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Haddonfield Sub-Varsity Invite 2011: Details

Posted by Breton on October 25, 2011

For a lot of you guys, the Blue and White on Saturday offered a nice preview of Wednesday’s Haddonfield Invite race. The course is quick, flat as a pancake, and primed for personal records. This will also prove as the last race before we decide the South Jersey Parochials squad (Top 12)! Many of you have taken big steps in the last couple weeks – let’s come prepared to continue that trend.

Location: Pennypacker Park, Haddonfield

Distance: 5,000m

Awards: Medals to the Top 25 in the Sub-Varsity Race, Top 15 in the Freshman Race

Itinerary:

2:55-3:00PM Leave from Paul VI HS for Pennypacker Park, Haddonfield

4:00PM BOYS SUB-VARSITY 5k (Durante-Koller, Cleary, Feeney, Boldurian, Lang, A. Munns)

4:30PM FROSH BOYS 5k (Rottler-Gurley, Schmidt, Packi, P.Munns)

5:30-5:45PM Arrive back at Paul VI HS

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Olympic Conference Championships: A Breakout Performance

Posted by Breton on October 24, 2011

First – a couple housekeeping items:

1. The Haddonfield Sub-Varsity Invitational this week is on WEDNESDAY, October 26, 2011. NJRunners has the date wrong.

2. Thank you to all of the alumni (and as always, the amazing parental support) that came out to the Blue and White this past Saturday held at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield, NJ. It was a great turnout for the first year, something we hope to build upon year after year.

On to Friday’s Olympic Conference Championship recap:

Verna.

The Paul VI guys meant business on Friday afternoon, placing 4th out of 15 teams (their best finish in almost a decade) at the Olympic Conference Championships and taking a huge step towards their Championship season goals. Led by Neil MacFarlane, the Paul VI pack weathered a quick start to register their best team performance of the season so far. Only 25 seconds separated the top five as their team average on GCC’s tough ‘C’ course dropped dramatically (a remarkable 21 seconds a runner!). The overall outcome? Four First Team All-Conference performers in MacFarlane, Verna, Marino, and sophomore Balzer and two Second Team All-Conference selections in Patterson and senior Chris Booth. Not bad for the day. Captain Adam Verna made an impressive move during the 2nd mile that the guys behind him covered putting them into great positioning for the last mile. Mike Patterson, about 5 seconds off of Balzer and Marino at 2 miles, showed his resilience in the last mile passing several key runners and linking back up with the pack in the straightaway.

Varsity (4th of 15 teams)

14. MacFarlane 16:58 (Course PR)
17. Verna 17:09 (Season PR)
24. Marino 17:20 (-:18 PR)
25. Balzer 17:22 (-:17 PR)
26. Patterson 17:23 (-:03 PR)
43. Booth 17:48 (- :02 PR)
56. Gallagher 18:18 (Course PR)

The Varsity squad’s performance clearly rubbed off on a few of the JV guys as the PRs continued to pile up during the last race of the day. Sophomore Jake Durante-Koller charged from 12th place at two miles to 3rd place at the finish, a hair from 2nd, for a huge PR of 18:02 (33 seconds). He was followed by the consistency of fellow sophomore Robert Cleary and junior Mike Boldurian. The second big PR of the day was registered first-year senior runner Brian Lang who put himself in an unfamiliar place early on only to see big results in the end (79 second PR!). The frosh duo of Ben Rottler-Gurley and William Schmidt worked together the whole way with Schmidt walking away with a 62 second personal best, one we felt was definitely coming.

Junior Varsity (5th)

3. Durante-Koller 18:02 (-:33 PR)
18. Cleary 18:42
22. Boldurian 18:53 (Season PR)
46. Feeney 19:22 (Season PR)
50. Lang 19:29 (HUGE -1:19 PR)
62. Rottler-Gurley 19:58
68. Schmidt 20:16 (HUGE -1:02 PR)
120. P. Munns 22:30 (Course PR)
141. Packi 24:48 (HUGE PR)

We should have pictures from both the Olympic Conference Championship and the Blue and White up shortly. You can else see them on Facebook – just request to join the group PVI XC.

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Details for the Haddonfield Sub-Varsity Invite will be up on the site shortly!

