Sunday, March 11, 2012

Warrior Track & Field Smoke Signals (3-12—12)

Review:  We enjoyed a most exciting, enjoyable and successful meets this past week.  On Thursday, we outscored Laguna Hills H. S. in all five divisions contested.  The boys varsity won by the score of 64-63 (the victory was sealed with a 1,2,3 finish in the 3200 and the victory in the 4x4 relay), while the girls varsity won 101 – 26;  JV girls won 79 – 57, the F/S boys won 72-64 and the JV boys won 60-42.  On Saturday (at the Irvine Invitational) we registered many impressive performances and  picked up some nice hardware (including a 3rd place finish for the girls’ varsity in the 30+ team field).

I thought the setting for both meets could not have been better.  The weather was very good for both meets  for the majority of the time the competition was amongst the best we will see all year, the enthusiasm was high (especially at the dual meet) and all of the athletes competed with heart and determination.  Our team demonstrated great support and enthusiasm for each other and our performances were impressive. 

We enjoyed improvement in many of our events (jumps, relays, hurdles, sprints) and we keep adding some new talented athletes each week.  High school sports and especially H.S. track cannot get much better than this.  I hope all of you will have some special memories from this week besides the medals that were won.  The will to do your best for the team was obvious.  It is will such as this that helps young teams progress quickly to the top level of their sport.  Let’s keep this attitude and go-get-them attitude in all of our season.  You made us proud!

Among the high lights from the Invitational:  Molly Babcock’s victory in the 1600 (4:54.80 and the # 72 best time ever in CIF), Jeffrey Azoughu’s 41’4” in the Triple Jump,  Jackson Marshall’s (9:50.8 and 4:35.6) and Jake Suiste’s (4:43.8 & 10:04.6) PR in the distance races, frosh Scott Patton’s sub 12  and 24.4 sprints (against the wind) in the 100 & 200, Gabe Warner’s (another frosh) over 19’ LJ,  Brina Jablonski’s 60.2 (also 16’1” in the LJ) and Austin rouk’s 51.26 in the 400s, Jared Klopfers, 1st place finish and a new PR in the 800, Madie Franklin’s (29’6”, 87”8”) and Morgan Johnson’s (33’7”) throws (both earned medals for heir efforts, Patrick Ingram regaining his pop in the throws (41’1”, 139’6”),  Dragan Simmic (4:18.8) and Brandon Ferguson (4:19.8 & a Pr 9:24.1)) were the only athletes to break 4:20 from the same school and Hannah, Heising’s sub 16 and sub 49 hurdling,


Athletes of the meet:  Maddie Franklin for her throws (she is getting closer and closer to the 30-90 double) and Nick Sine in the TJ (just barely below the impressive 40’ level)are the field athletes of the week;  Brina Jablonski and Michael Scarlett (both excellent 400s and relay legs for the team) are the sprint/hurdle athletes of the meet; Jared Klopfer (first place finish in the 800 with a PR) and Alyssa Cerminara-Gutcher (nice PR 1600 of 5:24.5) were the distance athletes


Week’s Schedule

Edison H. S. Dual Meet on Thursday at Edison H. S. (21400 Magnolia St, Huntington Beach, CA 92646),  WHS to 450 N to 55 S to Newport Blvd to 17th and right to PCH and right to Magnolia and right,

  1. Bus leaves at

  1.  The first event will be the JV Girls 1600 at   (Check the order of events at our web page (http://www.gvarvas.com/ and the track & field link) to review the order of the other events.


  1.  Food, drinks, sunflower seeds, gum etc. are not allowed on their nice infield surface.  No glass bottles or containers. We are fortunate to be able to have our meets on the all-weather tracks and we need to help keep these fields in top shape

  1. 3/16” spikes or 1/8 “ spikes only.

  1. Tuesday’s workout at Irvine Stadium is at .

  1. Varsity practice  on Saturday (possibly at Irvine Stadium)

  1. We are making good practice towards our league competition.  There are a few events still that we need to strengthen if we are going to challenge Irvine and CDM for the league title.  Keep training with focus.

  1. We have uniforms for those of you that have the older version.  Please take you old uniforms to the equipment room and exchange for the newer ones.


Have a great week of preparation for our meet and our league opener at University H. S. next week

Coach Craver/Coach Varvas
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