“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
― Dean Karnazes
The Timberwolves had great results competing at the Carlsbad Grit and Grind Invite. Northwood attended the invite in San Diego and we raced against some of the best from the SD section of CIF. Our boys team finished in 8th place out of 56 schools. Several of our boys made the top 100 times. Santi Garcia Diaz 4th place 14:55, Logan Shaw 17th place 15:17, and Jude Alabed 62nd place 16:07, and Trey McEwen 67th place 16:14. On the girls side the team finished 11th place out of 38 teams. Several of our girls made the top 100 times. Maia Murthy 40th place 19:41, Lia Herrera 64th place 20:40, Christine Nam 69th place 20:50, Braelynn Lynch 88th place 21:55 and Kayla Cheung 97th place 22:47.
Our athletes of the week go to runners making fast improvements Santino Garcia Diaz and Lia Herrera. Both set personal best on the course at San Marcos which was more difficult than the others. Santino was our top varsity runner for the day and he keeps improving weekly during his senior year! Lia an 11th grader continues her steady improvement and ran an aggressive time for her personal best. Watch out for these two varsity runners as we head into October racing.
We have completed our xc preseason competition. By now the athletes are in good racing shape. They have put in hundreds of miles of practice and are ready to start the League XC season. As we head into the middle of the season, the weather should cool later into the month of October. October racing is special as we have the PCL cluster meet, OC Championships and MT. SAC Invite. In the PCL meet all healthy athletes will compete and in the other two invites only the top 7 athletes in the varsity division. We will be deciding our Varsity, JV and FS teams. This weekend we get a much deserved break from racing as the past 6 Saturdays the athletes have been in competition. PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE PRACTICE SCHEDULE CHANGES THIS WEEK!!!!
Athletes have been reminded not to schedule parent conferences between 12:00PM-3PM during practice times!
