th, also within 2 seconds of his PR set at St. Olaf.  Akanamo Jones was our top JV runner hitting a PR of 19:48 and finishing 29th overall.  9th grader Lucas Vetter droped 3:31 seconds in his Metro 5K ....a massive pr in the early season.  Other PR's set Saturday were run by Blake Frazer, Jedrik Lunde, Sutton Koss, Kevin Samey and Maxwell Simmons.

Girls' Recap: Abby Hibbs led the Rebels with a seasonal best of 19:17 for 6th place followed by Vayda Foy 22nd, Elise Oldroyd 23rd ( seasonal best!), Rachel Miller 47th and Gabby Wahl 48th.  The Varsity Girls' finished 5th overall as a team.  Of note, three of our top 10 did not run this past weekend for various reasons.  We continue to emphasize that it's Conference and Section meets that is our focus in both training and racing. 

MS Recap:  Our Jackson summer runners ran back to back races this weekend, with the Blaine Invit. on Friday and Saturday's Metro Invitational.  The boys' backed up there 1st place team finish on Friday with a 5th place team finish. Note, they raced 6th thru 8th graders  on Saturday. Caelan Scott was our #1 finishing 15th followed by Caleb Oldroyd 22nd, Ivan Oldroyd 39th, Noah Osterberg-74th and Henry Grossman in 123rd.  Our lone rep in the girls race was Ella Kern who finished 87th.

Next up:  Griak Invitational, Friday Sept. 24th and the Mustang Invitational, Saturday, Sept. 25th.

XC 2022 Week #5: Sept. 12-17th Metro Invitational

Week #5 Practice Schedule 

M-F @ 2:40PM

Saturday @Metro Invitational

EP Metro Invitational

Round Lake Park:  Directions Here

Bus:  Leaves CP W-6 @ 8:00

9:30  Boys' JV

10:00  Girls' JV

10:40  Boys' Varsity

11:10  Girls' Varsity

11:45  Boys' MS

11:55 Girls' MS

Awards: 12:10PM

Awards: Medals to the top TEN in each race.

Timing: Gopher State Events: Here 

Course Map: Here 

 

Participating Teams

Maple Grove      Armstrong

Champlin Park   Edina Boys

Roseville          Wayzata

HIghland Park  Eagle Ridge Acad

Chanhassen     Willmar

 

Results & Recap: 2022 Luther All-America

Luther All-America Invitational 2022 

Full Results: Here 

Photo Album: Here

Meet Recap:   Who doesn't love a little rain😎  What started out with a smattering of rain in the beginning races, led to an all-out mud bath on many sections of the course....in particular the hills.  In each of the 6 races the Rebels persevered!    Much to like over the course of the morning as the teams closed the team score gap that was St. Olaf.  The Varsity Girls' moved ahead of Bloomington Jefferson and the Varsity Boys' closed the gap against the same team by 5 places to fall behind by only 9 points.

Of the 18 girls racing 14 had seasonal bests, for the boys, 17 of the 21 running had seasonal bests!

Rebel Racing: Ophelia Schomaker, Ella Kern and Noah Osterberg opened the day in the 7th & 8th Grade Race grabbing 6th, 121st and 54th respectfully in the 3.2K races.  In the JV Girls' 5K senior Rachel Miller dropped 1:16 and finished 12th.  also scoring for the Rebels were Melina Ung-42nd, Sophie Grossman-55th, Maura Wahl-58th and JoJo Lund in 66th.  Leila Lyes made her 5K debut running a 28:30 or her first HS race. The JV Girls' finished 7th overall out of 19 teams.

The JV Boys'  finished 7th out of 36 teams. Senior Tyler Kyes was our top runner finishing 23rd, with Ben Matzke in 41st, Will Larson-49th, Tyler Musto-64th and Ezra Severin finishing 96th. Kevin Samey made his 5K debut running 32:06.

