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2010 Preseason Practice Schedule
Just remember that we have voluntary team conditioning Monday through Thursday @ 4 PM @ FT...the other days are on your own. IF YOU WANT TO DO WELL AND BE READY FOR THE SEASON, RUNNING AND CONDITIONING
NOW ARE KEY!
Mandatory practice starts on August 9! Hope to see you there! We will have Finneytown CC day at Bob Roncker's Running Spot in Glendale on August 10. We'll probably have practice in Glendale that day...more info later.
TWO R's of FT CC now: Run and Recruit! We need YOU to be running and we need YOU to recruit your friends to run CC...YOU are the best ambassadors for this team!
Get ready for a solid year!
See ya',
Rich Meet Recap - State After a long and distinguished cross country career for Finneytown, Brad Besserman wrapped up his CC career with his run at the State CC meet on Nov. 7, 2009. He placed 64th out of 146 finishers in a time of 17:33.18. Congratulations Brad!!! Meet Recap - Regional Brad and Alex competed in the Regional meet at Troy Memorial Stadium on Saturday, October 31. For the first time in his CC career, Brad qualified to the State meet, finishing in 12 th place in a time of 16:55.07! Alex also had a great race, finishing with a new Personal Record of 17:40.87 in 29th place. There were 133 finishers in the race. Brad and Alex both finished ahead of all other CHL finishers in the Division 2 race - a very impressive accomplishment!
Brad will now advance to the State Championship race on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2:05pm. Meet Recap - District Oct 24, 2009 at Voice of America Park
Congratulations to Brad Besserman (2nd place) and Alex Hughes (5th place) for qualifying to the Regional meet next Saturday!!! This is the 3rd consecutive year that Brad has qualified for the Regional meet. Alex's finish was also impressive - 5th place is the top place for a freshman in this district since results had grade levels (2003). Also, for the first time in at least 15 years, Finneytown had a freshman qualify to regionals. And all of this happened in absolutely horrible race conditions - temperature was in the upper 40s, with strong winds, and a very, very muddy and sloppy race course!
Kyle also had a great race - he was the only Finneytown runner to set a new Personal Record during the race. Considering the race conditions, that was a pretty impressive feat! Special recognition also needs to go out to the other HS runners - TJ, James, and Nylia. The team was missing quite a few team members due to a marching band conflict, a soccer game, and illness. Congratulations to the whole team on a great season!
Brad and Alex have at least one more week to go... stay tuned.
Meet Recap - MS All City at Colerain High School The last race for the Middle School runners this year was on Monday, October 19 at Colerain High School for the Middle School All-City Meet.
It was a fun race, with a lot of schools attending. The races were organized a little differently than the meets we've been at so far this year. Races were split by grade level, with Div 1, 2, and 3 all in the same race. The results were then split after the race into Large School and Small School divisions. It was great seeing all of our runners out cheering each other on and was a great way to end the season. You've all worked very hard since we started in August and your results show it! Congratulations!
Full results can be found at the following website:
Meet Recap - Cincinnati Hills League Championship 10/17/09 The CHL Championship meet was a great meet for the Finneytown Cross Country team! Jaylah Howell won the MS Girls race in leading the girls team to a 2nd place finish. Michael Hall also had a strong run for the MS Boys, finishing in 2nd place overall. Brad Besserman won the HS Boys race for the second year in a row in a time of 17:03. The HS Boys team finished 4th overall.
Stay tuned for more race information... Meet Recap - Centerville Stampede, 10/10/09 Wow! What a sloppy mess! With all the rain over the past week, the course was very wet, muddy, and sloppy. As a result, what we had expected to be a fast course, turned out to be on the slow side.
Devontay was the only runner to set a new personal record, taking 12 seconds off of his previous season best. Nylia and Conner both were within 1 second of their best time!
Brad was the top finisher for Finneytown, taking 3rd place out of 164 runners in the HS Div 2/3 race. Michael was the top finisher for the MS runners, finishing 5th out of 190 runners.
