This year marks the 42nd year of Cross Country at Stryker High Welcome to the home web site dedicated to the Stryker Cross Country team

"PRIDE AND TRADITION!"


STRYKER CROSS COUNTRY
EST. 1969-70
Located: Stryker High School
400 South Defiance Street
Stryker, Ohio 43506
PHONE #: 419-682 4591

***On this site you will find information about our Boys and Girls Cross Country program. It is dedicated to any person who ran cross country for Stryker. You can check out our past history and the present. You may add appropriate information to the web site Again this site is dedicated to the Panther Cross Country runners who have brought Pride and Tradition to Our school.

Please scroll down and enjoy!
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School. The first team was created in the 1969-70 school year. Please check over our site and relive some of the CC memories.
In order to get to Jr. High info please click on records and then go to Jr. high

Coaches: Maurice Zuver and Scott Goodnight

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Headlines for 2011
Cross Country Awards
Last night the 2011 cross country team handed out its awards for a good season.

Highschool Boys Luke Graber and Conner Frey won captain awards. In the Most improved runner award , it went to Ross Planson. Conner Freey also won the fastest time award and the Panther award. Conner Frey and Wesley Short also recieved blankets for participating in CC for 4 years. Letter winners this year were: Conner Frey, Luke Graber, Dean Beamont, Ross Planson, Tyler Teschke, Wesley Short, Garrett Fritch, and Nick Jaggers

Highschool Girls

Boys Team finishes 12th in the regional at Boardman
Strykers Boys cross country team drove the 3 and a half hours to run at the Youngstown regional. In the race were three of the top five or six teams in the state. In a muddy setting the team tried their hardest but it just wasn't enough. Congrates to a great season.

2011 Boys team qualifies for Regional
The 20011 boys finished 4th at the Spencerville District to earn the right
to run at the Regional race at Youngstown Boardman highschool on Oct. 29.
The team edged out New Breman to earn the right Check out the
race results on our team scoreboard page. They will run at 1:20 on sat.
The Address of the race Is:
Youngstown Boardman High school
7777Glenwood Ave.
Youngstown, Ohio 44512-5824

The team will be staying in Youngstown, anyone wanting a room can call
330-758-1999 Red Roof

Address:
Red Roof
1051 Tiffany S
Youngstown, Ohio
44514

Buckeye Border Awards for 2011
Buckeye Border All league teams were named after the NorthCentral jamboree which The Stryker Boys finished 2nd
1st Team selections were Conner Frey and Luke Graber. 2nd Team selection was Dean Beamont and making the 3rd team was Robert Aguilar
Stryker Girls finished 2nd
1st Team Natalie Graber 2nd Team Kari Oberlin and Emily Musser 3rd Team Tori Johnson, Michaela Rupp, Gabrielle Paxton, and Natalie Short
Great turn out for Pumpkin Pace
The 2011 version of the Pumpkin Pace was a great experience. In the 1st race grades 1-3 there were 35 students running the 1/2 mile race.
In the second race which faced 4th, 5th, and 6th graders against each other there was another 35 kids. The Boys and Girls Cross Country team would like to
thank everyone who participated and help. Each runner recieved a ribbon, a pumpkin, a cookie made by Mrs. Rupp, and a juice Box
the following were the winners of each class boy and girl
1st Grade Boy---Mathew Froelich 1st Grade Girl---Sage Woolace
2nd Grade Boy---Dustin Haas 2nd Grade Girl---Mallori Blevins
3rd Grade Boy---Brandon Bowers 3rd Grade Girl---Kinsey Myers
4th Grade Boy---Wyatt Short 4th Grade Girl---Makenzie Cadwell
5th Grade Boy---Rico Ranos 5th Grade Girl---Kyrstin Smith
6th Grade Boy---Corbin Heath 6th Grade Girl---McKenna Cays

REGIONAL ISSUES:

