Braves,
Our first official meet is in the books and the effort was
outstanding in spite of having to postpone the meet the day before. At the end
of the meet we had 10 4x400 relay teams. It was quite the site having everyone
lined up on the track, including a team of throwers who ended up finishing 4th.
I love the energy and atmosphere at the end of a meet like this where everyone
is running hard and yelling support for their teammates, embracing the
challenge of a 400 rather than shying away from the pain. Great job to those of
you who competed in 3 or 4 events. I know a few of you weren’t allowed to do a
relay because I had entered you in 4 events already, which means we could have
had even more relays. I think we did a good job of competing hard in each
event, we did well at supporting each other during the races, and as soon as we
got there most of you immediately began to warm up like we had asked, so we
thank you for that. All in all yesterday was a very successful day for those
who were able to attend. There is one area where we can definitely improve and
that is in our consistency of attending practices. I know many of you are doing
the best you can, and I know you have many schedule conflicts so we appreciate
you moving your schedules around the best that you can to be able to be there
every day, but there are days when people simply decide not to come, and that
is going to hold those individuals back. This team has some great kids on it,
both as athletes and as people, and this is going to be an awesome season, not
just in the team and individual accomplishments, but in how much fun you have working
hard together, competing together, and enjoying the friendships made; those are
the true joys of track and field. We want everyone to be a part of this
journey, and some great things are going to happen, by being consistent in our
effort each day, at our attendance at practices, and our positive attitudes in
all we do.
We do not have another region meet like this one until after
spring break. The next two weeks we have invitationals, where we are limited on
who we can bring to the meet, both by times/marks, and by number of entries. We
will take as many of you as we can, but when we have limitations like this, one
way we make decisions is by attendance at practice, so you’ve got to be at
practice each day. I will do everything I can do get you into at least one
event in each meet for those who have been coming to practice each day.
(Here is a link to the season schedule https://bravestrack.blogspot.com/p/2018-outdoor-meet-schedule-subject-to.html)
The meet this week is called the super meet, and is on two
separate days for the girls and boys. The girls compete Tuesday at Davis High,
and the boys are on Wednesday. The boys will practice as usual on Tuesday, then
we encourage you to come support the girls, and the girls will practice as
usual on Wednesday and we encourage you to come support the boys. We will have
entries finalized Monday after practice, and the excuse/bus departure time will
be given then as well.
With no school on Monday we will be practicing at 10 AM. If
you are hoping to go to the super meet we really need you at practice Monday.
Coach Chism will be there to work with the jumpers as well.
If you are unable to go to the super meet, or you can only
be there for part of it, please let me know ASAP so I won’t enter you, or I can
enter you in the earlier events only, or later events. We have to pay per event
entered so we really prefer not to spend money for a race that someone cannot
attend, so please let me know today if you can.
Here is a link to the results from the meet yesterday http://results.runnercard.com/Results/results.jsp?meetid=1001719
Coach Jacobson
