07.22.08
Posted in Kern Track Results, Upcoming, Championships, Track Meets, Results, Clubs at 7:08 am by Administrator
Andrew Jimenez, 13, of Jacobsen Middle School of Tehachapi won his age group in the shot put at the Junior Olympics Region 14 Championship with a mark of 42 feet,1 1/4 inches uly 12 in Livermore. Jimenez qualified for the USA Track and Field National Championships in Omaha Nebraska.
* Gabriel Gaeta, a Freedom Middle School seventh-grader, won the Midget boys 80-meter hurdles race at the California State Games July 12 in Vista. Gaeta’s winning time was 13.20 seconds. He competed in a field of 16 hurdlers in the 11- and 12-year-old boys division.
Gaeta also won the 80-meter hurdles race, Midget division, at the Valley School Championships May 17 in Clovis. In addition, he won the 80-meter hurdles race at the Kern County Track and Field Championships May 10 at Liberty High School in Bakersfield.
The 12-year-old Bakersfield native is coached by Freedom Middle School teacher David Brown and Frontier High School track and field coach David Gaeta.
* Eight Kern County Firefighter Activity League athletes qualified to compete in the National Junior Olympics based on their performances at the Region 14 Championships July 11-13 in Livermore.
The KFAL’s boys intermediate 4×800 relay team won its division in 8 minutes, 34.33 seonds. Relay members were Caleb Barger, Francisco Nava, Marco Perez, Stephen Burke and Alejandro Hernandez.
Evan Eggenberg won the high jump 5-73/4 in the youth boys division.
Alyssa Bennett was third in the midget girls discus (69-61/4), and Kaulyn Lee-McNeill was third in the youth girls 200 (32.55).
Another winner was Erik Garcia of the McFarland Track Club in the youth boys 3,000 meters (9:53). Garcia also was third in the 1500 in 4:36
The McFarland Track Club’s midget boys 3,000 meters relay team of Abran Ayon, Christian Romero, Abel Mota, Daniel Garcia was second (10:37).
They all qualified for this week’s national Junior Olympics in Omaha, Neb.
* Bowen Anderson, 12, recently won the 80-meter hurdles and was third in the long jump and high jump in a West Coast championship meet. He will compete July 29 in a national pentathlon competition in Detroit.
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07.14.08
Posted in Schools, Championships, Taft, Olympics at 4:46 pm by Administrator
Dear Prospective Donor,
One of our own, Billy Nelson, is going to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China to represent our community and the United States of American in the Track & Field games. That is an accomplishment to be lauded greatly in and of itself, as Billy has been a decorated athlete both from the Wildcats of Taft Union High School and for the Buffaloes of Colorado and is continuing those accomplishments well thereafter. However, the predicament does not lay with Billy, per say. Rather, it is in getting his family (his soon-to-be wife, Alisa, his one year-old daughter, Arabella, and his mother, Rhonda, & stepfather, Bill) to China to be with Billy during this monumental, yet extremely trying time in each of their lives. It is for this reason I am writing you in hopes of garnering your assistance in sending them to Beijing along with Billy.
After researching the costs involved (i.e. airfare, hotel stay, meals, and transportation - not to mention the costs of obtaining their required passports and tourist visas), we’ve determined it is going to cost upwards of $15,000 to send Alisa, Arabella, Rhonda and Bill to Beijing for the Olympic Games. Our goal is to raise at least $10,000 to aid them in this endeavor.
Therefore, it is with an extremely humble, yet gracious heart that we ask for you assistance in making their Olympic dream come true. It is not very often that our own town sends an athlete to represent not only us, but our entire country on the world’s largest and most prestigious stage. This journey will be rewarding, yet mentally and physically arduous nonetheless, which is why we’re striving to send Billy’s family with him to these Olympic Games.
Should you be interested in assisting us in any matter, please find our contact information attached, along with information regarding the fund to which donations can be made. Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated and duly recognized. This is an event which is not only for Billy and his family, but for our community as well - a fact which Billy had overtly stressed in our discussions in this regard.
In closing, on behalf of Billy and his family, we extend our most sincere gratitude - as it is with your help and generosities that we will make this dream a reality.
Kindest Regards,
Bill & Rhonda Blythe, Josh Bryant, Don Schock, and (most importantly) Billy, Alisa, and Arabella.
