Good evening Ram Family! Sorry for the late post. We just got home from an all-weekend dance competition at Union. Despite my best efforts, the judges would not allow me to be on stage; however, my youngest daughter crushed it. If you don’t mind, I have had all the blaring music, obnoxious announcers, “YAS,” “YAS GURL,” and “OOOOKAY’s” I can handle for now. Maybe you would be so kind as to turn down your hip-hop music and be slow to use those phrases in conversation for the next few days, please?
What an awesome week we just had! Thank you to everyone who helped out at the Owasso Invitational on Friday. It was a little crazy and definitely crowded, but it was fantastic to see a Track meet back on the OHS campus after three years off. We will continue to work out the kinks to give athletes and spectators the best experience possible, but it is good to have one under our belt now.
Now it’s time to brag! We had some unbelievable races at Owasso and for our Freshmen runners at Tahlequah. On Thursday, our 4×800 girls team of Maya Keene, Alexa Thorson, Sophie Hirart, and Emma Sandoval, plus our 4×800 boys team of Noah Nelson, Owen Mietus, Ryker Morrow, and Tristan Mangelson, both took 1st place! Hannah Toews took 2nd and 1st place in the 800 and the 1600 as well! We had strong opening races from Libby Hays in the 1600 and Alexis Thompson in the 800 for the freshmen girls, with Ben Hardesty, Eli McConnell, Sajin Ward, and Connor Hill all paying solid times in the 800 for the boys. Jordan Rabosvky jumped in the 400 after only being at practice for a week and ran great!
On Friday at the Owasso Invitational, our girls Varsity 4×800 of Lilith Johnson, Stella Jones, Erin Hendrick, and Bijoux Milien kicked off the meet strong by finishing 3rd with a sub 10:00 performance. Bella Nelson won the 3200, followed closely by Ava Cornelius in 2nd, with both girls posting top 25 National times! Jade Mangelson posted a solid 800m time, then our girls crushed it in the 1600! Led by Lilith Johnson in 2nd place with a PR performance, we had PR or very near PR races from Reagan Freeman, winning the 2nd heat, Stella Jones, Rilee Shea, Chloe Matheny, Madison Friday, and (my favorite runner) Gwyneth Collins! Not to be outdone, our boys looked great in 1600, with Evan Carter running close to a PR race, plus Jack Hill (PR) and Colton Correa both breaking the 5:00 barrier! We also had a PR race from the Juice Box himself, Keith Nelson. Then they pretty much all ran a 4×400 in the freezing cold and almost died. That’s Track for you. 🙄
We’ll take everyone to Union this Thursday for the Union Invitational. It’s a school day meet so hopefully we won’t be home too late.
I have linked the Spring Break practice schedule below. We will have a meet for anyone in town on March 22nd, the last Saturday of the break, the first annual Oklahoma Land Run! This is a distance festival on our home track for endurance athletes. It should be a really fun celebration of the best events in Track no matter what those dang Sprint coaches tell you! I also linked the info for the Land Run below.
For runners needing treatment from the trainers, please try to utilize the training room on Monday and Wednesday mornings at 7:00.
We need snacks and water! Please consider purchasing a package of water and dropping it off at the Fieldhouse and/or snacks from the following link…
Lastly, we kicked off our annual Track fundraiser last week. Please share the link for TeamFunded via messaging. These funds will benefit our runners this Track season and will carry over to our XC Camp this summer. Our goal is to take as many kids to camp as possible!
Thank you again to all of our parent volunteers who helped at the meet last week! We’ll have more chances to help soon. Thank you for all you do, and GO RAMS!!!!
Weekly Schedule
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xinHNU3t_6PpZ4RBsOEKCY–pEn3Jjnk5T1pOluWWwU/edit?usp=sharing
Spring Break Schedule
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8V25DxypnpUfQ6SCThvjPYi_MXJ8_rsGVdxjEqQR8o/edit?usp=sharing
Team Funded Fund Raiser
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teamfunded/id1439897444
Oklahoma Land Run
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18SvQRnziy0Xup66GrVB5aBi8DuPk1DvgFlfTl1Yl9ns/edit?usp=sharing
Performance Nutrition
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SZrWk5TRBFfHpdTyHmBUki3QD3VgC3UPtie68lnljAA/edit?usp=sharing