Lake Cities XC

Congrats to Craig Lutz for his 1:12 half marathon finish in Santa Barbara. A 7th place overall finish.

Great job Craig and Happy Birthday!!

Lake Cities XC is a running team that competes locally in the DFW market and is located in Highland Village, Texas. If you have youth athletes in the 7 thru 14 age group come join Lake Cities. Being able to run well is a skill needed in most every sport.

We are gearing up to compete in a number of cross country meets this fall, with all our training and work geared to continuous improvement throughout the year. In December, we'll be in Tallahassee, Florida and the AAU XC National Championships being held on the Florida State University home course.

We don't just run. We also teach our runners how to take care of themselves thru nutrition, hydration, body maintenance, recovery runs, rolling, getting better sleep, cross training, teamwork, race strategy and more.

Our runners have been very successful at both the team and individual level. Lake Cities has produced two national championship teams and 25 teams that have finished in the top five nationally. We've also produced nearly 75 Junior Olympic XC and Track & Field All-Americans.

The friendships that Lake Cities XC have spawned are incredible. Coming to practices and watching runners working hard and working together to achieve success as a team is a great experience to be a part of.

We take new runners on throughout the year. We're getting ready to take on a whole new experience this fall. All sports are having to adjust to Covid-19. We will continue to take all precautions necessary to keep our runners and families healthy. We will safe distance during practices. So come check us out! We practice Monday thru Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

Call me (Coach Lutz) anytime with questions and I look forward to meeting you soon! Our website is: www.lakecitiesxc.org. All registration info is on our website or you can call me at your convenience any time at 214-244-3271

www.lakecitiesxc.org

Happy Father's Day to all the Lake Cities XC Dad's ... current, former and future . Thanks for your support in the development of hundreds and hundreds of distance runners over the years!!

The same goes to all our Mom's as well!!
Thanks so much for all you do!!

Lake Cities XC raced at the Cowtown Marathon on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, we had three of our younger runners competing in the 5K and 10K races. Gabby Kaiser and Logan Smith raced in their first 10K race and did great! Gabby went 48:30 and finished 31st out of 1,428 female runners and finished 2nd in her 11-12 age group of 33 girls.

Logan also ran his first 10K, and went 45:21, finishing 62nd overall out of 2,519 runners, and finished 5th out of 30 in his 9-10 age group.

Grant Stark raced in the Kid's 5K. He missed his PR by a few seconds, but finished 54 out of 6,650 runners, going 22:07.

On Sunday, we competed in new event ... the Cowtown Marathon Relay, a 4 person team going 26.2 miles.
Lake Cities XC 1: Kacy Brown, Kylie Brown, Alivia Spangler and Jasmeet Braich and they competed in the Open Female Division, with 30 other teams. Our Lake Cities team took 1st place with a time of 3:23:36! Way to go Ladies!!!

Lake Cities XC 2: Trevor Rizzo, Lochlan Messett, Noah Temer and Sean Wallace and they competed in the Open Male Division and finished 2nd overall with a chip time of 2:58:47... less than 2 seconds behind the winning team!

Lake Cities XC 3: Christian Condensa, Jack Reed, Cody Vineyard and Matthew Stubenazy. This team also competed in the Open Male Relay, taking 4th place overall with a time of 3:17:40. There were 13 teams in this division.

Lake Cities XC 4: Melissa Condensa, Jessica Messett, Doug Vineyard and Aaron Stubenazy. This team was made up of parents and coaches and they raced in the Relay Open Coed Division and they finished 7th out of 80 teams, going 3:42:32!

There were a total of 157 teams competing in this new event. Great racing by our Lake Cities XC runner's!!

If you're a youth runner and want to improve, you like to work hard and play hard ... come join us!! We take new runners at any time. We train and compete year round with three distinct seasons with periodized rest between each season.

This picture is of one of our 13-14 guy's teams ... they were doing a run prior to their national championship race ... where they finished 2nd nationally, and then won it the next year.

Come join Lake Cities XC! Contact Coach Lutz at:
214-244-3271
[email protected]

Calling all Lake Cities XC alumni, alumni parents or any adults that are interested in training and running area races with the club. Meet at the Briarhill MS track any Mon - Thur at 6:30 pm for track and training runs.

Lake Cities XC has been pretty busy this summer!!

Hi! Coach Lutz coming to you from Greensboro, NC where 10 of our distance runners are competing along with 15,000 athletes from every town, city, rural county, borough, hamlet and street corner in every state in America and beyond at the AAU Junior Olympic T&F National Championships this week!!

While all this excitement is going on, the rest of the team finished up their summer season and are taking a short break from running. We start back up on Saturday, August 10th, with registration at Unity Park in Highland Village from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

We are planning to have an excellent and fun cross country season and I'd like to invite youth runners from everywhere to come join us for our Fall cross country season. The season runs from Saturday, August 10th thru Saturday, December 14th. Just go to:
www.lakecitiesxc.org for all the details. Don't hesitate to call me with any questions. Lake Cities XC teaches and trains runners about all aspects of running. Runners get to race throughout the season while learning to take care of their bodies, learn about nutrition, learn to compete, and get into very good shape!!

Come join us today!
Thanks,
Coach Lutz
214-244-3271
[email protected]

The athletes are ready to roll at the Junior Olympics, let the games begin! Starting tomorrow and during the week, 11 LCCC runners will be competing with top runners from all over the nation. Good luck and turn left. 😁

Fantastic showing by Lake Cities XC runners at the AAU Region 18 meet at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX this past weekend!! The 1500m races were Saturday morning and the team advanced

11 runners in 7 age groups produced 7 runners that qualified for the national championships in Greensboro, NC ... including 1st place finishes for Alivia Spangler and Tatum Castillo.

The team spent the rest of the morning at The Fieldhouse in Abilene, getting recovered with a battery of techniques that had everyone feeling great!!

Sunday morning had most everyone back for the 3000m races where we again had 11 runners in 7 age groups. Gabriella Kaiser led off the 11 Girls race with a 1st place finish and a PR of 12:42. Next up was Alivia Spangler, who made it a 2peat with her 2nd win with a time of 11:41. Jasmeet Braich was next with a 3rd place finish in 11:48.66 in the 13 Girls race. A new runner on the team, Cody Vineyard ran a PR of 12:53.41 and just missed advancing, finishing 7th overall in his race. Another new addition to the Lake Cities team, Matthew Stubenazy grabbed 5th place in the 13 Boys race and qualified for nats.

New runner Aden James took 2nd in the 14 Boys 3K, going 11:08.34 and a bunch of excellent performances took place in the 15-16 Guys race ... as they swept 1st thru 4th!! Brandon Haub took 1st going 10:03.02, Cade McAndrew took 2nd with a 10:07.72, Sean Wallace grabbed 3rd with a 10:19.50 and Xzavier James took 4th in the cleanup spot with a time of 10:28.61. Not to be outdone, Tatum Castillo finished the regional meet with her second 1st place finish, going 10:50.10. She went 5:00.96 in Saturday's 1500m.

Last, but certainly not least, Morgan Wallace lined up in the 13 Girls 800m and took 2nd place with a 2:30.42 on a waterfall start.

A huge pair of days with excellent performances across the board!! Helping to achieve that were an outstanding set of parents that made sure the weekend went well ... even when it appeared that some things wouldn't!!

On To North Carolina!! Great Job Lake Cities!!

Merry Christmas to all our runners ... present ... past ... and future!!

Fall Cross Country starts now at Lake Cities! Lace up your running shoes and join us! http://www.lakecitiesxc.org/