Friday, October 28, 2022

Results & Pix: 2022 Section 5AAA Champs

Varsity Results: Here
JV Results: Here 
Pix: Here 
Recap:  The day began with the Varsity Boys' sporting their pink uniform tops and ended with Lexy Beer, in pink, crushing the JV competition, for 1st place. The Varsity Boys' finished 4th for a solid team finish with both Charlie Hibbs-7th and Ethan Ibarra-13th qualifying for the State Meet.  Just missing quallifying was Ryan Kane-17th !  Rounding out the top 7 were; Logan Martinez-22nd, Tyler Kyes-34th, Caleb Osterberg-37th and Ben Matzke-40th.  Overall 21 of 28 boys' ran to personal bests, both for the season and their respective careers !  Our top four earned made the All-Section Team. The average drop during the season was a 31 second seasonal improvement from start to finish.  Thee average drop from 2021 to 2022 was 1:30 !
The Varsity GIrls' were nearly a repeat from 2021, just missing qualifying for state by finishing 3rd overall by 11 points.  Earning state berths were Abby Hibbs-3rd and Brigid Keran-10th.  Just missing out....AKA....."Jacksoned"....was Gabby Wahl who finished 18th.  Running 4th thru 7th for the team were; Elise Oldroyd-20th, Vayda Foy-21st, Rachel Miller-27th and Kylie Aswegan-29th.  Our top five made the All-Section Team!   Overall 16 of the 20 running ran to personal bests, both for the season and their careers!   The average drop during the season was 1:15 seasonal improvement from start to finish.  The average drop from 2021 to 2022 was 1:27!
 
Our JV Boys' finished 10th overall with Will Maher-26th, Will Larson-38th, Garrison-Finke-52nd, Akanamo Jones-69th and Maxwell Simmons 94th.   Our top 4 finished in the top 25% of the large field of 315 runners! The JV Girls' finished 3rd overall with Lexy Beer taking 1st winning by 8 seconds!.  Our next runners were Sophie Grossman-19th, Ophelia Schomaker-31st, Ellie Grossman-34th and Maura Wahl-42nd.  Our first four finished in the top 25% of the race field !

Boys' 2022 Final Team State Ranking:  30th
Girls' 2022 Final Team State Ranking: 29th