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| 2009 Roster Seniors Maureen Allen Analicia Caylor Jacinta Leyden Shannon Linderman Juniors Michele Centineo Hannah Russell Cindy Tung Sophomores Sarah Archer Kellie Barranco Rihanna Devany Elise Franke Becca Jones Tierra Mayes Lara Samarneh Kathryn Wood Freshmen Emily Frazelle Jasmine Jones Frederika Jordan MacKenzie Mayo Paige Yim Managers Mi Bui Megan Montalbano |
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| November 12th update: Well it wouldn’t be rain without a cross country meet. On October 29th at rainy Bear Creek Park the Girls' Cross Country team defeated Memorial 32 to 33 to win the district 19-5A championship. This is only the second time that we have ever won district in Girl’s cross country with last year being the first year. It was a true team effort as the Spartans won 3rd, 4th, 6th 9th and 10th places which as a team game them a 32 to edge out Memorial by 1 point. The Spartans were led by sophomore Kathryn Wood (12:49) in 3rd, 4th Sophomore Lara Samaranth(13:09), 6th Senior Shannon Linderman (13: 25), 9th Senior Jacinta Leyden(13:32) and 10th Sophomore Elise Franke(13:33). Sophomores Tierra Mayes (13:57.55) and Becca Jones (13:57.84) also finished 12th and 13th but only the top 5 scores count for scoring purposes. The JV girls were not to be out done and repeated as district champions defeating Memorial by 2 points , 27 to 29. Sophomore Kellli Barranco ran away with the race winning it in a time of 13:24 almost 21 seconds faster than the 2nd place runner from Memorial. The Spartans won 1st, 3rd, 5th 7th and 11th places. Junior Michelle Centineo (13:49.05) was 3rd, 5th Junior Cindy Tung(13:50.35), 7th Sophomore Rhinana Devaney( 14.14. 47)and 11th Freshman MacKenzie Mayo (14:47).Freshman Fredericka Jordan placed 13th. In the last race of the day in driving rain and wind Senior Analicia Caylor as also not to be outdone. In her last race for Stratford she won the girl’s division of the Open Race. Way to fight Analicia we’re proud of you! ~~~~ On Saturday at Lone Star College the Girl’s Cross Country team finished 8th of 24 teams in the 5A Regional Meet .This is the best they have ever finished in regionals. The girl’s actually tied Pearland with 247 points for 7th place, but the tie breaker goes to lowest total time and Pearland’s total time was 12:46.16 with Stratford’s being 12:47.66, thus putting Stratford into 8th place. Kathryn Wood who had been leading the Spartan runners all season did not run due to illness, but that didn’t stop the rest of the team from running great times. Anyone who thought the district meet was a fluke last week was soundly convinced at this meet how dominating Stratford’s girls really are. Memorial could only manage 12th place and all 5 of Stratford’s runners were in before Memorial’s 3rd place runner crossed the finish line. Leading the Spartans was Senior Shannon Linderman in 33rd place out of 174 runners. Shannon ran a 12:23 her best time for the year and she also defeated last week’s district #1 and #2 runner. Finishing second for the Spartans also running her best time of the year by 26 seconds was Sophomore Lara Samarraneh in 51st with a time of 12:43. Sophomore Tierra Mayes ran her best meet of the year finishing 61st in a time of 12:53.8. Sophomore Kellie Barranco finished in 64th place just ahead of Senior Jacinta Leyden in 65th place. Kellie ran a 12:58.4 and Jacinta 12:59 for her final race as a Spartan. Junior Michele Centenio finished 99th with a 13:33 and Sophomore Elise Franke ran a 13:42. The team is blessed with lots of sophomores so this will bode well for next year’s season. Congratulations girls! October 30th update: The varsity and JV girls cross country team won district yesterday morning! Varsity beat Memorial by 1 point to finish first in varsity and JV also beat Memorial by 3. Way to Go SPARTANS! October 7th update: The Girl's Cross Country Team ran in the Gnatzig Invitational at Lone Star College on Saturday. The varsity team finished 7th out of 21 teams with many hard teams running the regional course. Sophomore Katheryn Wood led the team finishing in 35th with a time of 12:31. Senior Shannon Linderman ran 12:44 for 42nd, Sophomore Kellie Barranco 49th at 12:55, Senior Jacinta Leyden 50th at 12:57, Sophomore Elise Franke 56th at 13:00, Sophomore Tierra Mayes 58th at 13:02 and Junior Cindy Teng 76th at 13:29. Times for the top 5 runners were less than 30 seconds diffence. The JV Girls' finished 12th out of 20 teams that saw a race with 286 runners. Junior Michele Centineo led the JV with a time of 13:36 for 31st place, Sophomore Becca Jones finished 40th at 13: 56, Freshman MacKenzie Mayo 50th at 14:08, Freshman Emily Frazelle 68th at 14:28 and Senior Analicia Caylor at 15:38. The team has a bye this week but will return next weekend at Bear Creek for the Strake Jesuit Meet. September 30th update: On Wednesday the Girl's Cross Country team traveled to Willlis to compete in the mud and rain in the Willls Invitational.This was a hilly course, part of the team was sick and the varsity team found out that they had to run almost 1 1/2 hours earlier than they were scheduled to run. The varsity team finished fifth out of 16 teams. The JV team finished 7th out of 18 teams. Top runners for varsity were Lara Samarah and for JV Cindy Tung. Next meet is at Lone