First Track Meet of 2012

After such a warm couple of weeks to begin our track season, when it's finally time for the meets, we're back to normal cool weather.  Yesterday was the first meet of the season.  I took a lot of photos of a lot of my athletes, but I'm only posting the ones of Andrew.  He did great!  He's triple jumping this year and his form is pretty good.  He just needs more speed.

He took 6th place in the 110 high hurdles.  He hasn't really practiced these much until earlier this week.  I was pleasantly surprised with the 6th place finish as he isn't a sprinter.  Austin was in this heat and he won easily.  He got 2nd place overall.

High jumping is what Andrew loves to do the most.  He's been working at it for a number of years.  When I began coaching 7 years ago, he would stay for practice and he'd try it when Erin was done.  Yesterday we finally got some steps measured out and he took first place with a jump of 5'7"!  That's his personal best at a meet and it's also a new team record.

 He had plenty of clearance at the lower heights.  From now on, he's not allowed to start at such low heights. 

It was a good day.  The sun was shining which made the cool breeze bearable.  Today, however, might be a different situation.  We're going to Marion without the sun, with the wind and the cold and the wet.  It's all good.  It wouldn't be a track season if it were warm all the time.