XC Update- October 1st

Titan XC Update October 1, 2007

OPEN REGION MEET @ DAVIS
Six of the eight schools from Region One competed at this meet held at Barnes Park in Kaysville. The girls finished 3rd while the boys were 6th. As usual, Abby Rich, Hannah Williams and McKayla Williams were our top three finishers in 14th, 16th and 17th places. The boys were led by Austin Costley (25th), Jake Rossmango (36th), and Weston Atkins (64th). This race was used mostly as a workout and tuneup for the Orem meet. Complete results can be found at:

OREM INVITATIONAL
The Girls’ Varsity race featured 32 of the top TEAMS from Utah and Wyoming. The Lady Titans did a great job in finishing 17th overall and 9th among the Utah 5A schools. This was the best overall race of the year for the girls as six of the seven runners had their best mile-average time. Abby Rich was our top finisher covering the 5,000 meter course in 20:34. This was good enough for 52nd place overall. Hannah Williams (60th, 20:45) and McKayla Williams (73rd, 21:07) were close behind. Kiana Tebbs continued her improvement running 22:25 to finish 135th. This was a 40-second PR. Hilary Russell also had a great race finishing 142nd in 22:34. This was her first 5k and was 2 ½ minutes faster than her Wasatch Rendezvous race over 3.0 miles. Aubrey Eddy’s 22:46 was close to a PR. Alexia Wilcox ran her best race of the year finishing in 23.21, a PR by over a minute.
Because of the inexperience of the boys, we decided to run all of them in the Junior Varsity race. They ran very well finishing 15th in the 29-TEAM field. Over 400 runners competed in the J.V. portion of the meet. Nine of the 13 runners had their best mile average of the year. Austin Costley again led the Titans finishing 24th in 18:24. Jake Rossmango continued his rapid improvement as he finished 44th in 18:44. Freshmen Preston Williams (113th, 19:35) and Weston Atkins (174th, 20:09) were our next two placers. In a pleasant surprise, Tyler Siddoway ran 20:30 in his first race ever to finish 199th. Michael Wade (236th, 21:03) and Nick Hilton (258th, 21:25) rounded out the top seven. Kyle Kelly and Clayton Bergloff had 5k PR’s of over one-minute.
Complete results can be found at: www.runnercard.com.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Chosen as Athletes of the Week were Kiana Tebbs and Jake Rossmango. Both sophomores continue to improve every week and are going to be keys to our chances of qualifying for State. They are doing a great job in workouts and the meets.

SCHEDULE THIS WEEK:
Wednesday, we will run at Fremont High. The school is located at 1900 north, 4700 west in Plain City. Most of the schools in the region will be running. The girls will run at 3:45, the boys at 4:15. Saturday, we will workout at Layton City Park at 8:00 am. It is very important that everyone make it to this workout as we will fine tune things while running the Region Championship course.

REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS
The goal all year has been to put ourselves in position to qualify for the State Championships. To get there, we need to finish in the top five at the Region Championships. The girls have a very good shot, while the boys will have to run their best race of the year to make it to State. Fortunately, almost everyone is running the best they have all year and we are also getting over some injuries that should make us very competitive. It would be great to have both TEAMS make it to State in the first year of the schools’ existence.

REMAINING SCHEDULE
Oct 3- Open Region Meet @ Fremont (3:45)
Oct 10- Region Championships @ Layton (4:00)
Oct 17- State Championships @ Sugarhouse Park (3:00)