April 26 - May 1 and JV @ SC, Tiger Trials & Cedar Invite Recaps, and COVID TESTING MONDAY

I've left this past week with just a lot of positive vibes... are you feeling it too? The team is blending, people are improving, our goals are coming into sight. It's been a very fun season so far. Not to say things are going perfect. We're dealing with some key injuries right now, sometimes a performances doesn't match our effort, and its often hard to balance out practice, homework, and all the other demands of life. But we'll mention those downs (and the ups that accompany them) later with our thought. Parents, we want to say thanks for all your support - not only for your athlete, but for the team. As a parent myself, I know its easy to develop a tunnel-vision and think only of what your son/daughter is doing and kind of forget that they are part of a bigger TEAM vision that we are working on. So thanks for looking to support not only your athlete, but also the support of the TEAM you show when you are all-in to your kid being involved and at practice and at meets helping the whole TEAM accomplish our goals. And athletes, the same thing to you. It is so cool to see so many of you set aside yourself to work for our TEAM goals. Not to say that you aren't pushing yourself, but rather, you are pushing yourself keeping in mind how important each and everyone of you are to what we are continually working to build at Pine View Track and Field. Let's have another great week coming up!

Athletes of the Week: We had a ton of great nominees last week. Keep nominating teammates from 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:

• COVID TESTING & Team Meeting Monday after school - boys will test first while girls have their team meeting, then girls will test while boys have their meeting.
• Distance Crew: afternoon: Mon-Thurs pm - regular practice schedule 3:00p (everyone)(Tuesday JV @ Crimson); AM: Mon - 6:00a (everyone), Tues & Thurs am - 6:15a weights and short run (White, Black, Silver; Maroon optional), Wed am - 6:00a (Those racing at Dixie), Friday - 6:15a (everyone - yoga at 6:45 everyone invited), Saturday - Dixie Invite or run on your own - this week's workouts
• Sprint Crews and Jumpers: Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school for those not going to Dixie 
• Throwers:  Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school for those not going to Dixie 

Upcoming Events:

JV @ Crimson - Tues 4/27 3:00p. Bus will leave the HS around 2:00p. MS out 1:40 to get picked up. HSers be at PV at 1:45 (we will need some HSers to pick up MSers at 1:40 and bring them to the HS for the bus).

Dixie Invite - Fri and Sat 4/30-5/1 3:00p & 9:00a. Meet Schedule.

Canyon View Championships (JV Region) - Tues 5/4 3:00p. Meet Schedule.

Sentinel Invite - Fri 5/7 2:30p Qualifying Marks and Meet Schedule

BYU Invite - Fri and Sat 5/7-8 

    For Sentinel and BYU, we will be leaving Friday 5/7 in the morning for those who have hit the qualifying marks and compete at Mt. Ridge HS on Friday afternoon-evening. We will then stay overnight and then most of the team will leave back to home Saturday morning so you can get back for the dance hopefully around noon (so plan your dates around that please). A few (very few) athletes will stay up and run at BYU on Saturday. Sorry we don't have a solid idea on who's competing at BYU; we are waiting for them to finalize their schedule.

Race Recaps:

JV @ SC - Have we mentioned that our JV crew is really good?! Another great meet as we develop our younger athletes and show off our depth. In the 1600 Madeline broke 6:00 for the first time and took 3rd. Jenna took 7th and Allison 10th. Allen continues to show great improvement and took 5th followed by Gaige and Talmage in 8th and 9th. Braxton continues to show he's one of the top freshmen hurdlers in the region with a 2nd place in the 110s. Maxx took the win in the 100s in a close finish over Doug running his first timed race. Benson was our 3rd Panther in the top 10 with an 8th place finish. In the 4x800 both the guys and girls took 2nd. The ladies in the 4x100 took 7th and the guys ran well and took 1st. Macy placed 7th in the 400 and the girls' side and Zack J. did the same for the boys with a big PR. Dom H. ran a strong 3rd in his first 300h. In the 800 our top finisher was Laney with an 8th place finish. While Eli and Porter took 6th and 9th with nice PRs for the boys. Our boys 4x200 took home the win. And Carson and Coleman went 2-3 in the 3200. Benson had a very strong 200 to take 2nd and was followed in the top 10 by Doug in 5th, Payton in 7th, and Eli in 10th. Dom H. took home another W in the LJ. In the jav, Daytona and Amber took 4th and 8th, and Sawyer had a great first meet to take first with a throw of over 146'. The trio of Brodie, TJ and Franklin all threw within 3" of each other to take 4th-6th. The rest of the throws crew keeps improving as well. The boys shot had TJ place 2nd and Nomee 4th. Nomee looked even better in the disc with a first place finish and a throw over 100'. Barlow had a good throw as well to take 6th. Lali placed 10th in the shot and 12th in the disc. Talmage cleared 5' in the HJ for the first time to take 9th. Hannah had a 10th place jump in the LJ. Other strong performances included Emma and Makenna's continued improvement in the 300h and Paris' strong races in the 100 and 200. Overall, the boys depth led them to another JV win scoring 159 points to Hurricane's (2nd) 102. The girls were 6th among the region teams. 

