We face Santa Clara tomorrow, Wednesday, March 27th at Santa Clara High School! The meet starts at 3:30pm and you are all released from school at 1:45pm (go to class first to check out with your teacher). Let’s bring the H.E.A.T.!!
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Monta Vista Takes 2nd Overall at Firebird Relays!
Monta Vista Impresses in Sunnyvale (Revised) I know, for the whole weekend we thought we won the meet overall, but the score ended up changing favoring Leigh High School. But Monta Vista came home with a 2nd place overall finish and that’s something to be very proud of! This past Saturday, our combined Monta Vista team
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Wilcox Dual Meet Recap
Lots of Fun Leads to 3 Team Wins! If you missed what I said at the team dinner following the meet, it went something like this: “I feel like this was the most fun meet we’ve had so far this season and it’s because we really operated as a team! I don’t even know what
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Firebird Invite Meet Sheet
We’ll be taking a number of athletes to Firebird Relays Invitational this Saturday, March 23rd. Below is a link to the current meet sheet – this is not final as Fremont has yet to actually put in the timetable. As soon as I see that timetable, I’ll update the sheet and you’ll be able to
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Wilcox Meet Sheet
We’ll be facing Wilcox High School this week on Thursday, March 21st! The meet starts at 4pm and is home at Monta Vista. Please see the attached meet sheet or check it out from the schedule page.
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Saratoga Dual and St. Francis Invite Recap
Varsity Girls, both JV Teams Win Against ‘Toga! On Thursday last week, we hosted Saratoga for our second league dual meet of the season after a week’s rest. It was a beautiful day to compete as 3 of our 4 teams came out on top: Varsity Girls, JV Girls, and JV Boys. Our Varsity Boys
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St. Francis Invite Meet Sheet
The St. Francis Invite meet sheet is posted! You can find it below or on the schedule page. You’ll find a table with all of the Monta Vista athletes that made it into the meet along with what time their event(s) is taking place. If you’re listed as an alternate, keep in touch with your
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Saratoga Meet Sheet
The Saratoga meet sheet is posted! Find it below or on the schedule page. Don’t forget, we’re taking our team pictures beforehand at 2:55pm sharp! We legitimately cannot wait on people so if you’re late you will not be in the picture.
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Message From Hopkins: NCAAs
For Californians, the indoor track season seems weird. We don’t do indoors growing up with track. So it probably seems bizarre to the current Monta Vista track athletes that a Johns Hopkins season ended last Saturday, while MVTF has one dual meet plus RustBuster in the books. A quick intro to a collegiate indoor season:
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First League Dual Meet at Milpitas
(See pictures taken by Ryan Liu) It was a great day to get League competition started for Monta Vista Track & Field as we faced off against Milpitas in a dual meet at their home track. Overall, our efforts were led by Denny Dong, Katie Lee, Clara Fan, Alice Ross, and Tanay Parikh who all
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Milpitas Meet Sheet Posted
The meet sheet for our dual meet with Milpitas this Wednesday, March 6th is posted! You are all scheduled for early release at 1:45pm – please be on time! If you do not have a ride, please talk to your captains to find help with a carpool. The meet begins at 3:30 and everyone should be
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28 Top 6 Finishes at RustBuster!
This past Saturday was the 8th annual RustBuster Invitation hosted by us, the Monta Vista Matadors! It was truly a “great day to race” as 17 new meet records were set on the track and in the field – that’s an awesome way to start a track season! The weather held off for most of
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RustBuster Meet Sheet Posted
RustBuster is almost here! The meet sheet is posted and you can view/download it below or from the schedule page. I have also attached the entry list – double check that you are in the correct events! Please please make sure you are prepared for the weather! Bring trash bags, ziplock bags, extra clothes (extra
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Uniform Handout Tuesday Feb 27th
We are handing out uniforms tomorrow (Tuesday) and they’re new! MV is so fortunate that the school purchased new uniforms for the Track and Cross-Country team this year. In previous years the school and mostly Boosters purchased uniforms, jackets, pants, bags, tents, stationary bikes, etc. Make sure your parents are supporting Boosters so we can
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Coach Flatow’s First Meet At Hop Will Be Hard To Top
Coach Flatow’s first meet at Johns Hopkins will be a difficult act to follow; both the men’s and the women’s teams defending their conference indoor championships, with plenty of time up on the podium in all events. I’m not going to go through a recap–you can read the results if you would like–but I do want
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Centennial Conference Indoor Championships This Weekend
Hello MV! I wanted to give you all another update on my time with Johns Hopkins Blue Jays track team. This weekend is the Centennial Conference indoor championships, and Hop is so fired up! Our last workout before the conference meet was yesterday, and it was perfect: Sunny, no wind, and the temperature was
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400 Shootout & Winter Break
Monta Vista T&F has completed the 3rd week of official practice in the 2024 season and with that, we have also completed the 400 Shootout and are staring down Winter Break. Here are a few notes before we jump into the results from the 400 Shootout. Attendance is mandatory every day. If you are injured,
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Day One At Hop
Today was my first day coaching at Johns Hopkins! What I tell you next is going to make you think that this is a perfect place for Coach Flatow…warm up started at 6:30 am, the first rep of the workout was launched at 7:15 am, heading off for warm-down before 8 am–all this in 37-degree weather.
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MVTF ’24 Week 1 in the Books
TLDR: Embrace the change that this season will bring and have a positive attitude Be at practice every day Get new shoes if you haven’t already! Meet schedule is up What beautiful start to the week and to the 2023 track season with temperatures topping 70 degrees on Monday and Tuesday, featuring athletes in t-shirts
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An Amazing Olympic Trials Story
Today five athletes earned places on the US Olympic Marathon team. There were many great stories on race day, and I’d like to highlight one. You might think I’m going to talk about the women’s race winner Fiona O’Keefe, who obliterated the Trials record, a local woman that we raced against when she was a
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A Cheering Guide to the 2024 USA Olympic Team Marathon Trials
It’s been a while since I have posted on mvrunning…UPenn has kept me busy. But I can’t pass up the Olympics! This Saturday at 7 am Pacific time, 10 am Eastern, is the start of the USA Olympic team marathon trials in Orlando, Florida. The top three women finishers and the top two or three
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MVXC Wraps the 2023 Season at CCS Championships
In the world of California cross-country, excitement reached a fever pitch as the Central Coast Section Championship meet unfolded. For enthusiasts like us, it’s the pinnacle of the season – a race that’s both exhilarating and bittersweet, as it signals the season’s end. But let’s not dwell on farewells just yet, because when it comes
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Uniform Return Monday, November 13
We are going to try to get our uniforms returned on Monday, November 13! Here is the plan… If you are planning to join the track team, all you need to do is fill out the attached form and either (a) bring the form to Coach Flatow on Monday 11/13, at practice at 4:10pm, or
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SCVAL is a treat (not a trick!)
Monta Vista headed back up the freeway to our favorite course, Crystal Springs, and the SCVAL championships on Halloween, 2023. After two years of rain, wind, and mud, SCVAL was held in near-perfect conditions. Under sunny skies, the JV boys lead off the day. MVXC has a young group of boys; no other team in the
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So You Think You Can Drill?
The gods of drilling were unhappy. What they saw when they looked down from Mt. Form displeased them. So Corfu themselves, together with the lesser gods Acorn and Grunt, came down to demand tribute. MVXC arranged a day of games to appease Corfu. The High Priest Flatow organized the drilling thusly: Using a great randomizer,
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MVXC Lights Fire at the Mariner Invitational!
