Hale XC Week 10 Sectionals + Meet of Champs

Men Finish 4th at GMC

With three all-conference athletes and 5 scorers in the top 31, the men's team had a strong showing in one of the best conference meets in the state.  This was the men's highest team finish at conference since 2012!  Repeating All-Conference honors were Ethan Plier (third team) finishing 24th overall and Elijah Sayeg (2nd Team) finishing 15th overall.  This was Ethan's 2nd all conference honor and Elijah's 3rd.  Kai Bruner earned his first all conference honor finishing 11th overall (2nd Team).  Congratulations men on the accomplishment!

The conference consists of some of the top teams in the area and state, and our guys continue to represent as one of those best teams with a consistent team focused mentality. 

Koda Bruner and John Gruichich came in as the 4 and 5 scorers, both helping each other out to strong 29th and 31st place finishes respectively and help the team finish 4th overall.

The emerging varsity crew lit it up in the last race of the evening. Seeing improvements in race preparedness and energy going in has been fun and paid off for some major breakthroughs for many.  Brody Kaminski led the scoring with a strong race and a 29th place finish.  Just missing his goal of breaking 19 on a fair GF Park course, he will look to continue his progress and take a shot at it at Rotary Thursday!  Breaking through with a strong race and a very strong last 1.1 miles was our second scorer Ethan Muelrath who broke 20 by a large margin for the first time.  Evan May ran like a mad man and brought energy that the coaches knew was there, running a personal best of 2 minutes and breaking 20 minutes for the first time as the number 4 man.  Damien Sheridan was third man, closing strong to pass a lot of guys the last 400 meters.  Rounding out the scoring and breaking 20 for the first time was Henry Roemer.  Great pack running all around, made it fun to race and cheer for guys!

Great job to the team supporting each other.  We were loud and proud and showed a ton of love out on the course from start to finish on Friday.   Many guys also showed great leadership with warmups, cooldowns, and this is been practiced each and every other day.  You all are leaders!

Thank you to for all the families that helped and supported Friday.  Hosting the conference meet is a lot of work, but a lot of fun!  We were proud to host and put on a great meet!

​2024 Results Workbook

Congrats to our teammate chosen athletes of the meet and B&G winners so far!

Palmyra - Kai Bruner (Chosen by Elijah Sayeg).  B&G - Joseph Ventura
Betz - Henry Roemer.    B&G Nate Siepe-Pick, Payson Vahovick
Druckrey - Ethan Plier
Muskego - Iker Robles.  B&G Preston Plier, Caleb Jensen
Laser - Caleb Jensen.  B&G Brody Kaminski
Viking - Damien Sheridan.  B&G Elijah Sayeg, Ethan Muelrath
GMC - (To be chosen by Damien)

Meets/Practice info for the week

We will all practice Monday through Wednesday, with the varsity team this weekend practicing through Friday.  
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Newly added this Thursday we will take the athletes that are not competing at sectionals Saturday to Rotary Park for a chance a last chance race!  We hope all can compete and the info is included in the meet information below.  We understand if there's a conflict with the late add to the meet, but hopefully most if not all are able to race for a big personal best to end the season!  This will also be great for alternates to keep race ready for the state meet the following week.  The seven varsity racers Saturday will practice like normal from Hale Thursday.

The sectional meet is this Saturday and will be varsity only with 7 men racing and any alternates.  We are encouraging our guys that aren't racing Saturday to come on the bus to be there and cheer loud for the men's team looking to punch their ticket to state next weekend.  While not required to come to this meet to watch, we are requiring that anyone who does come along to commit to being positive and be there to support in a positive way.  

There will be a pasta party Friday at the Gruichich family where all team members are invited.  The team will likely watch a movie again as a team which has become a tradition before sectionals.

Sectional + Meet of Champs Meet Info

Team Banquet Date

The team awards night will be Wednesday, November 6th at 7:00 p.m.  The site is Free Methodist Church located at 2975 Sunny Slope Rd, New Berlin, 53151.