Please help us if you can!  We need four more volunteers for the Cohort 2 Angels vs Rebels meet tomorrow, Sept 17 at City Park.  Volunteers should arrive at the park at 4:00pm.  Click here to sign up:  Angels vs Rebels Volunteers

Thank you!

Here are the results from the Ram Blaster Varsity Meet at the NAAC:

Eamon Nussbaum            17:49.10

Benjamin Hopper             19:32.3 

Grant Elliot                         19:54.1

Jack Kriekels                       20:10.0

Kai Luna                               20:11.40

Owen Congdon                 20:13.1

Allen Harder                       20:31.40

 The Angels ran well on tired  legs and the toughest course we have faced so far—Eamon Nussbaum ran a smart race to finish third and the team finished fourth.  A very good showing three days after the last race.  As Allen Harder accurately stated—this race was about putting in the work.

Full Results for Ram Blaster

Up next, Cohort 1 Angels vs TJ on Thursday, Sept 17.

Cohort 2 parents, families and fans!

We would like to give a huge thank you to Erica Crosby, Sarah Bull, Robert Anderson, Sara and Tom Cook, Michelle Miller and Jason Keglovitz for volunteering on Saturday. We are so lucky to have such amazing volunteers!!

We are hosting the East South Dual meet at City Park on Thursday, Sept 17 and we need parent/family volunteers to help host.  Please click here to sign up:  East South Dual Volunteer Sign Up

Volunteers, please meet Coach Fehrman at the starting line at 4:00pm.

Boys race:  4:30pm

Girls race:  5:00pm

The Angels participated in four different races this weekend.  Here is how it went:

Cohort 1:

Cohort 1 split off into two races this weekend.  

Adam’s City:  Adams City Girls Results

East-North-West Triangular at Garfield Lake Park:

            Denver West High School hosted this Triangular on a beautiful morning for racing at another new cross country venue for the Angels – three laps around Garfield Lake Park in southwest Denver.  North is the last team in DPS in recent memory to have beat East’s girls in cross country.  What the North Vikings lack in depth they generally make up for in high quality front runners and this year is no exception.

            In the Boys 5k race, junior Eamon Nussbaum battled back and forth with North’s top runner, eventually taking command over the last 800m to win in a time of 17:01 – his third personal best of the season. Nussbaum was followed by 9^thgrader Grant Elliot in 3^rdplace (17:53) and sophomore Ben Hopper in 4^thplace (17:55), both dipping under 18 minutes for the first time this season. Junior Jack Kriekels nearly dipped under 18 minutes, placing 5^thin 18:02.  After a couple additional North runners crossed the line, the Angels swept places 8^ththrough 14^thwith 9^thgrader Kai Luna (18:52), senior Xander Pacini (19:02), juniors Allen Harder and Josh Bruggeman (19:11 and 19:16), 9^thgrader Conner Beardsley (19:23), and sophomore Ian Logan (19:28). The Angel boys remain undefeated, solidly beating North 21-38 on Saturday.

            In the Girls race, a depleted East squad, with most of Cohort 1 competing at Adams City, gamely pushed a very good North Viking team. Senior Grace O’Meara initially went out with the top North runners, before giving up a little ground to finish in 3^rdin a seasonal best 21:27. Fellow Senior Lilia Scudamore came up for 4^thplace in 21:42. Junior Gemma Haller closed with great finishing sprint to grab 6^thplace in 22:17 and senior Kerra Hendrickson followed in 8^thplace with 22:33. The Angels were a runner short of a full scoring team, so conceded the team win to the worthy North Vikings team.

            On Tuesday, Nussbaum, Elliot, Hopper, Kriekels, Luna, Harder and Kruger will head to the Ram Blaster Invite at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada – race time 2:30pm. Everyone else in Cohort 1 will practice at East.

