The Lady Knights finished up their season on Saturday, November 3 with the combined Pacific Coast Conference and Regional championships. Once again, freshman Ana Calderon led the Knights with an outstanding time of 22:18 on the tough Mt. San Antonio College course. Calderon was closely followed by teammates Samantha Alvarez, Danielle Bell and Mayra Pintor.

San Diego City faced tough competition from conference schools Southwestern, Palomar, Grossmont, Mesa, and Cuyamaca, but with Sarah McGregor, Debra Lee and Erendira Miguel rounding out the top seven for a combined score of 119, the young Knights were able to place a solid fourth behind state qualifiers Palomar, Southwestern and Mesa and edged out Grossmont (127) and Cuyamaca (130).

The Knights will only lose one senior, Samantha Alavarez,  and will be looking forward to challenging for conference honors and qualifying for state championships next year.

Captain Closes Out Final City College Season With Lifetime Best

Senior and captain Samantha Alvarez finished out her final race as a member of the Women’s Cross Country team on Saturday. Ironically, the Mt. SAC course was the venue for her first and last college race as a Knight. Alvarez’s hard work and dedication to the program over the past two years saw her time of 30 minutes, 8 seconds from 2006 drop to 23 minutes, 3 seconds on this last weekend. Alvarez is planning for a successful track campaign before transferring to San Diego State.

The skies cleared up for a perfect race day at the Santa Barbara Invitational on October 13 and freshman Mayra Pintor (pictured) took advantage as she decided she would lead the Knights for the first time this season. In the final race before the conference championship, Pintor finished with a commendable time of 23:15, an improvement of 53 seconds on her previous PR time. She was closely followed by teammates Ana Calderon, Sarah McGregor and Danielle Bell.
The Knights equaled conference rival Grossmont, but were displaced by their sixth runner. The Knights are looking forward to the Pacific Coast Conference championship at Morley Field on Friday, October 26 at 2:30 p.m.

Knights Finish in Top 5

 On Saturday September 22, the SDCC women’s cross country team hosted their annual fundraiser, the City College Cross Country Invitational. The race was a 10km event held at Rohr Park in Chula Vista as part of the San Diego Dirt Dog Cross Country Series. Despite the imminent bad weather, 99 runners turned out and performed exceptionally well on the tough course. The event raised $1,200 to assist in the purchasing of uniforms for the SDCC cross country team.  Special thanks to Ben Nichols and Nancy Morris who helped the fundraiser run smoothly.