Orem Tiger Trial - We split our Varsity squad between two meets this weekend. Some of the top athletes headed to the Orem Tiger Trials while the rest of team went to Cedar. Rachel had a PR in the 100 and 200. Madi and Arden also ran well. Marcus and Dom went 1st and 2nd in the 100 with wind legal 10.63 and 10.69 times. Adri ran the fastest time of our girls 1600 crew placing 15th and Boston led our boys team. Alli had a top 10 finish in the 400 and Jason recorded our best boys' time. Alli ran a patient race in a fiesty 800 to take the win. Speaking of fiesty 800s, Zack survived his wicked wipe out so that was good. Our girls 4x800 team of Kyanne, Pyper, Adri, and Alli took 4th while setting a new school record. And the girls 4x100 team of Maddy, Rachel, MacKenzie, and Arden took 6th. In the LJ, Marcus took 2nd with the 2nd best performance in PV history recording 5 jumps over 22' including a 22-06. Kemp also went over 20' for the first time. Maddy earned her State Q with a 4th place jump of 16-08. The highlight of the day was the boys' 200. Kemp earned his SQ with a 23.04 and Dom and Marcus ran the two fastest times in Utah history with wind legal 21.01 and 21.10 times! In running the current #2 and #4 times in the nation, Dom and Marcus both went under the previous all-time Utah record of 21.12.

Cedar Invite - Meanwhile in a very windy Cedar, fast times were hard to come by, but we still had some great performances. The performance of the day was earned by Nalu with his State Qualifying 138'04" throw and 2nd place finish in the disc! Other noteable performances were Allison's 10th place finish in the open 1600 and Ben's 4th place in the boys event; Eli took 5th and Tyson 9th in the open 400; Tyson ran a strong 2nd in the open 200 (into an insane 10.3 headwind - over 23 mph); Kennis battled the wind for 2 miles to place 5th and Bentley did the same for a 10th place finish; Our girls 4x800 team placed 4th; the boys 4x100 took 6th. Dom H. took 4th in the open LJ; Nalu hit a big PR in the shot to take 2nd in the open; Payton earned a 7th place in the open disc with his 100+' throw; and Emma and Daytona took 8th and 10th in the open jav; and Carter's HJ tied for 5th.

Alumni Update: Julien got back on the track with his first mile race ever for DSU.

Thought of the Week: "Sometimes the running gods smile on us and sometimes they abandon us in our time of need! But we rise the next morning regardless... lace up our shoes and get out the door. The only certainty is that consistency will lead to eventual excellence."

-Ed Eyestone (BYU track and XC coach, multiple Olympian, and former national record holder)

Don't get caught up on the idea of "the running gods" (especially with a BYU guy saying it!)... what he is saying is that sometimes things work out and we perform awesome and sometimes we don't. No matter - the key thing is to keep on pushing. Because in reality the thing that you can control is how hard you are working. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THAT HARD WORK IS *CONSISTENCY*. Many people can work hard for a day, a week, or even a month. But are you going to keep working hard for a full season, multiple seasons, in the off-season, even when injuries seem to be giving you huge setbacks or you feel like you just aren't making any progress and everyone else is? That's where the true champions are born. No one achieved any greatness (in anything) who didn't have to overcome and learn from some adversity first. So the question for you is... are you going to get up tomorrow and be ready to work, are you going to work all week, for the next month until Region and State, beyond? If the answer is "yes" to all of those questions, I promise (and so does Coach Eyestone) it "will lead to eventual excellence". 

