Posted by Coach Oliver on November 20, 2011

North Florida teams struggled to compete in the 80 degree temperatures at the State Championship.  Bishop Kenny, Bolles, FWB, Niceville, Washington, Catholic, West Florida... These are just some of the north Florida teams that finished lower that projected and lost to teams they had not lost to all year.  Not sure we could have done anything different as we just have not had that kind of heat for a while, making it impossible to be prepared, it didn't help that they started the first race at 8:30 when all season races have started at 7:00, our teams ran at 10:10 and 10:50, it was brutal!  Out of all of hear north Florida schools it was West Florida and Catholic who seemed to drop the least, I am very proud of that!

The boys ranked 15th going into State finished 18th which is not bad considering some of the other shocking drops from other North Florida Teams. Kaysi also struggled, but so didn't every other Pensacola girls including her rival Emma Walker who ran 20:40, it just wasn't a good day for the northern schools.

I think we have finally conquered the State course as a team, we have finally figured out how to prepare for it but we just had no way of preparing for the unusual warm temperatures that this year's race presented us with. The team looks forward to getting the track season started, I think we have some great times to look forward to this year and next!

F 5000 Meter Run
22) Kaysi Roberts 20:08.18

M 5000 Meter Run
41) Alec Clark 17:22.23
60) Mark Sortino 17:41.44
99) Darrin Qualls 18:22.08
130) Marcus Slade 18:53.60
161) David Wright 19:28.57
176) Seth Modin 20:10.37