State Meet Wraps Up Another Great Season!

Ohio is a very competitive state for every sport, but especially distance running.  To have two runners qualify to the state meet in the biggest, most competitive division is an honor and privilege, not to mention exciting!  Both Maggie Wagner and Sydney Seymour qualified to the state meet for the second time in their careers and both runners competed exceptionally well.

Seymour finished 16th place overall, good enough for pictures on the podium and All-Ohio status.  Her time of 18:28 was her 4th fastest time ever.  Wagner finished in 36th place overall and also ran her 4th fastest time ever.  To note how fast the field was this year, Wagner ran the identical time two years ago at the state meet and finished 17th place - the game has changed!

There was a great showing of fan support and the coaching staff has been fortunate to work with dedicated and loving athletes.  It starts at the top with senior captains Bridget McGuire and Corinne Baker as well as junior captain Olivia Battistoni, then trickles through the rest of the team.

Congratulations to the entire team for a memorable, fun, and successful 2015 season!

week of Monday Oct 19

Week of October 19, 2015

 

Hi all – this is the last full week for the entire team, but it’s a big one!  We will need all hands on deck to make this week great.  We especially need dads (and moms) with course clean up on Wednesday as well as cookout help that day.

 

I know it’s cold today, but it’s supposed to be 68° on Wednesday, so hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!!!

 

District team to be named on Monday at practice.

 

Monday, Oct 19 – workout at Memorial Field.  Done by 5:30. 

 

Tuesday, Oct 20 – NOT a normal Tuesday – pre-meet jog for Wednesday’s racers and a little longer for varsity.  Need all wounded to attend as well.  Course clean-up by full team after done running.  Practice ends at 5:30.

 

Wednesday, Oct 21 – senior night and 5k race.

Schedule:

3:00 – dads and moms with backpack blowers and rakes please help be at Mastick to help clear the course.

3:30 – team arrives at mastick

3:40 – seniors (including varsity) have your uniforms and team gear for “photo shoot”.  Don’t waste time on this.

4:00 – district team go for your run – 2 minute pick-ups while running 5/6 miles on mastick trail.

4:15 – Community Race.  This is for any SJA student, faculty, staff, friend, or parent.  If you want to run, sign up and go for it – its FREE!  (no team members may run in this)

5:00 – girls race (SJA v Mentor) All healthy SJA runners NOT running districts in this race. 

5:45 – boys race (St. Ignatius v Mentor v St. Eds)

6:00 – senior recognition ceremony and cookout – senior parents are asked to be in attendance for this please!  Cookout to follow.

Cookout items: senior bring nothing – this is your day.

Coach will provide burgers, dogs, and buns

Juniors – please bring any side dish (salads, etc)  feed around 10 ppl

Sophomores – main dishes (macaronis, pastas, etc)

Frosh – desserts

 

Thurs, Oct 22 – normal Thursday

 

Friday, Oct 23 – TBD – possible trip to Medina to do a pre-meet jog on district course for full team.  If not then normal Friday.

 

Saturday, Oct 24 – district championship!

11:30 – leave SJA on bus for Medina (Ella Canavan elementary)

12:55 – varsity warm-up

1:45 – Div I girls district championship

 

Sunday, Oct 25 – no planned practice

Monday, Oct 26 – Walsh Jesuit last chance meet – for all healthy non district/regional athletes.  Schedule TBD

Gilmour Itinerary

SJA @ Gilmour Paul Primeau Invitational

Friday, Oct 2, 2015

3:30 – bus leaves for Gilmour

4:10 – bus arrives at Gilmour

4:40 – varsity warm-up

5:30 – varsity “gray” race (8) – Seymour, M. Wagner, Walsh, Conway, Becker, Vovk, Hahn, Saul

5:40 – open warm-up

6:30 – open race (39) – Perkins, C. Baker, Meg Hahn, Dabydeen, Grove, Lane, Chambers, Kanary, Tran, Renner, Butterfield, Kelley, Stalder, Johnson, White, Fallon, Kunath, Horner, Maher, Coreno, Hollenbeck, Burns, Gaspar, Loftus, Hinkle, Schuler, Ferrara, Ialacci, Andrews, Miczak, Meyer, Noeth, Wolodzko, Ridenour, Boland, Beech, Johanek, Hyland (2 miles), Morgan (2 miles)

7:15 ish – cool down

7:25 ish – post-meet meeting and food

7:45 – head for home

8:30 – ETA at SJA

Not racing (11): Battistoni, McGuire, Patton, Corrigan, C. Wagner, Rogozinski, Jamieson, Good, A. Baker, Ferguson?, Scruggs

Week of Sept 28

Week of Monday, September 28

 

Congrats to all the athletes who PR’d this past weekend – there were quite a few!  Also congrats to Monica Hahn and Jocelyn Perkins who were chosen as our team’s athletes of the meet.  I know at Cloverleaf there were a LOT of nominations and worthy candidates.

