Our next meet is the North Vikings XC Invite @ Willis Case Golf Course on Tuesday 9/20. (Information on who is entered will be posted on Kohuth’s window.)
Dismissal will be right after lunch and will include periods 5, 6, 7.
Directions to Willis Golf Course:
From I-70- Take the Sheridan Blvd exit and head North to 52nd street. You will drive by the Golf Course on your right hand side. Head East on 52nd Ave to Tennyson St. Turn West onto 50th Ave, and make a left at the fork. (Parking will be available at club house or secondary parking on the street)
Unavailability Form: Click HERE if you can’t race at the Viking Invite.
Carpool Form: Click HERE if you need a ride or can take other runners.
Tent Transportation: We need a parent to take the tent from the Viking Meet and bring it to Northfield at Central Park on Saturday 9/24. This should be a parent whose child is not going to Rim Rock, KS.
We then need a parent to take it from Northfield to at Patten in Boulder.
Good news! We have a bus for St. Vrain. Meet at the front of school at 6:30am. Bring a water bottle, wear sunscreen and bring healthy snacks for after your race.
Arrive at St. Vrain: At least 90 minutes before your race. Earlier than that to cheer on your teammates.
Location and Parking: Lyons Junior/Senior High School, 100 McConnell Dr, Lyons, CO 80540
Parent Drop Off:Pull into the main drop off circle in front of the school to drop off your athletes. You will then turn left to head back to the 3 way stop sign. Turn left and park at Bohn Park.
Car Parking: Cars will be directed to Bohn Park first, then into the neighborhoods north and then east of the school. Bohn Park payment is optional during the meet. Please carpool. Space is going to be at a premium. Most of the car parking will be a 5 to 10 minute walk to get to the course.
Handicap/Elderly Parking: School South Parking Lot
Car Pool sign up: If you can give a ride or need a ride, click HERE
Race Schedule:
8:05 National Anthem
8:25 HS Girls Varsity 2A/3A – Run Unlimited, Score 4
9:00 HS Boys Varsity 2A/3A – Run Unlimited, Score 4
9:30 HS Girls Varsity 4A/5A – Run 10, score 5
10:00 2A/3A Varsity Awards in Front of East Grandstand
10:05 HS Boys Varsity 4A/5A – Run 10, score 5
10:30 HS Girls JV/Open
11:05 HS Boys JV/Open
11:35 4A/5A Varsity Awards in Front of the East Grandstand
Ribbons for the top 25 individuals in the Open and Middle School races
Custom T-Shirts for the top 10 individuals in the Varsity Races, ribbons for 1 to 20
A plaque for the top team in both divisions, Boys’ and Girls’ Varsity
Ribbons for the top 3 teams in the high school varsity divisions
Results will be available at www.rapidresultslive.com as soon as each race is finished. There will also post a hard copy of the results on the west side of the concession stand.
Unavailability form: If you cannot go to St. Vrain, please let us know by clicking HERE
No dogs allowed on this course. Leave your furry friends at home.
With the usual Varsity and JV1 runners preparing for a pair of high profile, highly competitive meets, some East runners without varsity experience got to toe the line in varsity competition, while some JV runners got a chance to score in JV competition for the first time. It has been a few years since East Cross Country has sent its JV into Varsity competition; given how well these runners raced at the Denver West Cowboy Classic, it will happen more often in the right situations.
The East Angels were led by ninth graders in both Varsity races. For the girls, it was Daniela Maldonado-Ramos who placed 12th overall in 23:42. She was followed closely by sophomore Ella Terch in 13th 23:43. Seniors Eleanor Goldstein and Siena Berry were 15th in 24:04 and 16th in 24:19 respectively. Sophomores Grace Taub and Yelena Konowal closed it out for East with 17th and 19th place finishes of the 52 runners in 24:19 and 24:34. The East Girls were 4th of 6 scored teams with 73 points, just a few points behind 2nd place Rangeview and 3rd place Eagle Ridge. For the Boys Varsity, Abraham Morginsky led the way for the Angels with his 8th place finish in 20:00. Fellow freshman Mason Harper was 10th in 20:11, while sophomore Donovan Aggeler was just 2 seconds back for 12th, finishing alongside junior Carson Lerner who was 13th and a few strides ahead of sophomore Noah Shurz in 14th to close out the scoring. Freshman Isaiah Springer was 22nd in 21:11 and sophomore Ben Parish 23rd in 21:13. The Varsity Boys totaled 57 points for 3rd place of 8 teams, just eight points back of the winning score from Rangeview High School.
