Northgate High School
Northgate Girls Cross Country Makes its Mark By Tai Chang, Northgate parent, and Ruth Seabrook, Northgate Girls Cross Country Coach
M
y eyes followed the small black footprints on the carpet, wondering where they came from and where they would go. “Oh no,” I thought as I looked more closely at the carpet, “these footprints are made of ink!” My 6-year old daughter, who had a knack for finding other uses for things, had repurposed her socks into pockets, where she kept her pen, which had broken, creating the oddlooking one-footed prints before me. Ten years later, on the eve of North Coast Sectional cross country championships, I was wondering whether she would be making any footprints at all. It was November 20, and the fires in Butte County, the most destructive in California history, had raged for almost two weeks. The devastation from that fire was and continues to be a much larger issue, but
on that night I was also worried about the smoke from the fire and whether the air quality would be healthy enough to enable my daughter to run the race the next day. It was a challenging way to think about ending the season, one that had started with so much potential for the Northgate Girls Varsity Cross Country team. The coach, Ruth Seabrook, said this of the team, “On paper this was a loaded team, one of the best girls’ teams we had fielded. Having sent one or two girls as individuals to the state meet, I finally felt we had the whole package - five seniors with multiple years of experience under their belts who had all committed to the challenge, and three juniors and a sophomore ready and able to step up if we needed them.” The team’s first race was up in Sonoma at the Viking Invitational, where they took
Varsity girls at the Viking Invitational
second place, followed by third place the Artichoke Invitational and second at the Castro Valley Invitational. The Diablo Athletic League races came soon after that, with the girls running well enough to enter the League championship race
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