           On Thursday, the rest of Cohort 1 will run a Triangular Meet against Northfields HS and Thomas Jefferson HS and Cohort 2 will host South High School – check the website for details of these meets.

Cohort 2

JV Northfield Nighthawks @ East Angels Results

September 12, 2020

Boys

1. David Anderson (EA) 19:33
2. Nathan Turner (EA) 20:03
3. Elliott Brumbaugh (EA) 20:13
4. Jameson Leigh (EA) 20:30
5. Charlie Keglovitz (EA) 20:30
6. Marcus Burnett (EA) 20:35
7. Jay Cory (EA) 20:35
8. Quinn Higgins (EA) 20:36
9. Jack Rianda (EA) 20:36
10. Liam Cook (EA) 20:41
11. Sammy Berman (NN) 21:25
12. Ben Whitney (NN) 22:15
13. Justin Green (NN) 22:21
14. Frank McGinn (NN) 22:22
15. Finn Egan (EA) 22:24
16. Zachary Holsinger (NN) 22:25
17. Bode Mathes (NN) 24:42
18. Dom Matera (NN) 25:33
19. Evan Englefolchert (NN) 28:36

Girls

1. Grace Burnett (EA) 22:03
2. Sasha Bull (EA) 22:10
3. Sophia Charles (EA) 22:28
4. Claire Ely (EA) 23:42
5. Bri O’Meara (EA) 23:55
6. Alia Quinby (EA) 23:58
7. Helen Miller (EA) 24:00
8. Clara Artley (EA) 24:11
9. Evelyn Higgins (EA) 24:12
10. Ellie Goldstein (EA) 24:20
11. Clara Lorenzo (EA) 25:19
12. Hannah Priddy (NN) 25:39
13. Kelsey Dennis (NN) 25:45
14. Tuesday Ness (NN) 28:32
15. Regan Hayes (NN) 28:33
16. Samantha Stelloh (NN) 28:57
17. Katie Olson (NN) 29:05
18. Cassidy Johnson (NN) 29:09
19. Elisabeth Hispa (NN) 32:19
20. Maddie Covington (NN) 32:20
21. Lee Weselman (NN) 36:02
22. Bella Putnam (NN) 36:02
23. Nya Taylor (NN) 36:07

Cohort 3 (virtual running club)

The Denver 5K at Sloan’s Lake

For those attending the West High School meet on Saturday 9/12, you will be running at Garfield Lake Park.

Boys race is at 8:00

Girls race is at 8:30

Please arrive one hour before your race.

All cohort 2 runners will participate in the East & Northfield Dual JV Meet. We need Cohort 2 parent/family volunteers, you can sign up here: Volunteer Sign Up for Meet.  

Here are the meet details:

When: Saturday, Sept 12, 2020

Time: 8:00am for Cohort 2 Boys, 8:30am for Cohort 2 Girls

Place: City Park See course map:

The following runners will go to the Adams City Meet on Saturday: Julia Schor, Laura Romero, Maya Winfield, Abby Howard, Sophia Shiroff, Maya Nussbaumer, and Ellison Mucharsky-O’Boyle. 

Here is the meet information for Adams City:

East-South-GW Varsity Meet

            Employing a shotgun start, with five groups of runners starting simultaneously from five different start/finish lines separated by 500m each, it was harder than usual to know exactly how the race, a single 5k loop on City Park’s Mile High Loop was developing, or had even finished, until Coach Kohuth could combine the results from the five boys races and five girls races and share the final results. Some groups of racers went out slow and wait for a final sprint; some groups of racers saw an individual runner push from the start and run alone for the entire 5000m. A couple races featured fierce competition over the entire loop. When the dust finally settled, the times examined, and the scores tabulated, the Angels had plenty to celebrate.