Parents and Stryker CC supporters, if you have concerns about the fact that Stryker boys and girls have to go to Troy and/or Youngstown for the regional meet, please write a letter of protest to the following emails:
tmeister@archboldschools.org
jsbrashear@aol.com
dgabor@ignatius.edu
DorneS@westerville.k12.oh.us
baxe@centralcatholic.org
kreinbrink@lp.noacsc.org
dross@ohsaa.org
Parents here are a couple of points that need to be stated to the State and our District Reps.
In your letters to the above people!
1) The selection of the Regional sites for our Northwest Ohio Div III schools makes nosence
Our school is being robbed of support from Our students, our, fans, and most of all our parents
2) The distance we have to travel in todays time is mot acceptable, especially for small schools
3) Our sport demands respect and considerations for the athletes just as basketbal and football
4) How the boys and Girls are counted needs to change.
5)We as coaches nand parents need info earlier on site for state, regional, and district meets earlier.
At the presesent time it makes it hard for a jr. or sr. to schedule an act test because we do not know where the district meet is.
They need to consider the student athlete.
6) We need another class, it is simply unfair to have schools the size of Stryker fairly compete against a school the size of say a Colwater.
7) There is no probelm with money our state can afford any of these changes
8) Just like everyone else they need to be accountable
9) Also a complaint about the fact that we cannot get fans to watch us run. School is important to little schools they are taking that aspect away from us




The Boys and Girls High School teams finish 2nd in BBC
The boys and girls finished 2nd in the league after thursdays jamboree at North Central. The boys team finished 2nd to Pettisville
in all three Jamboree meets this year. The girls went into the North Central meet tied with Edon and pettisville for 2nd. The girls finished 2nd to take home
2nd place for the year

*** District races have been assigned
This year the boys and girls district races will be held at Spencerville.
There will be three races for the boys and three races for the girls.
The girls will run at 1:20 and the boys will run at 3:20. I
f the girls, if they finish 4th or better will run in the Troy Regional and the boys
if they finish 4th or better will run in the Youngstown regional.


Directions to Spencerville can be found on the Miscellaneous
Page..

Teams in Boys 2011 District Race(Teams with * Not a full team)
Columbus Grove
Archbold
Liberty Benton
Stryker
New Breman
Kalida
Fort Recovery
Hicksville
Edon
Waynesfield Goshen
Ada*
St. Johns*
Upper Scioto Valley*
Perry*


*** Pumpkin Pace.
October 15th at 9:00a.m. will be the annual pumpkin race for grade 1-3 and 4-6. the racers will start at Springfield Park and the Depot. Cross Country members will be running the show

***First Meet of the year
August 30th marked the first meet of the year for the Stryker panthers. it was a rather cool day for the race. All teams competed with a very encouraging begining. the Jr. High Girls and Boys ran in their 1st meet and learned some very valuable lessons. the Highschool boys and girls had a good showing that had the girls finishing 4th and the boys just out of the hardware woth a 5th place finish. It was a good day with a lot of room for improvement

***Practice for 2011 will begin on Aug. 1st, 2011 at 8:00 at Goll's Woods. Please bring some Mosquito spray and your own water bottle.
Practice will lst approximatly one hour to one and a half hours. Should be done around 9:15 to 9:30 a.m.
Any problems please contact coach Zuver or Coach Goodnight. Please have your physical complete and nessecary paper work.
This will be the 42nd year of Cross Country at Stryker. The teams will be looking to improve on the last couple years of success at Stryker.
We will be hoping to compete for the league championship along with getting to the State meet in Columbus.

TEAM PICTURES WILL BE AUGUST 16th, 2011 at the high school.

Parent Meeting August 11th, 2011 at 7:00 pm at the high school.
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Headlines for 2010

Boys and Girls Season ends at Regional
The 2010 Cross country season ended at the regional meet at Tiffin and troy over the weekend. the Boys finshed 11th with the best individual finisher being Conner Frey at 22nd. The season was an up and down season with a number of injuries and roller coaster races from race to race. Times did not change much until the end for a few. Overall it was a good season with lots of good things happening to Stryker runners. The future looks good again with the girls returning everyone and the boys having to replace three seniors. With some work in the off season expectations can be held high again for the 2011 season. The seniors will be missed as usuall this years seniors had a four year record of 425 victories, 1 BBC championship, 1 disrtict champion, 1 district runnerup 4 regional appearances and two trips to state. thank you

Boys and Girls are Successful!
Both Boys and Girls qualify for the regional meets next Saturday. The girls will run at Troy and the boys will run at Tiffin. Boys will run at 11:05 and the girls at 1:20



