The DFDC
Deerfield, IL
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Not our best performance at Sectionals today, a lot went wrong, but we train to raise both our ceiling AND our floor. Our floor is pretty dang good too. 2nd place and onto STATE!
Regionals is Saturday morning at Lake Forest west campus! So near by you could run there (we did that on Monday). Come cheer us on!!
A great finale for our frosh/soph runners at the Buffalo Grove Race Car Rally! Congrats to Jace Tossing and Kellen Chester on winning race cars for their top 25 finishes!
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Both the boys' and girls' cross country teams worked hard on the trail as they claimed their respective conference championships! Both teams head to Lake Forest this Saturday for their regional contests.
Lower level CSL North championship teams and Top 14 ribbon winners:
JV Team Champions!
B.Borucki - Champ
K.Hou - 2nd
B.Knutsen - 4th
A.Adler - 6th
W.Perrelli - 7th
E.Minev - 9th
Sophomore Team Champions!
I.Gelber - Champ
K.Chester - 2nd
J.Tossing - 3rd
M.Knutsen - 6th
Holding key guys out, we placed 6th out of 23 teams at Lakes Sunset Invite! Nine guys got to ring the PR bell.
While our A-Team was winning the Peoria HS Invite this weekend, our B-Team placed fifth against 12 other A-Teams in the 1A/2A division at Niles West!
Lucas Bryan medaled in 17th place!
Peoria HS Invite Champions!! 1st place out of 41 teams in the 1A/2A race.
🏅 7th Ethan Reich 15:04
🏅 13th Andrew Calderon 15:15
🏅 14th Beckett Shifrin 15:16
🏅 21st Logan Luo 15:22
32nd Jasper Fine 15:31
51st Itai Gelber 15:53
67th Chris Bennie 16:02
Grant "JT" Invite Champions!
And JV Race champs!
Plus all three individual champs!
-Andrew Calderon (Var)
-Kevin Hou (JV)
-Itai Gelber (F/S)
Two big stats:
Andrew Calderon's 14:57 makes him the first Deerfield runner to break 15:00 in multiple seasons since 1997 (duh, bc last year he was the first non-senior under 15:00 since 1996).
Chris Bennie's 16:07 is Deerfield's fastest freshman 3-mile time this century.
Huge day at Detweiller today! 7th place of 80 teams.
Throwback uniforms made their return to where they won a state title 50 years ago.
🏅Andrew Calderon 18th place - 14:57.
Frosh/soph placed 19th of 56 teams.
Pack running our way to a 3-0 performance at CSL North Quad #1 hosted by Maine East!
Win vs. Vernon Hills
Win vs. Niles North
Win vs. Maine East
And Frosh/Soph:
Win vs. Vernon Hills
Win vs. Niles North
Win vs. Maine East
FOURTH PLACE at Red Devil Invite out of 22 teams! Our highest finish ever at this high-powered meet. Reich, Shifrin, Calderon, and Luo all finished between 11th and 26th.
In the Open Race, Chris Bennie was 8th and Itai Gelber 11th as the team placed 9th out of 22.
Great logbook session today from Andrew Calderon about having both self confidence and race confidence. "Be in control of your emotions and take confident strides."
An opening season W at the Deerfield Opener!
Frosh/soph squeaks out a one-point victory too!
2026 is under way!
2026 begins at home against Zion-Benton and Grayslake North!
Start/Finish on the Back 40
4:45 Fr/So Boys
5:10 JV Girls
5:40 Varsity Boys
6:10 Varsity Girls
