Lynbrook High School - Cross Country - 2024

(Past rec=235,392 in '09 Track)
(Past XC rec=161,694 in '09)


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SPAL All-Sports Titles:[71-77] Records:[64-72] [X-C:57-72] [Tennis:57-73] [WaterPolo:57-72] [FS/JV-Football:56-72] [X-C:54-72] [Wrestling:58-73] [Soccer:64-78] [Gymnastics:63-73] [Swimming:58-73] [Golf:57-73] [Golf:'64 All-SPAL] [Baseball:57-73] [Track:-] [AOW:59-65&78]
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'24 CROSS-COUNTRY (www.LynbrookSports.com)
Serving the Central Coast Section since 1996.
Last Season (2023 XC)


Both races on the West coast but NXN was a mudfest where Footlocker West was a beautiful day in SoCal.

SCVAL Athlete Chip & Bib ID #'s thru Oct 25 / Chip Instructions
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CCS Team Rank  (FINAL)                 State Rankings (10/05)         NorCal Rankings (xx/xx)
CCS Individual (xx/xx)                 National Rankings 
SJS   Rankings (xx/xx)                 NCS   Rankings (xx/xx)


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Timing Calendar & Timers

CCS Rankings will be posted on Sept 29, Oct 06, Oct 20 & Nov 3. We will be doing the same this year using XCStats for the rankings.

================ MEET INFORMATION =================

Calif Winter Championships Qualifier (01/18&25) - Held at Los Gatos HS. Meet Qualifier Info

Los Gatos Winter All-Comer (12/14&21) - LGAC Website

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CCS PIB: Participant Information Bulletin and other info.

WBAL Champs (Crystal-11/08)
SCVAL Champs (Crystal-11/05) - Records

SCVAL#1 (Baylands-09/24)
SCVAL#2 (Crystal-10/08)
SCVAL#3 (Baylands-10/22)

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Lynbrook Invite/FUHSD Champs (10/31): Records/Map/Description

Palo Alto City Meet (10/29)

RAM Invite (09/28) - Course Map

Tom Liekam Inv (Pinto Lake) (09/21)

Fighting Knights Joust Inv (09/14)

Jackie Henderson Invite (09/07) Preview

Lowell Invite (09/07)

Los Gatos All-Comer Meets

2024 Track: Still looking for 2024 Track results.

================ ARTICLES & MISC =================

Be Like Walt: I'm about to turn 70 and this 71 year old does more than I could ever imagine myself attempting. Written December 1979, check out what this "old guy" would do some 45 years ago.

I lost a great friend to cancer the Friday after Thanksgiving. Dirk Rohloff (3rd from left) was a Fremont Indian, De Anza Don, UC Davis Mustang and an Aggie for life. We were teammates at De Anza and on the Aggies for the last 30+ years. A 4:10 miler at Davis (see his race results) and a guy always with a laugh during our lunch time runs he gave way to his cancer surrounded by his family. Races will never be the same buddy. Hidley, Hidley.

Meet the Crystal Springs "Drag". Now that XC racing in the Section is over, and once the rain subsides, this guy will be taken out for a spin to groom the Crystal course in preperation for the 2025 Cross-Country season. Speaking of the Crystal Course, here are updates to Individual Boys, Individual Girls, Team Boys, Team Girls, and 2nd Generation List.

Oh my, where to start... Not one but two athletes broke the one month old Crystal Springs Course Record that had previously stood for 50+ years. Eli Fitchen-Young (Santa Cruz) ran a 14:23.5 mark giving Santa Cruz bragging rights to owning the CCS best times on Crystal for both Boys & Girls (Kate Ratliff set the girls CCS record in 2015). Then Menlo boys took care of the Team Course Record that was set by Bellarmine in 2019. Their 75:43.0 mark was established by Landon Pretre, Will Hauser, Henry Hauser, Jared Saal & Oliver Olbekson. Kylie Hoornaert (Prospect) came away with her best time of her career and the top girls time for the day (17:48.4) and the St Francis ladies took the team time (92:51) good for #10 on the All-Time list. Another record was 6 boys teams made it on the All Time list breaking the previous best of 4 held by many "years". Eli sums up the meet best with this closing picture.

SCVAL Post-season meeting: Nov 18th, 6:00 pm at Saratoga HS. Send any agenda items, by Nov 16th, to Steph MacKenzie. Meeting handouts

Cason Mitchell (M-A) wins the PAL Finals. PAL Finals results.

Can anyone see what's wrong with the picture on the left? I really like this picture of Aydon. I believe this might be the first ever coaches picture of the entire SCVAL. SCVAL Divisional Finals results.

Landon Pretre on his way to a WBAL win and a sub-15 clocking, with his teammates showing their pack running strength. Evie Marheineke (Mitty) striding in for the WCAL win and missing the sub-18 dip by less than a second. If the St Francis Top 5 girls each improve by 12 seconds, they can take down the CR set by Carlmont in 2007.

Victors Lily Yang (Lynbrook) & Dominic McMahon (Santa Clara) win the VG & VB races at the Lynbrook Invite.

How many remember this race course? I very narrow start that goes onto a 4 ft wide dirt trail after 50 meters and having to run across the bridge. The year was 1979 and the place was Alum Rock Park.

Landon Pretre (Menlo) scores a new Baylands Course Record with his 14:57.9 time at WBAL #2. Old record was 15:11.4 in 2017 by Meika Beaudoin-Rousseau (Bellarmine).

Trey Caldwell (DeLaSalle) breaks Mitch Kingrey (San Carlos) Crystal Springs course record of 14:28 (1973) with a 14:27.1 clocking at the Serra Invite, that's a 52 year old record - WOW!.