2010 Awards Assembly
The 2010 Cross Country Awards night will be held at 6 P.M. on
Thursday November 4th

Pumpkin Pace
The annual pumpkin pace was held saturday October 16th with 73 elementary students participating in this years run. Grades 1 thru 3 ran 1/2 mile from Springfield park. The first race (1-3) was won by Third grader Wyatt Short with a time of 3:30. In the second race, grades (4-6). They ran a mile with the overall winner being 4th grader Izayah Ferguson with a time of 5:37. Thanks to all cross country members who worked and helped make this a successful event this year. All the kids recieved water, a cookie (special thanks to Michele Rupp for baking the cookies), a ribbon, and a pumpkin. Also special thanks to the Stryker Baseball team for donating 4 pot-a-pit chickens which were given to the kids in a random draw. The winners are listed below

Grades 1-3
1st Grade
Bailey Short
No boys ran
2nd Grade
Erika Wyse
Amos Sloan
3rd Grade
Wyatt Short
Kalista Blevins
4th Grade
Erica Brier
Izayah Ferguson
5th Grade
Gabriele Stuckey
Abe Montague
6th Grade
Brooklyn Whitlock
Cameron Frey


BBC season ends with 2nd place Finish
Strykers 2010 BBC season ended last night with the last jamboree race of the season. Both the boys and the girls highschool teams finished second in the race and in doing so allowed both teams to finish second overall for the season in the league. Both teams also qualified a number of runner for team awards

1st team all BBC members were Conner Frey, Tyson Rohrs, and Emily Rupp
2nd team honors went to Jay Planson, Preston Aguilar, Natalie Graber, Michela Rupp, and Tori Johnson
Honorable mention went to Dean Beamont, and Kari Oberlin,

In the Jr. High the girls team finished 2nd and the boys team finished 3rd for the season


District Draw
Strkers Boys cross Country team will be competeing in the district at Ottawa Glandorf on October 23. The boys were seeded 5th in the district drawThey will run the third race which is the Division three's first race of the day. They will run at 12:30. The girls will be running in their District race at 2:45 also at Ottawa.

Stryker's Attempt to Win League Title Takes a Hit
(9/22)
The Stryker Boys and girls team took a couple of steps backwards in there attempt to win the B.B.C. for the 2010 season. Both teams finished a disappointing third in the first race of the B.B.C. jamboree season. Inconsistencies which have plagued both teams all year again was the culpret. The race was run a a tough Harrison Lake course that was on a day when wind and heat were a part. All teams had to face the same elements.The next race for the panthers will be sat. at Van Wert

Attention!!!!!: The cross country meet on October 19th,
with Hilltop has been cancelled

****Anyone wishing to post pictures or text to pages must apply to be a writer and be approved by Coach Zuver. Thank you for your cooperation.

Boys Finish second and Girls third at Liberty Center
(9/7)
Boys and girls ran a dual meet at Liberty Center vs. Liberty, Bryan, and Holgate. The girls finished third and the boys finished second
results are on season score page.

Good day, not so Good day at Columbus Grove
(9/4)

Stryker High school and Jr. High cross country teams went to The Columbus Grove Invitational on saturday. Over all from a P.R. perspective the day went well. from the team part it could have been better. The Boys team finished 5th out of a field of 18 with 150 points. The Boys J.V. won there race and a team trophy. The girls finished 9th out of 17 teams with 211 points. The Jr High boys were 21 out of 25 teams and the girls were 13th out of 16 teams. Several PR's for the year were set. Next race for the High School is tuesday vs. Liberty Center, Bryan, and Holgate


Stryker Boys win Wayne Trace invite
(8/31)
Stryker High school and Jr. High competed in the season opening meet at Wayne Trace. The Girls finished sixth in the varsity
race and show a lot of promise for a very successful season. The high school boys finished 1st beating Van Wert by 10

Happy Meal Run
Happy meal run was held. The race consisted of three teams. The Blue, Red and White teams
White team won with the red team finishing 2nd.
Team members
Captains and their team were as follows:

White Tyson Rohrs, Luke Graber,Ross planson, Garrett Fritch, Wesley Short, Jacob Hancock, Garrett Rupp, Tori Johnson, Natalie Short, Andi Grieser

Red Jay Planson, Preston Aguilar, Tyler teschke, Robert Aguilar, Austin Robison, Derek Opdycke, Conrad Hausch, Kari Oberlin, Christy Huston, Emily Rupp

Blue Conner Frey, Dean Beamont, Shawn Weigel, Nolan Short, Alsic Martinez, Cole Heath, Kyle Rohrs, Nue Ramos, Natalie graber, Michaela Rupp

Stryker Cross Country Garage Sale
The cross country team will be selling old jerseys and shorts from years gone by. we will be selling every item for a dollar and we will place that money in the team fund. We have a number of different uniforms to get rid of. If interested just contact any of the runners or coaches for details.

