Cross Country Awards Ceremony

An awards ceremony has been scheduled for next Thursday, November 2 in the cafeteria from 6 to 7 p.m. All participants and their families are invited to attend.

Cross Country Optionals

Optionals for Cross Country runners will begin next Monday, October 30. Optional schedules are available in room 145 for any interested runners.

State Pictures

IESA State Meet

WOW! What a weekend. Congratulations to all who traveled with us this weekend. Way to represent Edwardsville!

The Girls team finished 13th and Boys finished in 12th place.

Adding Names to the Record Books

Alex Wever became only the second Edwardsville middle school girl to earn All-State honors with her 23rd place finish with a time of 12:36. This is the second fastest time by any Edwardsville girls runner at the state meet. Garrett Sweatt followed up Alex Wever's performance to became only the second Edwardsville middle school boy to earn All-State honors with his 8th place finish with a time of 11:01. This is fastest time all time for any middle school boy competing at State and the best position (boys and girls) all time as well. You two are in rare company.

Congratulations to the Liberty Girls team on their 9th place finish. The highest team finish for any Edwardsville middle school cross country team.

Many runners ran quality races. Brendan Colligan and Briana Chamberlain were just outside of All-State honors. To see the results, go to www.iesa.org.



Thanks to all of the runners on a wonderful season. I am proud of all of you.

Change in Hotel Reservations

Sorry for the late notice, but we had to change hotels. I know that this is an inconvenience to those of you who had reserved a room at the Signature Inn. We are sorry that we had to make the change. The change was necessary. We now have rooms reserved at the Super 8 in Bloomington. Here is the address to the Super 8:

818 IAA Drive
Bloomington, Illinois 61701
(309) 663-2388




Once again we are sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused.

Sectional Pictures

If you have any others, I will be glad to post them on the website.

State Information

State Preparation

What you need to know for Friday
We will leave on Friday at approximately noon. We will workout before school (7:00- 8:00). Come to school ready to run. If you would like to change after the workout we can get you into a locker room. This will not be a heavy workout (starts and strides), you may not even sweat. We will run in the grass so you might want to bring an extra pair of shoes and socks.

What to bring?
- Clothes (1 workout change of clothes.) Friday we will go to the mall after we walk the course. Pajamas. Saturday warm-ups and uniform.
- Money enough for probably 3 meals (State t-shirts?, snacks and drinks)
- No Swim Suits
- Personal Hygiene Accessories (extra contacts, glasses, solution, toothbrush, deodorant, etc.)
- Running Shoes / Race shoes
- i-Pod, Playing Cards, etc.
- Snacks and drinks

Bring your items to school with you on Friday.
Bring these items to me and I will store them for you.
It should be cold on Saturday, so you will want to bring cold weather gear!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our uniforms must match. If you don’t have our white spandex say something to one of your coaches immediately and we will get you your pair.

State Meet Schedule
When: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005
Where: Maxwell Park., Normal, IL
Host School: Parkside Junior High School
Race Schedule:
• Class A Girls at 10:00 a.m. on Maxwell Park Course
• Class A Boys at 10:45 a.m. on Maxwell Park Course
• Class AA Girls at11:45 a.m. on Maxwell Park Course
• Class AA Boys at 12:30 p.m. on Maxwell Park Course
Awards Ceremony:
• Class A Girls at 1:00 p.m. in the Parkside Junior High School Gymnasium
• Class A Boys at 1:00 p.m. in the Parkside Junior High School Gymnasium
• Class AA Girls at 2:30 p.m. in the Parkside Junior High School Gymnasium
• Class AA Boys at 2:30 p.m. in the Parkside Junior High School Gymnasium.



State Itinerary
Friday, October 13th

-Practice at school 7:00-8:00 a.m. at school.
-We will be dismissed at noon from school, meet in the lobby to jump on the bus.
-We will go straight to the course at Normal Parkside Junior High to walk the course.
-To Avanti’s to eat
-Check in to Hotel/clean up
- Go to mall for 2 hours
- Go to eat dinner/ order pizza
-Should be back at the hotel by no later than 8:00 p.m.
-Be in rooms for good by 9:45
-Lights out at 10:00


Saturday, October 14th
-Wake up at 7:30
-Eat breakfast by 8:30
-Leave hotel and checkout by 9:00
-Arrive at PJHS
-Get shirts watch races/focus on our races

Directions to Parkside Junior High School

Start at 145 WEST ST, EDWARDSVILLE - go 0.1 mi
Turn Right on ST LOUIS ST - go 0.3 mi

