XC MOB Potluck Celebration

XC MOB 2009 Awards & Pizza Potluck
XC families, come and celebrate the end of a great season with food, Coach awards,
& special presentation by Izaac.

When: Wednesday November 18th
Where: Roosevelt Commons
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
What: Pizza provided, please bring a salad, desert or drinks to share
with the group.

Bi-District Meet in Kelso

The Roosevelt XC MOB sent two team members to the bi-district meet in Kelso, seniors Ivan Ivashenko and Matt Gross. Both put in a great effort at this race and all season. Ivan finished 17th and Matt 35 out of a field of 88 top runners. This ends the XC MOB season as only the top 15 move onto state.

KingCo Championship

Congratulations to Ivan and Matt for moving on as individuals to the district championships in Kelso next Saturday. Ivan Ivashenko placed 15 with a time of 16:16.65. Matthew Gross placed 27th with a time of 16:39.97. Unfortunately our varsity boys team did not qualify to move on. Many gains have been made at all levels in our team and the commitment and dedication of the athletes have inspired us all. Good luck to Ivan and Matt at the next level, we are sure you will do the XC MOB proud!

KingCo Championship Schedule

Here is the schedule for KingCo Championships Thursday Oct. 22nd at
Lake Sammamish state park:
Mens Races
5,000 Meters 3A/2A BOYS VARSITY 1:45 PM
5,000 Meters 4A BOYS VARSITY 2:45 PM (This is Roosevelt boys)
5,000 Meters BOYS "BLUE" JUNIOR VARSITY RACE 3:45 PM (This is Roosevelt boys)
5,000 Meters BOYS "RED" JUNIOR VARSITY RACE 4:15 PM

Womens Races
5,000 Meters COMBINED JUNIOR VARSITY GIRLS 1:00 PM
5,000 Meters 4A GIRLS VARSITY 2:15 PM
5,000 Meters 3A/2A GIRLS VARSITY 3:15 PM

City Meet Results show team progress

The city meet against Ballard and Garfield displayed that the team is coming into form and ready to peak for KingCo championships Thursday Oct. 22nd at Lake Sammamish. The XC MOB took second place, only 1 point behind Garfield. Strong effort and PR's by Ivan placing 3rd, Matt 4th and Daniel 5th. In addition, 11 other team members posted personal best times:
Freshman Regan, Camas, Galen,and Alex.
Sophmores Brett, Cooper, Kevin and Brendan.
Juniors Seth and Jeremy
Senior Richard

Hole in the Wall Results-Next week information

Great showing today by the XC Mob with many personal bests. The Varsity boys placed 4th out of 18 teams. Ivan Ivashenko had a personal best with a 16:47 time with Matt Gross right behind him. Boys JV team won 2nd place with Nick Murphy coming in 3rd out of 154 runners. Galen Caldwell came in 5th place in the Soph/Frosh category.
Only 1 regular meet left next Thursday at Lincoln Park against Ballard and Garfield starting at 4:00. Then onto KingCo championships, districts and the State meet.
Also, don't forget next Friday XC-Parent Chili feed to support & celebrate our team and meet the coaches!

Beaver Lake Results

It was a beautiful day in the Beaver Lake neighborhood and an excellent showing by the boys XC MOB. The Varsity placed 3rd against some of the most challenging teams in KingCo with Matt and Daniel in the top 10 and 9 team members running under 18 minutes. JV placed first with Galen and Sam coming in first and second. There are some great photos on the picasa link that show up as a link on the right side of the page. Take a look and see you all at the Saturday invitational "Hole-in-the-Wall" and please keep calling about the Chili feed next Friday night!

Time/schedule for Hole in the Wall

Here is the schedule for races at Hole in the Wall invitational this weekend:
Mens Races
1.8 Miles Middle School 9:20 AM
5,000 Meters Soph/Frosh 10:00 AM
5,000 Meters Junior Varsity 11:20 AM
5,000 Meters Varsity 1:00 PM

Womens Races
5,000 Meters Varsity 12:20 AM
1.8 Miles Middle School 9:00 AM
5,000 Meters Junior Varsity 10:40 AM

Beaver Lake, Hole in the Wall, Chili dinner

1. After a bye week, the XC MOB has a busy week with a Wednesday Oct 7th meet at Beaver Lake Park in Sammamish. The kids will ride the bus from school and below are directions for the parents:

Start address: Roosevelt High School 1410 NE 66th St Seattle, WA 98115-6744
End address: Beaver Lake Park Beaver Lake Park, Sammamish, Washington 98075