Contact Information:
Josh Bryant
661-477-3230 (cell)
661-765-3058 (Work Office, Direct)
joshuarobertbryant@hotmail.com
josharobertbryant@gmail.com
Don Schock
661-979-1549 (cell)
661-765-5330 (Work)
dschock_30@hotmail.com
don@genprod.com
Donations Can Be Made to the Following:
“The Billy Nelson Olympic Fund”
United Security Bank
523 Cascade Place
Taft, Ca 93268
(661) 763-5151
We’re selling commemorative and supportive T-shorts to raise funds for Billy & his family! T-shirt’s are being prepared and distributed courtesy of Pride Athletics here in Taft for $15.00 each, IN ANY SIZE, with $10 from each shirt going to the fund and the rest covering the cost of the shirts themselves! Please give the Dayton’s a big hug & ‘Thank You” for their support while you’re buying your shirt, supporting our hometown hero, and supporting this great cause! Orders can be placed by contacting those above or by going directly to Pride Athletics, or by calling them at the number below.
Pride Athletics
716 Center St.
Taft, Ca 93268
(661) 765 - 9194
We’ll also be holding a car wash (or two) to help raise funds. Please contact us for more details.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP - WE APPRECIATE IT!!!!
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06.27.08
Posted in Schools, Championships, Kern Track Results, Track Meets, Shafter, Upcoming, CSUB, Taft, BHS, Olympics, Bakersfield at 5:53 am by Administrator
Men’s 110m Hurdles
Thomas Mack University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 13.74 - BAKERSFIELD HS
Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
William Nelson University of Colorado Longmont, CO 8:28.85 - TAFT HS (CE)
Men’s Shot Put
Chris Figures unattached Bakersfield, CA 20.38 - SOUTH HS (BAK)
Men’s Hammer Throw
Arnaldo Cueto unattached Bakersfield, CA 68.50 - CAL ST BAKERSFIELD - HS ??
Women’s Discus Throw
Rachel Varner unattached Bakersfield, CA 56.72 - BAKERSFIELD HS
Anastasia Jelmini unattached Bakersfield, CA 56.06 - SHAFTER HS
Cecilia Barnes unattached Bakersfield, CA 61.99 - CLOVIS WEST HS (FRESNO
california preps at the olympic trials HERE
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06.18.08
Posted in Schools, SEYL, Foothill, North, East, Golden Valley, Liberty, Stockdale, Centennial, SWYL, South, Ridgeview, Frontier, Noise Flash!!!, Bakersfield at 10:40 pm by Administrator
Boys track and field
Southeast Yosemite League
Track Athlete of the Year: Chris Schwartz, Foothill
Field Athlete of the Year: Dayshan Ragans, Foothill
First team
Isaiah Purvis, Liberty; Emanuel Turner, Bakersfield; Kevin Norwood, Golden Valley; Eddie Morrow, East; Collin Ellis, Bakersfield
Southwest Yosemite League
Track Athlete of the Year: Anthony Mitchell, North
Field Athlete of the Year: Chris Kelly, Ridgeview
First team
Matt Darr, Frontier; Johnny Carter, Ridgeview; Cody Gragg, North; Daniel Lozano, Stockdale; Steve Silva, Stockdale
Girls track and field
Southeast Yosemite League
Track Athlete of the Year: Brushay Wandick, Bakersfield
Field Athlete of the Year: Shanesha Epps, Golden Valley
FIRST TEAM
Erica Wilcox, Liberty; Natalie Fernandez, Foothill; Sarah Baker, Bakersfield; Amanda Klinchuch, Liberty; Shinaed McDonald, Bakersfield
Southwest Yosemite League
Track Athlete of the Year: Taylor Jackson, Frontier
Field Athlete of the Year: Alana Alexander, Centennial
FIRST TEAM
Alex Collatz, Stockdale; Candace Nichols, South; Candace Carlson, North; Ashlee Thomas, Centennial; Shanea Anderson, Stockdale
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06.10.08
Posted in Coaches, Schools, Championships, Valley, Centennial, College, Signings, SWYL at 2:41 pm by Administrator
coach randy jones retired this year and will be missed. his boys and girls cross country teams won the valley titles in division two this past fall.
his girls team won the swyl league meet and his boys came in second in track and field.
