Andrew Alfieri from Valley Catholic School won the Roadrunner Boys CYO Championship today with a put of 26’8.5″ at Liberty High School.
Second Place: Cooper Justice from St. Anthony
Third Place: Joe Nizich from St. John the apostle.
Roadrunner Boys Shot Put Champion Andrew Alfieri
Girls 400 Meter Dash Results:
Kate Marron from the Madeleine – Champion with a time of 1:09.92
Second: Katelyn Junker from Our Lady of Lourdes
Third: Sheylyn Pendergrass-Anderson from St. Pius X
Shelyn Pendergrast-Anderson
Boys 400 Meter Dash Results:
Jayden Holgado from St. Matthew – Champion with a time of 1:08.80
Second: Logan Warner from Franciscan Montessori Earth School
Third: Braydon Daliposon from Holy Trinity
Jayden Holgado
An exciting day for the 1500 meter run at the CYO Roadrunner Championships. Records were set for both boys and girls!
Claire Bass from St. Ignatius School set a new record of 5:41;12 breaking the old mark of 5:47.65 set in 2008 by Nicole Griffiths of St. Pius X.
Second Place: Lucy Balish from St. John Fisher
Third Place: Kayah Ryerson from Holy Trinity
Claire Bass
Steven Rowland from St Anthony set a new record of 5:09.49 breaking Philip Quinton’s 2010 mark of 5:12.07
Second Place: Lucas Martin from St. Thomas More
Third place: Luke Horne from Holy Trinity
Steve Rowland
The CYO Roadrunner Championship features the entire entry of third and fourth graders from the track and field program. This year 558 youth have registered to participate in the meet with 200 long jumpers alone! The event showcases the upcoming talent and gives every child in these grades the opportunity to participate in a championship.
The day began with a parade where all the kids from each team march around the track and line up on the infield for prayer and announcements. An impressive sight to see all of the participants lined up by team covering practically the entire length of Liberty High School Football field!
The Roadrunner Championship was preceded by four weekends of regular season meets, four track meets per Saturday to accommodate some 1600 participants. Next weekend, the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders will compete in the CYO Meet of Champions at Jesuit High School. The Meet of Champions is a two day event.
RESULTS FOR SHUTTLE RELAY
60 meter Shuttle Relay
Girls : Champions: Holy Trinity Lewis, Kondra, Montague, Bartels
Second: All Saints Hartnell, Sanger, DeBarro, Moore
Boys: Champions: All Saints Campagna, Fisher, Laber, Mason (no photo available)
Second: St. John the Apostle Canchola, Lundmark, Nithikhun, Werner
This Saturday we will begin the Track and Field Championship Events. The Roadrunner Meet for 3rd and 4th graders will be held at Liberty High School this year since LaSalle Prep athletic area is under construction. We will return to LaSalle Prep in 2013 and are enthusiastic about what they are doing out there. Some great facility development!
We are excited about the talent in the Roadrunner division. If you enjoy track and field, I encourage you to come out to Liberty High School, pay your $2 and enjoy a morning and early afternoon of our fun!
I will be tweeting and blogging the results from Liberty on Saturday so if you can’t make it to the event, be sure to follow my blog or tweets! Will be taking lots of great pictures and talking to the kids about their experience.
An exciting weekend to be sure! – ALSO – thanks to Mitch & Susan Menendez, I will have the coolest, hottest NIKE’s available. Be sure to check out my special NIKE’s at the track championships this weekend and next weekend at the MOC at Jesuit!
We also plan to have video shot at the event so there will be a lot of formats to watch some of the great performances by these kids!
The kitchen is the heart of the camp and the cooks at Camp Howard put out some fabulous food. Scratch cooking for a few hundred people at a time takes some pretty special people. The exciting thing is that the kids come away from each meal raving about the food! In my opinion, Camp Howard has the best cooks at an Oregon Camp and we have the dishes to prove it!
Kathy Lively works on Breakfast Dishes at Camp Howard.
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Saturday morning we loaded the bus and headed to the California Museum in Sacramento to visit the Women & Spirit Exhibit about the History of Religious Women in America. It was very inspirational and something that made us feel really good about the women who helped shape the country. It was really very moving. I did take some clips of the exhibit which was allowed so after some editing will share the clips I took.
One interesting tidbit I discovered was about the Mayo Clinic. It was started by the Sisters and they asked Dr. Mayo if he would work at the hospital if they built it and provided the support! He said he would and the rest is history!
Because this was the traveling exhibit, it was the featured exhibit and quite large. After spending about three hours in this section, I could not believe that much time had passed, I then went around to the other exhibits which I described yesterday. I was especially interested in finding “Ishi” the last wild Indian in America. It was very interesting and I enjoyed reading the material about it.
