Shining At St. Francis
Monta Vista track & field has a fondness for the St. Francis meet. The track is unique and fun to run upon, the meet is elite and conveniently close–and we seem to get some great performances every year. The morning…
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Winter Break Practice Schedule
With three weeks of practice under our belts, we get a week’s break from school. Hopefully our athletes will not take a week’s break from training! Whether you have been diligent in training during winter or just set aside your…
Damp but not Drenched in Week Two
MVTF19 had a cold and wet week, but the track weather gods were kind and we did not miss a day of practice. The highlight for the coaches was Thursday; the sprinters and jumpers ran a timed 350m followed by…
Who has been cleared for track and field, and who has not…
UPDATED 4:10pm ON SATURDAY JANUARY 25 Here are lists of all the people that Javier Margarito (the Monta Vista athletic trainer) has cleared to participate in track and field–if you are on that list, you do not need to do a thing…
Summer Distance Running in Kenya or Peru
Julia, Maddy and their group in a classroom in Kenya. Back in the summer of 2014, two Monta Vista cross country runners–Julia Chang (now at Johns Hopkins University) and Madeleine Yip (now at Stanford University) went to Kenya for…
All CCS Teams Announced; three MVXC athletes honored!
The All-Central Coast Section teams have been announced…and three Monta Vista cross country athletes have been honored! Sophomore Sylvana Northrop was chosen for the All-CCS Second Team, and junior Triya Roy was honored with an Honorable Mention selection. Freshman Jannah Sheriff was…
All-CCS XC Teams Announced; three MVXC Athletes are honored!
The All-Central Coast Section teams have been announced…and three Monta Vista cross country athletes have been honored! Sophomore Sylvana Northrop was chosen for the All-CCS Second Team, and junior Triya Roy was honored with an Honorable Mention selected. Freshman Jannah Sheriff was…
Your Coach Is REALLY Old
This last week was my 60th birthday…which I was not going to make into a ‘thing’ at all for MVXC and MVTF. It’s just another birthday! However my own trainer, Chris Hallford, was working with a couple of our girls…
MVXC Alumni Update/An Award Winner at CalTech
Some alumni updates… Rohan Choudhury/MVXC-TF15 Rohan was awarded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Ray Adkinson award, voted on by all the league’s coaches and given to the senior who best exemplifies the conference’s high ideals during his association with SCIAC cross…
Central Coast Section Championships Schedule
The Central Coast Section Cross Country Championships will be Saturday, November 10th at Crystal Springs. The first race will be the Boys’ Division II race at 10am, followed by the Girls’ Division II race at 10:35; from then on…
SCVAL Championships; MVXC Rolls On!
Monta Vista runners put on a strong showing at the SCVAL Championships on October 30, and the team made their main goal of advancing both boys and girls to the CCS Championships for the eighth consecutive year! First up were…
Perfect 15
Thursday saw something that is very, very rare for cross country runners–a perfect 15 team score. Fifteen is the lowest possible score for a cross country team using standard scoring–a 1-2-3-4-5 finish. And the Monta Vista girls made a statement…