Cross Country Results

Meet: Avon Lake Early Bird Invitational

Date: 9/1/07, 9:30, 10:30, 12:30

Weather: Warm (mid-80s)

Team Place: V = 11/16, JV = 11/12

Notes:

• Due to an injury that temporarily put her in the hospital, co-captain Jen Tomasch was unable to run, missing only the second meet of her career.
• Every runner who competed at last week’s SWC Preview, which was held at this same course, improved, including Sophia Kopasakis (-:28), Lauren Ledek (-:59), Megan Davis (-1:13), Alesha Beverly (-2:27), Sam Anderson (-1:08), Clare Wittenberg (-:46), Hannah Zapfe (-1:20), Natalie Halczuk (-1:49), Haleigh Scherma (-1:22), Miranda Buza (-2:40), Shelley Koski (-1:58), Nicole Harter (-1:25), Katya Howard (-2:07), Catherine Beaton (-2:28), and Dani Harriger (-2:29).
• Improving from last year were Lauren and Hannah, who both set Early Bird PR’s by shaving 1:44 and :04, respectively, off of their previous best Early Bird times.
• Sophia ran with some of the top runners in the state through the first two miles before finishing 21^st overall.
• Lauren Ledek again ran a fantastic race in which she picked up 13 spots over the final mile before finishing with an event PR (indeed, an example of how much Lauren has improved can be seen in the fact that last season she finished 99^th compared to 37^th this year). Not only that, but for the second week in a row, Lauren’s performance earned her another spot in the team’s record books of Top Ten Times by running the 10^th fastest Early Bird time in Westlake history.
• First year runners Alesha and Megan continue to impress. Running together most of the race before sprinting to the end, both set 5K PR’s and solidified their spot on the Varsity team.
• Brittany Daniels, who was unable to run all last year due to an injury, ran her first high school race – EVER! – and ran well enough to earn a spot on the Varsity team for next week’s race at Tiffin.
• Also running in her first high school meet was Cassie Gajda.
• Team-wise, the girls ran one of their fastest team 5K’s at LCCC since 2003, and as such earned a spot for this year’s team on the Top Ten Times list.
• Results

Runner	Finish	Meet Place	Team Place
Sophia Kopasakis	2108	21	1
Lauren Ledek	2141 – Earlybird PR	37	2
Alesha Beverly	2322 – LCCC PR/5K PR	75	3
Megan Davis	2330 – LCCC PR/5K PR	77	4
Sam Anderson	2453	85	5
Clare Wittenberg	2522	88	6
Brittany Daniels	2553	JV – 62	7
Lauren Tafuri	2615	92	8
Natalie Halczuk	2610 – LCCC PR/5K PR	JV – 65	9
Hannah Zapfe	2632 – Earlybird PR	JV – 69	10
Miranda Buza	2635	JV – 70	11
Shelley Koski	2702	JV – 75	12
Haleigh Scherma	2703 – LCCC PR/5K PR	JV – 76	13
Nicole Harter	2747	JV – 79	14
Catherine Beaton	2707 – LCCC PR/5K PR	Open – 79	15
Dani Harriger	2721 – LCCC PR/5K PR	Open – 81	16
Katya Howard	2754 – LCCC PR/5K PR	Open – 95	17
Cassie Gajda	2910	Open – 120	18
Jen Tomasch	DNR - Injured
Team 5K	1:14:37

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