Sunday, April 19, 2015

Campolindo Girls at Mt. SAC Relays

On Friday, the Campolindo girls finished in 2nd place in the 4 x 1600m. relay behind Great Oak's new state record and #3 US all-time 19:53.81. The Campo girls final time of 20:07.23 was a new school record by 30 seconds and the 8th best time in state history. The splits were as follows: Toni Finnane 5:00.4, Mary Orders 5:05.4, Hana Sun 5:09.2 and Brighie Leach 4:51.9. 

On Saturday, they returned to compete in the Distance Medley Relay and finished 3rd behind 2 of the top programs in the state and country, Great Oak and Saugus. Their final time of 11:48.29 trailed Great Oak 11:46.92 and Saugus 11:48.18. The splits were as follows: Toni Finnane 3:40.6, Julie Hyatt 59.9, Mary Orders 2:19.0 and Brighie Leach 4:48.7. Photo below courtesy of Steve Leach with same order of relay from left to right.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job ladies! Congrats!

Anonymous said...

A few observations:

1. Chucks Army is running a lot of FAST meets back to back to back. Seems very opposite to his teachings at recent clinics.

2. So these girls never run under 10k pace in practice? A couple tempo intervals, a game day, a couple strength circuits and presto! I'm not buying it. Or Campo simply gets the most talented kids in NCS. Which is likely true.

So what's the truth over there?

Albert Caruana said...

I think the consistent, progressive training over four years is more likely the answer to why the Campolindo runners run fast.

It's been stated before but there is talent at every school. The key is getting that talent to come out for your sport and then doing a good job with that talent as a coach. I think Chuck's success over many years speaks for itself.

Anonymous said...

This is Chuck's best girls team, ever. They hit up the big meets, Stanford ( relays ) Arcadia ( individual events ) Mt. Sac ( relays )Broke school records, ran PR's . Perfect, now go back and train for post season. Great job Campo.

Anonymous said...

Great Job Ladies! Chuck- make sure no one gets hurt.

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