Conference Champs!

The Como Park cross country team made history today with its first Conference Championship ever! The boys captured the team title with a great team effort, placing 2nd (Nate Rue), 4th (Abdisalan Hassan), 6th (Chris Hutton), 7th (Evan Hanson), and 10th (Marshal Landrum).

All five guys captured All-Conference honors, as did junior Sophie Nielsen, who placed 15th in the girls varsity race.

While the top five boys were certainly Como's stars of the show today, the entire team contributed to this effort. The pressure placed on the top guys by the 6, 7, 8, 9 runners made the difference. The extraordinary positive energy of the girls team made the difference. And the many Como Park runners who preceded this team definitely made the difference.

Thinking back to my first days of coaching at Como, I remember getting on the bus to go to a meet and having 2 runners show up that day -- one boy and one girl. The willingness of those runners to stick with it, and make the team better made the difference.

All the alums out there who put their time and energy into the program, who could be counted on to show up every day, to work harder than others had worked before them, and to push themselves to be better athletes, to make our team a better team...to all the runners who held themselves to a higher standard and set an example for their teammates...this is your victory as well. Thanks!

Past conference champions and results are available HERE.

This year's results:


2010 ST. PAUL CITY CONFERENCE
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CONFERENCE MEET - VARSITY BOYS TEAM SCORES
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1. St Paul Como Park
2 4 6 7 10 (22) (23) = 29
Nate Rue, Abdisalan Hassan, Chris Hutton, Evan Hanson, Marshal
Landrum, Luis Caballero, Adam Kusterman
2. St Paul Central
1 5 8 13 14 (16) (19) = 41
Ahmed Bule, Thomas Kendrick, Brian Petkov, Elliot Parens, John
McCarthy, Wolfe Williams, Evan Heberlein
3. St Paul Highland Park
3 9 12 17 18 (20) (21) = 59
Kevin Coryell, Nadhi Woliye, Karl Amjad-Ali, Evan Haugh, Joe
Peacock, Robert Thurston, Steven Bender
4. St Paul Harding
11 15 24 25 26 (27) (28) = 101
Elvis Mwamba, Joel Lopez, Peter Kircher, Phillip Flannigan, Abdi
Dirie, Che Her, Rafael Roman
5. St Paul Humboldt
29 30 31 34 38 = 162
Lope Trushenski, Juan Garcia, Aldrin Ravelo, Kaleb Haile, Marco
Verdeja
6. St Paul Johnson
32 33 35 36 37 = 173
Khalil Christiansen, Alfonso Xinastle, Phengsaxon Xiong, Charles
Arrigoni, Joshua Xiong