Full results can be found on baumspage.com Meet Recap - St. Xavier Invitational 10/3/09 It was a beautiful day for a cross country meet - mid 50s and sunny for most of the time we were there. The Middle School runners were first up and 10 of 11 runners set new personal records! Chris Calvert had the biggest improvement, taking 2 minutes and 40 seconds off of his previous best time! Jacob, Darius, Jaylah, and Corrine all improved their time by over a minute!
For the High School, 4 of our 10 finishers set new personal records, with Nylia showing the biggest improvement at 49 seconds. Brad was the top finisher for Finneytown, finishing 5th out of 141 runners and claiming a spot on the awards podium.
We need to give a special thanks to Elizabeth and Dave Hasler for providing the food for the team. When we arrived at the meet, they already had our camp set up with a tarp on the ground, blankets, chairs, and food on the table! The Bouman's and Leimbach's also provided food for the team. Help with food! The team needs some help providing light snacks for our runners during meets on Saturdays. Bagels, bananas, muffins, granola bars all work well.
If you can help with this, please send an email to Assistant Coach Mark Besserman at bessermanm@gmail.com.
Meet Recap - Milford Invitational 9/19/09 The meet was held at Miami Meadows Park in Milford. With the course being described as very flat and fast, it was no surprise that 12 of our 20 runners set new personal records! Julian, Kyle, Megan, and Chris deserve special recognition for taking more than one minute from their previous best times. Way to go! Team Dinners Start Friday, 8/28 Team dinners will will be held on Friday nights in the lower level of the MS/HS in Mr. Monich's classroom. Park in the lower lot off of Cherryblossom and enter the building from the lower level. All team members are encouraged to attend and parents/siblings are welcome as well.
8/28 - The coaches will cover food prep for the first dinner.
9/4 - Chris Calvert's family
9/11 - Corinne Saul's family
9/18 - TJ Leimbach's family
9/25 - NO dinner on 9/25 since we have no meet on 9/26.
10/2 - Davia Baumgartner's family
10/9 - Coach Rich
10/16 - Conner Zimmerman's family
10/23 - Michael Hall's family
Please contact Mark Besserman if you'd like to help out with one of the remaining dinners. Pictures Now Available Thanks to our team photographers (TJ and his dad Jeff), pictures from the first HS meet at Harbin Park are now posted under the Team-Photos menu.
Please send any pictures you have to Mark Besserman at bessermanm@gmail.com so that we can create a photo album of each of the races.
More to come... Meet Recap - Mason Invitational 9/12/09 What a beautiful day for a CC race - a cool morning followed by a sunny and 70s afternoon! This was a true cross country course, especially for the HS runners, with a creek crossing, hay bale jumping, and a run through the woods.
Generally times were a little slower for the HS runners than the times from Lebanon. Even so, Devontay improved his time by over 2 minutes compared to the last race he ran two weeks ago at the Plasman Invitational in Fairfield. It was also great having Kennedy Ndamba and Jonas Carlsson at this meet. It's tough for them to do both soccer and CC, but we hope to see them at a couple more CC meets this year.
The times for the MS runners were amazingly fast until we realized the course was 3K (1.86 miles) instead of the full 2 mile course. Chris Calvert had the biggest drop in time of any of the MS runners. The next race at Milford is expected to be flat and fast, so it will be exciting to see how all of the runners have improved when the MS gets back to a 2 mile course.
Great job to all the runners and keep up the hard work at practice this week!
Full stats are available on the Schedule/Results page. Contact Information Congratulations to our new Assistant Coach, David Traubert! Dave is a Finneytown resident with kids in the Finneytown School District and is a teacher in the Winton Woods school district.
Rich Jones, Head Coach Pat Hasler, Asst. Coach Dave Traubert, Asst. Coach Mark Besserman, Asst. Coach
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Meet Recap - Lebanon 9/5/09 (HS Only) WOW! What a day! All Finneytown finishers improved their times from last week. James and Megan were more than two minutes faster than last week. Jenny was more than 4 minutes faster. Great job!