Apr. 19-24 DH Invite Recap

What a great week. We started with a ton of celebrations for PRs, Athletes of the Week, and State Qualifiers and then ended the week with our best meet of the season. In between, we had an excellent youth meet - thanks for all your help crew! - and some very productive practices. Let's all work to keep this momentum going as we head into our final month of the season. Remember our list of "things that will help the team" from last week and do your best to work on a few of those areas this week as we prepare for a JV meet at SC and splitting our squad between two invites this weekend - Tiger Trials in Orem on Fri/Sat and Cedar on Saturday. We will not be able to finalize who is traveling to Orem and Cedar until Wednesday (I know this is a pain, sorry) because both meets are limiting the number of athletes who attend by taking the top qualifiers - so our participants depend on who else is registering from other schools. Please know for sure on Monday (at the team meeting right after school) if there may be limits on your participations this week (if we sign you up for events and you get into them, you must participate).

Drink water, sleep, stay on top of school work... Keep the body healthy and the mind healthy.

Athletes of the Week: Let's keep nominating teammates from 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:

• Team Meeting Monday after school - get in there at 3:05 and let's get started on time!
• Distance Crew: afternoon: Mon-Thurs pm - regular practice schedule 3:00p (everyone); AM: Mon - 5:45a (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 (most everyone), Saturday - Cedar Invite/Tiger Trials - this week's workouts
• Sprint Crews and Jumpers: Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school 
• Throwers:  Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school 

Upcoming Events:

JV @ SC - Tues 4/20 3:00p. This really is at 3:00! HS out at 12:50 for the bus at 1:00 and MS out at 1:00. If you need to be in your afternoon classes and can get a ride (with a parent) or drive yourself, talk to coach and get permission to do so on Monday. We will also finish registration on Monday. You MUST be Covid tested and fully cleared on RegisterMyAthlete and have fees paid to participate (in any meet).

Tiger Trial (Orem) - Fri and Sat 4/23-24. Bus will be leaving PVHS at 8:00a on Friday. Meet Schedule. Itinerary will be sent home to those invited to this meet.

Cedar Invite - Sat 4/24 9:00. Bus schedule TBA. Meet Schedule.

JV @ Crimson - Tues 4/27 3:00p

Dixie Invite - Fri and Sat 4/30-5/1 3:00p & 9:00a. Meet Schedule.

Canyon View Championships (JV Region) - Tues 5/4 3:00p. Meet Schedule.

Sentinel Invite - Fri 5/7 2:30p Qualifying Marks and Meet Schedule

BYU Invite - Fri and Sat 5/7-8 

    For Sentinel and BYU, we will be leaving Friday 5/7 in the morning and those who have hit the qualifying marks (they will be announced at practice and posted soon) and compete and Mt. Ridge HS on Friday afternoon-evening. We will then stay overnight and then most of the team will leave back to home Saturday morning so you can get back for the dance hopefully around noon (so plan your dates around that please). A few (very few) athletes will stay up and run at BYU on Saturday.

Race Recaps:

