Golden Eagles,
"Remember that there is ALWAYS more that can be squeezed out!" Lets focus this week on getting more out of ourselves and our TEAM.
This past week gave us two meets to report on. The first one was a region tri meet at Springville High School. Full meet results can be found here: http://shs.nebo.edu/sites/shs.nebo.edu/files/TriMeet%203-29-11.pdf It was a great meet and there were a lot of moments and races where you could see the progress you all are making. Thanks to all of you for taking on the challenges we as coaches gave you to work on. One of the biggest highlights of this meet was to see the whole TEAM participate in a 4x400 relay. This was a fun TEAM building thing that we hope to continue in all of our region tri-meets in the future. It was great to have 9 girls & 14 boys 4x400 teams. Congrats to the boys throwers for beating some of the runners and earning the pizza for the TEAM. We hope it tasted as good as it looked. Great job.
The second meet of the week was the Delta Invite in which both our boys and girls TEAM’s took 2nd place. This meet showed us as coaches a lot about our TEAM & it gave us as a TEAM some great lessons to be learned. It also provided several PR’s & season best marks for many on our TEAM. All in all with the 40+MPH head wind that everyone had to compete in, the good competition, the time with TEAMmates, it was a good meet for our TEAM. Full meet results can be found here: http://results.runnercard.com/Results/results.jsp?meetid=3254 Some of the Highlights for our TEAM from this meet include but are not limited to; Hayley Knapp having a great day winning the 3200 meters and placing 2nd in the 1600 meters. She was also followed by Ashley Phelps (4th mile & 5th 2mile), Brigette Harris(6th mile) , and Brynn Heckel (8th 2mile) who all scored for our TEAM in the 3200 & 1600. Lindsey Schuring (2nd) , Aleina Robertson (4th), Brenda Quintina (6th), and Kylie Thompson (7th) all scored in the 800meters for our TEAM. Christine Heyn had a great day placing 5th in the 100, 6th in the 200, and was a part of the 2nd placing Medley TEAM & the 2nd placing 4x100 Relay TEAM. Also having a great day was Megan Elmont broke our school record in the Long Jump and placed 3rd in this event, was 4th in the 200 meters, and was a part of the 3rd place 4x400 relay TEAM and a member of the 2nd placing 4x100 relay TEAM. Makanize Davis placed 6th in the Discus and Sondra Novak (2nd) & Nicole Hable (7th) placed in the shot put. Brette Bennett joined in on the scoring placing 2nd in the High Jump and 7th in the 300 Hurdles, she was also a member of our 2nd placing Medley Relay TEAM. Tiffany Gomm won the 100 Hurdles followed by Tarin Strosser who placed 4th. In the 400 meters the placing girls were led by Jensen Williams (4th) followed by Jalene Keliiliki (5th) and Sondra Novak (7th). Jalene and Sondra were also joined by Tessa Weight and Megan Elmont as a part of the 3rd place 4x400 relay TEAM. The Girls 4x100 relay TEAM of Christine, Megan, Tessa, and Jensen qualified for state running our 2nd fastest relay time of 50.34. Congrats to all of these ladies!
On the boys side Cameron Carson won the 100 meters, and was a part of the 3rd place finishing medley TEAM and the 6th placing 4x100 relay TEAM. TEAMmates Kevin muirbrook and Devin Barker placed 4th & 5th in the 400 meters in addition to being a part of that 6th placing 4x100 relay TEAM. Eddie Prothero and Tucker Austin both got into the scoring in the 110’s placing 4th and 7th respectively. Eddie was also a member of that 3rd placing medley TEAM and 6th placing 4x100 relay TEAM. Tucker Austin also finished 8th in the 300 hurdles. In the bumping 800 meters Spencer Hanson, Paxton Patey, and Jonah Hadlock all finished in the top 8. (2nd, 3rd, and 5th) Spencer Hanson’s day was not done as he won the 1600 with a state qualifying time and was joined by his TEAMmates, Isaac Faux placing 3rd and Paxton Patey placing 5th respectively. Lance Merrell in addition to anchoring our 3rd placing medley relay TEAM placed 2nd in the High Jump. Zach Decker won the shot put and was joined in the scoring of that event by Skylar Porcaro who placed 5th. Skyler’s day was not done as he finished 2nd in the Javelin and 5th in the discus. Our boys scoring finished out the day with the 4x400 in which Tyler Melling, Jayden Rucker, Justin Slavins and Kevin Muirbrook placed 3rd running our fastest time of the year. Congrats to all these young men.
Now news and notes for this week. Thanks to Mother Natures late April Fools joke of 6+ inches of snow on our track. The meet scheduled for Tuesday has been cancled. Sorry about that. Also thoes who wish to order any of the spirit pack stuff this friday is the deadline for the money for this second order. Parents if any wish to purchace the spirit pack stuff as well please contact Coach Lake for the cost and details by this Friday.
The next meet for our TEAM is this Saturday at Timpanogos High School (1450 North 200 East, Orem Utah 84057) this is our third state qualifying meet. The buses will pull away from MMHS at 7:30am! We are allowed to enter 4 athletes per event in this meet. The cost for spectators at this meet is $2.00. The order of events is as follows:
Order of Events - (Girls will compete first in all running events)
8:00 a.m. Morning weigh-in Northwest end of stadium in front of Track Shed.
8:30 am Coaches meeting Northwest corner of stadium bleachers (bullpen).
Running Events
9:00 am
1600 meter Run
100m/ 110m Hurdles
100m Dash
Medley Relay
4X100 Relay
400m Dash
300m Hurdles
800m Run
200m Dash
3200m Run
4X400m Relay
Field Events
9:00 am
Girls Javelin
Boys High Jump
Girls Long Jump
Girls Shot Put
Boys Discus
Boys and Girls Pole Vault
11:00 am Afternoon weigh-in
12:00
Boys Javelin
Girls High Jump
Boys Long Jump
Boys Shot Put
Girls Discus
Thanks & Keep pushing yourselves! Happy Running, Jumping, & Throwing!!!
--The Coaches
