Summer Runs Begin June 8th!

Summer runs begin Monday, June 8th at English Landing Park. Summer running calendars can be picked up from the front offices of Lakeview Middle School or Park Hill South High School. You can also e-mail Coach Lerch to have one sent to you as an attachment. Summer runs are an excellent way to get to know your teammates, stay in shape and stay active throughout the summer. Summer runs start at 7:00 and will end around 8:30 each morning. Each week, one of our returning seniors will help Coach Lerch or Coach Huff lead the group. Please call for rides or directions. Updates or changes to locations or times will be made on the website!

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Sectional Results

Congratulations to the girls team on their performance at Sectionals this weekend! The girls worked so hard to get this far and we are proud of them! the field for the day was very fast and very competitive. The girls did a great job showing up, ready to compete and run fast times. Times are as follows:
Jeanie Lohnes - 20:57 (PR!!!)
Natalie clifford - 21:40
Miranda Norfleet - 22:06
Lauren Black - 22:21
Jessica Newsom - 22:22
Katy Lindsey - 23:31
Amy Willsey - 23:43
The team finished 8th. Best of luck goes to Lee's Summit West, Ray-Pec, Lee's Summit North and Liberty as they compete representing the KC area at State this weekend. Also, best of luck to Park Bryant and Brady Jacobs from the PHS Boys team as they compete in the State meet this weekend. The boys run at 10:45 in Jefferson City. To see their results click here: http://www.mshsaa.org/Activities/ChampionshipEvents.aspx
Coach Huff and I very proud of the team and all of their hard work this season (ALL of you!) We would have never had a Sectional Qualifying team if it were not for the dedication and hard work of each and every one of the athletes. Special thanks to the following girls who came out to support the Sectional race: Kyla Henderson, Jane Jackson, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Evan and Dana Willsey, Kierstie Bischoff, Shanelle Kudera and Maggi Wolfe. We know not everyone could make it but thanks to these girls for getting up early on yet another Saturday morning!
Tomorrow (November 4th) is the LAST DAY TO TURN IN UNIFORMS!!!! Turn in uniforms and warm-ups in Coach Huff's room (E109) at the end of the day Tuesday. We will also ask all athletes to fill out their end of the season evaluation.
Beginning next week and through the Winter break, we will meet and run as a group after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are optional workouts but a great way to stay in shape for spring sports. We will meet in the hall by the locker rooms. All athletes are welcomed to attend - not just returning CC athletes! Track conditioning will start in January after the Winter Break.
Thanks again to all of the parents for all of their support this season - we could have never done this without you!!!
Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Banquet Recap

Thanks again to all those attending the banquet last night. Coach Huff and I know that the success of the team is a results of the hard work all of our athletes have put in and all of the help we receive from you - the parents. Thank you!
Here is a recap of the awards handed out last night in case you missed it!
Spirit Awards
Best Form – Jessica Froude, Lauren Black and Justine Froude
Best Hill Runners – Katy Lindsey, Mackenzie Kafka, Amy Willsey
Best Positive Attitude – Jenna Allison, Allyse Edwards, Lauren Gonner
Best Finishing Kick – Jeanie Lohnes, Emily Jimenez, Lauren Rittman
Best out of the Box – Evan Willsey, Tedi Sanchez
Most Prepared/Ready to Race: Molly Reinmuth, Ellie Link
Best Encourager – Maisie Baldwin, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Jane Jackson
Best Pace Setter – Jillian McDaniel, Miranda Henderson, Crissy Lueth
Best Track Runner – LOGAN Tucker-Nelson, Jessica NEwsom
Best Team Sport – Dana Willsey, Rachel Norfleet, Emily Moyes, Taylor Breen
Most reliable – Abby Werner, Hannah Carlson, Jessica Waddel
Most persistent – Shanelle Kudera, Carissa Belcher, Ashley Miller and Chloe Guardado
Best Motivator – Emily Kissee
Most inspirational – Rachel Houston, Amy Sickman, Kierstie Bischoff
Best newcomer – Natalie Clifford, Maggi Wolfe
You’re my Hero –Miranda Norfleet
Most SISU- Kyla Henderson
Letter Winners:
Varsity – Jeanie Lohnes, Amy Willsey, Miranda Norfleet, Lauren Black, Emily Kissee, Amy Sickman, Jessica Newsom, Katy Lindsey and Katy Riojas
Most Improved:
9th – Miranda Henderson
10th – Maggi Wolfe
11th Kierstie Bischoff
12th – Jessica Newsom
Most Outstanding:
9th – Katy Riojas
10th – Lauren Black
11th – Miranda Norfleet
12th – Amy Sickman
Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

