Matt 7:7-8 says, "Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keeping knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
This was the verse that I shared with the team on Saturday. God is really watching over and blessing us. He has put many open doors in front of us and will continue to do so. We should not take opportunities lightly and need to realize when it's open we need to run through it, literally. Saturday was one of those days and many of our kids took advantage of some of the best training we have had and some of the best rest we have had all year on a very nice overcast day. This was the type of day that we were looking forward to all year and it proved to be one to remember.
The girls started out their day where they are not all too familiar. The Sun-Sentinel is doing an article on our teams and wanted to take some pictures of the girls. What a great opportunity, but all the pre-meet star treatment seemed to do us in as we finished 2nd to Miami Country Day, AGAIN, when we should have been taking the Championship trophy instead of the runner-up one. A tough lesson to learn, but the time of year that we can use the lesson to make us better. The girls were led by Layna who fought through to finish 2nd overall in 21:45. Following her and finishing within 35 seconds of each other were Emily, Circe, Kara and Kayla. If you could sum up their performance in one word after a not so great start it would be perseverance. Emily was knocked down at the start, which would normally result in stopping the race and starting it again, but nobody saw her go down. She got back up and was still able to have a good day. Circe had a slow start but was able to get through also to have a good day. Kara was also able to run well despite having knee problems. What also stood out to me was even though time wise it was not what everyone expected they still went out there and competed. Emily, Circe and Kara all got ahead of girls from Miami Country Day. It just turned out to be a little too late for the Championship. Congratulations to Coach Hayes from MCD and his team! Other outstanding performances went to Ali Battista who knocked 1:20 off her previous Personal Best to run 25:55. Also congratulations goes to Jessica Madhukar who ran 3:21 better to finish with a Personal Best of 30:25.
I have to say that the boys really impressed me yesterday. I told them they all should run their season best times, or at least close to it and possible their personal best times. They also knew that we won this meet for the past two years. Although we could not make it 3 in a row, we did show that we are starting to show the effects of all our hard work and what can happen with a little rest even without all our runners. The great thing is that we have many more practices ahead of us. Overall the boys finished 8th in 1A, 3rd among teams in our District and 6th among teams in our Region. They were led by Christian Wackes who finished 10th overall in a Season Best time of 19:06, Teddy Hess, 22nd overall, also with a Season Best time of 20:28. Remmy Rickel also ran a Season Best time and improved his stride to run 22:05. Personal Best times were turned in by Thomas Carrie, 22:07; Timmy Moses who knocked off 51 seconds to run 22:10 and Ryan Sharpe with just about 1 month of training to run 24:28.
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the team. Every year we just keep getting better and better with this. I really look forward to seeing so many of you there every meet and almost take it for granted. It really makes a big difference for our kids and us coaches to see so many of you there.
This was the verse that I shared with the team on Saturday. God is really watching over and blessing us. He has put many open doors in front of us and will continue to do so. We should not take opportunities lightly and need to realize when it's open we need to run through it, literally. Saturday was one of those days and many of our kids took advantage of some of the best training we have had and some of the best rest we have had all year on a very nice overcast day. This was the type of day that we were looking forward to all year and it proved to be one to remember.
The girls started out their day where they are not all too familiar. The Sun-Sentinel is doing an article on our teams and wanted to take some pictures of the girls. What a great opportunity, but all the pre-meet star treatment seemed to do us in as we finished 2nd to Miami Country Day, AGAIN, when we should have been taking the Championship trophy instead of the runner-up one. A tough lesson to learn, but the time of year that we can use the lesson to make us better. The girls were led by Layna who fought through to finish 2nd overall in 21:45. Following her and finishing within 35 seconds of each other were Emily, Circe, Kara and Kayla. If you could sum up their performance in one word after a not so great start it would be perseverance. Emily was knocked down at the start, which would normally result in stopping the race and starting it again, but nobody saw her go down. She got back up and was still able to have a good day. Circe had a slow start but was able to get through also to have a good day. Kara was also able to run well despite having knee problems. What also stood out to me was even though time wise it was not what everyone expected they still went out there and competed. Emily, Circe and Kara all got ahead of girls from Miami Country Day. It just turned out to be a little too late for the Championship. Congratulations to Coach Hayes from MCD and his team! Other outstanding performances went to Ali Battista who knocked 1:20 off her previous Personal Best to run 25:55. Also congratulations goes to Jessica Madhukar who ran 3:21 better to finish with a Personal Best of 30:25.
I have to say that the boys really impressed me yesterday. I told them they all should run their season best times, or at least close to it and possible their personal best times. They also knew that we won this meet for the past two years. Although we could not make it 3 in a row, we did show that we are starting to show the effects of all our hard work and what can happen with a little rest even without all our runners. The great thing is that we have many more practices ahead of us. Overall the boys finished 8th in 1A, 3rd among teams in our District and 6th among teams in our Region. They were led by Christian Wackes who finished 10th overall in a Season Best time of 19:06, Teddy Hess, 22nd overall, also with a Season Best time of 20:28. Remmy Rickel also ran a Season Best time and improved his stride to run 22:05. Personal Best times were turned in by Thomas Carrie, 22:07; Timmy Moses who knocked off 51 seconds to run 22:10 and Ryan Sharpe with just about 1 month of training to run 24:28.
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the team. Every year we just keep getting better and better with this. I really look forward to seeing so many of you there every meet and almost take it for granted. It really makes a big difference for our kids and us coaches to see so many of you there.
