Sunday, March 4, 2012

Track & Field Newsletter (3-05-2012)

REVIEW:  We enjoyed a most wonderful, and in some cases, spectacular start to the 2012 season.  Our athletes enjoyed themselves and they competed with enthusiasm, determination and tenacity.  Our results were impressive!   Varsity Boys:  WHS 69 – Tesoro 66; Varsity Girls:  WHS 89 Tesoro 47 (WHS placed 1st in 12 of the 15 events); Frosh/Soph Girls:  WHS 78 Tesoro 58; Frosh soph boys:  WHS 48  Tesoro 88.

The weather was excellent, the facilities were real good and the follow through by our athletes made this meet a most fun meet. We enjoyed very nice performances from our veteran athletes and many of our first-time tricksters.  Some of the top performances by our boys were:  Very impressive double victories by Brandon Ferguson in the 1600 & 3200;  first ever varsity victories by Jared Klopfer  in the 800, Scott Patton in the long jump, Shayaan Naik in the triple jump; sweep of the 800, discus and long jump; an outstanding anchor leg in the 4x400 (to seal the victory for the boys) by Austin Rouk and a double frosh/soph victory by Jake Suiste in the 1600 and 3200.

For the girls:  Double victories by Hannah Heising in the 100 HH and 300LH, Molly Babcock in theh 1600 & 3200 and Brina Jabloski in the 100 and 200; event victories by Maia Craver in the 400, Erin Oefelein, Morgan Johnson in the shot put, Natalie Wooding sin the triple jump and Maddie Franklin in the discus; and souble victories by Lillian Hollar in the high jump and 400 for the frosh soph girls.

On Saturday, we competed in tough division II in the Earl Engman Relays and our athletes earned medals in practically race.  Woodbridge placed first in many of the events contested including the boys’ Distance Medley Relay that set a meet record.  Some of the other victories included the girls in the shuttle hurdle relay, the 4 x 800 relay for the boys and the girls, the girls’ high jump (all three of the girls jumped a PR 5’0” with Hannah O’Connor jumping a PR 5’2”), the girls’ shot put team, the girls long jump team, the boys and the girls’ 4 x 400 relay,

We hope that the enthusiasm of the team, the successes our athletes enjoyed and the efforts put forth will serve to motivate more of our athletes to want to contribute and be part of something special for this season.  We want to congratulate our athletes and challenge them to continue to work hard so that these successes would be repeated at even more competitive meets than the ones we had this past week.  Our future opponents and meets will offer stiffer opposition for us.  If we continue to work hard and get our new athletes in better racing form, the results will continue to turn out in our favor.  Let us not be satisfied being good.  Let us strive to become great!

ATHETES OF THE WEEK:  Brandon  Ferguson and Erin Oefelein for the distance events, Scott Patton and  Hannah O’Connor  for the field events, Austin Rouk and Hannah Heising  for the sprints.


Week’s Announcements

  1. Track Meet on Thursday against Laguna Hills H. S. at Laguna Hills H.S.:   (WHS to 405 S to 5 S to
    Alicia Parkway
    and right.  Go to Paseo de Valencia and turn right then take the first left into the school.  The meets starts at with the JV girls 1600.  The order of events is posted on our web page.

  1. The buses will leave at .  You will be excused from 5th period.

  1. Check the entries on Wednesday to see what events you are scheduled to participate in.

  1.  Be sure that you are in school uniform in order to board the bus.  Stay in school uniform for the entire meet. 

  1. Laguna Hills could be as tough an opponent as Tesoro was.  They have strong hurdles and sprints and relays (from what we saw on Saturday).  Our overall balance and quality should help us reamin undefeated for the season though


2.    The Irvine Invitational on Saturday at Irvine H.S.

a.       The schedule is listed on the following link:  http://www.irvinetrackandfield.com/irvine_invitational.html

b.      Each athlete needs to provide his/hers own transportation and to be at the meet at least one hour and thirty minutes before their event is scheduled to start.  The meet can run ahead of schedule and we do not want to miss the event nor not be properly warmed up for it.

c.       Entries will be posted on Wednesday.  There will be four divisions (varsity boys and girls and frosh/soph boys at this meet).

  1. Next week’s meet will be Edison High School (first time in our school history that we will be competing agaains the Charges).  It will be at Edison on Thursday. 

  1. No Saturday Invitational next week as the Laguna Hills Invitational was cancled and the coches decided not to attend another meet at this time.

  1. Practice at Irvine on Tuesday at .  Be ready to get onto the track at .  we will need to vacate the track at
  
 “Food for Thought” compliments of Mrs. Babcock!

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:
What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?  We have all been in situations where someone wants you to give over 100%.
How about achieving 101%? What equals 100% in life? Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Is represented as:
   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K =:  8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%    

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E =
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,   A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E =
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%


Want to be and demand (from yourselves) to be the best.  Good in not good-enough

Coach Craver
Coach Varvas
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