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Post Meet Celebration
Join Coach Brimeyer and Coach Scudamore at 4pm at City Park Today. It will be more fun to complete the workout with teammates than on your own!
About this time of year, we check-out what our East Angel alumni who are running at the collegiate level have been doing so far this season.
Starting in the northeast, Julia Schor, East Class of ’21 and now a senior at Amherst College, has had a terrific season thus far for the Mammoth. Most recently Schor took 24th of nearly 400 runners at the Paul Short Invitational in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, helping her team take first of 46 teams. She has run 22:01 for 6K this fall, and the undefeated Mammoth are currently ranked #5 in the entire nation in DIII.
If you are looking for Alligators in Pennsylvania, apparently you head to Allegheny College. Recent East grad and now Allegheny Gator Sophia Shiroff was most recently 68th of about 180 runners at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational running 24:55 for 6K. The Gators took second in the meet and are currently ranked 7th in the Great Lakes Region for DIII.
Moving midwest, Grace Todd opened her collegiate career last week racing in the Open Division of the Pre-Nationals race in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Washington University Bear ran 24:13 for 6K to take 20th place. The Bears are currently ranked #14 in the country for NCAA DIII.
Also in Terre Haute last weekend was Lewis and Clark College sophomore Quinn Higgins. Higgins was 100th of over 300 runners in the Championship race in 26:08, where the Pioneers took 18th of 46 teams. Higgins posted a pr of 25:29 for 8K earlier in the season. The Pioneers are ranked 9th in the West Region of DIII.
In NCAA Division I action, Corbin Hobert, now a sophomore at UC San Diego, ran his first collegiate cross country races this year. He has put up an 8K best of 26:32 this season for the Tritons.
Dartmouth College graduate Will Daley is now a graduate transfer at #21 ranked University of Virginia; he has yet to race this season for the Cavaliers.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!
We need course monitors and other volunteers to make certain we have a safe and successful event on our City Park course. Please sign-up to volunteer here: City Meet Volunteers.
Race Schedule:
2:10pm Open Boys Race 4A/5A
2:40pm Open Girls Race 4A/5A
3:10pm Unified Race
3:35pm Boys Varsity 3A
4:05pm Girls Varsity 3A
4:35pm Boys Varsity 4A/5A
5:00pm Girls Varsity 4A/5A
Varsity Line-ups:
Boys: Scudamore, Bennett, Brown, Springer, Wagner, Penner, Morginsky
Girls: Mucharsky, Kennedy, J Ochoa, Johnson, Chomas, Carhart, Brown
All other athletes will race JV. This is our most important and last JV race of the season – we expect everyone to compete on our home course!
Celebration Dinner and Fund Raiser at Atomic Cowboy following the meet.
Regionals are on October 24. We race nine at regionals and expect additional alternates to continue to train with the team through regionals. In addition to our league varsity teams, the following boys- Kojima, Gertge, M.Harper, Gallantz, Mays, Z. Smiles, Even, and girls – Nussbaum, P. Ochoa, Mohr, E. Maldonado-Ramos, Jenson should plan to continue to train with the team.
Athletes wanting to workout with teammates on Monday, October 14, can meet with Coach Brimeyer and Coach Scudamore at 4pm at City Park. Attendance is optional (but completing the workout is not!).
Denver East Cross Country will again send athletes to the NXR SW Championship in Mesa, Arizona on November 23. The races will be at the Toka Sticks Golf Club – reportedly an even faster course than the last three years. Information on the race is here: NXR SW.
