State 2014

Janessa will be running in her 6th state meet Saturday November 1st.  We will be taking a bus for fans to ride with and cheer on Janessa.  The bus will leave from the high school at 8:45 am Saturday as Janessa runs at 11:00 am.  Please make your reservation for a seat on the bus with Coach Schroeder.  Good luck Janessa!

End of Season Pot Luck

A date has been set for the end of season awards pot luck.  We will be gathering to celebrate the achievements of your youngsters in the high school lunch room on Monday November 10th beginning at 6:30 pm.  This is a great time for us to recognize all the hard work your children put in this season and to celebrate their accomplishments.  Hope to see you there.  Please bring a dish to pass.  Drinks, plates, and utensils will be provide.  Thanks for your support of the cross-country program.

Section 2A meet

This year we will travel to Blue Earth for the section 2A meet.  It will be held at Riverside Town and Country Club(midway between Blue Earth and Winnebago on Highway 169).  There are only two races girls 4000 m begins at 4:00 and the boys 5000 m at 4:45 awards will follow.  Thanks for all the support this season hope to see you all there.

MRC

We had been waiting for Conference the whole year. It was what we trained for and what we strived for. From the minute the season began, we have been doing everything with the intent of winning conference. The week before everybody was on edge. Nobody wanted to get injured, but unfortunately conference coincided with homecoming week, so kickball was off limits. Never the less the team had a fun wednesday at the annual Schroeder spaghetti dinner. Now to talk about the race, we swept every race but boys varsity. But we were still close, last year we got 3rd but this year we moved up to 2nd place. Also 3 out of 10 of the top guys were wearing a Belle Plaine jersey. Boys JV dominated their race taking the top 7 spots. Eighth-grader Elliot Ruud won the race with a time of 17:48.30. Senior Janessa Meulners won her race as usual and all together the Varsity girls won in a very close race over NYA 43-47.  JV girls won by a whopping 19 points and 7th grader Emily Berger place second with a great time of 17:05.90. For JH boys Eighth graders Mikkel Schmidt and Jesse Barringer, took 3rd and 4th place respectively. JH girls also had a great race and Jamie Zahn won her 3000m race with a time of 13:25.10. All together Belle Plaine XC did amazing. Next year we will come back and hopefully sweep the entire meet. With a lot of hard work and determination, it is easily a possible achievement. So until next year, work hard and run harder!

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MRC pictures

Boys JV Wins Swain

The trip to Swain started with the collection of good intentioned contraban, and ended with our best showing ever.  The boys JV team of Dylan Bigaouette (2nd), Max Hughes (3rd), Tony Dvorak (6th), Carter Corl (8th), Jack Otto (10th), Derek May (15th), Taylor Witt (17th), and Noah Hastings (21st), out distanced the rest of the field scoring a mere 29 points.  In the girls JV race Hailey Witt (3rd), led the team to a second place finish.  Thea Iverson (18th), Jamie Zahn (22nd), Trinity Webb (23rd), Courtney Fogarty (26th), Jessica Bruggemeier (29th), and Emily Krautkremer (50th), were the other JV girls team members.

In the girls Varsity competition Janessa Meuleners (3rd) lead the girls squad to a 4th place finish the best ever by Belle Plaine.  There were 3 ranked teams in the race the girls out paced a ranked Lake City team by a few points.  Danika Schroeder (39), Alissa Schultz (42), McKenna Hermann (58), Hannah Witt (73), Skylee Schwingler (84), and Cassie Stolt (94
), turned in great performances on the soggy course.

In the boys Varsity freshman Kyle Siemon led an outstanding effort by the boys squad which finished in 8th place tied with Proctor winning on the tie breaker.  Sam Gregory was the 6th man, tie breaker, for the tigers finishing in 69th place.  Following Siemon were, Kellen Bergs (48), Carter Olson (53), Tyler Schumacher (65), Brendan Mackadanz (67), Gregory, and Elliot Rudd (72).

This was by far the best we have ever performed at the Swain meet!  Congratulations Tigers!

MRC at Watertown today

Students will be dismissed after 5th hour today to catch their 1:35 bus.  The meet will be held at Watertown High School
1001 Highway 25
Watertown, MN 55388

Varsity races first starting at 3:30.  The following is the schedule for the races.

3:15 Coaches’ meeting at the finish area
3:30 Varsity Girls 4000 m.
4:00 Varsity Boys 5000 m.
4:30/4:40 JV Race for Girls and Boys 4000/5000 m.
5:15 7-8th  Boys’ and Girls’ Race... 3000 m.
5:45 Awards

 The kids are very excited to perform today.  Hope you can make it.  See you there.

Le Sueur Giants Invitational Co-Ed

There is no course as scenic as the cross-country course at the Ney Center. Beautiful ponds, forests and grassland make it a great place to run, and an even better place to compete. At this meet it was boys vs girls in the unique co-ed races. Guys tried to stay ahead and the girls tried their hardest to "chick", or beat, the guys. But it was also Belle Plaine vs the other competing teams, and it was Belle Plaine who won. We swept both the Varsity and Junior-Varsity races. Also our team got an outstanding 37 PR's!!!!!!! All-around everybody did fantastic and we had a lot of good performances, but most importantly we now have an additional two wins to our roster

Swain

Swain will be held at the Enger Golf Course in Duluth.

Our race times are:

JV Girls race 11:45

JV Boys race 12:45

Varsity Girls 1:45

Varsity Boys 2:35

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Hope to see you there.