Click on the headline above to go to the photo album. David Drews took some great shots. The other album is mine....a "work in progress". Note that you can speed up the show by clicking the "-" at the bottom. Enjoy....
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Boys Take 2nd; Girls Take 5th at Season's Opener
The first annual Shorewood Invite was a great way to get the legs warmed up and for coaches to get a good sense of how the teams are going to develop throughout the course of the season. As an "early bird" meet, varsity and junior varisty ran together. Seven teams participated in the boys meet, with Division 1 team Marquette dominating the competition, taking 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7th place. Shorewood boys held their own though, coming in second overall. Conference rival Whitnall placed third.
Several returning Shorewood runners had PRs including John Taylor, Brendan Vorpahl, Peter Drews(at Kern) and Ben Tyler. Peter and Ben paced the field for the first mile when Ben broke away from the pack, finishing with a time of 16:17, 40 seconds ahead of the second place Marquette runner. Peter made it an exciting battle for third place by coming on very strong in the last half mile, nearly holding off highly ranked Will Casey of Marquette. Peter posted a Kern Park PR with a time of 16:58. John Taylor was 19th with a time of 18:12 and Brendan Vorphal was 20th with a time of 18:33. Aiden Mazur rounded out the top 5 Shorewood runners, placing 27th with a time of 19:04.
Several of the freshman and sophmores looked strong given the season just got underway. Eric Alfvin was recorded in the results but is injured so Keith Dodd took the 6th and Oliver Heywood the 7th varsity spots contributing to the effort. Joe Pendleton, a sophmore varsity contributor of last year did not finish due to an injury. There is great potential talent in the Shorewood ranks which will be critical to develop if Shorewood is going to be a contender this year. There is no doubt that the potential is there.
The girls had a great race as well, finishing 5th overall. Divine Savior took it all but four teams were in contention for the trophy. There was a five point spread between first and fourth! Divine Savior squeaked past Muskego by one point, Whitnall third and Wauwatosa West fourth.
Morgan Baker was the first Shorewood runner, placing tenth and medaling, followed closely behind 11th place Jenny Vrobel. I believe Jenny had a significant PR. Nora Waters had a great race, coming in 14th. Chloe Staub came in 30th and Laura Schroeaer rounded out the top 5 Shorewood girls by placing 38th.
I am hoping Paul Erickson can add more color to the girls results since I am not as up-to-speed on the girls so I apologize if I did not get this right.
Several returning Shorewood runners had PRs including John Taylor, Brendan Vorpahl, Peter Drews(at Kern) and Ben Tyler. Peter and Ben paced the field for the first mile when Ben broke away from the pack, finishing with a time of 16:17, 40 seconds ahead of the second place Marquette runner. Peter made it an exciting battle for third place by coming on very strong in the last half mile, nearly holding off highly ranked Will Casey of Marquette. Peter posted a Kern Park PR with a time of 16:58. John Taylor was 19th with a time of 18:12 and Brendan Vorphal was 20th with a time of 18:33. Aiden Mazur rounded out the top 5 Shorewood runners, placing 27th with a time of 19:04.
Several of the freshman and sophmores looked strong given the season just got underway. Eric Alfvin was recorded in the results but is injured so Keith Dodd took the 6th and Oliver Heywood the 7th varsity spots contributing to the effort. Joe Pendleton, a sophmore varsity contributor of last year did not finish due to an injury. There is great potential talent in the Shorewood ranks which will be critical to develop if Shorewood is going to be a contender this year. There is no doubt that the potential is there.The girls had a great race as well, finishing 5th overall. Divine Savior took it all but four teams were in contention for the trophy. There was a five point spread between first and fourth! Divine Savior squeaked past Muskego by one point, Whitnall third and Wauwatosa West fourth.
Morgan Baker was the first Shorewood runner, placing tenth and medaling, followed closely behind 11th place Jenny Vrobel. I believe Jenny had a significant PR. Nora Waters had a great race, coming in 14th. Chloe Staub came in 30th and Laura Schroeaer rounded out the top 5 Shorewood girls by placing 38th.I am hoping Paul Erickson can add more color to the girls results since I am not as up-to-speed on the girls so I apologize if I did not get this right.
Click on the headline at the top to get specific results from PT Timing.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Cross Country Meet Schedule
Here is the schedule for the Boys Cross Country season. I believe it is the same for the girls.
Friday, August 29 Shorewood Invite @ Kern Park. Meet starts at 4:00pm
Saturday, September 6 Rebel Invite @ Parkside. Meet Starts at 9:30am
Thursday, September 11 Arrowhead Invite @ Arrowhead HS. Meet Starts at 4:15pm
Saturday, September 20 Marquette Invite @ Washington Park. Meet Starts at 10:00am
Friday, September 26 Leave for Griak meet in the Morning. Top 10 runners from season average will go or coaches discretion.
Saturday, September 27 Griak Meet @ U Of M Golf Course.