The 2010 is upon us !!!!!
Click here to see the 2010 t-shirt design!

The 2010 season is a couple of weeks away, so it is time to start gearing up for the 2010 season and another run at State competition.
Our season will officially get under way with our annual Cross Country overnight stay at the track where we will be hosting a team Run-a-thon to make money to pay for our Team running shirts. It will take place on Friday August 6 at 6 P.M. and go until 12 noon on the 7th. Contact coach Zuver or coach Goodnight as well as Coach Graber and Nofziger for more info.
The first practice for the season will be held on the morning of August 9th at 8:00 in the morning at Golls Woods. PLEASE make sure you have a physical for the year as you will be held out of practice until you have one. If you do not have one please still attend the practices as we will be having team building exercises.
The Team T-Shirts will be of the camo type with a new Logo attached and the Theme for the year will be the "Team Within ! "
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2009

Thank You for a great season!!
Anyone who contributed to this season whether it be on the CC course running or you contributed by feeding the team, bringing snacks, or contributing to our web page Thank you. We'll do it again next year. GO PANTHERS

STRYKER CC AWARDS NIGHT
The awards night foir Stryker CC will be Monday November17th at 5:30 in the Multi purpose room. The girls will be first.

STRYKER BOYS FINISH
15th at STATE
The Stryker boys finished 15th at the state meet at Scioto Downs on Nov.6th. It was a day of downs. The effort put in by the team was somerthing to be proud of. It is a great accomplishment to have beena team that has been to the state meet the last two years. If the team continues to show the work ethic that was shown this year continued great season's will be in the future. Also at this time the coaching staff would like to commend the seniors (Derek Graber, Cale Frey, Brooks Frank, Joey Cameron, and Kenny Graber) for a great two yeras. Thank You.


STRYKER BOYS CC TEAM
HEADED TO STATE COMPETITION
The boys cross country team by virtue of a third place finish, will be competing in the state cross country finals at Scioto Downs outside of Columbus on Saturday Nov. 7. The Boys team finished third at the Tiffin regional. It will be the 2nd consecutive year and the 14th time in school history that Stryker has sent a team to the State Finals.Congratulations are also in line for the girls team on a successful year. They became the first girls team to repeat appearances at the regional competition and set a school record for most teams defeated in a season.

The Boys will run at 1:20 at Scioto Downs

Any Stryker CC parent wanting to gain a room for where the Boys team will be staying can call (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001 (614) 846-3001. It is the Red Roof Inn at Columbus Worthington
7480North High Street
Columbus


Directions to Tiffin

US 6 East to St Rt 53, Go South(right) on 53 into Tiffin, In Tiffin turn Left on Washington St. Take Washington to Main St in downtown Tiffin. Turn left on Main. Follow Main to Summit St and turn Right and the park is on Summit.

STRYKER BOYS and Girls QUALIFY for the Regional
MEET

The Boys and girls cross country team qualified for the regional meet saturday October 31 at Tiffin. The Boys won their District Race while the girls finished 3rd for the meet. It is the first time in Stryker CC history that the school has qualified a boys and a girls team for the regional race in two consecutive years. The Girls will run at 11:05 at Hedges Boyer Park in Tiffin and the Boys will run at 1:20. The top four teams in each race will qualify for the state meet to be held the following week

STRYKER CROSS COUNTRY COMPLETES A SUCCESSFUL LEAGUE SEASON
The 2009 Stryker panther Cross Country league(jamboree)season was considered a successful season. The girls Jr.High team finished 3rd in the league with the Jr.high boys finishing 2nd. In the High school section the girls finished 2nd and the boys won the last jamboree race to finish the season as BBC champions for 2009
(check the team news section for resultsof league standings)


District Draw
Congratulations to the Stryker Varsity Girls for setting the Girl's school record for the most wins in a season!!!!
67 and counting