The Team Essay

After another great year of running and training, Chino Hill’s Cross-Country team ended with an amazing season. Throughout all the hard-core training and rigorous races, both the boy's and girl's teams had successful results. Injuries had been a recurring problem, as some runners didn't train during the summer. Despite struggles and injuries that had occurred throughout the season, there were many improvements and achievements in the team. In League the Girl’s Varsity Team won first, and the Boy's Varsity Team achieved second. The Boy’s JV, Frosh/Sophomore, as well as the Girl's JV placed second. In Boy's Varsity the top runners were, Andrew Arvizu, Jake Bergmann, and Noah Rehfeldt, and the Girl's Varsity the top runners were, Rachele Sunagawa,

Right out of the gate in the high school boys race, everybody knew Junior Zach Kreft from Buckeye Valley would run away with the victory but the 2nd overall finisher was still a question. Freshman Luke Malone and Gavin Frick worked off each other the entire race moving from as far as 17th and 18th place early on to finishing 2nd and 4th. The two were able to run a 5:17 and 10:52 for their mile splits. At the end, Malone was just able to beat out Frick and Sophomore Adam Brown from North Union to race into 2nd place racing to a PR of 16:58. Frick was able to PR, finishing just behind Malone running a 17:03. The two were able to beat Buckeye Valley’s number two,

All the work paid off. During the 2016 national competition in May, I ranked in the top 9 percent of 1,308 competitors, the highest individual performance ever posted by Decatur High School. I’m now team captain and have coaxed a lot of promising freshmen to join.

Through Fox Run, I have learned to respect teammates, coaches, opponents, and even myself. I learned to honor coaches and referee decisions because of their authority. I respected one of our trainers, Linda Hamilton who retired from the U.S. women’s national team, gave so much effort, time, and her ability to see us achieve our personal goals. I learned to appreciate teammates because their

"This was a great season opener for our Ladies. I'm really proud of the effort everyone gave today," said head coach Kyle Joplin. "We're only a few weeks into training and this was a very challenging race. I can't wait for the next competition!"

The first is that hard work always beats talent no matter what. When the team first started running, Danny Diaz was the worst one by far. But by working extremely hard the whole season he was actually able to beat one of his teammates at state! I Was shocked when I watched this part and it really made me appreciate the value of hard work and perseverance. Another lesson it taught me is how important teamwork is. They finally started making improvements once they became a team. A good team is one that understands each other and that is exactly what the Mcfarland boys’

After warming up runners have to jog over to the far end of the track to do drills because the cheerleaders choose to practice in cross country’s usual spot (even though it’s inconvenient for everyone that way). Hardly anyone runs cross country because there’s no glory in it. There’s no sprightly cheerleaders, no prep rallies, and often times, no spectators to even watch the races. This year, Santa Ynez Highschool’s girls’ cross-country team was awarded two plaques, half a dozen medals, and advanced all the way to CIF finals for excellence in the sport. For all this accomplishment and six months of vigorous training, a single

The 2 minute gun went off! It wasn’t time to be sentimental, that wouldn’t win the day for us, but we all had the same thought on our mind: “Win this race for Andrew.” And before we all knew it, there we were, on the starting line about to run our race, and a few seconds later, Crack!, another pistol shot and the race had begun. Honestly, while I run my races, I tend not to think. I usually have a fairly catchy metal track glued to my head and I tend to only replay the song constantly in my mind until I would hit the 800m mark and my instincts would fire up my adrenaline. Today’s selection was Day by Day by Miss May I, and much like the namesake of the song, I tried to run my race stride by stride with all the heart and ability I could possibly give. I don’t remember finishing, but I do remember being handed the boys JV champions ribbon. As cliché as it might sound now, the Liberty Lions walked away from their home invite with some definite pride, and I have no doubts Andrew was smiling down on

In other sports, it’s difficult to analyze a player's involvement in the game. There are so many factors, and no concrete numbers to tell you how they did at the end. In Cross Country, you know how you did as soon as you look at your watch. I love being able to compare my times from week to week and year to year. When I look at my watch during the race, I know what I have to do to the achieve my goal. To be honest, I’m a pretty mediocre runner, so my goals are very small. I don’t plan on placing in races or beating team mates. I just want my time to get better week by week. This past season, I took four and a half minutes off of my time. Coach Hiedke told me that I’m the kind of person that can make their dreams come true, because he’s seen me do

“Final call girl’s four by eight-hundred-meter relay” called the official. The Ontario Track girl’s four by eight-meter team trooped up to lane one, in unison. I would not have wanted to be racing with anyone else but my relay family. We had trained all season for this one race. Every workout, asthma attack, tear, and shin splint has lead up to this one race to break a twenty year old school record. As we jogged with the official from the bullpen to the starting line, the crowd had uproars of excitement for the athletes. An immense smile grew across my face, not only from the ecstatic crowd, but from the anticipation to race. I approached the starting line, in the first lane, while my teammates arrayed along the fence with the other second,

With the Christmas tournament aside, we entered the post-season without a loss. We had a plan for each playoff game from districts to regional. We never deviated from the plan, keeping our eye on the target –

Practices continued. Nothing changed; except for me. I kept going, I didn’t let them win and I didn’t quit. Now the moment: the first game. I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I’d be. I felt that since I had made it so long already with dealing with the three that I could get through anything. I can honestly say that for my first time really performing I couldn’t have done better. I realized I really can do anything. Things didn’t get too much better, but I think they realized it

Both Girl’s and Boy’s Cross Country continued their dominating winning streaks. Girl’s captured a first place title in conference, sectionals, and regionals. This was the first time in 16 years that the girl’s have won the regional meet. They placed 11th in the state which is the highest ranking in school history. Boy’s

Listen to these wise words from Eric Tomas he once said that “when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful”. You have to be willing to sacrifice it all, go all the way to the end don’t stop don’t look back, when you begin feeling it’s too hard or I can’t do it no more, recall each one of those individuals sitting out there that told you, you couldn't do it, you’re just an ordinary athlete. But you said no I will prove you wrong I will win, this is why I have recurred you out here. Stick together as a team, draw all your energy put it together, to make yourselves and your bond more stronger so nobody can get passed you, as a team, we need to think as one .Paving the way to this moment ponder who are you, consider how far you have needed this minute, those incalculable hours in the gym and on the field, working day and night, working beyond your limits, this is your time, and your time to shine together. Get out there and show everyone how hard you have been preparing for this day. I believe in each and every one of you individuals, we will win, and we will take the trophy home, gets

In general, my junior year track season was arguably one of my best running season in my career for running. But, the city meet 800m race that season shined the brightest out of everything. In Livonia, Michigan, we have three different public high schools. So, once a year we get all the schools together and run a big meet against one another. During this season, I started to get confident in my running ability and ran my race instead of running