While we still have our league championship race to run, sadly we are also nearing the end of our season…so it’s time to think about returning our uniforms. Please mark your calendar and set an alert 🙂 to bring your…
The MVXC Banquet will be held on Tuesday evening, November 13, starting at 6pm in the Monta Vista Student Union  This is definitely, positively, the social event of the season! Your invitation is downloadable. Please RSVP at this link.  The…
MVXC raced at Baylands and traveled to Los Angeles for the Mt. SAC Invitational…let’s quickly review what happened! Baylands The Baylands race was a mix of athletes trying for 5km PRs and getting race-ready for leagues, and other athletes getting…
MVXC had a special guest at our workout on Saturday–Kate Niehaus, a cross-c0untry champion while getting her B.S. and Masters in bio-engineering at Stanford, Rhodes Scholar and Oxford PhD–came out early and ran Candy Crush repeats with the Monta Vista squad.…
I was looking through Angela Duckworth’s website and decided to borrow something verbatim.  Dr. Duckworth is a great writer and talks much more articulately about some things I also try to talk about with MVXC. Angela Duckworth’s original post is here.…
Early morning start for our first race. The Clovis Invitational is a big deal.  Held at Woodward Park on the same course where the California state championships are held, the Clovis Invite attracts teams from Eureka to San Diego that have…
The Crystal Preview race is our first chance to get up on the Crystal Springs cross country course–one of the finest cross country venues anywhere, and Monta Vista’s home course.  Crystal and Monta Vista go together–the hills in Fremont Older…
The Monta Vista cross country team headed over to Lynbrook High School for the first meet of the SCVAL circuit.  The traditional opener at Central Park in Santa Clara was canceled because of site issues (and we may never get…
I really love getting up in the dark and loading up a bus with a high school team.  There is something special about this experience that you don’t understand until you join a team and go all out committed to…
Monta Vista XC had a pretty nice weekend… We began Friday with a visit from Kate Niehaus, a long-time friend of MVXC.  Kate came to talk to us a bit about her experiences in running–the lows and the highs, and…
On Saturday, September 8, Monta Vista Cross Country travelled to Toro Park in Salinas to open the 2018 season at the Chieftain-Spirit Invitational. The team usually opens the season at Toro at Earlybird.  Toro Park is a classic course:  3.0…
On Saturday, September 8, Monta Vista Cross Country travelled to Toro Park in Salinas to open the 2018 season at the Chieftain-Spirit Invitational. The team usually opens the season at Toro at Earlybird.  Toro Park is a classic course:  3.0…