Brad 16:40, 47 seconds faster than last week
Alex 18:09, 49 seconds faster
T.J. 19:16, 44 seconds faster
James 19:31, 2 minutes and 3 seconds faster
Julian 20:57, 52 seconds faster
Jenny 23:45, 4 minutes and 12 seconds faster
Amy 26:30, 14 seconds faster
Megan 28:22, 2 minutes and 21 seconds faster
Full results can be found at baumspage.com Meet Recap - Sacred Heart Invitational - Wed, 9/2/09 (MS Only) The Middle School team ran at the Sacred Heart Invitational at Harbin Park in Fairfield on Wednesday, Sept 2. Since this was the first Cross Country race for almost everyone on the team, there was a lot of excitement and some nervousness as the runners approached the starting line.
Full results for the meet can be found under the "Team-Stats" link and at baumspage.com.
Michael Hall 12:01
Jacob Heinold 14:47
Charlie Payne 15:12
Conner Zimmerman 15:56
Darius Youngblood 18:29
Chris Calvert 20:37
Jaylan Howell 14:50
Corinne Saul 14:53
Davia Baumgartner 15:16
Janelle Bouman 15:37 Meet Recap - Brian Plasman Invite 8/29 The first meet of the season was Saturday, August 29 (High School only). The meet was at Harbin Park in Fairfield. We had some great weather for a very competitive first meet of the season, which included many Div. 1 teams.
Perhaps the highlight of the meet for Finneytown was the participation of the first ever High School girls team from Finneytown. Here are their times:
Amy Schafermeyer 26:44
Nylia Howell 26:56
Jenny Besserman 27:57
Megan Zimmerer 30:43
Jessica Hadley 30:45
In the boys race, Brad Besserman finished 10th overall out of 159 runners and was the top Div 2 finisher:
Brad Besserman 17:27
Alex Hughes 18:58
TJ Leimbach 20:00
James Howard 21:34
Julian Jones 21:49
Kyle Langford 24:22
Devontay Howell 31:56
It was a good first race of the season for all runners, with the times from this meet now becoming the benchmark for improvement in later meets. Full results can be found at ghgtiming.com Policy for Riding the Bus to Meets
School policy requires runners to ride to and from meets on the team bus. Runners are required to ride home on the bus unless a written permission is approved by Athletic Director Grosser before the day of the meet.
Congratulations to the New CC Coaches! Finneytown MS/HS is pleased to announce the hiring of two new coaches for the 2009 Cross Country season. Rich Jones, Student Ministry Director at Northminster Presbyterian Church, will be the Head Coach. Pat Hasler, a recent Finneytown graduate and current UC student, will be the Assistant Coach. Both Rich and Pat are long time runners with a long connection to the Finneytown community. They are excited about the new season and are looking forward to building on the success that Don Monich brought to the program as coach last season. Also helping out this year as a volunteer coach will be Mark Besserman, father of Brad (senior) and Jenny (sophomore). Highlights from the 2008 Season The stories below this banner highlight some of the successes from last season. We're looking for even better results this year!