MVXC competed at the Mariner XC Invitational in Hayward, California for the first time and gave the meet a 5-star rating. The meet was well-run, had lots of good energy and the combination led to some fantastic individual performances! I’m not going to bury the lede. The highlight of the meet from this coach’s view is
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Meet Sheets for Lynbrook and De Anza League Championships!
The last races of the 2023 cross-country season are coming in to view over the horizon! The last two meets for the full MVXC team will be the FUHSD Championships and the SCVAL Championships on Thursday, October 26, and Tuesday, October 31. Meet sheets for Lynbrook/FUHSD and SCVAL are attached. The SCVAL meet sheet is now updated
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MVXC Regular Season Wraps Up at Baylands; On To The Post-Season!
Baylands on October 18 was the site of the last SCVAL meet of the 2023 season, and Monta Vista blasted through with PRs galore to prep for the championship meets to come! The varsity boys started the meet off, and Tanay Parikh’s 10th place led the squad to a 9th-place team finish. The five scoring
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Dawn Patrol!
The Dawn Patrol reported to duty at 6:30 am on Saturday on the Monta Vista track! Starting in the dark, 14 of us headed to the top of Fire Trail and saw the sunrise over the valley. After that warm-up, in the red of the morning, we banged out mile repeats on Candy Crush–one of
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Week of October 16: Two Races!
Monta Vista has two races this week! On Wednesday, October 18, the final regular season SCVAL meet will be at Baylands. Please note we are racing on Wednesday this time. The race will be on the same course as a month ago and the race times will be the same. Remember you need to arrange
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Running Is Life
It is easy to be nervous when we start high school as freshmen. It helps to find a community, a family we can join. For many of us, we found the cross country team (and we also were able to be competitive, and fit, and chase goals with our friends). It will be natural to be
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Team Photos are Posted!
Hello Monta Vista Cross Country Family! The 2023 MVXC photos are available! To download all of the photos, please paste: https://www.smugmug.com/client/downloads/GvgFFst into your browser and follow the instructions to download a zip file of all the photos. We own these photos! Unlike most teams, MVXC purchases the rights to all the i from Jeremy Hohengarten, our
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Crystal Preview and Clovis Meet Sheets are Posted!
The Crystal and Clovis meet sheets are now posted! Please take a look…remember, you are responsible for arranging your own transportation to Crystal Springs. It will be a great week of racing!
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MVXC Travels to De La Salle
(I want to apologize in advance–is going to be a quick post. I have homework to do! My “Perspectives in Well-Being” professor is killing me. Ironic, isn’t it?) De La Salle is a good, competitive invitational. The course has been around for a long time, so the times and the records have meaning. All the
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Adding the Baylands Meet Sheet (September 19)
On Tuesday, September 19, Monta Vista will compete in the first league meet of the 2023 cross-country season at Baylands Regional Park. This is a full 5km race on the edge of the San Francisco Bay. For the first time this season, we will see all the other 14 teams in the Santa Clara Valley
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Nike De La Salle Meet Sheet Posted!
Greetings from Philadelphia! I’ve been buried the last few days as I get started with the UPenn Masters of Positive Psychology program. Immersion week is really something! Yet, I can’t wait to see all of you athletes…it feels like forever to me. And…we race on Saturday at the Nike De La Salle Invitational! The
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MVXC Opens the 2023 Season at the Lagoon Valley XC Classic
As you all know, I love racing! Loved racing myself, love watching, love coaching. And with a good meet, a good team and a good course…well, racing is special. MVXC traveled to Vacaville for our season opener at the Lagoon Valley Classic. We started going to Lagoon Valley a few years ago, when Earlybird was
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Watermelon Run 2023 Gets The Season Rolling!
On Thursday, August 24, the Monta Vista cross country team opened the 2023 season with the Watermelon Run! The Watermelon run is a team tradition going back more than two decades. The Watermelon Run follows a challenging course. This is a real cross country test, not a tame run around a track or school grounds. There
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Lagoon Valley Meet Sheet is Posted!
Lagoon Valley is just a few days away! LV is going to be our first invitational of the season, just like last year. It’s a really good race! LV has some challenging hills Big Mama and Little Sister. Every good cross country course should have hills! LV is all on the dirt paths we look for in California
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One Week In The Log!
MVXC23 has one week of practice in our running logs! We had a couple of dozen athletes on the trails every morning this week. Our first week included some hills, some threshold, some solid miles and a trip to Santa Cruz. We are getting ready and fit for a fantastic season of growth and grit
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First Day Of Practice! And Clearance Update
MVXC had a great first day of practice on Monday, August 7! More than 20 athletes and three coaches (Coach Flatow, Coach Sam, and Coach Ashley) were all there at 7am for a get-to-know you run out the RR tracks. Practice will continue to be held at 7am from Monday through Saturday for the next
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Clearance Status UPDATE 7am Sunday Aug 6; Practice Plans ; Adventure Run!
Clearance Status UPDATED 7am Sunday August 6 If you think you should be cleared but your name is not on the list below, please contact Mr Bonacorsi at nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org to find out what the issue is (Coach Flatow cannot clear you, only Mr. Bonacorsi can do that). Here are people that seem to be working on
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MVXC23 Has Two Athletes Officially On The Roster! Plus…an adventure run teaser.
Congratulations and thank you to Sandhya Fasnacht and Miranda Hsu for being the first athletes to complete their athletic clearance! All the procedures for completing athletic clearance are posted! If you have problems, send an email to Mr. Bonacorsi nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org. Your coaches cannot clear you, sorry! If you need more motivation to get your clearance
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A Gentle Reminder + Week 7 and 8 Running Suggestions
First Official MVXC23 Practice is on August 7! Distance is a function of speed and time…multiply average speed times the time we are moving and the result is the distance we have travelled. Different people have different cars that can move at different speeds, but we can all cover the same distances–maybe we just have to
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Reason 428 Why I Like Coaching High School Cross Country
Fighter pilots have to be brave, rugged individuals who do not scare easily. Nevertheless, things are going to happen in a fighter plane that will frighten the pants off of the toughest person. To prepare for that, the schools that train fighter pilots doing bring in psychotherapists to teach anxiety reduction in stressful situations, producing
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Let Us All Carpe The Heck Out Of Our July Diems!
MVXC have all of July to run wild, so let’s make the most of this last month before school starts and formal practice begins! As a teenager, we don’t have control over everything in our lives. It’s pretty hard to imagine going to our parents and saying “you know, I was thinking, I want
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MVXC23 Begins in Four (4!) Weeks! Weekly run suggestions, season reminders, and more…
Are you running with joy??? In four weeks–4, cuatro, quatre, vier, चार, 四,أربعة–we get together for our first practice as a team to begin the new season! Yikes, time goes fast for this coach…is your summer going by as fast as mine? Time is relative, so this is a serious question 😉 If you have been cruising along
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Are Running and Joy Connected?
Are running and joy connected? I think so! In support of this theory I submit some evidence… Look at Coach Sarah on the finishing stretch of a hard 4.9 mile fell race in Grindleford, England…this race had 300m of climbing and two river crossings…yet anyone can see how happy she is! And…look at Triya Roy
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Your Future Self Will Thank You
Everyone has a story like this; I’m guessing that you do! Just before finals, a hot band comes to town on a concert tour—and enough friends are going to the concert—and who wants to miss out on an evening of fun? What was the catch? Easy–there is a French final coming up, there was not much time to prepare,
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Summer Running Week 3 and 4 Suggestions!
