Varsity meet added: Tuesday, Holy Family Early April Qualifier

Due to the two meets we had canceled in the past month I thought it was important to try to add a competition. This is what is cool about T&F scheduling compared to other sports. In most sports you have a set schedule that is pretty rigid and unable to be modified very often. In this sport things are more fluid. At any time teams can choose to drop and/or pickup competitions. In fact, I detect that there are some pretty successful programs in the state that go into a season without a schedule planned, and then plan there meets based on numerous factors just a couple of weeks ahead of time. That's a little too willy-nilly for me so we take the philosophy of adding meets as necessary.

I think this Tuesday is one of those necessary times. Here is the meet info I have
Meet: Holy Family Early April Invite
Location: Holy Family High School track, located in Broomfield
Directions: Click here
Start time: field events 2:30, track events 3:00
Athlete release time: 12:15
Bus leaves: 12:30
Is there a return bus?: Yes
Do athletes have to ride the bus?: TBD, but most likely yes.
Schedule: This meet will have a rolling schedule, which means they will get to each event in order whenever it is time. Here is an order of events

Sprint Medley Relay

4x800m Relay

100m Hurdles

100m dash

4x200m Relay

1600m Run

4x100m Relay

400m Run

300m Hurdles

800m Run

200m Dash

3200m Run

4x400 Relay

There is an order for the field events. Tuesday will start with these field events, and then will go to the opposite gender in due course

• Girls Shot put
• Boys Discus
• Girls Long Jump
• Boys Triple Jump
• Girls High Jump

Who is going?: Who ever is on the entries (to be posted soon). Kids unable to compete on Sat. 4/9 due to ACT will go. We will lean heavily towards Juniors and Seniors, but some underclassmen will go. Athletes that attend may find themselves in some events they rarely compete in. We also have some multi-sport athletes we will try to get involved.

**EDIT**
Here are the entries for tomorrow

Who is not going?: Well, this also remains to be determined, based on entries. However, I can definitely say that pole vaulters will not be attending, because that event will be contested. Sorry, pole vaulters! Good news for you guys, though: Coach Munoz is exploring a competitive opportunity for you as well.
As with any weekday meet student-athletes and their parents can opt their kids out of going to the meet without any questions or repercussions from the coaches. In fact, if we have any academic concerns with any student we will not allow them to go.

That's all regarding Tuesday for now. Pay attention for future additions and entries

Now for something completely different...

It's hard to summarize these varsity meets we go to, because they are so big and so many of our athletes do so many big things. Yesterday's varsity meet at the Palmer Terror Invite falls into this category. Please see below for athletes that scored in the top 8 in their events, which all earn points for the team. Of particular note are Koby Dudley (high jump) and Riley Chase (pole vault) that won their events, and Sierra Suazo who earned 2nd place in both of her events (shot put and discus) while also throwing a new school record of 131'8.5" in the discus.

• 8th
• Hoffman-Maroney, 300h
• Swanson, Pole vault
• Edwards, Shot put
• 6th
• K Cooley, 100m
• Mackin, 200m
• Taylor, Graves, Love, Smith, SMR 800
• S Dalton, 800m
• K Cruz, HJ
• Brooke Walker, PV
• 5th
• Graves, TJ
• Sneed, PV
• 3rd
• Mackin, LJ
• Hoffman-Maroney, 110H
• A Cooley, Graves, Mackin, K Cooley, 4x100m
• 2nd
• S Dalton, 1600m
• A Cooley, Graves, K Cooley, Mackin, 4x200m
• Suazo, Shot
• Suazo, disc, School record
• 1st
• K Dudley, HJ, 6-4
• R Chase, PV, 14-0

See the full team results here
These performances helped the girls to a fourth place finish (out of 20 teams), and the boys to a 9th place finish (out of 24). Nice job, Cats!

That's all for now. Busy week ahead. Looking forward to lots of good competition

Go Sabercats!

Coach Nack