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…
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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…
Crystal Springs Update and Call for Volunteers
There is a call out to help get the Crystal Springs course prepared for the 2021 cross country season…if you want to help, here is the information. There is still no final determination on what the season at Crystal will…
First Official Practice of the Season will be Monday, August 9!
Yes, it’s true, MVXC21 is about to get rolling! Our first practice as a team, with a coach and everything, will be on Monday, August 9 at 7am. The team will meet on the Monta Vista track down near the…