            Standout performances included junior Eamon Nussbaum decisively outkicking GW standout Peter Neid for the overall victory and a personal best of 17:16. One wave of runners back, 9^thgrader Grant Elliot (18:07) and sophomore Ben Hopper (18:08) surged to times that would place them 4^thand 5^thoverall. Juniors Jack Kriekels (19:02) and Allan Harder (19:06) rounded out the scoring in 9^thand 10^th, with junior Charlie Kruger also finishing his race in 19:06. East scored a total of 29 points, to best pre-season league favorite Denver South by 7 points; the GW Patriots finished an additional 36 point back. 

            Sarah Wexler of South was the surprise winner of the Girls race, dropping more than 90 seconds from her personal best of last year. East senior Julia Schor was hot on her heals with a time of 19:20, followed by senior Laura Romero in 19:33. Senior Maya Winfield opened up her season with a 20:52 for fourth place, while Abby Howard ran in front and alone for 5000m to easily win wave 2 in 20:53 for fifth place overall. Several South runners ran fast enough to claim places sixth through eighth, followed by East 9^thgrader Sophia Shiroff in 9^thplace who completed the scoring for the Angels with 23 points, ahead of South who finished with 32 points and George Washington with 85 points. 

            Next week the Girls Cohort #1 will split squad between Adams City Varsity Meet and the East-North-West tri-meet, while all of Boys Cohort #1 will participate in the East-North-West tri.

Cohort 2 took on GW at Lowry Sports Complex on a sunny Saturday morning. In race one, with both teams thinned by holiday weekend travel, our eight Angels took on one GW boy in a race that was led from start to finish by our whole pack. Pushing each other the whole way, David Anderson (1^st – 19:56) and Charlie Keglovitz (2^nd) paced the team with a nice bit of pack running until David pulled away on the last half lap to secure his first career win by 15 seconds. The rest of the boys followed suit, with Marcus Burnett (3^rd) and Quinn Higgins (6^th) running side-by-side, followed by Jameson Leigh (5^th) and then another pack of Ethan Burk (4^th), Jay Cory (7^th), and Liam Cook (8^th) just a few seconds back. Our final six fought each other for placing on the back-stretch through some soggy grass that slowed potential PR times, but all finished within 25 seconds of one another, each under 21:20.

In race two, our Angels had a bit more competition and heat to contend with, but still faired well. Following the model of the boys, the girls got out quick and pack-ran the whole way, with eventual winner Sasha Bull (1^st – 22:57) and Sophia Charles (2^nd) running side-by-side throughout. They were pursued by Grace Burnett (3^rd), Bri O’Meara (4^th), and Claire Ely (5^th) who rounded out the top-5, and secured a perfect score for us. After a GW runner came through we got back to work by having the rest of our runners finish seventh through twelfth. On the final half loop Helen Miller (7^th) pulled thirty seconds ahead of the pack she had run with and was followed to the finish by Alia Quinby (8^th), Clara Artley (9^th), Evelyn Higgins (10^th), Ellie Goldstein (11^th), and Clara Lorenzo (12^th).

The cohort 1 race will be around the Mile High Loop in City Park—we will have the fastest group of runners start near the Thatcher Fountain, the next group 500 meters down the trail, the next group 500 meters farther, for a total of five groups.  Each group will start simultaneously, and finish at the same point they started.  We feel that this will enable us to start everyone at the same time, instead of having two heats, and will give each group someone to chase ahead of them.  We want to keep the starting groups around three to nine runners and pretty well-matched.  Each start line will have a timer, and times will be put together for the final result, which we will get to Beth to post on MileSplit.  Runners will need to follow all CHSAA guidelines for racing—having masks on at the start line, removing them when the race starts, and putting them back on after the race, once you have moved off the course and away from others.

The boys race will begin at exactly 8:00, the girls around 8:30, once the course and start/finish areas are clear.  We are a permitted event, but there may be people in the course, and we will need to pass them safely and politely (giving ample clearance).

We can use volunteers to help with timing, marshalling, and whatever else needs to be done.  Spectators and volunteers will need to have masks and be physically distanced as much as possible.