Monday, February 28, 2022

Outdoor Track and Field Meeting

Necessary Links:

Signup Form - required to be on the team

Registration (Register my athlete) - required to be able to practice/compete. Must be done by March 9th. Start it TODAY

Outdoor Meet Schedule

Outdoor Track Information:

Coaches:

  • Coach Jacobson
  • Coach Munk - Jumps/Throws
  • Coach Lake - Sprints
  • Coach Laura - Distance
  • Coach Allred - Throws
  • Coach Bridger - Sprints/Hurdles
  • Coach Dalton - Distance

Practice Schedule:

B-Days - 

  • 2:40 at the track

A-Days (track class days)

  • Class begins at 1:10 at the track. 
  • For those not in the class come up ASAP after school concludes so you can get going into the workout.
  • You do not have to be in the class, but it allows you to miss less class time and finish up with your workout earlier.

Expectations:

  • Be a great teammate
  • Work hard
  • Show up
    • Missing practices or leaving practices early without prior arrangements with your coach means you will not be participating in the meets.
Multi-Sport Athletes

If you participate in multiple sports and have organized team activities in those sports, come talk to me ASAP and we will see how we can work with your schedule so you can participate in both.

Fees:

The school fees are $90 to be paid in the office for track - these are district mandated fees.

Questions?

bjacobson@dsdmail.net


The Fastest Redhawk and Alumni Meet information

"The Fastest Redhawk" and "The Strongest Redhawk competitions will be held on Thursday, March 3rd at 2:45 PM, and will run concurrently with our "Alumni Meet".

If you are interested in participating, please register for the competitions here. This is to know how many heats will be required, and how much pizza to get.

"The Fastest Redhawk" will be a 100m race to determine who is the fastest boy and girl in our school. Heats will be created to determine who are the finalists. The fastest runners will advance out of the heats and into the final rounds. Here is an example of how that might work:

The most likely scenario is that there will be a first round, and a final race. If we have 36 participants, there will be 6 heats of 6 people  (our track only has 6 lanes). The winner of each heat will advance to the final.

If we have greater than 36 participants, say 45 boys and 45 girls sign up, we will make 8 heats of 5-6 people. The winner of each heat will advance to the semi-final, and then the next four fastest times who didn't win their heats will occupy the last 4 spots of the 12 person, 2 heat semi-final.

In this scenario, the top 3 from each semi-final would advance to the 6 person final. In the event we have more than 45 people sign up, there would be more semi-final heats, meaning more people could advance to the semi-final, but fewer people from each semi-final heat would advance to the final. If we have fewer than 36 entries, and therefore 6 or fewer heats, we would do the one round followed by a final, with the winner of each opening heat advancing to the final.

We will do our best to spread runners around to try to ensure that the fastest 6 people make it to the final.

In order to ensure adequate recovery between each race, we will stagger the races so they aren't one after another. 

"The Strongest Redhawk" competition will be a Shot Put competition. 

Each person will get 3 official throws (after a warm-up period), which will be measured. The farthest throw will be the one used to determine your placement. The top 3 throwers will be the winners.

Awards

The top 3 finishers of each gender in both the 100m and Shot Put will receive Amazon Gift cards, $20, $15, $10. Every person who participates will be entered into a raffle to win 4 $20 gift cards, so even if you don't finish in the top-3, you will have a chance to win. 

Pizza will also be provided for all who participate. 

Alumni Mile

All BHS alumni are welcome and encouraged to come to the meet to catch up with friends, coaches, and run the 1600m with the athletes of today. You are not required to be faster than the youth, of course. You can race hard or take it easy. 

Order of events:

2:45 PM Start time - The shot put and first running event will begin at this time, the remaining events will begin when the one prior concludes. All events will be girls first, boys second.

100m Dash, First Round

Girls, including alumni, 1600m Run

100m Dash Semi-Final (if needed), or Final

Boys, including alumni, 1600m Run

100m Dash Final (if there is a Semi-Final)


Monday, February 14, 2022

2/13 update

Redhawks,

Our competition season for indoor has officially concluded. Outdoor will begin on Monday 2/28 after school. More info to come.

In the meantime, we will continue with the same practice schedule that we have had, namely, practices during class and after school on B-Days. This week we will practice on Tuesday/Thursday after school. If you know anyone who is interested in doing Outdoor Track who would like to get a jump on conditioning, encourage them to come out.

Maybe we should do an end of indoor track season party? Pickleball tournament????

Coach Jacobson

Sunday, February 6, 2022

2/6 update

Redhawks,

We had a very strong performance at the Oval on Friday night, with multiple PRs or SBs. Lydia and Liliana both closed their final laps as their fastest to run very impressive marks, and Liliana repeated her strong finish in the 3200. Eden went sub 6 in the mile after missing months with injury and followed it up with a strong 800m. We had several guys go sub 5 in the mile, including Trevor, Simon, Bennett, and Andrew - who now has the 2nd fastest mile time ever run indoors at Bountiful High. 

Well done to our multiple event runners, Lily, Elijah, Tobin, Eden, Bennett, Elle, and Hayden (if I missed any, I'm sorry). Doing multiple events is an important step on the path to improvement, and something we will need to get used to. Thanks to all of you who were able to come and compete and support. We had a lot of fun hanging out and watching you race. (RIP the ball).

Practices after school this week will be on Monday/Wednesday.

We have one indoor meet remaining, once again at the Olympic Oval. You can find the schedule, registration, and the waiver that needs to be singed here. Registration online will close on WEDNESDAY. However, there is in person registration, but the cost is much higher and won't get you into a heat of like-timed runners. 

In an ideal situation, for our distance runners, I recommend coming on Friday and running the mile and 4x800 (which I will need to register and pay for, so I'll need to know soon who would like to race it. Please reply if you'd like to run in a 4x800). Then, if possible, going again on Saturday for the 3200m or the 800m. It would leave you with a full weekend, but one that would get you ready for the final stretch of the year. 

On Friday the meet will begin at 4PM and go until it's over, which will be similar to this weeks time, but quite possibly a bit earlier. On Friday, the 800 would probably be in the late morning, and the 3200 will most likely be contested in the early/mid afternoon. There will be 1,000,052 (slight exaggeration) heats of the 200m, so it takes a while. Once all the registrations are complete on Thursday morning I can try to estimate start times a little better.

If you have any questions please let me know. Looking forward to another great week.