We are excited to announce the addition of Brandon Tripp as our new Head Boys Track and Field Coach for the 2023 season!
He’s coming off a 2nd place team finish in Class 3 at Lutheran St. Charles & will be a major asset to our staff.
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Our first season is over with a fun visit to the Class 4 State Championship.
Freshman Regan Clercx finished in 21:41.0, 5 seconds off her PR, in 118th out of 163. She was the 19th best frosh in the race. We are proud of you! Thank you to our fans, too!
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Regan Clercx has qualified for the Class 4 State Championship with a 25th place finish at the district meet! First Grizzly to state in our first year!
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In 3 years we’ve had…
2021 - 1 State Qualifier, Regan Clercx
2022 - 2 State Qualifiers, Mitch Lerner and Regan Clercx
2023 - 7 individual State Qualifiers and 2 State Qualifying Teams!
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Alex Lacke runs 1:59.48 to finish 7th and is ALL STATE IN THE 800M RUN!! That is the 15th fastest time in state history among freshmen and 3.5 seconds faster than any other freshmen this year! Unbelievable!
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The Boys
2022:
- 3 sub-19:00
- 18:35.21 1-5 average
- 3 all-GAC N.
- 1 State Qualifier
2023:
- 7 sub-19:00
- 3 sub-17:00
- 17:16.34 1-5 average
- 5 all-GAC N
- State Qualifying Team, 4 All-District
6 PRs at State today & a School Record. What a season.
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ALL STATE CLASS 4 3200!
Sophomore Mitchell Lerner took 6th place in a gutsy race with not very many PRs in the field.
Perfectly ran, never panicked, moved up so well in the 2nd mile. A Pro’s run and our school’s 2nd ever male all-state athlete!
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2 massive school records at the Horton Night Classic from Hunter and Ella!
Hunter breaks 15:40 with a 15:36.90 for 2nd overall in the race and Ella is the first Grizzly girl to run under 20:00 with a 19:59.00! What a great day in TN with 7 PRs & 2 SBs!
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we want to give a special shout out to Lindsay G! She stuck it out through a long track meet with us and got us from Fenton back home through a thunder/hail storm with scary strong winds. She’s awesome!
JV Boys GAC North Champs! We had a huge day today with 6 medals, 3 PRs, and we’re bringing home our first conference trophy! These guys worked so hard, set a goal, and achieved it! They earned this!
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4 countries represented on a 4x1!
We’re so proud of our Global 4x100 Relay from Favour (Cameroon), Karolina (Denmark), Lissi (Germany), and Victoire (France)! 🇨🇲 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇫🇷
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Our boys school record was SHATTERED yesterday by both Logan Blase and Hunter Stahl! Both boys came through over 50 seconds faster than the old record, with Logan taking it outright…for now?
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Hunter went under his school record again and finished 16th at the Gans Creek Classic Elite Twilight race. It truly was an elite race with 33 guys sub-16 and some of the best teams from around Missouri!
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Alyssa Anderson is 2x ALL STATE!! She finished out her incredible season with a 7th place in the 400m dash. What an amazing accomplishment for an amazing young lady!
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This is what it’s all about right here.
These two go to war every single day, but they fight the battle together.
Every day. Side by side.
They’re going to war again on Friday, but because they get to do it together, I wouldn’t bet against them.
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Hunter and Mitch did their jobs today and earned berths to the Class 4 State Meet in the 3200. Hunter is the GAC, District, and Sectional champion
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The Girls
2022:
- 1 sub-23:00
- 22:59.43 1-5 average
- 1 All-GAC N.
- 1 State Qualifier
2023:
- 7 sub-23:00
- 5 sub-22:00
- 21:25.84 1-5 average
- 4 All-GAC N.
- State Qualifying Team, 3 All-Dist.
5 PRs today! Incredible end to an incredible season!
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First pre-race team dinner was a success! Thank you to the Lerner/Kirk family for hosting! We’re ready to run fast tomorrow evening
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Success at GACs!
