Sunday, August 29, 2010

Grass Relays Results

Golden Eagles,
Yesterday was one of the funnest races of the year. We as coaches are pleased with the way that all of you are progressing and how we are progressing as a TEAM. Remember to keep working towards your goals and our TEAM goals. Some highlights from the grass relays include but are not limited to the following;

Boys TEAM finishing 8th overall out of 39 schools and 2nd in 4A.
Girls TEAM finishing 10th overall out of 37 schools and 4th in 4A.
Spencer Hanson finishing 4th overall and making the All time list with a time of 10:22!
Sarah Hash finishing 6th in the Frosh race.
Bridgett Harris being our top freshman runner.
Jensen Williams having a birthday run (nice crown!)
Brette Bennett finishing 6th in the JV race
Chaliece Jones finishing 8th in the JV race
Alisha Dinehart eating hay!!! Nice roll!
Shay LaFever our top finisher in the Frosh race
Kevin Muirbrook our top finisher in the JV race
Tucker Austin for showing us that not even a fence pole can slow him down and real men don't wipe blood!
Paxton Patey for showing us that football drills pay off when you are running over hay bales!
Having 79 Maple Mountain Athletes race the grass relays!
There were so many more highlights but we don't have the time to mention them all here. Thanks to all of you enjoy some photos of the meet. Full race results can be found here:Grass Relays

























This weekend we are racing at the BYU autumn classic on Saturday, we have TEAM dinner as apart of our TEAM night on Thursday night, and a reminder we are meeting on Wednesday at Ira Allen Park for practice at 3:00pm. We wanted to offer a big time thank you to all of our parents for a wonderful TEAM night last week.

Happy Running!!!
--The Coaches

P.S. Our Maple Mountain Track & Cross Country families want to offer a special congratulations to Coach Jeff Lake upon his wedding. We are so happy for you and Jenny!

Also we want to wish the best of success to Elder Jake Barker for the next two years in Pennsylvania. Thanks for sharing your mom with us and good luck to you Elder Barker!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Pre-Region Results

Golden Eagles --

Great job today in Pre-region. This was great to have our first race under our belt. Great job today. The full results can be found here: Pre Region 2010.xls


Reminder that we will be meeting on Wednesdays at Ira Allen Park at 3:00pm.

Happy Running!
--The Coaches

Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Season is Finally here!

Golden Eagles--

RUNNERS ON YOUR MARK!!!

 
After all the many miles ran, the hard work, the early mornings, the laughs, and the countless otter pops the cross country season is finally upon us. Monday we have practice as usual at 3:00pm at MMHS. This will be the day for you that were on vacation last week to get your uniforms and to turn in that missing paperwork. We need all of the paperwork from all of you in order to compete. Tuesday not only is the first day of school but we have our first meet of the year as we host Pre-Region at MMHS. The girls will race at 4:00pm and the boys will race at 4:30pm. This is the first step towards our TEAM goals. Just a note we want to hold all of our Wednesday practice at Ira Allen Park in Mapleton (1750 S 800 W Mapleton, UT 84664) at 3:00pm. Practice will be at MMHS on the other days of the week. And yes we will be having practice on Fridays. No Fridays was just a summer thing. We have amazing parents who will be providing TEAM dinners as part of our TEAM nights this season. They will be on Thursdays nights at 6:00pm. These are always wonderful dinners and a great time to hang out with your TEAMMATES as well. Information about where these dinners will take place will be given at practice. Thanks to all of your parents for their help and support. Finally this week we will be racing at the Grass Relays on Saturday August 28th at American Fork High School. (American Fork High School, 510 N. 600 E. American Fork, Utah.) This is one of the funnest races of the season and we really look forward to seeing you all race this fun course. The bus will be leaving from MMHS at 6:30am! Make sure you are on the bus so that we can have enough time to get you all registered and have enough time to warm up before your faces. The race schedule is as follows:
8:00 A.M.: Girls J.V. 2 Mile Race-Frosh/Soph
8:20 A.M.: Boys J.V. 2 Mile Race -Frosh/Soph
8:35 A.M.: Girls J.V. 2 Mile Race-Jr./Sr.
8:55A.M.: Boys J.V. 2 Mile Race -Jr./Sr.
9:10 A.M.: Girls Varsity Relay ( Top 5 Girls, 2 Miles Each Leg)
10:30 A.M.: Boys Varsity Relay (Top 5 Boys, 2 Miles Each Leg)


This will be a very busy and exciting week. Keep "holding the rope" and working towards our TEAM goals and your individual goals as we rise above.


Happy Running!
--The Coaches


P.S. Thank you to all of you who helped set up and clean up the football field for Friday night’s game. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Week 8 practice notes & Important reminders

Golden Eagles --

*Practice starts this week at 3:00pm for the rest of the season**
*All paperwork is due by this Tuesday Aug. 17th. This includes all spirit pack order forms and all fees paid to finance office**
**TEAM uniform check out will take place Tuesday after practice for all that have turned in their paperwork**
**TEAM photo will be taken Wednesday at start of practice**

The above items are very important and you all should make every effort to take note of these items. A quick reminder to all of the freshman and sophomores we do need a copy of your forth term grades from Diamond Fork Jr. High or Mapleton Jr. High. We need this turned into us by Tuesday. You can print off a copy of your grades from your SIS account. For the juniors and seniors we all ready have a copy of your forth term grades.

Now we wanted to thank Coachie and Kevin & Chaliece and all of you for your hard work last week and for the killer core workouts. We look forward to having the whole TEAM together again this week. We are getting to less than a week away from our first meet. Remember to keep working towards your goals and towards our TEAM goals as we "Rise Above."

We also want to give a big thank you to Coach Barker for an amazing Leadership camp. For those who were a part of that leadership camp we as coaches couldn't be more pleased with your hard work and where we are at right now at this point of the season. Thank you for all the running,endless hours of laughter, the running, the singing, the running, the games, the running, the hiking, the running, the stories, the running, the jokes galore, and the running. It was an amazing camp and we cant thank Coach Barker enough. When we have more time we will post some of the photos from the camp.  Bring on the HIGHLANDS and remember to "Hold the Rope!!!"

 Happy Running!!!
--The Coaches

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Week 7 practice notes and XC camp Review

Golden Eagles --

This week we will be holding practice on Monday at 6:30am at MMHS and then Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7:00am at MMHS. We will also be taking a few of our TEAM on a leadership camp this week. We encourage you all to continue the hard work you have done this past week during camp and this whole summer. There is only two and a half weeks left until our first meet. Keep working towards those goals we talked about and Happy Running!

This past week was our Cross Country Camp and it was an amazing week. We as coaches are so very pleased with what our TEAM accomplished during camp. We wanted to thank all of you for coming and all of your parents for being so supportive of our efforts. Thank you to the captains for the great TEAM gifts. We also need to offer a thank you to all of our sponsors for giving the prizes this week. Also a big thank you to the Pizza Factory.

We hope you all enjoyed the TEAM breakfast, the water balloon fight, the TEAM building games, the movie night, the ropes course, the slip n' slide, the candy toss, the service projects, the TEAM dinner, the Golden Eagle 5k, and  of course all of the two a days workout for the week. We were pleased to see how well you are all coming together as a TEAM. Keep working on those goals and "Rise Above!"

Happy Running!
--The Coaches

Enjoy the photos from camp: