Caden Leatherman chose to honor his big-brother Todd Leatherman this week. Many not realize this about Todd, but he spends 13 hours a day at school. From the classroom to Cross Country practice, from XC to the musical. On the weekends it’s Long Run Saturday, or a meet. In practice, it’s full max effort. And […]
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Tyler Bakhuyzen chose to recognize Caden Leatherman this week. You may have seen Caden screaming his brains out along the course while cheering on his teammates. Caden brings that same intensity when he goes to work at practice, and brings others along with him even as a freshman. He’s made giant contributions to the team
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Coach Bosma spoke to us this week about Goodness. I took notes, but these were his words. We say something is ‘good’ quite often in our language. Generally when we speak of something being good, we mean ‘OK’. If someone asked us about a movie we saw we might say ‘good’ if it was OK,
Lukas Wierenga chose to pass along the Gallant award this week to Tyler Bakhuyzen. Tyler is one of those guys who is always pushing himself to do more. He’ll do one more mile, or one more repeat even if it means leaving the group and going out on his own. Tyler takes the ‘Always be
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Evan Miedema chose Lukas Wierenga this week for the Gallant Award. Evan chose Lukas because he had been consistently impressed with his work ethic. He was always “doing the things” as coach puts it. Congratulations Lukas! Ana Beimers chose Katelynn Boyd for this week. Katelynn has a drive to succeed that impressed Ana as well
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We’re recognizing Eli Ernst and Sierra Grooters as this week’s Gallant Award recipients. This first week the coaches select the athletes they feel are deserving of the award. There were many well-deserved athletes, so choosing only one was very difficult! Eli Ernst selected Evan Miedema for his grit and leadership on the Cauldron workout. He
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We’re continuing in our theme of Nurturing our Fruits of the Spirit. Tonight I’m going to talk about the seventh fruit and that’s “Faithfulness”. I think we all might have a sense of what faithfulness is. If I said “He or she is super faithful with their running”, you’d know I meant that they were
We’re recognizing Eli Ernst and Sierra Grooters as this week’s Gallant Award recipients. This first week the coaches select the athletes they feel are deserving of the award. There were many well-deserved athletes, so choosing only one was very difficult! Coach Rotman selected Eli Ernst based on his leadership he demonstrated from the very beginning