Deseret News 10k

We had our best performance yet at the Deseret News 10k High School Championships (this was about the 5th year of the competition). Both the boys and the girls finished 2nd to the Utah All-Star Teams. Here is how we did:

Boys
Curtis Carlisle - 32:24; 5th in the high school division
Seth Gutzwiller - 33:32; 8th
Jeff Taylor - 33:40; 9th
Logan Petty - 35:12; 16th
Jason Thomas -35:16; 17th
Joe White - 35:21; 20th
Brian Alfaro - 38:00
Alex Hedquist - 39:08; 2nd in his division

Girls
Candace Eddy - 37:45; 4th in high school division
Emily Hansen - 39:59; 5th
Talya Kussee - 40:11; 6th
Meghan Hedquist - 40:44
Julianne Wirthlin - 44:32
Tessa Brown - 45:58

Other Notables -
Lindsay Anderson - 32:22; 2nd female
Josh Adams - 32:24; 26th overall male
Jake Thompson - 34:22
Stefanie Talley - 35:41; 11th female
Macee Nielson (our friend from Monticello) - 36:32* see picture below
Janae Richardson - 36:57; 19th female
Steve Petty - 39:47
Alli Thompson - 41:57

Marathon - Great job to Anna McKay (4:39.13 - 2nd in her division) and Bree Arnold (5:21.40) for completing their first marathons in very respectable times on a brutal course (it was also my first marathon in 2003).

Also, The Bair Gutsman 11 miler was on August 2, and we had a few Darts represent us well on the race up the Mountain:
Logan Petty - 2:00.11 - 1st place overall (1 second faster than Talley from last year)
Keigunn Kunz - 2:17.18 - 4th place overall
Kye Kunz - 2:17.33 - 5th place overall
Steve Petty - 2:21.55 - 9th place overall
Rachel Hunsaker - 3:07.24 - 1st place in her age division; 13th overall female