Week of March 28 - April 2

A lot of important stuff this week...
Tuesday is our first Youngster Meet.  Practice will be held as usual (at 3:05 at PVHS).  After, athletes will need to stick around and help with the Youngsters Meet.  It starts at 4:30 and will last about 2 hours.  We need help with timing, field events, putting athletes in heats, hurdles, and all the other stuff that happen at track meets (this will be good practice for our Invite on Fri/Sat).  We are only hosting 2 Youngster Meets this year (with DH hosting two others); so you need to be to at least 1 to help you earn your Track Letter.  Our next Youngsters Meet will be next Tues.

Fri/Sat is the PV Invite.  Although our numbers might be down a little this year, our Invite is historically one of the largest high school hosted meets in Utah.  EVERYONE MUST BE AT THE MEET THIS WEEKEND!  You will be assigned a job(s) from hurdle crew, timing, field event help, finish line help, concession, announcing, etc...  Even those who are running will be helping with the meet when they don't need to be prepping for their event.  Please be at practice each day this week to get your assignment.  We still could use more help from parents (especially from anyone who is involved in field events).  Also, remember your contribution to the concessions - Boys: 20oz Gatorade/PowerAde; Girls: 16.9oz water.  Bring as many as you can.

Here's the St. George News article previewing the season, sorry if you got left off... it looks like they just looked at Hurricane Invite results and picked a few of our better performers to mention.

Hurricane Invite and Snow Canyon JV

We had a great start to the season the past two weeks with the Hurricane Invitational and Snow Canyon JV meet.
Hurricane Invite: Our top performances at Hurricane included _ State Qualifiers and numerous qualifiers for Herriman.  Setting the pace with our top performance of the meet was Rylee Holt in the 3200.  Placing 2nd in a State Qualifying time of 11:29, Rylee led 3 Panthers who qualified in the event (including Caroline Clements, 4th at 11:38; and Josie Bushar 5th at 11:43) and 6 who placed in the top 10.  Two of our 3200 boys also qualified for State including Nick Hill placing 4th with a 9:49 and Carson Horspool taking 5th in 9:52.  Mitch Price narrowly missed out on the State Q by just 1.5 seconds.  Other notable performance on the distance side included Skylar Abel and Addi Baker both placing 7th in the 1600 (at 4:40 and 5:33, respectfully) and Julien Canales destroying the Freshman Sub-5:00 coming in at 4:53.  Logan Hall also hit a huge PR in his first sub effort at 4:48.  In the sprints, Keaton Jorgenson made finals and took 7th in the 110 hurdles, and Samson Doyle led the way with his 10th place in the 200 and Cierra Costa ended up 6th in 200 for a strong start to the season.  Field events also showed well with a win and a State Qualifier from Neitana Leung Choi with a jav throw of 159'.  Kaytlin Dowdell led the way on the girls' side with a strong 2nd place finish in the discus.  We also had strong jumps from Amelia Goebel who State Qualified in the high jump, clearing 4'10" in her first meet as a Panther.  And Brandon Yates and Jacob McArthur both hit Herriman marks in the high jump on the boys' side.  Finally, Kawika Santiago made finals in the long jump with a solid mark just .5" shy of 19'.
St. George News article

Our athletes of the week from the Hurricane Invite were:

• Boys' Distance: Carson Horspool - a Sophomore, Carson State Qualified in his very first attempt at  the 3200.  Huge season for him on the way.
• Girls' Distance: Rylee Holt - a Freshman, Rylee led much of the way in the 3200 and State Qualified in her very first high school track meet.
• Boys' Field: Neitana Leung Choi - the Senior Throws Captain, won the meet with his big throw of 159' in the jav.  Nate set a new PR, and State Qualified.
• Girls' Field: Amelia Goebel - a Sophomore in her first meet at PV, Amelia cleared 4'10" to take 4th in the high jump and State Qualify.
• Boys' Sprint: Keaton Jorgenson - a Senior Sprint Captain, Keaton made finals with a strong prelims in the 110 hurdles and took 7th place overall.
• Girls' Sprint: Cierra Costa - a Senior Sprint Captain, Cierra was able to make the 200 because of the delays in timing and made the best of it by placing 6th with a strong Herriman Qualifying time.

Snow Canyon JV Meet: Although most of our JV runners also competed at Hurricane, this first JV meet of the season gave many athletes to compete against other runners at their level.  And PV took full advantage of it.  As usual, our distance squad showed up strong.  We placed many in the top 10 in all three distance events.  Some of the best races came from Alex Hill and Logan Hall battling for a relay spot in an 800 showdown, Addi Baker in a strong 3200 effort in the big wind.  PV also placed well in many of the field events led by Anna Baker on the girls' side and Dillan Roberson (getting his first meet of the season in) on the guys' side.

Our athletes of the week from the Snow Canyon JV meet will be announced Tuesday at practice.

Youngster Meets

We finally have the Youngster meet schedule solidified!

• These meets will begin at 4:30 (please come a few minutes early to sign up for events).
• There will be sprints and long distance races; jumps, long and high; and all throws (shot, disc and practice jav).
• No cost.

March 29 Tuesday @ Pine View HS
April 5 Tuesday @ Pine View HS
April 12 Tuesday @ Desert Hill HS
April 26 Tuesday @ Desert Hills HS

Hurricane Invite Info - and Snow Canyon JV meet

ALL ATHLETES MUST BE CLEARED TO PARTICIPATE THROUGH REGISTER MY ATHLETE AND HAVE FEE PAID TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEET!

Our first invite of the season is this weekend at Hurricane HS.  Friday the meet starts at 3:00p and Saturday at 9:00a.  For those athletes competing on Friday, the bus will leave the HS at 1:30 (you will be excused at 1:15) and then pick up the middle schoolers at 1:45 (excused at 1:30).  The bus will return at the conclusion of Friday's events.  Those that want to leave earlier, may with their parent.  Saturday, we will all meet at the high school and the bus will leave at 7:30a.  Again, you may leave the meet early with your parent.  And the bus will return at the conclusion of the meet.  

On Tuesday, the 22nd, we will be headed over to a JV meet at Snow Canyon HS.  This meet will be for most Fresh and Soph athletes as well as some 11/12th graders.  The bus will leave the high school at 2:45 (excused at 2:30) and pick up the middle schoolers on the way (meet after school by the bus loading zone).  Again, athletes may leave upon the completion of their events with their parent.  And the bus will return to the hs at the end of the meet.  

Spring Break and Panther Relays

Next week we hit Spring Break!  Awesome... but you've got to keep running/working out.  Distance runners will meet together on Monday and Wednesday at 8:00a at the high school.  Others who want to come then (throwers/jumpers) and get in a workout are welcome.  Sprinters schedule will be announce.
Getting back from Spring Break we run into our first meet - the Panther Relays.  They will be held Tuesday, March 15th at PVHS.  This is a great meet to start of the season with.  No stress, just fun relays to get the race legs under you a little.  Relay teams will get set on the Monday before the meet, so make sure you are at practice.
Later that week (Friday and Saturday, March 18/19) will be our first big meet of the year - the Hurricane Invite.  Look for more info about it after we get back from break.
Have a great long weekend and PLEASE BE GETTING YOUR WORKOUTS IN AS BEST AS YOU CAN!