Pitman Cross Country: Hughson Supercross Meet

The Student Newspaper of John H. Pitman High School.

October 3, 2012

On Saturday, September 15, the Hughson Supercross invitational was held at HughsonHigh School. Pitman cross country along with other schools’ cross country teams were invited to run. Although some runners got confused and lost by the faded arrows on the dirt, Pitman cross country did a great job.

The frosh/soph girls ran first, and Jamie Stroup, Sophomore, was the first to finish from Pitman with the time 18:53. Frosh/soph boys ran after the girls. The first to finish from Pitman , with a time of 16:33 was Richard Turknett, Freshman. After the race frosh/soph races the varsity started. The girls ran first and the first to finish from Pitman was Jamie Ford, Senior, but she got second in the race and received a silver medal. Jamie got a time of 16:58. When the boys ran, the first to come from Pitman was Isaac Gonzalez, junior, with 13:54. After varsity, the junior varsity team ran. It was girls first, then boys. To finish first from the Pitman girls was Kayla Kenney, Junior, with the time of 20:31 and from the boys with the time of 17:04 was Arnold Rinario, Senior.

Some of the varsity girls received medals. The ones who did were, Jamie Ford, Elisiah Frank, and Ivette Salvador. One of the varsity girls couldn’t run in the race though because she had hurt her ankle.

The route everyone ran was 2.4 miles. The route included one loop around grass, two laps around the track, one starting the race and one ending it. After the first lap, the runners ran in an ankle-deep mud pit and continued on to the confusing route where they had to jump over a couple of hay bales, run over a small hill and get lost in a confusing route in the Hughson garden.

The Hughson Supercross was one of the fun meets for cross country. The next cross country meet is the Frogtown invitational at Calaveras county fairgrounds on Saturday 22. That meet is said to be the most difficult because of their hills.

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In 1998, on the 20^th night of April, the fourth daughter of a family was born. Her mother decided to name her “Jocylin” but the nurse made a mistake and wrote “Josilene” instead. Even though it’s spelled in a unique way, Josilene recently found out that this unusual variation of her name originates from Brazil. In time, Josilene came to appreciate the interesting spelling of this presumed mistake. As a child, Josilene joined the immersion program when she was in 4^th grade at Osborn Elementary. She continued in the immersion program until her first year at Dutcher Middle School. In the summer of 2011, she moved to the countryside of Turlock and went to Mountain View Middle School for her second year of middle school. In her 8^th grade year, Josilene became interested in 4-H program and decided to do a meat goat project; now she is going to be treasurer in her second year of 4-H. Another interest of Josilene is the Korean culture. When she has time she learns the language by watching Korean dramas. Because of her interest in the Korean culture, Josilene wants to attend college inSouth Korea. The college she wants to attend is Korea National Open University. During high school, Josilene is hoping to achieve a lot in academics and athletics. She dreams about becoming an engineer and aspires that the rest of her dreams come true.

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Pitman Cross Country: Hughson Supercross Meet