PRs for RoadRunners at Home

On the day of the Wolf Pack Invite at River Walk, CSUB was having it's own invite and only home meet. Despite the heat, Juniors Arianna Celis and Casey Glassey each recorded personal best times to lead the CSUB cross country team to a third place team finish behind Pepperdine and Westmont. Celis crossed the line in sixth place with a time of 18:30.20. Glassey was right behind her, placing seventh in 18:32.60.

Senior Lina Nuñez was the third CSUB runner to cross the line, finishing 16th (19:33.20). Freshman Cecilia Lopez was 19th in 20:00.70.

Up next, CSUB heads to the Doc Adams Open hosted by UC Davis on Saturday, Oct. 3.

The first unattached athlete was Brooklan Rosales (Centennial/BC/Wyoming) in a time of 21:32 and former RoadRunner Erica Silva ran 23:39.

Some former Kern athletes also ran their first 5k of their lives. They are on the CSUB track athletes and have to run for CSUB in cross country.

One former Liberty sprinter has actually made the transition quite well. Julia Fitch (photo) had never raced beyond a 400 to my knowledge but made the traveling squad and has been improving all season long. Today she ran 22:31which is a good time and would have made her the second best runner for Liberty last year. I think the 800 is in her future.

Further done the field was Candice Nichols (South sprinter & triple jumper) and Brushay Wandick (Driller sprinter) both braved the distance and finished the 5k.

CSUB does not have men's squad but there was a men's 8k race. It was a close one between Pepperdine and Westmont with Pepperdine winning 29 to 31.

Several local runners competed in the 8k as Team Lightning:

• Ryan Lucker (Stockdale/CSUB) ran 26:02 for 8th
  
• David Bacus (West/UCSB) ran 26:21 for 10th
• Eddy Lee (CSUB) ran 27:05 for 16th
• Oscar Fuentes (East/Cal Poly) ran 27:21 for 21st

Running unattached were Ian Heiter (Taft/BC) in a time of 30:53 and 50 plus age grouper Cregg Weinmann ran 33:08.

Roadrunner Invite '09 - 9/26/2009
Cal State Bakersfield

Event 1 Women 5k Run CC - Complete Results HERE.

Name Year School Finals Points

1 Wishard, Chelsea Pepperdine 17:45.00 1
6 Celis, Arianna Cal State Bakers 18:30.20 6
7 Glassey, Cassandra Cal State Bakers 18:32.60 7
16 Nunez, Idolina Cal State Bakers 19:33.20 16
19 Lopez, Cecilla Cal State Bakers 20:00.70 18
31 King, Connie Cal State Bakers 20:53.80 25
32 Garcia, Sanjuana Cal State Bakers 20:54.00 26
33 Tanguma, Yesmin Cal State Bakers 20:58.30 27
34 Mijwel, Sara Cal State Bakers 21:02.00
35 Mata, Judith Cal State Bakers 21:05.30
38 McCann, Christa Cal State Bakers 21:17.00
41 Rosales, Brooklan Unattached 21:32.00
46 Ramos, Olivia Unattached 22:11.40
47 Nolasco, Lauren Cal State Bakers 22:24.10
49 Fitch, Julia Cal State Bakers 22:31.50
50 Parker, Katrina Cal State Bakers 22:33.00
55 Penney, Brooke Unattached 23:30.60
56 Silva, Erica Unattached 23:39.10
57 Smith, Sarah Unattached 23:43.80
59 Payne, Lacey Cal State Bakers 24:06.30
60 Muro, Kasie Cal State Bakers 24:13.30
62 Kreutz, Victoria Cal State Bakers 24:43.30
63 Polston, Katie Cal State Bakers 24:49.30
65 Bell, Chelsey Cal State Bakers 25:08.00
66 Truan, Shawna Cal State Bakers 25:27.10
67 Hammond, Macie Unattached 26:13.60
68 Magee, Megan Cal State Bakers 26:38.00
69 Roy, Renee Unattached 26:47.00
71 Schnell, Emily Cal State Bakers 27:03.00
72 Kincaid, Jenah Cal State Bakers 27:07.10
73 Rodgers, Karla Brooke Cal State Bakers 27:15.70
74 Leyva, Stefanie Cal State Bakers 27:50.20
75 Cooper, Sheena Cal State Bakers 28:28.50
76 Veitch, Heather Cal State Bakers 28:31.00
77 Johns, Cara Unattached 28:52.50
78 Bacus, Casandra Cal State Bakers 29:12.00
79 Archuleta, Kristen Cal State Bakers 29:13.80
80 Cleveland, Jenteal Cal State Bakers 29:29.30
81 Fuentes, Yesenia Cal State Bakers 29:58.90
82 Kleinsmith, Jaime Cal State Bakers 30:12.00
83 Bailey, Kelli Cal State Bakers 30:34.90
84 Frei, Stefanie Cal State Bakers 30:54.50
85 Watts, Princess Cal State Bakers 32:15.50
86 Parker, Courtney Cal State Bakers 33:37.20
87 McClelland, Jillian Cal State Bakers 33:38.30
88 Nichols, Candace Cal State Bakers 34:22.90
89 Wandick, Brushay Cal State Bakers 35:06.40
90 Bliss, Emily Cal State Bakers 35:06.70
91 Rodriguez, Samantha Cal State Bakers 35:18.00
92 Rice, Jillian Cal State Bakers 36:38.70
93 Lyman, Danielle Cal State Bakers 37:24.90
94 Chavez, Katie Cal State Bakers 41:14.40
95 Pinkham, Amanda Cal State Bakers 41:19.00
96 Rodriguez, Wendy Cal State Bakers 43:57.70

