Mountain Pointe Cross Country

2008 Cross Country

Ed B — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:51:17 +0000

If you are looking for the 2008, or later, Cross Country season click here.

This site (http://mpxc.wordpress.com) is an archive for the 2007 Cross Country season.

the 2004, 2005, and 2006 seasons are archived here.

Quick guide to maintaining this site

Ed B — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:15:42 +0000

Time for me to be moving on, but before i go…

Background

I used to maintain what is called a static site for the 2004, 2005, and 2006 season. I used Microsoft Frontpage, in case anyone is interested. It is still available at xc.azbikelaw.org

The new site is named mpxc.wordpress.com. Beginning with the 2007 season I switch over to a web-based, collaborative site. What does that mean? Is just means it is fully updated via a web browser so that anybody with internet access can fully administer the site. The software that enables this is called wordpress — though you don’t need to know that or download anything. And also, somewhat confusingly, the company that provides the web server — for free! — is called wordpress.com.

To get started simply register at wordpress.com, it is free and quick. Then contact the current administrator with the EMAIL address that you used to register. The adminstrator will then enable you as a registered user.

Look and Feel

The first thing to notice is the layout and look-and-feel of the site. This is controlled by something wordpress calls the “theme”. The theme controls all the visual presentation, such as the fonts, colors, heading and navigation. There are many themes to choose from, the current theme is called “Contempt”.

Posts and Pages

Information is encapulated in tidbits called “posts” and “pages”. They are similar, but just remember that pages automatically form the navigation structure (e.g. Boosters, Coaching, Contact, Pictures, Records, Schedule), whereas postings are the day to day information that you wish to present in the main body (e.g. Info about a particular meet, fundraiser, or any random topic). Posts always are presented from newest to oldest.

Composing posts and pages is identical, when you click on new page/post you will get an editor that lets you enter whatever you wish. You will also have a limited amount of formatting options (e.g. bold, italics, bullet lists). For everything except very short postings, it is somewhat cumbersome so you should try experimenting with cut-and-pasting from other applications, e.g. Word, or Excel. For hard-core editing, there is a tab called “Code” which allows you to directly edit/enter HTML markup code. Tables in particular are hard to create– you should try finding one you like and then just copy and paste it (that’s what i did with the table on the schedule page).

Dashboard

This is where the administrator controls everything — access it at: http://mpxc.wordpress.com/wp-admin if you are not logged in, you will be prompted to do so.

The new admin (whoever that may be!) should immediately go to: Manage / Pages and edit the page called “contact”. Change the “page author” (on the right) so that anyone who tries to use the contact form will get sent to the proper email.

Other things to look at; the theme is chosen from the presentation tab of the dashboard. In that same tab is “widgets” which contains the layout of the boxes which appear in the right column. A thing which should be of interest is updating the “text1″ widget because that controls the picture and caption that appears on the right.

From time-to-time you should backup the information contained in the site. To do this go to the manage / export tab of the dashboard. This will create a file you can save that contains all the posts and pages (warning: it won’t backup anything you have uploaded, so you have to manage that seperately).

Pictures

A special note about pictures. What i have been doing recently is to try to collect up links to any photos or videos and putting them in a page called Pictures. That way there is something of a central repository for all of them.

WordPress is really not set up to be a picture album, so I have always maintained separate albums that I generated with a program called jalbum — all the stills from 2004-2007 are linked here. Going forward, I would suggest looking into Picassa which is a free web-based photo album that looks pretty good.

Footlocker

Ed B — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:09:01 +0000

Results click here (Zach was in Race #6, Rube was Race #14, and everybody else was Race #12)

Kyle took some pics.

Sounds like everybody had a great trip!

Schedule/Results 2007 Archived

Ed B — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:44:48 +0000

Here, for posterity, is the Boy’s 2007 Archived Schedule & Results. A link to results from each meet can be found below, there is also a spreadsheet with all results for the 2004-2007 seasons.

2007	Meet	Location	info / results
9/8,Sat	Scottsdale Running Company XC Festival	Silverado GC, Scottsdale	results
9/22,Sat	Padre Invitational	Kiwanis Park	results
9/29,Sat	Doug Conley Invitational	Kiwanis Park	results
10/3,Wed	vs. Mnt View and Chandler High	Mountain Vista Park	results
10/9,Tue	vs. Dobson, Gilbert & Mesa High	Riverview Park, Mesa	results
10/20,Sat	Tempe City Meet	Kiwanis Park	results
10/27,Sat	Central Region Meet	Red Mnt Park	results
11/3,Sat	5A State Meet	Cave Creek Muni. GC	results
11/17,Sat	Nike Team SW — not going to participate.	Kiwanis Park
12/1,Sat	Footlocker West Reional	Walnut, CA

(you can get a .pdf Schedule from Coach’s web page).

Meet Locations

Scottsdale Running Company XC Festival map

Scottsdale Running Company’s website.

Some details here. Here is location info from 2006:

Parking at shopping center @ Southeast corner of Indian Bend Road and Hayden Road, 1.5 miles west of loop 101 on Indian Bend.
Start & finish directly south of the store

Kiwanis Parkmap

Kiwanis Park is located in the city of Tempe between Guadalupe and Baseline Roads, west of Mill Avenue.

Riverview Parkmap

Riverview Park is located in the city of Mesa at Dobson and 8th Street. (Dobson, just south of 202 / Red Mountain Freeway). 2007 will be our first time running there, so we’re not sure what’s where exactly.

