November 20, 2010

California Community College Cross Country State Championships

The lady beavers ended their season as the first place team from Northern California, in the California Community College State Cross Country Championships on Sat. Nov. 20, 2010.  They finished a respectable 9^th from the 28 qualifying teams over the 3.1 mile course in Fresno at Woodward Park.

ARC’s Most Valuable Runner,  Courtney  Anderson led her squad with her 24^th place finish in (19:07).
Sara Howard (19:22) was 33^rd, Julie Scully was 35^th (19:53), Robin Yancey was 112^th (21:13), followed by Danna Juarez (21:21) 120^th, Anna Mendoza (22:31) 128^th.  “Every lady bettered her mark on this course from earlier in the season by an average of 1:06 each.  It was a good improvement for our squad.  We’re really looking forward to the spring track season with these talented ladies”, says Coach Powless.

 

November 5, 2010

California Community College Cross Country Championships

After coming away as the Big 8 Conference Cross Country Championships last week, American River College had 4 female competitors in the top 14 today (11/5/10) in the Northern California Championships.  Sophomore Courtney Anderson led her team by placing  2^nd overall in 18:01 for the challenging 5k course. Julie Scully (18:35) was 6^th, 8^th was Sara Howard (18:38), Robin Yancey was 35^th (20:54), Anna Mendoza was 36^th (20:57) Danna Juarez was 45^th (21:39) and Mary Pena was 66^th at 23:56).

  “With our top three beaver finishers gaining lifetime personal bests, and the next two posting seasonal bests, it wasn’t quite enough for the win.  We missed first place by a mere 24 seconds (combined times) or 18 points to Hartnell.  We will get one more shot at them in two weeks at State Meet Championships in Fresno at Woodward Park on Sat. Nov. 20”, says Coach Powless.

October 29, 2010

Big 8 Conference Championships

American River College women won the Big 8 Conference Championships.  They swept the first three positions with six beavers in the top 14.  They scored and impressive 24 points to Modesto’s 44, DVC 77 and Santa Rosa 83.

Courtney Anderson won the event with her personal best of 18:26.  She was followed by 2^nd place Sara Howard (19:04), 3^rd Julie Scully (19:40), 9^th Danna Juarez (21:00), 11^th Anna Mendoza (21:18), 13^th Robin Yancey (21:28), 19^th Anna Gururajan (22:19), 21^st Kristin Norris (23:29), 22^nd Mary Pena (23:37) and 23^rd Monique Lakin (23:41).

The team easily qualifies onto the Northern California Championships to be hosted by ARC at Beal’s Point,  Folsom Lake,  next Fri. Nov. 5 with the women’s 5k beginning at 11:30.

 

October 15, 2010

Mt. San Antonio Cross Country Invitational

American River College Cross Country star, Courtney Anderson led her team to a  4^th place finish (out of 25 Southern California teams) in this year’s prestigious Mt. Sac. X/C Invitational on Fri. Oct. 15^th, 2010.  She broke the 19 minute barrier with her 18:49 medaling along with teammates Julie Scully (19:04) 9^th, and Sara Howard (19:14) 12^th.  Other ARC finishers included Danna Juarez (21:02), Robin Yancey (21:19), Anna Mendoza (21:22), Monique Lakin (22:36), Anna Gururajan (23:2), Kristin Norris (23:05) and Mary Pena.

 “It was a good performance for our team and really helped boost our morale being the only team from Northern California and ending up 4^th overall.  In fact excluding the team from Arizona, we were 3^rd place from California community colleges.  The ladies ran really well today, and we are all optimistic about their championships coming up in the next few weeks”, says Coach Powless.

October 2, 2010

Crystal Springs

Courtney Anderson won the Crystal Springs Invitational in San Mateo on Oct. 2, 2010.  Anderson finished the challenging 3 mile course in 18:58, while leading  her squad to a 3^rd place finish among 13 Community Colleges.

Sara Howard (19:44) was 7^th, Julie Scully (19:53) 9^th, Danna Juarez (21:28) 24^th, Anna Mendoza (22:21) 36^th, Monique Lakin (22:57) and Kristin Norris (24:04) to round out the top seven Beavers.

September 17, 2010

Beaver Invitational at Beal’s Point/Folsom Lake

Placed 2^nd team in a close battle (only 4 points difference) with Hartnell. "With combined times, ARC ladies actually ran faster than Hartnell, but by points we were edged out. I’m truly optimistic with our future performances based on our average team time of 19:48 over the 3 mile course", says Coach Powless. Folsom HS Sophomore, Courtney Anderson was 2^nd while leading her squad to their strong finish.

Individual ARC performances:

2) Courtney Anderson-18:50, 3) Julie Scully-18:53, 6) Sara Howard—19:15, 17) Danna Juarez-20:47, 22) Robin Yancey- 21:21, 26) Anna Mendoza-21:31, 30) Monique Lakin-22:32

September 13, 2010

Fresno Invitational

With 16 Community Colleges at the Fresno Invitational, ARC lady beavers finished a respectable 8^th overall and 2^nd position from the Northern California teams.

Freshman Julie Scully from Buckingham Charter HS was our first Beaver Lady finishing 13^th in 19:47, followed by 21^st Courtney Anderson (Folsom HS) 20:13, 41^st Sara Howard (Colfax HS) 20:52, 62^nd Robin Yancey (Oakridge HS) 21:47 and 67^th Danna Juarez (Cordova HS) 22:02.

Coach Powless adds, "it was a good race for early season since we only had a 2:15 time gap between our 1^st and 5^th runners, but I’m certain they will all get stronger and progress tremendously throughout their season".