GIRLS QUALIFY!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to our girls team who qualified for the Class 4 Sectionals meet next weekend at Longview Community College. This is the first time in 5 years we have qualified as a team and the first time in a very long time both the boys and girls teams have qualified. WAY TO GO! We are so proud of you and all of your hard work!!! These girls did a great job of stepping up and competing AS A TEAM! We wish them best of luck next weekend as they try to qualify for the State Championships. Team times are as follows:

Jeanie Lohnes - 22:04
Jessica Newsom - 22:27

Katy Riojas - 22:37

Lauren Black - 22:58

Miranda Norfleet - 23:19

Amy Willsey - 23:31

Katy Lindsey - 23:42

Natalie Clifford ran in the alternate race and ran a 22:00 flat! She placed first and will run with our team at the Sectionals meet on Saturday! WELL DONE NATALIE!!!!

ALL girls cross country athletes are welcomed to and encouraged to ride the team bus Saturday with the girls. This is an AWESOME feat and these girls need your encouragement and the support of their teammates on Saturday. The bus will leave from PHS at 7:45 on Saturday. ALL are welcomed to ride!

Our team banquet is Monday, October 27th at 6:00 at Cascone's (3733 North Oak Trafficway). Please dress nicely and arrive on time!

If you ahve not turned in your uniform and warmups, you will have the opportunity to do this again on Tuesday, November 4th after school in Socah Huff's room. This is the LAST DAY to turn in uniforms!!!

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Thank you- Marathon Volunteers!

Please read the following comments below from Barb Rinne (leader of the relay exchange volunteers) and Chuck Manthey - volunteer coordinator for the entire Marathon. This is the first time a high school cross country team has volunteered and our girls did such a great job, the race coordinators are already asking me when we have a free Saturday next year! As ALWAYS, our Park Hill South runners represented us well and made a great impression. We all know how great these girls are but it is nice to receive accolades from outside of our district! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU AND PROUD TO BE YOUR COACHES!!!!

"I would like to thank the Park Hill South Cross Country girls for their help at the first relay exchange zone. They showed up with enthusiasm, excitement, and were asking what they could do. They were key in getting set-up, identifying relay runners in advance, and ensuring the exchange. This exchange zone saw all half marathoners and marathoners going by, so it was very important to have so much help. They cheered loudly for the runners and brought a lot of energy to our duties. We couldn't have done it without them!" - Barb

"Yes, many thanks to your Team, Pam. I have not put together a proper 'thank you' to everyone yet. However, I heard from many others that your young ladies did an absolutely great job Saturday morning. As our relay event grows there will continued pressure on the first exchange volunteers to handle increasing volume of runners/activities in the same short period of time. Pam, please thank each one of them for us. I would like to know what they thought of the event and your thoughts as well. Our event would not grow or become the success it has without dedicated runners giving up or sacrificing their running for one Saturday so many others can run in the Half, Full or Relay. Yes, we are always looking for volunteers, but volunteers with running experience is PRICELESS." - Chuck

Volunteers at the marathon were: Kyla and Miranda Henderson, Rachael and Miranda Norfleet, Lauren Kuhn, Evan, Amy and Dana Willsey, Kierstie Bischoff, Jane Jackson, Jessica Waddle, Abby Werner, Maggi Wolfe and Natalie Clifford.

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Districts Saturday

Our district meet is this Saturday, October 25th at Swope Park. ALL Cross Country athletes can ride the bus with the team on Saturday. We will leave PHS at 8:00 Saturday morning. The boys run at 10:00 and the girls run at 10:30. Please come out to support the team!
The banquet for CC is next Monday, October 27th at Cascomes at 6:00. ALL banquet money is due Wednesday, October 22 to Coach Lerch. Each person is $11.00 and checks can be made out to Cascomes - NOT PHS.
This weekend, 14 of our athletes volunteered at the Waddell and Reed Kansas City Marathon. This is was an excellent way to see first hand that running is a lifetime sport as these girls saw runners from every walk of life and age group. Over 8000 runners participated in the 5K, Half Marathon, Marathon and Marathon Relay. Coach Huff showed her SISU this weekend and set a PR in the half marathon by 3 minutes with a time of 1:51! Way to go Coach Huff! Coach Huff shows us that racing is constantly evolving for each runner and each and every runner can always run faster-even after years of running. Coach Huff and I would both like to thank the 14 athletes who came out to volunteer and cheer us on. We felt like celebrities at mile 6.5 when 14 exuberant cheerleaders yelled our names! What an excellent push of energy at the half way mark! Thanks for waking up early on your weekend off to come out and support us.
Practice this week: Monday - bus to Walden, Tuesday - on campus workout, Wednesday- bus to swope Park, Thursday - on campus workout, Friday - pre-meet.
ALL runners who have not turned in their uniforms will have the opportunity to turn them in NEXT Tuesday, after school in Coach Huff's room. Please do not bring them to the banquet or toour rooms prior to that date as we need each athlete to fill out paperwork as they turn in their uniforms. ALL lockers must be cleaned out by THIS FRIDAY!!!
Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Girls Take 2nd @ Conference

