Lindbergh Cross Country

Today we had our only home meet of the season.  In spite of the poor weather, we still drew a large crowd of students, teachers, parents, and former team members.  Lindbergh completely dominated every race against Highline, Kennedy, and Evergreen.  Our boys JV placed 12 runners ahead of the non-Lindbergh runner.  Needless to say, we scored the lowest score possible against all of the teams.  The girls nearly swept the other schools, winning by forfeit over Evergreen, beating Kennedy 17 to 40, and beating Highline 19 to 37.  The varsity boys put all seven runners ahead of the next team's #1 runner. 

Click below for complete results.

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Today the boys JV and Varsity both took first place at the Mt. Baker invitational.  The JV boys easily won–the second place team had about twice as many points.  The varsity squeaked out a win, with a margin of only one point over Burlington-Edison.  The girls team ran very well, with all 14 of our girls running in the race for the first time of the season.  They finished in about the middle of the pack, but they beat our Seamount rival Mt. Rainier.  Trevor Thompson won the boys individual title, while Sarah Reiter finished a close second in the girls race.  The conditions were very wet and muddy, which made a crazy, slippery, and slow course.

Click below for splits and finish times.

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This Friday, Oct. 3rd, we are leaving for Bellingham to compete in the Mt. Baker invitational, which is Saturday Oct. 4th.  This is a great meet that takes place in a beautiful location and has about 30 teams competing.  Click below for information.

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All 7 runners ran well in Portland this weekend, which earned us a 2nd place finish at the Nike Pre-Nationals meet behind Jesuit of Portland, who is the #2 ranked team in the Western region behind North Central (who is also ranked #1 in the entire United States).  We were the first place team from Washington, beating strong teams from Tahoma, Mercer Island, Skyline, and Sehome.  Our top four guys all ran PRs and moved up on the Lindbergh All-Time list.  Click below for team scores and splits/finish times.

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Thursday, Sept, 25, we kicked off the Seamount League dual meet season against Mt. Rainier and Tyee.  Both the boys varsity and junior varsity easily won against both teams.  The girls ran well, but were unable to beat Mt. Rainier.  They did beat Tyee, as well as Kennedy, who ran in the meet but did not score.  Click below for splits and times.

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This Saturday, Sept. 27th, our boys varsity will be competing in the Nike Pre Nationals Meet in Portland.  Our boys are running with the most elite teams at the meet.  Race time is 2:50.  The meet is held at Portland Meadows race track.  Team members coming on this trip need to be at school at 7:30 Saturday morning.  Bring money for food and meet t-shirts if you want one.  We will be back at school around 9:00.  Admission to the meet is $5.

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Lindbergh had a huge day today at the Fort Steilacoom Invitational.  Our boys varsity took first place out of 40 teams, including the #6 ranked 4A team in the state (Tahoma).  In the JV #1 race, our five freshmen phenoms took 2nd place overall out of 26 schools competing.  This was the first 5K race for all of our top 5 JV guys.  In the JV 2 race, Lindbergh once again placed 2nd, led by impressive runs by Scott Morrison and Alex Nelsen.  In the girls varsity race we finished 24th out of 48 teams.  Individually, we had quite a few people place in the top ten in their races, and many people ran lifetime PRs.  Sarah Reiter, in just her first 5K race ever, ran a 19:32, which puts her #4 all-time in the history of Lindbergh High School.  On the boys side, Matt Miland moved up to 7th all-time.

For complete meet results go the http://www.fortsteilacoominvite.com/fort_steilacoom_information.htm

For Lindbergh finish times and race splits click below.

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This Thursday was the Seamount Class meet.  There are nine team now in the Seamount league (Lindbergh, Renton, Hazen, Mt. Rainier, Tyee, Evergreen, Kennedy, Highline, Foster).  The 2 mile race takes place on the rolling hills of the Evergreen High School course.  Lindbergh looked very good compared to the rest of the league this year; we took home far more top-ten ribbons than any other team.  Mark Garcia and Sarah Reiter won the freshman races, Nate Tandecki took first in the sophomore race, Trevor Thompson ran away with the Junior race, and Matt Miland took second in the senior race to Mt. Rainier's Michael Miller.  Matt and Michael attacked each other for the entire two mile course, passing each other back and forth continuously.  Officially they finished with identical times, although Miller took first on the lean.  Their time of 10:04 is a new class meet course record.  Sam Ahlbeck, who graduated from Lindbergh in 2004-05 held the previous record of 10:07.

Go to www.seamounttrack.com for the complete meet results.

Click below for the complete list of times.

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On Tuesday, September 30th, the Lindbergh Cross Country team will be doing a run-a-thon to raise money for an overnight trip to Bellingham to compete in the Mt. Baker Invitational cross country meet. In the run-a-thon, team members will run for one hour around the Lake Youngs reservoir, and they will keep track of how far they run in one hour. We are asking people to sponsor our runners either by paying per mile or by paying a flat fee. We will accept cash or checks. Please make checks payable to Lindbergh High School.

The money is due Thursday, October 2nd.

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The season is off and running now that we have had our first meet.  The weather was perfect.  The lake was fairly warm to run through.  Tons of parents came to watch the races and participate in the potluck.  And everyone ran great.  Our top relay team of Trevor, Sarah, Matt, Anna, and Joseph placed third, the best ever for a Lindbergh relay team at that meet.  In short, it was a good day.  I have no idea exactly how long the course actually is (somewhat less than 2 miles).  The times don't mean much.  Some people got caught in the bottleneck and had to slow down.  Some people fell in the water and lost time.  Some people ran most of the course without anyone around them to pace off of.  If you want to see your time and compare it to other team members, however, click below. 

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