Lindbergh Cross Country

Both our JV and Varsity boys took first place at the Sub-District meet today, while the girls took second place to Interlake. This week was Peak Week for the JV team, and 16 out of 23 JV team members finished the season today with a PR. The course at Fort Steilacoom ran a little slow today for all of the races, probably due to the many large puddles and slippery spots on the course from all the rain the past few days. Great job everyone. The complete results will be posted on athletic.net soon.

This Saturday, Oct. 22nd, is the Sub-District meet at Fort Steilacoom. This is the last meet for the JV team members. For the varsity, this meet determines which teams advance to the district meet the following week (the top five teams advance). At this meet the varsity runners will only compete against the other 2A teams from the Seamount league, SPSL, and Kingco. In all, there are 16 teams in the meet (White River, Interlake, Tyee, Evergreen, Eatonville, Steilacoom, Franklin Pierce, Lindbergh, Foster, Washington, Sumner, Fife, Clover Park, and Renton).

Here is the schedule for the day:

7:00 Arrive at Lindbergh
9:00 Coaches meeting
9:30 JV Boys 2A/3A
10:00 2A Varsity boys
10:30 3A Varsity boys
11:00 2A Varsity girls
11:45 3A Varsity girls
12:15 JV Girls 2A/3A
1:15 Awards
2:00ish Leave for school
3:00ish arrive back at Lindbergh

For directions to Fort Steilacoom, go to: http://www.fortsteilacoominvite.com/Fort%20Steilacoom%20files/driving_directions_to_fort_steil.htm

Once again, the Lindbergh cross country teams finished first in the Seamount League. The Varsity boys took first place with 19 points to second place Renton who had 68. The varsity girls won with 18 points to Hazen’s second place 50. And the JV boys had the low score of the day, winning 16 to Hazen’s 63.

In the girls race we put our top 5 in the top 8 in the race. Sarah, Anna, Jasmine, Thuong, and Liz all earned First Team All-League status in the girl’s race. In the boys race we placed our top 6 in the top 10. Luke, Mo, Mark, Travis, Ben, and Nathan all earned First Team All-League. In the JV boys we put our top 6 in the top 7 of the race. They were Endalkachew, Westerling, Sam, Ismael, Keshawn, and David.

Though the weather was ideal, the course was probably a little slower than in the past. Due to construction there were a couple of revisions to the course. This added some sharp turns that runners had to navigate on both laps.

For complete results, go to http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=47556#433

This Saturday, Oct. 15th is the Seamount League meet. All 8 teams in the league will be there. The meet is scored in two ways: First, it is scored as a dual meet between the teams who have not yet competed against one another. For us, this means we are scoring against Renton, Hazen, and Kennedy. Additionally, it is scored as the Seamount League Championship meet. The top 10 varsity boys and girls in the meet are considered 1st Team All-Seamount League, and they will receive a plaque.

Here is the time schedule for the day:

9:15 Bus leaves Lindbergh
10:30 am: Coaches meeting
11:00 am: Varsity Girls (Sarah, Anna, Jasmine, Thuong, Liz, Brenna, Cindy)
11:30 am: Varsity Boys (Luke, Mark, Mo, Travis, Nathan, Ben, Omeylan, Colton, Mitchell, Grant)
12:00 pm: JV Girls/Boys
1:00 pm: Awards Ceremony (Gym)
2:00 pm: Return to the Lindbergh

Our boys had a solid run at the Richland Invitational. We finished in 8th place out of the 30 teams that were in the elite Division 1 race. There were great teams at the meet, with 5 ranked in the top 50 in the entire United States! We beat all of the teams that we should have beaten, and almost beat a couple of nationally ranked teams. All in all, it was a great racing experience and a good result for our team. Good job guys. Now we have three more weeks to keep getting better.

This weekend our varsity boys are running in the Richland Invitational. Here is the schedule and info.

Richland Invitational
Carmichael Middle School
Directions:
Highway 240 to Highway 182
George Washington Way Exit
Left on Lee
Left on Thayer
Friday:
2:15 Leave Lindbergh
5:45 Jog the course
7:00 Dinner at Casa Mia in Richland
8:30 Check into Kennewick Super 8 Motel
10:00 In your own room
11:00 Lights out
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast at the hotel
9:30 Grocery stop for snacks and lunch food
11:00 Check out of hotel, leave for course
11:15 Arrive at the course, set up camp
1:55 Division 1 Boys Race
3:00 Awards
4:30 Dinner at Miners in Yakima
8:00 Back at Lindbergh

Complete meet information can be found at: http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=45316#433

We had a great weekend at the Mt. Baker invitational. Everyone had a blast, and we ran great. We didn’t have our full team with us this year for a variety of reasons. Our varsity boys took the weekend off, because they will be running next weekend at the Richland Invitational. A few other team members had to take the SAT. Inspite of this, our team was impressively competitive at the meet. In the JV boys race, we took 9th place. Our girls finished 5th, and in the varsity boys race we finished 8th.

Here are the times of the people who ran this year AND last year, with the amount of improvement:

Ashley P. 25:19 -3:23
Evan F. 18:12 -:40
Titus 19:20 -2:03
Evan L 20:00 +:45
Jasmine 19:16 -:45
Liz 22:10 +:26
Brenna 23:23 +:43
Westerling 17:06 -1:21
Mitchell 17:10 -:39
Colton 17:15 -1:55
Grant 17:20 -2:10
David 18:40 -2:12

The complete results can be found at: http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=46286#433

This Friday, Sept. 30th, we are leaving for Bellingham and the Mt. Baker invitational. We will stay at the Bellingham Travelodge (360) 733-8280. We will leave Lindbergh at 2:30 Friday. After we check into the hotel, we will go for a run at nearby Lake Padden. Dinner and freetime from about 6:30 – 8:30. In your rooms by 10:00 p.m.

The meet takes place at Silver Lake, up Mt. Baker highway about 30 miles. The JV girls run at 11:45, the JV boys run at 12:30, the varsity girls run at 1:15, and the varsity boys run at 2:00. On the way back we will have dinner in Bellingham. We will be back at Lindbergh around 7:30.

Because the homecoming dance is Saturday, we will send one of the vans back as early as possible with the people who are going to the dance. Hopefully the dance van will be back by 6:00 (we will do the best we can–be flexible dancers!).

Remember to get your run-a-thon pledges turned in by Tuesday to Coach Rettmann. It is going to be fun running around Lake Youngs with everyone!

It was in the 80s in Portland Saturday, and there were teams from all around the country there for the Nike Pre-Nationals meet. The Lindbergh runners overall did very well. Here are the boys and girls times, with the amount that each improved over last year at this meet (if they ran last year).

Luke 16:14 (-:56), Mohamud 16:22 (-1:38), Travis (-:43), Mark 16:41 (-:24), Ben 16:53 (-:50), Nathan 16:57 (same), Omelyan 17:30 (-2:23), Mitchell 17:52 (-:43), Grant 17:59 (-1:43), Endalkachew 17:59, Colton 18:11, Ishmael 18:54, Eugene 19:03 (-:10), Westerling 19:07, Anna 19:12, Jasmine 20:14 (-1:29), Thuong 21:28, Liz 22:48 (-:23)

Our boys team finished a very competitive 8th place. Great job everyone.