News and Announcements
2011 OVERNIGHT RELAY - RED WHITE AND BLUE ROCKS THE NIGHT!
The largest squad to date takes on the greatest MVXC traditional of them all - The Overnight Relay! For the first time, no runner ran more than one mile in order to give everyone a chance to carry the baton a mile. Despite not having the fastest runners handle multiple miles, the team still breaks 100 miles - completing 102.2 before the 12 Hour Clock counted down to zero.
Red White and Blue was the theme of the night. Rewarding the decision to move the event to an earlier date, the night was warm and a full moon provided extra light for the dedicated runners.
The team filled a pick-up truck full of items for the Food Bank of Contra Costa County - the designated charity for this years event.
The team took time at midnight (after the lights were restarted) to pause and reflect upon the anniversary of 9/11. Several team members spoke after a few words by Coach Davis and the team listened to a replay of a moving speech to the nation by then President Bush.
After the usual field pickup (thanks for those skittles...), everyone was out of the stadium before 8am.
Great job Mustangs!
RESULTS - 2011 Monte Vista Invitational
Thank you to ALL of the teams who participated in this 28th running of the Monte Vista Invite. Despite the hot weather, we had a number of really solid performances across all of the divisions.
In unofficial scoring, the Granada Girls team, and the San Ramon Valley Boys team had the fastest "team times" on the day (see Combined race results in the files below).
Results of each grade level race can be found in the handout below.
Congrats to our fastest runners on the day: Sr Carina Novell of Granada and Sr Trevor Fuhiman of Monte Vista.
Monte Vista Invitational - Meet Information - CLICK HERE
On Tuesday, Sept 6th, we will host the 28th annual Monte Vista Cross Country Invitational. This classic early season race draws over 20 area teams with over 1200 runners taking on the challenging two mile course.
Monte Vista athletes are not released early from school. Juniors race first, so they need to change quickly, pick up their race bib and start their warm-up routine. The rest of the team will get their race numbers after the Junior squads are handed out.
Uniforms will be handed out on Friday before Labor day weekend. If you don't have team uniform (the black, white and red "tri-bar") then wear a while t-shirt and black shorts.
More information:
DATE: -Tuesday – September 6th, 2011 – 4:00 pm Starting Time
WHERE: - Oak Hill Park - Danville CA. Adjacent to Monte Vista High School on Stone Valley Rd.
RACES: - GRADE RACES ONLY! Races are run by an athlete’s year in high school. The format will provide your runners an opportunity to race in their age group and provide you an opportunity to seed your runners for upcoming invitational’s No need to designate Varsity / JV this early in the season. Frosh race last to get a feel for what an invitational is all about.
EXTRAS: Snack table! Trainer. Custom Invite T-Shirts for sale. Adequate bus parking in North Parking lot.
AWARDS: - Custom Medals to the top 15 in each race. 1st through 3rd receive a special larger medals and special prizes from Forward Motion Sports & Nike.
- No official team scores. Coaches will receive individual and consolidated results/
COURSE:
- Challenging, Hilly Course at Monte Vista High School & Oak Hill Park
- All Races are 2 miles – Excellent Spectator Course
- Conquer the famous “Eliminator” hill!
- Course is mixture of grass, pavement, all weather track and dirt trails.
Order of Races
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4:00 | Jr. Boys | 15 | |||
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4:25 | Jr. Girls | 15 | |||
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4:50 | Soph Boys | 15 | |||
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5:15 | Soph Girls | 15 | |||
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5:45 | Senior Boys | 15 | |||
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6:10 | Senior Girls | 15 | |||
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6:35 | Frosh Boys | 15 | |||
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7:00 | Frosh Girls | 15 | |||