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2010 St. Paul City Conference
Varsity Boys - 5 km
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Place Tea Name Grade Team Time Pace
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1 1 Ahmed Bule 10 St Paul Central 16:03 5:10
2 1 Nate Rue 11 St Paul Como Park 16:13 5:13
3 1 Kevin Coryell 11 St Paul Highland Park 16:36 5:21
4 2 Abdisalan Hassan 11 St Paul Como Park 16:47 5:25
5 2 Thomas Kendrick 12 St Paul Central 16:58 5:28
6 3 Chris Hutton 11 St Paul Como Park 17:00 5:29
7 4 Evan Hanson 12 St Paul Como Park 17:08 5:31
8 3 Brian Petkov 10 St Paul Central 17:13 5:33
9 2 Nadhi Woliye 11 St Paul Highland Park 17:15 5:33
10 5 Marshal Landrum 9 St Paul Como Park 17:18 5:34
11 1 Elvis Mwamba 12 St Paul Harding 17:21 5:36
12 3 Karl Amjad-Ali 11 St Paul Highland Park 17:28 5:38
13 4 Elliot Parens 12 St Paul Central 17:29 5:38
14 5 John McCarthy 12 St Paul Central 17:32 5:39
15 2 Joel Lopez 12 St Paul Harding 17:34 5:40
16 6 Wolfe Williams 11 St Paul Central 17:46 5:44
17 4 Evan Haugh 8 St Paul Highland Park 17:53 5:46
18 5 Joe Peacock 10 St Paul Highland Park 17:57 5:47
19 7 Evan Heberlein 12 St Paul Central 18:01 5:48
20 6 Robert Thurston 10 St Paul Highland Park 18:13 5:52
21 7 Steven Bender 11 St Paul Highland Park 18:22 5:55
22 6 Luis Caballero 10 St Paul Como Park 18:23 5:55
23 7 Adam Kusterman 12 St Paul Como Park 18:25 5:56
24 3 Peter Kircher 11 St Paul Harding 18:44 6:02
25 4 Phillip Flannigan 10 St Paul Harding 19:02 6:08
26 5 Abdi Dirie 11 St Paul Harding 19:07 6:09
27 6 Che Her 12 St Paul Harding 19:43 6:21
28 7 Rafael Roman 10 St Paul Harding 20:10 6:30
29 1 Lope Trushenski 9 St Paul Humboldt 20:26 6:35
30 2 Juan Garcia 10 St Paul Humboldt 20:36 6:38
31 3 Aldrin Ravelo 12 St Paul Humboldt 21:33 6:57
32 1 Khalil Christiansen 9 St Paul Johnson 21:36 6:57
33 2 Alfonso Xinastle 10 St Paul Johnson 21:45 7:01
34 4 Kaleb Haile 9 St Paul Humboldt 23:10 7:28
35 3 Phengsaxon Xiong 11 St Paul Johnson 23:14 7:29
36 4 Charles Arrigoni 10 St Paul Johnson 23:15 7:29
37 5 Joshua Xiong 10 St Paul Johnson 23:40 7:37
38 5 Marco Verdeja 9 St Paul Humboldt 27:56 9:00





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2010 St. Paul City Conference CC
Junior Varsity Boys - 5 km
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Place Name Grade Team Time Pace
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1 Ian Buck 12 St Paul Central 18:11 5:52
2 Andrew Hinrichs 11 St Paul Central 18:19 5:54
3 Gabriel Bergin 11 St Paul Central 18:20 5:54
4 Alex Patterson 12 St Paul Highland Park 18:22 5:55
5 Matthew Peterson 11 St Paul Central 18:32 5:58
6 Sam Nodler 10 St Paul Highland Park 18:38 6:00
7 David Wehrwein 12 St Paul Central 18:50 6:04
8 Devin Liljedahl 11 St Paul Central 18:51 6:04
9 Ned Leebrick-Stryke 10 St Paul Central 18:57 6:06
10 Alexander Sherman 11 St Paul Central 19:02 6:08
11 Sam Weber 9 St Paul Central 19:02 6:08
12 Adam Reece 11 St Paul Como Park 19:03 6:08
13 Mohamed Abduli 11 St Paul Central 19:03 6:08
14 Eli Simmer 11 St Paul Highland Park 19:12 6:11
15 Keith Phelps 11 St Paul Como Park 19:18 6:13
16 Joe Nelson 12 St Paul Central 19:28 6:16
17 Aaron De Louadren 11 St Paul Central 19:49 6:23
18 Jacob Johnson 10 St Paul Highland Park 19:56 6:25
19 Nuradin Aliyi 10 St Paul Central 20:07 6:29
20 Luke Horton 9 St Paul Central 20:48 6:42
21 Justin Miller 12 St Paul Como Park 20:48 6:42
22 Julian Roby 11 St Paul Central 21:11 6:49
23 John Schonebaum 10 St Paul Central 21:27 6:55
24 James Westby 9 St Paul Highland Park 21:37 6:58
25 Alex Bondeson 11 St Paul Harding 21:39 6:59
26 Haroun Khalid 9 St Paul Central 21:40 6:59
27 Zack Barabash 12 St Paul Harding 21:43 7:00
28 Josh Wickert 11 St Paul Harding 21:52 7:03
29 Minh Nguyen 10 St Paul Highland Park 21:59 7:05
30 Charlie Swanson 9 St Paul Como Park 22:09 7:08
31 James Grenke 10 St Paul Highland Park 22:14 7:10
32 Paul Vang 10 St Paul Johnson 22:51 7:21
33 Neil Anderson 11 St Paul Como Park 23:24 7:32
34 Peter Schrader 9 St Paul Como Park 24:05 7:45
35 Charles McGregor 11 St Paul Harding 24:20 7:50
36 Jack Yuhang 12 St Paul Harding 24:21 7:50
37 Samuel Godfrey 7 St Paul Como Park 24:49 8:00
38 Ben White 10 St Paul Highland Park 25:21 8:10
39 Timothy Krall 7 St Paul Highland Park 25:35 8:14
40 Andrew Johnson 9 St Paul Johnson 25:59 8:22
41 Alexander Glebov 9 St Paul Como Park 27:40 8:55