V Boys
Hunter 3rd
Logan 6th
Mitch 7th
Tommy 11th
Josh 13th
Team 2nd
V Girls
Ella 6th
Mac 9th
Ana 11th
Miranda 13th
Team 2nd
JV Boys
Dawson 8th
Jeremy 11th
Team 3rd
JV Girls
Katelyn 4th
Favour 5th
Charley 7th
Olivia 8th
Beyonce 12th
Team 2nd
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A school record in the 4x800, you say?
Hunter Stahl ➡️ Gage Garrett ➡️ Tommy Whitehead ➡️ Mitch Lerner
8:45.0! Great job fellas! Faster than where we finished last season with 3 different guys on the team 🤘
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Regan -
2021: 116th, 21:41.00 ➡️ 2022: 60th, 21:12.30
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she displayed the season in the face of that, you just can’t put a price tag on it.
We are so proud of her and her progress!
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Capped off an incredibly hot week with our first ever MS/HS group run! Progress park to Lulu’s for donuts and ice cream! Our program is getting bigger, just the way we like it. 👍
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It’s race day! Tommy and Regan take to the course at Big Driver for the Class 4 District 3 Championship! Tommy is the first boy to earn his Grizzly stripes in NP history and runs at 10:30, Regan runs at 11:00!
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Many of you know already, but we would still like to introduce our Head Girls Track and Assistant Boys/Girls Cross Country Coach Courtney Heidorn!
She brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and passion from which all our athletes will benefit!
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Shout to our state qualifiers Alyssa Anderson and Alex Lacke!
And to all of our sectional competitors! We had 6 freshmen and a sophomore put it all on the line at a hyper competitive meet. We will come back next year even stronger!
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5 medalists & 2 31sts 😩 at the massive Fleet Feet CCC!
JV Boys: Jeremy - 24th, Tommy - 27th
V Girls: Ella - 23rd
V Boys: Hunter - 7th, Mitch - 15th
Great first meet! We’re off to a great start!
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Let’s have a day!
14 medalists at the Tolton Invitational, as well as a school record and individual meet champion, and two team wins on the JV side! Lots of PRs, as well, to be announced soon!
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The inaugural crew.
Decades from now they’ll still be able to say they were there on Day 1.
You still have time to say you were there in year 1. Come on out! We’d love to have you!
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Track giveth and track taketh away.
10:18 through 3000m on a sub-11:00 quest. Didn’t expect the 800-lb gorilla to hop on the track and ruin a near perfect 3200m run.
Absolutely brutal, but so proud of this kid for everything he’s done these last 3 years.
PRs in June!?
Junior Logan Blase ran 18:50 at the Wentzville Blue Line 5k, placing 3rd overall, 1:45 better than his previous PR (20:35)! Here we come!
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What do you do when your number of PRs (26) is higher than the number of athletes you had competing at the meet (22)?
You celebrate with ice cream!
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Awesome season opener! We had 8 medalists today and a ton of PRs! Exact numbers to come later.
Team results:
Jv Girls - 2nd🥈 !! out of 11
V Girls - No Team Score
JV Boys - 6th out of 21
V Boys - 8th out of 21
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Once again, the Track gods giveth, and they taketh away.
Hunter Stahl is the…
GAC North Record holder
District Champion
Sectional Champion
School Record Holder
…in the 3200m Run.
He is a straight A student and XCTF Captain
Today didn’t go our way. We’ll be back soon.
Great first day! Too much excitement to get any pictures 🤦🏼♂️
We were very fortunate to have 60 athletes check in for our 1st ever track and field practice. Thank you for choosing to compete with us.
We’re hopeful to see even more in the coming days! There’s still time to join!
We had 7 medalists at the SCW 9/10 Invitational!
10th Girls - Ella 2nd, Grace 14th
10th Boys - Gage 2nd, Landon 10th
9th Girls - Holly 3rd
9th Boys - Carson 10th, Eli 12th
Lots of big improvements from last week’s 2 mile too!
