2024 Track

ytown2146 said:
guess im not paying attention that closely then LOL. regardless, their main core will be less than 10 once the end of the season comes.
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That's typical for all of us. Our championship season team will most likely have fewer numbers the better we are. Instead of using 3 or 4 throwers to get them experience, we might only use 2. We might scale the District team down to 16-17 kids. 2 throwers, 7-8 sprinters/ hurdles/ jumps, 6-7 distance. If we are not as good, or chances of scoring and advancing is not as strong, add 1-2 kids per group. So 24 ish. Maybe a few more because we have more alternates for relays, but can usually 24-26 would be a max for us.
 
psycho_dad said:
That's typical for all of us. Our championship season team will most likely have fewer numbers the better we are. Instead of using 3 or 4 throwers to get them experience, we might only use 2. We might scale the District team down to 16-17 kids. 2 throwers, 7-8 sprinters/ hurdles/ jumps, 6-7 distance. If we are not as good, or chances of scoring and advancing is not as strong, add 1-2 kids per group. So 24 ish. Maybe a few more because we have more alternates for relays, but can usually 24-26 would be a max for us.
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yeah well aware.
 
Where are your school’s going this weekend for invitationals? I know it’s prom for some schools… Looking at the Poland Invitational, that meet is not how it used to be. Not as many big schools from NEO; mainly D3s from the area.
 
Big marks out of the Wayne Invite the last two evenings...

Jamier Averette-Brown (Wayne) lowers the Ohio Freshmen record to 21.37 (+0.5 wind), breaking the previous record by 0.15 seconds by Gahanna Lincoln's Blake Heriot back in 2007. He also lowered his own frosh record in the 100m to 10.53 (+1.9 wind) (= #21 all-time), 2nd behind Coy Hyre (Brookville) with his own 10.48 PB, who moves to =9 all-time himself.

ELEVEN (11) boys under 9:10 in the 3200m, FOUR (4) under 9:00 !
Connor Long (Whitehouse Anthony Wayne) takes the win with his 8:57.90 PB

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Eric Pugh (Wayne) raises his outdoor best to 16' 0", becoming the 58th member of that club, but still 8" below his indoor best from this year.

Troy's Devon Strobel joins the 180 foot club with his 181' 8" win.
 
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Don't look now, but USC-bound Maira Scott (Holland Springfield - Senior) just dropped a 54.37 PB at Whitmer HS on Friday, moving her to #20 all-time in Ohio. She also ran an 11.60 100m (no wind info).
 
More throwing news:

Johnny Sabinski (Belmont Union Local) continues to up his PB, this time from the #51 slot @ 63' 0" all the way to #16 @ 65' 5" at his home invite.
 
Mercer Co. meet started 4/30 - finals 5/2. On opening night Toby Kremer (ML) PV 14'10''. On the girls side Anna Roesnner and Izzy zahn of Coldwater finished 1-2 in the 100 prelims- Roessner with a time of 12.38, Zahn 12.45 both breaking the meet record. in the 200 Zahn had the fastest prelim time with a 24. 72 also breaking the old meet record.
 
For those that complain about weather for track in Ohio. This is Alaska. I guess it would cut down on the wind.

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Marion Local won the Mercer County K of C Invite by 1.5 pts. over Celina. Marion Local won the last race of the night the 4 x 400 in a meet and school record time of 3:23.05 Celina finished 2nd also breaking the meet record. ML set 3 meet and school records in the 4 x 100 43.34, 4 x 200 1:31.08 and 4 x 400. All told I believe 22 new records were set at the meet including jr. high.
 
HUGE weekend in T&F nation-wide, including Ohio.

Duncanville (TX) - 4x200m - 1:22.25 NAT'L RECORD !!! DESTROYS NAT'L Record by 1 SECOND!!!
Katy Tompkins (TX) also under Nat'l record in 2nd with 1:22.72!

FOUR (4) 4x100m Teams SUB-40 @ Texas 6A State !!!
39.14 - Humble Atascocita (Tory Blaylock, Landon Fontenot, Jordan Parker, Jelani Watkins)
39.47 - Duncanville (Ayson Theus, Dakorien Moore, Brayden Williams, Caden Durham)
39.79 - Galena Park North Shore
39.85 - Katy Tompkins
40.09 - Northside Harlan
40.52 - Northwest Nelson
40.81 - Mansfield
40.89 - Austin Bowie
42.38 - Coppell

FRESHMAN NAT'L 800m RECORD! - 1:49.84 - Cooper Lutkenhaus (Northwest) @ Texas 5A State

Girls' Shot Put - 54' 10 3/4" - Hadley Lucas (Bloomington North, IN) - = Michelle Carter (TX - 2016 Olympic Champion) for #3 National All-Time.

