Week 9 Practice Schedule

Wow...can you believe it, only 4 weeks remaining in the cross country season!  It has been an incredible journey and as we enter October, remember that it is time to really work on reaching your maximum peak this month.  We have some important meets coming up including the Hilton Head Prep Invitational this Wednesday, a few community 5K opportunities and then Regionals and States.  We need to be training hard this month and above all, PERSEVERE!  - Coach Berry

Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday, Sept 30
Stop by my room @ lunch time to sign up for 'Devin's Dash' on Saturday
Run on Your Own 3-5 miles
Send me a screenshot of 'Map My Run'

Tuesday, Oct 1
Park @ HH Prep (Foxgrape Road)
Sea Pines Forest Preserve
Trail Run

Wednesday, Oct 2
Be in the music room immediately after school dressed in your uniform
Bus TBA
Hilton Head Prep Invitational @ HH Prep
Race Time: 4pm

Thursday, Oct 3
Meet @ Crossings Park
Arrow Rd. Pathway Run
3:45pm-5pm

Saturday, Oct 5
Devin's Dash Memorial 5K
Shipyard Plantation, HHI
Register with Mr. Berry on Monday during lunch, paid for by XC team
Arrive by 7am, Race time 8am

MS Meet Results

This is a late update...but HUGE congrats to Sam Gilman and Ryan Moosbrugger for a tremendous performance at the middle school meet last Wednesday held at Hilton Head Prep.  Sam finished 1st out of 150+ runners with a time of 20:14 and Ryan finished 13th with a time of 22:43 (PR).  This Wednesday, we're back on the same course with our full team for the Hilton Head Prep invitational.  GO EAGLES!

Middle School Meet Tomorrow!

Middle School Meet tomorrow!  

Parents and students should make their way down to Hilton Head Prep immediately after school (I'll be pulling out by 3:10pm) to cheer on our two middle school runners in the middle school meet, which kicks off at 4pm.  Please make every effort to be there to cheer on Sam and Ryan.  We won't have a popup setup for this meet, so just wear your travel shirts and form a line near the course to cheer them on!  See you there!

Week 8 Practice Schedule

Hey Everyone,

What a terrific mid-season week last week!  You gave 110% as we entered into the Beaufort County meet and then the Tiger Bass 5K @ Hampton Lake.  Congrats to everyone that achieved a PR and the few of you that also received medals!  I know Jarvis isn't your favorite place to run, but it's a great location for interval workouts and mile repeats and with the shade, it beats a track!  Here is the schedule for this week:

Tuesday, Sept 24
Jarvis Creek Park
Mile Repeats / 'Mini Ladder'
3:45-5pm

Wednesday, Sept 25
Middle School Meet
Hilton Head Prep
Leave immediately after school @ 3pm
Bus TBD
Everyone needs to attend and cheer on Ryan and Sam!

Thursday, Sept 26
HHCA
Long Run TBD
3:45-5:15pm

Saturday, Sept 28
Bluffton Trail / Pathway Run
Meet @ Publix on Buckwalter Pkwy (Parking Lot on the left)
8am-9:15am

Honey Horn County Meet / Tiger Bass 5K RESULTS

Happy Saturday to all of the fans of the HHCA Eagles Cross Country team!  

I am posting below all of the results from our Wednesday Beaufort County meet held at Honey Horn Plantation and also our results from this morning's Tiger Bass 5K held at Hampton Lake, benefiting Bluffton Self Help. 

A couple of quick highlights:

Wednesday

• In Wednesday's county meet, the HHCA Girls XC team placed 4th out of 7 teams ahead of Beaufort High, Whale Branch High and Battery Creek.  The first three teams were Hilton Head High, Bluffton and Hilton Head Prep.
• Callie Haertel finished 15th overall for the girls in Beaufort County with a time of 23:50.
• Sam Gilman finished 27th overall for the boys in Beaufort County with a time of 19:40.

Saturday

• Callie Haertel finished 1st in the 14 and under girls category with a time of 23:19 (personal record).
  
• Allison Meeder, Alyssa White and Lindsey Gillis captured 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the 15-19 girls category. They all finished with a PR:  Allison (23:51), Alyssa (24:21) and Lindsey (26:09).  Amazing job girls!
• Head coach James Berry and parent volunteer coaches Michelle Flowers and Mark White ran the 5K Saturday with the team.  Mark White won the coaches race with an unbelievable time of 17:53 finishing 7th overall in the entire race!

Full Results:

Wednesday

HHCA XC Girls

• Callie Haertel - 23:50 (15)
  
• Alyssa White - 25:22 (26)
• Allison Meeder - 25:33 (30)
• Andy Anderson - 25:35 (31)
• Lindsey Gillis - 26:49 (41)
• Abby Bensch - 30:33 (51)
• Alyssa Lane - 30:34 (52)
• Amber Hubbard - 31:03 (54)

HHCA XC Boys

• Sam Gilman - 19:40 (27)
• Hunter Greenwell - 22:54 (61)
• Ryan Moosbrugger - 23:12 (63)
• Henry Clark - 24:40 (74)
• Bryce Flowers - 31:23 (78)
• Hunter Boyd - 31:35 (79)
• Michael Becvar - 32:25 (80)

Saturday
HHCA XC Girls

• Callie Haertel - 23:19 (29)
• Allison Meeder - 23:51 (32)
• Alyssa White - 24:21 (38)
• Lindsey Gillis - 26:09 (44)
• Alyssa Lane - 30:27 (69)
• Amber Hubbard - 32:22 (77)
• Hannah Fulford - 32:22 (78)