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Olympic Conference Championships 2011: Details

Posted by Breton on October 20, 2011

Welcome to Championship season boys. The last part of the season starts Friday and we are more than prepared. Take a look below for all of the details…

Location: Gloucester County College, ‘C’ Course

Itinerary:

1:43PM Students are dismissed at the END of 7th period; get dressed and immediately head out to the bus

2:00PM Bus leaves NO LATER than 2PM to get to Gloucester County College

2:30PM Approximate arrival time at Gloucester County College

3:35PM VARSITY BOYS (MacFarlane, Verna, Balzer, Patterson, Gallagher, Booth, Marino)

4:35PM SUB-VARSITY BOYS (Durante-Koller, Feeney, Cleary, Rizzo, Lang, Boldurian, A. Munns, Rottler-Gurley, P. Munns, Packi, Schmidt)

5:30-5:45PM Approximate departure time from Gloucester County College for Paul VI HS

6:00-6:15PM Approximate arrival time at Paul VI HS

“Pressure is word that’s misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure” – Tommy Lasorda

“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
- Steve Young

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith

That last one is nothing but the truth. Let’s be ready to go.

 

 

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The Blue and White/Alumni 5k Run

Posted by Breton on October 11, 2011

To all of those Paul VI XC Alums or area runners (you don’t have to be an alum!) that want to come out and join us – we are changing the tune this year and both the Girls and Boys XC teams will be supporting this 5k to be held at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield, NJ.

DATE: Saturday, October 22, 2011, 10AM RACE START

AWARDS: Prizes will go to Top Male and Female Alumni Finisher, Top Male and Female Student Finisher. All participants will get T-shirts. Barbeque afterwards!

Blue and White – Alumni 5k Run - Click left for the REGISTRATION FORM. Form can be mailed to Paul VI HS, Office of Institutional Advancement, 901 Hopkins Rd – Suite B, Haddonfield, NJ 08033-3098.

The course is FLAT, FAST, and almost entirely on soft stuff. $15 for race-day entrants!

To register contact:

Office of Institutional Advancement, myeager@pvihs.org, or call 856-858-4900 ext. 43.

All proceeds will benefit the Paul VI HS Annual Giving Campaign.

We hope you can make it!!

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South Jersey Open 2011: Outrunning the heat

Posted by Breton on October 11, 2011

The Varsity guys are continuing to tighten things up in the pack and this time around, at the South Jersey Open, they used a 50 second spread to take second out of 15 teams at Delsea Regional HS. The guys have been raced thoroughly in the early months and with 10 days until the beginning of the Championship season, a little rest before lots of work is in the cards. The guys registered four PRs on the day in tough heat – not an easy feat coming off two races in the last week. To put their performance in perspective – the four of the top five wound up on the Top All-Time times at Delsea list – #7, #19, #22, and #23 are now occupied by Neil MacFarlane, Michael Patterson, Daniel Marino, and George Balzer. At the half-way point of the season, things are slowly coming together and the guys are starting to sense it. These next 10 days will be key towards their push for a rewarding Championship season.

The MVP of the day must go to freshman Ben Rottler-Gurley. Thrust into the JV race, he took over two minutes off of his personal record to finish 60th out of a field of over 280 runners. He was the 3rd best frosh in the race and his time catapulted him up the Times since 2007 list for Freshmen, from #25 to #14 – a drop we expect will continue. Anthony Rizzo also grabbed a PR as the Paul VI JV squad, led by Robert Cleary’s 9th place finish, took fourth place out of 25 teams.

Next up will be the Olympic Conference Championships on Friday, October 21!

Frosh

61. P. Munns 13:17
96. Packi 16:46

JV (4th out of 25 teams)

9. Cleary 18:31
19. Durante-Koller 18:58
24. Rizzo 19:03 (PR, -:10)
41. Boldurian 19:27 (Season PR)
60. Rottler-Gurley 19:52 (PR, -2:22!)
99. A. Munns 20:34
167. Schmidt 22:05
DNR – Feeney, Lang

Varsity (2nd out of 15 teams)

7. MacFarlane 16:49 (PR, -:01)
15. Patterson 17:26 (PR, -:09)
16. Verna 17:30 (Season PR)
23. Marino 17:38 (PR, -:14)
26. Balzer 17:39 (PR, -:03)
35. Gallagher 18:12
51. Booth 18:59

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