First Secondary Cross Country Meet

by Andrew Clarke, Secondary School Cross Country Coach

CIS Secondary has assembled an enthusiastic team of cross country runners for Season 1 of 2016. Some of the team are running hard to try and earn medals at the championships while others are looking to achieve their personal best times. Every single member of the team has been working hard at training. Training sessions included interval running, hill climbing followed by 800m intervals, running curves, relays and time trials.

It is clear that the training has been paying off with most of the team now qualifying to run in the meets. Our first meet was very successful with notable performances from Anna Stewart, who ran 5km in 21:44 to finish 2nd in the 16U Girls category, and from Phorkko Rajaa who ran a time of 19:40 to finish 3rd in the 16U Boys category. All runners set personal best times on the day.

UWC East Cross Country Races

by Ryan Sayer, Cross Country Coach

On Monday, 26 September, runners from Grades 6 to 8 travelled to Pasir Ris to compete in the latest UWC East Cross Country Series race. The afternoon race conditions were great for the first race of the season for these students. Eleven students joined Mr. Sayer and Mr. Black for the trip and all had fantastic races to begin the year. These runners continue to prepare for the ACSIS Cross Country championships coming up in November.

Congratulations to Carl Odegard, Kent Yeow, Mingyang Sun, Alannah Kys, Natasha Trusler, Neil Vijayan, Jai Vijayan, Sarah Faruqi, Jaewon Min, Hanaka Maruyama and Yuya Shimato for displaying great effort and sportsmanship! Go Huskies!

Stay tuned for the championship races on 1 November.