PRs

Hey all -

Just one more thing. When coming up with a goal a good rule of thumb is to pick something you think there is a 50% chance of happening. If Laurens goal is just to land in the pit in the Long jump there is a 99.99% chance of that happening so when she does achieve that goal, she can't really get any excitement from it. As that percentage goes down the benefits you recieve from achieving it go up. So does this mean pick super hard goals? NO. If she said her goal is to jump 20 feet, she would be on cloud 9 if she did it but it is not very likely to happen so setting super hard goals isn't great either. Hence the 50% chance. Make your goals a coin flip.

Anyways, at the begining of the season it looked like we were going to have 50 kids on the team, after grades, discipline, other sports issues came through we were down to ~32 (20 guys and 12 girls)

When I set our goal of 200 PRs, I figured 50 kids * 4 PRs each = 200. I figured this would be something that we had a 50% chance of hitting. As it stands now 32 kids would need to average 6 PRs each to reach that goal. Now I could have changed our goal to 32*4 = 128 PRs. However, I don't like changing goals once they are set. (although there is nothing wrong with adjusting goals)

Well since we just got 32 PRs in our last dual meet, this brings us up to 161 (39 away) with the taper coming up we have a legitimate change to reach our goal. This is something you all should be very proud of (now i know we haven't reached it yet, but the fact that it is in range goes to show the work that has been put into this season.) Let's finish what we started. -Coach Mike