Hale XC week 4

6What a great home invitational we had on Friday evening!  

Here is a recap from the meet:

Freshman Race
We had 6 freshmen head to the line and our boys finished 7th place, out of the 18 teams who attended the meet.  All 6 boys ran new personal bests and were led by Dylan Ostrowski-Neatherly in 19th place and Landen Remer in 20th.  

Our Boys Freshman Athlete of the Meet PR'd by over 4 minutes!  That's over a minute a mile faster than last time out!  James has been working hard at practice and has taken great steps already in his first few weeks on the team.  Congratulations to James Kufalk on winning Athlete of the Meet for our freshman squad this week!

JV Race
Bringing just five guys to the line, I thought we competed well as a group.  Each guy contributed and battled in the later stages of the race.  Evan May led the way for us on the JV side, finishing 28th overall.

For our Athlete of the Meet, we went with a guy who broke out this week at practice, challenging himself in new ways.  We could see he came in this weekend with increased confidence and fitness.  Weston put himself way further up at the beginning of the race, ran tough in the middle and saw the results, running a new personal best by over 4 minutes.  Congratulations Weston Luckett and our whole JV crew on a great meet!

Varsity
Putting ourselves in good position early, our boys ran tough and finished 6th out of 18 quality teams.  For perspective, that's like finishing 12-5 as a record for a team (we beat 12 teams, only lost to 5).  Some great reminders here that every point matters, as we missed out on 5th by just 3 places.  Overall, I'm really pleased about where we are at at this point in the season; we are in a great spot, but need to continue to improve to accomplish what we are hoping to do this season.

We had 3 medalists, finishing in the top 25 at this very prestigious meet.

17th- Ethan Plier
21st- Koda Bruner
25th- Joseph Ventura

As for our Athlete of the Meet, we as a coaching staff were really pumped to watch Koda take a chance in the 2nd mile and attack, moving up in the field.  His big surge led to a new PR and medal at this big time meet.  Congratulations to Koda and our entire varsity squad.  Bigger things to come!


This week, we will have practice like normal, Monday through Friday, at 3:15pm.  

Roemer's will be hosting our pasta party this week on Friday at 5:30pm!  Their address is: 12224 W Cleveland Ave, West Allis, WI

Saturday- Druckery Invite at Grant Park in South Milwaukee- bus time is 8:00am, we will leave at 8:15am
Boys JV- race at 10:15am
Boys varsity- race at 11:35am
Awards at 12:20pm

A few notes from the meet info:
-Results will be on pttiming.com

-It is very important that you remind your parents and fans that they may have to park on city streets if the parking lots in the park are full. This could happen as early as 9:15 am. It is much easier leaving the meet when you park on city streets. There is parking on the west side of Lake Drive. Signs will be posted on Lake Drive to show people how to get to the CC course. The south
entrance to the Park by the golf course clubhouse will be closed until 12:30 pm.

-Meet T-shirts will be for sale for $15.

-DON’T FORGET THAT WE ARE ASKING EVERYONE (athletes, coaches, parents, & spectators) to bring one non-perishable food item for our local food pantry – South Milwaukee Human Concerns. They had a lot of water damage from the flood and have to replace their food supply. Please help us
help others.




Other notes:
-We only have one pasta dinner available for hosting and that's next Friday!  If a parent would sign up for that, that would be really cool.

-Run-a-thon money is due tomorrow (Monday the 8th)

-Later this season, we will attend the Laser Invitational, hosted by Kettle Moraine.  They are selling their meet shirts online, to be picked up at the meet.  The due date to order is next Monday (the 15th).  Here is the link if you'd like to order one of those. 
https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/BjWPfdTRtj



That's all I have for now!  Looking forward to another great week of cross country!

-Coach Dewitt

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