The All-City meet was scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 12th. Due to conflicts with Seward Park, we had to change the meet to Wednesday, Oct. 11th. The races times are the same. Spread the word.
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This Thursday, 10-5, we run against Highline and Evergreen. Highline is the host of the meet, but the meet is not at their school. It is also not at the location that they used to use (North Seatac Park).
The meet will be run at the Seatac Community Center. Here is the address so that you can Mapquest it:
13735 24th Ave. South
Seatac, WA. 98168.
The race times are the same as always:
3:30 JV Boys, 4:00 Girls, 4:30 Varsity Boys
John Cote was more of a track middle distance runner than a cross country runner. He was a multi-year varsity cross country runner but mostly middle of the pack. In track, he was the best in the state and still holds the Washington State 800m record. He placed 3rd nationally his Senior year and broke the 25-year-old state mark of 1:50.4 set by Greg Gibson of Connell in 1972.
John went on to run for Washington State University on a full ride scholarship for a couple years.
Best times:
800m 1:49.41
4x400m split: 46.5
3 mile – 16:33 (5:31 pace)
John, if you ever land on this page and can provide more times, please contact us.
Brett Johnson was both a runner and coach of Lindbergh cross country. He was a Lindbergh captain in 1998. He was on two Seamount league championship teams, earned all-league honors from his Sophomore through Senior years. His 16:27 at the state meet in 1998, was one of Lindbergh’s top state finishes. Brett went on to run at Central Washington University and Bellevue Community College. While at Bellevue Community College, he was their #1 runner while only training with the Lindbergh runners three days a week. Brett was also a league champion in the 800m and 4x400m track events. His PRs were 400m: 52.6, 800m: 1:57.6, mile: 4:29, 2-mile: 9:58, 5k: 16:23, 8k: 27:24, 10k: 35:29
Brett was an assistant cross country coach for Lindbergh for the 2000-2004 seasons. In 2005, Brett moved to San Jose, California to take a job at IBM. Brett continues running in relays such as the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey, The Relay, Madison-to-Chicago, and other long races with his IBM running team.