Manhattan Invite

Manhattan Invitational:

The St. Joe's cross country team invaded The Bronx this past weekend. We camped out on the gym floor of St. Raymond's school in The Bronx. Friday afternoon we had a great run over the course, across the meadow and up the cowpath's followed by a nice pasta dinner. Saturday day morning turned into another great day, we set up our tent and got ready to run. We had teams in four different races, three JV and one Varsity race. The day started off with Mike Rizzo brining home the first medal. St. Joe's took home a total of 9 medals (5 for JV and 4 in the Varsity) out of 25 total runners. Varsity finished 6th overall in their race.

The Varsity Squad
so sleepy... too many fruit loops

Reading Robinson Carusoe

Van Cortland Park

Jimmy Hard driving to the Finish

Dan Courtney had a strong race

Joe Schnitter 3rd runner awesome race!

Chuck lead the way

Tim Dyet

Dan Cercone

Pat McDonnell

Brian Herzog

Ethan Roaldi

Abas Omar

Steve Lucas

Andy McGloin

Spike Spillman 20th in JV race

Eric Bellanca

Andrew Zenger and Dan Sciolino a few spots back

Taylor Weinke

Mike Rizzo first medal winner of the day

McQuaid Invitational

Another great Saturday afternoon. The Varsity squad turned in another strong performance, finishing in 4th place in the Unseeded race. Quincy lead the way finishing 10th overall. Chuck "the tank" was 18th, Joe Schnittner took a branch to the face and finished 35th. Jim Harb, Sean Majer, Dan Courtney and Steve Lucas all had strong races. Will Burton led the way in the Varsity B race finishing 11th overall. The JV team finished in 8th place.

sleeping Beauty

Will close to the finish

Ricky

Abbas

Will Burton

Dan Sciolino

Andy McGloin

Will again

Ricky

Dan Courtney

Joe "hit me in the face with a branch" Schnitter

The Tank




Quincy




Sean Majer

Quincy

The freshman team finished 9th in the first race of the season. Noor led the team finishing 4th in the race after leading for much of the way.

David Miller

Ben Foy

Noor Noor

Dominic

West Seneca Invitational

West Seneca Invitational:

A beautiful Saturday morning in WNY, sunny and cool. The Varsity team finished second overall behind a powerhouse in Rush-Henrietta, while defeating our rival! The Team was led by Quincy O'Conner (4th overall) and Chuck "the tank" Mule (10th place). The JV team also turned in a stellar race, also finishing second while defeating our rival by a couple of points. The JV team was led by Will Burton and Steve Lucas. St. Joe's Cross Country is off to a great start so far this season. Looking forward the the races yet to come!

Joe Schnitter driving for the finish

Jimmy Harb

Quincy

Nice headband Chuck.

Joe Schnitter and Dan Courtney early in the race.

The start of the Varsity race.

Andy McGloin

Brian Herzog

The JV race:Ricky Englert, Steve Lucas and Will Burton

Great Day

A great start to the Cross Country season, both JV and Varsity teams finished 3rd in the JFK invitational. We had 3 runners in the top 20 ( 2nd, 7th and 17th).

Here is a link to the official results...more photos later.

http://section6runs.com/2009-2010/2009XC/results/JFK2009/JFK2009_CompleteResults.pdf

Fall

Fall is by far my favorite season. I'm not sure what it is, cross- country season, the cool nights, the smell of the leaves... or maybe the start of the school year. Nah, probably not that part!
Here are a few pics from my trip to Woodstock VT last October. If you like covered bridges this is the place to go!

Cross Country Season

Cross Country season has stated. The first two weeks of practice are winding down and we will be having the first annual Maroon vs White meet this saturday morning at Delaware park.
Here are a few photos from last years meet at Manhattan College.

Jerome

One of the days we drove up a mountain to the old copper mining town of Jerome. Jerome is now a sort of artist colony. I found the urban decay very interesting, many remants of the town's mining past.

I really found the old doors and windows very cool...