Monte Vista Cross Country: Alumni Updates
Monday, August 10ALUMNI RACE RESULTS CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE 2009 RESULTS LINK!
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| MVXC Alumni gather at Oak Hill Park in 2009. Join us next year! |
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Former Monte Vista Mustangs Running in College and beyond
The following former Monte Vista Cross Country standouts have continued their fine running careers in college. Click on the links below to follow their progress and results. Congrats to all of you - come back and say hi to the current MV team when you get a chance - and don't forget the 5th Annual Alumni Run next summer!
Class of 2009:
Mike Roderick - University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Mike plans to red-shirt his freshman season at UCSB. He will still be competing in several races "unattached". Mike ran a 25:53 8K at the end of the season, passing through the 3 mile mark in an amazing 15:20 time! He trained part of the season with the varsity group, despite red-shirting. Look for him to hit the track hard come this spring!
Connor Donley - Southern Oregon University
http://souraiders.com/index.aspx?tab=crosscountry&path=cross
Connor joined the Raiders cross country team this fall. He will redshirt his freshman year, but his bio and photo are up on the team web site! http://souraiders.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=497&path=cross
Bhavik Kanzaria - University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB)
http://ucsbgauchos.cstv.com/sports/m-xc/ucsb-m-xc-body.html
Bio: http://ucsbgauchos.cstv.com/sports/m-xc/mtt/kanzaria_bhavik00.html
After redshirting his freshman year, Bhavik made the tough UCSB XC team in 2009. He competed for the Gaucho's at the Stanford Invite (where he was 3rd man for the team) as well at the pre-nationals in Indiana (5th man). At the Big West Conference Meet, he finished 7th for the team despite battling the flu. The Gaucho's took 2nd place. Of course, we knew all this after watching him win the MVXC Alumni race this past August.
Brett Zorich - University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV)
Brett competed for the Rebels in Cross Country and Track during the 2008-2009 school year. For 2009/10, she will concentrate on Track only. Her bio can be found at: http://unlvrebels.cstv.com/sports/w-track/mtt/zorich_brett00.html
Dustin Harris - University of California San Diego
http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=93289&SPID=11064&DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=3662826&Q_SEASON=2009
Dustin will run track for the Tritons in the spring of 2010, specializing in middle distance. Bio including high school results can be found on the above link.
Class of 2007:
Class of 2006:
Daniela Gergley - University of Southern California
Daniela competed in the 2006/2007season for the Lady Trojans, finishing as high as their #3 runner at one meet. She is a biomedical engineering major at USC. Her high school bio:
High School: Gergley is a 2006 graduate of Monte Vista (Calif.) High...She ran both cross country and track in high school and qualified for the cross country state championships three times and in track once...She was All-Orange County as a sophomore, was All-Contra County first team and was named Orange County Register Athlete of the Week once...Had a personal-best time of 17:38 in cross country, 5:09 in the 1600m and 11:00 in the 3200m...
Chris Simpson - Santa Baraba City College / Diablo Valley College
Chris competed for SBCC for one XC season, advancing to the California Jr College State Championships last year.
Paul Suffoletta - Cal Tech (Pasadena)
Paul competed for Cal Tech during the 2006 season for Cal Tech in cross country and track.
POST COLLEGE: please tell us about your running! Local road races, fun-runs, marathons... we'd love to know! mike.davis@sbcglobal.net
Class of 2005:
Matt Bieniosek - MIT
Matt ran cross country and track for MIT. He has a 800m PR of 1:54.3 and a 8K PR of 26.42. Matt competed for MIT all four years that he attended undergraduate studies there, running in numerous cross country and track races for the team. He is now enrolled in the Graduate Engineering program there!
Geoff Nunns - Johns Hopkins University http://hopkinssports.collegesports.com/sports/m-xc/jhop-m-xc-body.html
Geoff ran all four years of the Johns Hopkins Bluejays. By the time he was a senior, he was their #1 finisher at their Conference Championships, as well as in the ME Regionals. He had the 3rd fastest time (8K) on his team. 2008 stats: http://www.hopkinssports.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/jhop/sports/m-xc/auto_pdf/08-stats
Geoff also ran Track (distance) for JHU.
Nicole Krampf - UC Santa Cruz
http://www.goslugs.com/teams/xcountry/women/wxc.html
Nicole ran for at least one season for the Lady Banana Slugs! She also returned for the Alumni race several times!
