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…
Coach Flatow
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…
Labor Day Hills!
Motivated by a season opening race at Lagoon Valley, MVXC athletes got up early on Labor Day to get up on top of Fremont Older and hit the hills! A holiday gives us the opportunity to get out early before the…
MVXC Opens 2021 Season At Lagoon Valley!
Monta Vista cross country made a trek to Vacaville for the Lagoon Valley Classic on September 5, opening the 2021 our first *real* cross country meet in two years and the first high school meet ever for many of our athletes!…
Watermelon Run Photos!
Mr Ma’s children ran for MVXC and MVTF years ago…now they are attending UC Berkeley and graduate school at UC Santa Cruz. Yet Mr Ma still comes out and takes photos of our teams, even if his children are not…
The Lagoon Valley Classic Meet Sheet!
MVXC’s first competition of 2021 is coming up! On Saturday, September 4, the MVXC team will pile on a bus in the pre-dawn darkness and roll to Vacaville for the Lagoon Valley Classic cross country invitational. Two years ago this…
Watermelon Run 2021
Thursday, August 26 saw the Monta Vista Cross Country team renew the season opening Watermelon Run tradition! More than 20 years ago, before the current coaching staff took over MVXC, the team started running the 2.6 Watermelon as the season…
First Time Up Fire Trail for MVXC21; Plus Watermelon Preview!
First Time Up Fire Trail The first time in a season when the team heads up Fire Trail is always an event. That climb, on a warm August afternoon, is always tough and there is no easy way to prep…
First Week Of School, Second Week of Practice
MVXC21 athletes got back to school on Monday, August 16…and with that, our practice schedule switched from dawn patrol to afternoons. Our athletes began the adaptation process we need for training and racing in warm weather–which includes some increased focus on…
MVXC21 Parent Meeting
The 2021 Monta Vista Cross Country parent meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 25 at 7pm. The school has let me know that athletics’ team parent meetings may not be in person at this time, so unfortunately this meeting…
First Week of Practice Is In the Books!
On August 16, school starts for Monta Vista athletes and we start our regular practice schedule…the team will meet in the stands at the track starting 20 minutes after the last bell of the day, dressed out and ready to…
XC Athletic Clearance Update: Monday at 6pm, August 9
Hey everyone, what a nice first practice!–we had 46 cleared athletes for our first run together, as well as a few uncleared athletes there for our first meeting. That’s great! Let’s keep it up! A half dozen more athletes have…