759 runners compete on Crystal Springs course on Tuesday (Oct 8) on a beautiful (meaning NOT HOT) day. Aydon Stephanopoulos (Los Gatos) ran a 14:53.8 time getting his name added to the Crystal All-Time list. Pictures are here, or will be.

Baylands wildlife is unreal as we see this goose leading the race. Race results are here.

A throwback to 1978 at Crystal Springs #2... Jesse Colvin (Lynbrook) and John Hoch (M-A) kicking at the end.

Malcolm Slaney has used Bayesian modeling and data from XCStats (https://xcstats.com) to estimate the difficulty of more than 400 XC courses around California. These new estimates are now reflected (actually, not quite yet, I need more time) in the Lynbrook Course Converter page (https://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/XC/CONVERTR/converter2007.html). An explanation of the math and lots of graphs are online at GitHub (https://github.com/MalcolmSlaney/CrossCountryStats).

"Don't Judge Your Success By What Private Schools Do". - As what happens, I'm digging thru the archives and an article jumps out at me. It's April 1988 and even in 2024 these same issues arise now and then.

With the Knights Joust coming up this Saturday at Crystal Springs I thought a picture of the "God-Fathers of Crystal" would be appropriate. It's Oct 1976 and these coaches were instrumental in the development of XC in the Central Coast starting in 1955. They are Bill Daskoralis (Aragon), Tom Tuite (St Francis), Bob Rush (CSM), Plato Yanicks (M-A), Forest Jameson (Paly) and Loren Landsbery (Carlmont).

The Historic Mt Sac XC course is changing. Some of the hills are still there but the finish will be different and the distance will be longer - end of an era.

State Meet time Schedule & Section Qualifier counts.

A great group of volunteers spent their day out at Crystal Springs filling pot holes, cutting weeds and making sure the course is "race read". Thank you everyone.

Crystal Springs Schedule (Official, as of 08/29): The Crystal Springs Handbook. The Crystal Springs MEET DIRECTOR Handbook (thanks to Kirk Flatow).

Steps 4 Smiles was a 5K/10K race put on by the Bellarmine XC team in Vasona Park benefiting 2nd Harvest, they raised over $12K. Results & Video are here.

SCVAL Pre-season meeting: Aug 15th, 6:30 pm at Saratoga HS Team Room (by pool). Send any agenda items, by August 14th, to Paul Armstrong. Meeting handouts ARE HERE.

Every year the CCS At-Large times are computed, here are the spreadsheets that do the computations: Team At-Large / Individual At-Large / Course Conversion (ex. Pinto Lake)

Addtions to the All-Time CCS Top 100 list can be found here.

===== RESULTS =====

FootLocker Nationals

Nike Team Nationals

FootLocker West (download to see data)

State Finals (Entries / RESULTS) / Pics / Videos

   SECTION FINALS:
SS Finals
NCS Finals
LA Finals
Oakland Finals
SF Finals
CS Finals
SDS Finals
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NS Finals

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PCAL Finals
BVAL Finals
SCVAL Finals - Pic#1 - Pic#2 - Video
WCAL Finals
PSAL Finals
SCCAL Finals
WBAL Finals
PAL Finals

Lynbrook Inv

PAL#3 (Bedwell)
PAL#2 (Crystal)
PAL#1 (Westmoor)

Coast Conf Finals (JC)

Palo Alto City Meet

WBAL #2
WBAL #1

SCVAL#3 (Baylands) - Pictures - Video
SCVAL#2 (Crystal) - Pictures - Videos
SCVAL#1 (Baylands) - Pics#1 - Pics#2 - Videos

   MIDDLE SCHOOL MEETS:
WBAL#2(Skyline)@Bayfront(CANCELLED-Heat)
WBAL#3@Crystal
WBAL#2@Bayfront
WBAL#1(Skyline)@Bayfront
WBAL#1@Crystal
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WVAL-FINALS(#5)@JD-Morgan
WVAL#4@Rolling Hills(CANCELLED-Heat)
WVAL#3@CTE
WVAL#2@JD-Morgan
WVAL#1@EDS
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ADAL (Crystal-10/24)
ADAL (10-03)
ADAL (09-25)
ADAL (09-18)

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WCAL#2 (Baylands)
WCAL#1 (GGP)

Clovis Invite

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Stanford Games (track)

Artichoke Invite

RAM Invite

Leikam Invite

DLS Invite - Pics - Videos

Ed Sias Invite

Fighting Knights' Joust

Baylands Invitational

Lowell Invite / Pics #1 / Pics #2 / VIDEOS

Jackie Henderson Invite / Meet Recap

Monta Vista 3200 Madness

Serra Jamboree

LG-AC#3
LG-AC#2
LG-AC#1
Los Gatos Summer All-Comer results - Pictures - Videos (thru #3)

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Hank (Radar Timing Services) is timing events in this color
Todd Bystrom (Mt View HS) FastTimes is timing events in this color
Curtis Liang () is timing events in this color
Other Timers:
Mark McConnell (Soquel HS)
Sean Laughlin (Record Timing)
Mark Robinson (Mark Robinson Milesplit page)
Aliya Dibrell (Adkins Trak West)
Aaron Ford (Ford Timing)
Shannon Sos (Diablo Timing)
Bernard Stephens
Ral Powers Ralph Powers Timing
Huy Nguyen (Lincoln HS & TFMeets)
Brad Lindemann (Bellarmine HS & FastTimes Timing)
Liz Guy (Saratoga HS), only TRACK meets - Lynx timing only
Mitch Taylor (BVAL)
Ken Grace High Speed Timing
John Morris (Westmont)
Wilson Morales Finish Line Time (Tiempo de llagada)