Elmwood Park High School

Tiger Invitational

What a day!  

Everyone got their PR today.  That's pretty amazing!  It was a beautiful day for a race as well - no complaints there, especially after last week's rain.

Due to a missing battery, I missed the first race while standing in line at Best Buy, but Mrs. Viise stepped in and got pictures of the Varsity boys for me in my absence.  And alumnus, Ale, helped out with pictures toward the end of the competition as I had to be away for a previous commitment.
As you know, I had to fill in with substitute pictures until I got the ones I missed, but I'll keep those in here and just add in the the latest additions.

(Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental)

                                          VARSITY BOYS WERE UP FIRST TODAY:

First to cross the line for the Broncos today was...
                                                        

aka Jack Simzyk.

 

 

Jack earned a 19th place ribbon, finishing with a time of 16:45 - Super amazing!!!!

Way to go, Road Runner Jack!

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Next for the Broncos, in 32nd place overall, with a time of 17:14.7 was...

                                                    

Speedy Gonzales (aka Julio Padillo)

Julio was actually 2 minutes faster than last week's 5K...that's a lot of time to cut.  Fantastico!

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Our 3rd runner for today was...

                                                            

Jaylin Williams...

 ...finishing in 35th place, with a time of 17:14.9 (note that this was only 0.2 seconds slower than Julio!)

There weren't many pictures of Jaylin in the race (Jaylin, you need to learn to position yourself better for the photographer while running...LOL), so you all get to enjoy this one of him with my grandson!!!

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Another pleasant surprise of the day was...

Darryl!

 Don't let his size fool you! Darryl cut his time down to 17:56, first time ever being sub-18.
Way to go!

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Fifth for our team was...

Nate Nunez...

 also reaching an all-time best of 18:18.  Impressive!!!

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Not far behind was...

Gus...

...who finished in 18:24.  These guys are really closing the gap!!!

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Next was Jose...

Welcome back, Jose!

This was Jose's first race of the season...not bad at all, finishing in 18:41.  The rumor I heard on the street was that he had to be carried off the finish line though...I hope this doesn't mean you're back on the injured list, Jose!

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Next to cross the line for the Broncos was...

Aaron...

 ...who finished with a time of 19:26...impressive!!!

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Finally rounding out the team was...

Isaiah...

 ...who crossed the finish line in 19:55, also his PR for this season so far.

WAY TO GO, GUYS!!!

 Next up, the Girls (all two of them!)

Claudia continues with her consistent streak of improving with every race.  Her time today was 24:39...first time under 25 this year!  Woohoo!

Welcome back, Addy!  Addy also cut her time down a bunch, finishing in 26:23 today.

Finally, the JV boys:

Quang was first to finish for the Broncos this morning.  His time was a PR of 19:43.  Wonderful!

Xavier trimmed his time down to 20:07.  Wow!!!

Raffaele finished in 20:48...what an improvement!

Luke's time was 21:51...another fantastic time!

Trevon finished in 23:02...several minutes faster than usual...stupendous!!!

And see you next week AGAIN at Elmwood Park for conference!!!