Wednesday, October 11, 2023

2023 Top Contenders


2023 Top Contenders

Girls 

The research is complete and the pictures have been received.  Our 2023 top contenders are a strong group that should engage in some very competitive racing.  The girls field should be headed by the Mansouri Sisters of Elk Grove.  Freshman Giana was 4th at the Lagoon Valley Classic and 2nd at the Lodi Flame Invitational. Sophomore Yasmin was 8th at Lagoon Valley and 3rd at Lodi Flame and was 2nd at last year's Supercross.  

Giana Mansouri of Elk Grove
Giana Mansouri - Elk Grove
Other contenders include: TVL #2 runner, Sidney Logsdon of Hilmar and Natalie Underwood of Pleasant Grove who placed 2nd earlier this year at the Dave Zaccharias Invitational. 






Top Girls Contenders Slide Show


Boys

On the boys side, last year's 2nd placer, John Funderburg of Pleasant Grove returns to try to move up one spot from last year and take the title. Last year, Funderburg ran the #7 time ever at Supercross to finish behind eventual Sac Joaquin Section Division 1 Champion Daniel Gonzales of Lincoln.  

Funderburg is the top returner



Funderburg will be joined by multiple talented boys, including: Last year's 7th place finisher, Hideto Hara of Half Moon Bay as well as last year's 12th place finisher, Andrew Fritch of Lincoln.  They will be joined by last year's Sac Joaquin Section Sophomore Champion, Jonathan Hupman of Merrill West, who is having a great season at the varisty level this year. 





Thursday, October 13, 2022

Supercross Top Contenders

If anyone can give me a tutorial on how to embed slide shows into my blog, I'm all ears. 

Girls Top Contenders

#3 Girls Contender
Yasmin Mansouri of Elk Grove


Boys Top Contenders

Top Boys Contender
Daniel Gonzales of Lincoln






Monday, October 10, 2022

SCHEDULE CHANGE

 Schedule Change!  We currently have 199 entries in the varsity boys race and 275 in the frosh soph boys race.  In order to safely accomodate all of our athletes, we are splitting those two races into black division and gold division.


  • 8:30 AM - Open Race + Junior High Race
  • 9:00 AM - Varsity Boys Black Division
  • 9:25 AM - Varsity Boys Gold Division
  • 9:50 AM - Varsity Girls
  • 10:15 AM - Frosh Soph Boys - Black Division
  • 10:40 AM - Frosh Soph Boys - Gold Division
  • 11:10 AM - Frosh Soph Girls
  • 11:40 AM - Junior Varsity Boys
  • 12:10 AM - Junior Varsity Girls



Please note that we have shortened the time between our varsity and frosh soph races to 25 minutes.  This should not be a problem, so long as we don't have finishers slower than 25 minutes in those races.  If you need to make last minute adjustments to put your slower kids into the JV races.

If you want to move a kid, please let me know ASAP

Saturday, April 23, 2022

2022 16thennial Hughson Supercross Invitational

 October 15th, 2022

Come on over to Hughson to close out your regular season with the most fun allowable at a cross country meet.  


Unlike ANY Course You'll Run!

Our totally unique course offers a stadium start and finish, a cirtuit through the Hughson Community Arboretum and Garden, Twice traverses our famous or infamous Mud Pit and even features a stretch through one of our campus's hallways, so to paraphrase John Mayer, you literally CAN run through the halls of our high school.  Link to Course Map on gmap-pedometer

2013 Varsity Boys Race Enters Arboretum


Mud Pit Action


Awards

  • Team AwardsThe TOP 2 teams in each of the scored  races will take home one of Hughson Supercross's custom trophies. 
  • Sweepstakes Award:  We have traditionally given a trophy to the school that brings the most well rounded program and scores the best in: Varsity Girls, Varsity Boys, Frosh Soph Girls, Frosh Soph Boys.  We have so far not awarded a sweepstakes trophy based on Junior varsity results, as participation numbers have not allowed.  If numbers continue to increase, we will include Junior varsity scores in the sweepstakes division. Stay tuned for 2022!
  • Individual Awards The top 20 runners in each varsity race will take home medals. The top 15 runners in the JV and Frosh Soph races will also receive medals. Medals will be handed out in the chute
  • Premes This is the coaches's favorite. The first runner through the mud pit in each race will receive some sort of special prize. Premes are dependant on what we get donated each year. 
  • Random Finisher Awards One of the things that we really like about our meet is that anyone may take home some sort of prize. At the beginning of each race, the starter will draw a number from a hat (the number will be larger than 15, because the first 15 finishers already get medals). Whichever number the starter draws, will be awarded to the corresponding place finisher in that race. We've had some wonderful surprise awards handed out in this way over our 9 years of existence.
  • Ice cream to all finshers....just sayin' it's happened in the past.  I'll see what I can get donated. 
 I'd like to share a quote from one of our fellow coaches.

"Joel,

Thanks for a great meet. On a more personal note: by providence, you gave a prize hat to my autistic kid in the chute. He came up to me after the meet asking why someone gave him a hat. I told him that he won it as a prize for his hard work. This will most likely be the only thing he wins…ever. You should have seen his face. What a beautiful, perfect moment.

Thank you so much.

 JoAnn Davison,
 Turlock High."

Entries and Fees

  • All entries will need to be done through athletic.net.  Entries must be received by Sunday, October 9th at 10:00 PM
  • We strive to remain one of the most affordable meets in California.  

    Individual Entries: $5.00
    Team Entry Fee Cap: $200.00

    This means that if you have 110 kids, you can bring 'em all for $200.00

    Come on down to Hughson, the water's fine!


Wednesday, October 13, 2021

SuperCross Schedule and Top Contenders

 Hello Everybody!  Only 3 days until the 15th Hughson Supercross Invitational. 

Meet Schedule

After much hand wringing about field sizes, we've decided to stick with our orginal schedule.  Entries came in a bit lower than projected based on the number of teams signed up, so for at least one more year, the meet will end prior to noon.  

Please visit our schedule page for the official schedule


Top Contenders

Thanks to Screamin' Scott for help in identifying top contenders for this year's meet.  He gets to a lot more events than any of us and has a unique perspective on the ability levels of lots and lots of our athletes.  I'm going to narrow down the lists to the top 10 (largely dependant on whether I can get a couple more photos).  Check the slide shows below for this year's contenders



If one or more of your athletes was selected as a featured competitor, please have them report to the starter 10 minutes prior to the start of their respective races. 

Monday, May 24, 2021

15th (Almost Annual Except For the Stupid Covid Year) Supercross Invitational


 October 16th, 2021


Check back as this site is updated with info for this year's totally awesome Hughson Supercross Invitational