In other news

I finally purchased new software for editing my website and so I don't need to bust out my old computer everytime i want to update it. Expect it to be updated way more often and for some changes.

Andrew Hill results

Here are the Results that AH sent me, plus the distances that Fresh got in the throws and that I got in the horiz jumps. That first time is obviously bogus (probably closer to 52 seconds)



Event 1 Girls 4x100 Meter Relay
Team Relay Finals
1 Live Oak A 55.64

Event 2 Boys 4x100 Meter Relay
Team Relay Finals
1 Live Oak A 45.59

Event 3 Girls 1600 Yard Run
Name School Finals
Faulk, Chelsie Live Oak 6:24.00


Event 4 Boys 1600 Yard Run
Name School Finals
Groen, Adam Live Oak 5:10.95
Cook, Lucas Live Oak 5:39.00
Dominguez, Gabe Live Oak 5:48.00

Event 5 Girls 100 Yard Hurdles
Name School Finals
Marusarz, Aly Live Oak 19.43
Adair, Ashlynn Live Oak 19.76


Event 7 Girls 400 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Olsen, Pauline Live Oak 1:00.74


Event 8 Boys 400 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Daw, Jacob Live Oak 53.29
Ukanwa, Alex Live Oak 58.54

Event 9 Girls 100 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Rodriguez, Erika Live Oak 12.84
Sparling, Catheri Live Oak 13.54

Event 10 Boys 100 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Alonzo, Taylor Live Oak 11.59
Ornduff, TJ Live Oak 11.75
Tolson, Eric Live Oak 11.87

Event 11 Girls 800 Yard Run
Name School Finals
Faulk, Chelsie Live Oak 2:58.10

Event 12 Boys 800 Yard Run
Name School Finals
Valencia, Artie Live Oak 2:15.54
Cook, Lucas Live Oak 2:30.00

Event 15 Girls 200 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Rodriguez, Erika Live Oak 26.27
Sparling, Catheri Live Oak 28.37

Event 16 Boys 200 Yard Dash
Name School Finals
Ornduff, TJ Live Oak 24.64
Lee, Kenny Live Oak 25.83

Event 18 Boys 3200 Yard Run
Name School Finals
1 Groen, Adam Live Oak 11:28.00

Event 19 Girls 4x400 Yard Relay
Team Relay Finals
1 Live Oak A 4:35.32

Event 20 Boys 4x400 Yard Relay
Team Relay Finals
Live Oak B 3:44.26
Live Oak A 4:18.59

Event 23 Girls Discus Throw
Name School Finals
Saulala, Fa Live Oak 96-09.00
Dronek, Nikki Live Oak 73-10.00
Cimino, Gaby Live Oak 64-08.00
Mallette, Lexie Live Oak 54-02.00

Event 24 Boys Discus Throw
Name School Finals
1 Alberto Suarez Live Oak 81-06.00
2 Diego Rodriguez Live Oak 68-11.00
3 Ramon Lucatero Live Oak 64-07.00

Event 25 Girls Shot Put
Name School Finals
Saulala, Fa Live Oak 30-10.50
Dronek, Nikki Live Oak 23-01.00
Cimino, Gaby Live Oak 21-05.00
Mallette, Lexie Live Oak 19-06.50

Event 26 Boys Shot Put
Name School Finals
1 Alberto Suarez Live Oak 27-01.50
2 Diego Rodriguez Live Oak 28-01.00
3 Ramon Lucatero Live Oak 26-07.00

Event 27 Girls High Jump
Name School Finals
1 Armstrong, Stepha Live Oak 5-00.00
2 Williams, Jada Live Oak 4-06.00

Event 28 Boys High Jump
Name School Finals
1 Daw, Jacob Live Oak 5-11.00
2 Sosebee, Nick Live Oak 5-08.00

Event 29 Girls Triple Jump
Name School Finals
1 Balala, Alexandra Live Oak 30-03.00
2 Drewniany, Lauren Live Oak 28-06.00


