Bleeding Bruin Blue Athlete of the Week, October 12-18

At Saturday's girls cross country regional, sophomore Ali Hochstetler advanced to next weekend's New Haven semistate. While this was not unexpected, given her 19th-place state finish in 2007, the girls team also ran in regionals. This was due, in large part, to the race of Desiree Porter. Porter improved her PR (personal record) by 1:40 to finish 35th in a time of 22:02. Had she finished two minutes slower at 23:42, she would have been 67th place, which would have changed the team scores as such:
Real Team Scores Pts| 23:42 Team Scores Pts
1. Northridge.....41| 1. Northridge......41
2. Goshen.........83| 2. Goshen..........83
3t.Fairfield......87| 3. Warsaw..........86
3t.Warsaw.........87| 4. Fairfield.......87
5. Bethany.......158|5t. Concord........117 (23:33)
6. Concord.......181|5t. Bethany........117 (23:42)

(When two teams are tied, the first tiebreaker is the performance of each team's sixth runner, shown in parentheses to the right of the score; the line indicates the break between teams that advance to regional and those that don't.) As you can see, had Porter simply matched her PR, the Bruins would have seen their season end until next August. Since she didn't, the Bruins advanced to the first team regional in their history. For that reason, frosh Desiree Porter is the Bleeding Bruin Blue Athlete of the Week for September 12-18.

Eligibility: As four weeks have elapsed since her AOW win on September 21, senior Hannah Grieser becomes eligible again next week. Literally all Bruins in a position to win any high school athletic letter (varsity, JV or freshman) during the current season, and their middle school counterparts, are eligible. The only exceptions are winners from the last four weeks: eighth grader Jesse Bontreger, junior Mikey Kelly, and senior Daniel Buschert.

Next Week: Next week's nominations will be due Sunday, October 26, at 3:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This is a change from the traditional 5:00. As I said several weeks ago, the first person to correctly name how I determined the times will get mentioned in a future post. To nominate someone, send an e-mail to senorloco1908@gmail.com and put "AOW nomination: [name of athlete ('athlete' is singular, not plural)]" in the subject line. (You can even include the quotes if you want.) The body of the message can be used for whatever you want. The three simple things that will disqualify a message are:

1. A subject line that reads "AOW nomination: [name of athlete ('athlete' is singular, not plural)]" without actually naming an athlete.
2. Anyone nominating multiple people will have only the last nomination counted.
3. Señor Loco reserves the right to ignore e-mails with unnecessarily vulgar sections.