Southwestern meet

Mike Baxter finishing

This past weekend the Bulldog Harriers competed at Southwestern's NAIA Mid-State Classic. This meet is known for its fast course and great competition. We had a lot of Personal Record's and Seasons Bests but we still have a lot to give.

In the ladies race, Erin Loeffler had a big performance and ran a PR of 20:17 which puts her 7th all time on the McPherson list. On the day the ladies had 4 out of 6 season best. We are looking forward to the end of the year and running on a fast course in Salina.

5k
-- Sabrina Lee 19:56.4 SB
1 Erin Loeffler 20:11.0 PR
2 Payton Hartman 20:26.2
3 Ashley Huizar 21:19.9 SB
-- Lizette Guzman 22:42.0 SB
4 Ashley Martinez 22:59.9 SB
5 Sonia Fuentes 23:01.0
6 Torey Fry 24:49.0 SB

On the mens side Javier Ceja ran a great race working his way up throughout the race and placing 4th in a National caliber field. Ceja's time of 25:04 was a life time best and puts him 4th on the all time amongst very good company of Dewayne Jackson (24:21), 400 and 800 school record holder Fred Wilson (24:48) and 10k school record holder Dave Burgess (24:57). Mike Baxter showed some nice improvement coming in as the second Bulldog on the day with a season best. All in all the Bulldogs had 3 life time PRs and a season best.

8k
1 Javier Ceja 25:04.1 PR
-- Daniel Sorenson 26:04.0 SB
2 Mike Baxter 27:59.0 SB
-- Kyle Bogda 28:49.0 PR
3 Kyle Smith 28:55.8
4 David Parry 29:25.6
5 Josh Nilles 29:34.0
6 Juan Jimenez 29:44.3
7 Matt Brown 31:30.1
8 Derek Kruger 32:36.7 PR
9 Jason Pfoutz 36:50.4



Race Video

Post race meeting notes
Individual meeting
- come with ideas, feed back, you know yourselves better than I do
- Helps me adjust what we are doing
- great feedback from Ashley's after the race, we are going to change some things
- We are going to hit hit hard this week, 4x1600 and another fast one on friday
- Ladies take your easy days easy.
- want everyone to run with somone from the team tomorrow and txt me when you are done
- this is an important long run for conference.