Short Summary of the Last Week

Impressive results from High School and Junior High Teams this week. Junior High Girls win MACSA Invitational and Boys come in third (out of 21 schools in our division). Senior High Boys and Girls both score large wins (out of 20 and 19 schools respectively). Triple wins from Ally Holmes and Andrew Hanko; and both run strong anchor legs on 4 x 400 relays. As a result, we are looking for more athletes with the initials "AH." More impressive was the depth we showed, with virtually every athlete contributing to the high school team wins.

On the junior high girls team, we had excellent results from Melannie Fields, Jen Buckley and Katherine Buckley. Matt Wis, Paul Sullivan and Jonathan Campbell excelled for the boys with our usual core group of distance runners scoring as well. If I am forgetting some strong performances, it is only because I am doing this from memory without any notes in front of me.

With meets Saturday for both teams with meet leadership responsibilities; Monday for Junior High at Silver Spike Invitational; and Tuesday/Wednesday for Morris County Championships for the high school teams, we will be updating the blog towards the end of next week.

On a personal note, each of the teams wrote notes to our friends Dan and Priscilla Haynes after the meets. The notes were precious and personal sentiments that reflect that we are learning many things as a team as we continue to enter into this long-term trial with them. We were able to consider Psalm 90 with each team the morning of the meets: "So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (ESV)