DHells Invite - Hopefully a season develops just like our is... where we put a lot of hard work in early in the season and by now we start seeing the times drop and the marks grow. And in the next few weeks we are going to continue to see great progress. It really was an impressive meet for the Panthers, and even though we didn't go all-in with every event (pulling some people to qualify relays and getting some of our JV runners some Varsity experience) the team still placed very well. Both the 4x200s got us started off in spectacular fashion by setting STATE RECORDS! The girls team of Rachel, Brynlee, Arden and Alli ran a time of 1:49.13 and narrowly beat DH despite the officals not allowing our 3rd runner to cut in and forcing us to run an extra 200 in lane 5. The boys team of Maxx, Marcus, Kemp and Dom ran a state leading time and record time of 1:29.26. In the boys 3200 Scottie took 5th. It was great to get Heinrich back and have him have a great meet; his best performance was a big PR and 7th place finish in the 110h. In the 100, Brynlee took 5th and got her State Qualifier! We also saw big PRs from Arden and Madi. In the boys 100, Kemp continue to have a great season with his 4th place finish. Brianna had a big PR in her 400. On the boys side Turner had his best race of the season and took 4th. Boston also had a solid first 400 of the season. We also saw strong races from Eli, Dominic and Hardman. Our boys 4x800 team took 2nd with Hyrum, Allen, Gianno and Carson. Our boys 4x100 Freshman crew ran a strong race to place 6th. In the 800, Adri ran a great race and placed 3rd and leading the whole squad to PRs or SBs: Kyanne 6th (PR), Pyper 8th (SB), Jenna (SB), Macy (PR), Laney (PR). The boys 800 crew also ran very well with Jason PRing in 4th, Boston 6th, Ben (PR), Zack (SB), Elijah (PR), and Porter (PR). Arden had a strong 200 and MacKenzie ran a big PR. Maybe Heinrich's best performance was actually his 200 where he place 5th. The girls distance crew continued to be a strength with a solid showing in the 1600: Brooklyn 3rd, Kate 4th (one of the top Freshman times in the entire state), and Brinley 7th. Bryan, likewise, ran a very good Freshman time (breaking 4:50 for the first time) to take 8th. Our final track event was another big success as both 4x400 teams race very good State Qualifying times! The girls team of Alli, MacKenzie, Adri and Brynlee ran a 4:06 for the victory. And the boys team of Marcus, Dom, Turner and Jason ran a 3:26 also for the win. We also saw a lot of growth in the field events this week. Marcus and Dom hit the LJ for the first time and did very well. Dom just missed a SQ and placed 7th. Marcus not only got his State Qualifier, but he also won the event with a 21+ foot jump. Kemp continued to PR and took 8th while just missing a SQ mark. Heinrich and Lucca also had nice jumps. Madi, also, just missed a SQ but hit a new PR to take 2nd in the LJ. For the first time this season, we had a girl in the disc at an invite and Emma threw well. Our guys disc crew of Nalu, TJ and Nomee continue to move up the region rankings. Doug placed 7th in the jav, and Emma and Amber had solid 90+ foot throws. In the high jump, Carter hit a PR to place 6th. Overall, this helped the boys take 2nd and the girls to take a close 4th place finish in the final results.

Alumni Update: Jessica Hill competed at the ISU Invite in the 5000 and set a personal best this past weekend! Great job Jess.

Thought of the Week: "The mind is the athlete."

-Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

First off, this is a good show (watch it if you've never seen it). For us, though, this quote ties into something we are seeing over and over again. So many of you are really putting in great work (maybe we could do a little better at not missing practice here and there) and are physically ready to get great marks and times. Besides the physical, the other very important step to accomplishing great things is to figure out the mind. In fact, I might argue that the mind is even more important than the body in being our very best because if we are not able to unlock the mind, we can never unlock the body. But sometimes we are overthinking things or getting in our own ways as we try to do our best. The place to train the mind is at practice. Train yourself to push through the pain. Train yourself to now the correct movements and body positions. Train yourself to know that you can do more than you thought possible. Then in the meets, the time is to get out of our own way - don't overthink things and just let it all go and flow.

Apr. 12-17 Cedar JV & Hurricane Invite Recap and COVID TESTING AGAIN

So many positive things are happening... let's keep up the good work and not hit the mid-season blues. The key thing is to make sure you are at practice!

Just something everyone needs to be doing more of... DRINK MORE WATER!

Athletes of the Week: Thanks to all those who have been nominating teammates. Keep it up. 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: Mon-Thurs pm - regular practice schedule 3:00p (everyone); AM: Mon - 5:45a (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 - DH Invite - this week's workouts
• Sprint Crews and Jumpers: Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school 
• Throwers:  Mon-Thurs at PVHS - 3:00p, Friday - after school 

Upcoming Events:

Covid Testing MONDAY - Everyone MUST be there! We also need a team meeting to celebrate some things. So let's get in and get our testing done quick and then meet in the lecture hall as a team before going out to practice. 

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 Monday.

Desert Hills Invite - Sat 4/17 9:00. Bus schedule TBA.

