Cross Country Fall 2008 Men's Team
10/17/08
LPC Men's xc team talking strategy as the Meet is about to begin.
The race starts in Santa Rosa.
10/10/08
The team posing at the DVC Invite.
9/13/08
LPC Men's team get ready for the start of the Lou Vazquez Invite in San Francisco.
Men's team racing in the Lou Vazquez Invite
9/6/08
Men's Team at the Stanislaus Invite in Turlock Ca.
Men's Cross Country Finishes Season Strong at State Championships
11/20/07
Our men qualified and ran Sat.11/17/07 in the XC State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno .
We finished 19th in the State for the 2nd year in a row. Four students were offered 4-year scholarships on the spot. More will follow after the spring track and field season.
Team results follow, along w/ our times for the 4 mile course.
19. 511 LAS POSITAS (22:47 113:53)
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1 79 179 Joey Nunes SO 22:11
2 91 173 Tristan Blair FR 22:26
3 92 175 Juan Gomez SO 22:27
4 105 177 Ivan Medina SO 22:51
5 144 178 Ross Mollenkopf SO 23:58
6 (147) 176 Jag Kalirai SO 24:13
7 (160) 174 Alex Blue FR 25:14
Men Qualify for the State Championships
11/5/07
The Las Positas College Men's Cross Country team finishes 5th in the NorCal Championships and earn a spot in the State Championships (the top 10 teams qualify). This year's team has shown exceptional spirit and heart that has resulted in qualifying for the State Meet for the second year in a row.Team times and the team results for the NorCal meet are below. Joey Nunes (Livermore Hi.), Tristan Blair (San Ramon Hi.) and Ross Mollenkopf (Granada Hi.) had especially fine races.
2007 Northern California Community College Cross Country Championships
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1. 35 AMERICAN RIVER (21:03 105:11)
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2. 71 FRESNO (21:25 107:01)
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3. 84 SEQUOIAS (21:34 107:50)
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4. 124 HARTNELL (21:52 109:16)
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5. 172 LAS POSITAS (22:22 111:50)
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1 17 266 Joey Nunes SO 21:36 5 63 265 Ross Mollenkopf SO 23:35
2 24 264 Ivan Medina SO 22:00 6 ( 79) 263 Jag Kalirai SO 24:27
3 26 262 Juan Gomez SO 22:02 7 ( 91) 261 Alex Blue FR 25:21
4 42 260 Tristan Blair FR 22:37
Hawks run through pain and heat for second in conference
LPC Express Student Newspaper
Jeff Bennett
Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: Sports
Men Finish 2nd in Conference11/1/07 |
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| The Las Positas College men finished 2nd out of eight teams in the Coast Conference Finals for the 2nd year in a row. Many of the competing colleges are much bigger with much larger sports programs, but LPC held their own. The team is now ranked 5th in Northern California and will advance The team will now advance to the Nor-Cal Championships to be held on November 3, 2007. Ivan Medina finished 2nd (and he received a medal) in the race running an excellent tactical race from start to finish. Only one other runner from LPC (Jerron Clark- 1st place 2004) has finished higher in the standings than Ivan. The top 14 runners receive a medal and LPC had 4 runners receive "All Conference Team" awards. Juan, Joey and Tristan all received medals and ran great races. The LPC runners times and team scores are as follows: 2 IVAN MEDINA SO LAS POSITAS 21:57 5 JUAN GOMEZ SO LAS POSITAS 22:29 6 JOEY NUNES SO LAS POSITAS 22:31 14 TRISTAN BLAIR FR LAS POSITAS 23:00 |
Men Take Top Finish at Lou Vasquez
Posted 9/28/07
Our men finished 4th out of a field of 20 teams. The men were the 1st team in LPC history to rank 1st in our conference in a large meet like this one (4th in the meet overall, yet 1st team in from our Coast Conference). Joey Nunes (Liv. HS) again earned a shirt for top 14 and he moved into the 2nd fastest spot on the all-time list for the SF course. Tristan Blair (Cal HS) at 22:27 and Jag Kalirai (Dublin HS) at 22:47 set PRs (personal record) for the four miles. Times for the September 27, 2007 race:
9th JOEY NUNES SO LAS POSITAS 20:59 5:12 per mile
18 IVAN MEDINA FR LAS POSITAS 21:28 5:19
24 JUAN GOMEZ SO LAS POSITAS 21:39 5:22
52 TRISTAN BLAIR FR LAS POSITAS 22:27 5:34
65 JAGBIR KALIRAI SO LAS POSITAS 22:47 5:39
98 ROSS MOLLENKOPF SO LAS POSITAS 23:51 5:55
124 ALEX BLUE FR LAS POSITAS 25:03 6:12
129 JOHN YERSAK FR LAS POSITAS 25:20 6:17
152 ADAM SHAMOUEL SO LAS POSITAS 28:25 7:02
So, we are currently ranked 4th in Nor-Cal. And 1st in the Coast Conference!
