8/29 Meet Results - Tigers Run with PRIDE

Lindsey Bachman
Coach Skinner and I could not be more PROUD of this team! This week you all collectively demonstrated a heightened sense of focus in practice (especially during drills), excellent effort during our workouts, tremendous thoughtfulness in our reflection & goal setting, and top notch sportsmanship and enthusiasm at our meet. Our team's presence and performance on Thursday was a beautiful display of our program goals in action! A huge thank you to all the parents, siblings, and friends that came out to support and volunteer, and of course another well deserved shout out to every runner who seized the opportunity to toe the starting line for the first time!  There are too many highlights from last night to list them all, but below is a recap of some!
 
Magical Moments
  • Our team cheer before the race! If there was a prize for best and most enthusiastic team cheer, our team would have won it hands down! You all brought the ENERGY!
  • Our team looking super sharp on the starting line with our uniforms and custom USN bib #s! (shoutout to Goach Gimblett for making those!)
  • EVERYONE finishing their first 1.5 mile race!
  • The boys team earning a near perfect team score!
  • Everyone that stayed to cheer on the 7/8 races, sprinting back and forth on the course and cheering until the last competitor finished!
Team Scores & Scoring Runners
For those new to cross country, when it comes scoring, the team with the lowest score wins! The places of the top 5 runners from each team are added together to create their team's score. In the event of a tied score, the 6th and 7th runners' places are used to determine the tiebreaker. Additionally, while the 6th and 7th runners' places are not factored into the team score in non-tie circumstances, they can always play a valuable role by driving up the score of other teams by  finishing ahead of their 5th place runner. This important role is what gives 6th & 7th runners the title known as "pushers." Long story short, EVERYONE counts and makes an impact on this team, from the first to last runner to cross the finish line!
 
Team Scores:

GIRLS 1.5 RACE
  1. FRA- 45
  2. USN- 88
*Non-Scored: Harding, LWS, Overbrook

BOYS 1.5 RACE
  1. USN- 20**
  2. FRA- 61
  3. Harding- 63
*Non-Scored: Covenant, Overbrook, LWS

**Our boys team earned a nearly PERFECT score!!! As our team so confidently calculated on Friday, a perfect XC team score is 15pts. Anything under 25 falls into the UNCOMMON category, so this is really really neat!

Point Scorers:
  • Boys 1.5 - Jennings Collier (3rd), Brody Terker (4th), Ayman Abuali (5th), and Hugo Miller (6th)
  • Girls 1.5 - Ava Warren (13th), Mila Kennedy (16th), Elaina Yu (17th), Elliott Holliman (20th), and Sari Zaganoev (21st)
  • Here were our scoring runners in each race:
Pride / Pack Running
 
An extremely effective and strategic way to race well as a team is by staying in a pack and moving up steadily as the race progresses. Pack running not only increases motivation and accountability within the pack to push and keep pace, it also has legitimate energy conservation effects. Pack running is one of the things our team did an EXCELLENT job of in last night's race. For example, our top 5 boy finishers were separated by only 9 seconds! This is what's known as the "spread," and you will see it highlighted on our results spreadsheet. The lower the spread from our first to final finisher the better! other fantastic pack running on display was from Keshav Parhik who locked in with a sub 12 minute group of his 6th grade teammates, the 13-13:30 pack of Lucas Munoz, David Perry, Grant Shuster, and Ava Warren, the 14:20s crew of Arthur Tift, Elisha Woodruff, and Hayes Shallenberger, and our 16:30s trio of Dylan Hyatt, Edwin Nelson, and 6th grade teammate Mark Braun, and finally our 18 minute duo or Elliott Holliman and Sari Zaganoev.  
 
Best Efforts & Fast Finishes
Effort and enthusiasm were in no short supply out on the course but special shout outs go Sparsh Shah and Sadie Magner for giving it their all on the final home stretch! Running 1.5 miles is not easy. Finishing fast is the cherry on top!
 
Goal Getters
  • Mila achieved her goal of finishing in the top 20. She was 15th in the girls race!
  • Elaina achieved her goal of finishing in the top 3 girls from our team!
  • Aymn far surpassed his goal of finishing in the top 15. He was 5th overall!
RESULTS - Finally, team score sheets and complete results are posted on our team page on the school website and linked here.
 
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