 

We are on a Friday meet schedule this week.  This week will be a challenging week running-wise, but you will all be given an easier go of it next week leading up to Portage.

 

Monday, Sept 28 – Mastick practice…2000m time trial #2.  Done by 5:20

 

Tuesday, Sept 29 – standard Tuesday…3s and 4s lift then go to mastick at 4:00.  1s and 2s stay at SJA.  All done by 5:15

 

Wednesday, Sept 30 – workout at Memorial Field…ladder (1600, 2 x 800, 4 x 400)  Done by 5:30

 

Thursday, Oct 1 – Typical Thursday except team goal setting meeting first in room 331.  Done by 5:15

 

Friday, Oct 2 – meet at Gilmour

3:30 – bus leaves SJA

5:30 – varsity race (can run up to 9) Seymour, M. Wagner, Walsh, Conway, Vovk, Mon Hahn, Becker, Saul

6:30 – open

 

Saturday, Oct 3 – captains pancake run at Mastick 8:30 - ??? (when the pancakes are eaten!)

 

Sunday, Oct 4 – 3s and 4s run as necessary, 1s and 2s off

McDonough Itinerary

SJA @ McDonough Invite Sept 19, 2015

Forest Hills Park Cleveland Hts

8:30 – bus leaves SJA

10:25 – reserve warm-up

11:00 – reserve spikes on and head for start line

11:15 –  girls “reserve” (aka JV) (6) – Grove, Vovk, Ferguson, Hahn, Perkins, Kanary

11:35 – open warm-up

12:10 – open spikes on and head for start line

12:25 – girls open race (36) – Dabydeen, Tran, Lane, Renner, Rogozinski, Chambers, Butterfield, Horner, Jamieson, Hollenbeck, Kunath, Maher, Fallon, White, Loftus, Kelley, Gaspar, Burns, Coreno, Beech, Ferrara, Boland, Good, Johnson, Schuler, Ridenour, Johanek, Ialacci, Miczak, Meyer, A. Baker, Noeth, Wolodzko, Andrews, Saul (one mile), Scruggs (one mile)

12:45 – varsity warm-up

1:20 – varsity spikes on head for start line

1:35 – varsity “RED” race (big schools) (7) – M. Wagner, Conway, McGuire, Becker, C. Baker, Mon Hahn, Stalder (due to ACT)

3:30 – expected return to SJA

Resting (2): Seymour, Walsh

Not racing (5) : Battistoni, Hyland, Corrigan, Patton, Hinkle, C. Wagner, M. Morgan

ALL RACES HAVE A TEAM SCORE!!!!

Beware of possible rain – bring extra clothes

BRING YOUR TEAM SOCKS!

Hoover meet Itinerary

6:15 – bus leaves SJA

7:30 – bus arrives

7:40 – varsity warm-up on the course (do one full loop and KNOW THE FINISH)

8:15 – spikes on, head to start line for stride outs and prayer

8:30 – varsity race

9:00 – open warm-up (varsity should begin warming down 15 minutes)

9:35 – spikes on, heat to start line for stride outs and prayer

9:50 – open race

10:30 – open cool down

10:45 – team stretch and such

11:00 – food

11:30 at the latest – head for SJA

12:45 – arrive at SJA

Varsity (7)

Seymour

M. Wagner

Vovk

Becker

Walsh

McGuire

C. Baker

Traveling separate

Coach McHenry

Coach Gallagher

Scruggs

Grove

Not-racing (8)

Burns

Conway

Saul

Battistoni

Hyland

Corrigan

M. Morgan

Renner

Open (43)

Mon Hahn

Lane

Ferguson

Grove

C.  Wagner

Stalder

Tran

Dabydeen

Chambers

Rogozinski

Meg Hahn

Perkins

Hollenbeck

Jamieson

Butterfield

Fallon

Maher

White

Jamieson

Kanary

Johnson

Horner

Kunath

Boland

Loftus

Beech

Kelley

Gaspar

Coreno

Good

Scruggs

Miczak

Ferrara

A. Baker

Schuler

Ialacci

Johanek

Wolodzko

Ridenour

Meyer

Hinkle

Noeth

Andrews (2 miles)

Week of August 31st

Week of Monday, August 31^st

I’d like to first extend some thank you’s to some parents…

*To the Butterfields for hosting the entire team for a sleepover.

