American Fork XC team went to Mesa the week before Thanksgiving for the Regionals meet (Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico's top teams). With time off for Thanksgiving, Tom didn't feel like he wanted to take the weekend before off as well, so I twisted my Mom's arm to go with me (not really, she was very willing!). I couldn't have done it without her! We stayed at my sister's and it was nice to have a place to stay.
The team had a great day--everyone of them running personal records. It was an awesome race and I'm so glad I could be there. Caleb came in 20th of 280 runners (but came in 12th in for the team scores). It was such an exciting day. He has worked very hard to put himself in this position. We are pleased with his discipline.
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After the race, the team gathered around to coach's phone to compare results to their previous records.
(For Coach Mostert, it's all about stats--he is the Stats teacher at the HS) After the race he quickly
added up (in his head) the team's course time to project whether they had won or not. |
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Caleb receiving his T-shirt for being in the top 20. I should know who this
Olympian is, but I do not. |
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They were the number one team in the South West region! Now they go to Portland for Nationals--
an all expense paid trip by Nike! |
The team won with a score of 36, the 2nd place team was 163. (You want the lowest score--you total the points by the placement of your first 5 runners, so if you get first, your team gets 1 point; if you place 20th, 20 is added to your team's score.) So awesome to see all of their hard work pay off!
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| The girls were intrigued by the cactuses. |
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| The favorite part of the races for the girls---snack time! We were thankful for perfect weather. |
2 comments:
Great job AFXC! Thanks for sharing the pictures :)
p.s. the long captions are cut off on the right side, you might want to check that.
How exciting! I got your Christmas card today! Thanks so much! I hope you have a wonderful Holiday!
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