Cedarcrest Cross Country The 2003 season

The Dirty Dozen

Head Coach Bruce “I may be old, but I can still run relatively fast” McDowell

Ass’t Coach Lisa “I may be old, but at least I don’t look it” Woodard

Thanks for 2003 Support from parents, staff & friends. “XC Friends of the Program” Parent help for home meets & Kingco’s. Picture taking from John Hellman. Peri Kersten & Betty Chappell for their driving. Kim, Patrick and Riley.

Goals for 2003 from the end of 2002 season Boys qualify for districts. Girls have a complete team. 18 boys & 6 girls. McDowell gets a trip to Pasco.

Season In Review 9 Boys & 3 Girls Boys 3-6 & Girls in Kingco meets. Boys 9 th at Kingco Championships. Successful Riverview Elementary Invite. Creation of a new home course.

Brittney “I rarely go anywhere without Alisha” Canady

Brittney Canady First year runner as a freshman. Earned a J.V. award. Best race – Newport / Liberty Thoughts for 2004 – Stay healthy for the whole season. Strive to earn a varsity letter.

Alisha “I rarely go anywhere without Brittney” Farmer

Alisha Farmer First year runner as a freshman. Earned a J.V. award. Best race – Newport / Liberty Thoughts for 2004 – Stay healthy for the whole season. Strive to earn a varsity letter.

Clifford “I am going to strive to be better than my brother” Hellman

Clifford Hellman First year runner as a freshman. Earned a J.V. award. Best races – Mercer Island / Mount Si & SeaKing Open. Thoughts for 2004 – Continue to improve. Work on being a “player” with other teams varsity runners. Strive to earn a varsity letter.

Tom “I wish I would have trained during the summer” Bunker

Tom Bunker First year runner as a freshman. Earned a J.V. award. Best races – Mercer Island / Mount Si & SeaKing Open. Thoughts for 2004 – Continue to improve. Work on being a “player” with other teams varsity runners. Strive to earn a varsity letter.

Jacob “ I finished in front of 8 of the 9 other teams last finisher” Gremmert

Jacob Gremmert Second year runner as a sophomore. Earned a JV award. Best races – Mercer Island / Mount Si & Kingco Champs. Thoughts for 2004 – Continue to work on getting stronger and faster.

Ibrahim “If you think that running cross country is tough, try getting cancer” Sial

Ibrahim Sial Third year runner as a junior. Earned a JV award. Best races – Mercer Island / Mount Si & SeaKing Open. Thoughts for Continue to work on getting stronger and faster.

Pat “ Instead of hanging out with Tom during the summer, I should have been running” Bunker

Pat Bunker First year runner as a junior. Earned a JV award. Best races – Kingco Champs. & SeaKing Open. Thoughts for Continue to improve. Work on being a “player” with other teams varsity runners. Strive to earn a varsity letter.

Cody “ I am going to be a very good runner” Chappell

Cody Chappell Second year runner as a sophomore. Earned his second Varsity letter. All-time lists – Tied 5 th – Camp, 9 th – Sunfair, 10 th – Kingco. Best races – Mercer Island / Mount Si & SeaKing Open. Thoughts for 2004 – Be one of the top runners in the league.

2002 XC Season First person to regret not running as a freshman.

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Colin “ I wish my presidency had Secret Service escorts ” McDonell

Colin McDonell Third year running as a senior. Earned his second Varsity letter. All – time list: 10 th – Lake Stevens Best races – Newport / Liberty & Bellevue Invite

2000 XC Season Beautiful, Magnificent Hair

2001 XC Season Librarian

2002 XC season First to keep us waiting to go running while she and Alicia are inside the school.

Brooke “ I long for the good ol’ days when we had a complete girls team” Hellman

Brooke Hellman Fourth year runner as a junior. Earned her fourth Varsity letter. Top 10 lists – 3 rd Time Trial, 3 rd Sunfair, 3 rd Camp Test, 6 th Lake Stevens, 6 th Kingco Best races – Kingco Champs. & SeaKing Open.

2000 XC Season Moving Always Kwicker

2001 XC Season The Laugher

2002 XC Season First to laugh at something forever even if it wasn’t funny in the least bit.

Matt “ I may not be tall, but you should have seen me four years ago ” Kersten

Matt Kersten Fourth year runner as a senior. Earned his fourth Varsity letter. Top 10 Lists – 9 th Lake Stevens, 9 th Time Trial. Best Races – Interlake & Mercer Island / Mount Si

2000 XC Season Just Look!!!

2001 XC Season The FBI Agent

2002 XC Season First person to race in rock climbing shoes.

Junwen “ I really wished that Law’s Law would have worked.” Law

Junwen Law Fourth year running as a junior. Earned his fourth Varsity letter. SeaKing District Qualifier Top 10 Lists – 1 st New Home, 7 th Kingco, 7 th Sunfair, 6 th Lake Stevens, 10 th Camp, 10 th Time Trial. Best races – Newport / Liberty & SeaKing Open.

Top 10 things to look for in 2004 XC season #10: More runners at White Pass / Clear Lake XC camp. #9: A complete girls team. #8: A boys team of a dozen runners. #7: Another overnight trip to Yakima for Sunfair Invite. #6: No excuses about not running during the summer.

Top 10 things to look for in 2004 XC season #5: New Cascade Conference #4: New courses for league meets. #3: New Saturday invites ?? #2: New championship races – Cascade & Northwest District #1: Another outstanding Powerpoint presention at the banquet.

Bring on 2004 T&F! Winter training – December 1 st Spring practices – March 1 st / 116 days

Bring on 2004 XC! Summer training – June 14 th Fall practices – August 23 rd