Ohio
Rod Russell (Mason) - 4:06.80 Mile by Ben Gabelman (Westerville North) - 4:05.24 1600m split en-route. Just misses Bob Kennedy's school record (1600m) of 4:05.14 from the '88 State meet. Calvin Kilgallon (Lebanon) 4:08.61 (4:07.26), Drew Zundell (University High, Morgantown, WV) 4:08.75 (4:07.22) also sub-4:10
Gabelman moves to #3 Ohio All-Time. Kilgallon moves to #9 Ohio All-Time for 1600m. 7 boys split sub-4:10 for 1600m! Is this a record?
Grant Harrison (New Richmond) - Another 16 foot vault win.
2 Girls sub-5:00 mile - Samantha Erbach (Waynesville) 4:55.81 & Kaitlyn Reese (Avont) 4:57.62

Firebird (Dayton Fairmont)
400m - 46.99! by Kaden Ellerbe (Beavercreek)

Roosevelt (Welcome Stadium)
10.64 - Coy Hyre (Brookville) - no wind gauge, but definite headwind
1:25.98 by Pickerington Central (#18 Ohio All-Time); Wayne 1:27.97

Princeton Girls big double win; 46.97 equals school record (= #19 Ohio All-Time) and 1:39.68
 
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On the throws side of things, Dillon Morlock with a 192' 9" / 68' 7" combo at his home invite.

Super-soph CJ Sanna ups his new Ohio soph discus record to 192' 4", joining the top-50 all-time in a tie for #35!

Luke Stouffer (Haviland Wayne Trace - Jr.) joins the 60-foot shot put club on the nose with his 60' 0" put @ Antwerp on Friday. There are now 151 Ohio boys to ever put 60-feet outdoors.
 
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Follow-up statistics on the boys' mile race @ Mason HS.

Ben Gabelman (Westerville North) - 1st - 4:06.80 Mile (#9 Ohio All-Time (A-T)) / 4:05.24 1600m en-route (#3 A-T)
Calvin Kilgallon (Lebanon) - 2nd - 4:08.61 Mile (# 17 A-T) / 4:07.26 1600m en-route (#10 A-T)
Max Liao (Mason) - 4th - 4:10.11 Mile (# 28 A-T) / 4:08.73 1600m en-route (# 24 A-T)
Connor Long (Whitehouse Anthony Wayne) - 5th - 4:10.25 Mile (# 26 A-T) / 4:08.72 1600m en-route (# 23 A-T)
Lucas Towne (Cincinnati Turpin) - 6th - 4:10.77 Mile (# 30 A-T) / 4:09.29 1600m en-route (#32 A-T)
Daniel Emmert (Centerville) - 7th - 4:11.26 Mile (# 35A-T) / 4:09.70 1600m en-route (#41 A-T)
 
Marion Local won the boys MAC Championship, Minster the girls. 2 records set on the boy's side both in relays Marion Local 4x200 with a time of 1:29.67 and 4x100: 43.54. Girls in the 100 the top 3 finishers broke the old record with Kessen of DSJ winning in a time of 12.19. Izzy Zahn smashed her own record in the 200 with a time 0f 24.53 which would have finished 11th in the boys 200. Fort Recovery girls broke the 4x100 meet record with a time of 49.66.
 
psycho_dad said:
Is it a graduation requirement? That's like 75% participation. We are at 20-22% this year for the largest teams we've ever had. Do they have baseball? Add in baseball and they have like 85% + participation. Do they have dual meets to get all the kids involved? In all honesty, that is impressive. Can't wrap my head around it impressive.
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Yes, Marion Local track roster is close to a 100 and the baseball team has 26 players. The Flyers participate in a lot of invitationals in which some they will run their backup athletes to keep participation high. Justin Knouff who is ML's no.1 sprinter in the 100 this year, was no.7 last on the team in the 100 according to the Flyer's HC in an article earlier this year in the Daily standard.

Edit: An ex. of ML's depth is in the 400, the "kid"(a sr.) who finished 2nd in the 400 at the MAC may or may not run the 400 in the District as he is actually the 3rd fastest on the team in the 400. I know this may sound "pompous or arrogant "but if you want more kids to play sports well you need to play them and not sit them on the sidelines regardless of the sport.
 
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Stirred not Shaken said:
Yes, Marion Local track roster is close to a 100 and the baseball team has 26 players. The Flyers participate in a lot of invitationals in which some they will run their backup athletes to keep participation high. Justin Knouff who is ML's no.1 sprinter in the 100 this year, was no.7 last on the team in the 100 according to the Flyer's HC in an article earlier this year in the Daily standard.

Edit: An ex. of ML's depth is in the 400, the "kid"(a sr.) who finished 2nd in the 400 at the MAC may or may not run the 400 in the District as he is actually the 3rd fastest on the team in the 400. I know this may sound "pompous or arrogant "but if you want more kids to play sports well you need to play them and not sit them on the sidelines regardless of the sport.
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Completely agree. We evaluate our schedule every season to see where we can get more kids involved. Invitationals that allow more than 2 entries. We like our dual meets because every kid gets involved in those. Hybrid Relay meets that have individual events as well. We like to fill the track with relays in our dual meets. We also do not let event entries go unfilled. We teach a lot of kids to do a lot of things. Competing in meets is the objective and not just out there training.
 
psycho_dad said:
Completely agree. We evaluate our schedule every season to see where we can get more kids involved. Invitationals that allow more than 2 entries. We like our dual meets because every kid gets involved in those. Hybrid Relay meets that have individual events as well. We like to fill the track with relays in our dual meets. We also do not let event entries go unfilled. We teach a lot of kids to do a lot of things. Competing in meets is the objective and not just out there training.
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I am a Marion Local homer, but the Flyers have kids who have never participated at district level till their sr. year. They stuck with it because they run in a lot of events during their career and "belief" in the system.
 
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