Attached are some suggested runs for MVXC Summer Running, weeks 3 and 4! Check it out. Group runs start at 7am, Monday through Saturday, on the Monta Vista track. Reach out to annoy of the student-athlete contacts for 2023 summer running: Anika Bhandarkar anika.bhandarkar@gmail.com Megan Nieh megannieh15@gmail.com Tanay Parikh parikhtanay123@gmail.com Manasi Prasad mprasad754@student.fuhsd.org Ruhaan Shah
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Monta Vista Summer Running is Rolling! And Europe News :)
Monta Vista summer running is now rolling! Check out the group Monday at 7am for the first day of MVXC summer running: That’s a solid group! Let’s keep building our team and our run groups. Consistent running in June and July is the key to an enjoyable, strong cross country season in August, September and October.
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Congratulations to All MVXC and MVTF Graduates!
Congratulations to all our graduates, heading off to schools in Texas, Colorado, New York, Washington, Illinois, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and elsewhere–and of course, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside…! Have a wonderful graduation today. We wish you will now and always! Everyone else…we hope to see you Monday morning for a nice start to the
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First Two Weeks Of Summer Running
The way we think about fun and satisfaction will have a big impact on how we live our lives. The motivation for seeking “fun” leads us to doing things that feel good in the moment. We are looking for immediate gratification. On the other hand, when we are motivated to look for progress, maybe the work is
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Preliminary 2023 Cross Country Schedule
Hello, XC! Attached is a preliminary XC schedule for the 2023 season. There is still more to come, but we can add these to our calendars. The first week of school, MVXC will run the historic Watermelon Run…if that does not motivate you to get your summer running in gear, what will motivate you?
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MVTF Banquet! And CCS!
The MVTF 2023 season banquet was, as always, a wonderful event. This year we barely squeezed into the student union on a warm, May evening. Congratulations to all the award and medal winners! There is a copy of the presentation with all the honorees attached. Thank you to Rajvi Shah and all the parents
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2023 Cross Country Season Pre-Meeting
Let’s start thinking about Monta Vista Cross Country 2023! Let’s meet: Thursday, May 18, 2023 Lunchtime, 1:30pm Mr. Bonacorsi’s Office, D101 See you there!
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Central Coast Section Trials: Hottttt
A week after a wet and cold RustBuster-like meet at the SCVAL Championships, Monta Vista went down for a sizzling hot CCS Championship trials at Gilroy High School on Saturday, May 13. At 10am, freshman Lelani Laruelle turned up the heat with a personal record 16′-4.25″; Lelani was only a half inch away from an
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SCVALs!
A quick note… On a Saturday morning with the weather feeling more like the RustBuster than a championship season outdoor track meet, Monta Vista athletes came to compete for CCS berths. The SCVAL Championship meet was held at Los Gatos High School on May 6, on a cold and drizzly day. The throwers were on site
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Free Entry To SCVAL; SCVCL Schedule; Alumni Update
Please don’t forget to RSVP for our Banquet! Athletes (and Parents)… If you would like to watch the SCVAL meet (at Los Gatos, this Saturday May 6) for free (FREE!), we need your name by Thursday so we can put you on the free entry list. All you need to do is help move hurdles–and
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Uniform Return
Don’t Forget To RSVP For The Awards Banquet On May 16! Sadly, it’s that time of the season again…time to return our uniforms. Uniform return will be on Wednesday, May 10, from 3:25-4:15 (or as long a people are in line) at Mr. Bonacorsi’s office, D101. Please return your complete uniform, clean. If you have lost
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Monta Vista Track and Field Takes Second At League Championships!
Please RSVP for the season banquet on May 16! The Monta Vista track and field teams scored an overall second place at the El Camino League Championships, held from April 26 to 28 at Wilcox High School. Field event athletes lead the scoring for Monta Vista. Nine–9!!!–league championships were claimed by Monta Vista athletes,
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SCVAL Meet Program–List of Monta Vista Athletes and Schedule
Please click here and RSVP for the Awards Banquet Now! Update: Here is a Meet Program with MV Entries Highlighted Here is the list of Monta Vista’s qualifiers for the SCVAL Championships! MVTF has 35 individual qualifiers and alternates, including three athletes in the boys’ 400m, the girls’ shot, the girls discus! Outstanding, everyone! The
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El Camino Championship Meet Sheet!
Attached is the meet sheet for the El Camino League Championship on April 26th and 28th at Wilcox High School. Included in the meet sheet are estimated times for the events and also the Monta Vista entries. Complete heat sheets are available on Mr. Lawson’s site. Later in the week, he will provide an updated time
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Banquet Date and League Finals Location–Updates/Clarifications!
Two errors/clarifications: The Monta Vista track and field team season banquet will be on Tuesday, May 16 (the date was changed and I’ve confused myself a couple of times but it will be on Tuesday!) The location of the El Camino League trials and finals will be at Wilcox High School on April 26 and
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Break Week Workout Schedule
Team workouts will be held from Monday, April 17 to Friday, April 21 at 4pm on the track. Coach Irina will be at the track on Wednesday and Friday to work with you. Distance workouts are as follows: Monday: Ladder Down. After a warm up, open with a 1600. 400m jog recovery. 1200m; 400m jog
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Act Like It’s Your Last Chance! (even if it is not)
The CCS Last Chance Invitational, held at Mountain View High School on April 15, 2023, is the last chance to put up a mark before leagues…but it’s not really a last chance. We all have many more chances! But sometimes if we ACT like it’s our last chance, we can put up something special! Clara Fan
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MVTF Wraps Up SCVAL Regular Season With Record Shattering Day At Fremont!
The Monta Vista track and field teams wrapped up the 2023 SCVAL dual meet season with a satisfying and successful day at Fremont high school on Tuesday, April 11, 2023! In a double-dual competition with Fremont and Cupertino, which saw MacDonald high school also competing against Fremont, half of the El Camino division teams were
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Monta Vista Track Takes 2nd Place of 42 teams in the De Anza Invitational!
The Monta Vista girls and boys varsity track teams combined to take second place out of 42 teams in the De Anza Track and Field Invitational on April 8, 2023! The De Anza meet is a varsity event–other than a couple of relay races, everyone must compete as a varsity athlete in varsity divisions. Monta
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Varsity Boys, JV Girls earn team wins at Saratoga!
The Monta Vista varsity boys defeated the Saratoga Falcons by a score of 71-54 on Thursday April 6; the junior varsity girls also notched a 61-50 victory. The varsity girls lost a narrow contest, 66-61, that could have been turned around by one or two races, and the frosh-soph boys went down 66-52 as the
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Meet Sheet for Fremont/’Tino Triangle Meet! Tuesday, April 11, 2023
The meet sheet for the triangle meet with Fremont and ‘Tino is posted! This is our last league meet of the season so let’s be dialed in! Invite your friends and parents. We will want to be at the top of our game for this meet!
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De Anza Invitational Entries
PLEASE NOTE…THE TRACK SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED FROM THE ATTACHED SHEET. THE EVENTS LATER IN THE DAY HAVE BEEN MOVED UP BY AS MUCH AS 20 MINUTES (FOR EXAMPLE, TANAY’S RACE IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR 4:08PM INSTEAD OF 4:32). EARLIER RACES ARE NOT EFFECTED OR ARE EFFECTED LESS. PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR RACE TIME HERE.
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Saratoga Meet Sheet!
