The week that was, and the week that shall be

Congratulations to the the boys Sabercat track team for their second place finish at this weekends two day Continental League meet. The boys scored 112.33 points on their way to finishing behind a great ThunderRidge team, and just slightly ahead of a super talented Chaparral team. We have a lot to be excited about on the boys side. The following boys earned All Continental League staus wit a top-3 finish in their event(s):

Individuals

Daniel Wheeler 200m 22.80sec (3rd)
Tanner Townsend 400m 50.33sec (2nd)

Chris Ganem 800m 1:55.34 (1st), 1600m 4:16.67 (1st), 3200m 9:50.88 (3rd)

Zach Wood 110hurdles 15.84sec (3rd), 300hurdles 40.43sec (2nd)

Mike Thomas 300hurdles 40.56sec (3rd)

Ryan Tomlinson High Jump 6'2" (3rd)

Will Bakemeyer 13' (1st)

Relays

4x200 Tanner Dalgardno, Mason Kasunic, Tanner Townsend, Daniel Wheeler 1:30.13 (2nd)

4x800 Andrew Watson, Mason Arther, Luke Nebelsick-Gullett, Chris Ganem 8:20.59 (3rd)

The girls...well, the girls did not finish where we want them too. I was shocked, and upset to see that we finished in last place in the girls competition. The 12th of 12 teams. I am shocked because we do have quite a bit of talent on the girls' team. There is a ton that I have to say, but much of it is probably best said in person because of how tone and intended message can be misinterpreted in writing. I will say this: a last place finish is unacceptable to me, and it should be to our lady athletes. In the future we (athletes and coaches) will recruit other CV athletes that can make the team better, improve leadership, train harder, train smarter, and will be a top team in the Continental League and in the state of Colorado.

That said we had one All Continental League athlete (Natasha Jones High Jump 5'0 [3rd]), but we had other athletes that places and were great performances that are noteworthy. 

My favorite: Emily Garneau--in the last race of her high school career--ran a 40 second PR in the 3200m to earn a fifth place finish; this was accompanied by a 3 second PR in the 1600m. Awesome job Emily!

Great show: Annie Simon in the 100m ran a very tough prelim and qualified for finals with a time of 13.26. In the finals she ran against some of the best runners in the state and pulled in an 8th place finish. Pretty great for a freshman.

Doubling-up: Caryn Dinkel and Natasha Jones getting 5th and 3rd in the high jump, respectively. This is how you win league meets: multiple athletes scoring in events. Next year we need more of these in more events.

The whole season has now come down to this final week for a small group athletes. These athletes will be attending the three day state meet beginning this Thursday, and continuing through Saturday in hopes of winning a state championship. Castle View's 2011 state qualifiers are

Chris Ganem 800m #3
Chris Ganem 1600m #2
Chris Ganem 3200m #12
Tanner Townsend 400m #16
Michael Thomas 300h #13

4x200 #14

4x400 #12

4x800 #11
   Ryan Tomlinson High Jump #5

Natasha Jones High Jump #9 

Will Bakemeyer Pole Vault #12 

Ryan Tomlinson Triple Jump #16

Relay teams will be decided on by Coach Lancett and Coach Kuhn. Alternates are needed for all of the relays so if you have ran on any of these qualifying relays throughout the year you should prepare yourself for attending the state meet.

Coach Nack

EDIT: Congratulations are also in order for Tanner Townsend who made it to state in the 400m run. I originally missed this, my bad Tanner. (Tanner is super talented, and very fast...can't wait for this race)