*To the parents who have helped drive athletes to Mastick practices (Monday this week is needed!)

*To the parents who have already signed up for pre-meet dinners and food duties!!!!

This is going to be a HOT HOT HOT week!!!  Make sure you have your water bottle with you everywhere!! 

Parent…the pre-meet food sign up is live on our team website.  We have parents signed up for the 2^nd meet, but no one signed up for the first meet.  Please consider doing this!!!

Monday, August 31 – AT day at South Mastick.  NEED PARENT HELP…5 cars would be great!  Done by 5:15

Tuesday, Sept 1 – 1s, 2s, and specials (Mary, Ceci, Caitlyn) stay at SJA – done by 5:15 (begin in room 331).   3s and 4s get mileage at Mastick after lifting and core at SJA – done by 5:15 at Mastick

Wednesday, Sept 2 – Meet at Gilmour for new runners (2 mile distance), everybody healthy goes.

2:15 – dismissed from class

2:30 – bus leaves SJA

3:15 – arrive at Gilmour – racers learn course, rest of team warm-up for workout

4:30 – race time

Thursday, Sept 3 – normal cross train day – done by 5:10

Friday, Sept 4 – pre-meet day at SJA….begin in room 331.  Done at 5:15. 

                Hopefully we have a team dinner at SJA after!!!  We also were planning on running movies this year during the dinners, so let’s get one!

Saturday, Sept 5 – meet at North Canton Hoover.  Bus leaves at 6:15!  Varsity races at 8:30, open (everybody else) runs at 9:30 (or so).

Varsity is: Seymour, M. Wagner, Battistoni, Conway, Walsh, Vovk, Becker

 

Note for Monday/Labor Day – team practice is a long run at Station Road in Brecksville Reservation at 8:30 am.  Parents welcome to come along and run or ride a bike.  We’ll be sure to have some food for after!

 

Note for future: Tiffin Carnival times…Div I B 3:05, Div I A 4:00, open 4:55.  There may be some shuffling for people with scheduling conflict.  (ACT’s, etc…)

Week of August 17th

Thank you to the team for the greatness Saturday night – they spared my wife of cleaning up toilet paper and instead left a great care package that had caffeine, baby bottles, and customized onesie and some initials.  Very classy move!  Love it!

3 important things to note coming up

1.  All of the clothing gear order forms are due Monday at practice.  If you emailed me an order last week that will NOT be taken.  Please fill in the form and send the money to practice Monday.  All of the people who missed last week need to be at this practice and turn in the form please.

2.  Picture day for our team is Monday, August 24^th at SJA.  Uniforms and picture order forms will be passed out at Fridays practice.

3.  Tuesday we can have a picnic after the practice at Wendy Park on Whiskey Island.  Its late notice, but it’s the last day of summer for our students.  The plan is to practice from 3:45-5:30, then the girls can eat, tye-die shirts, and play volleyball.

 

Cross Country Week of Monday, Aug 17

Monday, Aug 17 – South Mastick 3:45-5:45.  General Mileage day with faster last mile – final day to turn in team gear order forms

Tuesday, Aug 18 – workout and picnic/vball/tye-die at Whiskey Island.  If parents are interested, we can make the picnic and volleyball part open to families and not just the team.  There are 8 excellent sand courts there.  Practice 3:45-5:45…picnic until whenever.  You’ll need a shirt to tye-die!!!!

Wednesday, Aug 19 – At SJA - 1:00-2:45 practice for frosh, 3:15-5:00 practice for 10^th-12^th graders – cross train day.

Thursday, Aug 20 – 1^st day of school.  Practice at mastick.  We will have carpools set ahead of time!

Friday, Aug 21 – practice at SJA…shorter run, weight room, uniform pass out.

Sat, Aug 22 – canoe run day…don’t forget to print and sign the permission form!!!

 

Looking ahead: Gilmour 3k dual – for new runners only.  This is NOT a highly competitive race.  Just 2 teams allowing new runners to get their feet wet.

Alexis Baker

Lily Beach

Frankie Burns

Molly Chambers

Gina Coreno

Molly Corrigan

Olivia Fallon

Morgan Ferguson

Grace Gaspar

Baleigh Good

Meghan Hahn

Monica Hahn

Tuesday Hinkle

Sydney Hollenbeck

Rachael Ialacci

Grace Kelley

Megan Lane

Kathleen Loftus

Maeve Maher

Savannah Meyer

Mackenzie Morgan

Marlena Noeth

Jocelyn Perkins

Zoe Ridenour

Sonia Rogozinski

Theresa Russo

Katie White