The meet sheet for Saratoga is available! I always liked the Saratoga track…it has a different vibe from many of the facilities in the valley. I think you will like competing there, also. This is our 4th (and also penultimate) dual meet of 2023. We should be finding our groove now, and it’s time
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Wilcox Meet Sheet!
The Wilcox meet sheet is posted! See you at the meet on Thursday, March 30!
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Look What We Did!
We have four meets to cover and practice starts in less than four hours! Let’s see what I can do… (Don’t forget to download team photos.) Santa Clara at Monta Vista Following senior recognition, the Monta Vista varsity boys notched their first win of the dual meet season with a tight 65-61 victory over visiting
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Team Photos!
Our very own photographer, the Still Musician himself, Jeremy Hohengarten has posted photos from the team photo day. Jeremy was the wedding photographer for Coach Johnson and Mr. Hoffman, and he has been photographing Monta Vista track and cross teams ever since. You can browse the gallery, or you can CLICK HERE to trigger a
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Practice on Tuesday, March 21 Will Be In The Field House
Practice will start at the regular time in the field house today…out of the weather!
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Sunshine Greets MVTF at St. Francis Invitational!
Finally, a little taste of Spring track weather! Monta Vista arrived at St. Francis for one of our favorite invitationals and for once, we did not have to worry about rain. Coach Flatow was on the track pre-dawn, with Nerea Northrop who was warming up for the first event of the day–the varsity girls 3000 went off
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There Will Be Normal Practice on Wednesday, March 15!
Although school was closed today, the power is back on and we have permission to practice. See you at 3:25pm!
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St. Francis Invitational Meet Sheet!
Attached is the Meet Sheet for the St. Francis Invitational! Most everything you need is there…a few reminders for those accepted to the meet: Don’t be late! If an athlete does not check in on time (and they may run ahead), they will replace you with an alternate. Head to the clerk’s tent early (usually, they
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No Practice Tuesday March 14
Power is out at school and the campus is closed so, no practice as a team today. Remember our talk last Thursday about determination and doing what you can do in this type of situation? Triya ran 9 miles in her hotel room when she had to isolate during the lockdown. Those 9 crummy miles
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I Miss Running
I miss my running so much. I’m still adjusting to being a runner who can’t run, and this adjustment is hard (and may never end). Part of what I miss is my own running as an outlet for my personal goals and competitiveness; this is the part of me that loved earning a spot in
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MVTF Roars Into The 2023 Season: Dual Meet vs. Mt. View and RustBuster!
The first week of March was busy and hectic! Monta Vista hosted two meets in the first week of the competitive season. Let’s quickly recap the action! MV v MV Dual meets are fun! And high school is pretty much the last place athletes can experience dual meets…colleges have mostly discontinued duals and have invites
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The 400 ShootOut Gets the 2023 Season Rolling
On Thursday, February 16, the smell of smoke from a starter’s pistol wafted over the Monta Vista track for the first time in almost 12 months. And with the sounds of the gun and cheers from the athletes, the 400 Shootout got the 2023 track season rolling for Monta Vista! The Monta Vista 400 Shootout
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Mt. View visits Monta Vista for League Opening Dual Competition: Meet Sheet Attached!
On Wednesday, March 1, the Mt. View Spartans will visit Monta Vista for the first track meet of the El Camino League season. When these teams clashed last season, the Mountain View and Monta Vista varsity girls teams were both undefeated. When the track events were concluded, Mt. View was narrowly ahead and it looked
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Distance AND SPRINT Workouts for Winter Break 2023
This post has been updated on February 18 to include workouts for sprinters (section A) and distance runners (section B). If you are not going to be able to make the group workouts–the break week workout schedule is here–you can follow these workouts on your own and keep up with the team training plans. MVTF
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Winter Break Schedule
We all need to find our own way…but it’s easier when we journey together. Winter break is tough on track athletes, we are just starting to get rolling when our schedule changes. Try to keep your training momentum going; you will be grateful when we have our first meet on March 1 when we host
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Busy Weeks Coming Up As MVTF Rolls into 2023!
MVTF is starting week three and is already moving fast! Here is some short attention span writing and updates: Wednesday, February 15 is the 2023 Track and Field parents meeting! Starts at 6:55pm, in the cafeteria/student union. (In person after years of Zoom!) Thursday, February 16 will be the 400 Shootout! Here is what the
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And MV 2023 is off and running!
Saturday morning, January 28, a small group of hardy souls got their soles out on the track for a first workout! It was an interesting morning; the fog was so thick that it was impossible to see if anyone was running on the other side of the track (really!). Anika, Ari, Bradley, Karena, Megan, Ruhann
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Preliminary Track Schedule…and a pop up workout session
Attached is a schedule for the 2023 Monta Vista track and field season…this is subject to change but should be fairly solid…let’s download this and enter the dates into our personal calendars now! Hmm…let’s see…wait, what, the 400 Shootout is WHEN?!?!??? Already? yikes! Also for you distance running achievers who are always looking for extra
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Meet Your Coaches! Updated February 16th with Coach Emma!
Hello, MVTF! In 2023, MVTF has quite a few new coaches. Several young, talented, smart and motivated athletes have come on board to coach you! These new coaches will provide MVTF athletes with an opportunity to learn a lot this season, both about athletics and the college experience. We thought it would be a nice idea to
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A January Distance…Challenge? Resolution? Suggestion?
On Monday, January 30, MVTF will meet for our first practice of the 2023 season. That is only four weeks from today! It is easy to forget how fast time can go by, especially when you have finals and holidays and other things that chew up the hours and days. New Years resolutions can be
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Winter Running Thoughts and Motivation
As a runner, it’s important to take time off from intense training and racing during the off-season. This period of less intense training is essential for your physical and mental well-being, and off season can also be a great opportunity to focus on longer term running and fitness goals. But it’s not always easy to stay motivated
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Clearance for Track and Field 2023: Updated January 26
Updated January 26: Below is a file of everyone who has started the clearance process on Home Campus for track and field. At the far right column you will see a Yes or No next to your name. If you have a ‘yes’, you don’t have to do anything more, you are good to go, see you on Monday
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NCAA XC Championships!
I’ve been meaning to write a bit about my trip to the NCAAs last November, and I’m finally going to take a minute to do this…at least in bullets! If you ever get a chance to watch the NCAA D3 championships, don’t think, just GO! It is so fun to be running back and forth
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Distance Runners: Suggestions for Winter Training Week of Dec 11 and 18
Mostly, off-season running should be fun! The goal is to build your base of strength and endurance with lots of comfortable running. If all an athlete does is run consistently from the end of cross country season until the start of track season, and they are healthy and happy when we meet for the first
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Winter Training–Notes for Finals Week
Check this page regularly for updates! Finals week: Everyone has a different schedule and requirement during finals week…so please discuss with your coach whether there will be a practice during finals week, or even if you want a practice during this week. Personally, I always liked a little bit of exercise to clear my head
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MVTF Pre-Season Meeting Handout…
…the handout for the November 28 meeting is attached to this post…
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MVTF Pre-Season Meetings!
Yes, it is already time to start thinking about Track and Field! If we have dreams we are going to chase, we should arrive at the first day of practice with some preparation! So we have meetings planned for Monday, November 28: Track and Field 2023 Information Meeting in the Main Gym (Lunch period/1:25pm): This meeting is for
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Central Coast Section Championships!