Class of 2004:
Emily McGregor - UC San Diego http://www.ucsdtritons.com (link on teams - W XC)
While at Monte Vista, Emily was the NCS Individual Champion in 2003 and helped to lead the MV Girls team to the CIF State meet in 2002 and 2003. Running for D2 power UC San Diego, Emily had one of the strongest collegiant careers of any MVXC runner. She was a multiple All-American in track, and holds the fastest 10K time in the history of UCSD (35:26). That time earned her 7th place at the NCAA D2 championships in 2008. She is #2 all-time in the 5000 meters (17:14). In cross country, she helped UCSD to the NCAA D2 championships as a Soph, and was among the top UCSD runners during her storied career there. Bio thru her Jr years: http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=93276&SPID=11063&DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=186463&Q_SEASON=2007
UCSD Women's Track Records:
http://www.ucsdtritons.com//pdf4/419740.pdf
Emily is in post grad nursing studies at University of Penn. She recently completed the Paris marathon in a stellar time of 2:54 to finish as the 20th woman and first British or American runner!
CONGRATS EMILY!
Peter Nunns - Williams College http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/xc/
Peter was the first of three Nunn's brothers to compete in Cross Country at Monte Vista, and ran for Div III powerhouse Williams College for four years.
Brittany Rezowalli - Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
a member of the 2003 NCS championship team and two time State Meet participant.
HS Bio: a 2004 graduate of Monte Vista High School in Danville, Calif... participated in cross country, track, and soccer... clocked times of 5:19 for 1600m and 10:59.6 for 3000m... was an All-CIF cross country selection as a senior... was All-East Bay Athletic League in soccer and track as a senior...
At LMU... 2006-07... placed 16th at the WCC Championship with a time of 23:33... finished third for the Lions at the Cal State Fullerton Invitational, the Aztec Invitational, and the Stanford Invitational... finished fourth for the Lions at the NCAA Regional, posting a time of 23:37... in track, posted a season-best 3000m time at the UCSB/Westmont Triangular (10:45.44), a season-best 1500m time at the Ben Brown Invitational (4:55.22), and a season-best 5000m time at the Occidental Distance Carnival (18:33.75)... 2005-06... a first-team All-WCC selection after finishing eighth at the WCC Championship (18:24)... posted time of 22:25 at the NCAA West Regional... in track, finished seventh in the 3000m at the Pomona Pitzer All-Comers meet (10:36.8)... 2004... led LMU at the WCC Championship with a time of 19:15, good for a top-15 finish overall... finished second among the Lions at the NCAA Regionals with a time of 23:25...
Perhaps Brittany's most impressive races have been right back at Oak Hill Park, where she has been a fixture at the front of the Alumni race. She has run the race three times, finishing as the 1st female in 2006, 2007 and 2009! Wow.
Josh Van Otterloo - Lewis & Clark College
Josh competed for Lewis & Clark College, running cross country. Not sure if Josh also did track up there.
Class of 2003:
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Class of 2002
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Class of 2001
Susan Chan - Graduate of Yale University.
Susan competed for Yale University in track and cross country. At the time, Yale's women's cross country team was nationally ranked. In 2003, Susan's 5th place finish at the ECAC Championship race helped Yale win first place:
http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/w-xc/recaps/112303aaa.html
Susan still holds the 1600 and 3200 track records here at Monte Vista. She lead the 2000 team to the XC State Meet, and was an individual qualifier in track and cross country (the only four time XC individual in school history).
Susan recently completed her first marathon, finishing 66th overall and 3rd in her age group in the Mystic Country Marathon (East Lyme CT.) Her time of 3:25.58 qualifed Susan for the Boston Marathon, which she plans to run in 2007.
Susan also came back to help the Alumni Girls defeat the current team in the 2007 Alumni race - she was the 2nd female finisher!
Kristin Schleicher: Kristin was also a member of the 2000 State Meet team. After high school, she attended Stanford University. While she didn't compete for Stanford, she did keep running and was present at several local races over the years. In 2006, Kristin completed the Boston Marathon, finishing in 3 hours and 34 minutes. Kristin is now a Graduate student in Chemistry at MIT. Maybe she'll run into Matt Beniosek sometime (2005 alumni - above).
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| Back in the day! Alumni Kristin Schleicher, Brittany Rezowalli and Susan Chan |