2010 ST. PAUL CITY CONFERENCE
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CONFERENCE MEET - VARSITY GIRLS TEAM SCORES
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1. St Paul Highland Park
1 2 4 8 9 (13) (14) = 24
Sophie Ristau, Elena Breitenbucher, Mai Richards, Alexa Ries, Ruth
Grenke, Claire Atmore, Carolin Brodtmann
2. St Paul Central
3 5 6 7 10 (12) (16) = 31
Mekea Larson, Teaghan Persons, Ella Coben, Maleta Moulsoff, Julia
Barton, Zoe McCully, Anna Kazlauskas
3. St Paul Harding
11 19 21 22 23 (25) (27) = 96
Cinthya Bermudez, Faithanne Noyer, Lauren Rodriguez, Shyanne
Ziegler, Karina Lopez, Mautain Green-Tongrit, Sarah Kirchner
4. St Paul Como Park
15 18 20 24 26 (30) (32) = 103
Sophie Nielsen, Kate Wackett, Rachel Lee, Mary Kate Davini, Geneva
Cole, Mara Keyes, Laura Burnes
5. St Paul Humboldt
17 28 29 31 33 = 138
Chaltu Doto, Darartu Worku, Maren Rodriguez, Catherine Yang,
Melissa Gonzalez


Incomplete Teams:

St Paul Johnson
Mirah Carruth





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2010 St. Paul City Conference
Varsity Girls - 4 km
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Place Tea Name Grade Team Time Pace
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1 1 Sophie Ristau 12 St Paul Highland Park 15:30 6:14
2 2 Elena Breitenbucher 9 St Paul Highland Park 15:31 6:15
3 1 Mekea Larson 12 St Paul Central 16:27 6:38
4 3 Mai Richards 12 St Paul Highland Park 16:28 6:38
5 2 Teaghan Persons 10 St Paul Central 16:39 6:42
6 3 Ella Coben 12 St Paul Central 16:48 6:46
7 4 Maleta Moulsoff 7 St Paul Central 16:51 6:47
8 4 Alexa Ries 8 St Paul Highland Park 17:06 6:53
9 5 Ruth Grenke 11 St Paul Highland Park 17:17 6:57
10 5 Julia Barton 10 St Paul Central 17:24 7:00
11 1 Cinthya Bermudez 12 St Paul Harding 17:35 7:05
12 6 Zoe McCully 9 St Paul Central 17:42 7:08
13 6 Claire Atmore 12 St Paul Highland Park 17:45 7:09
14 7 Carolin Brodtmann 10 St Paul Highland Park 17:50 7:11
15 1 Sophie Nielsen 11 St Paul Como Park 17:54 7:12
16 7 Anna Kazlauskas 8 St Paul Central 18:02 7:16
17 1 Chaltu Doto 10 St Paul Humboldt 18:04 7:16
18 2 Kate Wackett 10 St Paul Como Park 18:12 7:20
19 2 Faithanne Noyer 9 St Paul Harding 18:31 7:27
20 3 Rachel Lee 12 St Paul Como Park 18:38 7:30
21 1 Mirah Carruth 10 St Paul Johnson 18:51 7:35
22 3 Lauren Rodriguez 11 St Paul Harding 18:55 7:37
23 4 Shyanne Ziegler 10 St Paul Harding 19:31 7:52
24 5 Karina Lopez 11 St Paul Harding 19:43 7:56
25 4 Mary Kate Davini 12 St Paul Como Park 19:56 8:02
26 6 Mautain Green-Tongrit 11 St Paul Harding 20:05 8:05
27 5 Geneva Cole 12 St Paul Como Park 20:06 8:05
28 7 Sarah Kirchner 12 St Paul Harding 20:30 8:15
29 2 Darartu Worku 10 St Paul Humboldt 20:54 8:25
30 3 Maren Rodriguez 11 St Paul Humboldt 21:37 8:42
31 6 Mara Keyes 12 St Paul Como Park 21:44 8:45
32 4 Catherine Yang 11 St Paul Humboldt 21:49 8:47
33 7 Laura Burnes 12 St Paul Como Park 21:53 8:49
34 5 Melissa Gonzalez 8 St Paul Humboldt 22:06 8:54