Event 30 Boys Triple Jump
Name School Finals
1 Ornduff, TJ Live Oak 40-11.00
2 Balala, Christian Live Oak 36-09.50
6 Silva, Daniel Live Oak 34-01.50
7 Butterworth, Mark Live Oak 32-02.50

Event 31 Girls Long Jump
Name School Finals
1 Williams, Jada Live Oak 15-03.50
2 Drewniany, Lauren Live Oak 15-00.00
3 Balala, Alexandra Live Oak 14-00.50
4 Adair, Ashlynn Live Oak 13-06.00
5 Urban, Tula Live Oak 13-02.00
6 Barker, Sydney Live Oak 13-01.00
8 Alonzo, Kendryl Live Oak 12-05.00
9 Duarte, Taylor Live Oak 12-02.50
10 DiSalvo, Annalise Live Oak 12-02.00

Event 32 Boys Long Jump
Name School Finals
1 Sosebee, Nick Live Oak 18-09.50
2 Lee, Kenny Live Oak 18-08.00

3 straight days of meets

So we had the Andrew Hill meet Thursday, and the Stanford invite friday and saturday. So I am a little behind in updating everything. That is what I am up to now. Just like I did yesterday, I will offer photos of the Stanford Invite until I can post more. - Coach Mike

Results

Hey All -

Finally got the email from the AH coach. If you noticed they cared a little too much about winning and keeping with that philosophy apparently if you weren't in the top 3 your time didn't matter because that is the only results they sent. I am very sorry if you ran a race and didn't end up with a time. Let's just move on because I don't want to even think about that coaching staff again. (I could make a complaint list longer than the one I made about the alisal invite last year)

Like I said I am really sorry. Next week is a home meet and I promise we will get everyone a time. As well as let everyone compete and not pull cheap move like saying only the 3 runners can run the 100. Sorry complaining again.

I will get the results posted soon. In the meantime here are over 200 photos of the meet (the first 60 or so are me trying out my frame by frame picture taking sequence on Kenny and Lauren) the rest are from Steve of everyone else on the track team.

(by the way check out the look on coach cunanans face when he looks at Laurens 4 by 400 split, picture 218, classic)

Meet vs Andrew Hill

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to let you know that I am still waiting on results from Andrew Hill. I was told they would be emailed to me that night. Its 8am the next morning and still nothing, so as soon as I get them I will post them and update the PR list.

What I can say is there were some great PRs that I heard about or saw. Kenny Lee had a big PR in the long jump, going from 18'1" last week (first 18 foot jump of his life) to an 18'8" this week, he really pushed himself this week, can't wait til he hits the taper. Fa Saulala improved her discus by oh about 20 FEET. She improved her 76' throw up to 96'. In the mile Gabe Dominguez also had a HUGE PR. Improving his PR from 6:01 to 5:48. Cookie (Lucas Cook) also had big one in the the mile improving from 5:48 to 5:39. Kendyl Alonzo had a great Long Jump improving by over a foot from last week 10'9 to 12'2 plus she is geting alot more consistant with her approach. Tula Urban joined the 13 foot club with a 13'2". In the triple jump TJ Ornduff had a foot PR going from 39'11" to 40'11". I know there were other PRs and I will post everything once I get results.

-Coach Mike

Pretty Cool

So the State Leaders were posted and for the first time since Cobbie ran for us we are on the list. (Unfortunantly it is an event that is not run at State haha) The girls SMR from Saturday is ranked 6th in the state of California. Link

SMRs from yesterday

Here is some video from St Francis. Here is the girls sprint medley, when I zoomed in the camera lost focus so I just turned it off. But you can see erika really opening up the race in her 200.



Here is the guys sprint medley, I learned not to zoom in during filming haha.

St. Francis Invite

Pretty good meet. Here are some photos taken by Steve and then some by Leach.
http://picasaweb.google.com/MikeSullivan705/20100320StFrancisInvite#

We had 2 event winners (within about 5 minutes of each other) Stephanie won the High Jump with a leap of 5'4" and the girls sprint medley relay team of Catherine Sparling, Lauren Drewniany, Erika Rodriguez and Pauline Olsen ran a 1:50 which broke their school record by 4 seconds (set last year)

The Varsity Boys also broke the school record in the SMR and came back an hour later and ran their PR in the 4 by 400. They got 3rd in both races, individually Viz ran a big PR and while Montoya didn't run a PR he put together 2 52s in a span of an hour, which is extremely impressive.

