Oak Ridge runs well at Grizzly 3200

Oak Ridge's cross country team had good performances Saturday at the Grizzly 3200 at Granite Bay High School. Nineteen schools competed in the meet, including many of the top cross country runners, making it a highly competitive meet. Many Oak Ridge athletes obtained personal records and quite a few of them obtained significant personal records. "The cross country athletes are seeing their hard work at practices is paying off for them," Oak Ridge coach Rob Fairley said. "The top-three finishers in each heat received prizes, and the winners of each heat received a Grizzly 3200 T-shirt. Freshman Olivia Anderson won her heat with a personal record of 11 minutes, 27.7 seconds and senior Linden Pike won his heat with a personal record of 10:26.0." Following are the times run for the Oak Ridge athletes and the places they finished with all the heats combined. Boys - Dax Whann - 5th, 9:24.1, Luca Miller - 6th, 9:30.1, Austin Mackovic - 11th, 9:45.5, Jude Nartker - 15th, 9:52.3, Filip Kuckenberg - 17th, 9:54.7, Braden Laxamana - 25th, 10:02.5, Ashton Krider - 28th, 10:03.4, Ben Gutierrez - 41st, 10:15.2, Rocket Buu - 44th, 10:16.3, Linden Pike - 52nd, 10:26.0 (1st in heat 9), Owen Kraft - 58th, 10:31.8, Cooper Smith - 59th, 10:33.9, Rob Anderson - 95th, 11:02.7, Mitch Shields - 101st, 11:07.7, Andrew King - 123rd, 11:24.6, Kanoa Morino - 183rd, 12:35.1, Ben Jordan - 184th, 12:37.7, Jacob Whitman - 24th, 12:57.7, Judah O'Sullivan - 273rd, 15:55.6 (3600 meters) 14:11.0 (3200 meters), and Trevor Johnson - 277th, 16:17.9 (3600 meters) 14:33.0 (3200 meters). Boys who ran in heat 13 for 2800 meters. Officials had athletes go through the finish chute a lap early. Jet Whann - 10th, 10:21.9 (2800 meters), Xun Xia - 27th, 11:02.6 (2800 meters). Girls - Lauren Tiedeman - 8th, 11:06.6, Sutton Paulsen - 12th, 11:24.5, Addie Yip - 13th, 11:26.1, Olivia Anderson - 14th, 11:27.7 (1st in heat 6), Maya Day - 17th, 11:35.3, Elise Sale - 24th, 11:47.9, Emily Capeilli - 32nd, 11:58.2, Loti Boucher - 49th, 12:25.4, Serapha O'Sullivan - 57th, 12:37.9, Penny Siegfried - 59th, 12:29.9, Hana Basit - 82nd, 13:21.1, Josie Stringer - 122nd, 14:16.0, and Avery Halterman - 133rd, 14:49.6. "The Grizzly 3200 was a really fun meet for our cross country athletes to compete in," Fairley said. "This meet gets everyone excited for the upcoming track season." The next meet for the Oak Ridge cross country teams is the Sierra Foothill League Championships at William Jessup University on Saturday, October 31 at 12 p.m.