Noah Lawrence

In 10th grade, I got to walk home from school with a future Olympian. Marius Bakken came from Norway and stayed 2 blocks from me. Amazingly, he would go on to developing a training system now used around the world. I'm so proud to recommend his new book: amazon.co.uk/dp/8269471100

Huge congrats to Danny Brankin for breaking our freshmen 800 indoor school record. Danny ran 2:00.85 at York today to smash the previous record of 2:06.15 set by Blake Evertsen in 2014. His time also eclipses the outdoor record of 2:02.5 set by the great Rob Hulick back in 1997!

Dom Tresslar continued his stellar season, breaking his own varsity indoor 200 record with a 22.3 and establishing a school 60-meter record by sprinting 6.89!

Hunter Kauffman, Seydou Sarr, George Zilliox & Aadivir Sharma set TWO school records last night! They establish a new sophomore indoor 4*200 record, running 1:35.29. Then came back an hour later to reset the school sophomore indoor 4*400 record with a victorious time of 3:36.9!

David Belrad, Leo Fronza, Danny Brankin and Caio Davies established a new freshmen 4*800 indoor school record last night, blazing 8:45.09. They broke the previous mark of 8:55 set by Grant Miller, Kyle Doorhy, Charlie Witteman and Akram Alothman back in 2020. Congrats!

HC boys track competed last night in the highly competitive H-F ABC invite, a meet that featured three different teams that have won state titles over the past five years. The boys finished runner-up to #1 state ranked Homewood Flossmoor, taking down several school records!

March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. My daughter Alexis (age 8) has CP. She and her sister Clio (age 10) made a video - with NO help from their parents - to help educate people on what it is like to live with CP. Check it out!: youtube.com/watch?v=gkIQh_…

Huge win for the Varsity boys at Lakes! The Devils swept all three relays while Dominic Tresslar won the 200 and Kaden Webb won the triple jump. 4*200 team of Tresslar, Connors, Zilliox, and Tingler broke the indoor school record that had stood since 2003!

No. 3 in @NCAATrackField history! Villanova takes over the NCAA lead with the third-fastest time EVER by a collegiate team!

First big 800 race of the season and one of our top times ever for Dan Watcke! He moves to No. 5 in Division I this season and records the No. 3 indoor time in school history. Dan now owns the top three indoor marks in the VU record book, and five of the eight fastest times! 🔵⚪️

Ryan & Dan head up the road to State College😼✌️ #GoNova

@runhcxc alumni run 2025-definitely the windiest reunion we’ve ever had! It truly fills my heart with joy to see all these guys. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

A reflection on state: I saw Andy Derks tear up at the very moment he realized his team won. I saw Jason Crowe looking gutted, having watched his top runner heroically crawl to the finish. I gave both guys hugs. I knew EXACTLY how they each felt. Such is sport. Such is life.

@SHS_TFXC @ilxcspeedrating 14:35 is the new 15:00!

All state cut offs by class: 1A Girls: 17:51.8 1A Boys: 15:15.03 2A Girls: 17:47.9 2A Boys: 14:47.56 3A Girls: 17:13.54 3A Boys: 14:35.10 What a day! Perfect weather, not much rain this fall, led to a very fast course yesterday.

My favorite moment from Sectionals was post-race, when Johnny Krueger pulled out a bag of candy and we all had a piece. We'd preached all week "don't do anything different than usual" and so, on Halloween, our guys exhibited their usual self-discipline. XC athletes are different!

Congrats to our 9th grade squad. This group ran in 3 frosh only invites this season and won all: York Gary Goss Invite 🥇 WSC-Silver Championships 🥇 Plainfield Fast Cat Invite 🥇 From left to right: Cull, Villarreal, Brankin, Belgrad, Fronza, Dao, Geary. Build on that momentum!

Huge props to @runHCXC alums Chris Brenk and Colin Yandel for monster races at the Chicago Marathon this morning! Chris top 50 and Colin top 100 overall, both with big PRs. Super proud to see these guys still rolling.

Fun day at St. Charles North: Varsity 🥈 Frosh/Soph 🥉 Open 🥇 Varsity medalists: Miller (4th), Gamboa (6th), Krueger (12th), Kotleba (13th) F/S: Belgrad (2nd), Brankin (5th), Naito (24th) Open: Hu (2nd), Costello (3rd), Reed (5th), Maxwell (6th), Tims (8th), Gustafson (9th)

Congrats to the @runHCXC freshmen: champions of the Gary Goss Invitational at York High School against some of the most storied programs in our state. Future is bright! 🏆😎

Correction: Resident team historian Henry Miller informs me that his time is, in fact, #3 on the all-time list. Trails only Evertsen and Bandukwala. Good company!

On Saturday @runHCXC competed in Peoria, finishing 6th of 69 teams at the Richard Spring Invite. The boys took advantage of excellent racing conditions to go 10/10 on lifetime 3-mile PRs. Henry Miller led the way with a 13th place finish. His 14:30 ranks him #2 in school history!