Yesterday was my team's league championship track meet in which our girl's team placed 3rd and boys team got the win.  The stars of the meet were the three runners I mentioned in my last blog.  So I will just let you know how they did....

  Wow, what a track season for some of my top distance runners.  Once again, I coach at a junior high school in Clovis, CA.  I will be talking mainly about 3 of my athletes: one boy Cody Brazeal (8th Grade), and two girls Hagen Reed...

   We are almost done with our track season here at Alta Sierra Middle School in Clovis, CA.  Our league Championship meet is next Wednesday, April 30th.  After that, my number one girl distance runner, Hagen Reedy, will be competin...

   The week after Footlocker, Buchanan held a 1600m race on their new Mondo track for all their cross-country runners so that they could see how fast they could run a mile right now.  I had 7 of my junior high kids race with them.  ...

   We went down to the Footlocker West race with 7 kids along with Buchanan High School's team.  One of my runners, Clay Albertson, is inneligable for school teams all year because of our district's transfer rules.  Sin...

   When the league finals finally rolled around, I have to admit, I really wasn't very confident in either of my team's chances of defeating teams that had dominated them all year.  In the last week, key injuries to 3 of my top 5...

   I started this season not knowing exactly what to expect from my teams.  I lost my entire top 7 boys and girls from last years teams that dominated every meet they entered.  My honest goal was top 3 in our league.  After a m...