Take a minute (actually about 7 minutes) and watch this video.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp15N9BbYgY
It takes until about the 5min. mark of the video before you start getting the message.   Athletes should realize the privilege that it is to be a part of an athletic team and the responsibility that goes along with being an athlete.   I know this video is referring to college football but you can easily plug in "high school", "Leesville Road", and "Cross Country" when he refers to college,  his own school, and his sport.   All athletes need to realize that it is a privilege to compete in athletics and they have a responsibility to represent their team, families, school, and  community in the best way possible.   Other athletes, peers, family members, and younger athletes look at you and learn from your actions.   It is important to set the best example possible because you never know who might be watching and who might look up to you.   Don't take your privilege and responsibility for granted.

Posted 9/13/11
Parents:     Runners are expected to do a cool down run, general strength, stretch and clean up after each race.  Please make sure you allow your child an additional 45mins. after the meet for them to get these items accomplished.   Cooling down, G.S., stretching, and cleaning up are important parts of the race day procedures and ALL runners are expected to take part. This does not just apply to tomorrow....this applies to all meets (home & away meets).
Thanks for your help.

Past 2011 Meets and Past Seasons:

Here are the results from the 8/20/11 meet at WakeMed.  
The results have each runner's finishing place and time....and just so you have an idea of how it compares to the rest of the runners, here is how many runners were in each race.
Girls' 9th/10th Grade Race had 149 runnners
Girls' 11th/12th Grade Race had 146 runners
Boys' 9th/10th Grade Race had 159 runners
Boys' 11th/12th Grade Race had 168 runners

Here are the results from the meet with Apex, Cardinal Gibons, and Cary on 8/24/11.

Here are the results from the Providence Invitational meet on 8/27/11.  
You can find full meet results from theProvidence Invitational meet at http://kurtniedenzu.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/2011+Providence+CC+Invitational
The girls varsity team finished 10th out of 40 teams entered.
The boys varsity team finished 12th out of 40 teams entered.
Both boys and girls JV teams finished in 3rd place in their races.

Here are the results from the meet with Enloe on 8/29/11.  
The boys lost 19-36.  The girls won by a perfect score of 15-50.

The teams had a very good showing at the Jungle Run on 9/4/11.   We won all 4 races that we were in and  we had 2 Individual Champions with Megan McGuire winning the girls' JV race in 21:26 and Nate Purich winning the boys' JV race in 18:11.   LRHS runners walked away with a total of 30 medals last night...needless to say, that is many more than any other team.     All of the races were impressive and we won all easily, but the girls JV team ran a perfect score of 15 by placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in the race.
Take a minute and look at the results to see all times / scores.  The document has 2 pages, so you will need to scroll down to get to the varsity times/scores.   
www.ncrunners.com should have a write up on the meet sometime today and they already have some pictures posted of our teams getting awards.

Both boys and girls won at the 9/28 meet with Millbrook.   The boys won with a perfect score of 15-50 and the girls swept the top 5 places and had a score of 15-48.   Here are the full meet results.

Here are LRHS results from Saturday's meet at UNCW.

Here are the results from the 9/14 meet with Wakefield

Here are the results from the 9/21 meet with Sanderson

Here are the results from the Great American XC meet on 10/1 for LRHS runners
Here are some of the improvements we saw at the Great American XC meet on 10/1.  The time listed is the amount they dropped from their previous PR.  If the time has "JR" beside it, then that means their previous PR was at Jungle Run.  Jungle Run is without a doubt the fastest course in NC and is a little short.  So, if a runner runs faster on a moderately difficult course (WakeMed)  than they did at Jungle Run, then you know they have improved a lot.

 Runner:        Time they dropped:
BOYS:
Kyle Rathke:  1.24 
Craig Berwick:  .58  (JR)
Anthony Stapp:  .48 (JR)
Alex Boatman:   .38
David Schuler:   .36
Ian Johnston:    .33 (JR)
Alex Zoltek:      .31
Michael Bloemeke:  .17  (JR)
Peter Marino:     .12  (JR)
Jared DeJoya:   .11  (JR)
Victor Simpson:   .08
Andrew Byrum:   .08
Ryan Quinn:      .07 (JR)
Carson Ellerby:   Tied his PR
GIRLS:
Haley Rea:  2.46
Lane Hering:  1.15  (JR)
Jessica Merdes:  1.09
Emily Echols:   1.02
Cassidi Inlge:  .46
Jordan Mareno:  .27  (JR)
Courtney Holmes:  .20  (JR)
Bri Marino:   .06 (JR)

I should also mention that Teddy Elshof ran TWO 5k races at the Great American XC meet .   He ran the JV 1 race and told me he felt great and wanted to run another race.....so we threw a new number and chip on him and he ran another 5k within 20mins. of finishing his first 5k.   He ran 18:44 in the first 5k and then ran 18:58 in the second 5k.   Neither time was his PR, but both times were within 25 secs. of his time at Jungle Run.  I would consider both times his best performances of the year.  Needless to say, this is the only time I have ever had a runner ask and/or run two 5k races on the same day.   That is dedication and desire to perform if I have ever seen it!

Posted 10/5/11
Here are the results from the meet with Heritage on 10/5.   The girls won with a score of 23 to 34.  The boys won with a score of 18 to 43.    I believe all the runners enjoyed the meet and the cake afterwards.  I appreciate all the parents that helped with the meet and brought items for the senior event.       

Posted 10/9/11
Results 10/8/11 '4-Runner Only' meet at Beeson Park...
Complete LRHS results.
Highlights:
Boys Varsity team finished 5th out of 29 teams.  Girls Varsity finished 4th out of 31 teams.
Boys JV team finished 2nd in the "unofficial" JV state championship race  and the girls JV team finished 4th.
Kaitlyn Stempien ran a PR of 20:13 which moved her into the TOP 25 ALL TIME 5k Runners in LR History.  She is now number 21 on that list. We had 15 runners PR today. 
And for the 2nd week in a row....we had a runner double-up and run two 5k races in the same day.  Meredith Hicks ran 21:23 (her 2nd fastest 5k time ever) and then came back with a 22:03 in another race.  
The runners are looking great and it should be interesting to see how the next 3 weeks go.

Posted 10/13/11
Here are the results from the 10/12 meet with Wake Forest-Rolesville, Heritage, and Wakefield.  There are two different files...
This one shows places and scores as a quad meet.
This one breaks the meet into dual meets.

Posted 10/19/11
Here are the CAP-8 Varsity Boys results and Varsity Girls results from 10/18/11.  The JV results are combined and the conference does not score the JV race.   Despite the higher temperature yesterday, that slowed down the races, we still had 5 runners PR yesterday.

Posted 10/29/11
Here are the full meet girls and boys results from the 4A Mideast Regionals held on 10/29/11.   Despite cold and very wet conditions, we still had 2 runners PR.  Jordan Mareno ran 21:06 and Steven Bigelow ran 18:14.   The girls team finished in 6th place (much higher than they were predicted to finish) and only 24pts away from making the state championship meet. 

Here are the overall race results as of 10/19/11...