Girls Cross Country the Rest of This Week:
Thursday 5:00 Uniforms
Thursday 5:30 Practice
Friday 5:15 Pictures
Friday 5:15 Practice

Thanks to the Sochacki Family for a great time on Wednesday.

We do have a parents meeting later in the week next week. Coach Z will have that for you and your parents today.

We have our first meet a week from Saturday, August 23rd, in Dewitt. We will plan to leave WC by bus (hopefully) at 7:30 a.m.

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by site admin
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Our most up to date schedule (including any reschedules) should be at High School Sports dot Net. If you register for an account, you can then put several sports at WC over top of one another and generate a calendar.

Here is our schedule as we know it right now. Be attentive to the fact that the boys and girls schedules are not exactly the same. Also the boys are still deciding what to do on the last Saturday before regionals. Most likely it will be either Foxes and Hounds or the Shepherd Invite. They also split their team on September 27th, going to Union with reserves and the Carson City Invite with the varsity.

Coed Varsity

• Sat 8/23/2008 :: at Lansing Catholic’s Catholic Schools Invit. (Girls Only) :: St. Francis Retreat Center, Dewitt :: 10:00AM
• Wed 8/27/2008 :: at v Jenison/Catholic Central :: Riverside Park :: TBA
• Wed 9/3/2008 :: v Cedar Springs High School :: Riverside Park :: 4:30PM
• Mon 9/8/2008 :: at Thornapple-Kellogg High School (Boys Only) :: Gun Lake State Pk. :: TBA
• Wed 9/10/2008 :: at v Comstock Park/Coopersville :: Riverside Park :: 4:30PM
• Sat 9/13/2008 :: at Sparta Invitational :: Sparta Athletic Fields :: TBA
• Wed 9/17/2008 :: at v FHN & GR Central :: Johnson Park :: 4:30PM
• Sat 9/20/2008 :: East Rockford Middle School, 3rd Annual Cougar - Falcon Invit. :: Rockford East Middle School :: 8:30PM
• Sat 9/27/2008 :: at Carson City Invit. (Varsity Boys Only) :: Carson City :: TBA
• Sat 9/27/2008 :: at Union High School Invit. (Reserve Boys Only) :: Union High School :: TBA
• Sat 9/27/2008 :: at Fruitport Invit. (Girls Only) :: Rycenga Park, Fruitport :: 9:00AM
• Wed 10/1/2008 :: at v Sparta & Belding :: Lightening Bend Pk., Belding :: 4:30PM
• Sat 10/4/2008 :: at Portage Invit. :: Portage Middle School :: 9:00AM
• Sat 10/11/2008 :: at Foxes and Hounds Invite, Kalamazoo Hackett (Girls) :: Kalamazoo Hackett :: TBA
• Sat 10/11/2008 :: at TBA - maybe Shepherd or Foxes and Hounds (Boys) :: :: TBA
• Wed 10/15/2008 :: at Conference Meet :: Cedarview Elem., Cedar Springs :: TBA
• Wed 10/15/2008 :: at JV MEET :: Cedarview Elem. :: 4:30PM
• Sat 10/25/2008 :: at MHSAA Regionals :: Sparta :: TBA
• Sat 11/1/2008 :: at State Championship :: Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn ::

Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by site admin
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We return to Sparta for our 2008 Regional. We lose the following schools: Grant, Muskegon Heights, Portland (tied with us for third in girls race last year), Stanton-Montcalm Central and Whitehall (last years champion and now a Division 2 School).

We gain the following schools: Hart, Holton, Wyoming-Godwin Heights, Kelloggsville and Lee.

An early analysis of the regional would suggest that GRWC Boys have a very good possibility of finishing at or near the top of their regional and the girls have a very good chance at finishing in the top three for another trip to the state meet.

Kent City is the most improving program on both the boys and girls side and could give either team a run for their money. Allendale girls are definitely strong and return almost all of their team from a year ago, plus they add one more good runner. Their boys also have a good freshman.

Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by site admin
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We encouraged our athletes to attend this camp again this year. I know a few girls are there and some of the boys. Here is an article that features Tony Schaefer among several others.

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by site admin
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Good luck Ryan at continuing your career in college!

University of St. Francis site.

Posted on July 15th, 2008 by site admin
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Excellent and well run race. She would have placed in the Elite race as well.

See Video here.

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by site admin
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Monica Kinney placed 2nd at the Midwest Distance Gala with a time of 2:12.89 for 800 Meters. This is faster than the WC record* and the fastest run by a WC Grad before starting college. She will try to better this mark next week at the Nike Outdoor National Meet.

*We recognize times as school records only during the WC season.

Posted on June 16th, 2008 by site admin
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Congratulations to Katie Bildner on this great accomplishment.

Hillsdale Link

Freep Link

Note too that this is categorized under “Alums”. Wow. Great class even if small. Good luck to Monica Kinney at GVSU, Katie Pittman at GVSU and to Katelyn Werra.

Posted on June 8th, 2008 by site admin
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Both finished first in the MITCA Team State Championships!
Both finished fifth in the MHSAA State Meet
Both had a Kent County Distance Runner of the Year named by Representative Sak:
Monica Kinney
and
Mike Gravelyn

Lots of success and accolades, all built on team depth.

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by site admin
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SEVENTEEN ATHLETES at Aquinas were honored as NAIA Academic All-Americans from the spring seasons. They are softball’s Kristi Labinski (Union) and Mallory Schrauben; baseball’s Brandon Marrs (Cedar Springs), Todd Peters (West Catholic), Dan Salvati (Morley-Stanwood) and Kevin Scholten (Calvin Christian); tennis’ Jason Beydoun, and Lindsay Skinner (Mona Shores); golf’s Andrea Fillipps, Jessica Morse (Kenowa Hills), Jennifer Gwinn and Brian Hayward (Ottawa Hills); and track’s Amanda Strouse, Lianne Griffiths, Chris Leikert (West Catholic), Chris Robertz and Scott Assenmacher.

http://www.mlive.com/sports/grpress/index.ssf?/base/sports-5/1212754512203150.xml&coll=6

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At the John Bos meet, the girls had a good day. The 4×200 team set the record they just missed on Saturday and the 4×400 broke the record they set on Saturday. Kinney ran a good 800 to win and Katie Townsend had a very good 300 Meter Hurdles.

Placing today:
100M HURDLES —
4. Katie Pittman, Grand Rapids West Catholic, 16.25
800 METER RUN —
1. Monica Kinney, Grand Rapids West Catholic, 2:15.40
400 METER RELAY —
5. Grand Rapids West Catho, 51.90
800 METER RELAY —
2. Grand Rapids West Catho, 1:46.90
1600 METER RELAY —
1. Grand Rapids West Catho, 4:03.40

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by site admin
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The only thing better than one win is two and we got two today. Both the boys and the girls managed to bring home the state championship today at the MITCA Team State Championship. Hard work and lots of depth.

Results Here

Posted on May 24th, 2008 by site admin
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Team Scorings have now been updated.  Congratutions to all those who participated.

Seniors

Female Team Scores
Place School                                          Points
===================================================================
1 Falcons                            WC              227.5
2 Cougars                            CC              132.5

Male Team Scores
Place School                                          Points
===================================================================
1 Falcons                            WC              177.2
2 Cougars                            CC              170.7

Juniors

Female Team Scores
Place School                                          Points
===================================================================
1 Junior White                       WHIT             97
2 Junior Red                         RED              87
3 Junior Green                       GREE             75
4 Junior Blue                        BLUE             72

Male Team Scores
Place School                                          Points
===================================================================
1 Junior Green                       GREE           112.87
2 Junior White                       WHIT            91.62
3 Junior Red                         RED             85.62
4 Junior Blue                        BLUE            41.87

