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Kellenberg Freshman Cross Country Recap

The Kellenberg freshman cross country team focused on the process rather than any specific results or outcome of any race. As expected in a cross country season there were a lot of ups and downs, twists, and turns but overall it was a lot of fun and from a coaching standpoint we saw a lot of hard work and dedication put in this year. At the beginning of the year, it was a learning curve for these young freshmen not only to run fast and hard but to learn how to race and get the best result. At the end of the season, the Firebirds finished an impressive 4th place in a tough race at the NSCHSAA League Championship at Sunken Meadow.
The most valuable award clearly goes to John Quinn this season and was seen early to be a workhorse even at tryouts. John was our top runner in every race of the season and even placed himself into the Intersectional cities championship race where he ran against the upper-level high school runners of the CHSAA. This year’s Freshman cross country MVP is John Quinn.
When you talk about Most Improved you talk about someone who put in day in and day out of hard work and never missing a day of practice. Liam O’Reilly is the definition of someone who never quits even though he sees little gain. Coming into the season Liam was new to running and it showed, but with toughness and with an attitude, Liam quickly became one of the top 7 runners on the Freshman team cutting his personal record time down by 2 minutes. It is with great honor that this year’s Most Improved Award goes to freshman Liam O’Reilly.

The most committed award is always an interesting and hard award to give to just one player. So many individuals on the team contribute every day at practice with great energy no matter how much improvement they’re seeing. He came into tryouts in great shape and gave the team a blueprint of what being “grit” means as an athlete. He was a leader in practice and on race day. He had many PRs including one of 10:08 at Van Cortlandt Park at the Freshman League meet. Coaches could always count on him to be doing the right thing leading by example. We are proud to award Michael Perchinelli with the Bernie Ward Commitment Award.


Vocabulary: 
Cross Country (noun): a cross-country race or competition.
Attitude (noun): a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior.

Workhorse (noun): a person or machine that dependably performs hard work over a long period  of time

Vocabulary Exercise
Write a sentence using each of the vocabulary words above.

1.) Cross Country:_______________________________________________________________

2.) Workhorse: _________________________________________________________________

3.) Attitude: ____________________________________________________________________

Grammar Point
A pronoun is a word used to substitute a noun. We use pronouns so we do not keep repeating the same noun over and over again. Some examples of pronouns are I, it, he, she, her, him, they, and them. To choose which pronoun to use it depends on if the noun is masculine, feminine, or plural. Masculine you use he or him. Feminine you use she or her. Plural you use they or them. I is used if you are talking about yourself.


Go back to my paragraph and find some words that I could replace some nouns with a pronoun.

Comments

  1. Teacher: JackieNovember 26, 2017 at 7:34 PM

    Thank you. It was interesting to read about some of the players and their qualities. Good entry overall!

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