Start of Divison 1 Girls Race–See Jenny Go! The California State Championships are our Olympics–just being able to take part is an honor, and doing well is something to remember forever! Monta Vista should be very proud today with what…
Congratulations to the Johns Hopkins University women’s cross country team, and MVXC14 alum Bridget Gottlieb, for winning the NCAA National Championship! Bridget was the only freshman on the team, and as fifth runner for Hopkins her points were the difference…
The speedy Monta Vista girls not only found time for running 40-plus miles per week…they also hit the books and were selected to the Central Coast Section Scholastic Teams! The Central Coast Section, a region that goes from San Francisco…
Monta Vista is sending more athletes to State than ever before, after a historic race in the Central Coast Section Championships at Toro Park on November 15th! In the girls’ D-I championship race, fans saw one of the great races…
I’ve been sadly behind on updating our news–but that’s not for lack of news! Though it is late I’m going to try to catch us up briefly. At the FUHSD Championships/Lynbrook on October 30, the Varsity girls defended their championship…
Monta Vista Cross Country had another great trip to Mt. SAC–bigger and better than ever before! The Mt. SAC course is pretty special–it has been unchanged since the 1950s, with grandparents and grandchildren able to compare PRs across generations. Over…
MVXC ran a split squad this week with half of our team running at the Baylands Invitational…while we didn’t have the full team at Baylands, the athletes that were there made a great effort to show well! Baylands is a…
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…
Running is not a sport for pretty boys. Running is about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. It’s the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and…
The Monta Vista cross country team had the honor of hosting three elite members of the Mammoth Track Club at MV on Monday, October 8. American 50km record holder Josh Cox, NCAA track champion Josphat Boit, and ex-Oregon star Bria…
Monta Vista Cross Country runners certainly felt at home at the Artichoke Invitational on October 4! We rolled into Half Moon Bay and in five races recorded this haul: >Three championships (Girls’ Varsity, Boys Frosh-Soph, and Girls Junior Varsity) >A…
On Saturday, September 27, Monta Vista made itself known–loudly!–at the Stanford Invitational. There were 227 teams with 2,502 athletes from all over North America–schools from Texas, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Canada as well as the best schools across California.…