Sunday, October 30, 2011

Trinity CC - Week Twelve Schedule

Hello,

We have entered the final week of the cross country season...and we are happy to have runners preparing for the State Meet!

For many runners the official cross country season has ended. Practices are still optional for any runners that are not running at the State Meet, but practice is no longer a required commitment. However, it is a great way to extend your training with teammates while we still have great weather!

Here's the schedule for the upcoming week...

Week Twelve Schedule:
Monday, October 31st - 3:30-5:00pm at Trinity School
Tuesday, November 1st - 3:00-7:15pm - going to St. Olaf College - We will leave immediately following the school day and run the course for Saturday. If any CC runners would like to make the trip, we have a limited number of seats - please let me know as soon as possible. We also plan to eat supper at St. Olaf before returning to Trinity.
Wednesday, November 2nd - Run On Your Own - option to run at 7:00am at Trinity School
Thursday, November 3rd - 3:30-5:00pm at Trinity School
Friday, November 4th - 3:30-5:00pm at Trinity School
Saturday, November 5th - State Meet at St. Olaf College - Class A Girls Race at 1:00pm (Girls Varsity Team), Class A Boys Race at 2:00pm (Charlie Leighton). We plan to be at the race site by 11:00am. We are hoping that many teammates and fans can make the trip to Northfield to cheer the Tri-Hawk runners on for their races.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Jesse

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Section 4A Meet Results

Hello,

We had a perfect setting for Sections today...a nice course, amazing weather, and some great competition to bring out some of our best performances of the season.

There was some drama with the girls results specifically. Our girls were announced, and believed to be, in 3rd place at the awards ceremony, but the results/timing manager took the time to closely review the results after the meet to figure out a discrepancy and correct the scoring to put our girls team in a tie for 2nd...and win the tie-breaker with our 6th runner.

Christian Zimmerman, the head coach at Minnehaha Academy - the team we displaced for 2nd place, handled the situation with complete integrity and called to congratulate our girls on earning the trip to State after the results were corrected. He and his teams are class acts...we are excited to be advancing to State for the first time, but also sad it ends up leaving a great Minnehaha Academy girls team (...that was our equal today) out.

The Tri-Hawk runners arrived ready to compete today with 14 of 25 girls and 14 of 17 boys running personal best times, and many others running season bests.

We have a number of great senior leaders that ran their final race today, but the future of Trinity cross country remains bright...particularly because of those seniors setting the example.

Congratulations to Charlie Leighton (9th), Mary Ennis (5th), and our entire Girls Team on their great performances today and for earning a trip to the State Meet!

Girls Varsity Results-
Trinity Team Time - 1:19:28.5* - 2nd* place of 18 teams (11 complete teams) - 81 points*
Team Range - 1:21.2
15:12.1* PR - Mary Ennis (5:53, 6:24, 2:55) - 5th place+
15:39.3 PR - Lucy Leighton (6:00, 6:39, 3:00) - 11th place+
15:46.4 SB - Lotus Schifsky (6:10, 6:35, 3:01) - 13th place+
16:27.4 - Ruthie Gross (6:10, 6:57, 3:20) - 26th place
16:33.3 PR - Maria Kraker (6:21, 7:03, 3:09) - 28th place
16:43.6 SB - Maria Stephenson (6:37, 7:01, 3:05) - 35th place
17:28.5 PR - Katie Stephenson (6:57, 7:15, 3:16) - 58th place
(97 total girls varsity runners)

* = school record Team Time, Team Place at Sections, Team Score at Sections, and 4k time
+ = notates All-Section honor


Girls JV Results-
16:58 PR - Grace Ennis (6:37, 7:07, 3:14) - 2nd place
17:25 PR - Katie Michalak (6:59, 7:05, 3:21) - 3rd place
17:38 PR - Marie DeMarais (6:59, 7:21, 3:18) - 6th place
17:59 - Claire Mealey (6:58, 7:29, 3:32) - 9th place
18:03 PR - Maggie Griffith (7:02, 7:46, 3:15) - 10th place
18:06 PR - Mary Naughton (7:02, 7:46, 3:18) - 13th place
18:40 - Catherine DeMarais (7:04, 8:02, 3:34) - 24th place
18:56 PR - Bizzy Stephenson (7:36, 7:56, 3:24) - 29th place
19:10 SB - Rebecca Driessen (7:28, 8:03, 3:39) - 34th place
19:24 SB - Sydney Kloster (7:27, 8:07, 3:50) - 42nd place
19:29 PR - Gracie Carlson (7:39, 8:05, 3:45) - 43rd place
19:39 PR - Doty Ryan (7:40, 8:16, 3:43) - 45th place
19:48 SB - Ayana Anderson (7:40, 8:19, 3:49) - 49th place
20:36 PR - Libbie Mitchell (8:01, 8:34, 4:01) - 58th place
21:22 SB - Becky Fiers (8:00, 9:09, 4:13) - 60th place
21:51 - Annika Hellweg (8:20, 9:20, 4:11) - 65th place
22:50 PR - Theresa Swanson (8:40, 9:45, 4:25) - 67th place
24:37 PR - Carol Nguyen (8:58, 11:01, 4:38) - 68th place
(75+ total girls jv runners)

