{"id":4886,"date":"2009-01-27T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/long-beach-state-track-honors-its-own\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T08:57:05","slug":"long-beach-state-track-honors-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/long-beach-state-track-honors-its-own","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Track Honors Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo9472297.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p> <!--StartFragment-->     <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a nice thing when your expectations are  met,&#8221; said head track &amp; field coach Andy Sythe, at his program&#8217;s  end-of-year banquet last Saturday at The Grand in Long Beach. The track\/cross  country banquet, like all banquets, was held to honor the accomplishments of  last year&#8217;s teams, and to look ahead to the next season, which the 49ers did by  having a multitude of incoming athletes stand to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While attendees munched on a delicious lunch, coach Sythe  handed out some team awards to his track athletes, and coach Patrick Cunniff  who runs the cross country program did the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There were plenty of runner\/scholars, and Anastasiya Kholev,  a pole vaulter from Israel, had a 4.0 semester to top off her 3.94 cumulative  GPA.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Steven DeCastro was also  honored&mdash;the XC runners recognized were Stuart Chapman (freshman from Bosco) and  Missy Barclay, who both posted 4.0s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Bob Sythe Memorial Scholarship, given to an academically  sound, talented athlete who is not receiving financial aid was awarded to Josh  Ruff, whose leadership ability was praised by his coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After that the Inspirational Awards were given out to Collin  Cram, for overcoming serious injuries, and Jill Reynolds and Austin  Flower.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The MVPs were Katelyn  Ciarelli, Jessica Branker, Chris Richardson (who held his young son aloft and  shouted, &#8220;The future!&#8221;), and Brent Gray, all of whom were well-deserving  of the honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After the highlight videos had been shown and all the  hardware handed out, the guests ran for the doors&mdash;there was a basketball game  just about to start in the Pyramid.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;  <\/span>I was ten minutes late, but apparently all the sprinters made it in  time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:LucidaGrande;color:#666666\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000446.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:LucidaGrande;color:#666666\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000452.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:LucidaGrande;color:#666666\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000445.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000486.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Head coach Andy Sythe talks about some of his athletes<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000476.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Seniors<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/P1000499.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>More seniors<\/i><\/p>\n<p>     <!--EndFragment-->                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Saturdays ago the Track &#038; 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