2006 Lane Tech Boys and Girls Cross Country Schedule and Results

Some Archived Articles and Pictures of 2006

Lane Tech at the Wauconda Invitational

Lane Tech's Boys and Girls Cross Country teams ran at the Wauconda Invitational on September 9, 2006.

Katelyn Krey (sr.), running in                                                                   Kulayfi Haji (Fr.) sprints to a                        Jerry Gonzalez (Jr) on his way to an 18:03

JV race towards a 22:47 time                                                                      to a 2nd place finish with a time                   finish to lead Lane's JV boys team in the

in the girls JV race (2.5 mile)                                                                     of 13:45 for 2.5 miles                                      3.0 mile race.

Cross Country

September 8, 2006

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Lane Tech at Lyons Township Invitational

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Junior Eddie Sanchez on his way       Freshman Robert Torrey sprints        Girls sophomore team at the

to a 17:38 (3.0 miles) finish               to a 11:41 (2.0 miles) finish                starting line.

Summary of Lyons Township Invitational

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Pictures at Lyons Township Invitational

Background Information

This is the first week of the high school cross country season. The Lyons Township Invitational held at the Lyons Township High School South campus in Lagrange, IL is a major Invitational with several traditionally strong cross country programs participating including the host Lyons Township, Sandburg, Valparaiso (Indiana), Lincoln Way East, Marist, and Mother McCauley. This year the meet featured the 2006 running debut of the defending class AA state champion Lauren Haberkorn of Marist.

The course basically consists of a one mile loop. Freshman level races run two loops for a two mile race and the sophomore, junior varsity, and varsity run three loops for a three mile race. The meets runs a race for boys and girls for junior varsity, freshman, sophomore, and varsity levels. All races with the exception of the varsity races have unlimited entries. There is a maximum of seven entries in the varsity races.

Starting line of girls varsity race                                                                                             Defending state champ Lauren Haberkorn

                                                                                                                                            of Marist on her way to a 18:05 finish

Boys varsity Individual winner Mark            Lyons Township girls sophomore team meet before their race

Battista of Lincoln Way Central

sprints to a 14:58 finish.

Lane Tech Involvement

They say 90 percent of success is showing up and putting your best effort. In that metric Lane Tech was 100% successful at the Lyons Township Invitational. Lane had runners in every single race including that freshman level. That is very impressive considering Lane has not even officially started school yet. Lane, like all Chicago Public League schools start on September 5, 2006. Also, participation was relatively high this year with over 75 members on all levels combined and school has not even started. coach Kris Roof  anticipates an even greater number of participants joining the team after school starts.

Below are pictures at the start of every race:

Boys Freshman                                                                       Boys JV

Boys Sophomores                                                                    Boys Varsity

Girls Freshman                                                                          Girls JV

Girls Sophomores                                                                      Girls Varsity

Boys varsity finished in  8th place         Freshman Kulayfi Haji ran

                                                                                      16:49 (3.0 miles) in his first race

Girls varsity finished in 9th place                            Sophomore Jennifer Wojtas ran an

                                                                                   impressive 21:37 (3.0 mile) race to

                                                                                   lead Lane's sophomore girls.

Results

Girls Varsity (3.0 miles)

Lane Tech - 259 points (sum of top 5 finishers)

Boys Varsity (3.0 miles)

Lane Tech - 251 points (sum of top 5 runners place)