Boys Varsity Results-
Trinity Team Time - 1:28:21.7* - 4th* of 18 teams (16 complete teams) - 129 points*
Team Range - 1:34.1
16:41.6* PR - Charlie Leighton (5:13, 5:27, 5:25, :36) - 9th place+
17:33.0 PR - Jonathon Valentas (5:30, 5:38, 5:46, :39) - 21st place
17:42.2 PR - Joe Berchem (5:40, 5:46, 5:37, :39) - 26th place
18:09.2 - JonElliott Brubaker (5:30, 5:51, 6:08, :40) - 40th place
18:15.7 PR - Henry Croll (5:40, 5:52, 6:03, :40) - 43rd place
18:54.8 PR - John Michael Berns (5:58, 6:09, 6:06, :41) - 59th place
19:59.1 - Henry Brink (6:19, 6:20, 6:37, :43) - 76th place
(111 total boys varsity runners)

* = school record Team Time, Team Place at Sections, Team Score at Sections, and 5k time
+ = notates All-Section honor

Boys JV Results-
19:30 PR - Eddie Hoey (6:11, 6:13, 6:23, :43) - 17th place
19:56 SB - Nathan Bittner (6:13, 6:32, 6:27, :44) - 26th place
20:12 PR - Chris Vance (6:14, 6:31, 6:43, :44) - 34th place
20:13 PR - Henry Leighton (6:23, 6:37, 6:29, :44) - 35th place
21:06 PR - Evan Steeves (6:31, 6:54, 6:55, :46) - 51st place
21:36 PR - Andy Baum (6:39, 7:01, 7:08, :48) - 56th place
22:09 PR - Josiah Sommer (7:09, 7:16, 6:55, :49) - 59th place
22:09 PR - Zildjian Meyer (7:04, 7:10, 7:06, :49) - 60th place
22:48 PR - Sam Hill (7:10, 7:22, 7:26, :50) - 75th place
23:51 PR - Mark Gerdes (7:20, 7:54, 7:44, :53) - 85th place
(100+ total boys jv runners)

PR = Personal Record
SB = Season Best

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Section 4A Meet

Race: Section 4A Meet
Date: Thursday, October 27th
Place: Battle Creek Regional Park - 2401 Upper Afton Road East, Maplewood, MN (the Battle Creek Aquatic Center)
Time: Boys and Girls Varsity Trinity runners are dismissed from school at 2:00pm, to be on the road as soon as possible. JV Trinity runners will leave immediately following school at 3:00pm, to be on the road as soon as they can following school. Our first race is at 4:00pm.

Drivers and Riding Assignments:
2:00pm-
Stephenson (3) - Katie Stephenson, Maria Stephenson, Maria Kraker
Ennis (4) - Mary Ennis, Lotus Schifsky, Claire Mealey, Grace Ennis
Berns (4) - John Michael Berns, JonElliott Brubaker, Jonathon Valentas, Eddie Hoey
Brink (4) - Henry Brink, Chris Vance, Joe Berchem, Henry Croll
Charlie (2) - Charlie Leighton, Lucy Leighton
Ruthie (1) - Ruthie Gross


3:00pm-
Gerdes (4) - Mark Gerdes, Andy Baum, Sam Hill, Sam Swanson
DeMarais (6) - Catherine DeMarais, Theresa Swanson, Marie DeMarais, Katie Michalak, Gracie Carlson, Libbie Mitchell
Hellweg (7) - Sydney Kloster, Annika Hellweg, Bizzy Stephenson, Doty Ryan, Ayana Anderson, Minhyuk Park, Josiah Sommer
Nussbaum (4) - Nathan Bittner, Evan Steeves, Zildjian Meyer, Henry Leighton
Maggie (2) - Maggie Griffith, Mary Naughton
Rebecca (3) - Rebecca Driessen, Becky Fiers, Carol Nguyen


Food for Meet:
Gross, Naughton, Leighton, Brink, Stephenson, Mitchell

Directions:
From Trinity - Take 494 East to US 10W/61N and go North, take US 10W/61N to Lower Afton Road and go right (east), take Lower Afton Road to McKnight Road and go left (north), take McKnight Road to Upper Afton Road and go right (east). Take the first left on Upper Afton Road into the parking lot with the pavilion and aquatic center.