HHCA XC Boys

• Hunter Greenwell - 23:02 (27)
• Bryce Flowers - 27:05 (48)
• Henry Clark - 30:31 (70)

Coaches

• Mark White - 17:53 (7)
• James Berry - 27:10 (49)
• Michelle Flowers - 29:14 (56)

Tuesday TEAM PICTURE DAY @ Jarvis Creek Park

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is PICTURE DAY for our HHCA Cross-Country Eagles.  Meet @ Jarvis Creek Park by 3:30pm with pictures to commence at 3:45pm.  A very brief practice will follow to make our final preparations for the meet on Wednesday.  Practice will be over by 4:30pm.  If you haven't gotten a uniform, stop by my room at lunch tomorrow.  See you at Jarvis!

- Mr. Berry

Week 7 Practice Schedule

Hey Everyone,

Happy Sunday!  We have a very busy week ahead of us, so please read through the following practice and meet schedule for the week.  We have an absolute required meet on Wednesday and then a community 5K meet that I'd like all of the high school students to do on Saturday.  If you are unable to participate in the meet Saturday, let me know by practice tomorrow, but we can get an official team score, so I'd like as many of us there as possible! =)  Middle school students should probably sit out on the meet Saturday because you will have your own middle school meet next week on Wednesday (which would make 3 meets within a week).  Don't forget that uniforms will be given out Monday, pictures are on Tuesday and then the meets on Wednesday and Saturday.  A busy week for sure!  PERSEVERE!

Monday, September 16
Meet in the Music Room @ HHCA by 3:15 dressed for practice
Uniforms will be given out
4-5 mile total run
Practice ends at 4:30pm

Tuesday, September 17
3:30-4:30pm
Jarvis Creek Park
Bring your uniform to change into for pictures
Practice will be an easy run 2-3 miles

Wednesday, September 18 - MEET DAY
X-C Meet vs. Hilton Head High and others
Honey Horn Plantation
Meet by the Cafeteria by 3:45pm to depart
Wear travel shirts prior to the race, and uniforms for the race
Race begins @ 5pm
It should end by sunset... =)

No practice on Thursday

Friday, September 19
3:45-5:00pm
Pinckney Island Run
3-4 mile easy run

Saturday, September 20th
Tiger Bass 5K @ Hampton Lake
Arrive by 7am
(Upper School Students ONLY)

Saturday

I hope you are all having a fantastic Friday.  I'm having a great time worshiping with the middle school students on the middle school retreat.  Special thanks to Mr. White and Mrs. Flowers for running practice on Thursday!  I have decided to cancel practice for Saturday morning because of a few reasons (my wife's birthday and exhaustion from the retreat / football game), however I do expect you to run 3-5 miles on your own and e-mail me a screenshot.  Our uniforms have also arrived and will be given out Monday at practice.  Next week will be very busy with practice on Monday @ HHCA, pictures and practice on Tuesday @ Jarvis Creek, a meet at Honey Horn on Wednesday, a short practice Friday on Pinckney Island and a meet at Hampton Lake on Saturday.  I will send a full detailed schedule for next week sometime this weekend.  I hope you are all having a great week!  Persevere!

- Mr. Berry =)

Week 6 Schedule

Hey Everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend.  It was awesome to see you all conquer the Cross Island Bridge.  It's time to really get mentally focused as we have a nice full week of training before the meet next Wednesday.  I will be with the 7th and 8th grade retreat Thursday and Friday, but Mrs. Flowers and Mr. White will be running a practice at Jarvis Creek Park.  Uniforms should also be arriving soon and we will have team pictures next Tuesday.  Check out the schedule below and see you soon!

- Coach Berry

Tuesday, Sept 10
3:45-5:15pm
Meet @ HHCA
Beach City Road Run

Thursday, Sept 12
4:00-5:15pm
Meet @ Jarvis Creek Park
Speed Workout

Saturday, Sept 14
Cancelled (See Note Above)

Week 5 Schedule

Hey everyone,

It's actually a pretty normal week, no retreats or meets, so I look forward to some good, dedicated down-to-business practicing.  I would like you all to work towards running 4-5 days total a week, so that means 1 or 2 days of running on your own outside of our team practice.  When you do this, send a screenshot or share your results of 'Map My Run' to my e-mail (or something similar) and I'll add it to your stats.  You'll be amazed at how much it will help! 

Tuesday, September 3rd
Jarvis Creek Park
4:00-5:20pm
Tempo Run

Thursday, September 5th
Meet in the music room @ 3:30pm for a team meeting
4:00-5:20pm
Interval Workout
HHCA

Saturday, September 7th
9:00-10:30am
Practice @ Crossings Park
Off of Helsmann Way on the South End
Long Run

Run for RET Results

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! While many HHCA students were sleeping Saturday morning recovering from the retreat, our cross country team participated in our second meet - the Run for Ret held at Hilton Head Prep! We had 14 runners participate in the meet, with several of them running in their first 5K ever. We had a great day on the tough course with the boys team finishing 4th, and the girls team finishing 3rd. Our top three runners for the boys included Sam Gilman, Grayson Lentz, and Hunter Greenwell. For the girls, it was Callie Haertel, Alyssa White and Lindsey Gillis. Great job to all who participated!

See the full results here: http://www.ononevents.com/results/results_rfr2013.htm