Wednesday, September 30, 2015

At the end of the day, it is what it is, just sayin.......................


As Summer turns to Autumn the NKXC team for both the boys and the girls keeps rolling forward

   Katie and Natalie's house.  The NKXC Team waits for their guests the Castle View Team to arrive.  Castle View sent their varsity squad to Rhode Island all the way from Colorado.  Believe it or not many of them had never seen this particular driveway.
                                                Forming a receiving line for their new friends.


                                                                Neighbors talking things over.
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                                                               "Whatz up Dad."
                                                                             "Woof"


                                      They are here and running through the gauntlet.




                                                                          NKXC cake!!!!!     
                                                                  Castle View cake.  Awesome mascot!!!











                                                         
                                             Coach presents syrup for making coffee milk.











Everyone together for a group picture.

The next day at The Ocean State Invitational the boys run the freshman race early in the morning.  Sam with the performance of the day winning the freshman race in an incredible time of 12:53 for 2.5 miles.
                                        Jack I. and Dan early in the freshman race
 
JP & Tommy after the race.  J.P. finished in fourth place overall.



 
Keara with an 8th place finish in the girl's freshman race. 
 
                          Hannah in 11th place in the in the freshman race and NK's second finisher. 


The North tent proudly displayed at the meet


                                                            Lining up for boy's JV.


                                        Mike Emby is NK's top finisher in the race.
Noah gets out in the race early.  He would finish just behind Mike for the race.





 
 
 
The Fonz!!!
Heyyy!  The real Fonz approves. 

                   Quillyn Smith led the charge in the girls JV race.  She finished in 7th overall.
Lila on the left next to Jamie on the right.  Jamie finished next for NK followed closely by Lila.
 
                                          The girls championship crew ready for battle
            Bethany with her sub 19 performance leads all of the Rhode Island girls at the meet.
                    Emma looking strong is the second NK runner with a sub twenty performance
Not far back is Katy as the third NK runner
 

                                                                       This is nice.
Photo is from a recent race in Ryan Park.  The far right three runners cruising along.  From right to left is Ethan who was the first finisher for NK in the boys championship race followed closely by Nick "Moose", and then by Quinn
 
Rare footage of the actual race we see Mo' Brien approaching the finish.