ALL COUNTY, ALL CONFERENCE,ALL REGION....WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE EAGLE JUNIOR FLYER?

Thought I would share a little INK that BJ got this morning. Those of you at the game yesterday with BigDzizdz might have already gotten the update. Bj did qualify to run in the upcoming regionals for his school in Schaumburg. His 7th place finish Saturday was his best ever finish in competing with these kids (throwing the times out and just using place).

As you will read in the article, his team unfortunately didnt qualify (for the boys). It was a day of highs and lows for BJ. He is happy for himself, but wanted all the guys to go this year. They have committed to practicing with him this week though, which i thought was nice....I would have had to recruit some runners to train with him...I could take the first block and hand the baton off to someone else....Luckily I dont need any volunteers.

BJ and I do have a little side bet....I told him that if he continues to train over the winter and continues to work towards his goal....I will attempt a 5k race in the spring....SO the competition is on....He has to run his course at the school in under 16:30 consistently and i just have to run. (You will soon be hearing of my back, hip and knee replacements)


Hope all is well where you are!!!!!!







Lane, Olson run to wins at Fox River Park
By Tom Kupfer
Daily Herald Correspondent
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006


Last week it was mission impossible. This time, it’s mission accomplished.

“The whole object was to make it to next week, and we’re there,” said Warren coach Bill Dawson after the Blue Devils ran to first place in the Antioch regional at Fox River Park on Saturday.

With 59 points, Warren easily out-distanced Grayslake Central (100) for the top spot. Both qualified for the Schaumburg sectional, as did the hosting Sequoits (107), Richmond-Burton (123) and Johnsburg (133). Lakes (136) fell just short of advancing.

Nick Lane of Grayslake North used a strong closing surge to top Warren’s Steven Kleine for individual honors. Lane finished in 16:21, a full minute better than his clocking on the same course three weeks ago, while Kleine posted a 16:29.

Lane and Lakes’ B.J. Fuller (seventh, 17:14) move on to sectionals as individual qualifiers.

Karsen Green was second for the Blue Devils and fourth overall in 16:51. Alex Kueny (11th, 17:33), Steve Walz (14th, 17:43) and Joe Florio (28th, 18:19) were next for Warren, which was missing senior Chris Burns due to knee tendinitis.

“He ran hurt last week,” Dawson said. “With as little running as he’s done this week, he’s doing a lot better. He’ll be able to run at sectionals.

“We ran OK,” Dawson added. “To have any chance next week, we’re going to have to run the race of our lives. But we’re there. We have that opportunity so we’re just going to give it the best we have.”

Junior Jared Zygmunt (eighth, 17:16) was lead man for Grayslake Central, with Mark Giertych (18th, 17:56), Kevin Dickson (21st, 18:00), Michael Zantello (26th, 18:10) and Kyle Baroni (27th, 18:12) rounding out the top five.

Mike Dussault (ninth, 17:21) paced Antioch. Ryan Mehaffey (16th, 17:46) ran No. 2, followed by Tom Miller (20th, 17:57), Bryant Giorgi (30th, 18:20) and Joe Jensen (32nd, 18:24).

Grayslake North finished seventh with 155 points and Grant (181) was eighth.

Girls: Warren’s Heather Olson won the individual battle but, for the second straight week, Grant won the team war.

Olson cruised to first place in the Antioch regional at Fox River Park in Wilmot, Wis. The Bulldogs, however, defeated the Blue Devils for team honors 43-57.

Both schools advance to next weekend’s Schaumburg sectional along with third-place Antioch (96), Zion-Benton (104) and Lakes (123).

Grant edged Warren by one place in the North Suburban Conference meet the previous week. Saturday’s win, though, might need an asterisk.

Sarahbeth Jones, the Blue Devils’ No. 2 runner, pulled up with a quadriceps strain about a mile and three-quarters into the race and had to be helped from the course.

“Just guessing where Sarahbeth would have finished, it would have been very tight,” said Blue Devils coach Cheryl Anderson. “Our three, four and five were right where they needed to be but having our second runner go down, we really took a beating.”

