Farmers Invite 2011
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This is the central place of communication for our team this season. On this site, you'll find the team photos and the schedule for the season. The photos posted are smaller files. I do have the large resolution files--if you want to order them--let me know and we can get them for a smaller fee and put some of that toward our fund-raiser account.
Fees for 4 x 6 photos are $1.00 each
Fees for 5x 7 photos are $5.00 each
Fees for 8 x 10 photos are $10.00 each
Our team party is this Friday, December 8th from 6 pm to 9pm
We will be raffling off lots of prizes and giving out awards to just about everyone!!
Plus, everyone attending will be receiving a commemorative 2011 8x10 Albany High Cross Country team photo!!
In addition, we will have a 30 minute DVD--with over 1,000 photos and video of your season--available for a mere $10.00.
Congrats to Nolan Tonkyn--Nolan smashed the Albany High record today at NCS, with a time of 15:25. That time was a full 45 seconds faster than the previous record that he co-held with Chris Gioia and Colin Bauer. In addition, Nolan's sixth place finish qualified him for next weeks State meet at the infamous Woodward Park. Only one other Albany athlete, Sean Carey, has ever qualified for State on behalf of Albany High. It is quite an accomplishment!!! I can already hear those college recruiters knocking on Nolan's door!
Enough about Nolan...what about the rest of our runners? They ran absolutely great, with most accomplishing all-time PRs over this course. Especially noteworthy was Suzanne Becker, who once again managed to break another Albany High school record--besting the NCS time of 19:29 previously set by Jackie Quinn in 2005. Suzanne ran an outstanding time of 19:20 to finish 24th overall in the toughest Division III.
Our boys team just missed out on setting the all-time team time...coming up only 8 seconds short of that goal.
Nolan Tonkyn--6th place--15:25 (PR from last year by 48 seconds) Albert Buck-Bauer--38th place--16:19--PR of 2 seconds from Farmers and 45 seconds from last year NCS Erlend Harbo--72nd place--17:11--PR from Farmers of 42 seconds Stuart Adams--76th place--17:16--PR from last year's NCS by 36 seconds Teo Maldonado--86th place--17:34--PR from Farmers by one minute Hannon Ayer--98th place--18:01--PR from Farmers by 53 seconds Kai Wilmsen--103rd place--18:14--PR from last year NCS by 35 seconds
Girls also had plenty of PRs...
Suzanne Becker--24th place--19:20--PR by 13 seconds from last year's NCS Thalia Tom--61st place--20:32--PR by 45 seconds from last year's NCS Dorothea Miller--63rd place--20:33--PR from Farmers by 38 seconds Siobhan Bauer--81st place--21:29--PR from Farmers by 1 minute, 7 seconds and from 2009 NCS by 36 seconds.
Mari Kamiya--83rd place--21:33--PR--1st race here Connie Ma--87th place--21:46--PR from last year's NCS by 48 seconds Ya Davis--90th place--22:03--PR--1st race here
NEXT UP...WASH UP AND DRY THOSE SINGLETS AND WARMUPS..CAN HAND IN TO MS. BUCK-BAUER IN ROOM 312, PLEASE DO SO THIS WEEK...
TEAM PARTY WILL TENTATIVELY BE SCHEDULED ON DECEMBER 8TH OR 9TH...KEEP BOTH DATES OPEN...MORE TO COME LATER ON THAT...
THANKS FOR A GREAT SEASON...AND GOOD LUCK TO NOLAN NEXT WEEK.
Running against some tough schools, our boys and girls ran well enough to place second and fourth as a team. Nolan and Thalia led their teams. Strong closings by Ya and Dorothea and Michael, who moved up the last mile. Looks like Nolan and Albert now have "top" two boys times over this course for !!! Way to Go!!!
Results posted below.
John Swett, St. Pats/St. Vincents and Holy Names were no match for the depth of our team on this day. The course was changed a bit due to construction--we started by having to run up a hill!! This did not deter our Cougars from a dominating performance.
Records:
Varsity Girls:6-1
Varsity Boys: 4-2
JV Girls: 6-1
JV Boys: 5-1
Albany hosted a meet at Cesar Chavez park, taking on St. Joes and Encinal in Bsal league battle. Coach Craig got out to the park around 1pm to do his chores...marking the course with chalk on the paved portions and flour on the dirt trails. As he went through the routine, he witnessed the blue angels passing overhead...quite a site.
It was almost 2:10pm and the bus had failed to come to pick up the athletes and disaster was avoided as Thalia found her clothes bag! Meanwhile, a few scary and puffy dark clouds began to loom overhead.
