Sunday, August 28, 2011

Grass Relay Results & UCI Info

Golden Eagles—



This past weekend our TEAM raced at the grass relays. This is a fun two mile race with hay bales at different points of the course. The varsity ran a five person relay. In this relay our girls placed 4th overall (Autumn Gibson, Hayley Knapp, Sara Hash, Lindsay Schuring, Rachel Warnick) and our boys placed 7th overall (Paxton Patey, Nathan Vance, Isaac Faux, Jonah Hadlock, Kevin Muirbrook). Junior Paxton Patey & Sophomore Isaac Faux both placed in the top 15 overall. In the girls Frosh/Soph race Maddie Ball placed 6th and earned a medal. Also earning a medal in the JV race were Seniors Brette Bennett & Alenia Robertson placing 9th & 10th. There were several other great performances in this meet. Full meet results can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/timomostert/americanforkgrassrelays


This meet was a good early meet and gave us a good idea of where we stack up with the rest of the state. We were very impressed with the improvement that many of you made in this meet. Many of you ran well. However keep in mind that it was an early meet. There is a lot more running and racing to go this season. Let us keep our goals in mind and keep up our hard work and dedication and good things will follow.


Now this week we have practice as usual at MMHS on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Wednesdays practice we will meet at Eagle Rock Park in Mapleton (Eagle Rock Park – 1300 East Eagle Drive (600 South) Information about TEAM night will be given at practice. Our meet this week will be on Friday and the details for that race can be found below. The buses will be leaving MMHS at 3:30pm!


Thank you to all of you and your parents who helped out with our time in the snack shack at the football game. Thank you & Happy Running,


--The Coaches


2011 Utah County Cross Country Inv.

Lakeside Sports Park

400 South 1850 West, Orem, Ut

Friday, September 2, 2011

Time Schedule:

4:30 Packet Pick up

5:00 Freshman / Sophomore Girls

5:30 Freshman / Sophomore Boys

6:00 Junior / Senior Girls

6:30 Junior / Senior Boys


Awards: Awards will be given to the top ten finishers in each race.

A trophy will be given to the top men’s and women’s team.

Scores will be figured by adding the five fastest times for each school. It doesn’t matter if they run in different races. For example team A has four runners in the Junior /Senior race who run 15:00, 15:01, 15:34, 16:00 and a Sophomore who runs 15:25 in the Freshman /Sophomore race. Their team score would be 78 minutes even.

Course: The course is a true 5k (measured and re-measured), 90% grass with some concrete. It is very spectator friendly.
Parking and restrooms: There is ample parking at the park for cars and busses. Clean restrooms are available at the park.






Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Grass Relays Info & other notes

Golden Eagles--
Quick info items for all of you.
 ---Practice tomorrow Wednesday August 24th will be at Eagle Rock Park in Mapleton (1300 South 600 East) at 3:00pm
--Thursday night is our first TEAM night & info about this dinner will be given out at practice tomorrow.
--Friday night we are helping at the football game and in the snack shack. If any parents would be willing to help with this please contact the coaches. 
--Saturday Grass Relays: The buses will pull away from MMHS at 7:00am!!! Race details are below. 


2011 AMERICAN FORK GRASS RELAYS
DATE: Saturday, August 27th ,2011
WHERE: American Fork High School, 510 N. 600 E. American Fork, Utah. Bus Parking South of the School.
WHEN:
7:00-8:00 A.M.: Registration
8:00 A.M.: Girls J.V. 2 Mile Race-Frosh/Soph
8:25 A.M.: Boys J.V. 2 Mile Race -Frosh/Soph
8:40 A.M.: Girls J.V. 2 Mile Race-Jr./Sr.
9:00 A.M.: Boys J.V. 2 Mile Race -Jr./Sr.
9:15 A.M.: Girls Varsity Relay ( Top 5 Girls, 2 Miles Each Leg)
10:35 A.M.: Boys Varsity Relay (Top 5 Boys, 2 Miles Each Leg)

AWARDS:
J.V.: Awards to top 10 finishers in each J.V.race. Please do not enter your varsity runners in the JV race
Varsity: Trophies to top 5 teams, boys and girls. Individual awards to 15 fastest relay legs in each race.
COURSE: 1 mile grass loop (spikes recommended) , lots of hay bales. Records: Boys:9:41 - Luke Puskedra, Judge Memorial, 2007. Girls: 11:41 - Heidi McGill, Mountain View, 2002.

Thanks,
--The Coaches

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Pre-Region Notes & TEAM Camp review

Golden Eagles –
Wow what a great camp! We as coaches are very pleased with the progress our TEAM has made. We want to thank all of you for coming and being a part of camp and bringing your personalities, your goals, your dreams, and also working hard. Thank you all. TEAM Camp was AMAZING with so many highlights that included; the running, the breakfasts, the running, the otter pops, the running clinic thanks to our friends from Orem High, the running, the ropes course, the running, the wall, the running, the games, the running, the campfires, the running, the stories, the running, fun, the running, the BBQ’s, the running, the debut guitar song “cross country runner” by Katie, the running, the pranks by Sarah, the pranks pulled on Sarah, the running, the hikes, the running, the jokes by Daniel, the running, the swimming in the glacier lake, the running, the karaoke and dance party, the running, the fun, the running, the TEAM night dinner at Pizza Factory, and finally the running. The friendships & memories of these two weeks will really stick with all of you for a long time. Big time thanks to your wonderful parents for all their help with meals & support for this camp. Thanks to Coach Barker for organizing and getting all of our awards from our amazing sponsors. Thanks to all of our sponsors for donating all of the awards for the week. Thank you also to all of our guest speakers over the past two weeks the insight and wisdom they gave us really mean a lot & were great tips that we needed to hear. Thank you to Nebo School District for allowing us to use Shadow Mountain. Thank you to Mr. Penrod and the rest of our school administration for all their support for our TEAM over the past two weeks.  And finally Thank You for being the best TEAM in the whole state. Thank you for being such great examples to our kids. You all have been amazing to work with and we look forward to the rest of the season! Remember “the best is yet to be!” 


Now a few items of notes for all of you: First off practice will be at 3:00pm for the rest of the season. This means you will get to sleep in for the next week. Now practice details for the coming week of August 15th – August 19th are as follows. On Monday August 15th we will be holding practice at 3:00pm at Springville High School. Thanks to our friends of Springville High for allowing us to do this. Tuesday there will be no practice. (Great day to get all of your school stuff done) Wednesday we will be meeting at MMHS at 3:00pm. Thursday is our first meet of the season Pre-Region. The busses will be departing MMHS at 5:45pm for Springville High School.  The girls race will start at 6:30pm and the boys at 7:00pm. The course is approx. 2.96 miles of grass, asphalt and dirt trails. Spikes are not recommended. Friday August 19th we will have practice at 3:00pm at MMHS. 


Now on the paperwork side we need to collect the paperwork from everyone on the TEAM. Also, if you have not yet turned in your physical, or you have not had one for the year, you need to get that done ASAP. The forms are available on the left hand side of the blog. Participation fees & Player pack fees are also due Wednesday (August 17th). Please get this taken care of. Thank you. 


Seniors thank you for sharing so much with our underclassmen. Please underclassmen listen to what they have to offer you. They have been down this road before and know what is needed to have success & to keep going during the hard times. Now TEAM Keep the positive attitude, BE PATIENT, and keep working hard toward those TEAM and individual goals and good things WILL happen!

Happy Running!

--The Coaches


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