Mr. Monich has the 2008 Season Highlights DVD produced by Mr. Leimbach. If you would like a copy of this DVD, please contact Mr. Monich at dmonich@finneytown.org. Thank You from Coach Monich
A big thanks to all the parents, runners, family, and friends who made this 2008 cross country season such a success for our student/athletes. We had top CHL boy runners at the HS and MS level, ran full boys and girls teams at the HS and MS levels (except for HS girls), finished a MS Girls team 2nd place at Lebanon, and have many talented young runners. The Besserman family filled roles as coach, manager, coordinator, and provided the team with our top HS boy and girl runners, while Jeff Leimbach's talent and effort as photographer will make the season come alive again for years to come. The Friday dinners were important for building team spirit, and the sponsors included families of Brad & Jenny, Davia, Morgan, TJ, Shyla, Oscar, Devin, and Kyle. As a first year coach, I can improve in many areas; please let me know where you'd like to see some improvements! HS Season Ends in the Cold at Troy Regional
Finneytown's Regional Tournament runner Brad Besserman ran a hard race this Saturday, Oct 25th at the Troy Div II Region 8 Meet, but failed to qualify for state competition next weekend in Columbus. Brad's target time and goal of State competition were well defined: Run a personal best time under 17:00 and finish in the top sixteen at Troy. Unfortunately, tough competition and cold, windy weather stood in the way. Brad finished 48th out of 130 runners with a time of 17:45. All other CHL runners missed the 16:57 sixteenth-place cut-off time. Although disappointed with these results, Brad can be proud to have overcome a difficult injury to win the CHL Championship race, earn CHL Runner of the Year award, and run a CHL 4th-best time of 17:13. Plenty of opportunities and achievements await Brad next year, including senior leadership of a young, improving team. For full Troy Region 8 meet results, go to: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/reg/troy/2008/b2.htm Community Press Features Brad Besserman
Community Press reporter Tony Meale interviewed Brad Besserman this week and filed an impressive Oct 15 story about Brad's CHL Runner of the Year award, as well as the physical battles Brad has overcome. Read the story by clicking on: Links > Downloads Michael Hall Wins All-City Middle School Title, Oct 13th
Michael Hall won the All-City Middle School 7th grade boys championship title Monday at Colerain High School. Running against the best 7th graders in the city, Michael won by over 200 yards in a time of 11:15 on the 2 mile course. Also running extremely well was Alex Hughes, who set a personal best time of 12:04 in the 8th grade boys race. 
Michael Winning - No Other Runners in Sight!This was an optional meet, but all available middle school student/athletes chose to run. We missed Megan Zimmerer, who practiced with the band. Official times are pending: Davia Baumgartner Michael Hall 11:15 1st! Morgan Wolfram Alex Hughes 12:04* New personal best time Katie Connell Bret Marshall Haley Hatfield Devin Cohill Shyla Cummings Michael West Eric Foster Race results will be posted at: http://www.racedmc.com This meet ended a great middle school cross country season which saw the girls team place 2nd at the Lebanon Invitational, and seven times during the season Finneytown boys or girls placed as top 5 finishers. Thanks for the great support of parents, family, and friends! Brad Besserman and Michael Hall Win CHL Championships, Oct 11th
Brad Besserman and Michael Hall won HS and MS CHL Championship Cross Country titles this Saturday, October 11th at Sharon Woods. Brad, named
CHL Runner of the Year,
