Betz Recap - Varsity finish 3rd of 15 teams, JV 6th of 15 Teams

An early focus we have had as a team is winning, by winning for each other, for us.  Sending just 5 men to the line for varsity and 6 for JV, courage and determination were necessary in order for the team to find success on the day.  For Us was on display all afternoon at our home invite.

The Varsity and JV teams both finished with a scoring 5 in the top 34 of the invitational!  Finishing 5th as a team, the JV was led by Nate Hutter finishing 8th overall in a strong consistent race, followed close behind by teammates Preston Plier and Brody Kaminski who went 11th and 13th.  With the top 3 scorers in, all eyes turned to Iker Robles and Henry Roemer.  Iker ran a very even race finishing 32nd after being 31st at the mile mark.  Henry started off great in 29th at the mile, but found himself back to 41st at the 2 mile.  Knowing he was the 5th man, Henry had one of the best last miles on the team and moved up 7 spots to finish 34th and cap off the team scoring!

The varsity squad of 5 lined up and looked to set a good tone early with positioning up front of the race.  Kai Bruner rolled from the start, and had the best closing 1.1 on the team with a 5:57 close.  Elijah Sayeg paced off of Kai for most of the race and held on to finish 20th.  Having a real steady race and coming in just behind Elijah was Ethan Plier in 22nd.  Bronko battled well to hold 30th overall, while Koda Bruner took a nice step from last week moving closer to our top 4 and finishing close behind in 34th.  

The team took 3rd overall behind #2 ranked Homestead and #6 ranked Hamilton.  It was our highest finish at our home meet since the 2020 'Mini' Betz version held at the campus course where the team was runner up.  You have to go back to 2012 for the last time the team was top 3 at the Greenfield Park version of the meet.  This is always a strong invitational, so top 3 here is a great night.  We are excited about the day the team had, and excited to build off of it in our journey toward becoming the best teammates and team.  Bigger things to come.

The freshmen got a cool experience to race in a freshmen only race to kick off the meet!  Caleb Jensen was our top finisher, moving from 10th at the mile to 7th overall and earning a medal!  Ethan Muelrath had a much improved first mile this week and finished 25th overall.  Completing his first ever 5k was Nate Siepe-Pick!  Congratulations Nate on the great accomplishment!  Payson Vahovick raced determined to finish and also finished his first 5k!  Congratulations Payson!  

Here's a detailed results workbook - 2024 Results Workbook
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This Week - Druckrey Invite at Grant Park

Big change!  The whole team will head to Grant Park and compete as the defending champions at the Druckrey Invite!  Our coaches talked about what is going to be best for our team and this decision we know is best.  We are excited to race at Grant Park this Saturday.  Please see our team info for lineups and info!

​Druckrey Team Info

A great way to give back, this invite always does a food drive.  See the message below and bring to the meet to donate! >>

"DON’T FORGET THAT WE ARE ASKING EVERYONE (athletes, coaches, parents, & spectators) to bring one non-perishable food item for our local food pantry."

We will have normal practices after school and the meet on Saturday.  The pasta party Friday will be hosted by the Sayeg family!  Thank you!

Look Ahead - Tshirts online sale for Muskego Invite due Wednesday night
The hosts of the Muskego Invite sent a form to order shirts for the meet that is in two weeks.  The form is due this Wednesday at midnight and limited shirts will be sold at the meet.

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Picture Day
The athletics department emailed our fall coaches that pictures will NOT be tomorrow.  I'll inform you when they let us know of the new date.

On a beautiful summer's afternoon, the Hale XC team put up a near perfect score of 17 points to dominate the Palmyra Invitational and kick off the season on a great note.  The team focus going into the meet was to establish our 'For Us' team motto and set the tone for being a team that competes to win every week.  The team did a great job setting the tone from the start, positioning themselves up front and running as a pack of 6 through the first loop of the race holding 1-6 positions.  Letting loose a bit on the second half, the team ran smooth on the quiet stretches of the course and came through in solid duo groups with Elijah and Kai rolling through together followed closely by teammates John and Ethan and then shortly after by the sophomore duo of Joseph and Koda to finish the scoring.

The team also finished in the top 4 spots of the JV race.  It's a different way of running had the races been separate we would have seen these young men running up front.  How about three frosh scoring in their debut 5k races?  Caleb claimed the overall victory, with Brody, Ethan M and Iker following in 2-4th places.  Our 5th scorer was another frosh, with Evan finishing 8th overall and moving up 11 spots through the race!