Start at: Roosevelt High School
1. Head south on 14th Ave NE toward NE 65th St - 233 ft
2. Take the 1st left onto NE 65th St - 0.6 mi
3. Turn right at 25th Ave NE - 1.2 mi
4. Slight right at Montlake Blvd NE/WA-513 - 1.0 mi
5. Merge onto WA-520 E via the ramp to Bellevue/Kirkland - 11.5 mi
6. Take the WA-202/Redmond Way exit - 0.6 mi
7. Turn right at Redmond Way/NE Redmond Fall City Rd/WA-202 Continue to
follow NE Redmond Fall City Rd/WA-202 - 2.4 mi
8. Turn right at Sahalee Way NE - 2.3 mi
9. Slight right at 228th Ave NE - 3.1 mi
10. Turn left at SE 24th St - 1.3 mi
Arrive at: Beaver Lake Park Beaver Lake Park, Sammamish, Washington 98075
98075

2. On Saturday Oct 10th the boys need to be at RHS by 7:15am to catch the bus to Hole-in-the-Wall Invitational in Lakewood. The directions for parents are listed below:

Start at: Roosevelt High School
1. Head east on NE 66th St toward 14th Ave NE - 322 ft
2. Turn left at 15th Ave NE - 0.2 mi
3. Take the 3rd left onto NE 70th St - 0.4 mi
4. Turn right to merge onto I-5 N - 35.2 mi
5. Take exit 206 for WA-531 - 0.3 mi
6. Turn left at 172nd St NE/WA-531 - 1.3 mi
7. Turn left at 11th Ave NE Destination will be on the left - 0.1 mi
Arrive at: 17023 11th Ave NE Arlington, WA 98223

3. A reminder that an informal XC parent chili dinner (no kids) is planned for
Friday Oct 16th at the Gross' home. Please RSVP your regrets or acceptance to
them asap at 525-6086 so they can plan for this event. This is a pay what you can
fundraiser as well. Several parent who can not attend have asked how
to participate. If you cannot come but you want to contribute, make out
your check to RHS Athletic Boosters, indicating on the
bottom of the check "Boys' Cross Country". You can mail it to
Rachel Gross, at 7028 - 17th Ave NE, Seattle 98115. We'll give the
booster treasurer all the checks at the same time. Any questions, let me know.
Thanks

Bellevue Invite success!

Last Saturdays Invitational at Lake Sammamish was a big success with many boys posting personal best times and significant improvement over last years times. Of note was Matt Gross coming in 20th overall in the 1-2 flight and first place for Roosevelt with a personal best of 16:39. Hart Horner also had a PR with 17:29 coming in 10th in the 5-6 flight, 3rd best time for the XC MOB. The team placed 8th out of 36 teams attending.
This week is a bye week with no meets. More info to come for next week and reminder to RSVP for the parent dinner!

XC Parent dinner-Meet the Coaches -Fundraiser

The XC team parents have planned a XC parent dinner on Friday Oct 16th at 6:30 @ the Gross's home (7028 17th ave NE). This is a chance to meet other parents and the coaches, ask questions and learn more about XC at RHS. A secondary goal is to raise funds for the teams depleted bank account without selling things or time consuming fundraisers with a pay what you can donation box. We hope to have a good turn out and look forward to meeting the people that support the kids that make up our fabulous XC team!
Please RSVP to Rachael Gross at rgross6086@gmail.com or 525-6086

Wednesday meet and Saturday Invite information

Here is a link for directions to Wednesday 9/23 meet for parents, there will be a bus for the kids: Races start at 4:00 at Big Finn Hill Park.
Roosevelt High School to Big Finn Hill Park - Google Maps

The Saturday 9/26 invitational will be held at Lake Sammamish State Park.
There will be no bus for this meet: Schedule of events are below. Kids must arrive at least 1 hours before their scheduled race.

Mens Races 5,000 Meters HIGH SCHOOL OPEN RACE 9:30 AM 5,000 Meters BOYS Junior Varsity 11:00 AM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS #7-8 11:30 AM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS # 5-6 12:00 PM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS # 3-4 12:30 PM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS # 1-2 1:30 PM

Womens Races 5,000 Meters HIGH SCHOOL OPEN RACE 9:30 AM 5,000 Meters GIRLS Junior Varsity 10:15 AM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS #7-8 11:30 AM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS # 5-6 12:00 PM 5,000 Meters VARSITY BOYS AND GIRLS # 3-4 12:30 PM 5,000 Meters VARSITY GIRLS # 1-2 1:00 PM

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Fort Steilacoom Invite results

Great showing at todays Fort Steilacoom Invitational! Boys Varsity place 10th out of 39 teams, JV1 placed 6th/26 teams, JV2 placed 2nd/22 teams. Every single team member that has run this course before had a personal best. Hart Horner, Nick Murphy and Andrew Eckles all breaking 18 minutes for the first time. Sam Hendren improved his time by almost 3 minutes. Daniel Swanson and Matt Gross came in 24th and 28th place out of 320 runners with times of 16:52 and 16:56. Great Job MOB!