Coach finished marking well in advance of the meet...wait, it was raining...wait, this was no sprinkle...it was a downpour, a monsoon..and, away went all the markings.
Many thanks to Michael Williams and our JV boys for going out over the course and helping to re-mark the course.
Also, many thanks to our parent volunteers: the Dan and Dean on bikes show, Elizabeth and Carl, our bus chaperones, Phil, Chris, Dave, Andrea, Barbara, and Stephanie. Plus, many thanks to Richard and Marguerite and Sarah for helping with timing, set-up and tagging.
A fun meet on our home course. We had a few PRs--Nolan, Teo, Stuart, Siobhan, Connie, Thalia--most of the JV times were not great--perhaps due to the wind and muddy trail conditions.
Nolan dropped over 32 seconds off his previous best on this course to come away with Cougar victory. Our Varsity Boys came up just short of beating St. Joes. Arcadio--in just his first race--amazed everyone with his super run--coming in just behind Stuart as our #4 guy. As said before, we are very close to being able to run with the St. Joes and St. Mary teams--we just need to avoid having their teams get two runners together in front of one of our runners.
Our Varsity Girls really gutted it out...both Ya and Dorothea attempted to run despite having foot/ankle issues. We really appreciate their gutty determination in just toeing the line at this meet. Kudos go out to Thalia for really sticking with it to come in 2nd to St. Joes. And, we could see that Suzanne was suffering, but she managed to edge out the #2 St Joes girl. Siobhan continues to be on the comeback trail--moving up to our #3 girl--with a painless free performance. She also held off the #3 St. Joes girl. And, Ya beat the #4 St. Joes girl. Perhaps most instrumental was Connie and Mari coming in ahead of the #5 St. Joes girls--thus, we had six runners in before their fifth runner finished! The big difference between the boys and girls race is that St. Joes was unable to get more than one runner ahead of each of our runners.
Cannot forget JVs--super runs by Saskia, Tamia and Julie to finish 1-2-3 and guarantee the V. Also liked the strong efforts from Maddie, Faustine and Berhana, who finished together.
Boys JV was also victorious--with Conner and Michael running a bit slower than last season. Jackie, Cameron and Aaron were instrumental in this win..with them coming in close together as our 4-5-6 guys.
Results (below) and pics have been posted.
We will have another chance to improve on our times this next week against St. Pats/St. Vincents, Holy Names, and John Swett. Girls will get to go up against top Bsal runner, Julia Gullickson.
| PLACE | NAME | SCHOOL | TIME |
| 1 | Spencer Moore | Saint Mary's | 19:58 |
| 2 | Suzanne Becker | Albany | 21:18 |
| 3 | Mary Harrington | SM | 21:25 |
| 4 | Natalia Riccardi | St Mary's | 22:08 |
| 5 | Thalia Tom | Albany | 22:36 |
| 6 | Ya Davis | Albany | 23:11 |
| 7 | Mari Kamiya | Albany | 23:17 |
| 8 | Olivia Duncan | St Mary's | 23:31 |
| 9 | Amanda Keith | St Mary's | 23:38 |
| 10 | Connie Ma | Albany | 24:02:00 |
| 11 | Kimiko Masuoka | Saint Mary's | 24:20:00 |
| 12 | Alexis Cortez-Holmes | Saint Mary's | 24:28:00 |
| 13 | Maddy Woelffer | Saint Mary's | 24:28:00 |
| 14 | Molly Greene | Albany | 24:35:00 |
| 15 | Siobhan Bauer | Albany | 24:52:00 |
| 16 | Caitlin Kloess | Saint Mary's | 25:19:00 |
| 17 | Sarah Allison | Saint Mary's | 27:16:00 |
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| SCORES: | |||
| Saint Mary's | VS | Albany | |
| 25 | 30 |
| 1 | Nolan Tonkyn | Albany | 16:40 |
| 2 | Duncan Calvert | St Mary's | 16:45 |
| 3 | Patrick Mariolle | St Mary's | 17:01 |
| 4 | Albert Buck-Bauer | Albany | 17:11 |
| 5 | Nate Hill | St Mary's | 17:33 |
| 6 | Stevie Green | St Mary's | 17:39 |
| 7 | Victor Munoz | St Mary's | 17:56 |
| 8 | Stuart Adams | Albany | 18:10 |
| 9 | Erlend Harbo | Albany | 18:49 |
| 10 | Guy Forte | Saint Mary's | 18:53 |
| 11 | Ben Boskin | Albany | 18:57 |
| 12 | Kai Wilmsen | Albany | 19:02 |
| 13 | Steven Giuntini | Saint Mary's | 19:05 |
| 14 | Matt Blankinship | Albany | 19:06 |
| 15 | Nabai Habtemariam | Saint Mary's | 19:07 |
| 16 | Hannon Ayer | Albany | 19:16 |
| 17 | Pedro Navea | Saint Mary's | 19:24 |
| 18 | Najee Island | Kennedy | 21:57 |
| 19 | Kevin Snowden | Kennedy | 22:55 |
| 20 | Oscar Smith | Kennedy | 21:34:00 |
| SCORES: | Saint Mary's | VS | Albany |
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Lots of fun at Stinson Beach today. Twenty-three athletes and adults ventured out to the beach....suprising how warm the water was!!