Race Recaps:

Cedar JV - Another very strong JV meet for the Panthers (better have been, since we were there an hour later... so sorry!). Carson hit a PR in the 1600. Ethan got PRs in both the 100 and 200. Porter PRed in both the 800 and 1600. Isaac hit a PR with a jav throw just shy of 100'. Camden hit PRs in both the 110h and 300h. Maxx posted 2 of the fastest freshman times in the state with PRs in the 100 and 200. Aiden G. earned a PR in the 100. Grant PRed in the 1600 and 3200 (which he would break at Hurr). Dominic PRed in the 200 and LJ (to be broken at Hurr). TJ also earned PR marks that would be broken later in the week at Hurr in his shot and disc. Zach ran a PR in the 400. Shan hit a PR in his jav. Hunter PRed in both the 100 and 200. Braxton PRed in his 110h. Payton ran PRs in teh 100 and 200 (broken later at Hurr). Brady ran a PR in the 200. Benson double PRed in the 100 (broken at Hurr) and 200. Caden ran a PR in both the 100 and 200. Nomee threw well and PRed in the shot (broken at Hurr) and disc. Other PRs were Aiden P in the 100. Allen in both the 1600 and 3200. Seedar in the jav. Brodie in the shot. Taylor in the 100. Eli in the 800. Gianno in both the 100 and 400. Corbin in the disc. And finally, Talmage in the high jump. On the girls side we had a lot of great marks as well. Robin PRed in the 100. Macy hit a Season's Best (SB) in the 800. Jacee with a PR in the disc. Lali with a PR in the disc and shot (broken at Hurr). Laney in the 800. Morgan PRed in the 200. Jessica in the 200. Brynlee in the 100. Sadie for the 1600. Paris in both the 100 and 200. Makenna in the 100 and 300h. And Emma in the 300h (broken at Hurr).

A lot of great performances and personal records and season's best. The boys came out of the meet with a big team victory. 

Hurricane Invite - The Hurricane Invite saw many more strong performances for our Varsity crew. Adri took 5th in the 1600 with a new personal record. Boston took 3rd in the 1600. Marcus K. advanced to the 100 final where he placed 3rd. Alli took the top time into the 400 finals with a State Qualifying mark and finshed 2nd overall. The girls 4x800 crew took 5th and the boys took 7th. Rachel placed 6th in the 200. And Marcus K. continued his exceptional meet by taking 3rd in the 200 and narrowly missing a State time. We had two girls scoring in the 3200 with Brooklyn taking 6th and Kate running a monster PR to take 8th. Bryan also ran a PR in his 5th place finish in the boys 3200. Our boys 4x100 placed 5th as well as the boys 4x200. Alli won the 800 and Adri placed 5th. The girls ran a strong 4x400 to take 2nd and the boys also ran well taking 4th. We had some solid long jumping on both sides with Marcus K. advancing to the final and Luca and Dominic barely missing out. And on the girls side both Madi (6th) and MacKenzie (9th) made the final. Bice and Doug went a strong 4th and 5th place in the jav. And in the shot, TJ made the finals (taking 8th) and earned the 2nd furthest shot put by a freshman in Utah as of now. Luca tied for 8th in the high jump. Nalu took 7th in the disc. And Dayton took 8th in the jav with a big PR. Overall the boys took 6th and the girls placed 4th despite both not placing full events and full teams with a few people out with injuries and things. 

Through both meets, we continue to see big improvements. Keep pushing yourself and keep encouraging your teammates to be at practice and push themselves. It is a lot of fun to see so many of you accomplishing great things.

Alumni Update: Alex Hill competed unattached in the 800 at the USU Aggie Invite this weekend. In his first race in three years, Alex won the slow heat to take 4th overall with a great time of 1:57.

Thought of the Week: A list of ideas presented by Jon Gordon -

7 Things that will hurt your team:

  1. Energy Vampires

  2. Complaining

  3. Ego

  4. Selfishness

  5. Jealousy

  6. Resentment

  7. Pessimism

7 Things that will help your team:

  1. Love

  2. Encouragment

  3. Vulnerability

  4. Selflessness

  5. Unity

  6. Communication

  7. Optimism

This is a great list of ideas. How are you doing with these traits? Are there any characteristics on the "hurt" column that you could work to lessen and remove from your attitude? And on the "help side", are there some areas that you are strong at and have been a good example, or even things that you could try and improve a little bit at to help us all reach our team and individual goals? 

Apr. 5-10 Hurricane JV Recap

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.