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Valencia Cross Country: Team 2003 XC
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Jesus finishes 2nd in senior race.
Sunday, September 14
Laguna Hills Invitational
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Roman finishes 4th in Soph race.
Rewards, challenges, lots of learning, medals, PR's, plaques and one trophy marked the season opener at Laguna Hills!

The freshman were led by Josh Linen who nearly won the race as he worked his way to the front, trading the lead with a Woodbridge runner to the finish line! His 16:57 time puts him #1 on the all-time Laguna Hills freshman times.

The sophomores dominated the team competition with outstanding depth and took home the team trophy. Roman Pena led with an impressive 16:30 clocking, good for 4th place! Eric Miranda was also a top 10 runner, finishing 9th in 16:47. Geovanni Popoca, Ignacio Lopez, Cameron Chubbuck, Adrian Meza, and Christian Franco rounded out the scoring for the Tigers.

Daniel Davisson led all juniors with a personal best time of 16:49 and 7th place. Phillip Hackett also ran a pr in this race.

It was a little warmer for the seniors as the fog had burned away, but it did not prevent Jesus Salazar from running his best time on this course and finishing 2nd in a great effort to fight off challengers. David Aldama placed 8th in 16:34, a huge improvement over last year!

The girls team was led by Ayn Learn who finished 9th in the sophomore race with a time of 20:14! Freshman, Sarah Garcia finished an impressive 11th of 102 girls in her race. Veronica Gonzalez ran a breakthrough performance with a personal best of 22:08 in the senior race. The Sophomore girls placed 6th in the team competition.

For more complete results, "click" on the headline. For more pictures, go to the "photos" section.
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Josh finishes 2nd in frosh race!

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David, Jesus and Nathan
Saturday, September 20
Sunny Hills Invite a Delight!
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The Super Sophs!
The team finishes 4th in division I competition at the Sunny Hills Invitational. Jesus Salazar finished 3rd in the senior race (15:49)running very strong despite a cold. David Aldama (16:28)and Nathan Learn (16:37)also medalled placing 10th and 13th.

Freshman, Josh Linen (17:10) finished 2nd again this week! Gerardo Macias also ran strong in the freshman race finishing 49th of 154 runners.

The juniors were led by Daniel Davisson in 9th with Jose Aldama and Eduardo Garcia not far behind! Phillip Hackett ran his all-time PR on this tough course as did Jose Aldama!

The sophomores are quite a force to watch race, they are so strong and work so well together. Roman Pena finished 2nd (16:34), followed by Erik Miranda in 3rd (16:35), Geovanni Popoca in 7th (17:03), Cameron Chubbuck in 14th (17:38), Ignacio Lopoz in 15th (17:39), Ivan Velazquez in 16th (17:41) and Adrian Meza in 20th (17:53)! Erik, Cameron, Jeff Carter, Omar Reyes and Christian Montanez all ran PR's!

Ayn Learn placed 5th in the sophomore race with a solid 20:16 for the tough course and Sarah Garcia really shined with her 20:47 clocking in the freshman race, good for 15th place and a medal!
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Cameron, Ignacio and Ivan

Friday, October 3
Boys Empire League Challenge Results Individuals
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Congratulations to the boys varsity, boys frosh/soph and boys jv who went 5-0 at this meet. Lots of time to improve, stay focussed and positive!

Girls Empire League Results

Friday, October 3
Empire League Team Results

Sunday, October 5
Boys Frosh/Soph finish 2nd at Brea Invite
3 Varsity Sophmores
3 Varsity Sophomores
Despite the top three sophomores (Roman Pena, Erik Miranda and Geovanni Popoca) running varsity, the frosh/soph team still finished 2nd at the Brea Invitational behind Division I team Rubidoux.

The frosh/soph team was led by Josh Linens first place finish 17:39 on the tough 3.1 mile course. Adrian Meza was 4th in the same race. Cameron Chubbuck, Ivan Velazquez, and Ignacio Lopez rounded out the scoring. Jeff Carter, Jesus Negrete, Christian Franco, Miguel Olivares and Chandler Fulton took home the hardware (medals)!

The varsity was a little low-key at this event and focussed on race skills. Still, the team finished in fifth place propelled by the intrepid sophomores, Roman, Erik, and Geo. Jesus Salazar was the top varsity finisher in 13th with a 17:13 clocking. Roman was right behind in 17:17, followed by Erik, David Aldama, and Geo. Nathan Learn, Jose Aldama, Daniel Davisson and Mike Rykowski earned medals!
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Josh Linen finshes 1st again!

