Fall XC 2025: Week 5 Update

September 15, 2025
Monday, September 15 – Saturday, September 20

Important Items for the Week

Mattress Fundraiser  - Sept 20!

Spread the word!  Use your social media accounts.  Send an email to your neighborhood via Nextdoor or Facebook.  Ask your friends to say Reservoir Cross Country at check out.

Misc Appointments

Please try to minimize outside activities and appointments that pull athletes from practice.  While we are very accommodating, we do not want the students to miss out on opportunities.

SPECIAL NOTE: Saturday, Sept 20.  This is a key workout day and it is expected that all athletes will be present.

Athletes of the Meet

  • Each of the major meets we like to recognize 4 – 5 athletes for being AWESOME! That could be running a really fast time, Personal best effort, or other amazing feats!
  • For the Eagle Invite we wanted to recognize the following 5 athletes
  • Celeste Martin: She had a great big PR, but also ran the 8th fastest time (20:05) in RHS History for 3 miles!  Way to go Celeste!
  • Saif Khalid: He ran the two mile time trial at 8:59 per mile average. On Saturday, he ran 7:55 average, a minute per mile improvement over 3 miles!  He was also faster at the Eagle Invite in comparison to Top of the Hill (a faster course)!
  • Ben Shiferaw: He ran a 48s personals best time!  He ran about 13s faster per mile at Eagle than he did for the 2 mile Time Trial.  He was integral in the OPEN Boys 2nd place team finish!
  • Adeniyi Adegbuyi: First XC Race and breaks 19 minutes for 3 miles!  Way to go Adeniyi!  He was 5th overall in the boys OPEN race and helped the boys finish 2nd overall in the Open division.  18:59 has earned him on spot in the Varsity 7!
  • Colin Poon: He ran a that eclipses all of his previous personal best times!  Currently his 3 mile PR of 17:33 has him 24th on the ALL TIME XC List for 3 miles.

Fantasy Results after week 2

  • Results are posted for Week 2.
    • Before we get to the Athletes, out of the top 6, five are either coaches or parents! Way to Represent! 

1st:  Coach Rogers

2nd:  John Poon

3rd:  Madison Kuck

4th:  Shona Pascarello

5th:  Coach Gessler

6th:  Coach Eric

7th:  Jackson Pascarello

8th:  Colin Poon

9th:  Jonathan Ye

10th:  Adeniyi Adegbuyi

 

Weekly Schedule (Monday – Saturday)

Monday

Practice @ RHS 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Long Run w/ Fartlek

Tuesday

Practice @ RHS 3:00pm – 4:45pm

Easy Run

Wednesday

HALF DAY – MEET @ Reservoir

First Race: Boys 1:45pm

Second Race: Girls 2:25pm

Tempo & Track Intervals

Dismissal Approx:  4:15/4:30pm

Thursday

Practice @ RHS 3:00pm – 4:45pm

Easy Run

Friday

NO OFFICIAL TEAM PRACTICE.

Athletes will run on their own and post to Strava.

Easy Run

Saturday

Practice @ Centennial Lane Elementary School

ALLOW 16-18 minutes for travel from Reservoir HS to CLES.  

8:00am – 10:00am

Hills

Upcoming Events/Looking Ahead

Senior Banners:   

This is an email from the Photographer.  We wanted to put out the basic plan/idea for the Senior Banners.  She is currently working on a few dates for us.  We will get more information soon.  

Dear Senior Athlete and Family –

Congratulations on your Senior Year. Thank you or Allowing me to capture one of your senior moments For you.  Here are all of the details for your Senior Banner photo shoot.

Please be prompt to your session. If you are late to your session, there is a chance I may not be able to shoot everyone as I often have sessions back to back.

As a team, decide on which uniform you are wearing.  **Note: If you are choosing to do the senior team at the bottom of the banner, you may choose to wear one uniform in the team shot and one for your main banner pose.  Please make sure your entire team is in agreement BEFORE arriving and that you have all of your uniform pieces with you.

You will have at least one full body shot so please make sure you have the appropriate shoes and socks as well.

Bring props with you that are part of your sport.  For INSTANCE, soccer should bring a soccer ball and the goalie should bring gloves and goalie shirt, baseball should bring gloves, a baseball, a bat, etc….  You only need to bring one of each items as you are all photographed individually, but you may bring your own item if that is what you want to be in your banner shot.

Come prepared with ideas for your main pose.

Banner Options:

***Entire team must pick ONE banner option***

·     3’x4’ Individual Athlete Only - $72

·     3’x4’ Individual Athlete and Senior Team (at Bottom) - $79

***Note: I will have an additional template available this year. As a team, they can decide which template they want.

Add - Ons:

·     Fat head - $35

·     Mini Banner - 18”x24” - $40

·     Digital images will be available for purchase within 3 weeks of the session.

Banner price includes tax and shipping. Zelle, cash or check are my preferred forms of payment. (I do accept Venmo. But please make sure your are not set on goods and services as Venmo deducts fees when using this method.) Payment is due BEFORE the session. If paying by cash or check, payment on arrival is absolutely fine. But please note, I will no longer release banners until ALL payments have been received.

·     Zelle - 410-533-9133

·     Venmo - Jenise-Dunn-2

·     **PLEASE put your PLAYER’S Name, Jersey Number, School and Sport on the Payment!*** This is essential.

My address is 3038 Fawnwood Drive, Ellicott City, MD 21042. Please enter through the basement studio entrance located on the left side of the house and down the stairs.

Carlisle Invite (Sept 27):

This is a great Invitational and a wonderful spectator course.  Located at Carlisle HS.  Here is a description of the Course.

The Travis Trail remains exactly 5000 meters in length. It is clearly marked with signs throughout. The course is entirely mowed grass and offers a mixture of flat and hill running. The start offers open, unobstructed running for several hundred meters with excellent mobility throughout the entire course. The course is runnable even in most extremely adverse weather conditions as evidenced in 2018! It provides an excellent surface for spikes or flats. It is also an excellent spectator course and offers easy race visibility for well over 4000 of 5000 meters. Recent changes over the past several years have only opened up even MORE of the course to be easily watched. The course has been the site of NCAA regional and national cross country finals. It has been described by an out-of-state coach from a nationally ranked team as one of the top high school courses in the United States.

This event will be an all day affair.  Athletes will just need to bring Money for Lunch.  We will stop to get lunch at a LOCAL Mall so kids can access the FOOD COURT and Socialize for a bit.  I will provide an itinerary early next week but here is a General Plan:

o   6:00am Departure

o   9:15am:  Races Start

o   12:30pm -2:00pm – Depart Course (Depends on Awards)

o   Arrive HOME NLT 6:00pm.

 

Great American Invite (Oct 3 - 4):

Its going to be a great trip!  42 of the 48 athletes are in attendance!  Love it when the Majority of the team can make these events!

Start thinking about your roommates.  3 – 4 per room.

Cost:  $150:  Here is what is included:

  • Team Shirt
  • Friday’s Lunch from Subway – you will get to order what you want.  A google form will be sent out prior.
  • Friday’s Dinner from Olive Garden.
  • Hotel and Saturday Breakfast
  • Entries into the meet
  • Charter Bus
  • Lunch/Dinner at my parents house in Raleigh, NC before departing for home.

o   You can pay for the trip in CASH, CHECK (Payable to RHS) or you can pay online.  Next week I'll send home all the details.

Fantasy Cross Country

There is NO FANTASY XC this week.  Our next event will be Carlisle.

Fantasy Link:  https://xctf.rhsgators.com/cross-country/rezzixc-fantasy-cross-country/