While we still have CCS and State in front of us, it is time to get our uniforms returned–I know it is sad for me too!  Here is what we will do… If you plan to run track in the Spring, you can keep your uniform! Simply fill out the attached form, sign it, and

Saturday, November 16 will see the best teams throughout the Central Coast Section compete–and your Monta Vista Cross Country team is part of this event!  Here is all the information… Location: Crystal Springs Cross Country Course, 2567 Hallmark Drive, Belmont California. PLEASE when you arrive, do not double park, continue driving until you can pull

We have a meet sheet for the first Baylands meet! A reminder: You are responsible for your own transportation to all weekday meets. In the past, when we’ve tried to organize a bus, it created problems since athletes need to leave school at different times to minimize missed class. This makes scheduling a bus difficult.

UPDATE There were two errors by your coach in the meet sheet for De La Salle. First, Justin was not listed.  Justin is running in the JV Boys 2 race at 10:35 am. Sorry Diego–oops, I mean Justin! Next, the JV Boys 2 race at 10:35 am is actually a three (3!!!) mile race. All

Here are some updates to the MVXC 24 schedule: The parent meeting will be on Wednesday, August 28, at 6:15 pm in the Student Union/Cafeteria.  We hope to see you there! The first pasta night for Lagoon Valley will be on August 30 at Tanay’s home. This is optional, but we hope to see you

Here are a few key points for the 2024 cross country season! Practice! The first practice will be on Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 a.m. at the Monta Vista track!  We will have practice at 7 a.m., to beat the heat*, from Monday, August 12 through Saturday the 17th.  When school starts on August 19,

A new post in the coach’s content section.

  Don’t miss the Watermelon Run! Everyone needs to be cleared before our first practice on August 10 in order to participate!  All the information on how to get your athletic clearance is posted on the Matador Athletics site, linked here.  Please schedule your physical, set aside time to take the concussion baseline test, and

Check out the map/diagram we created today, which shows different Jollyman Park run options! We took the Stelling Loop with a stop for drills (boring!) and created mix-and-match routes for a maintenance day from 3 miles to 5.7 miles…and of course, you can add on to that and extend even further.   Thanks to Anika,

Yes! Coach Flatow will be back soon! About time, you say. Quit messing around with that UPenn program and come home. Well, it is finally happening! There will be an in-person meeting to discuss the 2024 cross-country season. We plan travel, science, and more Angela Duckworth than ever before. Mark your calendar for lunchtime in Mr.

If you plan on running cross country this Fall, and your uniform fits h you want to, you can hang on to it!  Fill out the attached form and bring it to your coach w uniform return is organized, or you can scan and email a copy to Coach Flatow at coachflatow@gmail.com, or do both just to

Attached is the meet sheet for the CCS Top 8 Classic Invitational hosted by Los Gatos High School! We are sending 14 athletes – go MV!

Meet sheet is posted below and on the schedule page!

Meet sheet is posted below and on the Schedule page!

This is a weird one! Frosh/soph will have a meet first, then they’ll move onto Varsity. That means that they will run all F/S events on the track and in the field and then basically restart the meet, but with Varsity. It’s a rolling schedule with no provided estimates and an astonishing amount of kids running

We face Santa Clara tomorrow, Wednesday, March 27th at Santa Clara High School! The meet starts at 3:30pm and you are all released from school at 1:45pm (go to class first to check out with your teacher). Let’s bring the H.E.A.T.!!

The last races of the 2023 cross-country season are coming in to view over the horizon!  The last two meets for the full MVXC team will be the FUHSD Championships and the SCVAL Championships on Thursday, October 26, and Tuesday, October 31.  Meet sheets for Lynbrook/FUHSD and SCVAL are attached. The SCVAL meet sheet is now updated

Monta Vista has two races this week!  On Wednesday, October 18, the final regular season SCVAL meet will be at Baylands.  Please note we are racing on Wednesday this time.  The race will be on the same course as a month ago and the race times will be the same.  Remember you need to arrange

The Crystal and Clovis meet sheets are now posted!  Please take a look…remember, you are responsible for arranging your own transportation to Crystal Springs. It will be a great week of racing!