won the Varsity boys race by pulling away from the pack and winning with a 27 second margin. Michael, who has won all but one race he's run this year, finished just 6 seconds off the course record in winning a very close middle school race. Alex Hughes finished an impressive third in the MS boys race, and Davia Baumgartner finished seventh for the MS girls. The HS and MS boys teams finished 5th and 6th in the CHL, respectively.  HS Boys (5k) MS Girls (2 mile) MS Boys (2 mile) *Brad Besserman 17:26 Davia Baumgartner 14:54 *Michael Hall 11:51 TJ Leimbach 19:38 Katie Connell 16:50 Alex Hughes 12:25 3rd! Oscar Munlin 20:08 Haley Hatfield 17:37 Bret Marshall 13:00 James Howard 21:42 Devin Cohill 14:15 Kyle Langford 22:37 Michael West 15:56 Devontay Howell 27:21 *CHL Champions! HS Girls (5k) Jen Besserman 25:08 For full CHL meet results, go to http://www.mariemontschools.org/chlcctrack/cc%20pg_1.htm Photos and race splits to be posted soon. Thanks again to Mr Leimbach for his fine photography work! Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #6: 2nd, 5th, and 9th Place Finishes at Seven Hills, Saturday, Oct 4th
Michael Hall placed second, Davia Baumgartner fifth, and Bret Marshall ninth in their middle school boys and girls races this Saturday, 10/4 at the Seven Hills Invitational. The race course was difficult and hilly, but three runners still managed to run personal best times, led by Devontay Howell, who cut an incredible 3 minutes off his personal best. TJ Leimbach finished 17th with a personal best of 19:31, and Davia Baumgartner 5th with a personal best of 14:54.  HS Boys (5k) MS Girls (2 mile) MS Boys (2 mile) TJ Leimbach 19:31* Davia Baumgartner 14:54* 5th! Michael Hall 11:47 2nd Place! Oscar Munlin 19:52 Megan Zimmerer 16:54 Bret Marshall 13:30 9th Place! James Howard 21:09 Morgan Wolfram 19:09 Devin Cohill 15:11 Kyle Langford 22:10 Eric Foster 21:53 Devontay Howell 25:29* HS Girls (5k) Jen Besserman 25:42 19th Place! * Personal-best time. For full Seven Hills meet results, go to http://www.goeasyware.com/sevenhillscc/2008/ccsevenhills.htm Photos and race splits to be posted soon. Thanks again to Mr Leimbach for his fine photography work! Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #6: Michael Hall Wins at St.X; 16 Season-Best Times Set!
The Finneytown Cross Country team continued to improve performances this Saturday, Sept 27, at the St. Xavier Invitational. Finneytown ran with full teams in HS boys, MS boys, and MS girls races, finishing 16th, 12th, and 20th, respectively.  7th grader Michael Hall brought applause from the stadium crowd by winning the boys middle school race in an impressive 11:09. Personal best times for the season were run by 16 Finneytown runners at this competitive meet, which hosted over 1,000 runners from nearly 30 schools. Brad Besserman returned from injury to run 17:13, the second-fastest time this year by a CHL runner. See all CHL HS Cross Country Honor Roll times at http://www.mariemontschools.org/chlcctrack/2008_cross_country_honor_roll.htm#Boys HS Boys (5k) MS Girls (2 mile) MS Boys (2 mile) Brad Besserman 17:13* Davia Baumgartner 15:05 Michael Hall 11:09* 1st Place! Oscar Munlin 18:57* Katie Connell 15:55* Alex Hughes 12:14* TJ Leimbach 19:58* Megan Zimmerer 16:12* Bret Marshall 12:53* James Howard 20:08* Shyla Cummings 16:56* Devin Cohill 14:02* Kyle Langford 21:23* Morgan Wolfram 17:07* Michael West 15:39* Haley Hatfield 18:27* Eric Foster 21:34* HS Girls (5k) Jen Besserman 24:46 * Season-best time. For full St. X meet results, go to http://www.trackstatsonline.com Photos and race splits to be posted soon. Thanks to Mr Leimbach for his fine photography work! Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #5: Five Runners Set Personal Bests at Harrison, 9/20
TJ Leimbach, James Howard, Jenny Besserman, Kyle Langford, and Devontay Howell all set personal best times this Saturday, 9/20 at the Harrison Invitational. Finishing times on the fast course were: TJ Leimbach 20:05* James Howard 20:58* Kyle Langford 23:09* Jonas Carlsson 24:50 J en Besserman 24:20* Devontay Howard 28:17* * Personal best or improved time from last week. Week #4: Michael Hall Wins Boys MS Race at Milford Invitational!
