2007 Cross Country Summary

2007 Cross Country Banquet

Royal Comet Corey Stappenbeck & Jodi Robinson	Most Improved Paul McKee & Rachel Zoyhofski
Heart Award Jason Comstock & Lea Paris	Rookie of the Year Mike Krenzer & Melissa Ingram
Most Valuable Runner Brian Hotchkiss & Zarah Quinn	Ideal Teammate Nick Line & Zarah Quinn
Coaches Award Sean Day & Lauren Tomkinson	Top Modified Runners Colby Burke & Lizzie Greiner

New York State Team Scholars

The boys and girls cross country teams have earned the New York State Scholar Athlete Team Award for the 2007 season.  This is the seventh straight year the boys and sixth for the girls team to earn this award.  To qualify for the team the student athletes must have earned their varsity points/letter.

The Boys Team (95.696 average, top 7 are scoring members)

Josh Hair, 97.250
Nick Line, 96.875
Corey Stappenbeck, 96.500
Jadon Carr, 95.875
Bradley Saun, 95.375
Shawn Kelly, 95.000
Mike Krenzer, 93.000
Jason Comstock, 92.250
Ryan Lumb, 91.143
Sean Conner, 90.750
Adam McArthur 90.429
Mitchell Haynes 90.125

2-Mile Time Trial
August 21, 2007 at Roth Middle School

Boys Highlights
Corey Stappenbeck  leads the boys with 10:36.3     #2 Junior, #9 All-Time
Brad Sauln sets the sophomore record at 10:48.6    #13 All-Time
Boys runner average for the top 5 was 10:50.4, closing in on the 10:45.9 average from 2004

Girls Highlights
Jodi Robinson  sets a new course record of 12:06.9, breaking Jessie Wooten's 2005 record of 12:21.9
Girls runner average for the top 5 was 13:02.2, closing in on the 12:55.7 average from 2005

The meet this Saturday was great. A huge turnout to watch McQuaid and R-H battle on the Mendon East course. McQuaid's Mike Tripp led a host of Royal Comets. Tripp's time of 17:29 was only 8 seconds ahead of Corey Stappenbeck. R-H had seven runners in the top ten finishers to dominate the meet. There were many PR's in the meet and a look of determination on the guys faces. I'm looking forward to this Tuesday to see everyone step up and race.

I want to thank the families that brought food and those that helped with the picnic after the meet. It was a lot of fun and I think everyone had a great time.

Coach De May

Dual Meet - Block 2
September 18, 2007 at Webster Park

Congratulations to the boys and girls teams, both squads went 4-0 against their competition on Tuesday at Webster Park. Corey Stappenbeck and Jodi Robinson both got the individual wins with impressive times.

Peer Recognition Awards
Most Outstanding Performance: Corey and Jodi
Heart Award: Josh Hair and Rachel Zoyhofski
Most Improved: Sam Smith and Emily Wegman

Corey Stappenbeck  New Junior class record at 16:58      #2 All-Time
Brian Hotchkiss New Sophomore class record at 17:03    #4 All-Time

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2007 Wildcat Invitational
September 22, 2007 at Marcus Whitman H.S.

What a great first invitational for RH-XC.

The modified and JV teams would have won their races if there was team scoring. The boys modified individual race came down to a lean, after racing 1.4 miles Colby Burke had just enough left to catch and pass his rival at the finish line.

In the boys JV race, Jadon Carr ran his best race of the season, going off course and still managing to finish in second place by only a couple of seconds. His performance was the 6th fastest of all RH boys for the day.

Jessica Vay continues to improve, she finished 5th overall in the girls JV race. Cassie DiMarino won the race coming from well off the pace in the first mile.  PR's for Lauren Tomkinson (-0:10), Lea Paris (-0:10), Kaylee Johnson (-1:23) and Meggie Crandall (-0:37).

The varisty girls finished in third place.. Rachel Zoyhofski went from 46th at the mile to finish in 18th place. She also ran a personal best knocking off 1:43 from last years race. All seven girls medaled.

In the boys varsity race, RH was back in third place at the 3/4 mile mark but then they started to assert themselfs and move their pack up to the front. The previous Saturday the boys handled McQuaid easily as the Knights were missing their #2 man. It was a close race this weekend right to the finish but RH won by four points over a much improved McQuaid team. Corning from Section 4 finished third with 74 points.

Coach DeMay

Peer Recognition Awards
Most Outstanding Performance: Jessica Vay and Jadon Carr
Heart Award: Rachel Zoyhofski and Mike Krenzer
Most Improved: Kaylee Johnson and Bradley Sauln

Dual Meet - Block 3
September 25, 2007 at Mendon Ponds - West Course

Coach DeMay

2007 McQuaid Invitational
September 29, 2007 at Genesee Valley Park

Dual Meet - Block 4
October 2, 2007 at Northampton Park

R-H Boys & Girls sweep Brighton, Greece Odyssey and Batavia @ Northampton Park

The boys team swept the top six places to improve their overall record to 14-2. Corey Stappenbeck won his third straight league meet and brought some teammates with him. Brian Hotchkiss, Bradley Sauln, Sean Day, Mike Krenzer and Nick Line all finished within 21 seconds of each other. Our best finish of the season. Next Tuesday is Penfield at Harris Whalen Park and a chance to win or finish as co-champions of Division 1 with a victory over undefeated Penfield Patriots.