Race Distances:
Boys Varsity and JV races: 5000m
Girls Varsity and JV races: 4000m

Schedule of Events:
3:30pm - Coaches Meeting
4:00pm - Girls Varsity (Ruthie Gross, Maria Kraker, Katie Stephenson, Lucy Leighton, Maria Stephenson, Mary Ennis, Lotus Schifsky)
4:30pm - Boys Varsity (JonElliott Brubaker, Charlie Leighton, Jonathon Valentas, Joe Berchem, Henry Croll, John Michael Berns, Henry Brink)
5:00pm - Boys & Girls Combined JV race (Chris Vance, Evan Steeves, Nathan Bittner, Andy Baum, Mark Gerdes, Sam Hill, Eddie Hoey, Zildjian Meyer, Josiah Sommer, Henry Leighton, Rebecca Driessen, Catherine DeMarais, Theresa Swanson, Carol Nguyen, Becky Fiers, Mary Naughton, Maggie Griffith, Claire Mealey, Sydney Kloster, Libbie Mitchell, Annika Hellweg, Bizzy Stephenson, Doty Ryan, Ayana Anderson, Gracie Carlson, Marie DeMarais, Katie Michalak, Grace Ennis)
5:45pm - Awards Ceremony

Awards:
Team - The top 2 teams in each varsity race are awarded both trophies and medals and qualify for the State Meet.
Individual - The top 10 individuals in each varsity race are awarded medals and qualify for the State Meet.
The top 15 individuals in each race earn all-section honors.

Schools Participating:
Belle Plaine, The Blake School, Breck School, Christ's Household of Faith, Concordia Academy-Roseville, FAIR School, Glencoe-Silver Lake, Great River School, Jordan, Math & Science Academy, Minneapolis Henry/North, Minnehaha Academy, Mounds Park Academy, Norwood-Young America, Prairie Seeds Academy, St. Croix Lutheran, St. Croix Prep, St. Paul Academy, St. Paul Humboldt, Southwest Christian, and Trinity School at River Ridge.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Trinity CC - Week Eleven Schedule

Hello,

I am excited to finally see our team racing again with Sections on Thursday. We are ready, we just need to stay healthy and be smart with our rest...the hard work is done.

Here's the schedule for the upcoming week...

Week Eleven Schedule:
Monday, October 24th - 3:30-5:30pm at Trinity School
Tuesday, October 25th - 3:30-5:00pm at Trinity School - practice will end at 5:00pm, with a pizza supper to follow at school until 6:00pm if we reach our team running goal over fall break.
Wednesday, October 26th - Run On Your Own - option to run at 7:00am at Trinity School
Thursday, October 27th - Section 4A Meet at Battle Creek Regional Park (2401 Upper Afton Road, Maplewood, MN). The first race is at 4:00pm, more information will follow on an early release for some students.
Friday, October 28th - 3:30-5:00pm at Trinity School
Saturday, October 29th - 9:00-10:30am at Minnehaha Falls (4801 Minnehaha Avenue Minneapolis, MN) - meet at the parking ticket meter by the falls. This practice will be for selected students still training for the State Meet, and optional for anyone else.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Jesse

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Trinity CC - Week Ten Schedule

Hello,

We have a scattered schedule this week with the Junior Class Play on Monday and Tuesday and Fall Break on Thursday and Friday.

Our main goal is to keep everyone healthy, rested, yet still stay sharp for Sections next week.

Here's the schedule for the upcoming week...

Week Ten Schedule:
Monday, October 17th - 3:30-5:30pm at Trinity School
Tuesday, October 18th - 3:30-5:30pm at Trinity School
Wednesday, October 19th - Run On Your Own - option to run at 7:00am at Trinity School
Thursday, October 20th - 3:30-5:00pm
at Trinity School
Friday, October 21st - Run On Your Own - Enjoy the Fall Break weekend!
Saturday, October 22nd - Run On Your Own - Enjoy the Fall Break weekend!

