Cross Country
2006 & 2007 Boys' State Champions!

It's a REPEAT!!!
Kodiak Boys Win Their Second Straight State Cross Country Title

Trevor Dunbar ran brilliantly as he took 8 seconds off the course record shared by West's Miguel Gomez & Lathrop's David Dyer. In doing so he lead his team to the first back to back state titles in the history of Kodiak High School. As awesome as Trevor's front running was, it took a total team effort to put the Bears on top by 64 points over Region III rival Colony who captured the runner-up spot for the second straight year as well. Here is the break down of the 2007 state champs:

1st Trevor Dunbar, Junior, 15:36 Course Record, Season best & Alaska course PR, First Bear boy to repeat state XC titles; 4th Sam Salus, Junior, 16:36, season best & Alaska Course PR, 1 second away from 3rd place;12th Dylan Anthony, Sophomore, 17:10 PR, Dylan has PR'd in every race he ran this year and has become the top sophomore in the state in the process!14th Benny Garcia, Senior, 17:17, Season Best & Alaska Course PR, Achieved goal of top 15; 25th Colton Cubbedge, Senior, 17:40, closed last week's #4 man- #5 man gap from 58 seconds to 23 seconds which was key for the team, within 1 of Alaska course PR; 27th Caleb Heinrichs, Senior, 17:42, season best & Alaska course PR, as our 6th man Caleb was better than all other teams' #4 man and only Colony, Palmer & Servce had their #3 man in before our Great #6 Caleb;59th Justin Blott, Junior, 18:21, PR, Justin was the best #7 man of all teams, Only Juneau & West had #6 men ahead of our #7; With our Top three returning next year, plus Justin Blott, add Patrick Schneider, Chaven Davidson and our many other fine JV runners improving rapidly we can predict many more good days ahead for the Bears.

Last year's dominating performance win was 35-92, 57 points better than Colony, who could have predicted this year that margin would grow to 64 points. Also our team time was 1:24:20 our best for the year, that's a 16:52 average for our top 5 runners, 37 seconds faster than runner-up Colony's average of 17:29. For complete results, see the Coach's page. Read complete coverage of the meet at Anchorage Daily News and check out the photos taken by Marc Lester

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Kodiak Boys win 6th straight region III title
Girls take third & both qualify for state - 4th consecutive year!

It was another great weekend for the Bears! It was a beautiful, sunny, Alaskan Fall day at Colony High School for the hosting of the 2007 Region III Cross Country Championship. Trevor Dunbar became the first boy in the history of Kodiak High School to win back to back region XC titles. Abby Reed added another Region XC title to her resume that goes along with her great sophomore victory in 2005 at Kodiak's own Bear Valley Golf Course. Read the news of the region III meet on Coach Dunbar's newpage, or check out KMXT's coverage.

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It was a great weekend of running in Kodiak!

Abby Reed Second KHS Girl Ever To Have Sub-20 Time At Ft. Abercrombie.With the sun shining it was a great weekend for running in Kodiak, as the Bears' cross country team hosted Colony High School in a dual meet Saturday at Fort Abercrombie. Junior Trevor Dunbar continued to dominate the competition, leading the boys' race from start to finish to win with a time of 16:29. Dunbar's time was 21 seconds faster than second place Mason Wick of Colony. Read the coach's notes for explicit details of the race and check out KMXT's coverage of the race.

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Mudfest in Palmer September 8th

In slip & slide mud party, it seemed to be almost forgotten that three of the top female teams in the entire northwest were going head to head for the first time this season. The West Anchorage Eagles, Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears, and three-time defending state champ, West Valley Wolf Pack, had a great mud battle with the Eagles coming out on top, then Juneau & West Valley, 68-74-84 were the scores. Read Coach Dunbar's notes for the quick and DIRTY on this meet. Check out the photos below for the real clue as to how muddy it was!
Next Friday, September 14th will be the T&C Cross Country Classic we will have division for Boys & Girls in following grade divisions:7th & 8th, 5th & 6th, and 3rd & 4th. High school & opened Saturday will be the High School 5K at Ft. Abercrombie. .

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Another Great Weekend for the Bears

The Bears ran against ACS at Fort Abercrombie on Labor Day Weekend. Trevor Dunbar re-broke his own Fort Abercrombie school record with a mind-boggling 15 minute, 42 second 5K jaunt through the woods to win the boys race and lead Kodiak to an 11-point victory over ACS. View photos of the meet below.

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Successful Skyview Invitational August 25th in Soldotna

The Bears traveled to Soldotna for a meet with several other teams in the region this weekend. The Boys came in second to Grace Christian, with 99 points to their 92, and on the girls' side, Kodiak finished seventh with 195 points. West won with 39. Abby Reed was the top Bear, coming in 9th with a time of 20-minutes 21-seconds. For more information on this meet, check out the story on Coach Dunbar's notes

Evidence that it often rains hard in other places in Alaska besides Kodiak!