A wonderful Thursday afternoon for our girls...Varsity, junior varsity,and frosh-soph were all victorious...in the frosh-soph-junior varsity combined race, we garnered 15 of the top 20 individual placings, including the top four. Sophomore Kristyn Summers won the race, with junior Lindsay Enright, senior Rachel Moore, and sophomore Kamilah Foley 2, 3, and 4. Top three freshmen were Dani Brabender(19.40), Sarah Daily (20.19), and Shelby Niles (20.33). Our top 5 girls ran 96.20, we ran 100.22 in 2006, a 4.02 improvement.Our varsity ran 91.05 to win the race...we ran 94.45 in 2006, a 3.40 improvement, quite impressive for five girls. 2006, our top five times were18.32, 18.32, 19.09, 19.16, and 19.16...yesterday, we ran 17.57 (KristinArkin), 18.02 (Sabrina Rathor), 18.11(Makenna Smith), 18.13 (Ximena Cruz), and18.42 (Hayley Niles). The girls deserve this, all have worked diligently toachieve our current success; however, today is another day, and now ourfocus is to practice well this afternoon, and prepare for the Orange County Cross Country Championships. Coach Clemons and myself will tell the team this afternoon our goal is to win the varsity team championship, as well asthe frosh-soph and junior varsity...because we both believe we have the capability to capture any of those titles.---53 girls ran in 2006, 69 in 2007. 0(2006) broke 18 minutes, 1 in 2007,2 (2006) under 19 minutes, 5 in 2007...9 (2006) broke 20 minutes, 14 in 2007,15 (2006) under 21 minutes, 24 in 2007, 23(2006) broke 22 minutes, 33 in2007. Coach Clemons and myself are both proud of these statistics.---Notable individual improvements from 2006 to 2007...same course, sameThursday: Amanda Lee, 24.34-20.27...Kamilah Foley, 22.00-19.19...KristinArkin, 19.21-17.57...Ximena Cruz, 20.18-18.13...Brittany Hernandez,22.58-20.13...Sarah Brewer, 22.06-20.31...Taylor Mujica, 23.38-21.19...Katrina Otto, 23.30-22.27...Sabrina Rathor,18.32-18.02...Kristyn Summers, 19.59-19.00...Rachel Moore,22.12-19.14,...Amanda Summers, 20.42-20.11...Kasie Dorr,21.04-20.36...Hillary Rush, 22.19-21.50...and Alanna Denton, 23.40-21.35.
