McFarland, USA Page #7

All right, we don't need you to coach.

Rules say you can't run without a coach.

You forfeit the race.

So if you still wanna run, Thomas,

you're gonna need to take a seat.

Great day!

I think he's over there. Right there.

Check. Mic check.

Testing, testing!

All right, guys. Here we go.

Check, check, check.

How's that?

Please rise for the singing

of the national anthem.

Oh, say can you see...

Up.

By the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed

At the twilight's last gleaming

Whose broad stripes and bright stars

Through the perilous fight

O'er the ramparts we watched

Were so gallantly streaming

And the rocket's red glare

...and the home of the brave

Coaches, you have three minutes.

All right, everybody, gather around.

Come on.

I want you to look around.

Best in the state, right?

Every team that's here deserves to be,

including you.

But they haven't got what you got.

All right?

They don't get up at dawn like you

and go to work in the fields.

Right?

They don't go to school all day

and then go back to those same fields.

That's what you do.

And then you come out with me

and you run 8 miles, 10 miles,

and you take on...

You take on even more pain.

These kids don't do what you do.

They can't even imagine it.

When I went out in the field

that day with you Diaz kids,

I'll be honest with you, it was a...

It was the worst day's work

I ever had to do in my life.

And I said to myself, "Whatever

kind of crappy job I end up in,

"it'll never be as tough as that."

You kids do it every day.

And your parents hope

they can do it every day,

and they'll do it for a lifetime

if it means a better life for you.

You guys are super-human.

What you endure just to be here,

to get a shot at this,

the kind of privilege

that someone like me takes for granted?

There's nothing you can't do

with that kind of strength,

with that kind of heart.

You kids have the biggest hearts

I've ever seen.

Now go run your race.

Thomas, you're the captain.

Hey, Coach.

You wanna call it?

Uno, dos, tres.

McFarland!

Gentlemen,

your command will be

"Runners, take your mark,"

followed by the pistol.

I will not fire the gun,

until I see that everyone

is standing still

with your toes behind the line.

Good luck today, gentlemen.

Runners, take your mark!

Jose, no.

Jose!

What's he doing?

Jose, back it down!

Find your pace!

Come on! Come on! Go, go, go.

He's too fast! He's gonna die!

Then make up for it! Make up for it!

Where's Victor?

You're right there, Victor.

You're right there.

Damacio, stay right with him.

Hold onto Victor!

Keep those legs! Let's go!

Good, Johnny!

Come on, Johnny!

Catch that next group, Johnny.

Get into that next group!

Keep going!

Sorry, man. Sorry.

Here they are.

Yay, McFarland! Go, guys!

Come on, McFarland!

Damacio! McFarland!

What's happening, Mom?

Looks like he's run out of gas.

The others will have

to make up the points.

That's it. Pick up the pace!

Let's go! Let's go!

Close it up! Close it up!

Let's go! Cut the distance!

You're stretching it out!

Come on!

10:
00 flat, Thomas! Come on!

You can do it!

You gotta get ahead of three guys!

Come on!

Come on, Victor!

Only seconds off pace! Let's go!

Come on, Damacio!

Hold onto those guys! Hold onto them!

Lets' go!

Bring it up! Bring it up!

McFarland!

Beat him, Thomas.

Yes!

Damacio, come on! There's Damacio!

Yes!

- Where's Jose?

- I don't know.

Come on.

He's more than a minute slower

than his usual times. It's...

It's not gonna be enough.

Look, David will come in next,

but not for another 30 seconds. See.

- Coach... Coach.

- Even then, it's not gonna...

- It's not gonna matter unless...

- Coach.

You can do it. Yeah.

That's not Danny Diaz.

- Come on, Danny!

- That's not Danny Diaz!

Come on! Yeah!

- Danny!

- Danny!

Yeah!

Number five.

You're our number five runner, man!

Did you picture

the finish line as a donut or what?

Hey...

Hey, where did you come from, Diaz?

Where did you come from?

From McFarland, Coach.

Let's go.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we do apologize for the delay.

It was a very close race

and we needed to be sure.

But we can now announce

that the first ever

California State Cross Country

Champion team is...

McFarland!

The McFarland High School Cougars

are the cross-country champs

of the state of California.

Congratulations.

Boo-yah! We won! I can't believe we won!

State Champ!

McFarland!

McFarland, baby!

McFarland!

Danny!

Yeah! McFarland!

McFarland?

McFarland. McFarland.

McFarland!

McFarland! McFarland!

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