The Monte Vista Invite was the site of the first Cross Country meet of the 2006 season for the Mission San Jose High School Cross Country team.  Twenty-six Warrior runners competed over the hilly two mile course in Danville under hot conditions with a temperature of 95 degrees.   Jack Marden returns as Coach of the Mission Men's team and Linda Addison returns as coach of the Women's team.

Coach Marden noted a number of outstanding performances at the Monte Vista meet, and gave special praise to the strong efforts of Trevor Addison, Nelson Yu and Amrit Dhar for the Warrior Men, and to Chelsea Kitta for the Warrior Women. Scroll down for photos.

Over the two mile course, overall times for Mission runners included:

Mission Men

Trevor Addison 11:57.89

Nelson Yu  12:15.65

Amrit Dhar  13:26.77

Christian Kang  14:07.73

Matthew Tam   15:03.99

Robin Chang 15:07.89

Kevin Chen  15:45.59

Sean Foo  16:22.66

Brandon Pang  16.24.78

Nathan Wong  16:26.98

Kevin Hoang  16:38.57

William Klepac  16:40.27

Nathan Chan  17:25.67

Davy Ho  17:28.25

Mission Women

Chelsea Kitta  15:10.00

Katherine Eve  16:01.00

Julie Hughes  16:42.7

Manali Sheth  16:47.72

Sonia Sajja  17:30.00

Ally Blenis  17:45.00

Meng Wu  18:01.76

Ashley Holtze 18:10.00

Zoe Lu  18:12.64

Athena Chow  18:31.00

Amanda Tam  19:52.56

Moriah Kreeger  21:42.26

The team is currently having fun getting to know each other, and having challenging workouts in preparation for competing in the Mission Valley Athletic League (MVAL).