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Jesse

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

MCAA-MCSC Conference Meet Results

Hello,

We had great weather again today for our conference meet. Congratulations to our boys and girls team champions, 13 all-conference runners, and conference individual champion Mary Ennis. It was another fantastic day for Tri-Hawk runners!

Here are the MCAA-MCSC Conference Meet Results:

Girls Varsity Results-
Team Scores: Trinity 19, Math & Science Academy 53, Spectrum 85...
Trinity Team Time - 1:20:52 - 1st of 10 teams (5 complete teams)
Team Range - :56
15:40.1 - Mary Ennis (6:09, 6:21, 3:10) - 1st
15:48.9 - Lucy Leighton (6:09, 6:24, 3:15) - 2nd
16:21.6 - Ruthie Gross (6:14, 6:47, 3:20) - 4th
16:25.6 - Lotus Schifsky (6:12, 6:43, 3:30) - 5th
16:35.9 - Maria Kraker (6:26, 6:48, 3:21) - 7th
17:20.7 - Maria Stephenson (6:38, 7:10, 3:32) - 10th
17:31.5 - Katie Stephenson (6:44, 7:09, 3:38) - 12th
(41 total girls varsity runners)

Girls JV Results-
Trinity Team Time - 1:29:14 - 1st of 3 complete teams
Team Range - 1:04
17:16.8 PR - Grace Ennis (6:40, 7:06, 3:30) - 1st
17:38.6 PR - Katie Michalak (6:56, 7:04, 3:38) - 2nd
17:55.7 - Claire Mealey (6:47, 7:25, 3:43) - 3rd
18:01.9 PR - Marie DeMarais (7:01, 7:21, 3:39) - 4th
18:21.0 PR - Maggie Griffith (7:11, 7:35, 3:35) - 5th
18:28.9 PR - Mary Naughton (7:12, 7:35, 3:41) - 6th
18:33.2 - Catherine DeMarais (7:14, 7:31, 3:48) - 7th
19:32.1 - Sydney Kloster (7:20, 7:59, 4:13) - 13th
19:43.9 - Rebecca Driessen (7:34, 8:03, 4:06) - 14th
19:51.4 PR - Annika Hellweg (7:40, 8:09, 4:02) - 17th
19:52.2 PR - Bizzy Stephenson (7:52, 7:59, 4:01) - 19th
19:54.1 PR - Gracie Carlson (7:42, 8:08, 4:04) - 20th
20:15.6 - Ayana Anderson (7:40, 8:22, 4:13) - 22nd
21:26.0 - Becky Fiers (8:18, 8:43, 4:25) - 23rd
21:27.9 - Doty Ryan (8:08, 8:52, 4:27) - 24th
21:30.2 - Libbie Mitchell (8:16, 8:46, 4:28) - 25th
23:57.9 - Theresa Swanson (9:13, 9:39, 5:05) - 31st
26:51.4 - Carol Nguyen (9:42, 11:46, 5:23) - 35th
(37 total girls jv runners)

Boys Varsity Results-
Team Scores: Trinity 34, Math & Science Academy 49, St. Croix Prep 89...
Trinity Team Time - 1:30:34 - 1st of 10 teams (7 complete teams)
Team Range - 1:25
17:11.9 - Charlie Leighton (5:03, 5:47, 5:44, :37) - 2nd
17:46.5 - Jonathon Valentas (5:20, 6:01, 5:46, :39) - 4th
18:21.8 PR - Joe Berchem (5:44, 6:17, 5:40, :40) - 7th
18:36.9 - Henry Croll (5:45, 6:16, 5:55, :40) - 10th
18:37.1 - JonElliott Brubaker (5:20, 6:12, 6:24, :41) - 11th
19:00.9 PR - John Michael Berns (5:54, 6:20, 6:05, :41) - 12th
20:33.1 - Henry Brink (6:20, 7:01, 6:27, :45) - 32nd
(53 total boys varsity runners)