Mountain Vista Park map (note that the park does not appear on the map)

Located in Ahwatukee area of Phoenix, near Ray Road just west of I-10. There are two entrances, the main entrance and parking area is reached most easily from Ray Road, turn north on 50th Street and the street will dead end at the park. The other entrance is located on 48th Street just south of Knox Road.

Red Mountain Park

Red Mountain Park, 7745 E. Brown Road, Mesa, AZ. map
[park at the parking area on Sunvalley Blvd, just North of Adobe Rd]

Cave Creek Municipal Golf Course, Phoenix, AZ map

Located at 15202 N 19th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85023

2007 Awards

Ed B — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:17:54 +0000

Awards — November 15, 2007

Varsity Letters:

Brady Alling⁴, Brian Bauer², Dave Beighe⁴, Michael Covey, Tim Goebel², Shelby Goodman, John Heck⁴, Dan Nelson⁴, Matt Salerno², Ferny Santos², Zack Singh, Kyle Washatka², Dan Wilson³

2, 3, 4 :consecutive years

Most Valuable Runner:

Brady Alling²

Outstanding Freshman:

Connor Donnelly

Best Mental Attitude:

Haipei Chang, John Heck, Matt Salerno

Most Improved:

Andy Johnson, Zack Singh

Joe Selleh Award

John Heck, Dan Nelson

2007 Boys XC Banquet

Ed B — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:37:32 +0000

Another great banquet!

Banquet details:

Mountain Pointe High School Cafeteria

7:00 PM, Thursday, November 15, 2007

Dessert will be served!

Come and honor our boys and Coach Alexander

State Meet

Ed B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:21:25 +0000

Team Results: 9th of 26 teams in 5A Div I.

Individual Results, M=medal awarded:


Brady Alling 	sr	M	16:38  10/179
Brian Bauer	jr		18:13  85/179
Dave Beighe	sr		18:16  92/179
Dan Nelson 	sr		18:24  103/179
Matt Salerno	sr		17:34  56/179
Kyle Washatka 	sr		17:31  50/179
Dan Wilson	jr	M	17:03  28/179

…

State Meet, 5A Div I Boys: 10:45AM. See schedule for location and directions.

Pasta Dinner at Beighe’s 5:30PM, see boosters page for directions.

Teri’s Italian Ice Fundraiser

Ed B — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:41:06 +0000

Teri’s Italian Ice

fundraiser to benefit
Mountain Pointe Boys Cross Country
Thursday November 1st
2:45-8:00 p.m.
4747 E. Elliot Rd. Suite 9 (By Abacus Inn)

clik here for the Flier

Central Region Meet

Ed B — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:03:27 +0000

East Valley Tribune article about the meet.

Team Results: Mt P 36, Desert Vista 35, Corona 63, Basha 94
Individual Results, M=medal awarded, time/place:

Brady Alling 	sr	M	15:56   1/28
Brian Bauer	jr		16:40  11/28
Dave Beighe	sr		17:08  17/28
Matt Salerno	sr		16:41  12/28
Zack Singh	so		18:09  27/28
Kyle Washatka 	sr	M	16:38  10/28
Dan Wilson	jr	M	16:00   2/28

…
Saturday 10/27, 2007. Boys run at 8:30am. Location is Red Mountain Park in Mesa (NOT Kiwanis park!), see schedule page for directions.

Friday evening pasta dinner at Johnson’s house time 6PM, see boosters for directions.

Tempe City Meet

Ed B — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:25:33 +0000

Team Results: Varsity: 3rd/6
Individual Results, M=medal awarded, Time and place. There were three races, V, JF and F. The times for the JV race are missing. DQ=disqualified:

Brady Alling 	sr	V  M	16:15  3
Alex Ashton	jr
Brian Baker	so	JV	-:-   36
Brian Bauer	jr
Steven Bauer	fr	F	20:43  16
Dave Beighe	sr	V   	17:50  12
Haipei Chang	jr
Michael Covey	sr
Connor Donnelly	fr	F	18:48  7
Anthony Enrico-Navin	so
Nick Garcia	jr
Tim Goebel	sr
Corey Goldman	jr
Shelby Goodman	so	V	18:23  18
John Heck 	sr
Victor Iniguez	fr	F	18:57  8
Andy Johnson	so	JV	-:-  14
Hans Larson	jr	JV	-:-  19
Robby Link	fr	F	DQ
Dan Nelson 	sr	V	18:29  19
Andrew Oravec	jr
Raymond Paul	jr
Alex Rocha	so	JV	-:-  30
John Rocha	jr
Nate Rodriguez	jr
Calvin Rogers	so	JV	-:-  20
Matt Salerno	sr	V  M	17:20  7
Ferny Santos	sr
Zack Singh	so	JV	18:04  9
Greg Stanford	fr	F	21:08  22
Nick Walker	fr	F	DQ
Jake Washatka	so	JV	-:-  21
Kyle Washatka 	sr	V  M	17:25  8
Joe Whitley	so
Dan Wilson	jr

…

Sat 10/20 at Kiwanis Park, see schedule page for directions. Race times:

8:35a Freshman Boys Race
9:05a JV Boys Race
10:00a Varsity Boys Race

Pasta dinner 5:30p Friday evening at Alling’s/Link’s, see boosters page for directions.