Chips travel to Oiler Invite

The Manistee Chippewa XC teams hit the road for an invitational in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday Oct. 2nd.    The Chip girls finished 3rd while the boys were 6th in the 8 team meet, which featured very tough competition from 4 state-ranked teams and several class A schools.

Annie Fuller set the meet record for the girls, taking 1st in 18:39, while Ashley Lindeman was 3rd in 20:07.  Sophie Shriver was also a medalist, taking 14th in 21:31.  Courtney, Kelsey, and Kaitlin ran season best times.

For the boys, Jarret Deisch's 10th place finish in a season best 17:33 led the way, while Bryce Cameron was 17th with a PR time of 17:49. Nick Veine also medaled, taking 21st in 18:01.  Alex L ran a personal best time of 20:14.

Complete individual results here

Chips return to racing at home

After a 10 day break from racing, the Manistee Chips were back in action at home on Tuesday Sept 25th.  Racing against Traverse City St. Francis and Mason County Eastern, the chips boys ran to victory 17-46 over TCSF, while the girls narrowly lost to the #5 ranked D4 Glads 28-29.  

Jarret Deisch was the first overall boy to finish, while Annie Fuller ran to first in a time of 19:31, the fastest ever on the Manistee course by anyone other than record-holder Kelly Schubert.

Complete results here 

More pictures from the Manistee News Advocate here

Busy Weekend of Races at MSU & WSCC

The Chip XC team had two races this weekend, first at MSU on Friday and then at WSCC for the Ludington Invitational on Saturday.

Courtney sprints past her fans at MSU

Kelsey keeps pace

Annie and Ashley on the trophy stand

MSU ice cream rocks!

On Friday at MSU, the boys team took 9th while the girls were 18th of 33 D2 and D3 teams at MSU.  Jarret Deisch (17:46) was the first Chip finisher for the boys, while Bryce Cameron (18:11) and Andrew Solberg (19:34) both ran PR's.  Annie Fuller (5th-19:16) and Ashley Lindeman (23rd - 20:09 PR!) ended up on the awards stand for the Chip girls.

Alex tries to pass Jacob at WSCC

Teammates work together!

On Saturday Alex Lindeman led the boys on the tough WSCC course to a 54th place finish.  Eduardo Mattos ran his first race (28:14) while the Kaitlin Helminski and teammates ran a well-paced race for the girls.

MSU results

Ludington results

Fuller First at Ferris

Annie Fuller took 1st and Ashley Lindeman 4th as the Manistee Chippewa girls and boys cross-country teams both finished 3rd at the "Ray Helsing" Bulldog Invitational at Ferris State University Sept. 8.  Jarret Deisch was the first boy, finishing 8th in 17:51.

8 Chip girls ran season best times, as did 5 of the guys.  The teams competed against several Division I and II schools.  Next meets are at MSU (9-14) and West Shore CC (9-15).

Results from FSU website

2012 season off to fast start

The boys love Mrs. Veine's cookies!

Awaiting the start

Ashley kicks it in

Austin Fancher practices his passing skills

 The MHS 2012 XC campaign kicked off Aug 25th at the Pete Moss / Benzie Early Invitational.  With hot (upper 80's) and dusty conditions, the Chips raced well against some state ranked teams.  The boys ran to 15th of 21 schools in the red (large school) division, while the girls were 14th of 20.  Annie Fuller finished 11th to be the lone Chippewa medalist, while PR's were achieved by Jonny Bailey (17:33) and Nick Veine (17:56).  Also running PR's were first time HS runners Andrew Solberg, Alex Lindeman, Jacob Stefanski, Ashely Lindeman, Kelsey Harrigan, Mallory Stefanski, and Kaitlin Helminski!  Great job, runners!

Complete results here

News Advocate Pictures here

Manistee XC 2012

Watch this space for all the info on the 2012 Manistee HS / MCC XC season.

2012 HS Meet Schedule

August 2012 Practice Schedule

Manistee XC records for the past 10 years


Pre-season conditioning:
Mondays 5pm MHS
Wednesdays 5pm 1st St. Beach
Fridays 8am MHS

Conditioning lasts about 45 minutes.  1st day of official practice is Wednesday Aug 8th.

2012 Manistee Firecracker 5K Results

Great weather and turn out for today's Firecracker 5K!  After sweltering all week long, the weather finally broke and we got breezes and cooler temperatures for today's races.

Overall 5K results

5K Age Group Results

5K finish line photos

Fun Run Finish line photos

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Thanks to all of you who helped out today too!  We couldn't do this without you.
Photos courtesy of the Manistee News Advocate (purchase copies here) and video courtesy of MichianaTiming.