And to finish out the season the Pumas show their depth once again and get their fifth female to get the AOTW award. On a tough Fresno State Meet course she put up a time of 20:09. With Carrillo graduating 3 runners in front of her it should be intersting to see how she does taking on the extra pressure next year.

What a way to finish out his senior year at Cardinal Newman. Qualifying to the California State Championships With a time of 16:50 placing him 68th in his race. 9th runner from the NCS Section.

It isn't too often we hear of many runners from Analy getting to state, but Dante had a great race on a day with far less than ideal conditions this week to get himself a ticket to state as an individual. With the best time of the day from a Redwood Empire runner in his race at NCS Dante was 17th overall and had a time of 16:47.

On a day where the Hayward course at NCS was super wet and slippery, especially when you're the eigth race of the day and nearly 900 runners have attacked the course before you even get to get up to the line, Ana braced herself and ran tough to sloshed her way to a time of 20:12 on a desemated course placed her 9th and solidifing a trip to the California State Championship meet.

The senior from El Molino didn't only get 2nd in the SCL Championships, but also helped his teammate get the crown. As described in an article in the Press Democrat Brady had to tell the winner (Brian Shultz) the way to go a few times in the race. So in retrospect Brady was responsable for the top 2 places in that race this week. Not something you see too often.

Madison going out there this week and showing she is the class of the SCL. With a time of 18:34 at the SCL Championships she placed a gap of 48 seconds between her and second place. That time was good enough to make her 47th All-Time on the Spring Lake course, and 21st All-Time for sophomores.

Eli's performance this week at the CMC Championships will go to show you what a solid summer of workouts will do. Last year he was 8th at this meet, with all but one returning this year. His time of 15:15 was good enough for 2nd, only behind his teammate and fellow AOTW Caleb Richards.

It is usually the people who score for the team that decide how well they are going to do in a given competition. But that isn't always the case, the NBL championship meet was decided by someone who didn't even score. With both Casa Grande and Maria Carrillo at 40 points it came down to the 6th man. Luckly for Carrillo, Ryan was ahead of Casa Grande's 6th man by 14 seconds to give them the overall league title.

How often is it that you can run 15:55 and get 3rd on your own team. Well that's what happened this week when Nick was one of five guys to go sub-16 on Spring Lake in a tri-meet. Nick's effort helped place his team with the 4th All-time team time on the Spring Lake course with an average time of 15:47.

Apparently Carolina wanted to make AOTW a family affair. With her twin sister winning a few weeks ago, Carolina didn't want to be left out. With this being the last league meet heading into the league championships Carolina stepped up with a 18:57. With everyone on Maria Carrillo running the way they are, rolling into NBL 7-0 they are looking pretty dangerous.

When you live all the way up in Mendocino you tend to get over looked pretty easy. Erin is one of those people is hard to not pay attention to. Even with being relativly quiet this year she came out this week to run an impressive 18:45 to win the Sonoma Academy Invite. That time places her 2nd All-Time among CMC runners. With the way she is running, she is the clear favorite to repeat as CMC champion.

Patrick has been on a bit of a roll this week. He started the week at one of their weekly league meets at St. Vincent with the win on their 2.7 mile course in 16:11. He then turned around and ran at the Sonoma Academy Invite to get the second win of the week with a time of 16:19. With a bit of momentum going right now, the top returner from the CMC last year could be poised to take the title this year.

To show the strength of the Casa Grande's boy's team this year, Nick is the second runner this year to get this award for his team. Nick ran very well this week at Spring Lake with a time of 16:09 (getting second only to their team's other AOTW, Matt Salazar). Not only did he help his team win the race, but the team as a whole this week set their school record for best team time on the course (81:26).

If we say the Casa Grande boys are doing well with their second AOTW of the year this week, what do we say about Casa Grande's girls with Ileana being Casa's third girl to get the award this year. With Ileana's time of 19:13 at Spring Lak to help give her team the win and only a point from getting a perfect score on the day.

Adria started off the week in a tough league meet at home. Her time of 20:09 placed her right in the mix of a blanket finish where places 2-6 were all less than 10secs between one and another. Her week continued that weekend as she went out the Castro Valley Invite where her 14th place finish helping secure her team to a 2nd place finish.

It seems that Montgomery as a team place depending on how their top runner places. Starting off the week Christian was able to pull off the win by 11 seconds at Montgomery's league meet, and his team followed with a perfect score. He continued to run well as he went to the Yoshaany Rahm Invitational, where he fell just short of the win, by a margin of just 0.4 seconds. And yep again his team followed him by getting second by a slim 3 points.

With more than 1,200 participents at the Stanford Invite Daniel placed an impressive 95th across all races on the day. He was one of two runners from the Redwood area to break the 16 minute mark, with a time of 15:59. This performance is made more impressive that he is only a sophomore (3rd sophomore in his race).

This week Allie had a solid performance, running 19:36 at the Stanfford Invite to place her 30th in the D2 race. Her perfrormance was good enough to boost her team to 4th for this presegious meet.

Brian had two impressive wins this week. To start the week off he won the Super Septo Interleague meet at Spring Lake. It was a tough battle between him and fellow Spohomore Daniel Pride from Santa Rosa, with Brian holding him off by just 2 seconds. Then to round the week off he also won the Sophomore race at the Viking Opener. Again another tough battle between him and Daniel Pride. With his time of 10:24 it was good enough to place him 7th All Time for Sophomores on that course.

Delaney had a solid week of races. This year she is looking to be the one to beat in the NBL. At the Super Septo wednesday she won overall with a time of 18:55 (more than 40secs ahead of 2nd place). And then that weekend she was 2nd place in her race at the Viking Opener. With her time of 11:57, that puts her 15th among Juniors All-Time, and 23rd Overall All-Time