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2005 Seniors L-R Back Row
– Ryan Donahue, Brian Rooney, Matt Britten, Ali Kagalwalla,
Steve Arves, Joe Murphy, Mike Winek,
Andrew Heinz, Sean Parker, Dan Murphy, Jon Peters, Eric Olen, Alake Kashyap, Andrew Dunham, Andrew Donivan,
James Nuxoll
Front Row L-R – Zach Splan, David
Duncan, Spenser Murakami, John Rusch
XC Memories 2005
Random
guy at Knoch Knolls tells Spenser he should be
playing football- he blushes and then flexes his rippling muscles
Cross Country guys outside of White Hen all drinking Dean's Chocolate Milk
Chugs. (We'll pretend Heinz wasn't drinking Gatorade for the purpose of this
memory.)
CORE
Going
on an adventure through the jungle behind Knoch
Knolls
Ali's bonfire
John Rusch's 944 breaks down on the way to 7-11
Throwing bratwurst at Ali's car as he drives away after the barbeque
Swimming in the river.
Dunham hits Connor's dad's car
Heinz, you're running in goulashes
Saying hi to a girl on a warm-up on the wood loop and the girl falling flat
on her face as she says hi back to us
Stefan to Nick: "Bones, how’s it hangin’"
"SCREW YOU JANOTA!"
“Andrew
Dunham, Go Home”
Vandersteen's Story: Whoa, that's my sister.
Mini-Bus breaking down in the extreme heat at Oregon
Joe Newton: “I can see you bastards hiding in the steeplechase
pit.”
Vandersteen walking in the ABC room unnoticed in the middle of a conversation
about how everyone of Ali's impressions sounds like Vandersteen
Discovering Vandersteen’s "secret"
predictions for Hornet... then going crazy and screaming like little girls
about it
Eric to Rooney at Oregon: Hey Rooney, are you awake?
Rooney's response: Uh, I dunno.
Finding the CDs about becoming a more powerful person in Vandersteen's
trunk
LAST MAN STANDING--and it clearly wasn't Olen
Vandersteen: "This is our captain, Spenser Murakami, he leads by
example...he would even be late to his own funeral..."
Spenser commenting on girl from middle school year book "Man back in her
glory days she was the "FORBIDDEN FRUIT"
The classic Dickerson:
"A word about steroids... don't do the juice- just look at what it did
to me."
Connor showing off his intelligence yet again after a neighborhood parent
yelled at us for picking up a FRIENDLY STREET sign:
Disgruntled Parent: Are you guys from Neuqua,
because that would be very disappointing...
Connor: YEAH, we are!
"We've got nothing to prove."
Coach Dickerson speaks about not being so negative about a race or a
course....2 minutes later he says, "This part of the course really
sucks"
Spenser becomes a baboon and a tree attacks his face
Zach Splan pushing that kid off his bike
reason: "He was given me lip"
Janota on Rooney:
"I'd find Rooney attractive in short shorts"
Steen walks over to Brad and shakes him saying, "Stop drawing Penis' on
my attendance sheet."
Coach
Dickerson spilling 8 gallons of super-concentrated Gatorade in Janota’s SUV.
"Be careful in those automobiles--they're dangerous"
Dickerson on having three to a room, "Sometimes you have to just swallow
you're pride, and sleep with a guy."
Vitamin water anyone?
"What if the Vitamin Water guys kidnapped Spenser and took him in the
truck?"
Derrick: "Well, at least he'll have his vitamins"
Gushurst sleeps in bathtub instead of in a bed or on
the ironing board and gets flooded at Peoria
Mike Ruff drinks Gatorade out of the toilet
Vandersteen doing an impression of himself: "Spenser, you're ugly"
"Mike (Winek), you're a sick human being"
Jimmy's Riddle
"Steve Arves would be a good runner if it
weren't for his big gut.”
Ninja Run, Gregory, cops
"Hey Heinz, look, your GPA is on the scoreboard"
Dunham jumps over garbage cans
Rain run, through the river, soaking wet, giant mushrooms
Connor debases home plate at Knock Knolls
"Who Bad?" WE BAD
JV runners get lost at Lockport
"Dude, I have burr all over me" ---Spenser after coming back from
taking care of some business in the woods
All right guys. Let’s stop counting nipple hairs and do some
800's!"
While waiting at an intersection, Dickerson looks down at a tall weed with
lots of spikes and says "Hey, Eric, I dare you to eat that" in a
very devious kid-like voice---it was kind of a you had to be there thing
Alake takes a joy ride in Janota's SUV
"That is the WORST choice"
Brucker and Connor jump over every single rock or fence on easy
runs
MAINTENANCE MILE
Cobwebs out, champions in
"Dude, what's individual qualifying again?"
"Chris Derrick and Sunni hooked up, and did it"
Connor and Danny Pawola digging a tunnel into the ground
at Regionals and someone asks:
"Hey Connor, are you gonna dig all the way to China?"
"No, we already 'deg' there yesterday"
Donahue is betrayed and assassinated by his best friend, Nuxoll---Oh
the irony, it can be pretty ironic sometimes
James Petruzzi's government commercial with all of
our support in short shorts
Taking the Coaches gift pictures
"The 7 guys that are running the state meet, they are not Neuqua Valley Cross Country. You are. You, along with
those top 7 guys, are the ones representing Neuqua
Valley Cross Country"
Mike is a demented kid. Everyone knows that
--Vandersteen
"Nemeth grew a beard so he could tell himself apart from his
girlfriend"
"Is she Amish?"
Gazelle ties two zip-ties around his neck so that he cannot get them off
without cutting them off
VERY STANGE bus driver for state who likes to go down to Peoria to do more
than just visit…
Freshmen running in the 16:20's
Bad singing on the bus ride home
STEAK!
75-80
people join us for dinner at Alexander’s. Olympian Craig Virgin joins us.
10th Place
Alake Kashyap and James Nuxoll at the
2005 State Meet
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