Seventh grader Michael Hall led several impressive Finneytown performances Saturday, 9/13 at the Milford Cross Country Invitational, winning the MS boys race with a time of 12:08. James Howard led all Finneytown runners in the Varsity boys race with a personal best time of 21:59, while Morgan Wolfram led the Finneytown MS girls at 19:04. Alex Hughes continued running strong, finishing 13th at 13:22. Eric Foster improved his personal best time by over two minutes to 23:19, and Devontay Howell continued steady improvement in order of finish. HS Boys MS Girls MS Boys James Howard 22:19* Morgan Wolfram 19:04 Michael Hall 12:07* 1st Place! Oscar Munlin 22:29 Katie Connell 20:23 Alex Hughes 13:22 13th Place! TJ Leimbach 22:40 Shyla Cummings injury Bret Marshall 14:18* Kyle Langford 25:28 Davia Baumgartner injury Devin Cohill 14:32 Devontay Howell 35:24 Michael West 17:28 * Personal best or improved time from last week. Eric Foster 23:19* Photos will be posted soon; for race splits, click on Team > Stats Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #3: Winton Woods Invitational, 9/6
The HS cross country runners had strong performances on a tough Winton Woods Invitational course this weekend, with 3 runners running their best time of the season. TJ Leimbach improved his personal best 5k time to 21:36, and has improved his time each meet this season. Jenny Besserman, James Howard, Devontay Howell, and Oscar Munlin also ran strong races on the difficult course. Finishing times on the hilly and wooded course were: Oscar Munlin 21:27 TJ Leimbach 21:36* James Howard 23:11 Kyle Langford 23:47* Jonas Carlsson 23:48 Ken Bouman 29:15 Devontay Howard 30:18* Jen Besserman 27:29 * Personal best or improved time from last week. 
 Click on Team > Photos to see the action at this meet. Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #2: Lebanon Invitational, 8/30
The HS and MS cross country teams had a successful meet at Lebanon on Saturday,
with nearly all of the runners setting personal bests or improving on last week's time.
The middle school girls captured the 2nd place trophy, with Davia Baumgartner finishing a fantastic 3rd place for the girls. Alex Hughes ran a very strong 5th place in the middle school boys race. 
Click on Team > Photos for more photos. Thanks Mr Leimbach!HS Girls & Boys MS Girls - 2nd Place Trophy MS Boys Jen Besserman 26:49* Davia Baumgartner 15:01* Alex Hughes 13:07* Katie Connell 16:50* Devin Cohill 14:44* TJ Leimbach 22:22* Megan Zimmerer 17:29 Eric Foster 25:15* James Howard 22:34* Morgan Wolfram 17:56 Ken Bouman 27:01 Haley Hatfield 20:24* Devontay Howell 30:37* Brad Besserman injury * Personal best or improved time from last week. Thanks to the parents, relatives, and friends who attended to support the runners! Week #1: Fairfield Cross Country Invitational, 8/23
The High School runners began the season with a successful meet at Harbin Park in Fairfield on Saturday, 8/23, despite three runners completing the race with physical problems. Finish times were: Brad Besserman 19:16 Oscar Munlin 19:23 Jonas Carlsson 21:55 TJ Leimbach 22:42 James Howard 24:55 Jen Besserman 31:01 Thanks to the parents, grandparents, and friends who attended to support the runners! Finneytown HS Boys Ranked 10th in Coaches' Preseason Poll See Sunday's Enquirer (8/17/08) Coaches' Preseason Poll for Divisions II-III Rankings! Pasta Carb-Loading Team Dinners All Sponsored!
Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to sponsor this year's Pasta Dinners, and to the runners/parents/friends who have attended! These events are an important part of the cross country experience for the student/athletes. The team dinners are on Fridays (6:00 - 6:45) in Mr Monich's classroom before each meet. Dinner dates are: Friday, Aug 22 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Coach sponsored) Friday, Aug 29 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Besserman sponsored) Friday, Sept 5 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Baumgartner sponsored) Friday, Sept 12 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Wolfram sponsored) Friday, Sept 19 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Leimbach sponsored) Friday, Sept 26 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Cummings sponsored) Friday, Oct 3 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Munlin sponsored) Friday, Oct 10 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Cohill sponsored) Friday, Oct 17 - 6 pm at Mr Monich's classroom (Coach & Langford sponsored) Coach Monich has paper plates, forks, spoons, knives, and napkins available for the dinners. Let him know if he can provide more! Please email or phone Coach Monich at 280-1183 for any questions.
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