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Monta Vista rolled down to Monterey in our fancy bus…lucky we got a nice big vehicle to haul back all our hardware, to go with all of our PRs!

Most impressive were the improvements that Monta Vista runners demonstrated; 26 runners had run the Toro Park course previously, and 22 of them–85%!–improved their marks!  And all this work lead to some pretty incredible things.  The Varsity girls improved on their 97:52 team mark at Earlybird by 58 seconds to 96:54 at Monterey Bay–a new Monta Vista school record!  For the six JV girls who ran at both Earlybird and Monterey Bay, they knocked off a combined two minutes, eight seconds in less than a month and a half!  It’s all really impressive and a real tribute to everyone’s hard work.

The Monta Vista Varsity boys finished 6th, and  hooked up in quite a battle with fellow SCVAL D1 team Palo Alto and also the D1 Menlo Atherton boys; all three teams finished within 30 points and we expect to meet up again competing for podium spots at CCS in a month!  We combined the boys who wanted to run at Monterey into one JV team, and they ran well to 4th place–an agonizing 5 points from a third place finish!  Both Varsity and JV girls ended up atop the podium with identical 44 point scores, running strongly from top to bottom!

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Individually, Jenny Xu and Namrata Subramanian finished first in the varsity and junior varsity races, while Kelly, Julia, Maddy, Isabel, and Akshara also finished in the top 10.  Jenny’s mark was a new Monta Vista school record as well as the 25th fastest time ever run at Toro, and Julia and Kelly also ended up on Monta Vista’s all time list for the Toro Park course.  Rohan Choudhury’s 16:07 was good for 5th place in the Varsity race, and makes him the second fastest Monta Vista boy ever at Toro Park.   In all, our team brought back over 30 medals from Salina!

Great job, everyone!  You have been working hard and the work has been paying off!

Complete results are up on XCStats.

We have lots of photos at our Picasa site.

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