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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact
Clem Donahue, <a href="mailto:cdonahue@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu">cdonahue@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu</a>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BHS Mountain Bike continued success qualifies them for the
State Championship in SoCal in 2 weeks!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The small, resilient and powerful mountain bike team
continued its NorCal league dominance after their smashing success in Race 1
nearly 2 months ago. Despite racing with only 15 riders at each race
(some teams have upwards of 60!), they continued at each race to put riders on
the podium in nearly all races entered. Inspirational leadership this
season started from all 3 Varsity riders. Sand Floren not only won Varsity Race
1, but finished the season winning the final race of the year to place him 2nd
Overall for the season, the highest a BHS racer has ever finished! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Juniors Nico Theunissen and Adam Goldstein had fast
seasons also, Nico finishing on the podium several times this year and Adam
making the mid season jump from JV to Varsity and helping earn points towards
valuable team points.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mountain Biking is actually a co-ed sport and there are
dynamic girls on the team, Rene Warren, Yuki Nagase and Olena Gomez had success
also. Rene rode very consistently and finished the season in 6th Overall,
Yuki had a fast start but an unfortunate fall on practice day and a wrist
injury shortened her promising start. Freshman upstart Olena surprised
all by trading in her soccer cleats for a short time, and joined the team mid
season. Her success and finish helped the Team win 3rd place in Race #4 and
showed everyone her potential and how other athletes change sports to Mountain
Bike racing fairly easily. Head Coach Nick Hoeper feels all three will
have fantastic seasons next year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sophomores Josh Kluger and Stephen O’Brian continued
to progress, both winning their 1st podium spots this season in the very
competitive sophomore division. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Most surprising was the massive success of the 9th grade
riders. Affectingly called the ‘Groms’ by Coach Karl, this large
group of racers continued to dominate every race and typically occupy 5 of the
top 8 spots in this very fast and competitive division. Wins by Roberto
Cribley and multiple top 5 podium finishes by Jared Donahue and Max Barmack and
top 8 finishes by Oliver Cazden and Malcolm Duncan-Graves helped BHS secure
multiple top team finishes through the season.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BHS is famous for many things but few know that it was the <st1:place
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Bike team in the Country, formed in 1998. But 2015 was the best finish to
date for the team and they surprised all, as they finished 3rd in the Overall
Team Category against many of the top teams in the State! BHS did its best ever
in the Overall Categories as 4 Riders got Season Trophies for finishing near
the top in their division. These difficult trophies, gained only by top
consistent finishers in all races: Sandy Floren (2nd-Varsity), with Roberto
Cribley/2nd place) Malcolm Duncan-Graves 3rd, Jared Donahue 5th in the large
and fast freshman class. Congrats to all the riders for the smashing successful
season!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Because of the massive success this season, BHS will send in
2 weeks, 11 of its top riders to SoCal to the States Championships to do battle
with the best riders from the entire state.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Wish them luck and Go Jackets!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Marguerite Fa-Kaji and
Catherine Ference are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the Etree; please
direct any questions about the Etree to them at <a
href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net">bhs-owner@lmi.net</a>. To post a message,
send to: <a href="mailto:bhs@lmi.net">bhs@lmi.net</a>; BHS etree
archives: <a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</a>
BHS website: <a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/">http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/</a>
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