Kempner girls beat Austin

BEAR CREEK PARK - Senior Zelda Abadom led the girls team to a 32 point advantage over the Austin Lady Bulldogs garnering her first Athlete of the Week Award for this season. The girls team finished 9th and Austin was 10th. Zelda's time of 13:53 led the squad who packed the first through fourth runners in just 26 seconds. Hiba Kreidie ran 14:02, Katherine Toy ran 14:03 and Briana Gifford ran 14:19. Junior Gina Keidel ran as the valuable 5th man with a 14:59 giving the total pack time a little over a minute spread.

On the boys side Shalin Dalal garnered a 13th place medal to lead the team with a 3 mile season opening time of 16:44. David Koistinen ran 17:29, Matt Cortez ran 17:31 and Errol Hampton was able to have a pretty good race even after doing a high set of intervals on Thursday by running 17:52. Shanup Dalal was critical, running an 18:39. These were all season bests for the Cougs as it was their first three mile race.

The sub-varsity races were as follows:

JV Boys (3 miles)
Evan Bogdan 20:30
Chris Ysais 20:58
Marcos Anaya 20:59
Jimmy Luong 21:34
Joe Green 22:48
Roberto Arguello 28:16
Nelson Fuentes 30:59

JV Girls (2 miles)
Jena Deitrich 15:30
Macy Ramos 15:48
Angela Cortez 16:00
Chelsea Nelson 17:09
Sahar Halim 17:20
Lillian Dominguez 17:21

Freshmen Boys (2 miles)
Scott Vilas 12:39 (medaled with a 12th place finish)
Danillo Arcane 14:48
Jose Vilche 16:20
Nathan De Jesus 17:03

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Gina Keidel: Two PRs today!

Junior Gina Keidel missed a lot of her sophomore season due to injury. This year she is healthy and expecting big things.

KXC: You had a pretty good meet at the Woodlands, how did you feel about your race?

Gina: Honestly I was extremely dissapointed in myself. Seeing as last week I was 7 seconds faster. I just hope I do better at Mayde Creek.

KXC: Now that we know where you are, what is your goal time for Myde Creek?

Gina: Considering my time this morning and where I was last year on my birthday (Sept. 8th) my goal time is 15:00.

KXC: What would you have been happy with at this time tlast year?

Gina: I was happy with my time last year on September 8th, 15:08 (Lamar Consolidated).

KXC: This morning you PR'ed for the first two miles of a six mile run, tell us how that felt.

Gina: It was amazing, I looked down at my watch and saw what my time was for my 1/2 mile, mile and mile and a half and I completely shocked myself.

KXC: What is your favorite movie?

Gina: It's a tie between "My Girl" and "Run Like Hell."

KXC: What's your view on the team sacrifice?

Gina: I've always been putting off excluding junk food but never actually did it. This gives me a lot of motivation to stay away from the foods that hinder my performance.

KXC: What is your favorite workout?

Gina: 300, because I want a 6-pack!

KXC: What's your favorite food?

Gina: Organic, because as this girls says in my chemistry class "it makes you feel all clean and healthy, like you just took a shower, but on the inside."

KXC: Thanks Gina, good luck on Saturday, I'm sure you'll run under 14:30.

PUMA / Finish Strong Greater Houston Cross Country Invitational

Hosted by Mayde Creek High School

Date: September 8th, 2007

Time: 8:00 am

Place: Bear Creek Park – Houston, Tx.

Directions: Coming From: Houston: Take I-10 West to Hwy. 6 – Go North on Highway 6 – Turn right on Clay

Road – Take 3^nd entrance park on right by soccer fields. Continue into park;

registration will be on the left side.

Parking: Buses: First parking lot on left side after the start area. Cars: Along side street and adjacent parking lots

Divisions: 8:00 am Boys Varsity 3 mi

8:30 am Girls Varsity 2 mi

8:55 am Boys Junior Varsity 3 mi

9:25am Girls Junior Varsity 2 mi

9:50 am Freshman Boys 2 mi

10:10 am OPEN division 2 mi

10:30 am Awards

Varsity teams : 5 -7 runners Sub-varsity teams: unlimited

Awards: Varsity Divisions – TEAM: 1^st –3^rd plaques. INDIVIDUAL: 1^st -3^rd plaques; 4^th –15^th medals.

JV and Freshman Divisions – TEAM: 1^st –2^nd plaques. INDIVIDUAL: 1^st-3^rd plaques; 4^th –15^th medals.

Be at Kempner at 6am. The bus will leave you at 6:20am!

Shalin Dalal takes 2nd AOTW of the year

THE WOODLANDS - The varsity boys ran only 5 guys Friday night and finished 11th in the elite "A" division at "Friday Night Lights." Shalin Dalal led the team with a 28th place finish.

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The meet started off with great runs from freshmen Scott Vilas (12:31) and Nathan De Jesus (14:48) for the 2 mile distance. The JV girls were led by sophomore Jena Deitrich (15:32) who was followed closely by junior Angela Cortez (15:58). Angela ran one of the best races of her life and showed that her training really is paying off. Lillian Dominguez (16:18), Chelsea Nelson (17:15) and Sahar Halim (17:28) rounded out the JV girls. The JV boys were led by sophomore Abel Simie (17:22), he was followed by Chris Ysais (19:17), Jimmy Luong (19:43), Marcos Anaya (20:28) and Joe Green (21:05) on the muddy 4k course.

Varsity B boys included 5 seniors and was led by Juan Trujillo's (19:14). Juan was followed by Christian Salazar (19:19), Kyle Muscarello (19:36), Jonathan Silva (20:15) and Jonathan Amadio (20:16). Varsity A girls had a great race and were again led by sophomore Hiba Kreidie (14:06). Junior Katherine Toy followed closely behind with a 2 mile time of (14:40), then Zelda Abadom (15:06) and Gina Keidel (15:29). Unfortunately our 5th man Hannah Selesky had a knee injury and was unable to finish the race and the girls did not get a team score. Varsity A boys had the overall race of the year so far. Shalin (15:46) led the team again with a 28th place finish and followed closely behind an elite group of runners. A group of three Kempner runners finished behind Shalin, Errol Hampton (16:15), Matt Cortez (16:17) and David Koistinen (16:31). Shanup Dalal again ran as the valuable 5th man with a 4k time of (17:25).

This week the team races at the Puma/Greater Houston Invitational at Bear Creek Park on Saturday.