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2010 St. Paul City Conference CC
Junior Varsity Girls - 4 km
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Place Name Grade Team Time Pace
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1 Grace Hersey 10 St Paul Central 17:28 7:02
2 Erin Bjork 11 St Paul Highland Park 18:08 7:18
3 Emma McCartney 12 St Paul Central 18:12 7:20
4 Jesse Austin 11 St Paul Central 18:20 7:23
5 Natalia Gaytan 9 St Paul Highland Park 18:35 7:29
6 Adeline O'Keefe 10 St Paul Highland Park 18:38 7:30
7 Olivia Atmore 7 St Paul Highland Park 19:10 7:43
8 Madeline Driscoll 10 St Paul Central 19:51 8:00
9 Tatiana Phillips 9 St Paul Johnson 21:30 8:39
10 Sigrun Brynjarsdottir 12 St Paul Highland Park 21:40 8:43
11 Viviana Baltazar 10 St Paul Harding 21:45 8:45
12 Shannon Mazzara 12 St Paul Central 22:09 8:55
13 Claire Boyle 10 St Paul Central 22:15 8:57
14 Ida Bek 11 St Paul Como Park 22:28 9:03
15 Britanny Robertson 9 St Paul Harding 22:55 9:13
16 Hannah Potts 9 St Paul Harding 22:55 9:14
17 Erika Bahr 10 St Paul Harding 23:11 9:20
18 Hannah Campbell 9 St Paul Highland Park 23:16 9:22

Pike Island Meet Cancelled

The Pike Island Challenge has been cancelled due to flooding. There will be no meet this week. The next meet is Conference.

The Conference Meet will be held at Highland Park Golf Course in St. Paul, on Tuesday, October 19.

The boys run two 2.5k loops for their 5k race:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4095042

The girls will run a similar course, cutting out a kilometer from the second loop, to make it one big loop and one small loop.

Schedule for 9/27 to 10/3

MON: 2:30 p.m. Easy run (2-4 miles) + drills/strides


TUE: 2:20 p.m. BUS DEPARTS for S.P. Grade-by-Grade @ Conway Rec.
3:30 – Seventh through Tenth grade boys 5k.
4:00 -- Eleventh and Twelfth grade boys 5k.
4:30 -- Seventh through Twelfth grade girls 4k.


WED: 2:30 p.m. Capture the Flag + Distance run (3-6 miles)


THU: 2:30 p.m. Warm-up + drills/strides + 1000M repeats
Girls: 3-4x1000, Boys 4-5x1000

FRI: EARLY RELEASE DAY: 12:30 p.m.
Captain’s practice. Distance run (3-6 miles) + weights

SAT: 9:00 a.m. @ Landrum house. 1305 Victoria St.
Long run (4-10 miles), followed by food.

Schedule for Sept. 20—26

MON: 2:30 p.m. Tempo run around lake (1-2 loops) + 4-6xhill sprints.


TUE: 2:30 p.m. Distance run (3-6 miles)


WED: 2:30 p.m. Warm-up + drills/strides + 300M repeats + strength circuit


THU: 2:30 p.m. Distance run (3-6 miles) or cross-training day


FRI: 2:30 p.m. Trivia + Easy run (2-3 miles) + drills/strides
PRE-MEET DINNER

SAT: 1:00 p.m. BUS DEPARTS from school.
1:30 p.m. course walk
3:40 p.m. Boys Maroon race
4:30 p.m. Girls Maroon race

SUN: 9:00 a.m. OPTIONAL. Race for Research @ Lake Phalen

Sept. 13-19 Schedule

MON: 2:30 p.m. Get warm-ups + Easy run + drills/strides

TUE: 2:30 p.m. Bus leaves for meet. TC Grade-by-Grade @ Conway Rec.

