NXN - Northeast Regional Meet

The girls finished off the 2013 cross country season with a trip to Wappinger Falls, New York to compete in Nike's Northeast Regional Open Race.

They pulled off an impressive victory taking first place amongst the 26 teams in the race.

The day before the last day of practice Bethany and Lila Square off in a battle over something in the NK parking lot. 

I'm not sure they know even know what it was about?

The last day of practice at NK.

Dynos? 

Arrival at Bowdoin Park the day before the meet.

Down the big hill they go to run the course.

Striders through the finish line.

Interview with the Nike dude.

Singing happy birthday to Jamie.  The other team in the background joined in and the whole park could hear the girls.

                                                            Kate, Izzie, and Alanah.

Back on the hill on the way back to the van.  Time for dinner!!

Waiting for the table at the Olive Garden.

The girls got their own room in the family seating area!

Lila torturing Melissa.

Spiking it up for the race.

Getting their game faces on.

Do it for the SENIORS!!!!

Bethany leads the team with 600 meters to go.  Bethany would go on to finish in 4th place.

Just minutes after the race the girls pose in the new varsity uniforms.

Top 20 individual honors with Alanah and Hannah.

Bethany with her 4th place finish.

Victorious!!  

Front row (l-r):  Erin McManus, Melissa Coble, Sophia Greco Byrne.

Second row(l-r): Hannah Nieble, Alanah Gaudreau, Kate Thomas, Lila Suryanarayan, Bethany Nunnery, Isabella Perrin, Allie Reilly, Jamie Hazel

Back row (l-r): Coach McNeiece, Coach McCaffrey

The winning trophy

  

The New England Championships - Manchester, New Hampshire

The combined NKXC team through their success at the state race qualified to compete at the New England Championship Meet.  This year's course was held in Manchester New Hampshire which featured a large hill from mile 1 - 2 up part of a ski slope.

The girls team finished in 13th and the boys team finished in 18th.

Hey, something smells like updog!!!!

Good times

Top NK Girls Finisher Bethany Nunnery

Top NK Boy's Finisher Dallin Smith

Squirrel found a donut

Some of the girls after the race

What a group!!!

 The 2013 Rhode Island State Championship

The girls finished in third place and the guys finished in fifth place allowing both teams to qualify to race at the New England championships in New Hampshire. 

In the boys race the top skipper was Dallin Smith with his all state finish of 8th place.  Next was Robbie Rocchio with his all state finish of 20th place.

For the girls the top skipper was Bethany Nunnery with her all state finish of 14th place.

 Above from right to left: James Lawless, Ethan Wyllie, Dallin Smith, Chris Lenox, Alex Bowen, Nick Musumeci, Robbie Rocchio, and Joe Craven.

The girls prior to the start.  From left to right: Hannah Niebel, Kate Thomas, Alanah Gaudreau, Bethany Nunnery, Allie Reilly, Jaxine Wolfe, and Jamie Hazel.

 

  
Bethany Nunnery and Alex Bowen are in the color pictures on the front page of the sports section of the Standard Times.

 

                                                    

 

Picture of Allie Reilly from the Providence Journal

The 2013 Annual Mustache Run

The boys and girls teams wore fake mustaches on a run the day after Halloween for no really good reason.

This is the single most important training run of the season.

Unfortunately the guys took off before pictures were taken but Chris Lenox and Ethan Wyllie both wore their mustaches until they left. 

 

Sophia was saying something important to Coach Tetreault about the soup can collection but it was hard to take her seriously on mustache day. 

 

 

The look of intimidation from Bethany and Allie 

 

What a crew!!!

 

Scaring the locals through the streets of Wickford

 
                  Aisha McAdams is running well for Stonehill in the Northeast - 10 Conference. 

EASTON, Mass. (October 29, 2013) – Stonehill College freshman Aisha McAdams (North Kingstown, R.I./North Kingstown) has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Women’s Cross Country Rookie of the Week, it was announced today by the league office.
McAdams earns this distinction for the first time in her career following her seventh place finish at Sunday’s Northeast-10 Championship, held on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Stonehill captured its fifth consecutive conference title, and 12^th championship since 2000 with its decisive victory. The freshman was one of four Skyhawks to finish in the top-10 at the race, and the first overall freshman to finish, doing so in a personal best time of 18:40. McAdams’ seventh-place effort also earned her First Team All-Northeast-10 honors.
The 2013 North Kingstown High School graduate has been impressive all season for the Skyhawks, beginning with a tenth-place finish in her first collegiate meet at the Shacklette Invitational on September 7^th. She followed that up by posting a time of 23:44.08 at the 6-kilometer Division II Challenge on September 14^th, good for 30^th place, and then ran to an 11^th place finish at the 33^rd Annual Codfish Bowl (5k) on September 28^th, doing so in 19:39.
In her most recent race prior to the Northeast-10 Championship, McAdams finished 114^th out of 283 total participants, many of which represented Division I programs, at the New England Championships on October 12^th.
While at North Kingstown High, McAdams was named team MVP in track and cross country all four years. She was named All-State in cross country as a freshman, junior, and senior, and also earned All-New England honors as a senior.
Stonehill returns to action on November 10^th at the NCAA Division II East Regional Championships, held at Franklin Park in Dorchester, Mass., and hosted by Stonehill

                  The 2nd Annual NKXC Ekiden Relay and
                          Senior Night Under the Lights

North Kingstown Ekiden Relay

“Under the Lights” @ NK Stadium

 

A new tradition has begun over the past two years in the form of a relay and night where the athletes and families gather to honor our senior athletes.

 

 The Ekiden is a relay race originating in Japan. Unlike the traditional track relays, an Ekiden is run over a much greater distance with each team’s runner wearing a cloth sash (tasuki) suspended from the shoulder across the chest. The sash is passed from one teammate to the next, like the baton in a regular relay.

The Ekiden Relay, and the name itself, has spread from Japan to different parts of the world including China, Kenya, Tanzania, and now North Kingstown! The first Ekiden Relay was run in 1917, the 50^th anniversary of the transfer of Japan’s capital from the ancient city of Kyoto to Tokyo.

 General Race Rules:

* Teams must wear uniforms and…

·       Runners must hand over their sash (tasuki) to their teammate within the exchange area.
·       It is your team captains’ responsibility to make sure all team members are ready in the exchange zone area for their respective hand-off.
·       Runners/spectators should not enter the course or obstruct any of the participants.
·       All runners must run the entire race course with a fair effort.
·       All runners and supporters must display courtesy and sportsmanship at all times.
Attempt to have teams of approximately 6 runners; the distance of each relay leg can be the same or meet officials can designate varying  distances.

                                                The poster that displays the course

             The Tetreault's brought the original banner displaying the original NK school colors

           The Seniors were honored before the race.  Here we see Melissa Coble with her mom
                                                               and Coach McCaffrey

                   Ryan Hanrahan (Red dog) here with Coach Tetreault being honored

  

 Coach McCaffrey and Coach McNeiece giving the athletes their final assignments before the race

 

Team Introductions

 

 

And they're off!!!!!

 

The 2013 Ekiden Champions "Moose on the Loose"