Photos are posted in photos section.
Results are posted below..also, if anyone has photos...please get them to me for posting.
Our first meet of the season...over 2 miles of dust and dips, with darting uphill near the end for 30 seconds to over 90 seconds for some.
Results are listed below.
Top Ed Sias all-time times are posted as well.
Photos are posted at Pictures section....
We are already into our first few days of practice and the teams look real solid--for both boys and girls!!! Should be exciting season.
I have attached our 2011 schedule below!!! Check it out and be sure to save those dates and not schedule anything else to conflict.
Congrats to our NCS participants!!!
Our Albany Cougars Cross Country Team finished a strong second in each of the five races held at the Bsal League Champs. Tons of PRs over the Pt. Pinole course as well as all league honors to Suzanne Becker, Brisa Bodell, Connie Ma and Siobhan Bauer for the girls and Nolan Tonkyn, Albert Buck-Bauer, Stuart Adams and Aidan Juengling-Bean for the boys.
In addition, top honors to Maddie Johnson, Molly Greene, Julie Kao, Faustine Luo, Grace Lu and Berhana Jones in the JV Girls; to Oscar Rodriguez, Matthew Blankinship, Hannon Ayer, Michael Williams, Ben Boskin and Jackie Hong in the Frosh/Soph boys; and to Kai Wilmsen, Tim Clopp, Conner Brown, Alex Muschler and Juneyoung Jeong in the JV Boys.
That makes it "25" medal winners for our 2010 team, with "8" earning all-league honors!!!! Last year we had "20" medal winners, with "6" making all-league honors.
Results are below--still awaiting JV boys results. Photos also posted.
Our top boys and girls runners ventured down to SoCal to see how they matched up with some of the finest high school runners on perhaps the most famous west coast cross country course at Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. Sac).
Suzanne won the frosh girls race with a strong time of 19:50 and Thalia also finished in the medals with her top ten finish. In the boys varsity, Nolan had a great race to finish in the medals as well. In addition, our JV boys and varsity boys and girls teams finished in the top ten out of 30+ schools!
Results posted below--with lots of pics in pictures section.
Plus, if you want to see vidoes of the races--go to:
http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view/237407-2010-mt-sac-cross-country-invitational
Also, a nice interview with Frosh Champ, Suzanne--not great camera work tho!!
Albany had a meet today with Salesian and Piedmont on Salesian's home course at Pt. Pinole. This is also the Bsal league championship course.
JV boys and girls were dominant in their victories. The JV girls were capably led by the winning runner, Maddie. They finished first thru fifth, with strong supporting races by Julie, Molly, Faustine and Berhana.
The JV boys were led by Miguel, who almost caught the winner near the finish line. He was closely followed by Matt, Conner, Hannon and Michael.
The Varsity Girls also dominated the highly ranked Piedmont girls, with victories by Suzanne (a new course record of 20:09), and strong backup from Brisa, Thalia, Connie, Siobhan, Tamia and Saskia.
Our varsity boys wasted two top/course record performances by Nolan and Albert, only to come up short in the team race by one point to Piedmont. Hopefully we will get them next time...at Bsal championships.
Photos have been posted. Awaiting full results to post.
We show-cased our outstanding Frosh/Soph runners today at the Castro Valley Invite. It was quite a day, with Thalia and Oscar both finishing in the medals. Plus, great runs by everyone who participated...and...really enjoyed seeing the strong finishes by everyone out there today. Especially since this is not an easy course. Results will be posted when we get them. Photos are being posted in our pictures section.
Our mighty Cougars ran at Benicia State Park and easily defeated a trio of teams--John Swett, Holy Names and St. Patricks/St. Vincents.
Highlighting the day were wins bye Saskia in the JV girls; Simon L. in the JV boys; strong races from Suzanne and the girls in the varsity race; and a win by Albert in the varsity boys race.
Most everyone managed to get extremely close to Coach's time predictions and placings--thereby insuring some strong performances by all.