Congratulations on a great team finish to end the season! The varsity placed 2nd at Conference, Junior Varsity placed 1st and our 9th graders also placed 1st. The boys team was 1st in all three events. I realize that many of our runners did not end their season on their fastest note but I hope that each of you take into consideration the later times we ran and the hotter temperatures. EACH AND EVERY ONE of you should be PROUD of what you accomplished individually and as a team. Our top 10 runners will continue on to the District meet on October 25th at Swope Park. More information will be posted on the District meet later this week. The top 10 runners will practice tomorrow (Monday) at ELP at 3:00. We will have a team meeting this Friday, October 17th. All runners who have completed their seasons will turn in their uniforms at this time. This is also a great opportunity to turn in money for our team banquet. The banquet is the 27th of October at Cascone's. The cost for the banquet is $11.00 per person and checks need to be made out to CASCONE'S.

Conference times are as follows:

Katy Riojas - 21:37 - 8th place, 2nd team ALL Conference
Miranda Norfleet - 21:39 - 9th place, 2nd team ALL Conference

Katy Lindsey - 21:48 - 10th place - 2nd team ALL Conference

Jessica Newsom - 22:00- 14th place - 2nd team ALL Conference

Amy Willsey - 22:08 - 16th place, Conference Medal

Lauren Black - 22:12 - 18th place - Conference Medal

Jeanie Lohnes - 22:18 - 19th place, Conference Medal

Natalie Clifford - 22:19 - 20th place, Conference Medal

Emily Kissee - 23:00

Kyla Henderson - 23:10

Amy Sickman - 23:33

Kierstie Bischoff - 24:01 - 4th place, JV medal

Abby Werner - 24:08 - 5th place, JV medal

Ellie Link - 24:12 - 6th pplace, JV medal

Miranda Henderson - 24:23, 7th place, JV medal

Maggi Wolfe - 24:29, 9th place JV medal

Alison Childers - 24:41 - 10th place, JV medal

Jillian McDaniel - 24:48 - 11th place, JV medal

Crissy Lueth - 24:54 - 1st place - FRESHMAN CONFERENCE CHAMP

Justine Froude - 25:36 - 15th place, JV medal

Evan Willsey - 25:56

Jessica Froude - 27:15

Carissa Belcher - 27:18

Jessica Waddle 27:20 - 3rd place Freshman Conference

Jane Jackson - 27:31

Emily Jimenez - 27:38 - 4th place - Freshman Conference

Lauren Rittman - 27:43 - 5th place - Freshman Conference

Shanelle Kudera - 28:08 - 6th place, Freshman Conference

Mackenzie Kafka - 28:14

Hannah Carlson - 28:15, 7th place Freshman Conference

Chloe Guardado - 28:21 8th place, Freshman Conference

Molly Reinmuth - 28:59 - 9th place, Freshman Conference

Maisie Baldwin - 30:51

Lauren Gonner - 30:54

Allyse Edwards - 31:14

Ashley Miller - 31:39

Diane Jo Bart Plange - 33:40

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

Weston is a Hit!

We had a great time yesterday on our trip to Weston. Weston Bend State Park is absolutely beautiful right now- I encourage you all to go if you have time! On your way back into KC, stop at Vaughn's Apple Orchard! I think all of the girls will confirm they enjoyed their treats. Coach Huff and I noticed that the sugar and noise level was at an all time high on the bus on the trip back:)

We still have 10 blankets left from the booster club. If you have not already purchased a blanket - please let me now if you would like to at this time.

Thanks!

