Camps run from June 11 through July 19.

Grades 5-8 Cross Country – Boys Only  |  Cost: $135

Camp Meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 7:15am until 9:00am.

The coaching staff includes Neuqua Valley’s head men’s cross country coach, Paul Vandersteen; Scullen Middle School’s head track and cross country coach, Scott Todnem, and Neuqua Valley assistant cross country and track and field coaches James Janota, Steve Saul, and Mike Rossi. Collegiate cross country competitors are also coaches.

The Neuqua Valley High School coaches possibly lead the best camp in the country for developing beginning runners and turning them into champions.”

-Chris Derrick, individual state champion and captain of the 2007 State Champion Neuqua Valley Cross Country Team.

Grades 3-7 Track and Field – Boys & Girls  |  Cost: $135

Camp Meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 9:30am until 10:45am.

The purpose of this program is to train for track and field competition. Join us for our eighth year of competitive track and field. All abilities and experience levels are welcome! Individual training programs will be set up for athletes for the relays, hurdles, high jump, long jump, sprints, and many other events.

The coaching staff includes Neuqua Valley’s head track & field coach, Mike Kennedy and Neuqua Valley Men’s assistant track and field coach, Matt Ragusa.  Collegiate and high school athletes will also coach during this session. The expectation of this program is to ready oneself for competition, therefore, we highly recommend athletes compete in all or some of the scheduled meets:

• Saturday, June 23 – Neuqua Valley High School, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• Thursday, July 19 – Neuqua Valley High School, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Thursday, July 26 – Plainfield South High School, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m

High School Cross Country – Boys Only  |  Cost: $135

Camp Meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 7:15am until 9:30am.

8th Grade/HS Track & Field – Boys & Girls   |  Cost: $135

Camp Meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 8:00am until 9:30am.

The purpose of this program is to train 8th graders and high school athletes for track and field competition. Join us for our ninth year of competitive track and field. All abilities and experience levels are welcome!

Individual training programs will be set up for athletes for the relays, hurdles, high jump, long jump, sprints, and many other events. Athletes who have participated in this series have gone on to compete at the State and National level, earning the designation “All-American” twice in the last two years.

Girls in the Midget Division prepare to race

This past weekend, NTC had the most participants EVER in a USATF-sanctioned XC meet! Complete Results Here. We were represented by a total of 36 athletes – and all of them ran well! For some, it was their first race; for others, a step towards the national meet in December, which will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC. The conditions made good times difficult – an incredibly soggy course plagued with sinkholes, in addition to strong gusts of wind made this an immense challenge. Despite the harsh conditions, our athletes ran some impressive races. We had two individual champions – Emerson King (Midget Boys Division) and Connor Horn (Youth Boys Divison), as well as won every race where we entered enough runners to field a team (Midget Girls and Bantam, Midget, and Youth Boys). Here is how our athletes performed at each age level:

Sub Bantam Girls – 2 kilometers
4 – Parrish, Rachel – Naperville Tc – 10:23.03
12 – Parrish, Ryann – Naperville Tc – 12:13.86
14 – Rosen, Isabel – Naperville Tc – 12:51.81

Bantam Girls – 3 kilometers
9 – Rosen, Madison – Naperville Tc – 15:39.02
11 – Staggs, Zoe – Naperville Tc – 15:58.44
20 – Bacon, Annalysse – Naperville Tc – 21:18.51

Midget Girls – 3 kilometers
4 – Horn, Caitlin – Naperville Tc – 13:04.89
7 – Contreras, Adriana – Naperville Tc – 13:29.59
9 – Vijayan, Meghna – Naperville Tc – 13:49.28
10 – Sahm, Erin – Naperville Tc – 13:50.75
15 – Shroda, Madison – Naperville Tc – 14:37.31
16 – Alicz, Kaitlyn – Naperville Tc – 14:38.88
21 – Holm, Anna – Naperville Tc – 15:38.47
26 – Dykstra, Faith – Naperville Tc – 17:55.02

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Youth Girls – 4 kilometers
7 – Born, Hannah – Naperville Tc – 19:59.31
19 – Lawrence, Madeleine – Naperville Tc – 29:55.35

Sub Bantam Boys – 2 kilometers
2 – Kinne, Zane – Naperville Tc – 8:22.50

Bantam Boys – 3 kilometers
11 – Bushelle, Dylan – Naperville Tc – 15:05.59
12 – Kennedy, Quinn – Naperville Tc – 15:33.14
17 – Bukala, Jackson – Naperville Tc – 16:29.13
18 – Dykstra, William – Naperville Tc – 16:37.43
19 – Jensen, Patrick – Naperville Tc – 16:44.84

Midget Boys – 3 kilometers
1 – King, Emerson – Naperville Tc – 11:04.43
3 – Kinne, Zachary – Naperville Tc – 11:33.54
12 – Vandersteen, Austin – Naperville Tc – 13:33.47
13 – Green, Nicholas – Naperville Tc – 13:39.76
14 – Mannion, Ryan – Naperville Tc – 14:09.41
15 – Kennedy, Ryan – Naperville Tc – 14:14.68

Our Midget Boys team, led by Emerson King (Middle #1114) prepares for the win!

