Thanksgiving

Hey team! If you did any Thanksgiving races, we want to know how you did! Send Coach Olsen the name of the race you ran and your results and we'll get them posted. Here are Senor Olsen's results for his race:

Mesa Mi Amigo's Turkey Trot
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Location:
Red Mountain Park Mesa, AZ


Distance:
10K Run

Result:
53th place (out of 2226 participants), with a time of 40:49

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Weekend!

Midvale Journal

Hey team! The article about the team is out already. You can find it in the Midvale Journal. You can check with Midvale City to find out where you can get a copy of the actual newspaper. However, this is the link for the downloaded version. The article is on page six. If you are interested, there are various Thanksgiving Day 5ks around the valley. This is the link in Runners World for one of the races, in the Cottonwood Heights area, and this link is for a 6k in the City Creek area. Salt Lake Running Company has a couple of other races listed if you want to check out there web site. Happy Thanksgiving!

PS-Some of the information in the article is incorrect. not quite sure if the reporter wrote it down incorrectly or he just didn't get it......

Thanks

Just wanted to thank everybody that was able to make it out to our banquet. It was a great success and we missed those of you that weren't able to come! Also, thanks to all of you that brought the spaghetti & bread, drinks and desserts. On a side note, as you all know, Beauty and the Beast had it's opening night yesterday at the Hillcrest. Our own team members, Patrick and Elisabeth are part of this production-Patrick in the chorus and Elisabeth in the Orchestra. The show last night was great and they both did an excellent job! If you can, please go out and see the play!

Reminder

Just a reminder, if you weren't to the meeting on Halloween, please talk to Coach Olsen (it's regarding the Banquet on November 8th). Also, please remember to RSVP for the banquet by the 6th of Novemmber. If you have a chance, be on the look out for the Midvale Valley Journal....there is supposed to be an article on the team coming out soon!

State Pictures

Update

Just an update on what is going on. Tentative date and place for the Banquet: November1st in AT200. Also, we will have our fundraiser some time in November, we'll hand out the information to that at the Banquet.

State Results

Congratluations on a great showing at state! Also, congratulations to Jameson Reich who finished 20th overall! Pictures will be posted soon. Here is the link to the Runnercard results page! Thanks to all the parents that came out yesterday and supported our team! This article was printed in the Deseret News today, some of you might find it interesting, it sounds like it is the first part of a series. congratulations again!

Article

Here is a link to the Dereset News article in Sunday's paper. It is mostly about Skyline, but it mentions us at the very end. There are some remarks on the results page, if you want to read them, this is the link-they are fun to read! Hope this link works!

Pictures

Region Finals

Hey Team! Congratulations on a great meet! Hillcrest qualified for state for the first time in about 12 years-be proud of what you have accomplished. Congratulations also go out to Jason Lynch who placed 6th overall and was All-Region. Here are some pictures of the meet. Have a great weekend and be ready to work hard for the upcoming State Championships.

Summer Mileage

Hey team! Summer Mileage has been calculated. The final copy will be in Coach Olsen's room on Monday-hopefully on the Cross Country white board. Please check the information. If there is anything missing or incorrect, please email Coach Olsen. Don't forget about our Invitational on Saturday-Wahsatch Rendevous. Coach Olsen knows the history about this Invitational, ask him how it got started and why you are running in it! Make sure you have a good dinner tonight and PLEASE go to bed early! We'll miss those of you that can't be with us on Saturday.

Soldier Hollow Invitational

 

Hey team! Hope you have recoved nicely from the Invitational on Saturday, and that you are enjoying your long holiday weekend. We had a great showing, and hope that it gave you a small taste of other schools outside of our region. We'll have official times up soon. We have been having diffuclty with the slide shows and video, and are working on getting them fixed. We've added a couple of links to our blog-Davis track & XC and Skyline track & XC. Also, we've added a link to DyeStat stat, a web page for national high school track and xc. Here an artical you might find interesting from runners world, hope it helps!
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-244--10202-0,00.html


PS-Coach Olsen's wife asks those of you who beat his time to go easy on him!

Schedule update

Hey Team! Just a reminder, we have our first meet on the 18th of August. It is the Tooele Invitational, race starts at 9 AM. We will be leaving Hillcrest at 7 AM, please be there on time! Also, first team meeting is August 27th at 2:45 PM in Coach Olsen's room. Keep working hard!

Hey team! Sorry that the Summer Mileage hasn't been posted yet, we having a hard time getting it posted. Those interested in seeing their mileage for the summer contact Coach Olsen. Keep working hard! Don't forget our first meet is August 18Th!

Mileage and Practice

Hey Team! We will be starting to have practice 5 days a week now. If you are currently attending on MWF, the Tuesday/Thursday Practices are optional. The weekly mileage will be posted shortly. If there is any information that is incorrect or if you can't find your name on the list, please contact Coach Olsen. Thanks!

Deseret News 10K

Thanks to all those that came out to the 10K. Hillcrest runners did great! Here is the link to the men's race results: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,695194735,00.html
and for the women's results go to: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,695194736,00.html.

PS-Derek took 28th Place in the Men's 25-29 age category-his time is under Coach Olsen's name!