An annual tradition since 2011! The Monta Vista girls and boys both got on the line to compete in the Central Coast Section Championships on Saturday, November 12, and a cool and breezy Fall day. The girls were up first, and they were part of one of the fastest races ever at Crystal Springs. The
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Uniform Return/Keeping for Track
It’s that time of year…the season is winding down. Saaaaaad. So, it is time to return uniforms! You have two…well, three options, but two seem much better than the third: If you are going to run on the track team in 2023, you can download the form below, fill out the form and return it to Coach
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Odds and Ends: Senior Run, Burritos, CCS
Short attention span writing… Senior Run: On Wednesday, November 2, MVXC had the annual senior run…the team runs up to the top of Hunter’s Point and the seniors share their accumulated wisdom from their years on the cross-country team. Or, if not wisdom, they share something. Coach gave a strong review to this year’s talks
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Make it a Dozen!
A dozen is such a nice number. A dozen donuts. A dozen roses. A dozen trips to the Central Coast Section Cross Country Championships! At the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League championships on November 1, 2022, both the girls’ and the boys’ varsity cross country teams earned starting boxes at CCS–yet let’s start at the beginning.
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Senior Run
A reminder to everyone…the MVXC22 senior run will be on Wednesday, November 2, the day after SCVALs. SENIORS….you know what to do! Everyone else…meet at practice as usual at the track at 3:25pm. This event is optional but highly recommended! (Seniors, if you would like some advice on your speech from someone who has
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SCVAL Championship Meet Sheet!
It is time for SCVALs! Here is the meet sheet! Remember…you are responsible for your own transportation to Crystal. Plenty of sleep, eat right, hydrate, pack correctly, wear your purple jacket on Tuesday, pack layers…
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MVXC Rocks At Lynbrook before SCVALs!
Bridget Gottlieb was a sophomore in 2011, when the Monta Vista girls team started a streak of Fremont Union High School District team championships. Yes, that Bridget Gottlieb. Bridget Aviv Gottlieb, first of her name. The Lady of Crystal. Destroyer of Records. Spirit of the Matadors. Tamer of Mustangs. Possessor of the Two All-Americas.
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Dawn Patrol!
“Running is kind like coffee. The first time you drink it you might not like it. But you kind of like the way it makes you feel. After a few times, it starts to taste better and then all of a sudden you’re hooked and it’s the best part of waking up.” ~ Amy Hastings
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A Return to Baylands Allows MVXC To Show How Far We Have Run!
I have never taken a journalism class, but I understand one of the fundamentals of a news article is “don’t bury the lead!” So here you go, gentle reader: 70% of the MVXC runners who toed the line at Baylands on October 18 showed improvement! Out of 41 runners on Tuesday, 24 athletes had personal
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Bullet Point Review of Week 10
Short attention span reading and writing for MVXC Week 10… Week 10 started with a great workout…repeat Ks that showed athletes how far they travelled this season. Being a great teammate became a theme of the week. Anika nominated Sydney Stevens for racing inspiration at Crystal, Siran Gao earned grit recognition for encouraging Nick to climb
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Baylands Meet Sheet Is Posted!
The meet sheet for the next Baylands 5km race on October 18 is now posted! We all ran this race four weeks ago, and we have had many good workouts and lots of miles since then…this should be an opportunity for many personal records! Remember that athletes are responsible for arranging their own transportation to
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Wonking Out: Comparing Two Workouts
Coaches will tell athletes, again and again, “if you work hard and consistently, you will improve”. Do high school athletes always listen, believe, remember? Hmm. It is useful to look back and see measurable improvement! On October 11, 2022, MVXC ran a critical velocity workout; 1km repeats on the track at CV pace, with a 200m recovery
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Monta Vista XC Races Around Palo Corona–A Brand New XC Course!
No one can tell us when the last new cross country course was created in the Central Coast Section. So when the first invitational was announced for the brand new Palo Corona course in Carmel, California, Monta Vista was the first school to sign up. The new Palo Corona course was rumored to be a
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Crystal Springs Is The Best
MVXC traveled to Crystal Springs for the first time in 2022 on Tuesday, October 4. Crystal may be the best cross country course in California, maybe the country. It’s hard to say exactly where Crystal ranks but for sure, it is a treasure. Since the development of the course in 1971, more than 600,000
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Week 8 Work Preps MVXC for Crystal and Palo Corona! Crystal and Pac Grove Meet Sheets, Too.
Week Eight of the Monta Vista cross country season–the last week of September–was a challenging, hard week for those that attacked it with vigor. We were looking for three kinds of quality–CV pace, threshold pace, and long steady hills with two long runs. That’s a lot of work! And it takes a lot of drive
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For You: Crystal Preview Meet Sheet, Team Photographs and SCVAL Championship T-Shirts!
Three quick hits for every MVXC athlete: The Crystal Preview meet sheet is now posted! Team photographs are available for download! Remember, you don’t have to buy these images. Unlike most teams, coach has a contract with the photographer Jeremy Hohengarten (Jeremy was also the wedding photographer for Coach Jodi Johnson and friend of MVXC, Kate
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Week Seven Recap: Baylands, Grit and more!
Monta Vista’s season reached the halfway point between the first practice of the season and toeing the line at the Central Coast Section Championships…let’s review week seven. SCVAL Season Opener at Baylands – September 20, 2022 Several years ago at a somewhat contentious SCVAL coach’s meeting, the season opening meet was moved from a ‘bunny’
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Beautiful Morning Running at De La Salle Invitational!
Please get me your releases for our next invitational at Pacific Grove! MVXC22 finally got to enjoy some near-perfect running weather on Saturday, September 17 at the De La Salle invitational! Perfect running weather is slightly uncomfortably cool spectating weather, so when Coach Flatow realized that one more layer of clothing might have been nice for
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De La Salle, Baylands #1 Meet Sheets are Posted!
After a week of 100+, 80 degrees sure feels pretty good, doesn’t it? Monday we took our team photo–I’ll send you the link as soon as photographer Jeremy Hohengarten has finished processing the photos and uploads the pictures. I am sure you will look great! This post has a few of my iPhone photos of the
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No One Wants To Watch The Movie About Becoming
This morning I was looking through Angela Duckworth’s book Grit trying to find a quote. I couldn’t find the exact quote but it goes something like this: No one wants to watch the movie about your journey of becoming…they just want to show the highlights of what you became. One of Angela’s examples was a story
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Can’t Beat the Heat, but we can work around
This week is forecasted to be miserably, historically hot. While we look at the track and watch the heat waves emanate upwards and idly wonder if the track will actually combust, MVXC are also trying to figure out how to make the best of the situation. Every afternoon it is going to be a day by day
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Pacific Grove Release
Athletes– At Pacific Grove next month, this is a brand new course, and they are still figuring things out. So one of the things they are asking for is a release. The only place that is asking for that! Oh well, let’s just do it. Please download the following document, print it, sign it and
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First Invitational of the Year! Lagoon Valley Classic Report
Monta Vista Cross Country made the journey north to Vacaville on September 3, and got the 2022 XC season rolling on the dusty trails of the Lagoon Valley Classic! Lagoon Valley is hosted by Vacaville High School. The meet director uses a North Coast Section organization, with Varsity running three mile races and other divisions running two
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MVXC 2022 Parent Meeting!
There will be a Zoom meeting for MVXC 2022 parents, to get to know the coaches and hear plans for the season, as well as answer any questions. The meeting will be on Wednesday, August 31, at 7pm. The link is below. Thank you and hope to see you there! Kirk Flatow is inviting
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I ♥ Matador Miles
Matador Miles are an iconic MVXC workout–repeat miles, on dirt, in Stevens Canyon, not flat, one minute recoveries between miles. Matador Miles are one of my favorite cross country workouts: Lactic threshold pace is so good for us… Breaking up a tempo run is gets that lactic threshold stimulus without the same mental challenge as
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Watermelon Run 2022–PHOTOS POSTED!!!
