Cross Country Express

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Update for SJS Meet this Saturday

The following was posted on the SJS website.

CROSS COUNTRY: We are hoping to have the Section cross country championships on SATURDAY, Nov. 17 at the Willow Hill course in Folsom. The air quality is forecast to be within decent ranges that morning, and we will have varsity-only races with combined divisions beginning at 9 a.m. The schedule is as follows:
         9 a.m.: D1/2 boys
         9:35 a.m.: D1/2 girls
         10 a.m.: D3/4/5 boys
         10:35 a.m.: D3/4/5 girls

If the AQI climbs above 150 (unhealthy range) before any races are run, we will not hold the races, instead using the times from our sub-section meet for teams to qualify for the state championships. If the AQI climbs above 150 during the races, all subsequent races will be called off and we will use sub-section times to qualify for the state championships.

All AQI forecasts for this weekend remain well into the red (unhealthy) and even into the purple (extremely unhealthy) ranges. This decision was made with the health of our student-athletes in mind. We understand this may cause some inconveniences and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of the region impacted far more severely by the Camp Fire.

Paradise senior Gabe Price runs his way to state cross-country meet on empty course

https://www.chicoer.com/2018/11/13/paradise-senior-gabe-price-runs-his-way-to-state-cross-country-meet-on-empty-course/

Latest update from Central Coast Section office regarding CCS meet

Cross Country: at Crystal Spring Course in Belmont has had undulating AQI numbers since Friday-mostly on the unhealthy side. So if by Friday morning the numbers do not indicate there will be a potential to be in the healthier range at Belmont for Saturday, we will move the meet to Toro Park in Salinas. The unfortunate part is that Toro Park is not available for a Saturday meet. So we may be moving the meet to Sunday at Toro Park. We will make that decision on Friday morning and let you know ASAP.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Santa Cruz coach, Greg Brock

The following was posted on the Stanford XC/TF Instagram account. One of the gentlemen posted is current Santa Cruz coach, Greg Brock (upper right with glasses). You can also check out my interview with Greg that I did with him in 2010 at this LINK.

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50 years ago, Stanford XC raced at NCAA's for the first time and got 2nd. A salute to Marshall Clark's boys: Brook Thomas, Greg Brock, Allen Sanford, Don Kardong, Chuck Menz, and Bob Anchondo!

A post shared by StanfordXCTF (@stanfordxctf) on Nov 13, 2018 at 10:56am PST

NBL (NCS) meet has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled

https://redwoodempirerunning.com/nbl-finals-cancelled-ncs-entries/

I believe all NCS league championship meets have all been contested now. Final NCS rankings before the meet this Saturday (hopefully) will be posted in the next couple of days. Feel free to post your predictions for the NCS meet in the comment section below.

Friday, November 09, 2018

CCS and SJS Meets have both been rescheduled

Live Results for CCS: http://www.rtspt.com/events/cif/2018Meets/ccsxc/
Live Results for SJS: https://timerhub.com/get_web_index.php?page=redcaptiming.com/2018/sjsxc/

Update #4 from CCS (per meet director Bill Daskarolis)
"…due to continued poor air quality the CCS X-C Meet will be postponed to Sat, Nov 17th at Crystal Springs with the same time/race schedule..."

Update #3 for SJS
The meet has been rescheduled to the 17th of November.

Update #2 from meet director Bill Daskarolis:
tomorrow’s meet has been rescheduled for Monday, Nov 12th, with same time/race schedule, due to air quality conditions…if the poor air quality persists, the meet will be rescheduled for Sat, Nov 17th…any change will be made on Sunday, Nov 11th by 1pm…thanks…Bill

Update #1 from the CCS office.
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CCS Member Schools

Unfortunately, we are back in the same situation of smoke from fires impacting our upcoming games. Our hearts go out to the families impacted by these fires up North and we wish them the best.

The CCS has no specific air quality guidelines to determine if a game will be played or not. We do monitor air quality through airnow.com which has current updates.

Let me be specific on how to handle situations moving forward regarding responsibility on whether a game should be played or not:

3. As far as cross country, water polo, tennis and field hockey this would be determined on a site by site decision by the CCS persons at the venues. We again would be monitoring our sites and if we have to make the decision early to reschedule we will get in touch with everyone impacted by that decision.

4. In the case of cross country, water polo, tennis and field hockey, we have options for a Monday meet-since it is a day off or a next Saturday meet. We will have to check with venues and site specific personnel on their availability.

We will keep communicating throughout the day on updates.

Duane Morgan
CCS Commissioner