Portage Invitational
Full Results can be found here - https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/206937/results From Fremont Coach Somers: Both teams had a solid performance today with several PR’s recorded. It was a day that reinforced why I love to coach, and how much I enjoy this team. In the early morning dark of the bus ride I looked behind me to see a swam of glow sticks silently waving back and forth. Was this a bus ride or a Rave? As the varsity boys were doing their drills just before their race, an official drove his golf cart directly at them causing them to swerve. Sean Pettis (Jr) swerved into Johnny Christensen (Jr) and picked up a nasty spike to the foot, tearing his shoe. Initially flustered, we had a quick conversation about whether he was going to let it impact his race or not. He decided it wasn’t and went out and ran a 19 second PR running 16:41 to place 46th and earn a medal. Henrik Quist (Sr), Carter Sherman (So), and Blake Taylor (So) all ran PR’s, but were in agreement that they can be faster. It was cool to watch Johnny and Carter run strong, struggle, then run strong again as they flip flopped positions with each other a couple time during the race. It was nice to see each be able to recover from a bad patch. Issac Romero (Fr) ran the strongest final mile of the group, passing 22 in the last mile and finishing as our 5th man. The girls demonstrated strong running over the final mile, with almost all of them improving their placing over the last mile. The biggest PR on the day belonged to Ariana Tanner (Fr), running 1:30 faster than her previous best. Joelle Patten (Fr), Elise Pfeiffer (Jr), and Rachel Maddox (So) all recorded PRs of 30-50 seconds with a strong last mile. Linnea Paige (Fr) placed 39th to earn a medal. The JV boys put Chase Lowery (Fr) 3rd, and Gary Springstead (Sr) 18th in the medals while Brandon Rasmussen (So) recorded a good PR run. This group is always looking to improve. They work hard, make errors and learn from them, and are pretty good at honestly assessing their performances. The boys placed 12th and the girls placed 29th. From Newaygo Coach Mercer: The boys team started the day off for the Lions at 12:30 on this crisp, cool fall day. Getting used to a meet of this caliber is new for our younger runners, so the goal was to find a race within the race and go for it. Many of the boys did just that. Freshman Caleb Bays had the boys race of the day for the team, running his PR of 20:20. Senior Bryce Grugett finished strong for his season best time of 21:32. The varsity girls took their turn an hour later then the JV girls another two hours after that as the wind was starting to bluster. That didn't deter them from racing strong in a very quick Division 2 girls field this season and after a round of fall colds had been plaguing the team the last two weeks. Of the 12 girls who ran today, 6 earned lifetime PRs and an additional 3 earned season bests. Leading the Lady Lions was Remington Arney who earned herself a place on the awards stage in 40th with a season best time of 19:58, improving upon her time from this meet last year by 13 seconds. Also with season bests were Aamori Paz and Sydney Biegalle. Earning PRs on the day were Sofia Briggs, Luiza Corso, Connelly Hefferan-Nordlund, Thalia Pineda, Christina Schifino and Zoey Walerczyk.
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