As promised, Mr. Ma has posted his truly professional photos of the 2022 Watermelon Run! Check out the MVXC/MVTF Photos Website. All photos on this site are free to download–use them for your FB page, to send to your grandmother, for a posting on you wall…for anything, really! The cross country season became
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Lagoon Valley: Race Info and Meet Sheet! + UPDATED COMPRESSED SCHEDULE
Due to the heat, the meet will be run on a compressed schedule. Here is the new order of events. Remember be at the start no later than 10 minutes before the scheduled gun, ready to run, with bib and singlet (probably ditch your jacket and pants in our camp it will be hot so
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MVXC Completes A Second Week Of Practice
Creating fitness is like building a brick wall. Each brick might not seem like much by itself, but a few hundred–or a few thousand–and you have a wall. A few million and you have the Great Wall, something that would be hard to envision if you were the person with the very first brick in
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MVXC 2022: One Week of Practice in the Books!
Start of Matador Ks Monta Vista Cross Country has the first week of practice in the books, and athletes are beginning to get runs and workouts in their logs and are depositing mileage in the bank! Here are some of what the team did the week of August 8… We ran the first set of hill
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Parents, Please Read This!
Parents and Athletes, As the season gets started, I want to ask you to please, please support the cross country team by joining the Monta Vista Athletic Boosters. The MVAB is the primary source of funding for the cross country team. When you join the MVAB in support of your athletes, $40 goes directly to
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2022 MVXC Schedule
The 2022 Monta Vista cross country team schedule is now available! While this schedule can change–one thing we have learned the last two years is that being flexible is a requirement!–we do have an initial schedule. The season opens with Watermelon on August 25 (that’s only a month away!). September sees the competitive season open
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Summer Running 2022: Week 9, or Last Week of Summer Running!
Remember right after finals, when it seemed like summer would last forever? Remember when it seemed like you could wait another week before you got your summer running rolling, or maybe the week after that? Well, guess what! You are now starting your last week of summer running! Our first practice as a team will start
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Some Information About The MVXC 2022 Season
Hello Runners! I was working on a bib for the Watermelon Run and thought I’d give you all an update and some reminders… Practice Schedule: Before The First Day Of School Our first official practice will be Monday, August 8. From August 8 through August 20, practice will start at 7am every day for two
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Freedom!!! Running Plan for the Two Weeks Starting Independence Day
Happy Independence Day, MVXC! Celebrate America’s beginnings in some way today. Whatever you do to mark the holiday, start off with a morning run, before it gets hot and before you indulge in holiday food! Maybe you signed up for a 4th of July run? Or you have a run with your teammates at the
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Why is it nice to get your run in early?
This is why: YIKES! I do hope you got up at 7am and ran with the team and are now happily indoors, someplace cool, feeling smug that you got a half dozen miles in your logbook! I do love banging out my run early…I hope you are joining the early run club, too! Another Race
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What Is Coach Up To?
We are half way through June. Hopefully, if you are reading this, you are starting to get in the habit of 7am summer runs with your friends and teammates! And you may be wondering, where is coach and what is he up to? Well… Eugene! I was in Eugene for part of the NCAA D1
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MVXC Rolls On: Summer Running Week 3, June 20
If you just found this page…welcome! Monta Vista Cross Country Summer running meets at the Monta Vista track at 7am, Monday through Saturday, all summer long. Want to learn more? We will try to catch you up. Some runners are now ready to start their third week of summer running–the incoming freshmen completed their first
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It’s Great to be at State!
Freshman Clara Fan finished her first high school track season with a lot of firsts: Clara is the first Monta Vista freshman to qualify for the California state meet since Coach Flatow started coaching MVTF 12 years ago…we are not sure if or when an MV freshmen ever qualified for State. By qualifying in the
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And Then There Was One: MVTF Season Continues to the State Meet!
The Central Coast Section championship performances rival the high school state championships for places like Pennsylvania and Michigan…and advancing to the California State Meet is a true achievement! Monta Vista’s three representatives to CCS all repped our team well. On May 14 in Gilroy at trials, sophomore thrower Alice Ross got in the discus circle
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Cross Country 2022 Information Meeting
There will be an info meeting for the 2022 cross country season in the main gym at lunch time–1:05pm–on Tuesday, May 23. Bring your lunch and get an intro to the season. We hope to see you there!
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Monta Vista Fell Runners
Fell running is a distinctly British thing. Fell running originated in northern England, running in the rugged hills or ‘fells’. Climbs and descents are an integral part of fell running. Fell running is related to cross country, but fell running is distinct from the XC we know–fell running climbs and descents are going to be
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Uniform Return Monday, May 16
It’s that sad time of the year–time to return your uniform (except for Clara, Alice and Soti who are on their way to CCS!). Uniform return will be Monday, May 16, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in the student parking lot, near the shed/tennis courts. For everyone else, you have a week to wash your uniform
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SCVAL Championship Meet: Monta Vista Advances Three Athletes to CCS!
On Friday night, May 6, Santa Clara High School hosted the SCVAL Qualifier meet under the lights, and Monta Vista advanced three athletes to the Central Coast Section Championships! Freshman Clara Fan continued her outstanding season. For the second meet in a row, Clara cleared 5’4″ in the high jump; Clara came to Monta Vista with
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MVTF Has Biiiiiiig Performances at Leagues!
Monta Vista headed back to Cupertino High School for the El Camino League Championships on April 29, 2022. Three freshman girls claimed championships for MVTF! In the varsity division, freshman Clara Fan cleared 5’4″ to win the varsity high jump; this was a new PR for Clara and she is now only 2″ from the all-time
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SCVAL Championship Meet Qualifiers
Here is the list of Monta Vista athletes who have qualified for the SCVAL championship meet on Friday, May 6 at Santa Clara high school! If you qualified and you cannot attend this meet, please let Coach Flatow know right away. The complete official performance list is posted and we have listed our athletes below. Also…it
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El Camino League Trials Day
Wednesday, April 27 saw the El Camino League hold it’s championship meet trials…and MVTF made a mark! At league trials, all the events with lanes–both hurdle events, and track events below 800m–compete in heats. The winners of each heat and the next fastest times are used to select 8 athletes to compete in the league championship
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RSVP Before May 5 To Attend The Track & Field Banquet!
The 2022 Track and Field Banquet will be held at the Quinlan Center on 10185 Stelling Road at 6pm on Tuesday, May 17. Don’t forget to fill out the RSVP form with your dinner selections and pot luck contributions! This is the social event of the season! RSVP right now, you don’t want to forget…and
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El Camino League Championships Meet Sheet!
This is the meet to leave it all on the track! You have been training all year to be at your best, let’s make a withdrawal on all your fitness deposits. League finals for the El Camino League will be at Cupertino: Wilcox, Santa Clara, Fremont, Mt. View, Saratoga and Cupertino—and Monta Vista! Top 5
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MVTF Completes an Undefeated Season! The Team Enters Post-Season with Momentum
The last week of competition before the post-season saw the Monta Vista track and field athletes get locked in for the best races and competitions of their year! The last league meet was a double-dual with Cupertino and Fremont on Wednesday, April 13. The Monta Vista girls came into the meet with an undefeated league
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Break Week Information
It’s Spring Break week! Here is information for you… Workout Schedule If you are in Cupertino, here is your schedule for workouts… Distance: 8am, Monday through Saturday. Sprints and other speed and power athletes: 3:45pm, Monday through Friday. High Jumpers: 3:45pm, Monday and Wednesday; 8am, Friday. Hurdlers: Sprint group, plus hurdle-specific work with Coach Ryner
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Last Chance Invitational Meet Sheet!
