Lynbrook HS - Cross Country
1999 Awards
MVP / MI Athletes
Iron Men/Women (# of years) :
- Jeff Whitsett (2)
- Kai Yu (3)
- Kevin Perng
- Ken Chung
- Andrew Poon
- Jonathan McCoy
- Stephanie Claussen (3)
- Pauline Huang
SA's : At Lynbrook it usually takes a 4.0 and this year is no exception.
- Kai Yu, Andrew Poon, Jason Mar & Allon Nir are your VB SA's
- Stephanie Claussen & Ellin Chen are VG SA's
- Paul Yu & Kevin Wu are F/S SA's
- Pauline Huang is the JVG SA.
* JVG MI (Vanessa Streb) :
First year running X/C
Improved 2:14 seconds on Lynbrook course
#50 All Time on Lynbrook course and #2 Freshman on Lynbrook course
#7 on Crystal list for the decade and #8 All Time Frosh
Ended up with the # 3 ranking on the team after starting out as the # 6 woman
JVG MVP (Frances Shin) :
- Second year running X/C
- Had injuries mid-season which forced her into the pool
- Started having some great races from the first Center meet forward
- #18 Junior on Crystal Springs list
- Improved :53 seconds on Lynbrook course
- #5 spot on Junior list of Lynbrook course
- Ended up with a Varsity point ranking by seasons end and qualified to run CCS
* F/S MI (Matt Meyer) :
First year running X/C
Improved 1:23 seconds on Lynbrook course
Improved 2:00 seconds on Crystal course
#10 Soph on Lynbrook course
#42 on Crystal all time for the decade
Missed a Varsity ranking by a mere .5 % points
F/S MVP (Jeff Whitsett) :
- An Iron Man (2nd year in a row)
- Second year running X/C
- Improved :42 seconds on Lynbrook Course
- Has the # 1 time for Soph's on Lynbrook Course, # 3 time for All Time
- Improved :32 seconds on Crystal course
- Has the # 49 time for Soph's on Crystal course, # 88 time for All Time, # 12 time for the Decade
- Ran 300 miles over the summer
- Ran Varsity for the second half of the year and ended up with the #1 ranking for the team
* VG MI (Stephanie Claussen) :
Iron Woman (3rd year)
Third year running X/C
Improved :33 seconds on Lynbrook course
Has the # 9 time for Juniors on Lynbrook course
Has #12 ranking for the Decade on Crystal
Has #10 ranking for Juniors on Crystal
Had the # 4 ranking for the team
VG MVP (Polly Sidorovsky) :
- Second year running X/C
- After fighting injuries all last year was able to train and race most of the year
- Improved :33 seconds on Lynbrook course from '98
- Has #3 Senior Time on Lynbrook course
- Improved :48 seconds on Crystal course and has the # 14 time for Seniors
- Has # 10 time for the Decade on Crystal
- Ran a very gutty race at CCS
* VB MI (Paul Zimmerman) :
Second year running X/C
Missed only 1 race
Missed only 3 practices due to illness
Improved 1:00 seconds on Lynbrook course
Has # 22 Junior time on Lynbrook course
Improved 1:05 seconds on Crystal course
Ended up with the #7 team ranking
* VB MVP (Kai Yu) :
Third year running X-C
Iron Man (3rd year)
Was #1 runner 3 times
Improved :32 seconds on Lynbrook course
#3 Time for Seniors on Lynbrook course
Improved :36 seconds on Crystal course
Ran 300+ miles this past summer
Was a leader of the team
Graduating Seniors (We will MISS them) :
- Ellin Chen
- Matt Cheung
- Jason Mar
- Allon Nir
- Andrew Poon
- Polly Sidorovsky
- Kai Yu
- Christina Zhou