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Sophomores pack it up for 1st place!
Saturday, October 18
Varsity Boys 6th in County, Sophomores 1st!
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Josh wins Frosh race in 16:31!
Nineteen Tigers ran personal records (PR's) at the Orange County Championships! Despite losing our varsity #2 runner, the Varsity Boys finished in 6th place in the most competitive race, the Sweepstakes! Three Tigers were named to the All Orange County team and two runners won their races! It was a fun day.

Jesus Salazar finishes in 6th place to lead the varsity boys and makes All County in the process. Roman Pena was our #2 finisher and makes the All County team for sophomores. Erik Miranda and Daniel Davisson run a PR's to finish as the #3 and #4 runners with Geovanni stopping the points as the #5 Tiger finisher.

Josh Linen won the freshman race in an outstanding 16:31 time and makes the frosh All County team. He took the lead at the top of the first hill just as he planned to do! Nick Hariri ran a huge race and took nearly two minutes off his best time and taking home a medal for 24th place. Gerardo Macias and Miguel Diaz also ran their best times in the frosh race.

The intrepid sophomores again took home the first place trophy with Ignacio Lopez leading the way with his PR 4th place finish. Ivan Velazquez followed in 5th running a PR, Jeff Carter ran an awesome race to finish 9th overall, Jesus Negrete in 13th (PR too), and Adrian Meza in 24th. Omar Reyes, Christian Montanez and Osvaldo Garcia all set personal records in the sophomore race as well.

The JV was really exciting as Mike Rykowski battled all the way to the finish to claim 1st place! Mike set a new best time for himself too placing the team 4th. Miguel Olivares helped the JV's with his 13th place for a PR. Nathan Laub took home a medal and ran his fastest time of the year so far. Sarang Ratanjee also set a PR in the JV race.
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Josh, Jesus and Roman make All County!

Team Meets Billy Mills at Mt SAC
Billy Mills and Team
The team got an opportunity to meet 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Billy Mills at Mt SAC following the outdoor viewing of the movie "Running Brave" on Friday, October 24th! He was generous with his time and his sincere message of having dreams and goals and going after them in the face of adversity. He is an inspiration! Thank you Mr. Linen for help in driving the team there.

The weather and fires made Saturdays Mt SAC Invitational a little bit of a disappointment, but we were able to practice the course and get ready for CIF! Congratulations to Josh Linen who finished first in the freshman 2 mile course run and won a cow bell! Thanks so much to Sarah's parents who fed us an awesome lunches and provided drinks too.

Our thoughts go out to those who lost their homes in the fires, that is the real tragedy of the weekend.


Click on the headline for complete results of Mt SAC.

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Geo and Daniel help varsity win title!
Thursday, November 6
Empire League Champions!
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David Zhang 16:48 F/S Champion!
Congratulations to the boys varsity who finish as Empire League co-champions with Orange Lutheran, to the JV boys who finish as co-champs with Katella and to the frosh/soph who finish undefeated champions at Irvine Park on 11/5/03! What a great season!

Personal records were set by 21 runners at the Finals and 3 were named to the All League team: Jesus Salazar, David Aldama and Erik Miranda.

In the varsity race, Jesus led the way in 5th (15:40), followed by David Aldama in 8th (15:56), Erik Miranda in 9th (15:59), Josh Linen in 12th (16:03), Geovanni Popoca in 15th (16:08), Daniel Davisson in 16th (16:12) and Roman Pena in 20th (16:45). The team was defeated by Orange Lutheran by a score of 47 to 49, very close race with great efforts on both teams. Both schools end up 9-1.

The JV race was controlled from start to finish by Nathan Learn (1st, 16:38) and Jose Aldama (2nd, 17:11). Mike Rykowski, Nathan Laub (18:21 PR), and Shawn Mirza (18:34 PR) rounded out the scoring. Katella and Valencia finish 9-1 and share the championship.

The indominable frosh/soph team once again used the power of the pack to win. The intrepid David Zhang took it out hard and was rewarded with an amazing 16:48 win despite one wrong turn! Ivan Velazquez ran his best time as well, 17:00 finishing in 2nd. Cameron Chubbuck encouraged his team the whole way finishing 3rd (17:09), followed by Ignacio Lopez (17:11) in 4th, Adrian Meza (17:22)in 6th, Jesus Negrete (17:28) in 9th, and Miguel Olivares (17:32) in 11th. Freshman, Nick Hariri ran a big PR (18:14) for 19th. Other personal records were set by: Ryan Burke, Gerardo Macias, Osvaldo Garcia, Miguel Diaz and Jason Kahlon.