We spent the entire morning at the museum and by 1:00 had pretty much seen everything so people broke up into small groups and headed for all points in Sacramento. My group headed for Old Sacramento which we really enjoyed especially the old hardware store. Lots of great things to see in this town loaded with history. After lunch we went to the Train Museum. Wow…what a place two stories of locomotives…full size…took you through the ages in trains. Also included a large wing on toy trains. Incredible building and the content was fantastic – Highly recommend to all train lovers!
Wonderful shops to visit all around Old Sacramento and as 5:00 approached we made our way to the Cathedral for Mass. The Cathedral was recently renovated and as we learned yesterday, the architect and overseer of the renovation was done by the uncle of our friend, Colleen Nistler, known by many of you. Her uncle did a GREAT job. It is beautiful! Pics to come later.
After Mass, ten of us headed over to the Pyramid restaurant across from the Cathedral and we had a wonderful dinner outdoors where we could enjoy the facade of the Cathedral and people walking . It was a great evening! After dinner we headed for our hotel and I have to tell you…I was tired! I did not even get into the pool! Just went to sleep!
I can assure you that we all had a great day yesterday. It was a remarkable event for us and one that I am glad to have taken part in. Today we head back to Portland on our “Noahs Ark.” It will be a lot of fun as this group of 44 has really had a wonderful time building community and enjoying the entire trip.
See you soon!
We got into the Best Western last night and found our way to our rooms. The rooms were spacious and wonderful and after a 13 hour bus ride it was such a welcome sight! It was not hard to fall asleep! Seven pillows on each bed? This morning I processed a little video tape that I took yesterday at the Heaven on Earth restaurant. I told you about Rosie who got out her guitar to share a song she wrote about the place. It is quite charming.
We will be leaving here at 9:30 this morning and heading to the museum. There are several exhibits there and I plan to take almost all of them in. Of course the purpose of our trip is to see the one featuring the History of Religious Life in America which originated in the Smithsonian Institute.
One that sounds interesting to me is the 100th Anniversary of Ishi’s discovery, an enhanced display chronicling the life and legacy of “the last wild Indian in North America”
California’s Remarkable Women 2011 – Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Women’s suffrage.
2011 California Hall of Fame – This will showcase the personal artifacts of the visionaries, legends and dreamers in the class of 2011 inductees – that should be interesting depending on who they are!
Tuskegee: Journey to Flight – Celebrates the gallant African-American men and women who broke barriers as aviation heroes of WWII, as well as champions of equality.
California Indians: Making a Difference – featuring Native voice and over 400 extraordinary artifacts
California Innovates: The Computer Chip
Explores the impact of the computer chip – I will take this one in so I will have something to say when I sit down with one of my friends from Intel! 🙂
Uprooted! Japanese Americans During WWII
ANSWER: DINNER AT REDDING 🙂
6:00 am started the day, as usual with Liturgy of the Hours followed by Mass in the Convent Chapel. 7:00 am With excitement, the Sisters went to breakfast, anxious to bring their suitcases down and load the bus! Discussion at breakfast included itinerary for the day and what the Sisters would be doing who would stay at home. Waffles? Chinese Food? Sr. Rita (Motherhouse Superior) pulled out all the stops to make the weekend special for those who would stay behind.
Breakfast did not take as long this morning as people had things to do before leaving! Shortly after breakfast, 7:45 am, Sister Charlene announced over the convent intercom that the bus had arrived and it was time to gather and load the bus. The elevators came to a grinding halt as they were called to third, fourth, and fifth floor all at the same time to move the luggage to ground level (you had to be there!)
The Sisters loaded onto the busses with remarkably frugal bags of “stuff” except for me, of course, who had to drag my cameras along to document the trip. We staked out our areas on the bus and got comfortable as the driver closed the door and began to back the bus out of the loading area near the convent bakery and garages wing. My heart was touched by all of the people who came out to say good by (Sisters and lay people alike) and wave as we rode down the Sisters’ driveway in front of the old gym and swimming pool. Staff came out of several doors of the convent to see the sight and wish us a good and safe trip. We all mentioned how touching it was.
Not long after exiting the driveway, Sr. Charlene led us in a prayer for a safe journey. We all joined in – using the booklet that was thoughtfully put together for us.
We picked up a few Sisters and guests along the way, Sister Patricia Marie in Medford and Sister Allison’s Mother in Roseburg.
We stopped at Azalea, OR at a place called “Heaven on Earth” where we were treated to cinnamon rolls and coffee – compliments of the bus company Noah’s Ark! I highly recommend this stop, as it is quite a remarkable place. One of the staff by the name of “Rosie” entertained us with a song she wrote and told us the story of the establishment. Rosie has worked at this endeavor for 30+ years and is a dedicated soul. She will be highlighted in a post later tonight.
Currently 6:30 pm, we are in Redding, CA at Logan’s Roadhouse for dinner. We will arrive in Sacramento approximately 8:30 this evening, God willing, at Sutter’s Inn Best Western.
We are having a BLAST and remembering YOU in PRAYER. We would all like to hear from you so please respond to these posts and I will share them with the Sisters. Thanks for reading and responding!
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