below are this year’s graduates (please write me about others):
ashlee thomas - byu
brant jones - point loma
april cacuyog - CSUB
arturo ramirez - fresno state
lizzy baker-steimer - U of Chicago,
Ryan Nunez - BC
Monica Morley - BYU-Hawaii
Rachel Tiner - Biola
above provided by brant
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06.02.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Schools, Championships, Road Stories, Track Meets, State, Bakersfield at 8:15 pm by Administrator
our driller state trip started right after graduation on thursday night around 9. all the coaches were there at 9 but no athletes.
remarkably, the first athlete to show up was isiah griggs who sang at the graduation. isiah is our sophomore high jumper who improved from 6′2 to 6′6 this season with help from coach alex (csub jumper).
slowly but surely the rest of the gang showed up. emanuel turner, brandon gooden and johnny norwood who had just graduated and now were heading to state.
we all piled into the vans and headed to cerritos and were in are hotel rooms by 1 am and tried to get some sleep before friday’s prelims.
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06.01.08
Posted in Profiles, Athletes, Schools, Championships, State, Kern Track Results, Track Meets, Results, Ridgeview, Noise Flash!!! at 8:34 pm by Administrator
Ridgeview freshman stuns field with state record triple jump
BY ZACH EWING, Californian staff writer
e-mail:zewing@bakersfield.com | Saturday, May 31 2008 11:39 PM
Last Updated: Sunday, Jun 1 2008 12:05 AM
The most amazing part of Johnny Carter’s performance wasn’t his impromptu jig after his final triple jump at the CIF Track and Field State Championships on Saturday.
Photos:
Ridgeview’s Johnny Carter is congratulated by Ryan Swafford, the second-place finisher, after his final jump failed to best Carter’s top leap. Carter won the state title Saturday, setting a Freshman all-time state record in the process.
Photo by John Harte / The Californian
Johnny Carter of Ridgeview made big news as he soared to the state championship in the triple jump with a jump of 49 feet, 1 inch.
It wasn’t, believe it or not, that the jump won him a state championship as a freshman or that it set a new rookie record for the Central Section.
No, the most amazing part might have come afterwards, when Carter asked his club throwing coach, Kim Jenkins, what the world record in the triple jump was.
“About 61 feet,” Jenkins told him (it’s actually 18.29 meters, about 60 feet, 1 inch).
Carter’s response? “Only 12 more feet to go.”
Seems farfetched, but not if you watched Carter, a 15-year-old at Ridgeview High, land his winning 49-1 jump at Falcon Stadium.
“I thought about it all night long,” Carter said. “I couldn’t get to sleep. I kept thinking, ‘I know what I’ve got to do tomorrow.’ Thought about it, and it came true.”
The freshman, who entered the event with the top seed mark in the state, struggled with nerves in Friday’s preliminaries but appeared to be past that problem for the finals. He landed a 48-0 — just three inches off his old personal record — to get within 3.75 inches of the lead, held by Vista Murrieta’s Ryan Swafford.
That was still the margin before Carter’s final jump. He needed a new PR.
“I was thinking to myself, ‘If I don’t get this, it’s over,’” Carter said. “When I hit the dirt, I said ‘Yes!’”
Freshman state champions are the stuff legends are made of, of course. It puts Carter in the same category as very few others, among them Olympic great Marion Jones.
Jenkins used Fresno-San Joaquin Memorial jumper David Tucker, who had held the section’s freshman record from 1968 until Saturday night, as an example.
“(Tucker) went on to do big things, national marks and whatnot,” Jenkins said. “At least now Johnny’s surpassed that.”
For now, Carter is going to enjoy Saturday night’s performance.
“I feel blessed,” Carter said, clutching his gold medal. “And this, this feels really good.”
Ridgeview finished 1-3 in the event, with senior Chris Kelly capping his career with a third-place finish. It was a sweet finish for him after he missed making the finals by less than an inch as a junior.
“I told (Carter) in the beginning that we had to take top three, both of us,” said Kelly, who jumped 47-11. “I’m happy for him, and I’m happy I placed.”
Even Kelly could only watch as Carter — who had to pull up his grades at the start of the semester just to be eligible for track — came from the frosh/soph team to the top of the state podium in only his second year of jumping.
“He jumped up, and I said, ‘OK, that must be 48-4 or better,’” Jenkins said. “They flipped up a 49, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, he did it.’”