Once again, the Bulldogs had their top five where they needed to be.

Alexis Capps (sixth, 20:12) and Kendra Kennedy (seventh, 20:13) led the way, Jessie Stimpson (eighth, 20:34) and Heather Ruetsche (ninth, 20:38) provided strong 3-4 support and Leya Munwam (13th, 21:11) ran No. 5.

Olson turned back all challengers with her time of 19:15, a strong effort on the hilly, 3-mile course.

Rachael Dean of Lakes (19:58) was her nearest competition. The host Sequoits’ Erin Poss (20:00) was third, Rachel Armstrong (20:07) of Zion-Benton took fourth and another Lakes Eagle, Ariel Butzine (20:10), placed fifth.

“Jaclyn Diaferio (10th, 20:48) had a really good race and Annie Brandes (12th, 20:55) had a really good race, for a freshman especially in the state series,” said Anderson of her Nos. 2 and 3.

Alexa Williams (16th, 21:22) was fourth for Warren and Aubrey Berry (18th, 21:29) fifth.

“We were packed in pretty well,” Anderson said, adding that Jones’ availability for the sectional is questionable.

Contributing to the top five for Antioch were Jen Naegele (11th, 20:49), Erin Schoenfelder (23rd, 22:14), Megan O’Connor (24th, 22:20) and Alexa Hojnacki (28th, 22:55).

Emma Howard (14th, 21:18) was third for Lakes, followed by Cassandra Freundlich (45th, 25:13) and Stephanie Frenzel (49th, 25:49).

Megan LeBaron of Grayslake Central (15th, 21:20) and Amanda Leon of Grayslake North (19th, 21:34) qualified for the sectional as individuals.

Goodbye greeen walls

Sorry for the delay in postings. We painted the office last weekend and not only was I tired, but the computer was not all hooked up. When we bought our house the only thing i absolutely hated was the office. It was SPARTAN green. Everytime I went in it, it was all I could think about. So, after finally deciding on a color we painted it. (Apricot) Danielle helped us with the primer.....lots of primer. And yes she is painting in her underwear....easier to get the paint off of her that way.

Bj has his conference meet today. Will try to remember to get a post up later...maybe even a picture. He got a medal last Monday for finishing 5th overall at the Lake County Invitational.

Our little poser

Here is our little model. She likes to "strike a pose" for the camera....any camera.

Fall has really arrived

Here is BJ before leaving to go to Homecoming. Handsome little devil isnt he?

SOOOOOOO close.....

As many of you may have seen in the articles that Uncle Chris and Busia sent links out on, BJ's CC team came ONE point shy of winning their division this year. Last year they pretty much "saw the field" at the bottom. So this is a tremendous improvement. Since I last updated, BJ has had two races and did well in both. The boy can run. He had a top 2o finish at the Antioch Invitational on Saturday (18th place) and in the battle for the divisional title yessterday, he tied for 3rd or 4th depending on how you want to look at it. AND he is having fun.

He had homecoming last weekend. I was hoping to post some photos of him and his date, but they had an incident that we will just call a "change in schedule" that prohibited them from seeing each other before actually arriving at the school. AHHHH dating is such a learning experience.



Miss Danielle continues to astound her family with what she learns at school. We are learning all about above and below the line behavior (the difference between what is acceptable and not acceptable). I dont really know yet all that falls where, but in a pinch when my little angel may be posing me a challenge, I just have to ask if she is acting above or below this imaginary line and it seems to work out.

She continues to get better and better at sounding out letters to words. She now knows a few words by sight. It takes a LOT longer to read books now...forewarning to those that have kids younger than her and those of you who have older ones could have mentioned this.

Danielle has her first day off from school this coming Friday and Monday. She will stay at daycare on Friday and I am actually being forced by my boss to take a day off on Monday. We will be attending BJ's Lake County invitational meet on Monday.

Brian, the two dogs (Timber and Graycie) and I are all the same, the dogs sleep all day and Brian and I work all day. Brian's trip to New Orleans was good. He ate crabmeat cheesecake (ew) and said it was delicious.

Hope all is well where you are!!!