State finals went great! Our 4x200 team took 4th place, earning All-State honors and setting yet another school record. The 4x1 had one exchange where the#2 ran iup on #3 quickly. 2nd leg had a huge tail wind. I debated having #3 change his steps but decided to leave them the same. It’s easy to look back in hindsight, but I still think the decision to not change was right. They took 9th place, missing all-state and 8th place by 0.01 seconds!! All the boys are graduating and future prospects are slim. The up and coming sprinter on the boys side are very young and all play football so I have to deal with that madness for 2 more track seasons before they are track only.
The girls 4x400 ran incredible running 4:03.00 and set a new school record. They ran in the slow heat based on seed times from regionals. They won the heat but took 11th overall. I can’t complain since they ran a season best time. In the open 400, B, ran a season best 59.60 (FAT) and officially I have now coached a sub 60 girls 400m! =) She is a junior and being able to stay healthy should have a nice senior year. She’s made 2 seconds improvements each season for the past 2 (63, 61, 59). She has not been able to train except during track season, so I find this pretty remarkable considering. She plans to run the summer circuit here and I will update.