Dom's recap of Arrowhead

Based on a fairly strong start to the season the team seems a bit let down after our performance yesterday! They felt that we may have been a little further along, but we were not quite where we thought we should be. This may be do to illness/injuries that is plaguing the team.If each of the guys would have run 10-15 seconds faster we would have felt better about the race. The effort that Douglas Stewart put in was stellar!!! It is the best race that Douglas has run since his sophomore year at the state meet. A nice PR. Brian Valusek also had a PR at this meet, along with Ben Flanders and Sammy Dupuis.


On the JV side John Bassen had a PR and he now moves up to the 8th varsity position. Sam Quadagnino Pr'd by about 40 seconds and Andy Tisdel improved his time by over a minute. Jason glass also looked at a season PR of 22 seconds. I would also like to congratulate Nate Weber for finishing his first HS race ever as a senior. There must be something special about the team to get a first year runner out his senior year. (Nate it does get easier)
Overall it was a pretty good meet, but for our varsity it was a bit of a kick in the face. It would be easy to get discouraged and give up. I hope you realize we are going to get better, it’s just a matter of how much better we get.Good athletes learn to turn disappointment into motivation. The next 6 weeks of our season will be tough. I’m looking forward to it and hope you are too.

Times:

Walsh: 16:40
Stewart: 16:44
Haury: 17:06
Salmon: 17:08
Valusek: 17:14
Erickson: 17:24
Flanders: 19:13
Dupuis: 19:40
Bassen: 19:20
Guadagnino: 19:57
Tisdel: 21:14
Abraham: 21:19
Hackett: 22:19
Glass: 22:22
Weber: 22:59
Frosh Race 4000:
Phillips: 18:57
Bulluck-Mcswain: 18:19