After a great season, the Fillmore Youth Condors achieved their goal by taking nine athletes to the AAU National Cross Country meet, it took place in Orlando, Florida. After competing against eight other teams from the Southern California Youth track and Field Conference the Condors were able to qualify eight of their runners on the A-team. They represented Southern California as Comets in Orlando. To qualify on the A-team the runners needed to place on the top eight in their own divisions and each division had approximately forty athletes per division. The following runners qualified on the A-team and represented the SCYTFC as Comets: Jordyn Walla, Rey Laureano, and Camilo Torres were on the sub-bantam division in which both the boys and girls took first place as a team and were All American runners, which means they place in the top 25. Andrea Laureano was part of the B team in the sub-bantam team. The bantam girls Carissa Rodriguez and Naveah Walla also took first place as a team and were also All American. In the youth girls division, Irma Torres placed 52nd out of 117 runners and place fifth as a team. For the youth boys division, Andrew Strader placed 45th out of 137 runners and place third as a team. Alan Marquez ran as an individual and placed 60th in the boy’s intermediate race. The Southern California Comets as a team were the AAU National Youth Cross Country Champions for 2011! The team moms Judith and Viviana and coaches Temo, Victor and Rafa are very proud of everyone in their team for their hard work and discipline for the sport. The Condors also want to thank everyone that helped them with fundraising for the post season athletes: El Pescador, thank you Chuy, The Fillmore Rotary Club, we cannot thank you enough for helping us every year and finally thanks to all the parents from the Fillmore Condors. “PAIN IS TEMPORARY PRIDE IS FOR EVER’’ unknown source.