Congratulations to Ben Serra for tying the Jr Mens 70 yard dash record with a time of 9.8 seconds. Also congratulations to Joe Gaiser for setting a new Sr Mens Hurdles with a time of 8.7 seconds. All the results are posted below. The records are posted at the top of each event. Thanks to all for another Great season. See you next year.
Read on for detailed results…
Read more…

Posted on May 19th, 2008 by CETL Stats
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Both the boys and girls won regional championships on Saturday at Houseman Field. The boys fought hard all day against a quality team from Allendale, but team depth prevailed in the end. On the girls side, they had a little greater margin of error, but they did perform well to get into the 160 point range.

Here is the Grand Rapids Press Article.

The full set of results are here.

Posted on May 18th, 2008 by site admin
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The preliminaries and semi-finals were held for the Seniors (7th & 8th) today. This was not a scoring meet for the seniors, but used to set placements for next weeks City Meet. The times for the preliminary senior 100 and 200 races were not recorded due to a clock malfunction. The Juniors (5th& 6th) did have a regular meet and their scores are as follows.

Women
Junior Green   53.00     41.00 Junior Blue
Junior Red   52.00     48.00 Junior White

Men
Junior White   65.50     40.50 Junior Blue
Junior Green   56.50     51.50 Junior Red

Read on to see detailed results for both the juniors and seniors. Read more…

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by CETL Stats
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In a meet that featured some highs and lows, the boys team kept piling on the depth points, especially in the distance events with the formidable trio of Gravelyn, Schaefer and Scott. In the end they were supported by the sprinters and field events that showed some depth at Houseman on Friday night and they prevailed over a tough Christian High Boys Team.

The girls took 17 of the 29 all conference slots (some were multiple winners) include three of four relays, both hurdle races, the 800, 1600 and 400. Perhaps the only bad news of the night was that Kelly Morrissey broke her new vaulting pole in warm-ups, causing some minor cuts to her hands that made it hard to grip the pole. She jumped to a second place finish, but did not have her usual night. Unfortunately (for the Falcons anyway) we just didn’t have the total team depth to match GR Christian stride for stride in the middle of the races and we were outpaced by them.

Complete results are here.

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Monica Kinney came off Friday’s Conference Meet with another goal in mind, to see how fast she could go on Saturday at a meet in Williamston. The race featured three of the top five returning 800 meter runners in the state. Monica followed coaching given to her and learned a lot about herself in the process. Her second place time of 2:17.2 made her the seventh fastest 800 meter runner in the state thus far this year.

800 METERS (2:22.9)

2:10.60 Becca Addison (Grand Haven)11 Grand Haven/dual………………………………………… 5/ 1/2008

2:12.6 Addison Grand Haven/dual……………………………………….. 4/17/2008

2:14.91 Christina Farrow (Detroit Renaissance)12 Dayton/Mitchell Roosevelt……………………………. 5/ 3/2008

2:16.22 Jennifer Carey (Woodhaven)12 Detroit/Shumake Relays……………………………… 4/26/2008

2:16.5 Kate Carter (Saline)10 Ann Arbor/River Rat Inv……………………………….. 5/10/2008

2:17.0 Amelia Bannister (Albion)11 Williamston/Inv……………………………………………. 5/10/2008

2:17.1 Shannon Osika (Waterford Mott)9 Bloomfield Hills/dual…………………………………… 4/15/2008

2:17.2 Monica Kinney (Grand Rapids West Catholic)12 Williamston/Inv……………………………………………. 5/10/2008

