The Grinder

The boys ran their first post-State Grinder workout today. Talon Garrick (8:54) and Parker Barnes (8:57) both earned their Grinder t-shirts. Congratulations!

Utah State Championships

Yesterday was a very fun day for the Cavemen.
At 2:00 PM, the girls team lined up at the Sugarhouse Park starting line and 19 minutes later had won the girls 5A state championship with 46 points and the second fastest team time in Utah State Meet history.

1.  American Fork HS   46 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 6.  139     Sammy Hollingsworth 18:19.7 6. 00:38.7 00:34.4 7.  141     Cami Squires 18:24.4 7. 00:43.4 10.  135     Maddie Bench 18:27.8 9. 00:46.8 11.  138     Lexie Green 18:36.5 10. 00:55.5 16.  137     Katie Cornell 18:54.1 14. 01:13.1 17.  140     Nikki Smith 18:56.4 (15.) 01:15.4 24.  136     Katie Bradshaw 19:21.4 (21.) 01:40.4 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:32:42.5) 46

Sammy, Cami, and Maddie all earned All-State honors.

At 3:30 PM, it was the boys turn. The Cavemen ended up with 4 All-State runners, our 5th Individual State Champion in the last 6 years, and a record team time by 36 seconds.

1.  American Fork HS   33 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 1.  132     Zac Jacklin 15:05.5 1. NA 00:52.6 2.  130     Casey Clinger 15:12.1 2. 00:06.6 4.  133     McKay Johns 15:25.2 4. 00:19.7 9.  129     Jacob Chase 15:44.1 9. 00:38.6 17.  134     Joe Simmons 15:58.1 17. 00:52.6 21.  128     Daniel Bentley 16:10.4 (21.) 01:04.9 32.  131     Connor Hoopes 16:21.4 (30.) 01:15.9

This is the boys 6th straight State Championship.
Complete Results

Deseret News Article

Daily Herald Article - Boys

Daily Herald Article - Girls

Salt Lake Tribune Article

Milesplit Videos

Utah State Championships and other news

The 2014 UHSAA State Cross Country Championships will be held Wednesday, October 22 at Sugarhouse Park and Highland High School.
Parking
Parking in Sugarhouse Park is limited, will be crowded and is discouraged. With races being run throughout the day, vehicle access to the park and leaving the park will be slow. Parking for both buses and spectators will be available in the Highland High School driving range located just south of the school and adjacent to the stadium where all races finish. Use of this lot is strongly encouraged. The lot is accessed from 17th East. Only meet administration will be allowed in the lot immediately west of the starting line.

Schedule
Races will be run consecutively in the following order. Times listed are approximate:
1A Girls...11:00 am 4A Girls...1:30 pm
2A Girls...11:30 am 5A Girls...2:00 pm 
1A Boys...12:00 noon 3A Boys...2:30 pm
2A Boys...12:30 pm 4A Boys...3:00 pm
3A Girls...1:00 pm 5A Boys...3:30 pm 

The AFHS team will be leaving the school at 12:15 PM. All athletes must ride up on the bus. After the meet, athletes may ride home with their parents if a coach has been notified.  After the meet, the team will have dinner at the Chuckarama on 4th South in SLC. The Varsity teams will be fed. JV athletes need to bring $15 to pay for their meal.

NXN News:
Nike Cross Nationals will be moving venues from Portland Meadows to Glendoveer GC in Portland.
Link to today's announcement.

The Grinder

We did the Grinder today to get ready for the hills on the State course next week.
Three Cavemen earned their Grinder t-shirts today:
Ashton Jensen ran 8:28.
Ben Carson ran 8:38.
Madison Marrott ran 10:24.

Three girls earned their spikes for breaking 9:30.
Lexie Green ran 9:08 (New record)
Sammy Hollingsworth ran 9:17.
Cami Squires ran 9:18.

On the boys side, 4 boys ran under 8:00 with McKay Johns (7:22) and Casey Clinger (7:27) breaking the Grinder record. Zac Jacklin hit 7:46, while Nathan Tracy ran 7:52.
All-Time Grinder List

Region IV Championships

Today the Region IV Championships were held at American Fork High School. We appreciate all the coaches, faculty, administration, and parents who helped at the meet.
Girls JV: 3 team members won ribbons as the girls won JV Region with 43 points.

