By Leonard COUTIN The Falcons boys came out on top when they hosted the second Pacific League conference meet on their home course at CV Park last Thursday, Oct. 12. Now established as key contenders for the League championship with a 2-0 conference win, the Falcons scored one of the lowest team scores of the […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Saturday, cross-country runners from across the state came to do battle at the 39th Annual Asics Clovis Invitational held at Woodward Park. This is also the location of the cross-country CIF state finals in November. The Invitational is a chance for runners to test their mid-season strength in a competitive environment […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY It was a morning of recognition and optimism at the 13th Annual State of the Schools Breakfast held on Thursday morning, Oct. 5, at Pacific Community Center. The breakfast is hosted by the Glendale Educational Foundation and provides information on how Glendale Unified School District schools are performing. It is also an […]
It was a gathering of the finest folks – at least those considered as such by readers of Crescenta Valley Weekly. The occasion was the annual Finest party hosted by Crescenta Valley Weekly and held at Deukmejian Park to honor those chosen as the best in a variety of categories. It took several weeks to […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Saturday, the Falcons’ home cross-country course was the site for the 50th Annual Staub/Barnes Invitational. Leading the varsity to a team win was Falcon senior Caitlyn Couch who ran her best time of 18:55.44 on the three-mile course. Also showing strong times were Sophia Atin, who took third running a time […]
By Leonard COUTIN It is a landmark anniversary for the Staub/Barnes Invitational, which, on Saturday, will celebrate its 50th year. Crescenta Valley will be hosting the annual invitational at CV Park starting at 8 a.m. and continuing until 1 p.m. CV’s cross-country head coach Mark Evans has been organizing the Staub/Barnes Invitational for over two […]
By Leonard COUTIN Falcon senior Caitlyn Couch stole the show on Thursday when she ran one of her best races at the non-scoring mini invitational against Garfield and Westridge at CV Park. While the boys’ varsity runners and select girls sat out in preparation for the first league meet that took place Tuesday, Couch, a […]
By Leonard COUTIN The second annual Cool Breeze Invitational took place Friday at the Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena near the Rose Bowl. Several levels of races took place that began in mid-afternoon and continued into the late evening. The final event posted two non-seeded varsity races and the main event, the last of the […]
By Leonard COUTIN In preparation for the 2017 cross-country season, CV’s Head Coach Mark Evans, along with his coaching staff of Rob Evans, Alex Lowe and Brett Harvey, offered their runners a program to boost their conditioning and racing abilities during the summer. The team headed out to its favorite camping site in Mammoth. “We […]
By Leonard COUTIN The CIF state championship track and field finals celebrated its 99th year by hosting the preliminaries on Friday and the finals on Saturday in the Buchanan Veteran Stadium in Clovis. Closing what many say was an incredible track season were many outstanding and exceptional performances that have been posted permanently in the […]