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Live a Story...Leave a Legacy: The opening chapters...

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Live a Story...Leave a Legacy: The opening chapters... It would seem the appropriate time for me to finally get some thoughts out on the blog. Having been through team camp, August and now a couple of meets our seasons story lines have become far clearer than they were when I last sat down and attempted to write. I've always been into the stories that our Cross Country seasons create for both the program (plot driven) and for the individual student athletes that drive it (character driven). It often makes for the perfect storm of the characters (you all) reacting to events of the season and changing along the way. Usually a good recipe for interesting stories.  It is in "story" that we sometimes find answers to our own deep questions in life and develop meaning from our past and purpose for our future. Over the years I have seen many student athletes live out incredibly meaningful team and individual stories within the sport of distance running over a year or

Process, Outcomes, State Info, Banquet Info

The dust...rather...the snow finally settled and melted on the regular season last night. As a few of our athletes made one last effort to gain State Championship Qualifying marks, one of the highlights of the season happened off the track and field and in the stands. Matt Heitmann, Carisa Wilkerson long finished competing for the day and the essentially the year...stayed to watch their teammates and hang with the coaches while we watched Chloe Piegat, Izzy Camann and Sophie Berry compete. Tremendous student-athletes, the not so simple effort of taking the time for others was a particularly great leadership note to end the season on.   The Process and Choices.  I was reminded last night how vitally important to our success as a program, is the focus we put on the process and the choices we make. Over and over again this year when we struggled in our program it was the focus on the process that had been lost or choices were made that hindered both our process and performance. C

Colorado Festival of JV Miles INFO

Location: Heritage High School  Time: be there to warm up by 4:45pm...First race at 5:30.  5:30pm Girls Heat 1  5:40pm Girls Heat 2 5:50pm Boys Heat 1  6:00pm Boys heat 2 6:10pm Boys heat 3 6:20pm Boys heat 4 6:30pm Boys heat 5  Who is racing:  See below And see here what heat you are in: START LISTS Meet: Colorado Festival of JV Miles Team: Dakota Ridge High School You are entered in this meet. Your entries are below as of 05/06/2019 08:50:54 AM EST. You may update them up until . Girls HS HS Girls 1600 Meter Run: 8 Entries Kenna Anderson 6:51.51 Gracie Gish 6:49.49 Elly Hitzges 7:15.89 Hannah Kurtz 6:44.98 Dana Lunsford 6:34.98 Nadia Plechaty 7:17.54 Kylee Sellers 6:09.34 Ella Veer 7:08.46 Boys HS HS Boys 1600 Meter Run: 16 Entries Trevor Akiyama 5:52.02 Levi Baxter 5:29.23 Liam Harding 5:44.90 Ezekiel Kuntz 5:05.51 Aaron LeBlanc 6:01.45 Zachary Liles 5:28.89 Dugan Litchkowski 5:07.31 George Najera 5:57.89 Blake Ohlson 4:55.71 Jon

LEAGUE RELAYS ENTRIES

Meet: 5A Jeffco League Relays Qualifier Meet Starts at 2:00pm Student athletes out at 12:45pm Bus leaves at 1:00pm  Schedule for the mee t CLICK HERE Team: Dakota Ridge High School Girls High School HS Girls 100 Meter Dash: 2 Entries Lilly Capolungo 15.39 Josie Corridori HS Girls 200 Meter Dash: 2 Entries Nataie Park 31.26 Emily Straut HS Girls 400 Meter Dash: 0 Entries HS Girls 800 Meter Run: 2 Entries Gracie Gish 3:22.24 Elly Hitzges 3:05.39 HS Girls 1600 Meter Run: 4 Entries Ainsley Hecox 5:59.60 Lucy Pidek 5:39.38 Zoe Plechaty 5:55.12 Abby Vagher 5:55.10 HS Girls 3200 Meter Run: 2 Entries Hannah Kurtz 14:02.26 Kylee Sellers 13:44.04 HS Girls 100 Meter Hurdles: 0 Entries HS Girls 300 Meter Hurdles: 0 Entries HS Girls 4x100 Shuttle Hurdle Relay: 1 Entry Carisa Wilkerson Emerson Somers Emma Norton Allie Peterson HS Girls 4x100 Meter Relay: 1 Entry Chloe Piegat Carisa Wilkerson Olivia Dampier Sydney Hoffman HS Girls 4x200 Meter Relay: 1 Entry Aly

The Week Ahead....April 15-20th, 2019

The Week Ahead....April 15-20th, 2019 PROCESS!! PROCESS! PROCESS!! We have the biggest weeks of the season ahead and you should all be ready to drop some big performances for yourselves when you get the opportunity this week and beyond.  Remember to engage fully in the process, showing up, doing the work, doing it well and doing it wise. In the competition you should be making sure you have the right mindset, do the right warmup and then compete to the best of your current ability.  Monday:  JV THROWERS if you can get up to Jeffco stadium I will meet you there at 3:45pm and you can make some throws in competition! See you there.  All others...normal Monday....practice from 3:15pm-4:30pm followed by Monday meeting.  Tuesday: @ Dakota Ridge...pre meet day...following practice there is a team fundraiser dinner at Garlic Knot at Chatfield and Kipling...$10 all you can eat pizza and knots from 5-7pm.  Wednesday: LEAGUE RELAYS!! 2:00pm at Jeffco Stadium. Those competing are rel

Fairview Entries and INFO For Friday

Fairview Entries and INFO For Friday Directions to Fairview Click Here As of now the meet is a go. You need to plan for the meet if you are in the meet. We will keep you updated.  I made some changes tonight for the distance side of things as I took out a few guys in lieu of resting you up for league relays and Dakota Ridge Invite.  If you are not in the meet you need to stay in school and perform the workout the coaches give you to accomplish on Friday afternoon.  Here are the entries for Friday....there is a bus to the meet and you will be excused for those of you in the meet.  Meet: Fairview Invitational Team: Dakota Ridge High School You are entered in this meet. Your entries are below as of 04/09/2019 11:34:03 PM EST. You may update them up until . Girls High School HS Girls 100 Meter Dash: 3 Entries Olivia Dampier 13.37 Jadyn Lewis 14.82 Emily Straut 14.46 HS Girls 200 Meter Dash: 3 Entries Olivia Dampier 28.07 Jadyn Lewis 31.61 Emily Straut HS Girls 4

The week ahead April 8-13th

The week ahead April 8-13th  Monday: Practice as normal, and our Monday Meeting at 4:15pm  Tuesday: Freshman Championships...entries as of Sunday night are below.  All others practice is as normal, Heritage High School 4:45pm  Wednesday: Normal practice @ Dakota Ridge  Thursday: Normal practice @ Dakota Ridge  Friday: Fairview Invite...entries posted in a couple days.  Saturday: Practice for everyone to be determined.  FRESHMAN MEET ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY: Team: Dakota Ridge High School You are entered in this meet. Your entries are below as of 04/07/2019 11:38:43 PM EST. You may update them up until . Girls HS HS Girls 100 Meter Dash: 4 Entries Lilly Capolungo 15.39 Josie Corridori Tvisha Londhe 14.90 Nataie Park 15.12 HS Girls 200 Meter Dash: 2 Entries Josie Corridori 33.13 Nataie Park 31.26 HS Girls 400 Meter Dash: 1 Entry Wakinyela Bear 1:07.48 HS Girls 800 Meter Run: 2 Entries Kenna Anderson 3:00.00 Lauren Dynda 2:35.67 HS Girls 1600 Meter Run: 2 Entrie