What to watch for at Saint Francis

SPRINT MEDLEY RELAY

Tomorrow at Saint Francis they will have the sprint medley relay which is one of my favorite events. We only get to do it about once a year since it is not an official event. It is a 2 lap race that consists of a 100-100-200-400. The most exciting moment in track is the last lap of a close 4 by 4. Well the sprint medley guarentees that you get everytime. The goal of the first 3 runners is just to get the baton to your 400 runner. Then it is every teams fastest 400 runner battling within a range of about 5 seconds or so, in a 4 by 4 by the time the anchor gets it there could already be a 2o second lead.

The sprint Medley relay gave us Mark's great 4 last year aka "The cut off", Allen's finish "The dive", 2 years ago the frosh soph girls team broke the varsity record for the SMR. Last year that record was broken by a team with 3 frosh soph members.

I am excited about the team we have this year. I think this years team will be the fastest we have ever put out there. 4 School record holders: The frosh soph 100 record (Erika), 200 record (Courtney), 400 record (Pauline), LJ record (Lauren). Will team up to run it. Courtney to Lauren for the 100s and Erika in the 200 and Pauline finishing with the 400. As of now the girls 4*100 and Pauline are the only people on the CCS top marks list and we kind of get to combine them into 1 event. Should be fun.

Other things to watch for tomorrow:

Boys 4*100 - Get to build on their fast performance against Del Mar this week

Girls 4*100 - Los Altos (defending CCS champs in the 4*100) are in lane 4, the girls are in lane 3. They should be able to be pulled to a good time.

Olivia - Guarenteed to get a season best since she is running the 3000, more importantly though running a good race with some good competition.

Adam - Hopefully will be recovered enough from 450 meters of bear crawls to take a shot at breaking 5 minutes in the 1600.

Mason - The PR machine gets 2 more cracks at his personal bests in the Shot and Disc. I stopped by the throwers practice yesterday and he is definitely still on the way up

Nikki - Will get to go against some other frosh soph athletes in the shot and discus

Greg - gets 4 shots at 21 feet in the LJ

Kenny - is going to break 17-7.5 that way the false mark on tuesday is irrelevant. (at the very least he will break his PR of 17-3.75)

Lauren - gets a couple cracks at 16 feet in the LJ

Pauline in the 400 another day of good competition but this time she is in lane one and gets to chase instead on lane 9 by herself.

Viz - tries to enter 55 second territory in the 400

Stephanie - other than the throwers she is the only one not doing 1 individual event saturday, she is doing 3. 100h 300h HJ.

Erika - might run the 100 depending on how the leg is feeling, and James might run the 100 depending on if he can stay until 1:40

See you guys there - Coach Mike