Annual St. Charles 5k Adds Elementary School Division to Race
6/18/09, Daily Herald
Local elementary school students will be given the opportunity to represent their school in the 31st annual Saint's Challenge 5k and Youth Mile and compete for the race's new traveling trophy.
A trophy will be awarded to the St. Charles elementary school whose student wins the new elementary school competitive division of the Youth Mile.
The new competition also creates age divisions for kids in fifth, fourth, third, second and first grade and younger. The winning school will be the first recipient of the traveling trophy, an award that will be engraved with the winning school's name and move from school to school each year depending on who wins the race.
"We try to promote running in the Fox Valley. We want to get kids interested in track and cross country and part of that is being on a team," Bruce Westerhoff, Running Saints Booster president said of the impetus behind the new elementary school competition.
Race organizers hope that by creating this new division, focus will be placed on getting elementary school aged children involved in running and teach them more about teamwork and corporation.
While each student who chooses to sign up will be competing in their school's name, students do not have to register to enter the race through their school. According to Westerhoff, all students need to do is download the race application online, pay the youth registration fee of $10 and simply fill in the name of the school they are enrolled in.
Parents are also welcome to run with their children in the Youth Mile for free.
The Saint's Challenge will also feature its 5k race for more experienced runners. The 5k event will begin at 8 a.m. at the St. Charles East High School track located at 1020 Dunham Road. The Youth Mile will begin on the track after the last 5k runner has completed the race.
Over 200 runners participated in last year's event and Westerhoff hopes that with the addition of the elementary school competition even more runners will sign up this year.
The race day registration fee for those who enter the 5k race is $20.
Prizes will be awarded the overall top male and female 5k finishers as well as the top three finishers in each of the 5k's age divisions.
Refreshments will be offered and Jamba Juice will be on site selling smoothies on race day.
To download a race application or get more information, click here.
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Lizzy Hynes ran a blazing 9:51.0 to take 1st in the Women's 3000 Meter Run at the 2009 USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Lizzy beat the rest of the field by a full 4 seconds. Way to go, Lizzy!
31st Annual Saint's Challenge 5K and Youth Mile
June 21, 2009
DADs - we hope you had a relaxing REST of your father's day!
THANK YOU for joining us for our 31st annual Saints Challenge 5K and Jeff Leavey Youth Mile races. Congratulations to ALL of our racers. We hope to see you again next year.
Thank you VOLUNTEERS for helping with the Saints Challenge on June 21 - our largest fundraiser for the Track & Field and Cross Country teams.
From: Tom Roderick, former Saints Coach
From: Tom Roderick
Comment: At the State Track meet this past weekend I was impressed with the number of former STC athletes that were there as coaches, many of whom had athletes earn All-State honors.
Ryan Anderson - Villa Grove
Pat Carney - LaSalle-Peru
(yes there is another Pat Carney - he ran on a school record 4x100 relay in 2000)
Brad Brittin (Stufflebeam) - Streator
Eric Baron - Kaneland
Kyle Pichik - Buffalo Grove
Jason Welch - Burlington Central
Adam Freed - Naperville Central
Clayton Figi - Neuqua Valley
and of course our own head coaches at STCE Ben Provencher and Denise Hefferin.
I know that Mike Krueger (a teammate of Baron and Stufflebeam) is coaching HS in Texas also.
I was privileged to be able to work with all of the great young coaches during their HS days and I am very proud of their accomplishments as they help guide their athletes.
I am sure that I have overlooked someone - please let me know if any more are discovered.
~ Rod
The New UEC?
North Division -
St. Charles East, Elgin, Larkin, Streamwood, St. Charles North, Geneva, Batavia South Division -
Bartlett, South Elgin, Lake Park, Neuqua Valley, Metea Valley, Waubonsie Valley, East Aurora
5/21/2009, Daily Herald
The Upstate Eight is preparing to invite Batavia and Geneva to join the conference and form a league with two seventeam
divisions for the 2010-11 school year, the Daily Herald has learned.
St. Charles North athletic director John Rutter said the Upstate Eight is waiting for paperwork from the interested
schools. Once it is received the school superintendents will meet, and Rutter hopes it will be official in two to three
weeks. Read the full article.
Coach Johnson named D.L. Hoeft High School Teacher of the Year.
Area teachers receive top educator awards
kcchronicle.com
ST. CHARLES – Local teachers, administrators and support staff were honored Friday at the 34th Annual Kane County Educator of the Year awards banquet at Pheasant Run Resort Center in St. Charles. Regional Superintendent Douglas Johnson said the 25 honorees were being recognized as truly exceptional educators.
Andrew Johnson, who teaches social studies at St. Charles East High School in District 303, was named D.L. Hoeft High School Teacher of the Year.
2/3/09 -- Track and field athletes in the US high school Class of 2009 start signing college scholarship offers tomorrow. DyeStat will be aglow with the bright eyes and smiling faces of student athletes signing the national letter of intent as family, coaches and friends look on. It’s a great time for celebration, excitement and relief. For most, the road to this point has been long and hard as student athletes struggled to meet the eligibility requirements for admission, sports and scholarships. No one gets an easy pass. But the rewards are great for both the athlete and parents alike.
To help younger athletes who are interested in the “next level” of competition and an athletic scholarship, Dyestat will be doing a series of articles for the college bound student athlete. Now is the time for the Class of 2010 to be working toward next year's signing period. The series starts with this overview and will be followed by more specific topics. The road to college athletics is filled with many do’s and don’ts. We hope to make things easier by explaining the process and pointing to the right place for direction.
Do you want to know what is happening this season? Would you like to have a say in the Booster decisions about equipment purchases, banquets and team clothing? Would you like to be more involved with the team this season? Join other Track parents at the next Booster meeting!
ALL PARENTS!!!
Booster Meeting Parents of all team members are welcome. July 23 Meeting at 8 pm
Westerhoff's house: 1913 Bridle Ct.
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Students Advance In National Scholarship Program
St. Charles East HSl Cross Country and Track & Field team member, Elizabeth Hynes, has been named as a finalist in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP).
In addition, Nick Cramer has earned “commended” status in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship program. Congratulations Nick and Lizzy.
Elizabeth Hynes was named as one of 20 of Illinois’ top scholar-athletes state finalists in the 2008 Wendy’s High School Heisman Award program. Nearly 34,000 seniors applied nationwide and from that group, 8,590 school winners were selected. The 20 Illinois state finalists were chosen from these winners. These finalists embody the Heisman spirit of hard work and dedication through their outstanding achievements in athletics, academics and community service.
State Meet - THIRD Place!
Congratulations to the Girls Cross Country Team on winning THIRD PLACE in the IHSA AAA State Meet in Peoria on Nov. 8, 2008.
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A Brief Chat With Tera Moody, Runners World
(Saints alum) Tera Moody of Boulder, Colorado was fifth in the U.S. Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials in Boston and Cambridge in April in 2:33:54 - a more than 12-minute improvement on her Trials qualifying time of 2:46:40 for ninth place at the 2007 Chicago Marathon. On Monday, Labor Day, Moody, who is 27, will enter the New Haven Road Race in Connecticut, a USA 20K Championship... Read entire interview.
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Girls Sectional Meet 
by Donna Dye 
Congratulations to the Girls Cross Country Team on winning THIRD PLACE in the IHSA AAA State Meet in Peoria on Nov. 8, 2008. 