Congratulations and much appreciation to Assistant Coach James Hensley, Assistant Coach Chris Burke, and Athletic Trainer Brian Regan on being a part of the MVC Valley Coaching Staff of Year! You bring integrity, expertise, and total commitment to this staff!
MVC Valley Divisional Honors:
Ryan Winger - Athlete of the Year
Mason Suarez - 1st Team MVC (4th)
Owen Maloney - 1st Team MVC (5th)
Matt Jungk - 1st Team MVC (7th)
Marcus Leitzen - 2nd Team (11th)
Jacob Westermeyer - 2nd Team (14th)
Brady Blean - Honorable Mention (19th)
Our program believes the only rankings that matter are the rankings at the end of the State Meet. Despite that fact, it sure is fun to see Mustang XC at the top of the rankings!
#jobsnotdone
We are extraordinarily proud of our Assistant Coach, Chris Burke who was named 2019 Iowa Teacher of the Year! Congratulations on a much-deserved honor! Your dedication to teaching all students, your humility, your work ethic, & your reflective nature make you a master teacher!
Congratulations to David Holesinger, Ben Hermiston, and Ryan Winger on earning both All-State Honors &
ELITE All-State Honors!
We are very proud of you!
We continue to be proud of assistant coach
@ctburke42
and his leadership in education! Iowa Teacher of the Year and his humility keeps him from sharing fun things like this lil surprise!
🚨🚨🚨School Record from MVC Divisional Meet last night!
5 athletes earn 1st All MVC:
Athlete of the Year - Ryan Winger
1st Team - Derek Leicht
1st Team - Brady Blean
1st Team - Josh Davis
1st Team - Mason Suarez
2nd Team - Marcus Leitzen
2nd Team - George Holesinger
Before we wrap things up tomorrow we want to offer a big THANK YOU to all of the parents/guardians, family, friends, teachers, mentors and fans of our Mustangs. Your love and support has been paramount in helping to shape these boys into the great people that they are.
🚨🚨🚨Updated records!!!
Ryan Winger crushes his old school record by 18 seconds to run 15:11 at Wartburg! 🔥🔥🔥
Team’s top-five average school record was also broken by 19 seconds...new record = 15:44! 👀
Plenty of top ten times updated by grade, as well!
Huge night for XC! We are incredibly proud of the grit and competitiveness!
Our
#8
-17 runners raced the Varsity race and placed 7th out of 18 teams!
JV ran amazing with a 1st place team finish in 19 points!
Frosh/Soph places 1st as well!
#depth
#paintolerance
#jobsnotdone
Still smiling from the 16 PRs dropped on the Wartburg course yesterday. 🔥🔥🔥
Add on 5 Mustangs in top 26 and another podium visit for
@DerekLeicht
and there are plenty of reasons to celebrate.
Congrats Zach! Extremely proud of all of your accomplishments as an involved student-athlete! Your habits and character bring you much-deserved success!
#LTLDR
Congrats to
@CrossHempstead
and a clean sweep in the Valley Division. A shout out to Coach Klein and her crew as Coach of the Year and Julia Gehl as Athlete of the Year.
Pending school board approval the following individuals will take over the reins of the Men's XC program:
Dain Leytem, Head Coach
Parker Comentino, Assistant Coach
Both worked with the Rams this past season as volunteers to the program and are teachers at DBQ Senior H.S.
Pumped to announce my commitment to the University of Northern Iowa to continue my academic and running career! Can’t wait for my future as a Panther!💜💛
Congratulations to our MVC First Team and Second Team recipients.
1st Team:
@DerekLeicht
, John Maloney, Johnathan O'Brien and Brady Blean.
2nd Team: Marcus Leitzen
Our program views such coaching awards as a Coaching Staff Award! No team has success because of one person...Coach Leytem and Coach Hensley share in the honor of At-Large-Coach-of-the-Year Award! Thanks for all that you do coaches!