Braves,
This is the week of the BYU invite. Follow this link to
register: https://www.runnercard.com/e/runner.Main?meet=1002887
You can also find the meet info at the “schedule” link at the top (it’s kind of
small).
If you have any questions about signing up please let me
know.
If you want to do a relay on Saturday please email me and
let me know. As of now, only 7 people have said they want to do one. I need the
names of everyone wanting to run so I can sign you up. I can’t just sign up a
relay without the names. The sooner you can do this, the better. If we don’t
get more signing up for relays we may have to cancel them this week, which
would be unfortunate, but is a possibility.
If you haven’t yet, please look at the meet information at
the link above. For you milers who are also doing a relay, you could reasonably
be at the meet for 12+ hours. That makes for a fun day if you’ve planned for
it, but it can get really long if you thought you were going to be done in the
afternoon. Most likely the meet will end around 7 or 8. That’s just the way it
has gone most years. I’m looking forward to it!
I have received a few questions about the junior high kids
at this meet and future meets. I mentioned this at the parent meeting and at
practices, but I should say it here for those who missed it. Some of the meets
say they are only for grades 9-12, but then they still let you sign up while
listing a lower grade (BYU is doing that this week). I honestly don’t know what
the answer is there. You can sign up with your grade (there are a heap of kids
registered with grades under 9, some even under 6). Listing a grade is not
exactly necessary during indoor anyway, because it is just a club activity, and
not a state sanctioned sport/activity. In other words, it’s recreational and
not a state competition. That is, unless you are one of the top runners in the
state/nation, then they use those rankings for things like Simplot, indoor
nationals, etc.
I’ve attached information for the throwers for the meet next
weekend (“next” meaning the weekend of next week, not this week). The throws
will not be done at the Olympic oval, but rather at Herriman High School.
A few of you have nervously told me that you won’t be able
to go to some meets. Don’t worry, we understand when you have legitimate
conflicts. As coaches we want you all to come so you can see how you’re
improving, and because the meets are a lot of fun, and more fun when we have a
larger group, but when you have the ACT (for example), are nursing an injury,
or have some other important event, we understand. (When you start missing for
little league basketball we start to wonder why you practice so much just to
miss the meet but that is a separate issue 😊 (inside/recurring
joke)). In other words, when you miss a meet, not because of lack of commitment
to the team, but for something unavoidable, we get it.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Coach Jacobson