Source: http://michtrack.org

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Girls:
LONG JUMP
6. Katie Pittman, West Catholic — 16-5 1/2
7. Katie Bildner, West Catholic — 16-4 1/4
POLE VAULT
4. Kelly Morrissey, West Catholic — 10-6
100-METER HURDLES
9. Katie Pittman, West Catholic — 16.70
800-METER RELAY
6. West Catholic (Gray, Veneklase, Golembiewski, Bildner) — 1:50.50
1,600 METERS
3. Monica Kinney, West Catholic — 5:13.60
400-METER RELAY
6. West Catholic (Morrissey, Golembiewski, Townsend, Bildner) — 51.50
400 METERS
2. Monica Kinney, West Catholic — 59.60
300-METER HURDLES
7. Katie Pittman, West Catholic — 49.30
800 METERS
2. Monica Kinney, West Catholic — 2:18.10
200 METERS
9. Katie Bildner, West Catholic — 26.94
3,200 METERS
10. Monica Kinney, West Catholic — 12:02.10
1,600-METER RELAY
5. West Catholic (B. Veneklase, A. Veneklase, Kuzma, Kinney) — 4:12.60

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress_hssports/2008/05/girls_track_leaders_may_8_1.html

Boys:
1,600 METERS
6. Tony Schaefer, West Catholic — 4:32.59
800 METERS
8. Antonio Schaefer, West Catholic — 2:02.90
3,200 METERS
7. Mike Gravelyn, West Catholic — 10:04.80

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress_hssports/2008/05/boys_track_leaders_may_8.html

We are also ranked well in the area:
BOYS TRACK

1. East Kentwood — The Falcons are loaded this year, and are primed to make a run at a Division 1 state championship.

2. Greenville — The Yellow Jackets are well balanced, led by speedster Jake Sanders and hurdler Chris Stretton.

3. Sparta — Always strong in distance events, this year the Spartans have speed in Brandon VanDriel and a deep distance crew led by Nate Dahlgren.

4. Grand Rapids Christian — Big win against West Catholic last week put the Eagles in the City League driver’s seat.

5. Grandville — Big win against Rockford on Tuesday.

6. Rockford — The Rams need to regroup after losses against East Kentwood and Grandville the past week.

7. Zeeland West — Winning the Frank Grimm Relays late last month put the Dux on the map.

8. Hudsonville — The Eagles are strong, but run in a very tough O-K Red.

9. Kenowa Hills — The Knights have had a breakout year, led by distance runner Reed Kamyszek and sprinter Kurt Van Essen.

10. West Catholic — The Falcons may have lost to GR Christian last week, but will be a force in Division 3.

and

GIRLS TRACK
1. Rockford
2. East Kentwood
3. Grandville
4. South Christian
5. Grand Rapids Christian
6. Sparta
7. Jenison
8. West Catholic
9. Grand Haven
10. Forest Hills Northern

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress_hssports/2008/05/prep_rankings_may_8.html

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by site admin
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Well it was a sad day tonight as some great rivalries finished the last dual meet in the league history. WC got a pair of fairly easy wins. Next year probably won’t happen very often, but it got us the opportunity to get lots of kids on the track and many got additional qualifier times/distances in their events.

05/05/08 Men’s Track & Field Meet Results PAGE 1

CATH. CENTRAL V CHRISTIAN AT 05/05/08 OUTDOOR

*** FINAL SCORING ***

1. Grand Rapids Christian 74.00 2. Grand Rapids Catholic Central 63.00

EVENT RESULTS Read more…

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by site admin
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Another great meet by all those involved. Reminder next weeks meet is at the CAT with the doors opening Saturday at Noon and events starting at 12:30. Here are the results of yesterdays meet.  NOTE: These results were corrected on 5/8/2008.

Women
Falcons   82.00     43.00 Cougars
Junior White   47.00     36.00 Junior Blue
Junior Red   50.00     44.00 Junior Green

Men
Falcons   68.00     57.00 Cougars
Junior Blue   57.00     43.00 Junior White
Junior Green   65.16     40.83 Junior Red

Read on to find out the detailed results for each event.
Read more…

Posted on May 4th, 2008 by CETL Stats
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