Here's a detailed results workbook - 2024 Results Workbook

Runathon Recap
Thank you parents and families for attending and making it a fun night.  Also thanks for trusting the coaches as we looked to manage some unique weather conditions through the early part of the week.  We kept a close eye on the weather and were lucky to run at night time in some better running conditions.  As you saw we still made some major adjustments with many athletes, giving breaks, running a slower pace than previous years and shortening the run time from prior years to make sure we came out of it healthy.  It turned out being a very fun night and we had some great runs!  Thanks for those of you who got sponsors and some amazing donations to help the team!!  It was a busy week for sure, but we are looking forward to getting into a nice consistent groove now as we start school and enter the season.

*We will still take in any runathon donations, but fan shirt orders are now submitted and closed.


Betz
We host our home meet this Friday!!  We will have a great test for the squad and are excited to go after it as a team this Friday. 

 ​Team/Meet Info 

Important Meet Notes:
All freshmen athletes will get out of school at 2:30 p.m.  Please get to the park right after changing.
All other athletes please stay until the end of school but get to the park by 3:30 p.m.
Our team camp will be under the pavilion we meet by during summer.
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​Families, if a few of you could please sign up to help at our t shirt stand or concessions when you're son is NOT racing we would appreciate it.  Our concessions will be a couple very simple items such as water or granola bars.  

Sign up Here to work a shift.

Here's the meet Schedule:

3:50 Freshmen Boys 
4:25 JV Girls
5:05 JV Boys  
5:40 Varsity Girls 
6:10 Varsity Boys

The pasta party will be Thursday at Coaches' house!  5:00 p.m. after practice.  Address to be given out at practice.

This Week

Monday - Labor Day practice 6:00 p.m. meet at Hale ready to run!  
Tuesday - For practice we will take school vans to the County Grounds trails in Wauwatosa for our workout.  We will want athletes ready to leave after school at 3:15 p.m.  We will return to Hale around 5:30 p.m. for pickup.
Wednesday/Thursday - regular practice after school
Friday - Home meet!
Sat/Sun - No team practices.  Veteran athletes will be given a run to do together/on own one of the days.

Picture Day
We will have team photos prior to practice on Monday, September 9th.

The final team olympic standings are in!  The 3k race shook up the standings yesterday!  Congrats to the BWG's team for securing the victory after a week of events.

Final Team Standings

BWG's  - 21 points (1st in 3k Race)
Goon Squad - 19 points (4th in 3k Race)
Trader Kais - 17 points (2nd in 3k Race)
Lightning Unicorns - 15 points (3rd in 3k Race)

Family Night Recap

Thanks to all the families that came out and also ran!  40  people in the race was so much fun and was followed up with total domination in dodgeball with families taking 4 out of the 5 games.  Thanks for the support and we look forward to a fun season.  Congratulations to alumni Joseph Hertel (competing at UW-Oshkosh) for securing the individual win.

​The 3k family night results can be seen here.  3k Family Results Document

Runathon Monday!

Our Monday practice will be the runathon and we would like athletes there by 8:30 p.m. to do some activation and plan to start at 8:45 p.m.  Families you do not need to attend but are welcome to of course!  We hope we have some great sponsors and it's a great night fundraising for the team and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.  Please submit all sponsor donations to Coach Mach by Friday, August 30th. 

Athletes are coming off of a great week of training and we may adjust the total progression time for some athletes to keep them healthy and get a proper and positive Monday progressive tempo workout.  Guys that have consistently run over 60 minutes all summer will do the full 60 but we may adjust total time for some to get a higher quality and the best workout needed for each guy!  

Our First Meet Thursday - Palmyra Invitational

We are looking forward to our first competition of the season this Thursday at Palmyra.  It will be a cool race because it's only one men's race with everyone competing at the same time.  They will separate scores into varsity/jv still.  Bus times and information can be found below,

Palmyra Meet Info

Our first pasta party of the year will be hosted this Wednesday by the Plier and Hutter families!  Thank you!  We will plan 5:00 p.m. for athletes to arrive.  The address will be given out to the team at practice.  

We will have practice 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week.  Our Labor Day Monday practice will be at 6:00 p.m. - a reminder that the school won't be open so be sure to take your running stuff home Saturday and come ready to run that Monday.

Fan Shirts

All athletes should have received a fan shirt order form!  Athletes will receive a team shirt from us for free so don't order them one.  These orders are for you all, family members, friends and coworkers etc.  Use the back of the page if you want to buy more.  Please turn in all orders with money by Wednesday's practice so I can submit the order to be made!