Coach Kohuth will enter athletes who express interest in the attending. East Boys will run one of the Large School races. East Girls are likely to qualify for the Championship race. Athletes are responsible for organizing their own transportation and accommodations, though we try to coordinate travel plans. Some coaches and parents of athletes will be renting cars and will be able to help provide transportation on Friday to inspect the course and for a team dinner, and on Saturday to the meet and back to hotels for athletes staying in the same hotels or nearby. Please email Coach Kohuth and Coach Scudamore if you are interested in competing. This is traditionally a fun way to extend the season and run on an all grass course at low altitude against athletes from Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
Approximate Itinerary
Thursday or early Friday fly to Phoenix. Friday 4pm – 5pm Course Walk Through at Toka Sticks Golf Club (leave hotels at 3:15pm). Friday 6:30pm Team Dinner (site tbd). Saturday 8:20am – 11:20am NXR SW XC Meet. Saturday 1:00pm Team Lunch.
Hotels: There are multiple hotel options off Hwy 60 in Mesa/Gilbert, about a 15 minute drive north from the course. There are also a couple hotels near the Phoenix/Mesa Gateway Regional Airport (not the actual Phoenix Airport) that are very close to the course.
Please share your travel plans
Please share your travel plans with coaches and teammates so we can select the same hotels or hotels in close proximity to each other. Reference and update this document so we know our teammates plans and can coordinate our itineraries in Arizona: East XC NXR Travel Plans.
Questions? Please email Coach Kohuth (steven_kohuth@dpsk12.net) or Coach Scudamore (ddscudamore@gmail.com) with questions.
Quick reminders: Practice on Monday, October 7 is at 1pm; on Tuesday at 1pm or 4pm (athlete choice). Chipotle Fund Raiser on Tuesday from 4p-8p.
The East Angels closed out their invitational this week at the Pat Amato Invitational in Northglenn. The meet was a great opportunity to earn new personal bests at 5000m.
On Tuesday the 9th and 10th graders competed in races of their own. On the boys’ side, freshman Tre Even highlighted East performances, breaking 19 minutes for the first time with his 18:59 for 26th. Freshman Finley Knight (20:39), sophomore Brady Cooper (20:43), and freshman Weston Dodson (20:47) all recorded personal bests with their 58th, 59th, and 60th place finishes. Sophomore Jackson Ruedi closed out the scoring for the Angels with his 61st place finish in 20:50. The East boys finished 7th place overall as a team.
The 9th/10th grade East Girls were led by sophomore Abby Forsberg who took 26th in 23:46. She was followed by classmates Addy Everhart (24:15 pb) and Medea Gregory (24:35) in 33rd and 38th. Ninth grader Audrey Hinshaw ran a personal best 25:14 for 47th and sophomore Pearl Bussard closed out the scoring for the Angels in 25:29 for 51st place. The Angels were 6th as a team.
On Friday, a contingent of junior and senior JV runners made the trip to compete in Northglenn where they faced many the best varsity runners from our league and region. Senior Yelena Konowal led the Angels in the varsity race, running 24:09 for 182nd. Seniors Grace Taub ran 25:19 for 203rd, Franny Hebbard 25:44 for 213th, Campbell Hefty 26:44 for 231st, and junior Audrey Flege 27:58 for 242nd. For the boys it was Tomas Cole leading the way with his 224th place finish in 20:15. He was followed by Alex Wilkerson (235th, 20:44), Asano Falcon (248th, 21:32), Caleb Smiles (256th, 21:52) and Hutton Zimmerman (263rd, 23:20). The JV Girls were led by Ivy Parish who won the race in 20:06. Clara Taub ran 28:02 for 126th, Olivia Homlar 28:17 for 132nd, Victoria Bull 28:17 for 133rd, and Lucia Artley 29:28 for 147th. The Boys JV were represented by Dylan Patterson, who ran 22:28 (a 2-minute personal best), and Konrad Rono, who ran 26:25 (a 90 second personal best, and nearly 11 minutes faster than his first race for the season).
Chipotle Fund Raiser – Tuesday, October 8, 4p-8p. Instead of a potluck this week, athletes may picnic together on the south lawn at East High School after purchasing their dinner at Chipotle on Tuesday. Show this flier or use the code VV2LPVJ if ordering online.
