X-COUNTRY 2008 ROLLING ALONG
Panther Striders are few in numbers - but rolling!
October 9 , 2008

Some of the

SUMMER TRAINING HEADS TO THE HILLS
Panther Striders hit the hill tops to view a smokey summer solestice for 2008.
June 24, 2008

Some of the Panther Strider summer training crew headed up into the Antioch hills as shown here below. The smoke filled air from one of the hardest fire seasons on record hid the sun from view in this year's climb to the top for their running session debut for summer 2008. There have been worse air days during XC season, but June 2008 will go down as one of the hardest hit from over 800 reported fires throughout the state, many caused by recent lightning strikes. Even the sun, as it was setting on one of the longest days of the year, was turning orange-red at 8:23, then to a dark red, before it was completely blacked out just before the official sunset time of 8:38pm. Even so, the Striders took advantage of the evening and made it real.

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2008 TRACK & FIELD GETS UNDERWAY
Track team has big plans with new events, leadership, and uniforms for 2008.
January 18, 2008

The Panther Track & Field Team got down to business on the first day of signups on Thursday January 17 in the Cafeteria. The final signup meeting will be on January 31 in the Cafeteria at 3:10pm. For more information on the track TEAM at AHS - go to the AHS TRACK TEAM link page. There will no doubt be more information arriving in the coming weeks about the track team and all of it's plans for the 2008 season ahead.

Also in the works for the Panther Track is the entire new coaching staff. Click on the link above about the AHS Track TEAM and find out all the new information on the new coaching staff and runners and events planned.

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2007 PANTHER CROSS COUNTRY TEAM PICTURE DAY
Panthers put another team picture in the AHS annals of XC history.
October 24, 2007

The 2007 Antioch Senior High School Panther Cross Country team is set. Top row (L-R) Bryan Dwyer, Andrew Colvin,
Michael Geary, Trevor Augustus, Ned Randle, Mathew Humphreys, Marco Zavala, Matt Parker. Second row
standing (L-R) Tyree Mack, Alicia Zapata, Asst. Coach Brian Wilson, Luara Crabtree, Head Coach Mike Amorosa,
Jared Cornelius, Eddie Quintero. Kneeling (L-R) Narimane Nekkab, Christiaan Perez, Maricela Ragalado, Chris
Slatten, Jacob Robertson, Edward Ramaiya. Sitting (L-R) Olivia Kolecki, Laresha Gentry, Dana Karkar, Veronica
Regalado, & Alex Kovalick.

The 2007 Varsity Girls and Boys up at Black Diamond Mines Regional Park in Antioch

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PANTHER CROSS COUNTRY TEAM SETTING GOOD MARKS, PR'S
2007 Panther XC continues to be setting season & life-time PR's in many dual meets and invites
October 21, 2007

The XC season would not be anything without the goal of setting season or life time Personal Records (PR's). There have been a lot of these set over the course of the last few weeks - as the hight of the seaosn is upon us. Looking back a few weeks, the team had several dual meets - with mix results in the BVAL. The teams should fair well and finish on the plus side by November 2, come BVAL finals at NEWHALL PARK. This will be the last BVAL finals held in the Diablo Valley region for the Panthers for quite sometime, if not for good. The BVAL, DVAL, & MDAL, all leagues in which Antioch XC has been a part of since 1959 will come to a close in Central Contra Costa County because in 2008, the BVAL moves east and for the first time in Antioch's history - they will not be competing against any school from over the hill in league action. The BVAL version #5 will all be east county schools.

Team AHS takes a post-race day group shot at the Castro Valley Invite.

After the Viking Opener, the team headed to the Castro Valley Invite, Newhall Park for the BVAL Center Meet, then had league action with Pittsburg and Freedom at Antioch High, in which they won all races and continued the 30 year-winning-streak against Pittsburg. After that tri-meet, the Panthers headed to Castro Valley again for the famed CV Trojan Invite at Canyon Middle School. After that it was the tri-meet against Liberty and DLS/Carondelet at Shadow Lakes Golf Course in Brentwood. This past weekend - the Panthers headed out to the central valley invite at the dried up lake of Lodi and competed at the Eagle Invite - with several race champions crowned - Tyree Mack (09) in the JV BOYS at 10:17 for 1.9m, and Mathew Humphreys-Martin (08) in the varsity boys race with a sizzling time of 16:25 for the 5k course.

Varsity Boys take a proud second behind the very good valley team of Sheldon-Sacramento. The
Antioch XC team has been battleing with Sheldon over the last few years - with split results for each team.

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'07 XC SEASON QUICKLY BLASTS INTO HIGH GEAR AT INVITES
Panther Striders run at Ed Sias, Contra Loma Classic-X, and Viking Invites, all in a week's work
September 18, 2007

The AHS Panther XC team headed into high gear with three invites in an eight day span to open the first week at school. First it was the season opening Ed Sias Invite in Martinez hosted by College Park and Campolindo High Schools. Then it was off to Contra Loma for the tenth annual CLC - Antioch's own little invite. Then on Saturday September 15, it was all the way up to Santa Rosa' Spring Lake park for the annual Viking Opener.

Senior boys celebrate lake side after winning their division at the Viking Opener over Castro Valley and Liberty.
(L-R) Ned Randle, Eddie Quintero, Jacob Robertson, Mathew Humphreys, and Christiaan Perez, all Class of 2008.

