Hopkins 3rd, Bergin Sets School Record at XC Pre-State
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 12:03
At Saturday's Pre-State Invitational in Dade City, Freshman Ciara Hopkins took third place in the Varsity Open, leading the girls team to a 6th-place finish in a 21-team race. For the boys, Sophomore Conner Bergin broke his own school record by nineteen seconds, finishing in 17:52.32.
You can watch a post-race interview with Hopkins online at DistancePreps.com: http://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=31488&;do=videos&video_id=54561.
The top five girls averaged 22:33 for the race, just four second behind their 22:29 average at last week's Hagerty Invitational. The top five boys averaged 20:06 this week, an improvement of thirty-three seconds from last week.
Coach Troy Urquhart said, "The improvement in our boys' times this week was what we hoped to see--Conner [Bergin]'s sub-18 puts his season goal of 17:30 in sight, and the boys team improved their average time again today. Our girls team has raced a bit more than the boys so far this season, and they've taken off more than four minutes per runner since their first race, so what we saw from them today was what we wanted to see: confirmation that they can run these times consistently and that they're on track for a good performance in November."
Girls Highlights
- Ciara Hopkins ran 19:49, taking 3rd in the Varsity Open.
- Susan Rifai shaved four seconds off her personal record time, finishing in 22:44.
- Tanner Dotson ran 23:14.
- Addison Adkins finished in 23:28.
- Maya Rifai ran 23:34, just one second behind her personal record time of 23:33.
- Katie Young finished in 24:58.
- Parinda Dechathipat ran 25:34.
- Janki Patel finished in 30:44.
Boys Highlights
- Conner Bergin set a new school record, running 17:52 and taking 26th place in the Varsity Open.
- Young Bum Yoo cut more than twenty seconds from his personal best, finishing in 20:09.
- Tyler Gehr improved his personal best by twenty-five seconds, running 20:12.
- Binh Nguyen took off fifty-three seconds with a time of 21:06.
- Joon Ho Suh cut more than thirty seconds, finishing in 21:13.
- Chol Min Kim improved his season best time by more than a minute, running 21:16.
- Sang-Bin Park finished in 21:43.
- Brandon Pownall ran 23:50, just three seconds behind last week's personal best of 23:47.
- Kaize Deng improved his personal best by more than fifty seconds, running 25:16.
- Brian Donnelly took almost a minute off his personal best, finishing in 25:16.
