Practice Firsts

Congratulations to Clayton Young for breaking 8 minutes up Grinder last Monday (7:56).
Congratulations to Robby Lee and Jeff Nelson for teaming up to break the 2 man 2 mile relay record in practice Tuesday (8:27.2). Mack Morrison and Clayton Young also broke the previous record of 8:34 (Geoff Harmon and Ben Felix - 2008) with a 8:27.4 clocking. Clayton also broke the individual cumulative record of 4:09 (John Bell 2004 and Ben Felix 2008) with a 4:08 clocking.

Sub 8:00 Grinders
1992-Chris Merkley ???
1993-Dave Bell ???
2008-Jeff Harmon 7:58
2009-Robby Lee 7:54
Austin West 7:54
2010-Clayton Young 7:56

AF Athletes sign with SUU

Senior XC and Track captain Robby Lee has signed a national letter of intent to continue his education and running career at Southern Utah University. Congratulations Robby!
Senior girls team captain Danielle West also signed with SUU. Congratulations Danielle!
Senior Alexis Laws has signed a national Letter of Intent with the University of Utah. Congratulations Alexis!

Gatorade Athlete of the Year

Last Friday, Austin West was named the Gatorade Athlete of the Year for the state of Utah. Click on the header for the Milesplit story.

Next Season

To start planning for next season, here are a few important dates:
Opening Social - Evergreen Park Tuesday, May 25 at 5:00 PM
Summer Runs @ AFHS begin June 2 at 7:00 AM Wed.
Summer High Altitude Camp - Timpooneke Campground, Tues-Thurs, July 13-15

Harrier Rankings

The Harrier Magazine finally came out with their final National Rankings.
The boys team ended up 8th.
Incidentally, Marc Bloom mentioned in an article that the NXN course was long at 5083meters.
So the boys' 3 mile conversions would have been:
Clayton 15:12
Robby 15:22
Austin 15:25
Derek 15:28
Jeff 15:35
Nafe 15:50
Mack 16:06
Top 5- 77:02 Our second best race of the entire season.
In comparison:
Pre-Region - 81:30
Wasatch Inv. - 85:11
Provo Inv. - 80:15
Nebo - 77:01
Park City Inv. - 86:11 (JV)
Region - 79:37
State - 79:32 (State Course Record)
NXNSW - 77:27

NXN Video

Here's race video of NXN Nationals. We are wearing blue and orange
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NXN Nationals

The boys returned this afternoon from NXN in Portland. It was a very close race with the Cavemen placing 8th out of 22 teams - only 52 points and 42 seconds out of first place. Click on to the post title to see full results. The boys ran fast, and had a great experience. They are only the 4th boys team to qualify from Utah for Nike Cross Nationals, and look forward to returning next year. Thanks to all the parents who helped with the trip and who went up to Portland to cheer on their athletes.