On Tuesday, September 19, Monta Vista will compete in the first league meet of the 2023 cross-country season at Baylands Regional Park.  This is a full 5km race on the edge of the San Francisco Bay.  For the first time this season, we will see all the other 14 teams in the Santa Clara Valley

Lagoon Valley is just a few days away!  LV is going to be our first invitational of the season, just like last year.  It’s a really good race!  LV has some challenging hills Big Mama and Little Sister.  Every good cross country course should have hills!  LV is all on the dirt paths we look for in California

Congratulations and thank you to Sandhya Fasnacht and Miranda Hsu for being the first athletes to complete their athletic clearance! All the procedures for completing athletic clearance are posted!  If you have problems, send an email to Mr. Bonacorsi nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org.  Your coaches cannot clear you, sorry! If you need more motivation to get your clearance

First Official MVXC23 Practice is on August 7! Distance is a function of speed and time…multiply average speed times the time we are moving and the result is the distance we have travelled.  Different people have different cars that can move at different speeds, but we can all cover the same distances–maybe we just have to

Are you running with joy??? In four weeks–4, cuatro, quatre, vier, चार, 四,أربعة–we get together for our first practice as a team to begin the new season!  Yikes, time goes fast for this coach…is your summer going by as fast as mine?  Time is relative, so this is a serious question 😉 If you have been cruising along

Attached are some suggested runs for MVXC Summer Running, weeks 3 and 4!  Check it out. Group runs start at 7am, Monday through Saturday, on the Monta Vista track.  Reach out to annoy of the student-athlete contacts for 2023 summer running: Anika Bhandarkar anika.bhandarkar@gmail.com  Megan Nieh megannieh15@gmail.com Tanay Parikh parikhtanay123@gmail.com Manasi Prasad mprasad754@student.fuhsd.org Ruhaan Shah

Hello, XC! Attached is a preliminary XC schedule for the 2023 season.  There is still more to come, but we can add these to our calendars.   The first week of school, MVXC will run the historic Watermelon Run…if that does not motivate you to get your summer running in gear, what will motivate you?

Let’s start thinking about Monta Vista Cross Country 2023!  Let’s meet: Thursday, May 18, 2023 Lunchtime, 1:30pm Mr. Bonacorsi’s Office, D101 See you there!

Don’t Forget To RSVP For The Awards Banquet On May 16! Sadly, it’s that time of the season again…time to return our uniforms. Uniform return will be on Wednesday, May 10, from 3:25-4:15 (or as long a people are in line) at Mr. Bonacorsi’s office, D101.  Please return your complete uniform, clean.  If you have lost

Please click here and RSVP for the Awards Banquet Now! Update:  Here is a Meet Program with MV Entries Highlighted   Here is the list of Monta Vista’s qualifiers for the SCVAL Championships!  MVTF has 35 individual qualifiers and alternates, including three athletes in the boys’ 400m, the girls’ shot, the girls discus!  Outstanding, everyone! The

Attached is the meet sheet for the El Camino League Championship on April 26th and 28th at Wilcox High School.  Included in the meet sheet are estimated times for the events and also the Monta Vista entries.  Complete heat sheets are available on Mr. Lawson’s site.  Later in the week, he will provide an updated time

Two errors/clarifications: The Monta Vista track and field team season banquet will be on Tuesday, May 16 (the date was changed and I’ve confused myself a couple of times but it will be on Tuesday!) The location of the El Camino League trials and finals will be at Wilcox High School on April 26 and

PLEASE NOTE…THE TRACK SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED FROM THE ATTACHED SHEET.  THE EVENTS LATER IN THE DAY HAVE BEEN MOVED UP BY AS MUCH AS 20 MINUTES (FOR EXAMPLE, TANAY’S RACE IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR 4:08PM INSTEAD OF 4:32).  EARLIER RACES ARE NOT EFFECTED OR ARE EFFECTED LESS.  PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR RACE TIME HERE.

The Wilcox meet sheet is posted! See you at the meet on Thursday, March 30!

Practice will start at the regular time in the field house today…out of the weather!

