It has definitely been a busy few weeks. Between our invite, JV meets, days off of school for Spring Break and Easter, and Covid testing, a lot has been going on and the season has been moving right along. This week, we'll have another JV meet and an invite, so things will continue to be just as busy. And like we've tried to emphasize at practice, the key is for each of you to be at practice each day and working hard. Already we've seen a lot of growth and improvement from many of you and from our team. As we keep pushing, remember the team aspect of track (which sometimes gets lost as we are out doing our own thing with our own discipline groups each day). Our quote this week will focus on this idea, so make sure you take a look at it.
Athletes of the Week: This would be a great week to get a few of our JV athletes some recognition as we had the JV meet at Hurricane. So for each discipline: Sprint, Field, and Distance, nominate your teammates who best exemplify our philosophy of hard work, commitment, and those who did great things this week. This recognition will come solely from your nominations, so we need them. Athlete of the Week form. Or text coach on our Remind with your nominees.
PV Track & Field communications: If you aren't receiving our track text messages, text the code @trackprs2 to 81010 to be added to our list.
Schedule for the Week:
- Distance Crew: afternoon: Tues-Thurs pm - regular practice schedule 3:00p (everyone); AM: Mon - 7:45a meet at the Maverick round-a-bout to carpool to our trail run (everyone), Tues & Thurs am - 6:15a weights and short run (White, Black, Silver; Maroon optional), Wed am - 6:15a (White, Black; Silver optional, no Fresh/Sophs), Friday - 6:15a (everyone), Saturday - on own - this week's workouts
- Sprint Crews and Jumpers: Tues-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school (those not competing at Hurr)
- Throwers: Tues-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school (those not competing at Hurr)
Upcoming Events:
JV @ Cedar - Tues 4/6 3:00p. HS will be out at 12:50 and bus will be there at 1:00. MS at 1:00 and bus will be there shortly after. Check runnercard (girls / boys) to see the events you signed up for. If you haven't signed up for events, you will need to text coach by Monday. Meet schedule (with the modification of a 3:00p start time). There was a change with participations for this JV meet: each athlete is allowed to compete in 2 track events and 1 field event or relay, or 2 field events and 1 track event or relay, or 3 field events. So if anyone needs some changes, text coach by Monday. Registration closes Monday! Also, please make sure you are talking to your teachers and keeping up on work you are missing when we are out of class.
Hurricane Invite - Fri 4/9 3:00p - Sat 4/10 9:00a. Bus schedule TBA.
Youth Meet @ PV - Tues 4/13 5:30p. We have two youth meets left. You will need to help with at least one of them. The other is May 6th. Figure out which one works for you. We will sign up for help during the week.
Desert Hills Invite - Sat 4/17 9:00. Bus schedule TBA
Season Schedule has been updated to reflect 3:00p start time for all JV meets as well as an update on State location (Davis HS) and dates (May 21st and 22nd, Fri & Sat).
Race Recaps:
Hurricane JV - It was great to get our first full JV meet in - although the wind was really blowing and it was plenty cold! Kennis and Madeline started us our with a 4th and 5th place finish in the girls 1600. Other girls and guys distance runners put in great efforts in the very windy conditions. Camden ran a strong 110h for a 6th place finish and Aiden took 9th. We had some good times in the girls 100. And in the boys race, 4 Panthers placed in the top 10 with Maxx 2nd, Dayton 7th, Braxton 9th and Benson 10th. Our sprint girls put together a solid effort in the 4x100 to take 5th, and our Freshmen boys looked strong taking first in their 4x100. In the 400, Macy pushed through the wind to a 4th place finish, and on the boys side, Eli ran a good race to take 3rd. The 300h saw Emma taking 9th and Parker and Camden taking 8th and 9th for the boys. Madeline had a strong 800 and placed 4th while Laney took 10th. In the 3200, Kate, Katie, and Kennis ran as a good pack for parts of the race and took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. In the boys race, Zak B. battled for the lead throughout and ended up 2nd with Gaige 5th and Carson 7th. In the boys 200 Maxx placed 5th and Braxton 9th. In the field events, Brynlee S. had a good start to the season in her high jump placing 4th with a mark of 4-4. Franklin had another good outing in the jav and took 2nd with Brodie hitting an excellent 4th. On the girls side, Morgan placed 10th in the jav. In the shot, Peter, Vai, and Braedon got their first meet in for the season and took 1st, 6th, and 7th while Brodie placed 10th. In the girls shot, Lali got a good PR to take 7th. Our freshmen throwers did well in the disc as well as TJ led our team with a 3rd place throw. He was followed by Vai and Peter in 7th and 10th. Overall the boys place 4th in a very close competion for the team title and the girls placed 5th.
Alumni Update: Jessica competed for Weber St. again in the 5000 this past weekend and broke 19:00 at the UVU meet. She's doing a great job as she adjusts to the rigours of collegiate distance running.
Thought of the Week: "100% of myself is nothing compared to one percent of the whole team."
-Conner Mantz
Some of you know I am huge fanboy of Conner. He is a distance runner runner from Logan who ran at Sky View and now runs at BYU where just a couple weeks ago won the NCAA Cross Country individual national championship (and was the top runner on their mens national championship team last year). This weekend, he ran the 5000 at the newly renovated and historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon (basically the center of American distance running). Anyway... although he took second in the race, being passed in the final lap, he talked about how important it was to have teammates their to help him as he reached his goal of running an Olympic Trials qualifying mark in the race. Like I mentioned earlier, it is so easy to see track and field as an individual sport - we train with our own groups, often we are compteting on our own, and many times we don't even have people cheering us on in our events. However, those who really know, understand that track and field is absolutely a team sport. We rely on our teammates to help us get better in practice. We need a team to score good points in a meet. We need the competition of teammates to push us to do our best. We find the best in ourselves when we know teammates are counting on us (I often tell the story about how I hate getting up in the morning, but I've never missed a morning practice because I know the team is going to be there and I don't want to let them down). Everything in this life is meant to made better by "teammates" and when we truly understand that others make us better and we make all those around us better, we can all accomplish greater things together.
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