2012 cross country tesm awards night

Hello everyone,

Wed Dec 5th we will be doing our team awards night to recognize inidividual and team accomplishments. We will also take time to recognize our great seniors.

Here are the details:

Wed Dec 5th
5:00 pm
Orem high school little theater ? (Near main office)
Athletes and and familys

We will serve a light dessert.

Please call me with any questions.

Thanks,

Andy

Halloween half water stops

Team, we will meet at Vivian park 8: 15 am. Please dress warmly. It will be a cold morning!

Thanks

Andy

State Cross Country - Meet information

Team, here is the schedule for State on Wed. All athletes on the team should plan on taking the bus to the state meet. We are looking forward to a great day and need plenty of voices to cheer on the Varsity Boys and Girls Teams.

The race will be at Sugarhouse Park in SLC take I-80 East from i-15 and then the 13th east exit. Sugarhouse is on 21st south and 13 east!


Time Schedule

9:30 AM Varsity Teams to be checked out
11:00 AM Team to be checked out
11:15 - Bus Will Depart Orem
Races:
4A Girls...1:30 pm
4A Boys...3:00 pm

Congratulations to the following 14 athletes that will be competing Wed for a state Championship!

Boys Varsity:
Austin Birrell
Kyle Bunker
Matt Owens
Adam Holderness
Erik Mckell
Jared Bradshaw
Russell Karns

Girls Varsity:
Summer Harper
Candace Greenwood
Ashley Runyon
Kate Mitchell
Kelsie Bonnett
Alexis Macarthur
Sydney Jacobs

May your feet be fast, and you know that we can do hard Things!!!

Thanks,

Andy

2012 Region 8 Championships
Saturday 10/6/2012


2012 Official (Varsity Results)


Orem Girls Win convincingly Scoring 36 Points
- Summer Harper Region Champion
- All 7 Varsity girls under 20:01
- 4 All Region Runners (Summer, Candace, Kate, Ashley)
- 2 2nd Team All region (Alexis, Kelsie)

Boys 2nd Place Overall Scoring 70 Points (A 50 point and 4 Place jump over Pre Region)
- 2 All Region (Kyle Bunker 4th, and Matt Owens 7th)
- 2 2nd Team All region Runners ( Austin Birrell 12th, and Adam Holderness 20th)

Both Teams qualify for state!!!

Great Job Team...

Region championships

Team, region is here quickly this year. Here are the meet details:

6: 45 am - bus to depart Orem for Kiwanis park Provo
8: 00 am - girls varsity race
8: 30 am - Boys varsity race
9: 00 am - girls jv
9: 30 am - boys jv
10: 15 am - team awards

Girls varsity team:
Summer
Candace
Ashley
Kate
Alexis
Kelsie
Sydney

Boys varsity:
Austin
Matt
Kyle
Adam
Erik
Jared
Russell

Top five region teams advance to state. We are looking for a successful weekend and bringing a region championship back to Orem this year!

Bob Firman invite

Team, here is the list of athletes that will be traveling with the team and competing in Meridian Idaho next week. Please make every effort to pay your $60.00 to the finance office this week. If there is a concern with the cost of the trip. Please work with Coach Andy.

If you are on this list and not planning on going, I need to know ASAP.

Adam Holderness

Alexis MacArthur

Ashley Runyan

Austin Birrell

Brenna Jeffs

Candace Greenwood

Craig Larsen

Dallin "Jack" Robison

David Johnson

Emma Bowman

Erik Mckell

Gretta Warner

James Kimmell

Jared Bradshaw

Kate Mitchel

Kelsie Bonnett

Kyle Bunker

Matt Owens

Nate Livingston

Olimpia Okamura

Parker Adams

Russel Karns

Sarah Lowry

Summer Harper

Sydney Jacobs

**Abigail Lee

Please print off (or use the one we gave you this week) and bring the medical waiver back to me by Friday Morning.

Bob Firman Athlete Letter

We will be leaving at 8:00 AM Friday September 15th and will be returning Saturday Evening approx 10:30 AM.

Team Hotel Information: (This is a different Hotel then our regular one)
Country Inn & Suites - Boise West, 3355 E Pine, Meridian
Reservatons 208.639.3300

Tentative Race Schedule

9th Grade Girls 5k 9:00
9th Grade Boys 5k 9:40
DII Varsity Boys 5K 10:20
DI Varsity Boys 5K 10:50
Elite Varsity Girls 5K 11:20
Elite Varsity Boys 5K 11:50

DII Varsity Girls 5K 12:20

DI Varsity Girls 5K 12:55

JV Boys 5K section 1 1:30

JV Boys 5K section 2 2:05
JV Girls 5K section 1 2:40

JV Girls 5K section 2 3:20

BYU invite - Friday Varsity, Saturday JV/Fresh/soph

Hey guys,

This weeks schedule for races will be a little bit different. Both girls and boys varsity teams have been invited to compete at the elite level BYU invite during the collegiate portion at Cascade Golf course on Friday Night.