Although school was closed today, the power is back on and we have permission to practice.  See you at 3:25pm!

Attached is the Meet Sheet for the St. Francis Invitational!  Most everything you need is there…a few reminders for those accepted to the meet: Don’t be late!  If an athlete does not check in on time (and they may run ahead), they will replace you with an alternate.  Head to the clerk’s tent early (usually, they

Power is out at school and the campus is closed so, no practice as a team today. Remember our talk last Thursday about determination and doing what you can do in this type of situation?  Triya ran 9 miles in her hotel room when she had to isolate during the lockdown.  Those 9 crummy miles

On Wednesday, March 1, the Mt. View Spartans will visit Monta Vista for the first track meet of the El Camino League season.  When these teams clashed last season, the Mountain View and Monta Vista varsity girls teams were both undefeated.  When the track events were concluded, Mt. View was narrowly ahead and it looked

Attached is a schedule for the 2023 Monta Vista track and field season…this is subject to change but should be fairly solid…let’s download this and enter the dates into our personal calendars now!  Hmm…let’s see…wait, what, the 400 Shootout is WHEN?!?!???  Already?  yikes! Also for you distance running achievers who are always looking for extra

Updated January 26:   Below is a file of everyone who has started the clearance process on Home Campus for track and field. At the far right column you will see a Yes or No next to your name.  If you have a ‘yes’, you don’t have to do anything more, you are good to go, see you on Monday

…the handout for the November 28 meeting is attached to this post…

Yes, it is already time to start thinking about Track and Field!  If we have dreams we are going to chase, we should arrive at the first day of practice with some preparation!  So we have meetings planned for Monday, November 28: Track and Field 2023 Information Meeting in the Main Gym (Lunch period/1:25pm):  This meeting is for

It’s that time of year…the season is winding down.  Saaaaaad.  So, it is time to return uniforms! You have two…well, three options, but two seem much better than the third: If you are going to run on the track team in 2023, you can download the form below, fill out the form and return it to Coach

A reminder to everyone…the MVXC22 senior run will be on Wednesday, November 2, the day after SCVALs.  SENIORS….you know what to do!  Everyone else…meet at practice as usual at the track at 3:25pm.  This event is optional but highly recommended!   (Seniors, if you would like some advice on your speech from someone who has

It is time for SCVALs! Here is the meet sheet! Remember…you are responsible for your own transportation to Crystal. Plenty of sleep, eat right, hydrate, pack correctly, wear your purple jacket on Tuesday, pack layers…

The meet sheet for the next Baylands 5km race on October 18 is now posted! We all ran this race four weeks ago, and we have had many good workouts and lots of miles since then…this should be an opportunity for many personal records! Remember that athletes are responsible for arranging their own transportation to

This week is forecasted to be miserably, historically hot.  While we look at the track and watch the heat waves emanate upwards and idly wonder if the track will actually combust, MVXC are also trying to figure out how to make the best of the situation. Every afternoon it is going to be a day by day

Athletes– At Pacific Grove next month, this is a brand new course, and they are still figuring things out.  So one of the things they are asking for is a release.  The only place that is asking for that!  Oh well, let’s just do it. Please download the following document, print it, sign it and

There will be a Zoom meeting for MVXC 2022 parents, to get to know the coaches and hear plans for the season, as well as answer any questions.  The meeting will be on Wednesday, August 31, at 7pm.  The link is below.   Thank you and hope to see you there! Kirk Flatow is inviting

Due to the heat, the meet will be run on a compressed schedule.  Here is the new order of events. Remember be at the start no later than 10 minutes before the scheduled gun, ready to run, with bib and singlet (probably ditch your jacket and pants in our camp it will be hot so

Parents and Athletes, As the season gets started, I want to ask you to please, please support the cross country team by joining the Monta Vista Athletic Boosters.  The MVAB is the primary source of funding for the cross country team.  When you join the MVAB in support of your athletes, $40 goes directly to

Remember right after finals, when it seemed like summer would last forever?  Remember when it seemed like you could wait another week before you got your summer running rolling, or maybe the week after that?  Well, guess what!  You are now starting your last week of summer running! Our first practice as a team will start