Practices during Testing Week and Fall Break – this is one of the most important weeks of the season as we prepare for our League Meet and beyond. As indicated below, for some workouts we expect athletes to complete the workout on their own or to make plans to get together with their teammates on the days we do not have official practice. Fall break workouts are listed below. Please talk to your coaches at the beginning of the week to clarify any questions about the workouts or if you will miss official practice.
Saturday 10/5 – 30-50 minute recovery run on your own; strides
Monday 10/7 – 1pm practice at City Park
Tuesday 10/8 – 1pm and 4pm practice at City Park (attend one practice); Chipotle Fund Raiser 4p-8p.
Wednesday 10/9 – 4pm practice at City Park
Thursday 10/10 – 4pm practice at City Park
Friday 10/11 – No official practice. Workout: following warm-up and 10 minutes of running, 6-8 x 400m with 2 – 2.5 minutes jogging recovery in between; or “fartlek run” with 90 seconds running fast (at 5K race pace) followed by 2.5 minutes of running easy. Repeat this for a total of 6-8 times. 10 minute cool down run.
Saturday 10/12 – No official practice. Maintenance run of 30-45 minutes plus 4 x 20 second strides.
Monday 10/14 – No official practice. Following standard warm-up and 10 minutes of easy running, 4 x 200m slightly faster than 5K race pace, but no faster than mile race pace effort. 200m jog recovery or 90 seconds recovery. Or, run this as a fartlek: 30 seconds fast, 90 seconds easy, 4 times. Athletes who raced at Kansas should do a second set of four after a 5 minute recovery for a total of eight 200’s or eight 30 second surges. 5-10 minute cool down run.
Tuesday 10/15 – 4pm practice at City Park. Premeet.
Wednesday 10/16 – City League Championship at City Park. We need volunteers! Please see previous post. Fund Raiser and Post-Meet Celebration at Atomic Cowboy (Fat Sully’s, Denver Biscuit Company) following the meet. Follow website for details.
The twenty-six East Angels who made the trip to Lawrence, Kansas for the Rim Rock Farm Classic Invitational were greeted with what were probably the best conditions for the meet in many years – sunny skies, fair temperatures, and a dry course. Rim Rock Farm is Midwest cross country: grass, forest, soft surfaces, with a fair amount of vertical and a couple iconic covered bridges. The experience is worth the long drive.
Denver East Cross Country has a history of flexing its strength early in this meet in the JV Girls race, and this year was no exception. It was emphatic. The Angels scored a mere 26 points to win the meet; in fact had the other 15 teams combined to compete as a single team, the Angels would have come out ahead by five points. As the first mile was coming to a close, ninth-graders Lila Brown, Paola Ochoa and Ainslie Mohr were trailing three girls from the team that would eventually finish second. Over the next mile Brown moved up to second place while Ochoa and Mohr moved up to fourth and fifth. As the runners approached the most challenging hills at the beginning of the third mile, Brown took over first place, eventually winning in a time of 20:33, with Ochoa and Mohr taking 3rd and 4th respectively in 20:47 and 20:52. Meanwhile, fellow ninth-grader Emma Maldonado-Ramos, who was probably no further up than 50th place at the mile, moved her way through the field over the next two miles to finish a very impressive 6th in 21:34, while sophomore Grey Jenson employed a similar strategy to take 14th in 22:23. Senior Rae Tatel moved her way up to grab a spot on the awards stand with her 25th place finish in 23:01. Junior Daniela Maldonado-Ramos took 54th of 190 runners in 24:07.
In the Boys JV race, juniors Abraham Morginsky, Kyle Kojima, and Mason Harper led the Angels to a 5th place finish of 26 teams. Morginsky had arguably the best race of his career, moving up to 11th place in a time of 17:55. Kojima is getting stronger with each week, and on Saturday finished 17th in 18:32, while Harper closed well to take 24th in 18:48. Junior Alexandros Mays took 36th in 19:27, and sophomore Zachary Smiles closed out the scoring in 89th in 20:41.
