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Cross Country 2007
James is Division II Section Champion!  After struggling with knee and arch pain in October and injuring his knee in a Home Coming float incident just before the sub-section meet in November, James fought back to win both the Division II Sub-Section race and Division II Section race. In early October, James was in great shape. He ran his first varsity race in a league meet and finished in 7th place in 15:45 (a bit short of a three mile course). Unfortunately, James started having knee pain and had a setback in his training the next week. He finished a disappointing 7th place in the freshman race at Bella Vista's own Bronco Invitational the next weekend at Folsom High School. A week later, James had a another disappointing race at the League Finals finishing 8th in the varsity race in 18:01 on a tough, hilly Folsom High School 5K course. James was disappointed in his time and the fact that the top 7 earned All League status. The day after the league meet (Friday night), James was walking beside the freshman Home Coming float throwing candy in to the stands when he got his foot caught under the wheel and was knocked to the ground. The back wheel of the trailer ran over his knee taking several layers of skin with it. James wasn't able to walk without extreme pain and had trouble bending the knee for several days (another set back in the training). With the sub-section meet coming up, we weren't sure if he was going to heal quickly enough to compete which would mean the end of the high school season. After a trip to Kaiser for some antibacterial cream, the abrasions started healing quickly and James was able to run a little by Thursday. Glad to have James healing nicely and able to run at all, we made the trip back down to Calaveras County the following Saturday for the sub-section meet (qualifier for the section meet) with no expectations. James' coach wanted to try to advance a frosh/soph team to the Section meet so she put her best 8 freshman and sophomores in the sophomore race. James ran an outstanding race earning the Sophomore Division II Champion title (as a freshman)! Unfortunately, the team finished 5th but James and a sophomore teammate qualified to advance to the Section meet. The next weekend we were back out at Folsom High School for the Section Championships. Feeling good after winning the Sub-Section race and getting back in to his training regime that week, James took control of the tough Folsom High School course to become the Division II Sophomore Champion! Overall, James had a great season representing his high school well and proudly. Go Broncos! James Wins 4 out of 6! James has gotten his high school running career off to a great start with a league meet win and three invitational wins! Link to video of James' race in Concord on Flotrackr web site  James started the season on a very hot Friday afternoon
on the last day of August at the Granite Bay Invitational meet
at Sierra College. It was over 100 degrees and James was running the
freshman race at 4:30 in the afternoon - the hottest part of the
day. James got a strong start and led for the first mile. The heat
got the better of him and he "hit
the wall" at the mile mark. A freshman from down south (who looked like
he got held back about 3 times) took over the race at that point.
James finished 2nd in 12:12 (some think the course was little long)
just 14 seconds behind the burly freshman from Madera South. The
Bella Vista freshman boys team placed 3rd. The following Saturday we traveled to Vacaville for the Lagoon Valley invitational - some refer to it as Big Momma named after the enormous hill the runners must traverse. There is also a "little sister". James once again competed in the freshman race. James had a great race winning the 2-mile race in 12:01 with a 42 second lead on 2nd place. Of the 303 boys competing that day in the freshman, frosh/soph and JV 2-mile races, James had the second fastest time of the day. The freshman team placed 5th. The first league meet of the season was contested at Rio Americano High School on the Wednesday after Lagoon Valley. James took an early lead in the freshman boys race. His coach was out on the course so James asked her if he should "go for a good time" or "save himself for the big meet on Saturday". Coach Fagundes told him he had a 100M lead so he could take it easy. James' winning time was 10:09 - the next boy in was at 10:40. The freshman team placed 3rd. James' next race was a huge invitational in Concord. James competed in the frosh/soph division for the first time. There were 240 boys in James race. After getting off to a great start, James struggled a bit on the trail that wound around the huge hill - he says his legs were tired. He got passed by quite a few kids and was in about 30th place coming off the hill. James recovered on the steep precarious down hill and was able to gain back most of what he lost going up. James finished in 6th place. All 5 boys ahead of him were sophomores. James had the fastest freshman time of the day and the 9th fastest time out of approximately 600 freshman and sophomore boys competing that day. The Bella Vista frosh/soph team placed 15th out of 35 teams.  The
next weekend we were off to Angels Camp for the Brette Hart/Frogtown
Invitational. James was given the choice of competing in the frosh/soph
race or the freshman race. James chose the freshman race because
he had put on 41 miles that week and his legs were tired (they
are training through the invitationals). He told his coach he would
rather go for the easy win instead of having to battle some big
beastly sophomores. James did get the win but it wasn't quite as
easy as he had hoped. At a little over a mile, his buddy and former
teammate, Robbie S., was on his heels. James wanted to win by over
a minute so I "encouraged" him
to pick it up. I didn't see him again until he was coming down
the home straight - with a 39 second lead on 2nd place! James'
time on this course was 11:10. There were a total of 77 boys in
his race. The freshman boys placed 3rd. On Friday, September 28th, a small contingent from Bella Vista High School traveled down south to compete, the next day, in the Kenny Staub Invitational in La Crescenta with a side trip to Magic Mountain after the race. James had a great race wining the Division II sophomore race in 17:15 (all races were three miles). This was James' first time competing in a three mile race in a high school meet. It was good practice for him being that he wants to run varsity in the next league meet (varsity races are always three miles). |