Golden Eagles--
This past week gave us our first state qualifying meet at the Mount Timpanogos Invite. This was a good meet for our TEAM. Not only did our boys TEAM come out on top as champions, but our girls TEAM took 2nd place. We as coaches are so very pleased with the progress our TEAM is making and we feel that we are headed the right direction. Now we need to make sure that we do not settle in our practices or workouts, but we need to keep pushing & challenging ourselves and our goals will come.
Now we had several state qualifying marks set at the Mount Timpanogos Invite they are: Zach Decker in the Shot Put, Cat McQueen in the High Jump, Isaac Faux in the 1600m, Jensen Williams in the 400m, Megan Elmont in the 200m & the Long Jump, Our girls 4x100 relay TEAM of Christine Heyn, Megan Elmont, Tessa Weight, and Jensen Williams. This meet also had several amazing performances some of which were: Terrin Strossers winning the 100 & 300 Hurdles, Isaac Faux & Paxton Patey placing 2nd & 4th in the 1600m, our boys 4x100 placing 6th, Isaac Faux & Kevin Muribrook placing 2nd & 3rd in the 400m, Jensen Williams placing 2nd in the 400, Ryan Denison placing 8th in the 300 Hurdles, Sarah Hash placing 6th in the 800, Isaac Faux placing 4th in the 800, Our girls Medley team placing 5th, our boys medley team placing 3rd, Paxton Patey placing 7th in the 3200, Our boys and girls 4x400 teams placing 6th, Chase Klungle & Cat McQueen placing 7th in the High Jump, Spencer Asay placing 5th in the long jump, Megan Elmont winning the long jump, Zach Decker winning the shot put, Sondra Novak placing 8th in the shot put, and Jake Varney placing 5th in the Javelin. There were also several other PR’s set at this meet that we will share at practice. Full results can be found at runnercard.com Great job to all of you, now some of you were not pleased with your performances and that is ok as long as you took lessons from them to help you become better the next time. Remember to keep learning from every meet, there are always lessons to learn.
Now just a few reminders for all of you, please remember that you need to make sure you are doing a proper cool down (“warm down”) after every practice and every race. This really helps with injury prevention and allows you to perform at your best. Please make sure you are stretching, drinking your fluids, getting the rest your body needs, eating the foods your body needs, and taking care of yourself. The little fundamental things really do help our TEAM as a whole and you as an athlete. The little things may take a little more time on your part, but they will help.
There are several extra player packs (T-shirts, Hoodies, & Sweatpants) that still can be purchased for $45 payable to the finance office. We will give these out on a first come first serve basis just show your recite to Coach Wyatt.
Now this upcoming week (3/26--3/31) there are two track meets. The first meet this week is on Tuesday (March 27th) is at Timpanogos High School (1450 North 200 East, Orem Utah) This is a region 8 meet (Provo, Timpanogos, and Salem Hills) our whole TEAM can compete in this meet. You are allowed to compete in up to four events and you can choose your own events, unless told otherwise by your event coaches. The buses for this meet will leave MMHS at 1:30pm. MMHS students will be excused from their A4 class at 1:15pm. Students at the junior highs will be excused at 1:00pm. The meet will start at 3:30pm. The order of events for this meet is as follows:
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 Meter
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 meet this week is on Saturday (March 31) the Utah High School Track Coaches Association Invite at Taylorsville High School (5225 S. Redwood Rd Taylorsville) We are limited to the number of athletes we can invite to this state qualifying track meet. Please let Coach Wyatt know by Wednesday end of practice if you cannot attend this meet. The busses will leave MMHS at 7:00am. There is a spectator cost for this meet of $2. The order of events for this meet is as follows:
Running Event start 9:00am girls will compete first in all running events
1600m
100/110 hurdles
100m
Medley Relay
4x100 Relay
400m
300 hurdles
800m
200m
3200m
4x400 Relay
Field Event start 9:00am
Girls Javelin
Boys High Jump
Girls Long Jump
Girls Shot Put
Boys Discus
Field Events start Noon
Boys Javelin
Girls High Jump
Boys Long Jump
Boys Shot Put
Girls Discus
Good luck this upcoming week. We also wanted to add a thank you to all of our wonderful parents. Thank you for your support of our Track & Field TEAM. We could not be what we are and what we hope to be without all of your support and help. Thank you.
Happy Running, Jumping, and Throwing!!!
--The Coaches