Thank you to the XC parents

I would like to thank all of our parent volunteers. They were outstanding, and provided a lot of support to all team members of the mob.

Thanking you all again,
Coach collier/ Coach Lynch.
The X-C-Mob Cross Country Team

Fort Steilacoom Invitational information

Great Job this afternoon at Upper Woodland Park! Here is the information about times for races at Fort Steilacoom Invitational this weekend. Kids should meet at Roosevelt to catch the bus at 7:15 am sharp. It is in Lakewood south of Tacoma and is aprox an hour drive if no traffic and a large invitational with many teams so give yourself plenty of time to find it and park and then try and locate the Roosevelt team. It is a great course and fun spectator meet to watch. Good luck XC MOB! 9:00 Coaches meeting 9:20 Open Race 9:55 Youth Race (2 kilometers) 10:15 Boys JV "team" This race is limited to 5 junior varsity runners per team. 10:40 Girls JV "team" This race is limited to 5 junior varsity runners per team. 11:15 Boys Flight 1 (#'s 5, 6, 7, & 8) 11:20 Girls Flight 1 (#'s 5, 6, 7, & 8) 11:50 Boys Flight 2 (#'s 1, 2, 3, & 4) 11:55 Girls Flight 2 (# 1, 2, 3, & 4) 12:30 Boys Junior Varsity #2 race 1:05 Girls Junior Varsity Race Awards will follow the completion of the final Junior Varsity Race.

Preview result and looking ahead to next Wednesday!

Great showing at the first meet of the season. If you haven't already looked at results on Athletic.net you can use the link below to familiarize yourself with it.
Kingco 4A Preview - Cross Country Meet
Next weeks meet will be at upper woodland park, a challenging hilly course. There will be several meets taking place that day so you may find parking limited and the start time listed on Athletic.net is as follows:
"We will follow the KingCo format of JV Girls, Varsity Boys,Varsity Girls & JV Boys. Projected time schedule: 5:00pm, 5:45pm, 6:15 pm; 6:45 pm. If we can move up the time schedule, we will."
Also, for this meet the girls and boys team are asked to have 15 parent volunteers so if there are any parents available to help out on Wednesday please let us know!

Good Luck to the XC MOB! Change in next week meet location.

Tomorrow is the first meet of the season, the Kingco Preview meet at Lincoln Park. Races start at 4:00.
Next weeks meet on Wednesday Sept. 16th, the location has been changed and will now be held at Upper Woodland Park instead of Lincoln Park so please take note of this.
Good luck to both the girl and boys teams tomorrow at the Preview meet!

Practice schedule

Hi All.

Here is an update on the fall schedule:

• Monday Aug 24-28 9:00 am at Cowen Park .
• Saturday Aug. 29 practice will be at the Green Lake track at 9:30 am
• Monday Aug. 31-Sept 4th we will start the school schedule and meet at Cowen Park at 3:00 pm.
• Saturday Sept 5th meet at the Roosevelt Track at 9:00 am

Please be on time. Reminder, these are official practices and you need to have 10 practices before the first meet Thursday, Sept 10th, Kingco Preview Meet at Lincoln Park, or you will be ineligible to compete. Also paperwork must be completed before Aug 24th to practice.
This is our year to get it done and bring the trophy back on this side of water.
Coach
Collier & Lynch

No paperwork..No practice after August 24th!

Please get your paper work in. It is very important. At this time we have three runners who have turned in their paperwork. Thank you Reid Ray, Brett. August 24th is almost here.
Coach

August 24th is the start of the season, please make sure all paper work is completed fines taken care of and be ready to have a great season. Time for the 24th of August is yet to be determined. Please check the xc mob site weekly for practices times.
You can look on the Roosevelt web site to see a list of required forms:
http://www.rhsseattle.org/athletics.php#practice

Thanks
Coach

Summer Practice Schedule (7/6 - 7/17)

We will continue to meet @ the Lower Woodland track for the next 2 weeks (7/6 - 7/17). Practices will begin promptly @ 9:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The location of Saturday practices will change week to week, talk to Coach Collier at practice.

Summer workout June 29-July 4th

Monday, Wednesday and Friday practice meets at 9:00 @ lower Woodland track.

Saturday will be either at Queen Anne or Discovery Park. Time TBA.

Take me to your leaders!