The Girls Varsity race was loaded up front with girls who will compete for some of the top collegiate programs in the country in the coming years. Of these, Denver East senior Rosie Mucharsky finished 5th in 18:05. The rest of the girls team employed a strategy of running the first mile way back in the pack and moving their way up, which for the most part worked out well. Sophomore Corrine Kennedy finished just off the top-25 podium with her 27th place finish in 19:24. Juniors Julieta Ochoa and Scout Chomas were next across the line for the Angels, finishing 45th and 50th in 19:39 and 19:48. Sophomore Lola Carhart continues to close the gap between herself and these teammates, on Saturday finishing 60th in 20:01. Junior Mary Clare Nussbaum finished 110th in 21:09. The Angels were 2nd of 26 teams, finishing only behind the top ranked team in the state of Nebraska. (Last year the Angels were 2nd to the top team from Kansas – a team that eventually qualified for Nike Nationals).
The Boys Varsity race was the last for the Angels on Saturday. Senior Jonas Scudamore posted a slightly faster time than the year before on his way to an 8th place finish in 15:49. Junior Henry Bennett ran to a 56th place finish in 16:48, with senior Ben Brown (66th) and junior Isaiah Springer (71st) not far back in 16:56 and 16:58. Toby Penner closed out the scoring for the Angels with his 156th place finish in 18:01, followed by juniors Jackson Gertge (18:44) and Micah Gallantz (19:01) in 174th and 178th respectively. The Angels scored 346 points to take 14th of 27 teams.
For these runners, the trip to Kansas marked the end of the invitational season as the teams prepare for the City League Championship, Regional Championship and State Meet. The remainder of the team is wrapping up the invitational season at the Pat Amato Invitational races this week and then will also focus on the City League Meet on October 16.
Volunteer at Hot Chocolate Race
Use this link to sign-up to volunteer if interested: Hot Chocolate Run
Potluck tomorrow at 6pm at 2224 Fairfax Street. Mental Skills Training tomorrow at 3:30pm.
A message from our photographer:
Hey Angel Cross Country Team,
Get ready to race into our photo session this coming Thursday! We’re excited to capture your spirit on the course.
📅 Date: Thursday, October 3rd
🕒 Time: After School
📍 Location: South Side of School
Pre-orders only! Athletes can instantly preview their poses at the photoshoot, ensuring you get the perfect shot. A gallery link with download information will be sent to your provided email address once available.
Bring your running spirit, show off your stride, and let’s make these moments unforgettable!
Pre-order here: https://form.jotform.com/waidophoto/24-25-angels-xc-media-day
Got questions? Reach out to me at tommy@waidophotography.com or (970) 402-4426.
Best strides,
Tommy Joe Waido
Waido Photography
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This week’s potluck, hosted by Lucia and Rae, will be held at 2224 Fairfax on Thursday at 6:00.
There are a few more senior designed shirts available. Text Jennifer (303-725-7900) or talk to captains if you want one of the last ones.
All 9th and 10th graders who did not travel to Kansas will race tomorrow (October 1) at the Pat Amato Freshman/Sophomore Invitational at Northwest Open Space Park in Northglenn. Meet information is here. The bus will leave East at 1pm. Boys race at 3pm and Girls at 3:30pm
All 11th and 12th graders who did not travel to Kansas will race on Friday at the Pat Amato Classic. Meet information is here. The bus is tentatively scheduled for 11:30am; Coach Kohuth will confirm at practice this week. JV and Varsity lineups for Pat Amato Classic will be posted at Coach Kohuth’s office.
Potluck this week is on Thursday at 6pm. It is our last potluck of the season as we wrap up the invitational schedule. Lucia and Rae are hosting at 2224 Fairfax St.
Mental Skills training continues this week at 3:30pm on Wednesday and Thursday prior to practice.
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