The full depth of East Angels Cross Country was on full display in the JV races. The JV Girls were led by junior Emma Pieracci who finished 6th in 24:55. She was followed by sophomores Rae Tatel and Franny Hebbard in 26:33 and 26:36 for 7th and 8th place and Campbell Hefty in 10th place in 26:39. Senior Lillian McGlothlen came through in 26:56 for 11th. Because the first five runners in the JV Girls race were not on fully scored teams, the Angels ended up with a near perfect team score of 16 points for an easy first place win of the five scored teams. In the Open Boys, sophomore Oliver Gustavson led the Angels with a 4th place finish in 20:32, followed by his classmate Caleb Woodman in 5th in 20:44. Freshmen Kyle Kojima and Liam Taylor were 6th and 13th in 20:55 and 21:55 respectively, while sophomore Ranier Coggins closed out the scoring for the Angels with his 22:19 for 18th place of the 93 runners. The Angels totaled 41 points for the win over 8 other teams in the JV race.
All of these runners will join their teammates to race at the St. Vrain Invitational on Saturday. Look for many of these runners to be asked to step-up to the Varsity or JV-1 level of competition in the weeks ahead at the North Viking Invitational and the Northfield Nighthawk Invitational.
3:30 — Coach Meeting (at the Starting/Finish line)
3:45 — Boys Open 5K (unlimited entries – score 5)
4:15 — Girls Open 5K (unlimited entries – score 5)
4:45 — Boys Varsity 5k (seven entries — score 5)
5:15 — Girls Varsity 5k (seven entries — score 5)
Awards Ceremony @ 6:15pm
Varsity Girls: Siena, Sophie, Ellie, Yelena, Daniela, Grace Ta and Ella
Varsity Boys: Donovan, Mason, Carson, Abraham, Ben P, Noah and Isaiah
All other runners will run the open races.
Site: Please join us for the Denver West High School Cowboy Classic at Garfield Lake Park, 3600 W Mississippi Ave, Denver, CO 80219, this year. The course has a combination of mostly concrete, some grass and is FLAT and FAST giving athletes a confidence boost early in the season.
Rules of Competition: Top five athletes from each team will be used for scoring. Runners six and seven will be displacers. In the event of a tie, the winning team will be the team with the highest placing 6th runner. Each team will be assigned a starting box.
Unavailability Form: If you can’t run at the Cowboy Classic, click here for the unavailability form
The East Cross Country coaches regularly emphasize that there are not fast courses, just fast runners and they aim to teach that cross country is not about time but about who you beat. But still….Running on a course that puts up little resistance, combined with perfect weather for racing, meant that a lot of personal bests were run on Saturday, and everyone seemed to be having a good time. And with that speed, the Angels beat many good runners as well.
The Varsity Boys ran first on Saturday, lining up against 21 other teams, including three teams that had finished in the top ten in the nation last year, and an additional handful of the top programs in Colorado. The Liberty Bell field is always loaded, and prior to this year, no Angel team had ever finished better than 15th in the elite Sweepstakes division. Liberty Bell is not an easy course to spectate, but the East boys looked to have gotten off the line well. Coming through the mile senior Corbin Hobert was a bit back of 20th place with most of the rest of the Angel pack about 30 places behind. The Angels moved up nicely over the next 2 miles with everyone closing very well. Hobert moved up to 15th place in 15:21, senior Quinn Higgins had a great finish for 42nd place in 15:52, followed by sophomore Jonas Scudamore in 57th in 16:01. Senior Ian Logan and freshman Henry Bennett finished together in 16:07 for 69th and 70th. All of those performances moved those boys further up on the top-10 list of runners in recent East history (at least since 2000). In fact, East now has had five runners run faster already this year than last year’s fastest runner. Personal bests were also run by senior Harry Hittle (128th, 17:08) and junior Kai Luna (143rd, 17:25). With 218 points, the Angel boys finished 6th of 22 teams, right in the mix of the best programs in the state, and well ahead of Regional rivals Erie High School and Boulder High School, and league competitors South High School and Northfield.
The girls races start just three minutes after the boys, adding a degree of difficulty in getting around the course to see how things develop. For the East Varsity Girls, things developed very well. Sophomore Rosie Mucharsky bettered her personal best and school record of 17:37 by a single second, running 17:36 for 12th place. Junior Grace Todd broke the 19 minute barrier for the first time with her 18:50 for 44th, and fellow junior Sophia Shiroff brought her top-10 in East history and personal best down to 19:18 with her 57th place finish. Ninth grader Scout Chomas threatened the 20 minute barrier with her 20:01 for 88th, followed by junior Sasha Bull in 98th and 20:15 to close out the East scoring. Ninth grader Julieta Ochoa ran to a personal best 20:40 for 112th and senior Evelyn Higgins ran 21:19 for 137th. The Angel Girls totaled 280 points for a strong 9th place finish – the best Sweepstakes finish ever for any East Girls Team. Like the Boys, they were also ahead of all their Regional and League rivals, including regional nemesis Broomfield High School. The team average time of 19:12 is the fastest in school history.
