Another great week for the Panthers! We encourage all of you to take a minute and think about the progress you've made this season so far... think about how far you have come and how far the team has come. We hope you are as excited as us to see this growth! Those that are putting effort in are seeing great improvements and the team is really starting to come together.
Hurricane Invite: One of our best meets in years. Many of you really stepped up and were hitting SB's (season bests), PR's, scoring points, and even State Qualifying. We saw some big strides from the distance crew as they grabbed points in every event, including some big sweeps. The girls 1600 went 1-3 with Jacey, Jessica, and Rylee. Logan (3rd), Alex (5th), and Julien (7th) picked up points in the boys 1600. Alli State Qualified in the prelims of the 400 and went in as the 2nd seed (although she was pulled from the final to focus on her 800). The boys and girls 3200's swept the top 4 spots (Jessica 1st, Jacey 2nd, Alli 3rd, Elli 4th and Alex 1st, Logan 2nd, Julien 3rd, Mikey 4th and also Nathan 7th). Jake's PR took 3rd in the 110h's. He also State Qualified (really!) with the win in the 300h's. Samson PR'ed to take 2nd in the 400, and his wind legal final in the 200 State Qualified and placed 3rd. Jada hit a SB to take 5th in the 800. And Alli State Qualified and won her first 800 of the year. And on the boys' side of the 800, Evan PR'ed and took 6th. And many of our relay teams came together to place well and score points. In the field events, Dylan placed 5th in the jav coming off of injury... and we also saw a big PR from Freshman Josh Bice. Raymond placed 5th in the shot. Celeste took 4th in first disc final of the season. She also threw well in the jav and took 1st. Also in the jav, Brynlee took 6th with a big PR. Claire made finals in the shot for the first time this year and placed 7th. Nick's 20 foot PR in the first throw of the disc final moved him all the way up to 5th. Both Colin and Michael jumped just shy of the 20' mark to place 4th and 7th. And in the team standings, the boys pulled out a 10 point victory over CV for our 2nd team win of the season, and the girls finished a very strong 2nd, 11.5 points off of Hurricane.
Overall, this was not one of our best meets of the year, it was one of our best in years. Great things are happening at PV. Check out the full Hurricane Invite results here.
Athletes of the Week: Get your nominations in (via text or email). We will present them at the team meeting on Monday. Let's get some nominees for the great performances at Hurricane (State Q's, top placers, big SB's and PR's) and the examples of great attitudes, leadership, and comaraderie that are taking this team to new levels.
Schedule for the Week:
Monday - regular practice schedule with a team meeting in the PVHS lecture hall. (Distance runners remember your long run at 5:30a - wear white/bright)
Tuesday - PANTHER RELAYS: starts at 4:00, but come out at usual practice time to get set up (and throwers to get regular practice in). All runners need to start considering which races you will be running (some will be suggested by the coaches, others you may choose; this meet is intended to be a hard practice, so everyone will run multiple events).
Wednesday & Thursday - regular practice schedule
Friday & Saturday - Desert Hills Invite at DHHS. Here is a link to the schedule (click "schedule" at the top of the page). This is a Varsity meet with 6 athletes allowed per event. We will get as many athletes in as possible. Bus/Release Schedule: On Friday, HS'ers will be out at 1:35 and MS'ers will be out at 1:45. The meet starts at 3:00. On Saturday, the bus will leave from the HS at 7:45. All athletes must ride the bus over to the meet to compete.
As a team, we really appreciate the effort that was put in to having athletes stay at the meet and cheer/support each other. Let's continue to grow this commitment to each other. So, we'll keep this announcement here for a little longer:
This next announcement is for the parents... please read... To leave the meet with a parent, athletes MUST be signed out with his/her parent. Also, we are really trying to build our team atmosphere by having athletes stay until the end of the meet and cheer on their teammates. If parents want to leave before the end of the meet, athletes should stay and ride the bus home with the team. Also, athletes missing practice (unexcused, before the missed practice) will not be competing at the meet.
Thought of the Week: "A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind." - annonymous
In so many ways, this team is coming together as one mind and one set of goals. Each of you continue all the positive things you are doing to contribute to this, and reevaluate those things that detract from this and set your sights on where you want to help lead the team.
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