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

This week in CC

This is our last week as a full team! Today's practice will be on campus and over by 4:30. Tomorrow, we travel to Weston Bend State Park and run the trail there. After we finish running, we will go to Vaughn's Apple Orchard to vote on banquet awards and fill up on caramel apples. Unfortunately, the apple snack shack is not open during the week anymore so no apple fritters or slushies. Thursday, we will have another short campus workout. Thursday night is the pasta party hosted by Bogels, Willseys and Hendersons. Friday is premeet practice and meeting - we will be finished by 4:00. (Note: this is a change from the calendar that says we are traveling to English Landing Park Friday.) Friday morning at 7:00 in my classroom, the athletes will exchange their pep baskets that they drew names for last Friday in practice. Friday night is the homecoming football game. All athletes are encouraged to attend the game, stay through half time and then head home to get some rest for our big race Saturday! Saturday morning, we will leave PHS at 9:00. The varsity girls run at 11:30 (this includes all seniors and the following runners: Katy Lindsey, Miranda Norfleet, Katy Riojas, Lauren Black, Amy Willsey, Jeanie Lohnes and Jessica Newsom). The JV race is at 12:30 and includes ALL 10th and 11th graders (not already running varsity) and Miranda Henderson, Abby Werner and Ellie Link. All other 9th graders will run at 1:30. Snack bags Saturday are provided by the Sickman and Jackson families. Please make sure athletes are drinking plenty of water this week and getting plenty of rest. We will cut back significantly in our workouts to provide the freshest legs possible for Saturday. Saturday's weather is currently calling for low 80s so it will be plenty hot by the time we run our races. If we plan accordingly and get lots of water, we will be fine!
The top 12-14 runners will continue to practice for the next 2 weeks for our District competition on the 25th of October. I will call each of the athletes Sunday if they are expected to be at practice Monday. (The top 7 runners will automatically move on, the remainder of the runners will be determined by time.) There is no school for students Monday, but teachers have meetings so practice will be at 3:00 at English Landing Park. ALL Banquet money is due Wednesday, October 22nd, information on the banquet was sent home Friday with each athlete. Checks must be made out to Cascone's. Friday, October 17th there will be a meeting for the ENTIRE TEAM after school. Athletes who have completed their season are expected to turn in their warm-ups and uniforms at this time. These athletes will also be expected to clean out their lockers at this time.
Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us

PHS at KC Metro Invitational

Great job this weekend at the KC metro invitational. We had more athletes medal this year than in the past 5 years! That is SUPER AND almost every runner ran her personal record! This is a great high point to carry us through the conference meet. Overall, the 9th grade team finished 7th, the 10th grade team finished 6th, the JV team finished 7th and Varsity finished 22nd. It is important to note that we finished just behind Truman who is also in our conference. We will need to run our fastest times of the season to win conference this year - meaning our top 5 runners must beat Truman's 4th and 5th place runners. We beat Park Hill and Oak Park who are also in our conference. The conference meet looks like it will be a great race! Thanks to Amy Wilson and the Gonner family for this week's snack bags and to the Bischoff, Childers and Kuhns for hosting the pasta party this week. Thanks again to the Kuhns for hosting this year's Extravaganza!

Congratulations to the PHS boys varsity team who medal ALL 7 of their varsity runners and FINISHED 7th at KC METRO!!! GREAT PERFORMANCE guys!!!!

Congratulations to our medal winners: Varsity - Katy Lindsey, Junior Varsity: Natalie Clifford and Amy Willsey, 10th grade: Maggi Wolfe, Justine Froude, Alison Childers, Jillian McDaniel and 9th grade: Miranda Henderson and Abby Werner.

Team times are as follows:

Katy Lindsey - 21:24
Miranda Norfleet- 21:32
Katy Riojas - 21:45
Jeanie Lohnes - 21:45
Natalie Clifford - 21:45
Lauren Black - 21:52
Jessica Newsom - 22:02
Amy Willsey - 22:08
Miranda Henderson - 22:47
Emily Kissee - 22:55
Amy Sickman -22:58
Abby Werner - 22:58
Evan Willsey - 23:35
Alison Childers - 23:52
Kierstie Bischoff - 23:53
Ellie Link - 23:54
Kyla Henderson - 23:56
Maggi Wolfe - 24:06
Justine Froude - 24:19
Jillian McDaniel - 24:36
Jessica Froude - 24:49
Emily Jimenez - 25:17
Hannah Carlson - 25:51
Jane Jackson - 25:52
Tedi Sanchez - 26:03
Jenna Alison - 26:05
Molly Reinmueth - 26:15
Mackenzie Kafka - 26:19
Lauren Rittman - 26:28
Jessica Waddle - 26: 40
Shanelle Kudera - 27:11
Chloe Guardado - 27:14
Maisie Baldwin - 28:07
Rachel Houston - 28:23
Ashley Miller - 28:29
Allyse Edwards - 29:36
Lauren Gonner - 30:08
Diane Jo Bart Plange - 32:47

Coach Lerch
lerchp@parkhill.k12.mo.us