1.  American Fork HS   43

Place	Bib	Name	Time	Score	Behind Winner	Spread
1.	141	Kendra Heath	20:46.6	1.	NA		01:42.9
4.	148	Madison Marrott	21:11.4	4.	00:24.8
6.	152	Katy Phillippi	21:31.7	6.	00:45.1
8.	139	Anna Gunther	21:39.2	8.	00:52.6
24.	133	Dani Christlieb	22:29.5	24.	01:42.9
26.	137	Camille Garrett	22:30.8	(25.)	01:44.2
29.	140	Hailey Heath	22:35.3	(28.)	01:48.7
34.	160	Andie Weight	22:53.0	NS	02:06.4
39.	154	Emma Russell	23:09.3	NS	02:22.7
42.	136	Malorie Finch	23:23.2	NS	02:36.6
43.	146	Ashlynn Lee	23:26.4	NS	02:39.8
48.	144	Abbi Lamb	23:32.1	NS	02:45.5
58.	128	Jessica Anderson	24:04.2	NS	03:17.6
61.	131	Heather Bergeson	24:18.1	NS	03:31.5
66.	138	Kaylie Green	24:33.7	NS	03:47.1
70.	157	Melissa Smith	24:40.9	NS	03:54.3
84.	135	Abby Dean	24:59.3	NS	04:12.7
94.	143	Rachel Isaacson	25:27.7	NS	04:41.1
96.	150	Scout McMillan	25:32.1	NS	04:45.5
112.	156	Hannah Simmons	26:39.0	NS	05:52.4
113.	147	Candace Lundahl	26:59.8	NS	06:13.2
121.	149	Abigail McBride	27:29.0	NS	06:42.4
133.	142	Meg Ipson	28:36.0	NS	07:49.4
140.	130	Emma Bench	32:12.0	NS	11:25.4
1.	(Total time for scoring runners: 1:47:38.4)			43

Up next were the JV Boys, where AF took the top 5 spots and 7 of the top 9 places. They won JV Region with 15 points.

1.  American Fork HS   17

Place	Bib	Name	Time	Score	Behind Winner	Spread
1.	104	Daniel Bentley	16:43.1	1.	NA		00:50.4
2.	118	Nathan Tracy	16:50.7	2.	00:07.6
3.	111	Ashton Jensen	17:10.3	3.	00:27.2
4.	116	Parker Rasmussen	17:21.7	4.	00:38.6
5. 8.	112 110	Jason Manning           Tony Jeffs	17:33.5 17:54.3	5. 8.	00:50.4 01:11.2
9.	106	Ben Carson	17:55.0	(8.)	01:11.9
25.	101	Jared Anderson	18:25.4	(24.)	01:42.3
30.	115	Cole Phillippi	18:30.7	NS	01:47.6
51.	103	Parker Barnes	18:54.3	NS	02:11.2
53.	108	Talon Garrick	18:55.2	NS	02:12.1
63.	117	Ben Schellenberg	19:14.9	NS	02:31.8
64.	120	Samuel Williams	19:15.3	NS	02:32.2
70.	113	Collin Nielsen	19:35.1	NS	02:52.0
75.	107	Spencer Fong	19:49.9	NS	03:06.8
79.	105	Mark Carlisle	19:53.7	NS	03:10.6
109.	119	Parker Williams	20:54.4	NS	04:11.3
122.	114	Bryson Owen	21:14.2	NS	04:31.1
130.	102	Nathan Baird	21:59.1	NS	05:16.0
1.	(Total time for scoring runners: 1:25:39.3)

The Girls Varsity team then qualified for State by winning with 24 points and 4 first team and 2 second team All-Region runners.

1.  American Fork HS   24 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 2.  168     Cami Squires 19:06.8 2. 00:43.3 00:25.6 3.  166     Sammy Hollingsworth 19:13.1 3. 00:49.6 5.  165     Lexie Green 19:28.2 5. 01:04.7 6.  164     Katie Cornell 19:29.7 6. 01:06.2 8.  162     Maddie Bench 19:32.4 8. 01:08.9 9.  167     Nikki Smith 19:58.6 (9.) 01:35.1 16.  163     Katie Bradshaw 20:22.9 (16.) 01:59.4 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:36:50.2) 24

The Boys Varsity then highlighted the afternoon with a 15 point perfect score and a team time course record. Zac Jacklin set the boys course record by 7 seconds, beating Clayton Young's 15:36 from 2010.

1.  American Fork HS   15 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 1.  125     Zac Jacklin 15:29.0 1. NA 00:51.8 2.  122     Casey Clinger 15:50.1 2. 00:21.1 3.  126     McKay Johns 15:56.8 3. 00:27.8 4.  121     Jacob Chase 16:15.9 4. 00:46.9 5.  127     Joe Simmons 16:20.8 5. 00:51.8 14.  124     Connor Hoopes 16:38.4 (14.) 01:09.4 18.  123     Hagen Harmer 16:45.0 (18.) 01:16.0 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:19:52.6) 15

Complete results on Runnercard

Region 4 Championships

This Friday, we will be holding the Region 4 Championships at AFHS.
Schedule:
3:30 Girls JV
4:00 Boys JV
4:30 Girls Varsity
5:00 Boys Varsity
5:30 Awards

Westlake Results

On Friday,  most of the team traveled to Westlake High School (the rest ran there) for the Westlake Invitational, It was extremely nice weather and our athletes earned many PR's on the fast, flat 3 mile course.
Girls JV won 3 individual awards and was top team score.

