Cross Country Athletes of the Week

The league season began on Wednesday October 5 at Spring Lake. And with the onset of the North Bay League Meets we begin to recognize our Panther Runners of the Week.

Boys: David Tran. David, a senior, improved his Spring Lake by 14 seconds against Maria Carrillo and Rancho Cotate on Wednesday October 5. David followed that up with a first ever Varsity race at the Castro Valley Invitational on Saturday October 8. David never wavered during the tough hilly Castro Valley course but held his position throughout against seasoned Varsity runners from all of the other schools. David showed great determination in his Varsity debut and did himself and his team proud. Way to go David.

Girls: Emma Pierson. Emma, a freshman, improved her Spring Lake time by 43 seconds against Carrillo and Rancho on Wednesday October 5. She then came back the following Saturday at Castro Valley to lead the JV girls to a third place finish earning a team plaque and medals for the top 7 JV girl runners. Emma finished 6th overall in the race. She was 12th going into the final hill and came out 6th. Obviously the hills are to Emma's liking. Emma showed confidence in her hill running ability and also a true fighting spirit throughout the race. Good on ya Emma.

Only One Race at the EA Meet Tomorrow

All divisions at our meet against Elsie Allen tomorrow, October 12, will be combined into one race. It will start at 3:45 PM, and end roughly at 4:15 PM. Let's go Panthers!

PRACTICE SITE CHANGE Monday 10/10

Practice will be at the JC grassy area on Monday. We are postponing Cobblestone until Friday.

RECAP: NBL League Meet #1 vs MCHS and RCHS

The rain didn't slow anyone down Wednesday as the Panthers stormed Spring Lake to take on Maria Carrillo and Rancho Cotate.


An incredible 46 out of 64 racers set personal records (PRs)! Those who didn't PR either ran season's bests, came really close, or are recovering from injury or illness. Be patient... your times will drop too!

There are too many amazing performances to mention specifically, but there were a few JV times that stood out:
* Irma PR'd by almost 4 minutes
* Kadeja PR'd by 3:30 minutes
* Justin Dante PR'd by over 2 minutes
* Tommy "post Fondo" Lucas PR'd by 1:30 minutes

The Varsity girls had 4 out of 8 runners PR, 2 others set season's bests, and 1 come within 4 seconds of PRing. They finished 2nd to a Carrillo team that is clearly one of the top teams in all of Northern California and the class of the NBL. A strong effort from top to bottom!

The Varsity boys avenged last year's loss to Carrillo with a nail-biting 25-31 victory. It is harder to PR the faster you get, but that didn't seem to dawn on them. A hard-fought last mile resulted in a #3 all-time SRHS team time! (#15 out of all teams ever on the course). This is with two top runners coming back from illness and injury who didn't even score for us! They showed great confidence, poise, and sportsmanship.

Overall, the team is gathering steam as we head into the "meat" of the season. The NBL meets are what truly count. Now is the time to take advantage of all the stamina you are building and convert that strength into racing machines!

Go Panthers!

Castro Valley

It looks like we will have about 45-50 runners going to Castro Valley this Saturday October 8.
We will be leaving from the Swim Center at 8:30 AM. The times of the races are as follows:
11:00 Frosh Soph Boys
11:25 Girls Varsity
12:00 Boys Varsity
12:30 Girls JV
1:00 Boys JV

Varsity races are 3 miles and the others are 2.1 miles.

Pretty good viewing for the audience.

Go Panthers!