Continue on VANDALIA ST - go 0.6 mi
Turn Left on ST ANDREWS AVE - go 0.2 mi
Continue on HILLSBORO RD - go 0.4 mi
HILLSBORO RD becomes IL-157 - go 7.4 mi
Turn Right on E STATE ST - go 0.4 mi
Turn Left to take I-55 NORTH - go 129.7 mi
Take exit #160A towards US-150 EAST/IL-9 EAST/MARKET STREET - go 0.3 mi
Turn Right on W MARKET ST - go 0.8 mi
Turn Left on N HINSHAW AVE - go 0.1 mi
Turn Left on W LOCUST ST - go 0.2 mi
Turn Right on WHITE OAK RD - go 1.4 mi
Turn Right on W HOVEY AVE - go 0.3 mi
Turn Left on PARKSIDE RD - go 0.6 mi

N PARKSIDE RD, NORMAL, IL

Thanks to all the volunteers

I would like to send a big thank you out to all of the volunteers who helped work our sectional this past Saturday.

Sectional Results

Congratulations to all who participated this past Saturday. Both boys and girls teams qualified to run in the IESA State Meet this Saturday in Normal. The girls team finished in second place and the boys wound up in third in the 13 team event.

Girls Results
1st Place Alex Wever 12:37 Way to go champ!
2nd Place Briana Chamberlain 12:42 Closing ground on top runners!
16th Place Courtney Lybarger 13:39 Best race since Franklin Invite
20th Place Katie Speicher 13:46 She keeps working her time down. Her best race will be this weekend!
23th Place Nicola Muscroft 13:49 Consistent with quality races!
26th Place Charlotte Muscroft 14:01 Looks like she is getting stronger!
29th Place Taylor Marshall 14:30 Could race in the 13 minute range this Saturday!


Way to go ladies! Let's get our best race of the year in this coming weekend.


Boys Results

4th Place Garrett Sweatt 11:19 4 seconds off of the pace of a returning Class A All-Stater!
5th Place Brendan Colligan 11:19 Both of our top 2 are 13 seconds lower than the state time Devon put in 2 years ago!
16th Place Casey Thebeau 11:58 Impressive sub 12:00 on our Sectional course!
32nd Place Ryan Dunn 12:38 Closing in on big brother's time.
49th Place Max Byers 13:08 Keeps getting better every time out!
50th Place Frank Gremaud 13:08 Courageous effort this weekend!
51st Place Tony Miner 13:13 Getting his distance legs underneath him!


1st Edwardsville Lincoln Boys Team to qualify for state! Congratulations guys this is a special feat.

Highland Invitational

Directions

Follow 143 east into Highland.
Take a left on to Troxler Avenue.
The school should be on Troxler Avenue.

Sectional Help Needed

For Parents

Sectionals

There is a need for parent volunteers during the Sectional races. If anyone can help, please contact Matt Rogers at 656-0485 ext. 21145 or by emailing mrogers@ecusd7.org. We will need help in the following areas: concessions, parking and other course and race related specific jobs. You will not have to have prior experience or knowledge to do these jobs. If you have a student running in a race and don’t want to miss their race we can switch you out with a parent that has a child running in another race. Any help given would be greatly appreciated.

Results from Jacksonville

Girls Results

8th Grade
2nd Place Alex Wever 12:15
3rd Place Briana Chamberlain 12:39
15th Courtney Lybarger 13:09
17th Katie Speicher 13:25
21st Taylor Marshall 13:34
25th Anne Pizzini 13:46
35th Emilee Durer 14:43
38th Molly Woodson 14:56
39th Cynthia Chen 14:59


6th/7th Grade Girls
15th Hannah Birdsong 13:30
34th Kristine Fedorenko 14:27
38th Kaleigh Carpenter 14:34
42nd Jessica Woodson 14:44
43rd Paige Sturley 14:45
92nd Alyana Watson 17:56




Boys Results

8th Grade Boys
5th Place Garrett Sweatt 10:53
6th Place Brendan Colligan 10:54
11th Casey Thebeau 11:39
23rd Ryan Dunn 12:10
43rd Scott Nuenaber 12:59
50th Zach Lilley 13:09
62nd Varun Sankurati 13:54
85th Blake Marth 15:52



6th/7th Grade Boys
17th Max Byers 12:18
18th Tony Miner 12:19
23rd Chad Maxwell 12:27
31st Andrew Patterson 12:40
55th Frank Gremaud 13:40
58th Ted Hummel 13:43
78th Drew Blaske 14:13
81st Zach Bertels 14:26
82nd Danny Gregor 14:27
90th Zeb Baird 14:42
92nd Marquis Williams 14:44
98th Alex Gibson 14:57
99th Nick Wheelhon 15:12
102nd Logan Sahuri 15:15
119th Jim Dodds 16:43
121st Ben Cown 17:03