Although the women did not finish as high in the standings they were all set Personal Records for their 5K race. They are all freshman and they are working hard to get better (and they all have a great attitude). All of our students carry 12 to 20 units and 80% work while training and competing.
Hawks go big bringing home three medals and a trophy after Mills College Invitational
LPC Express Student Newspaper
Jeff Bennett
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Sports
Men Win Mills Invitational AGAIN
Posted 9/23/07
The men won the Mills Invitational for the second year in a row. The Mills Invitational was held on Saturday September 22 at Mills College in Oakland. We have a new 1st place trophy in our window case in the gym, so come by the PE Complex and check it out.
LPC beat five 4-year colleges in the process. Three of our sophomore student-athletes were offered scholarships right on the spot!
There were so many personal records (PR's) that.... well we have to mention them:
2nd place-- Joey Nunes- PR for the 4 mile on route to a 5 mile PR @ 27:52
3rd — Juan Gomez-- 28:10
4th — Ivan Medina-- 29:07
7th-- Tristan Blair- PR for the 4 mile on route to a 5 mile PR @ 29:32
Jag Kalirai- PR for the 4 mile on route to a 5 mile PR @ 29:39
Ross Mollenkopf-- 31:39
Alex Blue-- PR for the 4 mile on route to a 5 mile PR @ 32:36
John Yersak-- 35:10
Three student-athletes took home individual medals:
Joey Nunes- 2nd place overall (only one gentleman from the contiguous state of Kenya beat him, although 4 year teams do not have to go by the same rules we have)
Juan Gomez- 3rd overall
Ivan Medina- 4th overall
Las PositasCollege Men's Team captured 1st place with 24 points. William Jessup 2nd with 56, Cal-State East Bay 3rd with 76; Simpson College 4th with 86; Holly Names 5th with 107.
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2006 Season
Athletes Qualify for California State Track and Field Meet!
Saturday May 12 at American River College, Five Chabot-Las Positas College athletes qualified for the California State Meet!
Las Positas College Cross Country Runner, Kyle Robinson was second in the 800 Meters; while Rob Gire placed fourth in the Discus.
Dual Sport Athletes - Compete in Cross Country at LPC and Track at Chabot
Three Cross-Country Athletes qualify for the Northern California Championships
Several of our LPC Cross-Country student athletes run Cross-Country for LPC in the Fall and Track for Chabot in the Spring. Please join me in congratulating these LPC students in advancing to the Nor Cal Championships. We wish them well this weekend and hope they move swiftly on to the California State Championships, to occur May 18-19 at the College of San Mateo.
Kyle Robinson in the 800 Meters.
Nick Sigmon and Joey Nunes in the 5,000 Meter run.
Kyle Robinson will join Chabot students Morales, Macklin and Turner in the 4x400 Relay.
Hopefully all Twelve will have personal bests this coming weekend.
Hawks show power at NorCal
LPC Express Student Newspaper
Jeff Bennett
Issue date: 11/17/06 Section: Sports
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Mens Cross Country on their way to NorCal
LPC Express Student Newspaper
Ciaban Krommenhock
Issue date: 10/27/06 Section: Sports
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Crystal Springs
This past weekend, at the Crystal Springs Invite, our men finished in 6th spot without our 5th man, Ross Mollenkompf, running.. Juan Gomez (Dublin Hi) had a great race as he finished in a time of 22:14, on a very hilly course that is 4.19 miles long (this probably adds a min. to his time). This is 5:26 per mile, again on a hilly course. Of the 137 competitors, we had four runners in the top 30. Parris Hodges again ran a great and determined race. Her 19:50 moves her into second fastest on the "all time list" for LPC (Lynn Pidoli has a 19:40 on Nov. 6, 2004). She finished in 6th spot and is currently ranked 6th in Northern Cal. We look forward to running in the Conference Meet, Nor Cal Meet and the State Meet. You can see our schedule @ LPC's web site. The group of men we have can be the fastest team we have ever had at LPC. We did finish 7th in Nor Cal prior to this and Jerron Clarke was 1st in conference two years ago and 3rd in north. But, this team could and should be our best ever and all but one is a freshman.
Las Positas College Men's Cross Country team places 1st at Mills College Invitational October 13, 2006.
Welcome
Cross Country practices are currently underway!
Contact Coach Navarro at (925) 424-1252 or snavarro@laspositascollege.edu for more information.