The Varsity Girls' finished behind 4 ranked Iowa teams finishing in 5th!  Our scoring runners were, Abby Hibbs-4th, Brigid Keran-22nd, Vayda Foy-42nd, Gabby Wahl-61st ( PB !) and Elise Oldroyd-78th. 

The Varsity Boys' finished 7th, behind several ranked Iowa teams and Minnesota ranked Mpls Washburn. As mentioned above the boys closed the gap to Blmtn Jefferson to a mere 9 points.  Scoring for the Rebels were, Charlie Hibbs-13th, Ethan Ibarra-28th, Logan Martinez-32nd, Caleb Osterberg-62nd and Ryan Kane-64th. 

Next up for the Rebels:  the 57th Annual Metro Invitational, Saturday, Sept. 17th 

 

XC 2022 Week #4: Sept. 5-10th Luther All-America Invit.

Week #4 Practice Schedule: 

Monday @ CP - 4:00PM

Tuesday-Thursday @ CP - 2:40PM  MS @ 3:20PM

Friday @ Luther College

Saturday @ Luther College

Lockers:  Assigned Tuesday after school outside Varsity Locker rooms.

Luther College - All-American Invitational

Depart CP Friday @ 2PM. Early release @ 1:45

Bus leaves CP from door W-6

Lodging:  Country Inn by Carlson, Decorah, Iowa

Luther College All-American:  Course Map: Here

Saturday, Sept. 10th, 2022

Race Schedule        Race Results: Here

9:00  7th & 8th Grade 3.2K  Boy's & Girls'

9:25  JV Girls' 5K

10:00 JV Boys'5K

10:50 Varsity Girls' 5K

11:20 Varsity Boys' 5K

Awards

JV Top 15

Varsity Top 35

7th & 8th Ribbons

Results & Recap: St. Olaf Showcase 2022

St. Olaf Showcase 2022

Full Results: Here 

Photo Album: Here

Meet Recap: The day was sunny and the temp....well it was hot!  The Rebels XC Team raced to solid performances across the board in all 4 races.  Handling both a huge competitive field (50 Teams), with races of 300+ runners in each and the warm September day.

 Our JV Girls' started off our return to the St. Olaf Showcase Meet with solid performances in the 1st 5K of the year for the team.  Rookie Kennedy Norsted completed her 1st HS 5K of her career finishing 272nd overall in the race. While we didn't race a complete team, Ellie Kraesen finished 180th followed by Eleanor Martenson in 211th and Kaylee Kern in 251st.

The Varsity Girls' raced to a respectable 13th place in a  field loaded with 9 early season ranked teams. Abby Hibbs led the way with a 23rd place finish with Vayda Foy in 41st and Elise Oldroyd in 57th place. Our 4th and 5th runners were Ellie Grossman in 142nd and Gabby Wahl in 155th.  7th Grader Ophelia Schomaker made her HS debut racing to 241st place as did Senior Rachel Miller who finished 188th.  

Our JV Boy's Team had 6 athletes make their HS XC debut racing against a huge field of over 400+ runners. Will Maher was our top runner in the field finishing 17th with a 5K PR !    #2 for the team was Maxwell Simmons in 205th, next  was Blake Frazer in 213th, followed by Lucas Vetter in 243rd and Conner Morari who raced to 247th..

The Varsity Boy's Team tipped the Pre-Meet Rankings moving up over 11 spots to finish in 15th just behind NWSC foe Maple Grove.  Charlie Hibbs duplicated his 2021 State Meet time racing to a 44th place finish followed by Logan Martinez, 62nd,  who destroyed his prior 5K PR as did Caleb Osterberg, who finished 100th overall.   Ryan Kane was our #4 in 123rd with Ethan Ibarra as our #5 in 184th.   Varsity Rookie Ben Matkze also ran to a 5K PR and was our 7th runner preceded by Garrison Finke who finished 192nd.

Next Up:  Luther College All-American Invitational, Saturday, Sept. 10th.