Our Frosh Soph boys team had a great showing at this invitational as they finished in 4th place out of 24 complete teams that competed in this race.

The overall Leland boys top time for the day at this invitational came in the Frosh-Soph boys race as Soph, Aditya Garg ran a personal best time of 16:10 as he improved 26 seconds from his last year’s time of 16:36. Our 2nd and 3rd frosh-soph boys finishers were soph, Patrick Guzman who finished in 36th place with a time of 18:00 and soph, Tyler Orth who finished in 37th place also with a PR time of 18:00. Rounding out the top 7 for our frosh soph team were soph, Owen Widgery who finished 4th for our team and 40th in the race with a time of 18:02. 5th for our team was soph, Dean Gonzalez who finished in 81st place with a time of 18:54. 6th for our team was soph, Gabriel Rueda as he finished in 96th place with a time of 19:06 and 7th for our team was soph, Jeong Han Moon in 141st place with a time of 20:12.

Additional frosh soph runners in the frosh soph boys race and their order of finish was as follows, frosh, Aaron Jao finished in 150th place with at time of 20:20, frosh, Ishayu Manral finished in 177 with a time of 20:56, soph, Taylor Orth placed 229 with a time of 22:16. In 230th place was frosh, Gideon Tan with a time of 22:17. Soph, Minqu Chung finished in 222nd place with a time of 22:27, frosh, Ji Han Su finished in 242nd place with a time of 22:43, frosh, Kyle Au finished in 250th place with a time of 23:09, frosh, Nathan Tewari finished in 254rd place with a time of 23:14, frosh, Kai Cho finished in 259th with a time of 23:23. Frosh, Rocco DePalma finished in 268 with a time of 24:06. Daniel Tang finished in 269th place with a time of 24:06 and finishing in 292nd place was soph, Wolfe Earhart with a time of 27:40.

Our Varsity Boys team finished in 28th place out of 29 teams. Our top finisher was Sr. Nathan Lee as he ran a personal best time of 16:42 to finish in 64th place. Sr. Varun Rao was the 2nd Leland finisher with a time of 18:15 and finished in 150th place. 3rd for our team was Jr. Zachary Fuselier as he finished in 184th place with a PR time of 19:15, 4th for our team was Sr. Alex Kim who finished in 185th place and was also timed with a time of 19:15. 5th for our team pand placing 207 was Jr, Aviv Yereslove with a time of 21:02, 6th for our team was Sr. Dominic Wang who finished in 212th place with a time of 21:42, Placing 7th and 8th for our team were Jr. Tianyi Gao who placed 215 with a time of 23:27 and Jr. Jonathan Stichnoth who finished in 219th place with a time of 26:19.

Our only runner in the JV Boys runner was Jr. Jacob Hsueh and he finished in 185th place with a time of 23:34

The overall Leland girls top time for the day at this invitational came in the Frosh-Soph girls race where Sophomore, Nao Sawaguchi finished in 8th place as she ran a personal best time of 19:42 to improve 36 seconds from last year’s time of 20:18. Nao won a medal with her 8th place finish as the top 10 finishers in each race received medals. Soph, Sayuri Lokeshwar finished in 50th place with a time of 23:23 to improve 7 seconds from last year’s race. Soph, Rea Bambawale finished in 96th place with a time of 25:39. Sophomore, Allison Guo in her first invitational ever ran well as she finished in 133rd place with a time of 30:25.

The Varsity Girls team was led by Senior, Maile Shinmoto as she finished in 47th place with a time of 20:30. She was followed by Sr. Alyssa Nagatani who placed 51st with a time of 20:37 and Junior, Saachi Basavaraju finished in 132nd place with a time of 24:51. Saachi improved her time from last year by 1 minute and 47 seconds.