Roadrunner Invite '09 - 9/26/2009
Cal State Bakersfield
Last Completed Event

Event 2 Men 8k Run CC - Complete Results HERE.
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Name Year School Finals Points
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1 Kemp, Nathan Westmont 24:57.00 1
8 Lucker, Ryan Team Lightning 26:02.60 8
10 Bacus, David Team Lightning 26:21.60 10
16 Lee, Eddy Team Lightning 27:05.20 16
21 Fuentes, Oscar Team Lightning 27:31.60 18
24 Lopez, Jose Team Lightning 28:04.30 19
27 Orozco, Jose Team Lightning 29:26.90 20
28 Heiter, Ian Unattached 30:53.80
29 Orozco, Bem Team Lightning 31:46.80 21
31 Weinmann, Cregg Unattached 33:08.60
34 Sherman, Jacob Unattached 51:30.10
35 Poon, Blayne Unattached 51:30.20

Celis Places Second at Pepperdine

New Roadrunner Arianna Celis (see photo) took second at the Malibu Oceanside Open today at Pepperdine University. She along with her team mate Glassey (5th overall) transferred to CSUB this fall from Riverside CC and immediately made an impact for CSUB.

By coming in 2nd and 5th, they were able to break up the Pepperdine pack that would have gone first through fifth without them in the race. This duo recently came to town and ran the top two fastest times at the BTC Summer Series and look to be a big addition to the squad.

In 9th place was Judith Mata in a time 20:27 and former North High runner Cecilia Lopez (Fr) came in 15th in her first college race. Rounding out the scoring five was former East runner Lina Nunez (Sr) who ran 21:43 for 16th place.

Women's Results
Place Last First Class School Time

2 Celis Arianna Junior CSUB 19:31
5 Glassey Casey Junior CSUB 20:03
9 Mata Judith Sophomore CSUB 20:27
15 Lopez Cecilia Freshman CSUB 21:19
16 Nunez Lina Senior CSUB 21:43


I have run the Pepperdine course and it on the big lawn in front of the campus and it is hilly and mostly on grass the whole way so the times the ladies ran are very good for this early in the season.

Other Roadrunner finishers were:

17 King Connie Senior CSUB 22:17
18 Mijwel Sarah Junior CSUB 22:32
19 Tanguma Yesmin Freshman CSUB 23:00 - Former Ridgeview runner
20 Garcia Sanjuana Senior CSUB 23:02
22 Fitch Julia Freshman CSUB 24:06 - Former Liberty sprinter

Big props to Julia for running what I believe is her first 5k, I have watched her and her sister (Molly) running the sprints for Liberty but have never seen her run anything further than the 400. Good to see her make the traveling squad for cross country and i bet she gets better and better through the season. It will make her super tough in track too!

Coach Boyles was extremely happy with his squads performance on a tough course and thought the first time collegiate runners handled themselves well. he was also pleased that the squad was able to break up the Pepperdine runners in the standing too.

Their next meet is on Saturday, Sept, 12th at the Asics/UC Irvine Invite.

Complete Results HERE.

Photos by Coach Boyles HERE.

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