1.  American Fork HS   20 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 1.  38     Kendra Heath 19:53.6 1. NA 01:08.6 2.  49     Katy Phillippi 19:56.5 2. 00:02.9 3.  45     Madison Marrott 20:10.7 3. 00:17.1 7.  36     Anna Gunther 20:42.3 6. 00:48.7 9.  56     Andie Weight 21:02.2 8. 01:08.6 10.  34     Camille Garrett 21:04.9 (9.) 01:11.3 11.  33     Malorie Finch 21:08.0 (10.) 01:14.4 12.  30     Dani Christlieb 21:09.8 NS  01:16.2 13.  37     Hailey Heath 21:15.9 NS  01:22.3 18.  51     Emma Russell 21:36.6 NS  01:43.0 29.  41     Abbi Lamb 22:04.8 NS  02:11.2 39.  28     Heather Bergeson 22:22.2 NS  02:28.6 63.  53     Melissa Smith 23:02.7 NS  03:09.1 69.  43     Ashlynn Lee 23:12.2 NS  03:18.6 78.  26     Jessica Anderson 23:24.5 NS  03:30.9 81.  35     Kaylie Green 23:30.1 NS  03:36.5 92.  47     Scout McMillan 23:42.3 NS  03:48.7 105.  40     Rachel Isaacson 24:04.8 NS  04:11.2 114.  44     Candace Lundahl 24:18.3 NS  04:24.7 130.  46     Abigail McBride 24:45.5 NS  04:51.9 173.  52     Hannah Simmons 25:48.2 NS  05:54.6 214.  27     Emma Bench 28:39.6 NS  08:46.0 221.  39     Meg Ipson 29:21.6 NS  09:28.0 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:41:45.3) 20

Boys JV had two individual medalists and the second best points score.

2.  American Fork HS   60 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 4.  6     Ben Carson 16:34.6 4. 00:35.3 00:50.0 5.  10     Tony Jeffs 16:43.7 5. 00:44.4 11.  1     Jared Anderson 16:59.0 11. 00:59.7 18.  13     Cole Phillippi 17:19.0 18. 01:19.7 22.  4     Parker Barnes 17:24.6 22. 01:25.3 55.  11     Collin Nielsen 18:05.7 (51.) 02:06.4 64.  7     Spencer Fong 18:20.4 (55.) 02:21.1 70.  17     Samuel Williams 18:25.2 NS  02:25.9 71.  5     Mark Carlisle 18:28.6 NS  02:29.3 80.  14     Ben Schellenberg 18:37.5 NS  02:38.2 110.  16     Parker Williams 19:04.6 NS  03:05.3 151.  3     Nathan Baird 19:47.6 NS  03:48.3 161.  12     Bryson Owen 20:02.1 NS  04:02.8 2. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:25:00.9) 60

Girls Varsity had 6 medalists and won by 77 points.

1.  American Fork HS   31 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 3.  64     Cami Squires 17:50.3 3. 00:24.3 00:41.7 4.  62     Sammy Hollingsworth 17:52.8 4. 00:26.8 5.  58     Maddie Bench 18:02.1 5. 00:36.1 9.  61     Lexie Green 18:27.4 9. 01:01.4 10.  60     Katie Cornell 18:32.0 10. 01:06.0 22.  63     Nikki Smith 19:08.3 (22.) 01:42.3 23.  59     Katie Bradshaw 19:08.9 (23.) 01:42.9 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:30:44.6) 31

Although we held out our top 5, the Varsity Boys team still won with 3 individual medalists.

1.  American Fork HS   92 Place Bib     Name Time Score Behind Winner Spread 11.  20     Hagen Harmer 15:33.1 11. 00:36.2 00:39.7 12.  21     Connor Hoopes 15:33.3 12. 00:36.4 14.  19     Daniel Bentley 15:37.6 14. 00:40.7 16.  25     Nathan Tracy 15:42.6 16. 00:45.7 39.  22     Ashton Jensen 16:12.8 39. 01:15.9 43.  24     Parker Rasmussen 16:17.4 (43.) 01:20.5 48.  23     Jason Manning 16:22.6 (48.) 01:25.7 1. (Total time for scoring runners: 1:18:39.4) 92

At the  Notre Dame Invitational, alumnus Connor McMillan placed 27th overall (23:50 for 5 miles)
to help BYU to a second place finish on Friday.

Westlake Invitational

Tomorrow we will be running at Westlake High School. Just take Pioneer Crossing westbound and take a left.
The bus leaves AFHS at 2:30 PM. Athletes must ride the bus in order to compete. Parents can take their athletes home after their cooldown and if a coach is notified.
Girls JV - 4:00 PM
Boys JV - 4:45 PM
Girls Varsity - 5:30 PM
Boys Varsity - 6:00 PM