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Posted in Profiles, Athletes, Schools, Championships, Track Meets, Results, Shafter, Burroughs, State, Stockdale, Kern Track Results, Noise Flash!!! at 12:05 pm by Administrator
Competition nowhere near Shafter junior’s shot put, discus marks
BY ZACH EWING, Californian staff writer
e-mail:zewing@bakersfield.com | Saturday, May 31 2008 11:39 PM
Last Updated: Sunday, Jun 1 2008 12:04 AM
Shafter throwing coach Matt Godbehere found some shade Saturday afternoon and sat in his lawn chair, a pleasant day at Cerritos College’s Falcon Stadium gone exactly as planned.
Anna Jelmini smiled and posed for pictures, pleased but trying to look like she wasn’t sure what the big fuss was about.
The rest of Jelmini’s entourage, however, gave it away: The buzzing, handshaking and congratulating was the result of Jelmini’s long-awaited state championship.
“I feel great right now,” said Jelmini, her gold medals swinging from her neck. “I worked so hard this whole year, and it paid off. … I try not to look too conceited, but I feel really extremely happy.”
A couple of big early throws in the discus gave Jelmini a cushion no other competitor could touch, and her top mark of 169 feet, 4 inches beat the next-closest Californian by nearly nine feet.
Later, the shot put brought more of the same. All six of Jelmini’s throws were better than the best throw from the rest of the field. She threw a 42-9 on her first attempt, something that ended up good enough to win a state title, but used a 48-3.5 on her fourth throw as her best mark.
“That’s it, it’s over,” said Anna’s father, Rick Jelmini, a camera in hand beside the shot pit.
The double state championship, which single-handedly gave Shafter 20 team points and a share of fourth place in the state, capped an undefeated season for Jelmini, one in which she dealt with being the favorite week in and out.
“I try not to think about the pressure,” Jelmini said. “I feel really excited and relieved.”
Jeanette DeWitt of Nipomo finished second in the discus in 160-10, followed by two more of Kern’s finest: Kayla Kovar of Burroughs took third in 154-10, and Stockdale’s Alex Collatz placed fourth with 150-3.
“I felt like I did what I came here to do,” Kovar said.
Jelmini’s double title has only been done four times before in CIF history, and not since Stephanie Brown of Arroyo Grande did it in 1998. Fullerton’s Natalie Kaaiawahia turned the trick in 1981 and ‘83, and Bakersfield’s Melisa Weis doubled in 1989.
“She did what she needed to do,” Godbehere said. “She focused on herself, and by doing that, it took care of business.”
The feat deserves celebration. And despite outward modesty, there was no shortage of just that in the Generals’ camp — you couldn’t have wiped the smile off Jelmini’s face with a scrub brush, Mom and Dad beamed with pride, and Godbehere’s eyes welled up at the thought of the two-time state champion he had guided.
“She’s a wonderful girl,” Godbehere said. “She works really hard, and this is very deserved.”
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Posted in Profiles, Athletes, Schools, Championships, State, Kern Track Results, Track Meets, Foothill, Noise Flash!!! at 11:17 am by Administrator
Foothill senior answers call with roar heard ’round Cerritos College
BY ZACH EWING, Californian staff writer
e-mail:zewing@bakersfield.com | Saturday, May 31 2008 11:39 PM
Last Updated: Saturday, May 31 2008 11:55 PM
Dayshan Ragans used a few bunny hops to dispel some early drama on championship Saturday. He saved the dancing for later, when his double state championship was sealed.
Foothill’s Dayshan Ragans lets it all out as he twirls following his state-winning throw in the shot put Saturday afternoon.
Ragans took his last throw Saturday to something he may have never heard before — wild cheering from his competitors in the event. With the title already in hand, they wanted to see him launch a monster throw, and he obliged with a toss over 203 feet.
With the CIF State Track and Field State Championships at Cerritos College under way for less than an hour, Ragans was locked in a tense shot put battle, the favorite from Foothill actually trailing Los Gatos’ Colin Quirke’s 62-foot throw by about eight inches.
“Oh man,” Ragans said later with a laugh. “That one was not going very well at the beginning.”
With Foothill throwing coach Wayne Brewer urging him on, Ragans, a burly senior headed to Cal State Bakersfield next year, answered the call. He unleashed a screaming 62-10 that gave him the lead and left him bouncing in the ring.