Boys JV Results-
Trinity Team Time - 1:43:54 - 1st of 5 teams (3 complete teams)
Team Range - :55
20:22.9 - Sam Swanson (6:23, 7:04, 6:11, :44) - 1st
20:35.1 PR - Eddie Hoey (6:18, 7:03, 6:29, :45) - 2nd
20:44.0 PR - Henry Leighton (6:17, 7:05, 6:36, :46) - 4th
20:54.8 - Nathan Bittner (6:16, 7:04, 6:48, :46) - 5th
21:17.4 - Evan Steeves (6:25, 7:25, 6:40, :47) - 7th
22:19.8 - Chris Vance (6:23, 7:29, 7:38, :49) - 8th
22:27.2 - Andy Baum (6:32, 7:53, 7:13, :49) - 10th
22:39.7 PR - Josiah Sommer (7:00, 7:49, 7:00, :50) - 12th
22:54.4 PR - Zildjian Meyer (6:58, 7:51, 7:15, :50) - 13th
23:22.5 - Bryant Ridgway (7:01, 7:53, 7:36, :52) - 15th
25:32.8 - Sam Hill (7:38, 8:40, 8:18, :56) - 21st
(31 total boys jv runners)
...I removed the top 7 Prairie Seeds School runners from the boys jv results, as that was their varsity lineup.

Complete results can be found here:
http://www.onlineraceresults.com/event/view_event.php?event_id=7684

I made some adjustments on our mile splits...while I feel the race distance was correct, I believe the 1-mile and 2-mile markers were a little short.

Monday, October 10, 2011

MCAA-MCSC Conference Meet

There are some changes to the conference meet this season...Providence Academy is no longer part of the MCAA Conference and we have a combined conference meet with the Minnesota Charter School Conference.

Here are the details for the MCAA-MCSC Conference Meet:

Race: MCAA-MCSC Conference Meet
Date: Tuesday, October 11th
Place: Bassett Creek Park in Crystal, MN (32nd Avenue North and Yates Avenue North...on Google Maps it is listed as Jordan Area Park)
Time: Girls JV runners will be excused from school at 2:00pm to leave for the race (on the road by 2:10pm). Boys JV runners will be excused from school at 2:30pm to leave for the race (on the road by 2:40pm), and the Boys and Girls Varsity runners will leave immediately following school at 3:00pm (on the road by 3:10pm).

Girls JV Drivers & Riders - 2:00pm:
Kloster (4) - Sydney Kloster, Annika Hellweg, Libbie Mitchell, Bizzy Stephenson
Mealey (4) - Claire Mealey, Catherine DeMarais, Theresa Swanson, Grace Ennis
Ryan (6) - Doty Ryan, Gracie Carlson, Marie DeMarais, Ayana Anderson, Katie Michalak

Maggie (2) - Maggie Griffith, Mary Naughton
Rebecca (1) - Rebecca Driessen
Becky (2) - Becky Fiers, Carol Nguyen
Boys JV Drivers & Riders - 2:30pm:
Valentas (5) - Andy Baum, Eddie Hoey, Zildjian Meyer, Evan Steeves, Nathan Bittner
Ridgway (3) - Bryant Ridgway, Josiah Sommer, Sam Hill
Leighton (3) - Henry Leighton, Chris Vance, Sam Swanson
Boys & Girls Varsity Drivers & Riders - 3:00pm:
Mr. Nussbaum (4) - Henry Croll, Joe Berchem, JonElliott Brubaker, Jonathon Valentas
Charlie (2) - Charlie Leighton, Lucy Leighton
Brink (5) - Henry Brink, Minhyuk Park, Katie Stephenson, Maria Stephenson, Ruthie Gross
Berns (6) - John Michael Berns, Mark Gerdes, Mary Ennis, Lotus Schifsky, Maria Kraker, Sue Yeon Woo

Directions: Take Highway 100 North from Bloomington to Crystal, take the 36th Avenue North exit (not West 36th Street) and go left (west), go 1/4 mile to Xenia Avenue and take a left (south) and go three blocks to the park.
Families bringing food for the meet: Leighton, Gerdes, Ennis, Bittner, Croll-Carlson, Vance

Race Distances:
Boys Races: 5000m
Girls Races: 4000m

Race Schedule:
Coaches Meeting: 3:00pm
Girls JV Race: 3:30pm
Boys JV Race: 4:00pm
Girls Varsity Race: 4:45pm
Boys Varsity Race: 5:30pm
Awards: 6:15pm

Awards:
Team Trophies: Team Champions and Runner-Up
All-Conference Plaques: Top 14 in each Varsity Race

Scoring:
Traditional meet scoring - add the places of your top 5 varsity runners for a team score.

Teams Participating:
FAIR School, Heritage Christian Academy, Legacy Christian Academy, Maranatha Christian Academy, Math & Science Academy, Spectrum, St. Croix Prep, Southwest Christian, and Trinity School at River Ridge