Our last invite of the year! Bittersweet, as this will be a great meet, but also we are reaching the end of a season…here is the meet sheet!
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In A Match Between Undefeated Teams, Monta Vista Comes Through!
On Thursday, April 7, the undefeated Monta Vista varsity girls traveled to meet the undefeated Mountain View varsity girls in a dual meet…only one team would remain perfect! After Mt. View picked up the 4×100 relay points, Vivian Lau got MVTF on the board as she won the 1600m with a season best 5:33.88 (only
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A Close Split at Saratoga
Monta Vista travelled a short distance to Saratoga High School on March 31, and came back with two wins and two losses in all-around tight dual match ups. The frosh-soph boys lost a close one, 65-58. The boys started fast, taking the 4×100 relay, and showed strength in the field events (Reese Myers, Vibhav Pata,
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Mountain View Meet Sheet! (and De Anza Invitational)
De Anza Invitational, MVTF entries and meet sheet, is added also. Monta Vista’s fourth dual meet of the 2022 campaign is at the other MV–Mountain View. Both MV have undefeated varsity and JV girls’ teams so something has to give! The meet sheet is available. See you at Mountain View!
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Wilcox Dual, Azusa MOC and Firebird Links
I’m behind on last week’s meets, and I feel that I can’t really do the results justice, so mostly what I’m going to give you is some links… Wilcox Dual Monta Vista hosted Wilcox in dual meets on Thursday the 24th, and the teams split–Monta Vista won both of the girls’ divisions while the boys
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See You At Saratoga: Meet Sheet
The meet sheet for the dual meet at Saratoga High School is posted…see you there!
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Firebird Invitational Information
The Firebird Invitational is Saturday, March 26 at the Fremont High School track…and MVTF are going big! Monta Vista has 57 entries for this big invitational. With the size of our contingent, and the way the information is provided, we are not going to be able to sort through the entries and produce a meet sheet–right
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Monta Vista Shines at a Wet St. Francis Invite!
It was supposed to rain all day, and it only rained part of the day…call that a win! Dawn was gray but dry as a small group of Monta Vista track athletes arrived at St. Francis High School for the first invitational meet there since 2019. Weather was perfect for distance running as Ellie Hsu
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Wilcox Meet Sheet Is Posted!
The Wilcox meet sheet is posted! Read it, know it, and get ready to compete on Thursday the 24th!
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Monta Vista Track & Field Opens 2022 League Season at Santa Clara
Monta Vista went to Santa Clara to open our El Camino League season and got off to a smashing start! Right off the first gun, MV started to surprise as the JV girls 4×100 relay team romped home in front of the Santa Clara varsity girls! That seemed to set a tone as freshman Anika
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2022 Track Team Photos Are Available!
MVTF handles team photos differently than most Monta Vista teams. We don’t use a photographer that specializes in taking the same team photos you have had since you were a five year old on your first AYSO team; instead we have Coach Jodi Johnson’s wedding photographer (really!). You don’t have to buy your photos; we
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How Dual Meets Work
This season we have fewer people, athletes and parents, who have ever seen a dual meet–a track meet with two schools competing. There are questions! Here are some dual meet basics for new and experienced track athletes… Dual meet competition is the typical format for regular-season high school track and field competition. A dual meet involves competition
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Santa Clara Meet Sheet Is Posted! St. Francis too!
JUST ADDED: St. Francis Meet Sheet! Santa Clara Dual Meet The Meet Sheet for our first dual meet of 2022 is posted! We travel to Santa Clara to start our 2022 El Camino League season. We will have dual meets every Thursday for the next five weeks. You are responsible for your own transportation. Everyone
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Banquet Save-The-Date
Mark Tuesday, May 17, 2022 on your calendar. That is the date of the Monta Vista Track and Field annual banquet, the social event of the season! We will be at Quinlan Center this year. See you there!
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RustBuster!
At about 8:00am on Saturday, March 5, 2022, it started to rain. After being 0-for 2022 so far, rain wise, Cupertino was getting damp. Of course it was RustBuster morning! It’s not RustBuster without a little rain. But then…that was it! For the rest of the day, we had no rain and mild breezes. It
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RustBuster Links
Sorry everyone, I was so wrapped up in planning details for RustBuster and coaching and all that…I forgot to cover a basic part of RustBuster: Links. Here you go: Detailed Program and Performance Lists. This has very specific times but we may run fast or slow–it is a rolling schedule. Live Results. Check in on
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Coach Flatow’s Journey to the 2022 Continental Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships: Day One of the Meet!
Coach Flatow is heading to Collegeville, Pennsylvania to watch the 2022 Continental Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at Ursinus College. Along the way, he is stopping to visit some Monta Vista Track and Field alumni. Here are some updates on his trip. If you are here for the first time, and want to read the updates
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Winter Break Week Practice Info (Initial Post Thursday February 17 updated for HJ)
This post will be updated as coaches add information about practice plans. Current Schedule For Winter Break Practices posted February 17. Update: High Jumpers please meet at 8am on the track Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8am–this is a good week to try High Jump even if you never tried it before! Saturday February 19
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The 2022 Track & Field Season Officially Kicks Off With The 9th Annual Monta Vista 400 ShootOut!
It’s official! The Monta Vista team has pinned on racing bibs, smelled gunpowder smoke and had official FAT (Fully Automatic Timing) marks on athletic.net* and that means…the 2022 track and field season has begun! The Monta Vista 400 Shootout was the brainchild and labor of love of Coach John McKeeman. Coach John remembered having a
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Parent Meeting February 15
Parents are invited to the track and field parent night to be held at 7pm on Tuesday, February 15 (right between two major holidays–Valentines’ Day and 400 Shootout Day!). The meeting will be held on zoom…the link is below. The meeting should take less than an hour. We look forward to ‘seeing’ you
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Roster Update February 6
Here is the current roster as far as I can tell. I may have made mistakes–there are a lot of scrawled notes on last week’s sign in sheet! If you think you are on the team, or want to be on the team, please look below and see if you are classified correctly. Come see
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Team Photo Day Will Be Tuesday, March 8
Mark your calendars for team photo day! You will want to remember to wear your uniform. More reminders and details will follow!
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Updated Roster as of Friday, January 28
Below is the updated list of athletes that have been cleared and added to the Track and Field roster as of Friday, January 28 at 3pm. If you are on the list below, you are good to go! Come to practice on Monday, January 31, dressed and ready to train. We meet in the stadium
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Track & Field: First Practice Is January 31!
Athletes, I hope you are as excited as your coaches for track practice to start! Yes, our first practice is less than a week away–January 31, 2022, at 3:45pm we will meet in the grandstands at the Monta Vista track–scene of past and future glory! We are excited to see our returning friends as well
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2022 Running Log Interest Survey
I’m thinking I will set up a new Google sheet to track 2022 mileage. The sheet we have been using has a couple problems at this point…one, it is REALLY wide at this point, so it takes some time to scroll all the way to the right to make any entries. Also, not many people
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Calling all overachievers: “Tempo” Tuesdays?
