Monta Vista Cross Country had what may be our best Awards Banquet yet on Thursday, November 19, thanks to some fantastic hosting from Ceci Imamura and Monica Loke (aka Jason and Ryan’s moms)! We honored our award winners, and bid…
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. – T. Alan Armstrong…
I am finding it very difficult to accept that our season is coming to it’s climax–we are all running so well, who wants to stop? Hardly anyone I think! Monta Vista had a great show at the 2015 SCVAL Championships!…
Victorious Varsity Girls Team — Fifth Straight Win! MVXC had a day of historic proportions at the Fremont Union High School District Championships at Lynbrook on October 29! The Monta Vista girls won the FUHSD Championship for a record fifth…
MVXC had a fifth straight successful trip to the Mt SAC Invitational, the biggest XC race in the world. Over two days, 15,877 high school runners competed, and 41 of those athletes represented Monta Vista! Monta Vista fielded six complete teams,…
We have always liked the Baylands XC course–this is a flat and fast 5km course, in an SF Bay environment that we don’t get to run in very often. Each year when we come run here, I think that I want…
This note on the CCS web site says it all! One of the parents volunteering at the Crystal meet sent us the photo of the boys greeting the finishers after the race; neither Coach Flatow nor Coach Johnson told the boys to…
Tuesday October 6 saw Monta Vista make it’s first visit of 2015 to the historic Crystal Springs Cross Country course. Crystal is such a wonderful course…we are really fortunate to have this as our home course. Many high school cross country…
MVXC had a memorable time at the 44th annual Artichoke Invitational–the coach only has one single complaint–read on! The frosh-soph girls lead off the day, with Claire and Sarah hammering at the front of the pack from the start of their…
MVXC15 had it’s first league cluster meet of the season on Tuesday the 29th, and the team was rolling! It’s always hard to tell where a school is in the league during cluster meets, as different teams come to the…
This kind of energy has to come from somewhere! I read an article this weekend about Andre Iguodala, NBA championships hero for the Golden State Warrior. Iguodala tracked his game performance in relationship to his sleep and found that: When…
Monta Vista Cross Country made it’s first ever trip out of state, to the Nike Portland XC Invitational, on September 26. This trip was fantastic! The race is on the course used by Nike NXN for the last several years.…