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2019 MONTE VISTA INVITATIONAL - GENERAL INFO
As tradition has it, the Monte Vista Cross Country Invitational is held on the first Tuesday following the Labor Day holiday. So for 2019, the MV Invite will be held on Tuesday, Sept 3rd.
Time: 4pm
Where: Oak Hill Park, Danville, CA. Adjacent to Monte Vista High School.
Course: Challenging 2.0 mile course for all races. Features a flat first mile, with the imfamous "Eliminator" hill in the second mile.
Structure: Grade level races with the Frosh race run last.
Concessions: There will be a full snack bar with drinks and food items, along with meet T-Shirts for sale. Forward Motion Sports will once again be displaying racing flats and apparel.
Awards: Generous medals - 15 deep per race!
Entries: For 2019, entries will once again be made via Athletic.Net with timing provided by Diablo Timing using chip technology. Once your team is admitted (email co-director Mike Davis at mike.davis@sbcglobal.net to gain acceptance into the meet), meet entries can be made at this link: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/157307/register
Entries Open on June 1, 2019 and can be made up to 11:59 PM on Friday August 30th!
Schedule:
| Race | Start time |
| Junior Boys | 4:00 |
| Junior Girls | 4:25 |
| Sophomore Boys | 4:50 |
| Sophomore Girls | 5:15 |
| Senior Boys | 5:45 |
| Senior Girls | 6:10 |
| Freshman Boys | 6:35 |
| Freshman Girls | 7:00 |
We hope you will join us for this early season classic!.
MVXC End-of-Season Awards Banquet - Nov 15th: It's tasty BBQ, Coaches Awards, Photos, Senior Picks, Letter winners and much more at this annual tradition. The Commons is once again transformed into a great venue for teammates and family to reflect back on this past season.
With plenty of BBQ from Armadillo Willy's (late but tasty) and lots of cake and drinks, the 2012 awards banquet was indeed a special event. The program featured presentations by each of the coaches, as well as the traditional student awards like "Senior Picks" and the Daly shoe. The outstanding team GPA's were also recognized, with the varsity girls leading the way with a 3.61 team GPA. An amazing 13 Mustang's earned 4.0's (unweighted) while completing the demanding XC training! Wow.
The following MVXC student athletes were honored during the evening:
Frosh Soph Awards (presented by Coach Zachary Daniels)
Captians Awards: Caroline Carey, Karissa Grove, John-Austin Ricks & Jackson Wightman
F/S Coaches Awards: Paige Cobb, Ryan Oldon & Will Jones
Junior Varsity Awards (presented by Coach John Behring)
Captians Awards: Ally Lizano, Ryan Spencer, Chris Menezes & Steven Waal
Coaches Award: Nadine Vomund
Varsity / Overall Team Awards (presented by Coach Mike Davis)
Team Manager Award: Nolan Pineda
Varsity Captians: Katharine Smiley, Amy Ingram, Cameron Somers & Michael Bartz
Coaches Award: Ellie Harvey
Most Improved: Erin Herting & James Mason
Rookie of the Year: John-Austin Ricks & Elana Lim
Team MVPs: Brooke Starn & Jake Auby
Letter Winners:
Letters - Four Year Seniors: Zack Erlick, Chris Menezes, Drew Delucchi, Michael Bartz, Patrick Kragen, Cameron Somers, Mike Abood, Ally Lizano, Callie Starn, Lindsay Rogers, Miranda Halverson, Brooke Rosenberg, Megan Blair, Amy Ingram, Ellie Harvey, Meghan Nesbit, Elena Smith.
Varsity Letter - Performance.
Girls: Brooke Starn, Katharine Smiley, Erin Herting, Amy Ingram, Elana Lim, Ellie Harvey, Megan Blain, Megan Nesbit, Elena Smith, Caroline Carey, Emma Knutsen, Amanda O'Brien, Ryan Spencer.
Boys: Jake Auby, James Mason, Patrick Kragen, Mike Abood, Michael Bartz, Andre Starr, Cameron Somers, Taylor Lee, Maxwell Phillips, Petar Zaninovich, Yian Liou, John-Austin Ricks, Jackson Wightman
Student Awards:
Daly Shoe: Michael Bartz passing to Jake Auby
Senior Picks (pending)
Congrats to the entire team on a great season!
COACH MANDEE STARN - 5th Season
Coach Mandee is a lifelong runner who grew up in Montara, California and graduated Half Moon Bay High School after spending a year abroad studying in Sweden. Gå framöver och ber henne att säga något på svenska! Back in California, she attended the University of California at Davis where she received her bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Communication Management before completing her master’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at California State University Hayward. She currently works at San Ramon Regional Medical Center as a licensed Speech Language Pathologist.
While she did not run for her high school or college teams, Coach Mandee has wasted no time since then having competed in approximately a hundred races ranging in distance from 5K to the marathon, including 3 Boston Marathon appearances. She has PRs (both set as a master’s runner!) of 20:08 for 5K (2011) and 3:19:44 for the marathon (2012).
Prior to coaching at Monte Vista, she assisted with the local CYO cross country and track & field teams as well as local USATF youth club Oak Hill Racing. She enjoys sharing her passion for the sport with younger runners and hopes to help them establish a healthy lifestyle while learning important life lessons such as goal setting and how to deal with the ups and downs that are inevitable along the way. Her three daughters, Callie (’13) and Brooke (’16), and Annie (’19) have all run or are still running with MVXC. Brooke is currently running for Harvard in her freshman season.
Coach Zach named the following as MVXC 2012 Frosh/Soph team captains. Congrats!
Boys: John-Austin Ricks (FR), JacksonWightman (SO)
Girls: Karissa Grove (SO), Caroline Carey (SO)