Welcome back to school! I hope that you all had a nice break! As January begins, I have an idea for distance running over achievers…how about adding a light ‘tempo’ run on Tuesdays for the next few weeks? Not a full on lactate threshold pace…just a pace that is a little faster than your normal
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Grit Thoughts for the New Year
During the past cross country season, I loaned a copy of Angela Duckworth’s Grit to one of the boys. When he brought it back, he wanted to talk about one part in particular: The Hard Thing Rule. I was extremely excited to talk about this rule! The Hard Thing Rule matters…and it is not the
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Dark Peak Fell Runners
When the weather starts turning wintry, and it’s cold and dark-ish, and I want some motivation to get out and run…I love this video of the Dark Peak Fell Runners. Every time I watch this, I wish I had known about this and moved to Sheffield when I was 25 years old, so I could
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Cross Country Season Wrap Up
I don’t think I wanted this season to end…so I’ve been putting off the last mvrunning post of the cross country year. But, I can’t put it off forever! So here we go, starting with… Central Coast Section Championships The MVXC girls’ and boys’ cross country teams have both earned spots on the starting line
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Christmas Relays
The Christmas Relays are a fun, holiday relay race held in San Francisco on Saturday, December 19. The race is run in teams of four, with each runner covering the same loop of 4.464 miles. The logistics are pretty simple because the start, end and all the exchange points are at the same location.
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Winter Running!
Distance runners…let’s have a quick discussion of plans for Winter Running! Coach Flatow will be at the track at 3:45pm on Monday, November 22. We can meet in the stands and have a brief discussion about the team’s plans for Winter running, and Coach will make some general suggestions about training plans. This meeting is
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Track and Field 2022 Information Meeting!
Cross is a wrap 🙁 so it’s time for track 🙂 ! Come to the track and field information meeting on Monday, November 22, in the gym at lunchtime for a quick overview of the Monta Vista Track and Field 2022 season. Bring your fast friends! Can’t wait to see you there!
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CCS Championship Info–Including Ticket Information
This Saturday, November 13, the Monta Vista cross country girls and boys compete in the Central Coast Section Championships! Both teams have competed in the championship finals every year since 2011–what a fantastic team. I’m not sure any other group at Monta Vista can match that feat! Here is information for athletes and their fans…
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Uniform Return
Responses as of Friday the 12th (20 out of about 50): Srika Kodur Sudipti Dantuluri Karena Lai Seshanth Karthik Valerie Ayzenberg Parmarth Joshi Amogh Rajagopal Ellie Hsu Samhita Kashyap Kiran Aditi Dantuluri Andrew Cole Vera Darren Lin margaux francoeur Vivian Lau jasmine varma Ethan Lu Avani Kalari nikhita saldi Jayden Lim Sadly, it is time to
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2021 SCVAL Championships!
The 2021 Santa Clara Valley Athletic League cross country championships will be memorable. We will remember the mud. We will remember having a real championship meet after missing a year due to the pandemic. We will remember more than half the team recording Crystal Springs PRs! And we will remember how an impressive streak of
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MVXC Rolling As League Championships Approach
MVXC is showing impressive form in races and in practice as the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League championships await! FUHSD Championships/Lynbrook Invitational The FUHSD Championships are held as part of the Lynbrook Invitational. The short, flat, fast competition tat is a tune up and preview for the SCVAL Championships the following week. This year, the course had to
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Baylands Two was a Blast!
Some race days come together and feel almost perfect. On Tuesday, October 19, Monta Vista Cross Country travelled back to the Baylands cross country course with four more weeks of training in the bank. The air quality was pristine, and the temperature was about 10 degrees cooler than in September. The table was set, but
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SCVAL Championships Meet Sheet!
The meet sheet for the SCVAL Championships on November 2 is posted! We are back to compete in our De Anza League division meet at Crystal once again–yay! The team has looked fantastic the past couple weeks. Our workouts have been blazing, our performance at Lynbrook was impressive and showed our fitness, and our attitude and positivity
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Boston Marathon Day
Today was the first Boston Marathon I’ve missed since 2006…but it was nice to watch and also see a couple friends! Boston is an incredible race. I’m looking forward to seeing MVXC alumni there someday…
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Two Premier XC Courses Highlight a Big Week for MV!
The opportunity to run on the storied Crystal Springs cross country course and the California state championship course at Woodward Park is incredible double–and MVXC ran both in the same week! That is a fine, fine week for some lucky cross country runners. Crystal Preview Tuesday, October 5, saw MVXC competing on the Crystal Springs
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The Artichoke
Monta Vista Cross Country drove to the Pacific Coast on October 2, ready to compete in the 50th Annual Artichoke Invitational. While it might strain belief, Coach Flatow was a competitor in the 5th Artichoke Invitational in 1976 (how did they figure out runners’ times back in 1976? Hourglass? Waterclock?). This race has been going on a
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Clovis Invitational Information
Clovis Invitational is a very, very fun meet…top teams from around the State will be there. Teams that have championship aspirations will often attend, because Clovis is held on the same course as the California State Championships…so this is a chance for athletes at all levels to experience what a championship meet is like! FUHSD
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Crystal Preview Meet Sheet
The meet sheet for the Crystal Preview is now posted! The Crystal Springs cross country course is truly a treasure. During the past year, the cross country community almost lost access to this wonderful course because of objections from local residents. Monta Vista athletes and parents can help to mitigate issues, make residents happier and
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Artichoke Meet Sheet
Here is the Artichoke Invitational meet sheet. This information is subject to change…the race assignments could change based on illness, talking to coach, meteors, zombie bites… Please note that you are responsible for your own transportation–there is no bus! This is a really fun meet…I think you will like it. Coach Flatow won his first varsity
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Welcome back to REAL SCVAL Racing
The first race of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League series was on Tuesday, September 21 at Baylands park in Sunnyvale. It felt so good to have a SCVAL race that felt like 2019. Welcome back! The Baylands course is a 5km track on the edge of the San Francisco Bay. While it is not particularly
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Back to race at De La Salle!
The Monta Vista Cross Country team returned to the De La Salle/Nike Invitational on Saturday, September 19…after an eight year absence. As we continue to navigate the first year after the strange 2020 season, it’s great to be part ‘real’ cross country meets again. Truly, there is nothing like a big high school cross country starting line
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Baylands Meet Sheet Update
Attached is an update of the Baylands meet sheet with the final race assignments…please take a look and plan your travel so that you can be at your race on time.
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Team Photos Available!
Our team photos are now available. MVXC does something different than most teams…you do not have to purchase any of the photos. Coach has arranged for Jeremy Hohengarten (Coach Johnson’s wedding photographer!) to take our photo, and MVXC purchased all the rights to use the photos freely. You do not have to buy a copy
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Baylands/SCVAL #1 Meet Sheet
The Baylands Meet Sheet is now posted. Please note that the transportation to this meet is the athlete’s responsibility–parents chose to not fund a bus, and there is no master car pool. It is less than 20 minutes from Monta Vista to Baylands on most days so small ride pools are doable. Varsity
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De La Salle Meet Sheet!
The meet sheet for De La Salle is now posted! Take a look and get prepared. There is a complete GoPro video on line of three athletes jogging the course…useful for athletes to prepare, and parents, if you wanted to see the complete course your kids will run, take a look! Live results should be
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Lagoon Valley Pro Photos For Purchase
Normally I don’t promote these for-profit photo sites, but you might find a good photo of your athlete here! Their image-search function works amazingly well on the few samples I tried. What you do is text LVC to 90738, you get a link and you can start searching by uploading a photo of the person