SMXC 2017

SMXC 2017 PAGE

Pics from The Bishop’s 5K, courtesy of Joe Gawinski with Fusion Race Timing

Results from the Race

The girls had a very strong showing at the New Castle County Championships, running their best team race of the season! Ana Dacey, Sarah Donaldson, and Cameron Johnson had SMXC all-time performances, running 30th, 38th, and 47th respectively. Erin Gebhardt, Lauren Augustynowicz, Maddy Pruitt, and Natalia Delgado had excellent races to pace the team to 8th overall!

The JV ended the season as one of the top ranked teams of the year. In the last 5 meets the JV has finished 1st, 1st, 3rd, 2nd, and 3rd overall. Jill Boffa, Grace Dohl, and Kacey Tramont led the JV with strong performances in the top 30! Seniors Andy Moran and Liz Steenkamer rounded out the top 5, with Cathryn Guidash and Maureen Kirk helping the team reach their season goal!

The DIAA state meet is next Saturday at Killens Pond!

• Varsity Results JV Results
• Season-Best Results through Counties
• All-Time Top Performance at Winterthur Estate (Dacey #8, Donaldson #11, Johnson #19)
• Coach Hannagan's pics from counties

Coach Hannagan's Pics from the CYM Championship!

The team combined to set 21 season-best performances at the Catholic Conference Championship! Ana Dacey was named to 1st-team All Catholic, and Sarah Donaldson, Lauren Augustynowicz, and Cameron Johnson were named to 2nd-Team All Catholic!

The JV placed 3 runners in the top 10, as Natalia Delgado, Maddy Pruitt, and Jill Boffa finished 4, 7, and 9 respectively!

• Photos from the Meet (Hannagan photos)
• Season-best results through Catholics
• Results Varsity
• Results JV

Saint Mark's & Sallies Team Up

Saint Mark’s teamed up with Salesianum to support the Muscle Movement Foundation. The group also ran in tribute to Coach Lo Sapio’s two sons, who were born with Muscular Dystrophe. The girls attended to support the boys’ team and to show support for MMF and the Lo Sapios!

Coach Hannagan's pics from the meet

Varsity 10th and JV 3rd at the Joe O’Neill Invitational

Friday, October 20th, at Bellevue State Park

Varsity Results

JV Results

Coach Hannagan Photos from Joe O'Neill Invite

Video tribute to Joe O’Neill, who passed away in 2009 from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Varsity 5th and JV Wins the Killens Pond Invite!!!

The team's depth is again on display as the JV girls take home back-to-back wins! Varsity medals 4 and JV medals 2!

• Varsity Results JV Results
• Season-best results through Killens Pond Invite
• All-time performances at Killens Pond State Park (Dacey #37 Donaldson # 55)

XC Team Rankings thru 10/15

Varsity 3rd and JV Wins the Six Flags Wild Safari Invite!!!

Girls combine for 13 medals on the afternoon, 18 Season PRs, 5 girls crack top-25 All Time!

Coach Hannagan's photos from Six Flags

The team had their best performance of the season and brought home the a first-place trophy for the first time in seven years at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational. The varsity ended the day with a 3rd-place plaque against tough out-of-state competition. They came within 7 points of beating Nazareth Academy, a very challenging out-of-state team.

Ana Dacey, Sarah Donaldson, Lauren Augustynowicz, Cameron Johnson, and Erin Gebhardt all finished in the top-30 in the race to score for the team and earn medals. Liz Steenkamer and Andie Moran rounded out the top-7 for varsity. The first five runners also cracked the top-25 all time in school history!

Seven JV girls earned top-30 medals in their victory (Jill Boffa, Maddy Pruitt, Kacey Tramont, Cathryn Guidash, Morgan Shiber, Maureen Kirk, and Grace Dohl).

The team combined for 16 season-best performances!

• Spartan Morning News Video (XC begins at 43 seconds)
• Results Varsity
• Results JV
• Results Freshmen
• Six Flags School Records
• Season-Best Performances through Six Flags

XC Team Rankings thru 10/1

White Clay Creek Classic

3 in the Top-10, 5 in the top 20 at WCCC

The Saint Mark's XC girls posted 3 top-10th finishes on Friday at the White Clay Creek Classic. Ana Dacey, Maddy Pruitt, and Erin Gebhardt all finished 10th overall in their races to medal for the team. Cameron Johnson and Lauren Augustynowicz both finished in the top 20 of the senior races. The team put 5 girls under 23:31 on the day.

• Coach Hannagan's pics from WCCC
• Season-Best Times through WCCC
• Results
• Saint Mark's runners all time at White Clay

Christ the Teacher Scrimmage at Saint Mark's

Pictures from the 2017 Christ the Teacher Scrimmage, courtesy of Mark Hannagan, assistant girls' XC and Track Coach at Saint Mark's.

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Big Performances at the Nike Cherokee Challenge

The girls had a big showing at the Nike Cherokee Challenge in Marlton, NJ. Lauren Augustynowicz and Cameron Johnson led the way for the senior girls with top-10 all time performances for the team on the course. Lauren's 13:37 is #6 all time, and Cameron's 13:47 is #8 all time! Freshman Erin Gebhardt finished as the highest point scorer of the day for the Spartans with a 33rd place finish in 14:02! Sophomore Maddy Pruitt finished 90th overall in the Sophomore race in 14:26!

Splits are coming soon!

• Results
• Cherokee School Records (Lauren #6 all time, Cameron #8 all time)

Throwback to September 13, 2014. Maggie, Andie, Cameron, and Lauren posed at the Cherokee Challenge!

SMXC Brings Back 250-Mile Club

The Spartanrunner 250-Mile Club was established in 2013 to challenge the girls to step up their summer training. This challenge wasn't easy. The rule was to run 250 miles in 11 weeks and to keep track all summer runs with an online running log. In the first season,14 girls reached the goal.

Details will be given out during individual meetings