The girls varsity team was led by a breakout performance by freshman, Sarah Garcia who finished an impressive 11thplace with a 19:44 clocking! Ayn Learn was the next Tiger followed by Mayra Villegas, Veronica Gonzalez, Samantha Guzzi, Sulema Reyes and Denise Salceda. The team finished 5th in a very tough league.

Leigh Slater led the JV girls to a 4th place finish along with Stacie Seymour, Ana Piro, Joy Bollen, Emily Israel and Lisa Hernandez.

Good luck at CIF Tigers! The best is yet to come! Look in "Photo Albums" more more action packed pictures!
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Sarah Garcia leads girls with 11th place!

Sunday, November 16
Tigers advance to CIF Finals!
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Roman, David and Erik head to the finish! (Kirby Lee photo)
For the 6th straight year, the Varsity Boys have advanced to the CIF Finals! Of the 16 remaining teams in Division II, 7 will qualify for the State Meet held in Fresno.

Jesus Salazar led the Tigers with a strong and relaxed race finishing 4th in his best Mt SAC time, 15:56. Roman Pena and David Aldama packed it up the entire race and finished 15th and 16th in 16:23, Erik Miranda was 22nd in 16:34, Josh Linen moved up really well the entire race and was the 5th man in 16:35. Geovanni Popoca ran 16:54, improving on last years best of 18:14! Daniel Davisson rounded out the team in 39th place and a 17:01 clocking.

We will need heroic efforts from all seven to advance, but we have worked hard and still have much to show! Good luck Tigers at Saturdays Finals (8:45 at Mt SAC).

Saturday, November 22
We Are Going To Fresno!!!
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Beanie Power! (Josh was in the bathroom !)
Way to pack it up Tigers! Erik Miranda ran a great race and was our #1 runner in 16:03 and 29th place. But what is amazing is that despite Jesus Salazar having a rough day (our usual front runner), the first five runners finished within 30 seconds of each other. Instead of having a front runner and a pack, we just had an incredible pack! Roman (where-are-my-shoes-Pena)and David Aldama worked together the entire race and finished 16:13 and 16:14, Nathan Learn turned in a 16:18, Jesus ran 16:28, freshman Josh Linen 16:32 and Geovanni Popoca finished in 16:37. A great day!

We race at 10:10 on Saturday, November 29th at Woodward Park in Fresno. (Most people do not get so excited about Fresno, but to a cross country runner it is Shangri-la!)
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Roman and David work together at Finals (EC Slick photo)

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Tigers at Woodward Park in Fresno!
Sunday, November 30
Tigers Place 4th at State Meet in Fresno!
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Roman Pena was our top finisher at State!
Congratulations to the varsity boys who placed 4th in Division II at the State Meet in Fresno! The team ran its best team time for the State course: 82:53 and maintained a gap of only :30 seconds between our #1 runner and the #5 runner! Sophomore, Roman Pena led the Tigers with a stunning 16:19 (5:16/mile),good for 37th place of 189 runners. Roman later admitted that he kept waiting for the hill, not realizing until later he had climbed it without feeling it! Jesus Salazar finished in 47th, Erik Miranda in 62nd place, Geovanni Popoca ran the best race of his season finishing in 69th, David Aldama in 78th, Nathan Learn in 94th, and freshman, Josh Linen in 96th place with a fine clocking of 16:58 for the 5k (3.1 mile)course.

Please look at the "photo album" section and click on heading for more complete results

It has been an awesome year for all levels, frosh/soph, JV and Varsity. The future looks bright as well with our top returnees for next year: Sophomores Roman Pena, Erik Miranda, Geovanni Popoca, David Zhang, Cameron Chubbuck, Ivan Velazquez, Ignacio Lopez, Adrian Meza ; Juniors Daniel Davisson and Jose Aldama; and Freshman, Josh Linen. Who will be the big surprise next year? Who is willing to enjoy and put in the miles? We shall see!

Geo 2 mile State
Geo runs his best race of the season!

Juan Robles helps Central Arizona to National Champions!
Woo-hoo! Congratulations to Juan who placed 7th in the meet held at the Rim Rock Course in Lawrence, Kansas. This is the same course that Juan's hero, Adam Goucher (Colorado), who his National Championship! This course is described in the book, "Running with Buffaloes". Click on title for more results.


 
 
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