Madi entered her 5th semester at Liberty U. She entered with a busy semester set up for her. She was chosen to be the assistant editor of the paper, the Liberty Champion. This came with a significant time commitment every week, but a great opportunity and experience. She was also selected to participate in the DC Fellowship this Spring. After looking at numerous opportunities, she decided to apply to the National Journalism Center for an internship associated with the Washington Times, and got it! This was a significant accomplishment, and was one of her primary goals when she chose Liberty U. In addition to all of this, she was still able to enjoy alot of the events and activities at Liberty with her friends. Here are some pictures.
Andrew went in the summer to get his yearbook senior photo.
Andrew had a very good fall in school and a good cross country season. From beginning to end, he performed as one of the best runners in the District. He also achieved alot of his goals, which was rewarding to him and fun to watch. Here is a synopsis of the season.
Andrew started off with a good performance at the Enos Yeager invitational to start of the season. This award ceremony would include 6 state qualifiers in the end.
The team took the annual trip to William and Mary to run the invitational there. He ran well. He finished 11th in a very competitive field.
We took advantage of an opportunity to travel to Williamsburg for the weekend.
Madi was able to drive over from Lynchburg to be with us. The girls were able to go to the beach.
Andrew ran his new PR at the Carlisle Invite. He medaled and ran 16:15.2, which was a great run. It also achieved one of his goals.
Andrew came back the next weekend a ran a great race at the annual Gettysburg Invitational. He matched his PR at 16:15.2. The temperature was about 30 degrees different.
Andrew had a successful league season. It included winning all the league races except for 1, a course record at Littlestown and leading his team to a 19-1 record
Andrew came into the league meet as one of the favorites. He ran a good race and was with the front runner until the last 800. Not the result he was hoping for, but a good race against good competition.
Andrew entered the District 3 AAA meet as a top runner. He ran a very good race. He moved up to 8th with 800 to go. He finished 15th, medalled, and qualified for states for the 3rd year.
Andrew ran very well at his last high school meet. He moved from 106 at the mile, to 56 at the 2 mile, 36 at the 3 mile. He finished 42nd overall in the AAA race. He was able to be the 4th best AAA District 3 runner. He was 64th overall amongst all the classes of boys that ran that day. A good finish.
They celebrated senior night. It was nice to be there for Andrew.
Andrew went to homecoming with his teammates....the newspaper caught a picture of him running to catch up....which was pretty fitting at that time :)
Andrew got into fishing on weekends with his friends at the lake. He had fun and caught this monster!!
The college search continued. He happily accepted an official visit to Shippensburg University. He enjoyed his overnight visit and liked the guys on the team. After the season, Andrew attended an overnight at Virginia Military Institute. He liked it. Got to meet team members and felt comfortable there. We are waiting for final acceptance at VMI to make a decision....
Andrew continued to train through the month of November to run the Foot Locker Northeast Regional Cross Country race in Van Cortland park over Thanksgiving. It was cold and windy both days.
Here is Andrew and the rest of the Gettysburg team running the course on Friday.
The race is always a good experience and went well....though not easy course and cold!!
Abby began the 4th grade. Here is the traditional school pic.
Abby continued with Awana and Sharks Swim team. She added K Kids and the Cello to her activities. All are going well.
Here is Abby swimming in her first meet of the season. She swam the last relay with a PR of 18 seconds....included a flip turn if you look carefully.
YouTube link of Abby's Race
YouTube link of Abby's Race
We went to pick apples one fall day. That was fun.
We worked in some bike rides when we could. Here is one of them. Of course, it ended with Mr G's ice cream.
Here is a video of one of our rides:
Madi will be finishing up her semester and preparing to move to DC for the spring semester. Andrew will continue to run. We are planning some indoor races. He will also work a little. Abby will continue with school, cello (she will have her first Christmas concert for orchestra and chorus) , and swimming.....looking forward to it!!
Until next time...