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Sarah Saunders takes 2nd 🥈 place at the Holt Invitational in the 300m Hurdles! Her debut in the race is the 5th fastest time in the state among freshmen - 49.82!
…She hates pictures… 🤷♂️
Race day
#1
is here!
Fleet Feet CC Classic
📍 Arnold City Park
⏰ 5:00pm JVG, 5:30pm JVB, 6:00pm VG, 6:30pm VB
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We’re ready to roll!
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We had three more XC athletes honored at the Grizzly Claw Awards tonight.
Caleb Simms, Charley Fredrick, and Taylor Owens (not pictured) joined the 7 others from the last 2 years!
We’re proud of you!
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Incredible turnout for our first day of XC practice.
Here’s a picture of our first day this year compared to last year. What an exciting day!
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📞ring ring, ring ring 📞
🛌 💤🥱hello?
🗣️WAKE UP! IT’S RACE DAY!
📍 Gans Creek XC Course, Columbia
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We’re ready for our first 5K of the season!
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Two track and field state qualifiers from this past spring, but how’d they get there…?
Answer: Offseason.
6 weeks into the summer, they’ve combined for 534 miles and 65 hours of running so far. Still 3 weeks to go.
Some hungry Grizzlies right here.
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Great day in Elsberry! 5 medals, 2 PRs and a couple near PRs on a tough course and hot day!
V Girls - Regan Clercx, 5th
First Varsity medal in school history!
JV Boys - Tommy Whitehead, 2nd
Logan Blase, 5th
Caleb Simms, 6th
Ryan Yang, 8th
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These 4 shattered the school record in the 4x8 by 1 minute and 13 seconds! Schroeder, Pritchett, Dawson, Nemec ran 12:01.34!
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We made it! Last race day of the season! Regan is ready to cap off our inaugural season at the Class 4 State Championship!
Link to live results:
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Tommy Whitehead closed out his freshman year with a solid race at the district meet. He took 56th place and ran just off his third fastest time of the season on a very tough course. Way to earn your stripes and run with
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NPXC was well-represented at the O’Fallon Firecracker 5K! Only a handful stuck around for a picture but they all ran well in the humidity!
We had 2 lifetime PRs, + 1 more PR in Florida, and Coach Deeken won his age group! (Age redacted). Happy 4th!
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Girls 4x200 Relay of Elena, Alyssa, Sarah, and Gabby finished 4th in a seriously strong field, running 1:49.12! Earned a sweet medal, too!
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Announcement from Coach Deeken below:
Please go follow
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for updates on Summer TF and much more relating to Track and Field as this account will transition and become solely for XC/Distance at NP.
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Shout out to the whopping 14 athletes who had 5K debuts on Saturday! Everyone ran great and put down a good baseline for the rest of the season 💪😎🫵
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Regan Clercx and Mitch Lerner have punched their tickets to state!
Regan finished 14th, 11 places ahead of her seed, in a school record 21:25.94!
Mitch was seeded 53rd & finished 23rd, the only freshman individual qualifier, in a school record 18:07.74!
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We’re excited to announce that jumps coach extraordinaire Shaun Simms is joining the XC staff as our new assistant XC Coach this fall!
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today! Medals in 15 events, 6 school records, 25+ PRs, and a 2nd place plaque on JV! We had a phenomenal day today!
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After a mishap (Coach Deeken forgot them at the meet), our medalists have their hardware from Saturday’s FZW Invitational!
Alyssa: 100 2nd, 200 1st, 4x1 1st
Gabby: 100 3rd, 4x1 1st
Morgan: 4x1 1st
Skyelyn: 4x1 1st
We love earning medals!
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All of our jerseys and warmups have arrived!
From left to right:
JV Girls XC
JV Boys XC
Varsity Boys/Girls XC
(The JV jerseys will also be used for TF)
Boys Warmups
Girls Warmups
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