Complete results are posted below. Still waiting on full results from the Farmer Invite.
Photos have been posted on "pics" page.
Cougars ran at the the Nike Invite that is hosted by Carondolet and DeLaSalle at Newhall Park in Concord. Varsity ran the 3 miles and everyone else the 2 miles. Both distances featured a big climb up a large hill near the one mile mark.
Congrats to our Cougars for a nice day of running. Everyone was so supportive of everyone else. Special thanks to the drivers--Ruth Chang, Dan Greene, Astrid Juengling-Bean, Michele Bachmeier, and Richard Braucher. Further kudos to Berhana Jones and mom for the tasty pineapple, and to Mr. Adams and Mr. Braucher for the watermelon.
We finished off the day with a salute to our birthday boys of the week, Alex and Nolan.
As for the racing, strong performances by just about everyone. Plus, it was good to see the efforts put in by our athletes to move up on the field after mile one.
As for records, Nolan continues his assault on the all-time Albany records at invites. For the 2nd week in a row, he set the record for fastest time by a Cougar on an invite course. This time, by some fifteen seconds!!
Albert and Stuart managed to crack the top ten of all-time times at this course.
In the girls Varsity race, Brisa and Saskia ran the 3rd and fourth fastest all time times by a Cougar on this course.
In the JV races, we had strong races from Ryan, Tim, Simon and Kai, who now have the top JV times ever over this course.
In the JV unlimited race, it was good to see Julian pull away from several of his competitors at the end of his race.
In the Frosh/Soph races, Oscar put himself on the all-time list with the 3rd fastest time ever. Further, it was good to see Molly, Tamia and Berhana move up on the field over the last mile of their races.
Results and photos are posted on this website.
We ran today at CC Park vs. Berkeley over the 1.6 course. Some very nice runs by just about everybody, with marked improvements on most PRs. Special notice of drops in time by Berhana, Carl, Suzanne, Riosin, Connie, Saskia and Thalia. And, all of our boys ran faster than the time trial the week before. If this had been a scoring event, we would have lost the VB race by score of 26-29, won the VG race by 28-31 and won the JV race. Results are posted below. Plus, we will be posting some incredible action photos from Michael Mejia and Coach Bayano.
We had a great turnout and day at Stinson Beach. Many thanks to all those parents who made it possible by driving our athletes out there. There were some worries of rain and freezing temps. Instead, we managed to get through a four mile or so run with some huge winds and a wind chill factor!! That was followed by "ice baths" in the ocean and heart-warming food at the local establishment. Another great excursion and fun had by all!!! Pics are posted in the pictures section.
Cougars Cross Country embarked on defending its league championship title--starting Monday, August 16th at 9am at Cougar Field track. Over 30+ have come prepared to run and workout for 2 hours. No ipods and cell phones during workouts. Have running shorts and shoes. No jeans please. Also, good idea to bring a water bottle. We will practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9am to 11 am. We will also be running on Saturday morning--meet at high school at 9am for transport to Tilden Park!!
Remember to turn in your physicals and permission slip forms...copies of these can be accessed on the website below.
Also, be sure to take a look at the photos recently added--including course photos for Bsal league champs, NCS section course photos and Mt. Sac course photos!!!
Head Coach: Craig Stern
Forgot to point out how proud we are of are high achieving academic standing among our runners: Boys: 3.63 GPS and Girls: 3.74 GPA!!!!
Congrats to the following Award Winners:
Varsity Boys--Dual Meet Champs!!
Varsity Girls MVPs--Brisa Bodell and Eline Leemans
Varsity Boys MVPs--Chris Gioia and James Pickering
JV Boys MVP--Ryan Masterson
JV Girls MVP--Siobhan Bauer
Varsity Girls Most Inspirational: Connie Ma
Varsity Boys Most Inspirational: Aidan Juengling-Bean
JV Girls Most Inspirational: Claire Fahrner
JV Boys Most Inspirational: Hannon Ayer
Varsity Boys Most Improved: Albert Buck-Bauer
Varsity Girls Most Improved: Molly Greene
JV Girls Most Improved: Grace Lu
JV Boys Most Improved: Stuart Adams
I think we have a great opportunity to win leagues for both the boys and girls...how can we do that...
General Requirements:
1. Stay healthy
2. Keep practicing and building up our mileage
3. Work and run together as a team!
Specifics:
1. We will have to beat St. Marys and St. Joes most likely--which means, we need a strong showing from our top seven boys and top seven girls. Will discuss more as season progresses....but, ask yourself, how can you contribute to our team...
Take a look at the nice articles on goal setting listed on our website's home page.
Tell me what your goals are for you and your team?