The JV boys also won all three meets, Terry Brady, Shawn Kelly, Josh Hair, Trevor Newton, Jadon Carr, Ryan Lumb and Sean Conner all scored for RH.

Jodi Robinson lead the girls to victory as she won the race with an impressive 19:41, a 6:21 per mile average. The Lady Comets had all seven runners in the top ten, Cassie DiMarino, Laura Varble, Rachel Zoyhofski, Jamie Varble, Zarah Quinn and Laura Gauthier completed the team scoring.

Dual Meet - Block 5
October 9, 2007 at Harris Whalen Park

Jodi Robinson sets a new course record at 19:57, topping Lotta Soini's 1994 record of 20:07.
Rachel Zoyhofski sets a new Junior class record at 21:19, topping Laura Varble's 2006 record of 22:16.

Brian Hotchkiss sets a new Sophmore class record at 17:35, topping Will Haskell's 2002 record of 18:14

Peer Recognition Awards
Most Outstanding Performance: Jodi Robinson and Sean Day
Heart Award: Cassie DiMarino and Joe Currier
Most Improved: Meggie Crandall and Kyle Prelewitz

Dual Meet - Block 6
October 16, 2007 at Mendon Ponds, East Course

The cross country team completed their league schedule with the girls finishing 17-3 overall and the boys 16-5.

Since 2001 the girls have a very impressive record of 101-38. While the boys have gone 96-45 in the same span.

Peer Recognition Awards
Most Outstanding Performance: Jadon Carr, Rachel Zoyhofski
Heart Award: Jason Comstock & Nick Line, Zarah Quinn
Most Improved:  Paul McKee, Meggie Crandall

Jodi Robinson:  New Sophomore Record at 20:14

Clarence Fall Classic XC Invitational October 20, 2007 at Akron Falls Park

Congratulations to the Freshman boys team for their runner up finish. Also congratulations to Jodi Robinson for making the All-Invitational Team, she ran the third fastest time of the day, only 12 seconds behind the fastest time.

Peer Recognition Awards
Most Outstanding Performance Jodi Robinson, Matt Armstrong
Heart Award: Rachel Zoyhofski, Robert Marks
Most Improved: Zarah Quinn, Adam Wilcox

Jodi Robinson - New Sophomore Course Record, 20:00
Corey Stappenbeck - New Junior Course Record, 17:29

2007 Clarence Invitational - Team Results

Complete results can be found on the Clarence Running site.

Monroe County Championships
October 27, 2007 at Mendon Ponds, East Course

JV Boys Take 1st Place!

Peer Recognition Awards

Most Outstanding Performance Melissa Ingram - 4th Place in JV Race
Brian Hotchkiss - 26th Varsity / 1st Team All County
Heart Award: Varsity Girls Team!!
Jadon Carr - JV Champion
Most Improved:
Alison Massaro PR -1:40 / Moved  from #19 to #12 on Team 
Ben Johnstone - PR  -1:25

First Team All County - Girls
Jodi Robinson 7th, Rachel Zoyhofski 17th, Cassie DiMarino 20th & Laura Varble 25th
First Team All County - Boys
Brian Hotchkiss 26th
Second Team All County - Girls
Zarah Quinn 29th, Jamie Varble 38th & Laura Gauthier 47th
Second Team All County - Boys
Sean Day 36th, Bradley Sauln 38th, Mike Krenzer 45th, Nick Line 46th & Corey Stappenbeck 55th

2007 Section V Class AA Championships
November 3, 2007 at Marcus Whitman HS

Congratulations to both the girls and the boys team for great races at sectionals. Both teams finished as the seventh best teams in all of Section V. The girls also ran very well inspite of being down a runner to finish in third place. The boys improved a spot from last year to finish in fourth place on Class AA.

Jodi Robinson qualified for her second consecutive cross country state meet with her fourth place finish. Jodi continues the R-H tradition of sending runners to the NYS Championships. This is the eighth straight cross country season of R-H at the state meet. Josh Wooten (2000), Teddy Quinn (2001), Teddy Quinn and Tim Faubert (2002), Teddy Quinn (2003), Boys Team of Will Haskell, Jon Gauthier, Brett Dolan, Charles Ruhland, Ben DeGeorge, Lou Acresti and Kurt Alvut also Jessie Wooten and Nicole Varble (2004), Jessie Wooten (2005), Jodi Robinson (2006) and Jodi Robinson (2007).

NYSPHSAA Championships 2007
November 10, 2007 at Norwood-Norfolk HS

Jodi Robinson represented Rush Henrietta at the state meet and finished 70th, with a time of  20:08