Golden Eagles –
“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: The last of human freedoms to Choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.” – Victor Frankl –Man’s Search for Meaning
The above quote applied so much for us this week. When you think of things that could go wrong at a track meet a list of things like; sever injury, timing system failure, rain & snow, cold weather, bus issues, switching the order of events, and running at 10:00pm would all be at the top of any list. However despite all of these things our TEAM learned a valuable life lesson in choosing ones attitude to any given set of circumstances. Thank you to all of you who learned this lesson and made the choice with your attitude at this meet. 90% of our TEAM set Season BEST and personal BEST marks at this meet! We got four state qualifying marks at this meet! That is 3 more marks than we had at this point in the season last year. Having only competed in one day of this two day meet we were in first place on the boys and girls sides. We decided to pull our TEAM out of day two for safety reasons for our athletes. I apologies to all of you and to all of your parents for making that call at the time, sorry for the inconvenience I (Coach Wyatt) caused you. Thank you to all of you for your willingness to go to battle despite the conditions. (You have to love spring weather in Utah.) We are proud to be your coaches. Let us keep up the positive attitudes, hard work, and trust in each other and your coaches and good things will happen to our TEAM!
Full meet results can be found at www.runnercard.com Highlights of this meet included: Skylar Pocaro qualifying for state in the Javelin with a personal best throw of 162’ 11” and placing 2nd in this event. Zach Decker qualifying for state in the Shot Put with a school record put of 48’ 10” and placing 1st in this event. Hudson Sheranian joined his TEAMmate placing 6th in this event. Spencer Hanson qualifying for state in the 3200 with a time of 9:46 also placing 1st in this event, followed by Isaac Faux placing 2nd, Paxton Patey placing 4th ,and Jonah Hadlock all three of them setting personal bests in this event. Tiffany Gomm qualified in the 100 Hurdles placing 3rd in this event followed by Tarin Strosser who placed 5th in this event. Eddie Prothero placing 2nd in the 110 Hurdles, Jensen Williams, Tessa Weight, and Christine Heyn all placing in the top 10 in the 100 meters, Cameron Carson placing 4th in the 100 meters, Sarah Hash placing 8th in the 1600 and joined by Rachel Warnick in setting personal best times in this event. Jensen Williams and Rachel Bingham went 2nd and 3rd in the 400 meters followed by Sondra, Jalene, and Megan going 9th -11th. Kevin Muirbrook placing 7th in the 400 meters, Makanize Davis placed 6th in the Discus with a throw of 81’ 6”. There were several other highlights that we don’t have time to mention here. Great job TEAM.
Now this week we have two meets the first one is a region meet Tuesday March 29th at Springville High School vs Payson and Springville. For this meet you will be able to compete in up to four events of your choosing unless told otherwise by your event coach. The buses will leave MMHS at 2:40. This means for students at Maple Mountain will need to hustle from class to be on the buses on time. Freshmen will be excused from their Junior Highs at 2:15pm. The second thing to bring to your attention is we have a schedule change in our 2nd meet this week. We will be attending the Delta State Qualifying Invite this Saturday instead of the UVU Invite. The reason for this change is that the Delta Invite gives us more opportunities for our athletes to compete. We are allowed 5 athletes per event at Delta, and at UVU we are only allowed 3 in sprint & hurdle events and field events and only 4 in the distance events. UVU also limits athletes to only compete in three events whereas Delta allows them to compete in four. Delta is a better chance for our TEAM to have more athletes compete and thus more chances to qualify for state. We really feel this is a better opportunity for our TEAM, thank you for your support in this matter. The buses for this meet will be leaving Saturday Morning at 6:15am! with the first events starting at 8:30am. The order of events will be posted soon.
Thanks & Happy Running, Jumping, & Throwing!
--The Coaches
Meet schedule for Tuesday’s meet is below
MEET SCHEDULE – SHS, Maple Mtn, Payson
29 March 2011
Running Events:
100/110m Hurdles
100m Dash
1600m Run
4 x 100m Relay
400m Dash
300m Hurdles
800m Run
Medley Relays
200m Das
3200m Run
4 x 400m Relays
Field Events:
3:30 Start Time
Long Jump (open pit) - Boys High Jump
Girls Discus - Boys Shot Put
Javelin
Following Above Events:
Girls High Jump - Boys Discus
Girls Shot Put
