The Mission San Jose Cross Country team ran its first dual meet of the season against American High School on Wednesday, September 19.  The Quarry Lakes course chosen by American was 2 miles for non-Varsity and 3 miles for Varsity.  The weather was sunny with a 17 mile per hour wind that slowed runners on the second half of their races. 

Team wins were recorded by the MSJ Frosh/Soph Boys (22 to 48), and the MSJ Varsity Girls (23 to 38).  The MSJ Varsity Girls gained momentum from running with team partners during their race.  American won the JV Boys race (25 to 30), the JV Girls race (22 to 33), and the Boys Varsity race (22 to 36).  

Coach Marden gave particular praise to the performances of Linda Xu in the Varsity Girls race; Teddy Fong in the Varsity Boys race, Estephanie Del Cid in the JV Girls Race, Roger Chen in the Frosh/Soph Boys race; and to Brian Tsui in the JV Boys race.

Place, name, and time of top MSJ runners include:

Varsity Girls

• 2 Katherine Eve 21:35

• 3 Linda Xu 21:50

• 5 Ally Blenis 22:11

• 6 Siwen Dickstein 22:15

• 7 Anjana Bala 22:38

• 8 Sonia Sajja 22:39

• 9 Zoe Lu 22:47

Varsity Boys

• 2 Teddy Fong 17:37

• 4 Joey Uken 17:46

• 9 Ricky McFerrin 18:16

• 10 Evan Dankiewicz 18:24

• 11 Vito Prasad 18:46

• 12 Vincent Leong 19:25