The Adventures of Danielle and BJ: November 2008

Photos from Regionals

Did i mention that it was cold in the previous post?

Danielle did a pretty good job staying happy despite the cold. Since she hasnt had the pleasure of a Michigan Football game on the icy cold bleachers at Purdue's stadium yet, she didn't really know what to expect. She liked the hand warmers that Busia provided, especially when she put them in her back pocket.

We were all happy to see BJ cross the finish line so we could warm up. He looked good at the end. He ran a strong race. He will now be preparing for his indoor season that starts on January 10th.

Cross country's past and present......

NCAA Regionals

BJ and the rest of his team qualifiers braved the COLD weather on Saturday for the NCAA Regional Meet. Despite the cold, BJ ran quite well. Here is the excerpt from his school website.

Carthage Men's Cross Country Finishes 15th at NCAA Midwest Regional

The Carthage College men’s cross country team (52-58) finished 15th at the Saturday, Nov. 15 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship at the Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island, Ill. CCIW-member North Central College won the 39-team regional championship with 51 points, followed by Wisconsin-La Crosse second at 64, Wisconsin-Stevens Point third at 83, Wisconsin-Oshkosh fourth at 134, CCIW-member Augustana College (Ill.) fifth at 182, Wisconsin-Eau Claire sixth at 200, conference-member Wheaton College (Ill.) seventh at 228, Wisconsin-Platteville eighth at 274, the University of Chicago ninth at 291, Washington University (Mo.) 10th at 292, Wisconsin-Whitewater 11th at 321, Wisconsin-River Falls 12th at 402, Wisconsin-Stout 13th at 419, St. Norbert College 14th at 438 and Carthage 15th with 455 points. Brandon Mull from Wheaton (Ill.) won the 8K race with a time of 24:33.60. Joel Brunner paced the Red Men with a 40th-place finish and a time of 25:48.60. Sean O’Connor was 87th at 26:48.50, Justin Sebens 105th at 27:03.50, Tyler Wishau 110th at 27:10.60, and B.J. Fuller was 113th at 27:13.40. Also finishing for Carthage were Derek Hall 121st at 27:17.90 and Tylor Lewis 124th at 27:19.60

For anyone interested, Busia's gloves and hand warmers made it to about mile 3 1/2 when BJ decided he was going to tough it out and run with bare hands. He picked his little sister out of the crowd as he was running by and tossed the gloves at her feet.

HOORAY!!!!

Cross Country is now over and BJ is looking forward to a couple of weeks of rest and relaxation (and full time studying....) before his indoor track season starts up. Big thanks to Busia and Dziadzia for making the trip to Rock Island with us. I hope we get to go back again next year.

We have heard rumors that his coach wants him to run the Steeplechase. So for all of you that want to follow along....you might want to google that and see what the heck it really is.

Stay warm.

ROCK THE VOTE!!!

Danielle and her classmates will be voting today in their Presidential Election.....

Cheer Competition...The Sequel

We had our last cheer competition this morning!!!

The team did a great job. Danielle competed against three other squads of 6-7 year old girls. Would you believe that in her division, it ended in a 3 way tie for first place? (That was nice, but we would have won anyway. Our girls were AWESOME!!!!)
Here are Danielle and Sarah displaying their winning trophies!! (Could Danielle's smile be any bigger?)

The weather was so cooperative that I took some more photos when we got home.

Thanks to all who followed along this season. We are looking forward to a little more free time in the next few weeks before Tumbling starts.

CCIW Championships

On Saturday we made the trip to Kenosha to watch BJ run in the CCIW championships. He was placed on the varsity squad this week, so he was able to participate and earn a chance to run in November 15th's NCAA regionals.

In order to qualify, he had to finish within the top 7 of his team individually.

It was great weather for racing. He ran a great time...27:39. He finished 5th on his team and 39th overall. The team finished 4th overall as well. They are now all headed onto Rock Island, IL for the NCAA regionals.