The JV Boys and Girls went off about 90 minutes later, and personal best times continued coming in abundance. The Boys were led by Connor Beardsley, who ran smartly to move his way up to a 23rd place finish in 17:15. Freshman Tobias Penner and sophomore Ben Brown joined Beardsley in getting under 18 minutes with their 41st and 44th place finishes in 17:48 and 17:54 respectively. Sophomore Finley Steed held on for a 64th place finish in 18:16 and junior Finn Egan completed the scoring for East in 82nd in 18:42. Ninth graders Isaiah Springer and Mason Harper finished nearly together in 19:49 for 118th and 120th. The JV Boys were 9th of 21 scored teams in the JV Sweepstakes Division.
Ninth grader Kairine Brown and junior Anna Rothman-Haji fought for top-25 finishes in the Girls JV race, finishing 17th and 21st respectively in times of 20:29 and 20:36. Sophomore Lila Cypers also dipped under 21 minutes with her 20:55 for 25th. Senior Helen Miller, junior Avery Ash, and ninth grader Meara McBride finished nearly together in 34th, 35th, and 37th in 20:19, 20:20 and 20:22 respectively, with ninth grader Mary Clare Nussbaum finishing in 20:40 for 52nd of the 140 runners. The East Angel JV Girls were fifth of 20 teams, and not insignificantly, were 48 points ahead of Northfield, avenging an earlier season loss at the JV Girls level.
In the Open races, a couple of seniors led the Angels. For the Boys, Garret Johnson was the first Angel across the line with a time of 19:44 for 21st place. Junior Carson Lerner and sophomore Donovan Aggeler raced together for 56th and 57th and times of 19:35 and 19:37, followed by Sophomores Ben Parish (85th, 20:22) and Noah Shurz (88th, 20:25) and freshman Kyle Kojima (97th, 20:36) in the 250 runner race. For the Girls, it was Bri O’Meara leading the way with a 7th place finish in 20:28. Ninth grader Daniela Maldonado-Ramos improved to a 22:59 with her 32nd place finish, followed by senior Eleanor Goldstein (37th, 23:10) and sophomores Ella Terch (39th, 23:23) and Yelena Konowal (45th, 23:32) in the 220 athlete race.
Coming up is a 2 meet week with the West Cowboy Invitational on Tuesday and the St. Vrain Invitational on Saturday. Cowboy will be a smallish meet and East will run its JV-2 at the Varsity level – and be competitive – while the JV1 and Varsity will focus on Saturday. Everyone will race at St. Vrain. St. Vrain is a large meet on one of Colorado’s most iconic cross country courses – it is a good spectator course and we encourage families to make the drive. It will be every bit as competitive as Liberty Bell, maybe even more so this year; the meet offers the chance for the Angels to go head to head with nearly all of its regional competition in addition to some state and nationally ranked teams.
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3:30 — Coach Meeting (at the Starting/Finish line)
3:45 — Boys Open 5K (unlimited entries – score 5)
4:15 — Girls Open 5K (unlimited entries – score 5)
4:45 — Boys Varsity 5k (seven entries — score 5)
5:15 — Girls Varsity 5k (seven entries — score 5)
Awards Ceremony @ 6:15pm
Site: Please join us for the Denver West High School Cowboy Classic at Garfield Lake Park, 3600 W Mississippi Ave, Denver, CO 80219, this year. The course has a combination of mostly concrete, some grass and is FLAT and FAST giving athletes a confidence boost early in the season.
Rules of Competition: Top five athletes from each team will be used for scoring. Runners six and seven will be displacers. In the event of a tie, the winning team will be the team with the highest placing 6th runner. Each team will be assigned a starting box.
Unavailability Form: If you can’t run at the Cowboy Classic, click here for the unavailability form
10:45am Boys JV: Connor, Tobias, Ben B, Finley, Finn, Mason and Isaiah
10:48am Girls JV: Anna, Kairine, Lila, Mary Clare, Helen, Avery and Meara
Open Races
11:25am Open Boys: All other boys not listed above
11:28am Open Girls: All other girls not listed above
Friday: Please meet in the back of the auditorium for a quick meeting on Friday, Sept 9 at 3:45pm. Come to the auditorium ready to run and bring a water bottle.
After the meeting, we will have a Fast Friday practice. If you haven’t attended one yet, you will learn what this is.
Denver East High XC 