Northwood Varsity Girls Earn Highest Place Ever!  Bethan Knights 2nd fastest girl in Orange County!

Northwood's varsity team finished a strong 7th in the varsity D1 sweepstakes race. Led by Bethan Knight's incredible 2nd place performance, Northwood put together a strong trio of Marisa Purcell(27th 18:20) and Ashley Larson(28th, 18:20) and Natsuki Eguchi(54th 18:43) to stay in a very tight and competitive race, as our team time was only :40 behind race winners Foothill! In addition, Bethan posted the fastest junior time of the day and Ashley the 3rd fastest frosh time of the day, earning both girls All-County honors(top 7 in each grade level). Anjali Dixit posted a strong 5th spot effort, supported by Isha Punja and Larissa Clarke in the 6th and 7th spots.

Northwood JV Girls Earn 3rd Straight JV County Title, Winning by 73 points!

The JV team also turned in an awesome performance, led by race winner Maddy Johnson, who came from behind in the final mile to claim the individual county championship(20:04), in addition to the team title. She received incredible support from a quintet of girls who placed in the top 11 out of 124 girls in the race: Birthday girl, Francesca Ricapito, celebrated her birthday in style with a great 3rd place effort(20:24); Tiffany Villanueva placed 7th in 20:36; Sophia Rosinski placed 9th in 20:46; Maren Martinez 10th in 20:47, and Riley Edstrom rounded out the lead pack with a solid 11th place(21:13)

Northwood Frosh-Soph Girls Earn Solid Ruuner-Up Honors at County Championships!

The frosh-soph team showed incredible tenacity, running without two top girls and still placing 2nd in a strong field of 20 teams 215 girls! The team was led by a tough quartet that included Grace Hsieh(6th place, 20:06), Kira Wong(8th, 20:15), Jessica Phan(13th, 20:34) and Emily Gibson(16th, 20:45). Jadie Moon(29th, 21:35) and Christine Alford(31st, 21:37) were a solid 5th in 6th runners for the Lady Timberwolves.

The coaching staff is very proud of all the girls who competed Saturday, as our team results reflected the hard work and dedication that we all put into this mutual journey, one where hard work and big goals lead to success beyond our dreams. The varsity team, in particular, competed against State Meet level D1 and D2 teams and battled throughout without being intimidated. This effort will pay off big time in the brutal CIF battles to come in November, so great job ladies! It's on to the Mt. SAC Sweepstakes...

Full Results will be posted to the website soon.

Northwood Boys Impress with Strong 9th Place in D2 Varsity Race

Led by Brenden Stone's All-County Sophomore performance(12th place, 15:51) the boys battled a tough 23 team field, with a short-handed squad battling injuries and illness, to post another solid effort. Jack Kelly(41st, 16:20) and Dennis Kim(58th, 16:32, despite being injured in a collision) and Nikhil Mishra(64th 16:38) provided support for first-time varsity runner Matt Terres and less-than-100% but always competitive James Alford. The squad hopes to be at full strength if they earn a spot in the Mt SAC Sweepstakes race this Friday and they continue to work hard in this resurgent season that should culminate with a CIF spot after their impressive cluster meet victory on Oct 4th. With strong competition from three other PCL teams Saturday, the season looks to be very exciting down the stretch as the Timberwolves battle for CIF!

Soph Boys place 3rd in strong 14 team field

Led by Ian Philipp(10th, 17:18) the soph boys team was very impressive Saturday, placing 5 runners in the top 35 in a race with 161 runners. Drake Shaffer(19th, 17:36), Duncan Shepherd(22nd, 17:45), Kaveh Siah(29th, 18:06) and Tyler Tran(35th, 18:11) provided all the scoring the boys would need to post a 3rd place effort. They worked incredibly hard to keep their gap under 1:00 and look to be ready to compete at Mt SAC this Friday.

JV Boys Place 6th out of 15 Teams

Jonathan Fu ran a solid race Saturday, leading his team with a tough 15th place, 17:22, out of 184 runners to help lead his team a strong finish in a competitive race. In addition to Mr. Fu, Steven Tran(33rd, 17:46) and Aditya Tadanki(40th, 17:55) were especially impressive in a race run at the end of the day, when conditions were noticably warmer than the cool conditions that prevailed in the morning session.

Frosh Runners Continue to Impress

Despite having enough boys for a full team, several frosh runners had excellent days at their first OC Champioships race. Cole Kong ran a very impressive race, with a 12th place(18:01) effort in the 179 runner field.Nathan Kobrine(21st, 18:25), Spencer Wing(32nd, 18:46) and Marc Raphael(52nd, 19:12) rounded out the boys squad and all continue to work hard and improve each week.

As we head into the final three weeks of the regular season, the boys team continues to improve and looks to have a big day at PCL Finals on November 2nd. Thank you for your support, especially those of you who have donated food, water, Gatorade etc. Please consider helping out at the league meet, as we still need EIGHT parent volunteers; moreover, we need Booster support so it is not too late to join the Booster Club and help free up funds that we desperately need for uniforms etc.  See you at the meets!

Coach Gates