SPL Championship Meet/ Lombard Commons 2013

Thank goodness the rain waited until the meet was over! Runners had hot and humid conditions to race in.  Coach Kelly's team email went out to all - it was amazing to see the final results and just how important every runner is to the team.  It was a fun season and I had so much fun trying to capture a brief moment of each runner's determination to cross that finish line.  I am only sorry that my camera did not choose to finish the season as well as the runners did, it quit right as the 8th grade boys race was about to begin. I will post additional photos once I receive a collection of them :)
Thanks to all that were also taking photos.
Check out our team plaque and banner when you are at the school!

SPL Championships 2013

DR/SPL Meet photos

Swim & Racquet Meet 2013

Perfect Cross Country weather today for our runners and a beautiful course with the start of the color fall color changes! Watch for Coach Kelly's email update on our results.  Looking forward to seeing anyone that is able to make an extra practice at the Lombard Commons tomorrow.
Enjoy today's photos!

DG Swim & Racquet Club 2013

Marmion Academy Meet

Half way through our season!  Two more meets to go. What a fantastic day for running.  Coach Kelly will send out an email to all on just how well our runners.  Enjoy the photos, I'm sorry I missed the first three races today. I can always add photos to the blog if anyone has any to send to me :)
Eileen
Looking forward to next weekend..............

Marmion Meet 2013

Marmion/Betsi

What a great day for a cross country meet!!!  Thanks to all the families that came out to cheer us on. Coach Kelly will have an overview soon of the day.  Overall - everyone had improvement from last week's race - GREAT JOB :)

LT Meet 9.14.13

Montini Photos

Here are a few photos captured by Betsi yesterday:  Photos for the blog can be sent to Eileen after any meet.   Click on photo to bring you to the album.

Montini Invite 2013/ B. Kelly

PreSeason Fun and Sucess!

The SJS Cross Country team has grown and we are having fun!  The summer weeks few by too fast and we are getting ready for an exciting year.  Our runners are improving weekly by gaining endurance and speed.  The Montini Invite pre season practice meet was a great way to introduce everyone to the excitement of a meet.    Bring your cameras, chairs and gym shoes to the upcoming meets to cheer our team on!    I am looking forward to getting some great photos this year - please email me any photos you wish to put on the blog.

Attached is a note from Coach Kelly to the team after yesterday's meet:

Congratulations to all of our kids for their great distance running yesterday.  We have 46 kids on the team and 25 of them ran in their first cross country race for St. Joe's.  That means they got on the starting line, did that crazy sprint at the start, ran 1 to 1.5 miles, and then sprinted at the end if they had any energy left.  Beautiful.  Love it.  In baseball, it's can you hit?  In football, it's can you pass?  In basketball, it's can you shoot?  And in cross country, it's can you run a mile?  Can you run two?  All of them did, and ran their very best.

More great efforts and excitement to come on Saturday. 

Tom Kelly
Jeff Gentile
Judy Flavin
Maggie Sluzas

A few more photos from our Championship Meet

Congratulations on a wonderful season to all the athletes for working toward a personal goal and having fun while doing so.  It is rewarding to catch a moment of determination or joy on any of the runner's faces as they run by. Running may not be glamorous, however, some truly beautiful photos of each athlete's accomplishments were captured - some of our runners even attempted to smile at me while pounding by my photo spot in each race. Amazing!  We hope you are able to recapture some of your favorite moments or view something you may have missed at a meet in our photo galleries.
I am already looking forward to chasing after the runners with my camera next season!!!!
ps... Kelli covered my spot since I couldn't attend the SPL Champ Meet.......  Thanks, Kelli :)

SPL Championship Meet 2012 Lombard

9-29-2012 SPL Championship Meet at Lombard Commons

The St. Joe’s Boys won 3rd place in the SPL Cross Country Championship, Division A, for the second year in a row.

It was an awesome day for the Championship Meet. Our athletes invested time and energy into every practice so they could hit their goals.

Congratulations to all of the student athletes for a very successful season.

Every day is a good day when you run!

9-29-2012 SPL Championship Meet at Lombard Commons

Saturday, September 22nd 2012 at Downers Grove Swim and Racquet Club

Fourth meet with a chilly start to the morning with all of our athletes warming up for excellent race times. It turned out to be a great day for cross country running!

9-22-2012 Downers Groeve Swim and Racquet Club - 4th Meet

Patriot Park Meet

Everyone thought we would be racing raindrops at this meet but thankfully the rain raced out before the runners did!
Click on the photo below to see more action.......  This course had a change of scenery at every turn:
Grass, blacktop, dashing through trees and prairie around the tennis courts to the finish line.

Lyons Township Meet Sept.8th 2012

What perfect weather!   A good running day at LT.

2012 LT- CC Meet

 Here is a note from Coach Tom:
Our athletes ran very well and almost all of them improved in the second race, many by 30 to 60 seconds.  Wow!   

Remember that in Cross Country, the major motivations are improvement and personal records (PRs!).  Those are what we are teaching your children so that they can enjoy the satisfaction of improvement in practices and races.  If they have a bad day in practice or at a race, we want them to shake it off and forget about it.  There are plenty more practices and races to look forward to.

Looking forward to this weekend's meet!

First Meet for SJS - 9-1-2012 - Summerlakes

Team picture and many of the athletes in the early races. Great job to everyone for crossing the finish line.

9-1-2012