Star College near Bush Airport on Saturday morning. September 23rd update: On Saturday the Girls' Cross country team ran to a second place finish out of 20 teams at the Spring Branch Invitational Meet at Nottingham Park losing only to a good team from Cy Fair. Foster finished third and Memorial finished fourth. Sophomore Kathryn Woods led the Spartans with a time of 12:45 and a 7th place finish. Sophomore Kellie Barranco was 13th (13:17), Senior Shannon Linderman was 16th(13:21), Sophomore Lara Samarneh was 17th (13:24),and Sophomore Tierra Mayes 18th (13:26). Sophomore Becca Jones(14:02) and Junior Michele Centenio(14:08) placed 29th and 32nd. The JV team did not have enough runners to score due to the flu. That did not stop the Spartans from winning 5th place(Sophomore RhiannaDevaney 14:11), 7th place(Freshman Emily Frazelle 14:36) and 10th place (Junior Hannah Russell 14:43). Senior Analicia Caylor ran a 15:43 but could not be scored in a JV race and Freshman Paige Yim recovering from the flu ran 52nd. The team travels this week to Willis for a Thursday afternoon meet at the Bearkat Invitational. Saturday bring your dirty cars to the Girl's Cross Country Car Wash in the Dairy Ashford Parking lot at Stratford from 9-12. September 16th update: Aggieland was blessed with 3 days of rain last week soaking their intramural fields enough that the A&M Cross Country Invitational was cancelled. Cross country usually runs in the rain as long as there is no lightening but the Aggies were afraid 800 or more runners might tear up their rain soaked fields so they cancelled the meet leaving another large group of disappointed runners. The Girl's Cross Country team will run this Saturday in the Spring Branch Invitational Meet at 8 a.m. at Nottingham Park near Stratford. Come cheer on the Cross Country team as they run against Memorial and other district teams. September 9th update: The Stratford Girl's Varsity Cross Country team finished third out of 20 teams in the Lamar Consolidated Invitational held Friday at George Park in Richmond. Senior Jacinta Leyden finished 8th with a time of 12:46 and Sophmore Kathryn Wood was right behind her in ninth place with a time of 12:55. Sophmore Lara Samarneh finished in 17th with a time of 13:33. The JV Girl's team finished second out of 16 teams(losing only to powerhouse Cinco Ranch) with only a gap of 36 seconds between our first and fifth runner. Sophmore Tierra Mayes finished 7th despite being tripped in the first start. Tierra got back up and then in the restart ran a 14:31.6 for 7th place. Sophmore Elise Franke finished right behind her in 8th with a time of 14:32, Junior Cindy Tung finished 10th with a time of 14:46.Sophmore Rhianna Devany ran a 15:06 and Freshman McKenzie Mayo ran a 15:08. Freshman JV Runner Paige Yim was the runner of the week improving her time by 56 seconds. Way to go Paige! Eight out of 11 runners improved their times from last week. The team will travel to College Station this Saturday to run in the A&M Invitational at 10:40. September 2nd update: The Girls Cross Country team traveled to the Woodlands last Friday night to run in one of the favorite meets under the lights in the Friday Night Lights Meet. There they were blown away-literally. During the first race- the open race, there were about 100 people running when a huge windstorm came across the course blowing sand, tents and toppling some race towers. Senior Analicia Coyler finished the race in the blowing wind with a time of 16:29. After the wind came the lightening and all races were delayed. About 2 hours later the meet was going to resume in the rain and races were going to be combined meaning that about 400 runners would be in a race, when the lightening returned. The meet was then cancelled and about 1500 runners went home disappointed not being able to run. Friday the girls travel to George Park in Richmond to run the Lamar Consolidated Meet beginning at 4. August 27th update: Stratford Girls Cross Country Wins Spring Creek Meet The Stratford Girls’ Cross Country Team began this season where they ended last season winning their first meet and defeating Memorial. In their first meet of the season the Stratford Varsity Girls Cross Country Team outran 3 teams and won the Spring Creek Meet by 12 points Saturday at Spring Creek Park in Tomball. This was a hard course with hills (yes there are hills in Tomball), gravel, dirt, and grass surfaces finishing in a 10 foot stretch of sand up hill. Senior Jacinta Leydon won second place in the meet with a time of 13:04, Sophomore Kathryn Wood was fourth at 13:30, Sophomores Lara Samarneh and Kellie Barranco came in 7th and 8th with identical 14:00 times, and Sophomore Tierra Mayes took 10th place (14:09). Junior Michelle Centineo (14:43) and Becca Jones (14:46) also ran well for varsity. In cross country the first five runner’s scores are added together to get the team score. Not to be outdone Freshman Elise Franke won the JV division with a time of 14:46 outrunning a huge Memorial team. This was a great start to the new season. The girls will run on Friday night August 28th at the Woodlands High School at Friday Night Lights. This is the only cross country meet held in the evening so come out and cheer the girls on. This is a huge meet and a great chance to see great running. |
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