Here is that schedule,

Friday at Cascade Golf Course in Orem

5K Course Map
  5:00 pm Men's 4 Mile
  5:30 pm Girl's Invitational 5K (Summer, Candace, Ashley, Kate, Alexis, Sydney, Kelsie)
  6:00 pm Women's 4 Mile
  6:30 pm Boy's Invitational 5K(Austin, Kyle, Matt, Adam, Erik, Russ, Craig)

Then Saturday morning the rest of the team will compete: 

Saturday at BYU
 9:00 am Frosh/Soph Boys 5K
 9:30 am Frosh/Soph Girls 5K
10:10 am JV Boys 5K

10:40 am JV Girls 5K


5K Course Map

 FYI: 

Races at Cascade Spikes - Spikes are allowed. Spectator Admission - Entrance to the Autumn Classic is $5.  Children 5 and under are free.  Any youth athlete age 14 and under that wears their track or cross country uniform is admitted free! Warm-up -  The course will open to the athletes beginning at 4:00 p.m. Friday afternoon. Directions - Cascade Golf Course is located at 1313 E 800 N in Orem.  Click on the link to view map.  Additional parking is available at Foothill Elementary school.

Races at BYU Spikes - Spikes are allowed but limited to 1/4" pyramids to protect the track.  No pin spikes or Christmas trees. Spectator Admission - Entrance to the Autumn Classic is $5.  Children 5 and under are free.  Any youth athlete age 14 and under that wears their track or cross country uniform is admitted free! Warm-up -  The course will open for the athletes beginning at 6:00 am Saturday morning.  Directions - The Clarence Robison Track is located on the campus of Brigham Young University.  Click on the link to view map.  Parking is available in any of the lots for the football stadium.  Parking is also available in the new lot west of Helaman Halls across Canyon Road, and at the Smith Fieldhouse.

Thank you,

Coach Andy

Murray Invite results

Team, we had another very successfull Cross Country Meet.

Murray invite was the largest invite this year, and both Boys and Girls teams performed extremely well.

The girls team finished 3rd overall and was the #1 4A school (Narrowly over Skyline and Mt. Crest / two very good programs. )

Summer was the individual champion and Candace finished in 13th respectively!

Athlete Name			Murray Invite
			@ Murray
3 = V Letter	Grade	Top 5 total Time	1:38:00
		Top 5 Gap	02:14.1
4	12	Summer Harper	18:10.7	1
4	11	Candace Greenwood	19:21.3	2
4	11	Ashley Runyan	19:51.2	3
4	11	Kate Mitchel	20:11.5	4
3	9	Alexis MacArthur	20:24.8	5
3	9	Sydney Jacobs	20:42.5	6
2	11	Sarah Lowry	21:27.1	7
	9	Brenna Jeffs	21:47.0	8
	11	Gretta Warner	21:53.2	9
	11	Skotie Houle	22:38.0	10
	12	Olimpia Okamura	23:05.1	11
	9	Emma Bowman	23:25.9	12

Girls Varsity: Ashley, Candace, Kate, Summer, Alexis, Syd (missing Sara :( )

The Boys team finished 9th and was the 4th best in 4A. We just narrowly missed getting an individual in the top 20 but we did have three boys (Austin, Matt, and Kyle) finish under 16:46 (a very good time).

Athlete Name			Murray Invite
			@ Murray
3 = V Letter	Grade	Top 5 total Time	1:27:10
		Top 5 Gap	00:22.0
4	12	Austin Birrell	16:33.8	1
3	11	Matt Owens	16:39.1	2
4	11	Kyle Bunker	16:46.7	3
4	12	Adam Holderness	17:28.7	4
1	9	Jared Bradshaw	18:28.0	5
4	10	Erik Mckell	18:29.2	6
4	11	Russel Karns	18:50.6	7
1	9	James Kimmell	18:51.7	8
3	10	Craig Larsen	18:54.6	9
	11	David Johnson	19:16.1	10
	10	Derek Ward	19:42.8	11
	11	Nate Livingston	19:47.0	12

Utah County Invite Results

Congratulations to the Girls Cross Country team for winning the 2012 Utah County Invite.

Combined top 5 time was 1 Hour 34 minutes. That is 18:50 average per runner with a top 5 gap of only 1:43.00. The top 7 only had a gap of 2:32.00 (that matched our best top 5 gap last year of 2:30. Making great progress early.

Athlete Name			Utah County	Place
			@ Lakeside
3 = V Letter	Grade	Top 5 total Time	1:34:12
		Top 5 Gap	01:43.9
3	12	Summer Harper	17:44.2	1
3	11	Candace Greenwood	18:29.2	2
3	11	Ashley Runyan	19:07.8	3
2	9	Alexis MacArthur	19:23.5	4
3	11	Kate Mitchel	19:28.0	5
3	9	Kelsie Bonnett	19:43.1	6
2	9	Sydney Jacobs	20:16.7	7
1	11	Sarah Lowry	20:51.1	8
	9	Brenna Jeffs	21:10.0	9
	11	Gretta Warner	21:33.3	10

The boys finished 11th (missing one varsity runner).



Boys top 10 averaged 16:50 and had a 5 man gap of 2:02.70!!

Athlete Name			Utah County	Place
			@ Vinyard
3 = V Letter	Grade	Top 5 total Time	1:24:13
		Top 5 Gap	02:02.7
3	11	Kyle Bunker	15:48.8	1
3	12	Austin Birrell	16:39.0	2
3	12	Adam Holderness	16:44.2	3
3	10	Erik Mckell	17:09.9	4
3	11	Russel Karns	17:51.6	5
3	10	Craig Larsen	18:03.5	6
1	9	James Kimmell	18:23.1	7
	9	Parker Adams	18:29.9	8
	11	David Johnson	18:34.5	9
	11	Nate Livingston	18:36.7	10