{"id":3508,"date":"2017-10-02T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2017-10-25T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:54","slug":"young-and-hungry-boys-cross-country-ready-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2017\/10\/02\/young-and-hungry-boys-cross-country-ready-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and Hungry: Boys Cross Country Ready to Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cross-country’s Bryan Soder ’18, Rob Champigny ’18, and Oliver Lawrence ’18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note: This post originally ran in <\/em>The Willistonian and was written by Staff Writer\u00a0Mark Woort-Menker ’18<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The boys cross-country season has begun and there is a lot of hope for a good season.<\/p>\n

Even though there is a rebuilding stage on the team due to most of the seniors graduating last year, there is a lot of excitement for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n

Their top runners are Nick Sinofsky, Oscar DeFrancis, and Nat Markey, who are all sophomores.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s record last year in their division was 4-0, which included wins against Kent, Taft, and Avon. They are coached by Williston alum Christa Talbot Syfu ’98, who is in her sixth season.<\/p>\n

This year should be a big year for young runners, Talbot Syfu explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe graduated our top three runners,\u201d Talbot Syfu said. \u201cWhich means the opportunity for a lot of young runners and new students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy expectation is that we improve each week, which allows everyone to feel that their hard work is paying off,\u201d Talbot Syfu added.<\/p>\n

Senior Captain Oliver Lawrence is optimistic about his team\u2019s season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a rebuilding year because we had a lot of seniors who graduated last year, but we have a lot of young talent and motivation,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cMy goal as a senior and captain is for everybody to grow as a runner and for us to grow as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rob Champigny ’18, the co-captain of the team, is looking forward to running the new course with his teammates. \u201cWe are led by a really young team,\u201d said Rob, \u201cso I think we will be competitive, but mainly it will be a learning experience for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the new course, Rob added, \u201cIt is probably going to be a lot slower, there are a lot more hills compared to our last course.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cross-country team has a couple big meets coming up soon. They will face Northfield Mount Hermon, Suffield Academy, Worcester Academy, and Kent.<\/p>\n

Cross-country endures a pretty tough training week. Mondays they run four to eight miles; Tuesday they have a hard workout, but run less; Wednesdays they have pool jogging; on Thursdays, they have a moderate workout and run three miles; and the day before the race they run two miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: This post originally ran in The Willistonian and was written by Staff Writer\u00a0Mark Woort-Menker ’18. The boys cross-country season has begun and there is a lot of hope for a good season. Even though there is a rebuilding stage on the team due to most of the seniors graduating last year, there is … Continue reading Young and Hungry: Boys Cross Country Ready to Run<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athlete-profile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}