Saturday, September 27 Muskego Invite @ Muskego Middle School. (More info coming)
Saturday, October 4 Kimberly Invite
Saturday, October 11 Shorewood Invite @ Kern
Friday, October 19 Woodlands Conference Meet @ Kern Park
Saturday, October 25 Sectional Meet @ Tendick Park. Only the top 7 runners will get the chance to compete here. Plus one alternate.
Saturday, November 1 STATE MEET
Friday, August 29 Shorewood Invite @ Kern Park. Meet starts at 4:00pm
Saturday, September 6 Rebel Invite @ Parkside. Meet Starts at 9:30am
Thursday, September 11 Arrowhead Invite @ Arrowhead HS. Meet Starts at 4:15pm
Saturday, September 20 Marquette Invite @ Washington Park. Meet Starts at 10:00am
Friday, September 26 Leave for Griak meet in the Morning. Top 10 runners from season average will go or coaches discretion.
Saturday, September 27 Griak Meet @ U Of M Golf Course.
Saturday, September 27 Muskego Invite @ Muskego Middle School. (More info coming)
Saturday, October 4 Kimberly Invite
Saturday, October 11 Shorewood Invite @ Kern
Friday, October 19 Woodlands Conference Meet @ Kern Park
Saturday, October 25 Sectional Meet @ Tendick Park. Only the top 7 runners will get the chance to compete here. Plus one alternate.
Saturday, November 1 STATE MEET
Early Predictions for the Boys Cross Country Team
Message from Dom last week regarding one's view of the season:
Here is an interesting write up on the Division II teams. Remember that Port Washington and Wisconsin Lutheran will be in our Sectionals. They give us a better rating then what I would give our team. Sorry but that is how I feel. The person who wrote this piece really knows his stuff. It makes me look at things from a different perspective. Remember this is just for fun reading. Do not take to much stalk into it.
http://wisconsinxc.com/D2/D2FrontPage.php
Dominic
Here is an interesting write up on the Division II teams. Remember that Port Washington and Wisconsin Lutheran will be in our Sectionals. They give us a better rating then what I would give our team. Sorry but that is how I feel. The person who wrote this piece really knows his stuff. It makes me look at things from a different perspective. Remember this is just for fun reading. Do not take to much stalk into it.
http://wisconsinxc.com/D2/D2FrontPage.php
Dominic
The 2008 Shorewood Invite
The first race of the season will be this Friday at 4:00 at Kern Park.
The coaches are asking the runners to arrive by 2:30 in order to warm up.
Boys 5K will start at 4:00
Girls 4K will start at 4:45
and an unscored open race will start at 5:30
There will be no JV or Varsity distinctions. Everyone will run together for this one.
The coaches are asking the runners to arrive by 2:30 in order to warm up.
Boys 5K will start at 4:00
Girls 4K will start at 4:45
and an unscored open race will start at 5:30
There will be no JV or Varsity distinctions. Everyone will run together for this one.
New season starts on Friday
The season will officially kick off on Friday August 29th at 4:00 p.m. In the past we have trekked out to west bend for the grade level challenge. The course was basically a cow pasture and the weather tended to be on the beastly side, so it is nice to see it drop off of the schedule. The meet will be on our home course ( Kern Park) instead so at least the commute will be better although the kids may not appreciate getting up close and personal with "Big Bertha" this early in the campaign.
I understand that volunteers are needed and motivated parents should report to the field by 2:30.
Finally, Don Tyler has graciously offered to help out with the writing and updating of this site. Hopefully between the two of us we will be able to keep it more current then I was able to manage last year. We might even attempt twitter or rss feeds or something depending on how motivated we get. Without Andrew this year I will probably focus more on the girl's team and leave the guys to Don but we haven't actually worked out the details yet. It's not too late if anyone else is interested in getting involved there is plenty of work to go around. As always it is nice to have good pictures right after a race to post. Feel free to e-mail us jpeg files of your best shots and we will do our best to get them up. I am thinking that we might just create a group site on Winkflash to make it easy to order prints. We'll see. any other suggestions are also welcome.
See you all on Friday!
Dash
I understand that volunteers are needed and motivated parents should report to the field by 2:30.
Finally, Don Tyler has graciously offered to help out with the writing and updating of this site. Hopefully between the two of us we will be able to keep it more current then I was able to manage last year. We might even attempt twitter or rss feeds or something depending on how motivated we get. Without Andrew this year I will probably focus more on the girl's team and leave the guys to Don but we haven't actually worked out the details yet. It's not too late if anyone else is interested in getting involved there is plenty of work to go around. As always it is nice to have good pictures right after a race to post. Feel free to e-mail us jpeg files of your best shots and we will do our best to get them up. I am thinking that we might just create a group site on Winkflash to make it easy to order prints. We'll see. any other suggestions are also welcome.
See you all on Friday!
Dash
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