Thursday Reminders

girls at the starting line


Hi Everyone!
After our never ending bus ride yesterday, both the boys' and girls' teams swept the competition at White Clay Creek! Since we were late in arriving, the photographer will come back on another day to take our team and individual pictures.


Tomorrow is the Middletown Invitational held at Lums Pond. Directions to the park can be found below:



http://www.destateparks.com/park/lums-pond/



The cross country course begins and ends in Area 5. Enter the park via the Main Entrance. Continue down the road until the end and bear right. There will be a large parking area. The two white poles are the start of the XC course.



The Varsity runners are listed below. Everyone else will be running in the Junior Varsity races.


Time Schedule:
3:30 girls J.V.
4:00 Boys J.V.
4:30 Girls Varsity: Maeve, Amanda, Allison, Ellen, Alison, Becca, Madeleine
5:00 Boys Varsity: Matt, Chanon, Mike L, Sam, Aidan, Mike S., Bill

Finally, there was a great article in yesterday's sports section about long time cross country coach, Joe O'Neill from St. Marks. Joe passed away this spring after battling cancer. An excerpt from the article is below. I believe it sums up what make XC such a unique sport:

A camaraderie exists between competitors and opposing teams in cross country that no other sport has. It is born of a shared understanding of the physical and mental anguish required to excel, and the tremendous satisfaction one draws from enduring those tests and making even modest improvements. When it comes right down to it, each distance runner is only truly competing against himself or herself, attempting to wring every drop of endurance left, when it seems there is none left.

You can read the entire article below:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090923/SPORTS11/909230320/1032/Runners-honor-legacy-left-by-iconic-cross-country-coach