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CAR WASH GETS THE TEAM OFF AND RUNNING IN 2007
X-Country crew get off running fast in training and in raising funds for season ahead
August 25, 2007

The Panther Striders headed out on the streets of Antioch to garner their wages for the 2007 season. They did OK, but the fun outweighed any dividends from the labor washing cars. In fact - there were so many car wahses in town, it took it's toll on the XC crew's earnings. Despite that, the team had a fun day screaming on the corner and getting "hosed" while cleaning some of the town resident's cars. More pictures to come after the downloads - so stay tuned for that link.

The girls parade on the corner of E. 18th Street to convince drivers to stop on in for a washing.
(L-R) Olivia (09), Dana (09), Angelica Regalado (07).

Even some of the varsity guys were working the corner to get cars into the washing corral. (L-R) Mathew Humpreys-Martin (08), Bryan Dwyer (10), and Christiaan Perez (08). Humphreys and Perez placed
1st & 2nd respectively in a 5k race out in Discovery Bay earlier in the day (wearing race shirts).
More details and link on those results to follow suit..

MT TAM CAMP-OUT A SUCCESS ONCE AGAIN
The 22nd annual excursion to Marin County stacks up as one of the best
August 20, 2007

Many of the 2007 XC crew took to the Marin trails of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Mt Tamalpais State Park, and Muir Woods to get in some great trail running over four days. The camp-out dating back to 1986 has been at the same camping grounds of Mt Tam 20 of those 22 years. In 2005, the group ventured up to Yosemite, and last year to Samuel P Taylor. Even those two parks are beautiful, nothing stacks up against the running trails of Muir Woods and Mt Tam.

The 2007 Panther Striders pose near a grove of ancient redwoods at Muir Woods National Monument.

ALAMEDA RUN FOR THE PARKS IS A RUN FOR THE FALL
Antioch top stars tackle streets of Alameda and run 6.2 mile race
August 5, 2007

Some of the varsity crews of the Panther Striders went out on a cold windy summer morning in the down town streets of Alameda to tackle the long running 10k - benefiting the parks. The flat histoirc streets of Alameda were closed off to run this summer classic in old-towne. 10k Results here .

The '07 Panther X-country team took to the streets of Alameda running the Run for the Parks 10k. Leading the way for the Panthers once again this year was Senior Christiaan Perez in the 36 minute range. (L-R) Head Coach Mike Amorosa ('88), Chris Slatten ('10), Eddie Quintero ('08), Jacob Robertson ('08), Christiaan Perez ('08), Bryan Dwyer ('10), Veronica Regalado (10), & Coach Amanda Amorosa ('97) , who ran the 2- mile with her little assistant Vincenzo Amorosa ('25).

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LAKE LOOP SUMMER RACE RUNS INTO A BIT OF A SNAG
Antioch sumer lake loop runs into a bit of a snag on first running of 2007 summer
July 18, 2007

All the different high school and adult runners that ran the 2.13 mile course around Contra Loma Reservoir took a turn for the worse as they encountered an obsticle 3/4 of the way thru the time trial. Apparently, one of the park's rangers decided to do some trail work at 7:00pm that evening - same time as the time trial-race. In the 12 years we have been doing this time trial - there has never been a hang up like this! As the runners ran at top speeds of 5:00 minute mile pace, the sign was not visible by the fast running athletes coming thru their normal route back to the dam. Some were forced to run the varisty hill above, making it a 2.68 mile course, according to Mike Zygancio (AHS XC 1972) GPS watch.

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HISTORIC RIVERTOWN FUN RUN INDEED MAKES HISTORY
Antioch July 4th fun run makes the record books by becoming the hottest on record!
July 4, 2007

The Antioch cross country teams from Antioch, Deer Valley, and Freedom high schools, along with some other local adults and children, braved the century degree heat. What boasted as one of the hottest road races in America, did not seem to detour the 55 runners who got up the courage to run the streeets of Antioch!

It was the hottest race on record for the HRFR, at a scorching 103 degrees. The previous record was 97 degrees, set in 2005. All other years were in the low 90's, so, there might be something said about global warming!? Nevertheless, the race was hot, but not the times of course. Winning the 5k, in a slower than normal time of 18:31, was Deer Valley graduate Tony Palermini. The woman's division was taken by recent Antioch graduate and top Strider over the last four seasons, Mellie Regalado, timing 21:56 for the 3.1 miles. The 1 mile run was taken by 11 year old Sean Kelly in 7:20, the only time for the day to make the HRFR record books. Right behind Kelly was the girl's champion Alicia Rickli, (12) in 7:23.

For complete results in this year's hot running of the 2007 Histoirc Rivertown Fun Run.

The 2007 Historic Rivertown Fun-Run in Antioch was led early on by Panther Strider Mathew Humphreys-Martin (#20), shown here at the half mile mark. Just to the right of Mathew in the black shorts is Deer Valley's recent graduate and top standout miler Tony Palermini, who eventually won the 7th annual gig in downtown Antioch. Palermini ran a school record 4:18 this past track season for 1600 meters.

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PANTHER STRIDERS HIT THE HILLS AT SUMMER SOLESTICE
Panthers successfully scale Loma Peak at 8:38 pm to run on the longest day of the year!
June 21, 2007

The Antioch Boys & Girl's Panther Striders succesfully scaled one fo the highest peaks cresting around Contra Loma, their favorite hiding place. It was quite the group this year scaling 'Loma Peak' at a peak elevation of 505 feet. It was a great evening of views and running, with all the Striders successfully running to the top of this peak above all of Antioch. Regardless, it was another fun evening for all who were there on the hill.

The crew takes a scenic photo with the sun just dipping into the Pacific Ocean just over Christiaan Perez' right shoulder. It was another successful trip up the peak for this annual summer adventure by the Striders.

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THE GUESTBOOK IS BACK UP AND RUNNING FOR 2007!!
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