Panthers of the Week

For Week ending September 5, 2010.

Girls Panther of the Week. Evvy Archibald. With about 1/2 mile to go in the Varsity Girls race at Rancho Cotate Evvy saw Marina a bit in front of her but she also say a girl from Carrillo about 20 yards ahead of her and Marina. So Evvy makes a mini surge to catch Marina and says to her teammate "let's go get her". Guess what? They did. With team work and encouragement both girls were able to catch and pass the girl from Carrillo. Marina admitted that without Evvy's help she probably wouldn't have caught and passed the Puma. Both Panthers prevailed.

Remember we are all out there to encourage all of our teammates in all situations. It paid off for Marina and Evvy. Evvy remembered what we talked about the first day of practice.

Boys Panther of the Week. Avie Ballo. That is because his name sounds a lot like Evvy's. NOT!
Avie spent the past year preparing himself for this Cross Country season. Avie knew he would need to run an ambitious spring and summer to attain his goal of making the Varsity team. Avie trained extremely hard all spring during the Track and Field season. He continued his dedicated training throughout the summer. And now Avie runs in his first Varsity race at Rancho and is our 7th finisher. At this time that makes him Varsity and will run on the Varsity team at Ed Sias this upcoming Saturday. Avie knows the meaning of true excellent training and dedication. Avie is running Varsity. He ran a minute and a half faster than at last years Rancho Invite. 4 minutes faster than when he was a freshman.