Youth Boys – 4 kilometers

1 – Horn, Connor – Naperville Tc – 15:57.22
2 – McEneaney, Jake – Naperville Tc – 16:39.53
3 – Kinne, Austin – Naperville Tc – 16:48.82
6 – Wolak, Patrick – Naperville Tc – 17:17.79
12 – Shroda, Bjorn – Naperville Tc – 17:53.77
13 – Anderson, James – Naperville Tc – 18:05.94
16 – Hartner, Paul – Naperville Tc – 18:35.25
17 – Wolff, Matthew – Naperville Tc – 18:38.01

I went through the results carefully and tried to find all of the athletes who have participated in our program. Please e-mail me at steve_saul@ipsd.org if your athlete is missing from the results or there is an error.

After logging the miles over the summer, these athletes’ success in the fall is a testament to the hard work they’ve continued to put in with their middle school coaches and teammates throughout the season. We can’t wait to see some of these athletes for club competition over the next month once they are finished with team obligations. Special congratulations to Scullen’s 7th grade girls’ and 8th grade boys’ teams for their victories and to Connor Horn for capturing the individual 8th grade championship title! Congratulations to the following athletes on a great season:

7th Grade Boys

37 – 09:58.0 – Joseph Nutt (Gregory)
40 – 10:00.5 – Austin Vandersteen (Crone)
44 – 10:10.1 – Jeremy Hayhurst (Scullen)
48 – 10:13.7 – Nicholis Green (Crone)
68 – 10:33.3 – Hrishikesh Kulkarni (Crone)
74 – 10:40.4 – Ben Piotrowski (Hill)
76 – 10:44.3 – Gabe Cobb (Crone)
146 – 12:21.8 – Tony Previti (Gregory)
149 – 12:27.2 – Shiv Nigam (Gregory)

7th Grade Girls

5 – 09:48.2 – Caitlyn Horn (Scullen)
6 – 09:55.0 – Meghna Vijayan (Scullen)
15 – 10:19.7 – Hailey Kingsbury (Gregory)
25 – 10:28.3 – Caroline Johnson (Crone)
54 – 11:05.5 – Isabella Serna (Crone)
83 – 11:48.7 – Molly Pierce (Crone)

8th Grade Boys

1 – 11:04.3 – Connor Horn (Scullen)
6 – 11:49.0 – Patrick Wolak (Fischer)
9 – 11:57.9 – Shiva Singh (Crone)
7 – 11:52.2 – Matthew Wolfe (Scullen)
11 – 12:02.1 – Austin Kinne (Washington)
14 – 12:05.5 – Wylie Anderson (Scullen)
16 – 12:09.5 – Steven Biondo (Gregory)
17 – 12:09.7 – Dominic Dina (Scullen)
18 – 12:10.1 – Vishi Singh (Crone)
38 – 12:57.3 – Caleb Ferguson (Gregory)
49 – 13:09.9 – Robby Oakley (Gregory)
58 – 13:23.8 – Brice Wang (Crone)
66 – 13:34.6 – Jack Corrigan (Still)
88 – 14:07.4 – Nimon Dong (Crone)
126 – 15:24.4 – Kevin Wang (Scullen)
154 – 16:33.9 – Joey Hynes (Crone)

8th Grade Girls

4 – 12:44.9 – Sam Morris (Washington)
8 – 13:00.8 – Hannah Born (Scullen)
22 – 13:32.7 – Ally Emond (Crone)
23 – 14:05.0 – Amber Bosma (Gregory)
30 – 13:54.9 – Madi Honer (Crone)
56 – 14:40.9 – Ishani Thakkar (Gregory)
76 – 15:11.8 – Grace Ding (Gregory)
87 – 15:33.4 – Samara Miller (Scullen)
91 – 15:39.5 – Emily Stevens (Gregory)
105 – 15:56.7 – Paige Donahue (Crone)
106 – 15:56.8 – Michaela Molnar (Crone)
112 – 16:12.7 – Casey Stowers (Crone)
118 – 16:25.3 – Priyanka Dave (Gregory)
125 – 16:35.7 – Jennifer Lies (Crone)
155 – 17:55.0 – Hannah Darcy (Crone)