Cross Country Running
Coaching Staff
Ryan Skardal
Rebecca Day Reynolds
The cross country running program is open to boys and girls of all ages and running abilities. Its aim is to promote a life-long love of running and fitness. The program is available in all three terms and while cross country running is mainly non-competitive, there are racing opportunities for serious runners that include both road and trail races. All participants run long distances that vary in distance from 6 to 10 kilometres over a variety of terrain with the aim to complete 200km each term. Our campus location means the team is able to take advantage of varied local 'away' venues such as Goldstream Park, Mount Tzouhalem, Thetis Lake, Elk Lake, or Holland Creek in Ladysmith.
Cross Country at Brentwood has fostered a team and a shared spirit out of what is so often considered the individual sport. Here, it has proven itself one that beyond others has the ability to forge strong and lasting bonds whilst constantly testing discipline, courage and personal drive. - Tara B Grade 12
Rebecca Day-Reynolds
B.A. (University College Cork, Ireland) English, Cross Country
A campaign of wheedling and insistence that began in 1999 and spanned two administrations ended successfully for Rebecca Day Reynolds when she was invited to join the Department of English near the close of the 2004-2005 academic year. A Brentonian herself (1980), Mrs. Reynolds returned to the school she loves after teaching English in the Alberta college system for a number of years and living, studying, working, and playing on three continents during a gleeful nine year hiatus from North American life. Mrs. Reynolds' eclectic employment history spans a bizarre spectrum: she has worked as a ghost-writer, an editor, an Irish barmaid, a course writer, a phone canvasser, a minor bureaucrat, a fundraiser, a barn-mucker, an instructor of "Gymboree" and "Babyswim," and a reader for audio books. Her hobbies include working at Brentwood and gratuitously correcting the grammar of others. The proud mother of three Brentonians, Mrs. Reynolds lives in Mill Bay with her husband, a physician, and their menagerie of obese and semi-obese pets.
