We enjoyed a most wonderful, and in some cases, spectacular start to the 2007 season.  Our athletes enjoyed themselves and they competed with enthusiasm, determination and tenacity in most cases.  Our results were impressive!

  

REVIEW:  On Thursday, both the boys and the girls outscored the other three teams collectively (we scored more points than the other three teams put together).  The weather was excellent, the facilities were real good and the follow through by our athletes made this meet a most fun meet.  We enjoyed very nice performances from our veteran athletes (Conrad Wozniak double victories in the 800 and the 1600, Christine Babcock’s 1600 and 3200 double, Kyle Wolff’s 400, 300 LH double, Cassie’s 5’ 2” HJ victory and her LJ and TJ victories, Andrew Keimach’s 100, 200 victories, to name a few) and we discovered some promising talents in Roxy Barker, Chelsea Hilliard, Adam Garrett and Michael Callahan.

  

On Saturday, we competed in a tough Division II in the Earl Engman Relays and our athletes earned medals in many races.  Even though the high winds (20-30 mph) got in the way of PR marks, our athletes performed excellently and we came away with some special prizes:  impressive victories in the Distance Medley for the girls (Murphy, Barker, Toberty, Babcock), 4x800 for the girls (Toberty, Lara, Murphy, Babcock), 4x400 for the girls with the fastest time in Southern California this year thus far (Wolff, Toberty, Babcock, Stanislaw), 5’ 4’ inch HJ by Cassie, 2nd place DMR for the boys (Bishop, Garrett, Hamblin, C. Wozniak), 2nd place in the 4x800 for the boys (J. Wozniak, Antrim, Hamblin, C. Wozniak) and a slew of 3rd and 4th place finishes.

  

The enthusiasm, successes, and efforts that our athletes put on would help to motivate many more of our athletes to want to be part of something special like the meet we had on Saturday.  I want to congratulate our athletes and challenge them to continue to work hard so that these successes would be repeated at even more competitive meets than the one we had this past week.  Our future opponents (Laguna Hills, Mater Dei, Esperanza, etc.) will offer stiffer opposition for us.  If we continue to work hard and get our late-starting athletes in better racing form, the results will continue to turn out in our favor.

  

ATHETES OF THE WEEK:  Clarissa Lara and Bobby Bishop for the distance events, Philip Tramposh and Cassie Stanislaw for the field events, Andrew Keimach and Roxy Barker for the sprints.

  

THIS WEEK'S ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  

1)  Track Meet on Thursday at WHS against Laguna Hills HS.  The meets starts at 2:45pm with the Girls JV 1600.  The order of events is posted on our web page.

  

      a)  Check the entries on Wednesday to see what events

           you are scheduled to participate in.

  

      b)  Be sure that you are in school uniform the entire meet.

           We will have a team meeting at the end of the meet and

           attendance will be taken at that time.

  

      c)  Transportation fee needs to be paid by all who have not

           done so yet.  See Ms. Adams if an extension is needed.

           She will be very willing to help.

  

      d)  Laguna Hills will be a  much tougher opponent than

           Segerstrom, Beckman, and Oxford Academy or most of the

           teams on Saturday.

  

2)  Track Meet on Saturday at Irvine Stadium (Irvine Invitational).

  

      a)  The schedule is listed on the following link: 

           http://www.irvinehigh.org/athletics/track/invitschedule.

  

      b)  Each athlete needs to provide his/hers own transportation

           and to be at the meet at least one hour and thirty minutes

           before their event is scheduled to start.  The meet can run

           ahead of schedule and we do not want to miss the event nor

           not be properly warmed up for it.

  

      c)  Entries will be posted on Wednesday.  There will be four

           divisions (varsity boys and girls and frosh/soph boys at

           this meet).

  

3)  Next week’s meet will be at Mater Dei HS against Esperanza and Mater Dei and it will start at 9:00am for some of the field events and at 10:00am for the running events. The buses will be leaving for that meet at 7:30am.  Arrange your plans for that meet.  Even though this is a Saturday meet, everyone is expected to be there.  Work and special school events will have to be changed for this meet.  It is a tri meet on Saturday.

  

4)  Practice at Irvine Stadium on Tuesday as usual.

  

5)  We have only 21 sweat shirts left.  All sizes are available, bring your money ($35 made out to WHS) to room E-208 at snack or lunch or before school and pick up the sweatshirts now.

  

6)  Inclement weather is forecast for the week.  Our expectation stays the same as last week.  We will be ready for practices and the meets as they are scheduled.