Braves,
This past weekend was filled with great performances. I
haven’t gone through and updated the performance list yet, but looking through
the results it looks like nearly everyone had a PR (personal record) or SB
(seasonal best) in one or more races, which was incredible. There were a lot of
highlights at the meet but I will mention only a few.
There were a lot of races I loved seeing this weekend, but
none more than Emma Blodgett in the 400m on Friday, who had a phenomenal race,
and then again in the relay on Saturday. She had a 5 second PR and looked like
a completely different runner. She showed a lot of heart and determination over
the last 100m to finish strong when it would have been easy to coast to the
finish. I love seeing hard work pay off. The two-milers on Saturday had huge
improvements as well. Laurie and Trish finished with 40 second PRs, Laurie setting
a new school record, and placing 5th and 7th respectively
with at a meet with over 50 schools in attendance. Belle, Mckinley, and Naomi
followed that race up with some big PRs as well. Laurie set a new school record
in the 800m earlier that day by finishing second over all in 2:20. It was an
awesome race where angry-Laurie showed up with an incredible finish. The girls
team finished tied for 13th overall, which is outstanding
considering how many teams and athletes were at the meet.
On the boys side, it was the same thing. The 4x800 finished
6th in a very tough field, and the 4x400 finished 4th,
both of which were new school records. Jace went for the quadfecta of school
records, first destroying his own record in the 400m with a time of 49.40, just
barely behind the winner who was in a different heat. He came back in the
hurdles Saturday set that school record in 9.2, then again in the 800m at 2:00,
and lastly in the 4x400m. It was a pretty historical day for Bountiful High.
Whether you were setting new school records like Laurie
(800m, 1600m), Dallin (1600m, 4x400), or Jace (400m, 60H, 800m, 4x400), setting
a new PR (like nearly everyone), or a SB it is all essentially the same. The
trick is to keep getting better. If your PR results in a new school record,
then great, and if your PR results in being last at the meet, then great! You
still got a PR. We are always happy with a PR, but that doesn’t mean we are
satisfied. What we care about, and what each of you should care about, is
improving each day at practice, and in each race. While it isn’t practical to
set a new PR with every race, the
trend of improvement is what we are looking for.
We saw a lot of great team support, and genuine happiness
for each other’s success. That is vitally important to the success of the team
and we appreciate you being great teammates and athletes who are driven to
improve and help others improve on the way.
As a reminder, I need your Simplot parental consent forms
returned to me by Wednesday if you are interested in going. We will take as
many of you as possible. If the only reason you, or your son or daughter,
cannot go is because of the cost, please let me know and we can see what we can
do. Parents, if you would like to drive or even stay up, please let me know as
soon as you can so we can count how many seats we have going up.
Let me know what questions you have.
Coach Jacobson
