Story by Isaiah Salgado
Staff Writer
After a long season, the Bishop Amat Varsity Boys Cross Country team will race at CIF Prelims this Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut.
Race time is 10:44 a.m.
The Boys’ Cross Country team earned third place in the Del Rey League.
The top three runners on the team are senior Patrick Tarango, sophomore Christian Hernandez and junior Robert Lawrence. Each one of them won multiple track meets individually.
According to the members on the team, they have been working hard and changing their practices for the upcoming CIF.
“The team is dropping our miles and improving our speed work to compete with the other teams in CIF,” said Tarango.
The runners say that they are aware of the upcoming challenges in CIF, so they said they have taken it upon themselves to do things in their personal lives to prepare.
“To prepare for CIF I have been eating better than I normally do,” said Lawrence. “I am also exercising more outside of practice.”
Despite having a good attitude, the training that the runners have to go through is not easy. The runners said that they all have at least one thing that they hate about cross country.
“The only thing I hate about cross country is the morning practices,” said junior Tyler Boesen. “I’m not at my best, and I feel terrible.”
The Boys’ Varsity Cross Country team has shown that hard work does pay off. The payoff is winning, and all the runners agree that besides being with their friends, winning is the best part of cross country.
“When I win, it is the most amazing feeling in the world, it is like winning the Superbowl,” Tarango said. “It shows me that all the time and hard work I put in, and the help my team gave me, really paid off.”