But Ragans wasn’t out of the woods. Quirke threw a 63-6 in the preliminaries Friday.
“It’s such a mental sport,” Brewer said. “You never know what can happen, especially with that kid, Colin. You never know what he’s going to do.”
The tension wasn’t released until Quirke’s final throw — and the final throw of the competition — resulted in a foul and gave Ragans a state championship to cap his high school career.
“I’m thinking, ‘Oh man, I screwed up, and he’s gonna pop a 63, 64 and win it,’” Ragans said. “To my surprise, he didn’t have such a good throw, and I’m like, ‘Did he just foul? Did I just win?’”
Ragans added a second, more lopsided victory and state title in the discus. He had about a three-foot lead with an early 196-10, but that was a subpar throw — for him — that might have soured the state title a little.
No problem. Ragans, who normally only screams when he lets a shot put go, took the advice of one of his defeated competitors and screamed on his last discus throw to the tune of a 202-6.
“I’m kind of speechless,” Brewer said. “It’s one of those things coaches dream about.”
He’s the first male in California to pull off the shot-discus double championship, and, along with Chris Scwartz’s second-place finish in the 3,200 meters, gave Foothill 28 team points and a fourth-place finish in state.
Ragans’ championships conclude a career that has several marvelous story lines.
First, he’s continued the line of Kern County greats in throwing. A list of names like Jeff Buckey, Van Mounts and Leon Patterson must now also include Ragans.
“It’s good to be up there, and it’s good to bring that state title back to Bakersfield,” he said. “It’s been coming back to my head more and more: I want to be on that list too.”
The other story line is how Ragans has defied the odds to get to this point. He comes from a nearly broken home, one that has struggled with finances and drugs and one from which he’s used throwing to distance himself. He started throwing as a freshman and might have won a state title last season, but he fouled out in the shot put finals and settled for second in the discus.
“It’s been a long three years,” Brewer said. “There’s been a lot of obstacles to overcome. To finally be here and be put in this situation, everything just came together. It was a perfect situation.”
This year, everything came up roses. Even Ragans’ grade-point average for his final quarter of school was a 3.5, his highest ever. And his two gold medals, up on the podium at Falcon Stadium in front of a throng of 10,712? Those look pretty good, too.
“That was a little embarrassing, because I’m a shy person,” Ragans said. “That’s a lot of people cheering. I was like, ‘Hey, did I do that?’ But I feel honored. So honored.”
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Posted in Schools, Championships, State, Kern Track Results, Track Meets, Foothill, Results, Shafter, North, Centennial, Ridgeview, Burroughs, Noise Flash!!! at 10:02 am by Administrator
Foothill’s Schwartz has a great view of history
BY ZACH EWING , Californian staff writer
zewing@bakersfield.com | Saturday, May 31 2008 11:39 PM
Last Updated: Saturday, May 31 2008 11:41 PM
NORWALK — It was just like any of the other distance races Foothill junior Chris Schwartz has won this season.
He played along with the front-runners for most of the race, had a big kick in the final lap and then held off any challengers.
The only problem this time: German Fernandez, the distance machine from Riverbank, was nearly half a lap ahead of Schwartz shattering a national high school record.
“He’s insane,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz finished a distant second in the boys 3,200 meters race at the CIF Track and Field State Championships on Saturday despite a personal-record time of 8:58.50.
“I felt like I could have done better,” Schwartz said. “But I ended with the best I did this year. Next year, I’m definitely going to go for it.”
Doing Kern County proud
Schwartz’s performance gave Foothill 28 team points and momentarily placed it first in the boys team race with just two events to go.
The Trojans finished fourth — Compton-Dominguez (36 points), Long Beach-Poly (32) and Los Gatos (32) passed them after the pole vault and 1,600 relay were completed — but it was still part of a memorable Kern County showing.
Between Anna Jelmini of Shafter, Dayshan Ragans of Foohill, and Ridgeview’s Johnny Carter, the county brought home nearly one-sixth of the state’s titles, a great result for a county that makes up roughly two percent of California’s population.
Add to those five titles Schwartz’s second place, two thirds, a fourth and a fifth.
Shafter’s girls finished fourth in the girls race because of Jelmini’s championships in the throwing events. Long Beach-Poly won the girls title with 39 points, followed by San Jose-Mount Pleasant with 30 and Oakland-St. Elizabeth with 26.
