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Pictures Now- CPS Meet 2012

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Freshman Girls City Champion Alyssa Hui of Lincoln Park.


About 3/4 mile into the girls frosh-soph race Katherine Shen of Whitney Young races right next to eventual individual champion Elise King of Lane Tech. Whitney Young finished strong to edge out Lane 46-24.


About 200 yards into the boys frosh-soph race a quartet of CVS Cavaliers take command near the front.


Jennifer Geary of Jones on her way to an all city 14th place finish. Everyone is talking about the Jones Boys teams. However, I could not help to notice the vast improvement of the Jones girls program. Jones had 5 runners finish below 20 minutes in the girls varsity race and finished in a solid 3rd place.

Lane Tech Take Girls Varsity Cross Country Title

Lane Tech girls varsity win a 3rd straight CPS meet behind the strength of a a 1-2 finish from Joana Podosek(jr, 3rd from right) and Carina Coss (sr, 2nd from right). Whitney Young was 3rd. An up and coming Jones team was third - only 3 points behind Whitney Young.

Pictures Now- Mather XC Invite 2012

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Mather Invite

With about 400 yards to go Deivi Tahiraj(jr) of Mather sprints to a 2nd place overall finish. Right behind him is surprise 3rd place finisher Claudio Flores of Mather. Mather finished 2-3 but Lane finished 7 runners in the top 10 to take the team title. Lane's Marcelo Burbano(sr) won the 2 mile race.

About 3/4 miles into the race Lane Tech's Joanna Podosek(jr) and Whitney Young's Shianne Baggett(sr) run neck and neck. Podosek won the individual title but Whitney Young ran well at all levels to take the team competition.

Much more coming soon...

Pictures Now- Lane Tech Larry Gnapp XC Invite 2012

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Varsity start

Lane Tech Assistant Coach Tony Jones points at you!

Loyola girls JV traveled from Wilmette

Lane Tech Strikes Back

Despite the teachers strike, Lane Tech cross country athletes still continued unofficial practices on their own.

Lane had over 80 girls show up voluntarily for practice and the boys had about half that many appear. (The girls team is much bigger than the boys team).

Lane - or any other CPS school - cannot run in any CPS or IHSA sponsored meets. However, they can if they choose, run their own non CPS/IHSA meets.

Lane Tech soccer and football teams are also reportedly practicing on their own - led by team captains.

The strike particulary hurts the Lane Tech soccer team who is undefeated at 5-0-2 after 7 games. The football team is on a high after shutting out Bogan last week and was really looking forward to its conference opener against Simeon.

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Front pack of the boys varsity race at about the 1.1 mile mark. From left to right: Marcelo Burbano(sr) of Lane Tech, Erik Diaz(sr) of Curie, Mansur Soleman(sr- hidden partially) of Lane Tech, Deivi Tahiraj(jr) of Mather, and Oswaldo Lorenzano(jr) of Lane Tech.

Marian Catholic Spartans

Whitney Young Hokum Karem Cross Country Meet

Results

Pictures Now- CPS Cross Country Meet - 2011

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Sophomore Girl Medalists


Mike Schaible(sr) of Whitney Young was one of 5 Dolphins below 16:28 in the boys varsity race.

Videos Now- XC City Meet - Girls Varsity