MEET SCHEDULE:
4:00 – 11-12 grade girls 4000 meters.
4:30 – 11-12 grade boys 5000 meters.
5:00 – 7-10 grade girls 4000 meters.
5:25 – 7-10 grade boys – 5000 meters.

Back to school around 6:30 p.m.

WED: 2:30 p.m. Warm-up + drills/strides + Hill sprints

THU: 2:30 p.m. Distance run + Piggy Push

FRI: 2:30 p.m. Warm-up + drills/strides + 1000M repeats

SAT: 9:00 a.m. @ Millers house. 1567 Huron St.
Long run (4-10 miles), followed by food.

Como Invitational Results

Como Invitational Results
Participating Teams: Como Park, Humboldt, Great River

PLACE NAME TEAM GRADE TIME
Boys Varsity 5k
1 Rue, Nate CP 11 17:25
2 Hanson, Evan CP 12 18:22
3 Landrum, Marshal CP 9 18:38
4 Hutton, Chris CP 11 18:52
5 Hassan, Abdisalan CP 11 19:00
6 Kusterman, Adam CP 12 19:25
7 Caballero, Luis CP 10 20:33
8 Reece, Adam CP 11 20:35
9 Phelps, Keith CP 11 20:37
10 Nofzinger, Adrian CP 11 21:47
11 Trushenski, Lope H 22:07
12 Davis-Johnson, Colin CP 12 23:42
13 Schrader, Peter CP 9 23:47
14 Hutton, Kenneth CP 11 24:32
15 Ravelo, Aldren H 12 24:33
16 Garcia, Juan H 24:42
17 Siebels-Lindquist, Philip GR 24:45
18 Swanson, Charlie CP 9 25:23
19 Anderson, Neil CP 11 26:17
20 Redden, Tyler CP 11 25:23
21 Godfrey, Sam CP 7 28:55
22 Glebov, Alex CP 9 31:14
23 Page, Ramone H 33:25
24 Ali, Sadeeq H 39:24

Team scores: Como Park 15, Humboldt 50, Great River INC.

PLACE NAME TEAM GRADE TIME
Girls Varsity 4k
1 Nielsen, Sophie CP 11 19:54
2 Wackett, Kate CP 10 19:56
3 Doto, Chaltu H 22:12
4 Miles, Mary GR 22:16
5 Dunn, Ellen GR 22:16
6 Davini, Mary Kate CP 12 22:52
7 Bek, Ida CP 12 24:11
8 Donadei, Vittoria CP 12 24:27
9 Yang, Catherine H 24:28
10 Gonzalez, Melissa H 24:33
11 Burnes, Laura CP 12 25:38
12 Keyes, Mara CP 12 27:23
13 Cole, Geneva CP 12 27:58

Team scores: Como Park 15, Humboldt INC., Great River INC.

Alumni Run Results

Thanks to everyone who came out, and thanks to John Cramer for putting on the race and doing results.

Como Park High School Alumni Cross Country Meet
2 miles at Como Park August 18, 2010

1 11:35 Nate Rue Como Park
2 12:01 Marshall Landrum Como Park
3 12:15 Evan Vogel Alumni
4 12:23 Dan Sparkman Alumni
5 12:25 Evan Hanson Como Park
6 12:25 Adam Kusterman Como Park
7 12:57 Hassan Abdisalan Como Park
8 12:57 Luke Rustad Alumni
9 13:08 Luis Caballero Como Park
10 13:10 Brendan Boylan Alumni
11 13:57 Adam Reese Como Park
12 14:22 Keith Phelps Como Park
13 14:25 Steve DeBoer Alumni
14 15:04 Justin Miller Como Park
15 16:32 Rachel Lee Como Park
16 17:07 Sophie Nielsen Como Park
17 17:08 Phil Kramer Alumni
18 19:37 Samuel Godfrey Como Park
19 19:38 Charlie Swanson Como Park
20 19:55 Jane Kramer Alumni
21 20:51 Laura Burnes Como Park

Como Park 1-2-5-6-7= 21
Alumni 3-4-8-10-13= 38