Braves,
The season is underway and we had an excellent showing at
the first meet of the season on Thursday. There were a lot of good things that
happened and we opened the season about as good as we could have hoped, which
is encouraging as we move into the first few state qualifying meets of the
season. Here are a few notes from the meet on Thursday:
·
We had 86 athletes compete in the meet on
Thursday; 44 girls and 42 boys. Last year we had only had 34 girls on our
roster. I love seeing the girls team growing as it is in a school where
historically we have had small teams. That’s changing
·
If my memory is correct we won the 100/110H,
300H, 400m, 4x400m Discus, Javelin, and Shot put on both the boys and girls
sides.
·
Both teams won the meet by over 20 points without
running medleys or 4x100s.
·
We had 9 4x400m teams at the end of the meet,
which is a record that we want to improve on at some of the other small meets
that we have.
Those are some good TEAM accomplishments because it shows
the direction that we are heading in and the potential we have on the season. We
are off to a good start, but that’s all it is: a start. All of this will mean
nothing if we can’t build on it. We are a long way from region and state and we
have a lot we need to improve on if we are going to give ourselves a shot of
winning region. I can guarantee that each one of the teams that we saw on Thursday
have a number of areas that they were holding back in, similar to us, so we
cannot become over confident. There are a lot of strong teams in our region
that we haven’t faced yet so we need to get a lot better between now and May.
We have to bring the intensity to practice every day so that we can put
ourselves in the position to compete for a region title in May.
Moving ahead to this week, we have a couple of meets on the
schedule. On Tuesday and Wednesday we have the super meet at Davis High. The
girls compete Tuesday and the boys compete Wednesday. This is a state
qualifying meet and an invitational, so not everyone will be able to compete at
this meet. On Thursday there is a JV meet at Box Elder. Everyone who didn’t
compete at the super meet will compete at the JV meet on Thursday. We will let
you know if you are going to the super meet by Monday, but if you are welcome
to ask me if you can’t wait until Monday. Some of you are on the fence so I may
not be able to tell you with complete certainty until Monday. With all the
meets this week we have limited days of practice this week so we can’t be
missing practice.
I know some of you have a choir commitment on Tuesday night
(is it also Wednesday night?). Please email me ASAP and tell me if you are in
the choir so that we can enter you in the events. This is a meet where we will
enter you online before the meet.
Some of you who were on the fence of going to the Super meet
didn’t show up for practice on Friday, so that makes our decision much easier. Again,
we can’t be missing practice and then expect to race. We have been doing much
better this season than last in terms of coming to practice each day, and we appreciate
your efforts in being there each day on time. There are still too many people
missing practice any given day. We need to stop making excuses to miss practice and start making excuses
to go to practice. Most of you are
there each day and I can’t tell you how much better it makes our lives as
coaches to have kids we can count on day in and day out to be on time ready to
work hard. Thank you for making are lives easier.
Let’s get ready to work this week and understand that we are
off to a good start, but if we don’t continue to get better it won’t mean
anything. Remember to email me if you are in the choir Tuesday night.
Coach Jacobson
