March 16 - 21

PV Invite Information - FOR ATTENDING TEAMS (some info may still change!)

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Info for PV athletes and parents

2026 Schedule

More PV INVITE STUFF: We need all athletes to plan on being here and helping. Parents, thanks so much for those that have let us know that you can help. 

We need more parent help: 

• concessions sign up - even if you've previously let us know you can help, use this link to sign up for times/days you can help in the concessions.

• Coaches/Officials Dinner - sign ups will be posted here to help prepare food and set up.

• field event help - you don't need any skill at these, there will be an experienced coach/official at each event. We need help on Friday afternoon from 2:00p to event completion and Saturday from 8:00a to event completion. Please let us know if you can help (or volunteer someone to help!)

• drink donations (assignments): Boys team and Senior girls - 20oz sports drink (gatorade/powerade...). Jr./Soph./Fresh. girls - water bottles (usually they are 16.9oz). Everyone bring what you can. The more, the better. We will sell them at the meet, and we will use any extras to take to other meets for our team. 

Spirit Pack - this is another team store (this one is through BSN). NOTHING ON THIS IS REQUIRED (this is all optional gear) / THIS IS NOT OUR OFFICIAL TEAM UNIFORM

General Schedule for the Week: 

• Distance Crew: PM - Mon-Thurs pm - 3:00p (everyone), Fri pm - PV Invite / AM - Mon am - on own, Tues & Thurs am - 6:15a weights and short run (Black & Silver expected; Maroon optional), Weds am - 6:15a run (Black expected, Silver optional, No Fresh, all invited to yoga at 6:45a), Fri am - 6:00a (everyone), Saturday - on own or at meet/ this week's workouts
• Sprint Crews and Jumpers:Mon-Thurs - 3:00p (everyone), Friday - PV Invite
• Throwers: Mon-Thurs - 3:00p (everyone), Friday - PV Invite

Upcoming Events: 

Weds 3/18 - Panther Relays (everyone). 2:00p. You will be excused at 12:45p. No Bus from the MS to the HS. 

Fri-Sat 3/20-21 - Pine View Invite (qualifying athletes). 10:00a (Fri) / 8:00a (Sat). You will all be excused all Friday to help and/or compete.

Weds 3/25 - JV @ DH (JV). 2:00p. You will be excused at 12:30p. No Bus. 

Fri-Sat 3/20-21 - DH Invite (Varsity). 2:00p (Fri) / 9:00a (Sat). No Bus, no excuse from school as you can go at the end of the school day.

Youth Track - This Track and Field Skills Camp for 6th-8th graders is designed to help our young athletes learn the skills and basics of a variety of track and field events in a fun and well-coached atmosphere. Skills camp will participate in their own workouts any days of the week from 3:00-4:30p. Spread the word to those who might want to participate.

Quote of the Week - 

"Under-preparation is a coping strategy. It protects your ego. You didn't really try, so you can't really fail...Self-sabotage is everywhere. We get in our own way to protect ourselves from judgement. 'I didn't really train for this race.' 'This job just pays the bills.' 'I didn't actually want it anyway.' When self-worth is on the line, we give ourselves an out. We'd rather not try than try and come up short." - Steve Magness

Continuing on last week's theme, we wanted to talk about what we can do to try and work through the protective excuses we create for ourselves and allow ourselves to really care and to really do awesome at what we care about. So here's a few strategies from Magness: 1) Separate who you are from what you do - the more intertwined your identity and performance, the more failure feels personal. A bad race doesn't make you a bad person. 2) Define success on your terms - focus on outcomes you can control (not winning, but rather effort). 3) Do things you suck at - try stuff that you might not be great at (and probably don't care a lot about) so you practice being okay with not being great at something. Get comfortably being bad at something. 4) Develop perspective - we self-sabotage when our brains are convinced something is life or death. It's not. No one really cares if you lose. The people who matter will still be there. 5) Use the 24 hour rule. Win or lose, you get 24 hours to wallow or celebrate. Then move on. Getting back to doing the thing you love is what actually grounds you. 6) Name it - when you label what is happing you take back control - recognize when you're starting to make excuses, then step back and acknowledge what is happening. Then you can decide if you want to listen to that or not. 

The excuses and self-sabotage might be the weather, lack of preparation, or any other of thousands of excuses. But they are all rooted in the same thing - we are afraid to fail. But once we realize our success and/or failure aren't really who we are, we free ourselves to grow and continue reaching out to become a greater person.

Race Reports:

Kanab Invite - We took a crew over to Kanab this past Saturday and the team did great. Boys placed a close 2nd, and the girls were team champions. With 35 athletes, we had 27 PRs and 24 new Season's Bests. Some of our notable PRs: Taite in the javelin, Josiah in the 100 and 400, Mia B. in the javelin, Nely in the shot and jav, Mia H. in the 300 hurdles, Ole in the 200 and 400, Sariah in the 800, Rylee in the 1600, Mailey in the shot and jav (and 100!), and Jada in the 1600.

Athletes of the Week - With Spring Break, we didn't honor anyone last week. So we'll double up this week.