Our athletes are making outstanding progress towards the start of the 2012 season. Each day, we are getting a clearer picture of where each athlete will fit into the scheme of things for the 2012 squad. That picture will become even clearer with our Time Trial Activity this coming Friday & Saturday. We are very excited to find out what the Time Trials will unveil and what is in store for the season! We hope you also share in this excitement!
On Saturday, a number of out athletes participated in the Marina H. S. all-comers meet. A number of Prs and impressive performances were recorded. Hannah O'Connor (5'0") and Maddy Bradford (barely missing 5'0") matched or surpassed last year's best efforts, Dragan Simic ran 4:23 1600 and 51.0 400, Brandon Ferguson ran 2:01 (PR for him) 800, Jared Klopfer matched his best ever in the 800 with his 2:06, Josh Thatcher ran 5:03 ( PR by about 15 seconds), Molly Babcock ran 2:29 800 and 63.3 in the 400, Coco Evans ran 5:34 as she is getting back into running, Alexis Abad ran well in the 800 as did Ana-Paola Laveaga and Olivia Rodgriquez. These were only some of the our better marks. Our younger athletes showed nice improvement from the last all-comers meet we attended two weeks ago. We want to thank all of you that have made a donation to secure the funds for the extra coaching stipends and the entry fees needed for our teams to be able to participate in the planned invitationals. We are making progress towards this goal but we are still a long way off. If your family can make a donation for this, it will be greatly appreciated.
Please review the following announcements:
- Time Trials on Friday and Saturday: Athletes will need to be in team uniform in order to participate. All athletes (in good health) are expected to participate in order to be included in meet against Tesoro
- Field Events (HJ, Discus and either the LJ or TJ) on Friday starting at at WHS
- Field Events (SP and either the LJ or TJ) and running events (300 H, 1600, 100, 800, HH, 400) on Saturday starting at 9:00 am at Irvine Stadium. Athletes are to report at with team warm up at sharp.
- Uniforms: Team uniforms will be issued this week (Tuesday for the varsity athletes, WED, Thur for the frosh/soph and JV athletes and Friday for anyone who did not pick up the uniforms on the previous days. Each athlete needs to take the uniform slip issued by the coaches to the school equipment room. To secure this uniform slip, each athlete needs to have the personal information and signature forms found in our Track Guide book brought to the coaches. The Track Guide book can be found on our web page (http://www.gvarvas.com/ in the track & field link)
- Team T-Shirts: We will have the remaining team T-Shirts at our time trials on Saturday. Any parent or athlete that would like one of these T-Shirts, they can be purchased for $10.00. As we have mentioned previously, we would love to have all of our athletes in one of these shirts when we go to the meets.
- Team Night at Road Runner Sports: On
Monday, February 20, 2012 from , Road Runner Sports (1835 Newport Blvd ,Costa Mesa , 92627) will host a special evening for the WHS Track & Field team. They will have food, drinks, shoe education, shoe raffle, 10-20% discount on purchases and will make a donation to the WHS Track & Field program based on attendance. This will be a great opportunity to find out get information of track shoes and maybe save some money. If possible, please plan to attend. - Track & Field Meet Help:
- For the time trials, we will need at least 8 Timers (Saturday) and 3 field event judges (Friday) and 2 field event judges on Saturday. Please let us know if we can count on your help.
- For each of our dual meets (check our schedule on our web page) we will need 4 Timers and 4 field event judges. We hope to fill these posts with volunteers so that we do not have to assign families for these needs.
6. Practices on Monday are as follows: distance () at Shady Canyon
Thank you for your support and assistance with our team!
Coach Craver and Coach Varvas
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