Taper

Well guys. In case you didn't notice we reached our goal of 200 PRs. We are now at 210. Very proud of you guys. I had a post a few weeks ago about tapering (I even made a diagram on Windows Paint, haha)

Well just to give you some numbers. Going into the April 30 Meet against Piedmont Hills we had 128 PRs and 1 Season best. In the 14 day span from our last dual meet to BVAL finals we had 82 PRs and 9 season bests. This is the cool thing about track. You can scrap the regular season to perform better in the post season. We had 15 people qualify for CCS. Some of those athletes qualified in multiple events. Erika in 4, Courtney, Pauline, and Stephanie in 3, Greg in 2.

Here is the list of the BVAL schools in order of enrollement. You can see there is quite a high correlation between attendence and performance. It really is just a statistics game. Say 1 out of every 20 students enrolled is a good athlete, and 1 out of 100 is a great athlete. A school with an enrollement of 3000 is going to have quite a few good athletes to spread around to the different sports and a good amount of great athletes.

BVAL Enrollements :

3646 Independence
2628 Evergreen Valley
2586 Oak Grove
2435 Silver Creek
2397 Santa Teresa
2237 Andrew Hill
2220 Piedmont Hills
1945 Mt. Pleasant
1858 Leland
1716 Yerba Buena
1709 Leigh
1707 Overfelt
1680 Westmont
1662 Lincoln
1564 Ann Sobrato
1536 Pioneer
1479 Willow Glen
1402 Branham
1336 Del Mar
1320 Prospect
1315 Lick
1250 Live Oak
1149 Gunderson
997 San Jose