January 4 Update
Thanks for your responses with the schedule. I need to get any over-night/out of state trip approved by the board, but once that is done, we will go to the following meets:
Jan 21 Wildcat Classic (running events only) at UK. Most TCHS athletes will run in this.
Feb 11 Volunteer Indoor Classic (field events only) at UT. We will bring a limited field event team. This meet only measures the best distances. For example, they only measure jumps over 19 feet for the boy’s long jump all others are basically ignored.
Feb 18 KY High School Invitational at UK Elite athletes only
Feb 25 Bishop Hartley Invite near Columbus, OH. This should be a very good meet and we should be more prepared than a Feb 4 meet. I will send out more details later, but it will be overnight and we will fill every event with two athletes. This meet is one of the qualifying meets for the Ohio Indoor State Championship
March 3 and 4 Mason Dixon Games in Louisville. This is considered the KY State Indoor Championship. We are limited to 1 entry per event for the high school meet.
Our first three days of practice went very well. 41 total athletes came out on Wednesday! It is important to tell me of any aches and pains so we can heal them before they get too bad.
Middle School News! Coach Angela Stark at Southern has be added to our coaching staff. She will coach a select number of middle school athletes to compete in the Mason Dixon Games for Middle School runners on March 3. We are very excited to have her. After the indoor season, she will coach SMS track as she had in the past. Her indoor runners will be officially part of the TCHS track team, but train at SMS with Coach Stark. It is possible for some of the middle school athletes to participate in some of the preceding meets and some of them might run in high school meets in the spring. For those of you who do not know, I did something very similar while I coached at Beaumont for Paul Dunbar’s Cross Country team. The addition of a middle school squad will not only pay dividends to TCHS, but also SMS.
All athletes must be declared eligible and have a completed (and current) sports physical.