Mitchell’s lead evaporates
For a few seconds in the first lap of the boys 800, North’s Anthony Mitchell pulled out ahead of a fast-paced race, showing the state what he could do. But it was only a few seconds.
Mitchell faded around the 400-meter mark and couldn’t make up ground in the second lap. He was able to hold off L.A.-Loyola’s Elias Gedyon for fifth place, finishing in 1:54.01. Charles Jock of San Diego-Mission Bay won the race in 1:51.64.
Coming up inches — actually less than an inch — short of the podium was Centennial’s Alana Alexander, who finished seventh in the long jump with a mark of 18-4.5. That was a quarter of an inch behind sixth-place Jackae Bridges of Santa Ana-Mater Dei. The top six in each event were given medals.
Alexander fouled her first and last attempts in the triple jump, thought to be her stronger event, and finished ninth of the nine finalists with a 37-2.
Fleetest of foot
Of all the spectacular shows put on at the state meet, the two that had half the crowd of 10,712 talking on cell phones afterwards were Christine Babcock of Irvine-Woodbridge and Fernandez in the 1,600.
Babcock won her race in the first lap, then began to pull away. The crowd rose to a crescendo as she began her last lap, a national high school record easily a possibility. At that point, she picked up the pace even more, finishing in an unbelievable 4:33.82 — a full 4.5 seconds better than the previous national record.
Not to be outdone, Riverbank phenom Fernandez quickly left his competition in the dust. The crowd, still abuzz from Babcock’s run, tasted another record. Fernandez missed it by about three-quarters of a second, his 4:00.29 just slower than a 3:59.51 ran by Alan Webb (South Lakes, Va.) in 2001.
Fernandez’s seemingly endless energy left him enough to power past the field in the 3,200, maybe an even more astounding performance. His 8:34.23 crushed the previous national high school record of 8:41.10. And — get this — he still had enough energy to take a lap around Falcon Stadium before his medal ceremony to give some newfound fans high fives.
BY A HAIR: Just before Babcock and Fernandez ran at their records in the 1,600, Long-Beach Poly held off a charging Compton-Dominguez team by one-hundreth of a second, 41.26 to 41.27 in the boys 400 relay.
There was another spectacular finish at the end, with San Luis Obispo-Mission Prep’s Jordan Hasay holding off Davis’ Laurynne Chetelat by less than a half-second in the 3,200, 9:52.13 to 9:52.51. Both times bested the old meet record.
The other meet record that fell came in the boys pole vault, where Los Gatos’ Nico Weiler cleared 17-3.
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Posted in Schools, Championships, Ridgeview, State, Foothill, Kern Track Results, Noise Flash!!! at 12:08 am by Administrator
i have a weird knack for being in the right place at the right time at track meets that is. i wish i was a better writer so i could tell the stories better.
but hey, the state cif officials said i am not a media outlet and that i lack orginal content so i should live up to their 1 minute appraisal of the value of my blog.
anyways, it is late and i need to hit the sheets but i wanted to write down a brief summary of what i mean by ”right place right time”.
on friday, i park at the state meet and who gets out of the car next to me? german and his coach! i walk behind them all the way into the meet. i took some photos and even talked to his coach. his coach was asking aloud about who advance in the 1600 and i chimed in what i thought was correct.
i thought it was amusing that he evened wanted to know being that german was a lock. (btw his 4 flat in the 1600 was amaing.) plus his coach asked about bakersfield’s interest and reaction to german’s running. i guess the t-shirt my athletes gave him says it all.
other cool things that happen was i sat in the stands next alex kosinski’s coaches and heard some interesting info about her great season last year.
on saturday, i walk in just in time to find a spot to watch the shot right next to ragan’s coach. it was wonderful to see this great kid win!
then during the 3200, i stand at the homestretch turn and schwartz’s family and coaches end up watching the race right next to me. so glad chris broke nine and got second. so nice to see his mom and coaches watch him do so well. another great kid too!
then i walk over to find my team and get a ringside seat to the jordan post race interview (another great race!) and took the photo of german wearing my athlete’s tshirt.
lastly, as i am walking out, i see the ridgeview coach and his amazing freshman triple jumper enjoying the win of a lifetime!
this is just a few amazing things that i stumbled into. i hope to write more about these RpRt moments later on and others but i got to get some sleep.
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