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GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY STATE CHAMPIONS 5AII 2006 4AI 2007,2008
GIRLS RANKED 13TH IN THE NATION NIKE TEAM NATIONALS 2006
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY STATE RUNNER UP 2005
GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD STATE RUNNER UP 5AII 2007
GIRLS REGION CHAMPIONS CROSS COUNTRY 2006,2007,2008
GIRLS REGION CHAMPIO0NS TRACK AND FIELD 2007
BOYS REGION CHAMPIONS CROSS COUNTRY 2008
Schedule:
Saturday Sept 13 Scottsdale Distance Classic Girls placed 3rd and Boys placed 5th. The girls were led by Kailey Rumbo 5th, Renee Peck13th and Gloria Tello 14th. The boys were led by Paul Smith 11th and Mitch Roush 14th.
Saturday Sept 20 OC / Ken Denson Inv @ OC We had a great meet on Saturday. Our girls won the meet and our jv girls placed 2nd. Our Boys placed 4th and jv boys placed 3rd. This week also was the first time our boys were ranked in the state #25. Congrats boys.
Saturday Sept 27 Doug Conley Inv The girls did a great job. They placed 3rd as a team. 1:30 between 1-5. Kailey Rumbo placed 12,Gloria Tello placed 17th and Renee Peck placed 26th. Jordyn Bentley won the girls jv race and know is on the varsity team. Jordyn,Mr Dempsey says hi.
Kailey Rumbo made national silver status on milesplit.com for her performance 19:41. Congrats Kailey!!!
Wednesday Oct 8 @ Home The boy and girl teams ran against Kellis,Thunderbird and Apollo. Both teams won the meet. This was a good tune up for our next meet this Sat. up at Anthem Park.
Saturday Oct 11 Boulder Creek Inv Anthem/District Meet
The girls cross country team won the Boulder Creek Invitational this weekend. There were 21 teams and several of those teams were 5A schools. The girls were led by Gloria Tello who placed 2nd Kailey Rumbo 4th and Renee Peck 6th. This meet was also the Deer Valley District Meet which the team also won. The JV girls won the Invitational as well. They were led by Katie Dunphy who won the race,Rachel Gutknecht 2nd and Brooke Warren 3rd. The Boys team placed 5th led by Paul Smith 6th and Mitch Roush 10th. The boys placed 2nd in the District Meet.
Wednesday Oct 15 @ McClintock The boy and girl teams won the meet against Arcadia,Dysart, and McClintock. Rachel Gutknecht and Brooke Warren led the girls. Mitch Roush and Paul Smith continue to lead the boys. The girls will travel to CA on Friday to run in the Sweepstakes Race at Mt Sac. Both teams will then compete at the Regional Championship.
Saturday Oct 25 Mt Sac Inv Walnut, CA Girls only The girls ran some pr's this weekend at the Mt Sac Inv. This is one of the toughest courses in the country. 5 of the 7 runners pr'd from last year. Our 1-5 runners had 1:24 between them. It was a great experience. Both teams are ready for region and state.
Friday Oct 31 Region Meet Thunderbird Park The boys and girls cross country teams won the region championship on Friday. This was the first for the boys and third for the girls.
Mitch Roush was the individual region champ and was named Region runner of the year. Paul Smith was the runner up. Randy Weatherman 5th,Tom Arland 8th, Bennet Martinez 12th, Paul Provost 23rd, and David Cook 29th
Kailey Rumbo was the individual region champ and was named Region runner of the year. Gloria Tello was the runner up. Renee Peck 4th, Mkenzie Brist 6th Shannon Walsh 8th Jordyn Bentley 11th, Hailey Ruebsamen 12th.
The state meet is this Saturday morning at Cave Creek Golf Course.
Saturday Nov 8 State Cave Creek Golf Course
The lady eagles cross country team won their 3rd straight state championship on Saturday. The girls ran great. Gloria Tello was the individual runner up, Kailey Rumbo 8th,Renee Peck 12th, McKenzie Brist 15th,Shannon Walsh 29th, Hailey Ruebsamen 36th and Jordyn Bentley 59th. The AIA also puts the results together from all the conference finals and your O'Connor Eagles placed 1st. What a great season.
The boys cross country finished their most successful season on Saturday at the State Championships. They finished 8th. This was the highest finish in school history. The boys were led by Mitch Roush who finished 13th, Paul Smith 27th, Randy Weatherman 44th, Tom Arland 68th, Bennet Martinez 81st Paul Provost 85th and David Cook 105th. Great season boys.
4A-I girls cross country: O'Connor prevails
by Jim Richards - Nov. 8, 2008 07:15 PM
Special for The Republic
 Photos from the meets
A year ago, Tucson Sabino sophomore Christina Price finished a respectable 14th place at the Class 4A Division I state meet, giving her the 10th best returning time of all runners in Saturday's 4A-I state meet.
And while Phoenix Sandra Day O'Connor's Lindsay Prescott was winning her second consecutive individual title to lead O'Connor to its second consecutive state title a year ago, O'Connor sophomore Gloria Tello was on the junior varsity having been not good enough to make the team.
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On Saturday at the 4A-I state cross country meet, both Price and Tello came through in big ways. Price's time of 19 minutes, 16.20 seconds was good enough to take her first state individual medalist title, topping second-place Tello (19:38.80). In the process, Tello helped to lead O'Connor to its third consecutive state title and second straight at the 4A-I level at the Cave Creek Golf Course.
"It really hasn't sunk in yet and I'm relieved that it's over," said Price, who got better as the season went on.
She fell to Nogales' Konnie C. Zuniga (a fifth-place finisher at state a year ago as a freshman) at the Los Mesquites Invitational in late September, but defeated Zuniga by 43 seconds to win last week's Kino Regional.
On Saturday, she never fell farther than second on the course's 3.1 mile track before winning in convincing fashion.
"I felt like I wasn't a favorite," Price said. "I thought if I had a good day that I could do it and I did. I wasn't overconfident, but I did it."
In winning its previous two titles (the first at 5A-II), O'Connor relied heavily on Prescott and Camille Olson, both current Arizona State University runners.
This year's squad was led by Tello and Kailey Rumbo, with Renee Peck also contending. Rumbo placed eighth and Peck 12th with Renee Brist 15th, Shannon Walsh 29th, Hailey Rubsaman 35th and Jordyn Bentley 57th.
"With the support of my team, it made me want to get on the team and run for them," Tello said. "I'm really happy to be a part of the team.
"I just tried to stay with (Rumbo, a seventh-place finisher at state last season.). I tried to catch (Price) but I couldn't."
O'Connor coach Brian Dempsey found this year's title to be special.
If you would like to contact Head Coach Brian Dempsey:
brian.dempsey@dvusd.org 602-615-9803
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