Author Archives: Erin Gillespie

A great first “official” 2 mile run today for the team in warm conditions! The girls team placed 4th overall and the boys team placed 2nd.  Tyler Gehl medaled in 2nd place and Alex Slaymaker medaled in 10th place.  Like last meet, we loved to see the sportsmanship and team spirit from our athletes! The … Continue reading »

Coach Schmidt and I were so excited to see so many GMS cross country athletes at the Jordan Rahn Forever Young race this weekend!  Everyone had some great times despite a warm morning! Congrats to Tyler Gehl, Mason Lovig, Annie Wirth, Addison Pischke, Alexa Jolly, Castin Gustafson, and Alyssa Gentry for placing in their age … Continue reading »

Wow, what a great job tonight by our entire team!  Not only did we have great results, but the coaches loved how well we functioned as a team at our first away meet.  The kids did a great job setting up and cleaning up camp, they warmed up without the help of coaches (led by … Continue reading »

A parent letter was emailed home today.  The body of the letter is included below as well.  If you aren’t receiving emails from Coach Schmidt, or if you’d like to add an email address to the distribution list, please email myself or Lauren at egillespie@geneseoschools.org, or lschmidt@geneseoschools.org. We’re able to include pictures again in our … Continue reading »

If you head over to the Results page, we’ve posted the Top 25 times and finishers for the Time Trial.  Congrats to Annie Wirth and Cooper Schaad for making it into the Top 25, especially given the tougher course this year! Because we changed the course this year, I also added tabs to start tracking … Continue reading »

What a great first race for the teams tonight!  As coaches we were impressed with the kids’ ability to go with the flow and be patient with Mother Nature. This year’s 1 mile course for the middle school teams was a different, more challenging course than in years past, and even so, we had some … Continue reading »