We are a diverse team of approximately 100 runners of all abilities.
Our Club President:
Chikara Omine is an incredibly speedy runner of all disciplines (ultras, road, and XC) and has been instrumental to the success of the Excelsior Running Club!
Women’s team captain:
Simone is our women’s team captain and committed with passion to growing our ladies contingent to full capacity! In her spare time, she is also a Professor at Cornell Medicine and owner of two businesses.
Women’s road/XC captain:
Sherry is a teacher who loves running marathons and training her students after school who also love running too. Outside of running, she likes to surf and travel.
Ultrarunning captain:
For Kaptain Karl, ultrarunning is like brushing his teeth in the morning! 110k + 100mi in a row? No problem? Spartathlon? Easy! In the time not spent on miles he also works as an excellent software engineer at Google.
Road/XC Captain for Men over 40:
As a math teacher and family man, Nakia is used to rounding up kids. And sometimes he still considers people over 40 big kids. He has been a great supporter of the team members and is usually known to still happy when others he knows has a good day even when his own race does not go as well.
Our amazing runners:
The ladies!
| Lucy | Andrews | Oakland | 26 |
| Thia | Angelo | Foster City | 30 |
| Solana M | Arellanes | San Fransisco | 22 |
| Christy M | Bentivoglio | San Ramon | 47 |
| Brenda M | Blinn | Saint Helena | 52 |
| Pahla | Bowers | Elk Grove | 49 |
| Rachel | Chibidakis | San Francisco | 35 |
| Chaiwen | Chou | San Francisco | 36 |
| Stacey L | Costa | Castro Valley | 50 |
| Andrea | Deutsche | San Jose | 29 |
| Heying | Duan | Los Altos | 36 |
| Sarah | Earl | San Jose | 37 |
| Eileen | Francisco | San Mateo | 47 |
| Erika C | Frank | Carmichael | 44 |
| Ana | Grijalvo | Pacifica | 42 |
| Annemiek | Hamelinck | Pleasant Hill | 50 |
| Raven A | Iacono | Vallejo | 56 |
| Rebekah | Isenberg | Pacifica | 39 |
| Hyun Suk | Jang | Pacifica | 43 |
| Xian | Ke | San Francisco | 37 |
| Janelle E | Kellman | Sausalito | 45 |
| Kristine P | Law | San Ramon | 34 |
| Sherry I | Lee | Cupertino | 37 |
| Diann | Leo-Omine | Sacramento | 32 |
| Sheila | Leong | Millbrae | 40 |
| Julia S | Metcalfe | San Francisco | 31 |
| Tehani R | Nishiyama | Belmont | 34 |
| Lisa | Pallesen | Carmichael | 51 |
| Yoly B | Pantig | San Bruno | 47 |
| Kristina | Randrup | Berkley | 20 |
| Erika H | Reed | Brisbane | 40 |
| Xin | Shao | Saratoga | 44 |
| Ohnmar M | Shin | Carmichael | 46 |
| Erica | Teicheira | Castro Valley | 47 |
| Lani | Teshima | San Leandro | 56 |
| Erin K | Vancellette | San Francisco | 44v |
| Monica G | Vasquez | San Francisco | 48 |
| Christine | Velasquez | San Mateo | 46 |
| Lauren J | Vigliotti | Sacramento | 41 |
| Ramona | Vogt | Berkeley | 55 |
| Linda C | Willits | Reno | 46 |
| Simone Angela | Winkler | Mountain View | 36 |
| Jing | Xiang | Fremont | 41 |
The gents!
| Amjed H | Aboukhadijeh | El Dorado Hills | 27v |
| Nakia D | Baird | San Francisco | 44 |
| Noel | Bautista | South San Francisco | 31 |
| Thomas | Bernhard | Castro Valley | 67v |
| Jay | Boncodin | Walnut Creek | 47 |
| Paul J | Broyer | Sacramento | 33 |
| Robert L | Darling | San Francisco | 69 |
| Franz | Dill | Half Moon Bay | 43 |
| Lance | Doherty | San Leandro | 42 |
| Chris B | Eide | Palo Alto | 42 |
| Crispin | Flowerday | San Francisco | 40 |
| Shera | Gurung Sr | San Francisco | 44v |
| Ron M | Gutierrez | San Francisco | 51v |
| Enrique | Henriquez | Hayward | 40 |
| Ian | Hersey | Menlo Park | 56 |
| Lucas | Horan | Emeryville | 38 |
| Peter A | Hsia | San Francisco | 58 |
| Grant | Johnson | San Francisco | 35 |
| Behnam | Kamrani | Santa Clara | 44 |
| Jonathan M | Kimura | Cupertino | 38 |
| Greg | King | San Francisco | 59 |
| Crispin | Lazarit Jr | Oakland | 44 |
| Jason R | Lee | San Francisco | 43 |
| Cliff R | Lentz | Brisbane | 54 |
| Daniel F | Lilot | Mountain View | 44 |
| Cesar A | Lira | Daly City | 37 |
| Adam F | Littke | San Francisco | 45v |
| Samuel | Louie | Belmont | 48 |
| Kenny | Malabag | Richmond | 42v |
| Jeffery A | Mendenhall | San Francisco | 42 |
| Max V | Metcalfe | San Francisco | 30 |
| Markham B | Miller | Daly City | 55v |
| Andrew Y | Ng | San Francisco | 40 |
| Chikara | Omine | Sacramento | 36 |
| Wayne R | Plymale | San Francisco | 67v |
| Brian D | Purcell | Fairfield | 47 |
| Charles | Quan | San Francisco | 29 |
| Jason P | Reed | San Bruno | 40 |
| Todd W | Robbins | San Francisco | 35 |
| Yasushi | Saito | Mountain View | 51 |
| Karl W | Schnaitter | Mountain View | 36 |
| BRIAN E | SCHULTZ | Pacifica | 51 |
| Daniel A | Shore | Mill Valley | 50 |
| Victor L | Skorapa IV | San Jose | 24 |
| Allan | Stanbridge | Burlingame | 72v |
| Jared R | Steele | Pacifica | 24 |
| James M | Timbrell | San Francisco | 35 |
| David | Tran | San Francisco | 31 |
| Cory | Wallace | San Francisco | 38 |
| Michael | Ward | San Francisco | 64v |
| Kenny M | Warde | Pacific Grove | 69v |
| David J | Wilson | San Francisco | 50 |
| Rex A | Winterbottom | Vallejo | 44 |
| Douglas B | Woods | Burlingame | 50v |
| Dario F | Zea | Petaluma | 43 |
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