PMS Cross Country Team Results

A total of 50 team members competed in the meet at Orinda Intermediate School on October 18. For the first time in team history, a bus was used to transport the runners to the meet and back. Previously, team parent drivers have been used, but this was an experiment to see how useful it might be to take everyone on a bus. Based on feedback from the kids and parents who rode the bus it was a success and something that should be tired again. At the meet itself, there was one new school record set for this course. 7th grader Maddie Copeland ran 9:00 minutes even for the 1.25 mile course and broke the old school 7th grade course record by 12 seconds. Other 7th grade girls who ran in the race were Emma Seevak, Alexandra Shoptaugh and Megan Wilensky.

In the 6th grade boys race, the team was led by Blake Gruendl in 6th place. Finishing just a few seconds behind him in 9th place was Peter Wrensen and in 15th place was Hank Shaw. Another top 20 finisher was Kyle Mortimer. A large contingent of 6th grade girls participated and Piedmont had a number of finishers in the top 20. Skyler Liu in 4th place came within 7 seconds of the school course record. She was followed in Nicole Jiang in 6th place, Mia Arthur in 14th, Sabrina Kim in 16th, Gracie Petty in 18th, Addie Christensen in 19th place, and 20th place went to Amelia Eldridge.

The final race of the day was the 7 & 8th grade boys race and three of the PMS boys finished together with Alex Harrison leading the way in 15th place followed by Miles Von Herrman and Michael Kuroda in 16th & 17 place respectively.

The team has one more week of regular season meets and then the league championship meet. More information is available on the team website at: www.pmscc.com