04.30.08
so sad …
before the frosh/soph meet, there was a coaches meeting. there was a vote on the whether to have 18 qualifiers or 16 for the south area meet. now this meeting should have been held sooner and shouldnt have been held right before a seven hour plus track meet.
there wouldnt be a need for the vote, if the liberty track had been built correctly in the beginning. someone (not a track person) though it would be a good idea to put a fence right next to lane nine. this was a dangerous situation that shouldnt of ever happen in the first place.
then last year, the track was resurfaced and instead of moving or removing (or using portable fences) the fence. some genius decided to make it an eight lane track. sheer brilliance.
so now all the coaches are given about a minute to decide the fate of the south area meet. the only reason to drop down to 16 was to save time. sadly, some coaches were heard to say that they didnt want to sit through the extra heats.
we could of done what they are doing for valley. three heats, top 8 in one and two heats of 5 (wont need to do this if liberty was a nine lane track). but instead of letting athletes get one last chance to compete, the majority decided they wanted to go home earlier.
an athlete may have been training all four years for a chance to compete at the area meet but wont get the chance now.
SO SAD!
Anonymous said,
April 30, 2008 at 4:47 pm
i agree
Administrator said,
April 30, 2008 at 10:14 pm
today, i looked at the south area meet info that i got at the patriot games (4/18/08) and guess what? it says that the top 16 will qualify for the meet! so our vote was a waste of time because the fix was already in. if it wasnt so funny i would cry!