MSU Spartan Invitational
Calm – Hot From Coach Mercer: The Lions traveled to MSU for another notoriously hot day on Forest Akers East Golf Course on the campus of Michigan State University. This is always a special meet of the season as the athletes get the chance to see so many levels of competition. We arrived in time to watch the collegiate 6k and 8k races and then get ready for our own. The boys team had 8 runners compete. Half of those ended up with season best times despite the incredibly humid, hot weather. Juniors Mathew Miedema (21:24) and Jadon Ryman (21:25) led the Lions pack, running the entire race as a pair. Third for the team was freshman Caleb Bays (22:16) followed by senior Bryce Grugett (22:58). Also competing for the boys were Zachary Spaulding, Brycen Kacos, Sam Eager and Leon Ventura Neumann. All twelve girls who ran on Friday set season best times! Four of the twelve set personal records (lifetime bests) on top of that. Junior Remington Arney improved upon her medal earning place from last year, where she got 25th place, to a solid 16th place and a time of 20:43. The remaining girls ran smart and strong races and finished by passing girls rather than being passed. Athlete Sep 16 11Remington Arney 20:43.9 11Sydney Biegalle 29:10.0 12Sofia Briggs 28:24.5 12Elizabeth Chaffee 23:59.7 11Olivia DeJohn 27:16.4 12Rebecca Grandy 30:05.1 12Connelly Hefferan Nordlund 27:13.2 12Yuri Kasugai 30:10.6 11Aamori Paz 25:05.5 10Thalia Pineda 25:53.2 9Joseline Sanchez Magana 28:41.4 10Zoey Walerczyk 25:29.0 From Coach Somers: We took our annual trip to the Spartan with 4 athletes who got their “MSU miles” in over the summer. Carter Sherman (So), Johnny Christensen (Jr), Henrik Quist (Sr), and Sean Pettis (Jr). They ran in the Bronze race which consisted of division 2 schools. It was the first race of the season for Carter and Henrik and was a good learning experience for them. All 4 guys got out a little faster than we had hoped, and had to pay the price to varying degrees later in the race. Sean led the way for the boys in 25th place (17:34). He was pretty strong through the first 2 miles and did a pretty good job hanging on when the pain hit in the 3rd. Johnny had a rough middle mile but recouped some ground in the last mile to finish 35th (18:03). Henrik dropped back quickly after his quick start but was able to really move up over the second half of the race to place 37th (18:09). Carter had a rough race all the way around and was disappointed with his finish – 142nd (20:51). I know he is capable of a much better performance than he showed today, he just had a rough day, but I think he learned from this race and he did put together a strong finish and the end.
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