As so often happens in early March in Oklahoma we had bad weather for our first meet! It seemed ridiculous that Jenks postponed the meet Friday morning but after freezing our behinds off and getting soaked at practice Friday afternoon I was a little more understanding. Despite the weather, we have three new members of our Owasso Milers Club! For practice on Friday, we had a quick inner-squad practice meet with several athletes running fantastic times. Congratulations to Stella Jones and Gwyneth Collins for breaking 6:00 minutes in the mile for the first time and Ben Campbell for breaking 5:00 minutes in the mile for the first time on the boys’ team! One of our baseline goals each season is to get as many female runners under 6:00 minutes for 1600m and as many male runners under 5:00 minutes as possible. Way to go homies!
Fortunately, our Freshman athletes were able to compete last week at Tahlequah on Thursday and they CRUSHED it! Both our girls and boys 4×800 relays won the meet with the girls’ relay of Audrey Toews, Yaretzy Aguilar-Cardona, Madison Friday, and Bijoux Milien setting a new Freshman record and our boys’ team of Chiles Stover, Nos Graham, Adan Rossini, and Brody Murdock closing on a Freshman record of their own! Audrey also won the 800m and Yaretzy was the individual champ in the 400m. We had several PR performances across the board for our freshman team. Great stuff!
For this week we are taking as many athletes as we can to Union on Thursday. Again, the weather looks somewhat iffy but they lowered the rain chances today so we’re headed in the right direction. Information for the meet is listed below.
We have our second FanPledge fundraiser of the year on Tuesday for our HS kids. We did this way back in XC and had tremendous success. Once the Track is complete (if you haven’t seen it, things are ACTUALLY happening at the Track now) we’ll be able to take gate and concession money which should eliminate the need for a second FanPledge. We hope to kick off next year with the FanPledge, followed by the Hog Jog in November, and then use our new Track facility to raise funds in the Spring. That will mean only three fundraisers all year. Until then we need to fund this season! The money from this fundraiser will go towards, among other things, the KU Relays in April and as seed money for XC Camp this summer plus travel meets in the fall. Last year we took more athletes to out-of-state meets in XC than ever before. We want to keep that trend going so that as many kids as possible get to participate in big, multi-state races in both XC and Track. We want our athletes to have the best experience possible while in our programs but it takes funds to make it happen. The biggest thing we need to make this FanPledge a success is athletes entering their contacts BEFORE we start the fundraiser on Tuesday. Here is a link with all the information…
Lastly, we have our monthly Booster Club meeting on Tuesday at 6:00 in the Fieldhouse. All Booster Club members in good standing are welcome to attend.
Thank you for everything you do and as always…GO RAMS! – Coach Collins
Weekly Schedule
Monday, March 11th
HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00 pm workout
Tuesday, March 12th
HS Practice – 6:00 – 6:40 am Optional Recovery Run, 6:40 – 7:30 Required Weight Room, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Workout
Fan Pledge Fundraiser for HS athletes. 2:00-3:00 pm @ the Wellness Center
Booster Club Meeting @ 6:00 pm at the Track Fieldhouse.
Wednesday, March 7th
HS Practice – 6:00 – 6:40 am Optional Recovery Run, 6:45 – 7:30 am Required Weight room, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Workout
Thursday, March 8th
Union Invitational
Union High School
6636 S Mingo Rd,
Tulsa, OK 74133
Girls Roster:
| Yaretzy | Aguilar-Cardona |
| Gwyneth | Collins |
| Madison | Friday |
| Erin | Hendrick |
| Lilith | Johnson |
| Estella | Jones |
| Kamrin | Jones |
| Kamrin | Jones |
| Jade | Mangelson |
| Chloe | Matheny |
| Hannah | McBee |
| Bijoux | Milien |
| Arabella | Nelson |
| Addison | Newell |
| Rilee | Shea |
| Taylor | Snyder |
| Kate | Stocksen |
| Sarah | Swofford |
| Audrey | Toews |
| Julia | Trost |
Boys Roster:
| Gabe | Baughman |
| Ben | Campbell |
| Evan | Carter |
| Wilder | Collins |
| Colton | Correa |
| Charlie | Doppenberg |
| Oxford | Grant |
| Nicolas | Greenlee |
| Anakin | Haney |
| Eric | Harding |
| Sam | Hays |
| Jack | Hill |
| Brady | Hugueley |
| Dane | Janowski |
| Isaac | Krueger |
| Quinn | Lamb |
| Maddox | McCoy |
| Weston | Morris |
| Brody | Murdock |
| Keith | Nelson |
| Brendan | Payne |
| Adan | Rossini |
| Chiles | Stover |
| Gavin | Veenker |
10:00 – Bus leaves Fieldhouse
12:00 – Field Events Start
1:45 – Running Evens Start
4x800m Relay
4x100m Relay
3200m Run
100H/110H Girls/Boys
100m Dash
4x400m Mixed Gender
4x200m Relay
800m Run
400m Dash
300H
200m Dash
1600m Run
4x400m Relay
6:00 – Bus leaves Union (time approximate)
6:30 – Bus arrives back at Fieldhouse (time approximate)
Friday, March 15th
HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00
Saturday, March 9th
No HS Practice – Recovery Day