Sunday, March 8, 2015

MMHS Track & Field notes for 3/9--3/14

Golden Eagles--
Thanks for all your hard work and helping us to build a TEAM concept. These past two weeks have shown us a lot about our TEAM. We need to keep working hard and encouraging each other towards our Goals. It has been great to see so many of you at practice. Keep inviting your friends out to practice. The more athletes we have the better.  It will be great this week to have a track meet! This first meet is our time trial for the season. You are expected to participate in four events at this meet. 

Now for this upcoming week of March 9th – 14th we have a very busy week with two track meets this week. Our first track meet is on Tuesday the 10th at Maple Mountain HS (Vs. Spanish Fork, Timpview, & Provo HS) The start time is 3:30pm and the order of events is below. The athletes who have paid their participation fee and registered at registermyathlete.com are allowed to compete in this meet. 

We will be handing out uniforms to those who have taken care of their registermyathlete.com and paid their participation fee on Monday during practice. 

Region 8 Quad meet at Maple Mountain Tuesday March 10th 
Start Time: 3:30 
Running Events
(Girls, followed by Boys)
100/110 Hurdles
100 Meters
1600 Meters
4x100 M Relay
400 Meters
300 Hurdles
800 Meters
Medley Relay
200 Meters
3200 Meters 
4x400 Meters
Field Events
Shot—Open Pit from 3:30-5:00
Discus—Open Pit from 3:30-5:00
Javelin—Open Pit from 3:30-5:00
Long Jump—Open Pit from 3:30-5:00
Girls’ High Jump, followed by Boys’

The Second track meet is the Cougar Relays. This week’s track meet is a “Relay Challenge Meet” This meet is a fun meet and a great chance for us to compete in some fun events that are not normally held (i.e. the throwers relay, sprint medley, shuttle hurdle relay). For many of our athletes who competed the last three years in this meet they have commented on how it was one of the highlights of the year and one of the funnest track meets of the year. We have been very successful in this meet every year it has existed and hope to do so again this year. This is one of the only meets in which you will be competing by somewhat of a grade level (Freshman/Sophomores & than Juniors/Seniors) It is also one of the only meets in which they add the scores from both the boys and the girls TEAMs. 

The Cougar Relays are on Friday March 13th and Saturday March 14th at Kearns High School. (5525 Cougar Lane, Kearns Utah. By the Olympic Ice Oval) This meet is set up in a Frosh/Soph & Varsity style. On Friday will be all of the Varsity field events and all of the Frosh/Soph running events. On Saturday will be all of the Varsity running events and the Frosh/Soph field events. In this meet, athletes will compete in events chosen by the coaches. We will do our best to try to get every athlete into an event; however this is not always possible. Thanks for your understanding on this. IF you know you, for some reason, will not be attending this meet please let Coach Wyatt know by end of practice Monday. Thanks. The buses will be leaving Maple Mtn. on Friday at 1:30pm and on Saturday at 7:30am. Start time on Friday is 3:30pm & 9:00am on Saturday. This will be a very fun meet & don’t miss out on this meet!!!

The order of events is as follows:
Field Events (Varsity Friday Frosh/Soph Saturday) 
First rotation: 
Girls high jump, boys long jump, girls & boys shot put, boys discus, girls javelin.
Second rotation:
Boys high jump, girls long jump, boys javelin, girls discus. Triple Jump

Running Events (Frosh/Soph Friday Varsity Saturday) 
4x3200 (all athletes run this together and then take collective time for relay time) 
Shuttle Hurdle Relay
4x200 Relay
4x800 Relay
Throwers 4x100 Relay (Friday is Varsity throwers, Saturday is Frosh/Soph throwers)
4x100 Relay 
4x1600 Relay
Co-ed Sprint Medley (Girl 100, Boy 100 Girl 200, Boy 400) 
Medley Relay (200, 200, 400, 800) 
Distance Medley Relay (1200, 400, 800, 1600) 
4x400 Relay
Co-ed 4x400 Relay 

Thanks & Happy Running, Jumping, & Throwing!!!
--The Coaches