The cross country team has started its year strong at its first three invitationals. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams started off their seasons at the Seaside Invitational on Aug. 31 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. “It was great to see how our summer training went (at Seaside) and all of the Invitationals were a […]
Following its success in the regular season, the cross country team entered the postseason poised for CIF preliminaries and finals season. The team hopes to repeat last season’s strong performance and qualify for the state meet for the second year in a row. “For prelims, our goal is a steady race that qualifies us to […]
The Cross Country team ran their first Mission League meet at Griffith Park tonight. Both the Girls’ Junior Varsity and Varsity teams won the meet with the help of Natalia Quintero ’20 who took first place with a time of 17:54. Additionally, the Boys’ JV and Varsity teams achieved second place behind the Loyola team. […]
The cross country team started its season racing at Seaside Invitational on Sept. 8th. Top finishes include Natalia Quintero ’21 placing first in the freshman girls race at 18:17 and Andrew Shibuya ’19 finishing eighth in the junior boys race at 15:29. Click the picture above for more pictures.
The cross country team prepared for its first meet Sept. 8 by focusing on both physical and mental workouts in Big Bear during the team’s annual retreat. “Big bear is always a great bonding experience,” captain Jonah Ring ’18 said. “I think it not only helped bring the team closer together, but the altitude and […]
Throughout the year, members of the cross-country team have only 6 weeks off – two between the cross-country and track seasons and two after track ends. That means that for most of this summer, five days a week, they met at school or parks or beaches and ran. All in all, they ran somewhere close […]
How did you start running? How long have you been running? What distances? I started on the track team in seventh grade, but I didn’t do cross country until eighth grade and didn’t really begin to take it seriously until ninth grade. I just did it because I always liked to run in elementary school, […]
As she tightened the last needle spike on her neon pink and yellow Nikes, London Alexander ’18 was ready to face what she considers to be the most important race of her track and field career. It was the 2012 Junior Olympics in Baltimore and Alexander’s first national competition. Head down, she gradually made her […]
The boys’ Cross Country team won Division IV CIF-SS and qualified for California State Finals, which will take place in Fresno on Nov. 28. “We are all incredibly excited about going to state,” Nate Hollander ’17 said. “We were expecting to go to state, but not as the Southern Section champions. I don’t think anybody expected […]
All four cross country teams have had early successes this season, with the girls’ team placing fourth and the boys’ team seventh at the Palos Verdes Invitation Oct. 3. Previously, the girls’ teams placed first and boys’ team second in the Mission League cluster Sept. 22. “That was the first opportunity to run against the […]