TJ PR'd in the LOng jump with a 19'11", (he also shaved his head and his legs to jump further). He did run a fast anchor leg in the 4*100 though. Leach got his PR in the triple on his first jump which made him happy, then he spent 30 minutes using his moms gps to find a mcdonalds and couldn't which made him sad.

Pauline got her first PR in the 400 since CCS sophmore year. (58.85) She is looking strong, she ran a 37 on the hill on Tuesday of this week.

Erika ran a PR in the 100 (if it is wind legal).

In the distance Chelsie ran a 6:00 1600, her PR is 5:58 which she ran 2 years ago, so she is getting close, her best last year was a 6:02.

Adam fresh off 3 PRs in the dual meet Thurday broke the 5 minute barrier in the 1600 with a 4:59.54.

Prelim Count

35 PRs.

Nice Job, all the results are entered. I will post them shortly.

Piedmont Hill Results

HEy Guys,

Coach Cunanan recorded all the races on his camera and what I am doing is counting the frame rate from when the smoke leaves the gun until you cross the finish. THese will be FAR FAR FAR more accurate than the times you got at the finish. Gonna be a while though, I am up to the 100s right now. Then once i get all these times calculated I will enter the field event results and post them. Best to just check back tomorrow.

Another Day of Hurdle Practice

Taylor "Santiago" Howard with a bit of a bloody knee... and this photo was taken after he cleaned it you can see the bloody sock from where all the blood ended up. Like a true hurdler he taped it up and kept practicing. Tomorrow he runs his first ever hurdle race, Im excited.

Warning!

There is a sniper at Live Oak, if he doesn't like you technique he will take you out!

Some TJ

Lauren doing a short approach TJ:

Things to notice.
1) Too high on the hop, needs to be out. In the long jump it is about jumping as far as you can in a single effort so you want to get some hight but the tj is a coordinated movement. You need ot get distance without compromising your ability in the other 2 jumps and find that balance. Thats why there are tons of great long jumps and not a lot of great triple jumpers, easy to just go all out its difficult to go hard and restrained. So when she jumps this high she adds distance to her hop but it comes at the cost of her 2nd and 3rd phase. Not a good deal. Laurens PR is 31 feet and that distribution is probably some thing like 13-6-12. Ideally it would be closer to 11-9-13 = 33 ft. Sure she is jumping 2 feet further in the hop right now but it is the same as a 200 meter runner who is always winning coming of the curve but the dies on the straight away, its irrelevant. There is no biggest hop competition (there actually is its called the long jump haha)

2. Second Phase is miniture. After this rep I had her just stand on the board and jump as far as she could and she went further. This shows that her recovery from the big hop not only slowed her down considerably but also had detrimental effect on her jumping ability. (not good when you can jump further from a standing start). Just watch the force of impact her leg has to absorb when she comes down from the hop. (Note: I think her second phase would have been a little further is she wasn't running out of runway but this effected her 3rd phase more than her 2nd phase)

3) Watch her feet on all 3 jumps in the 1st jump it is moving backwards (running off the board) in the other 2 it is just held out in front and absorbs the force of the jumps. If she tried to bring it underneath to absorb that force by the time she can push her foot will be to far behind her. All 3 foot contacts should have that negative foot speed.

Things I liked: Her posture stays upright throughout. Such an important thing that people have alot of trouble with. She swings the foot low on the free leg. Very nicely done.

All her problems are set up from a too big hop and can be fixed by focusing on flatter shorter first phase. Go 2 feet shorter on the hop so you can go 4 feet further in the step thats a good trade. What we see at alot of high school meets are athletes that have trouble with the second phase so they try to go bigger with the hop to make up for it. Lots of 15-7-15s in our league for the guys. Here is a video of lauren and one of Jonathan Edwards (WR holder)

The Rest

So I still have some things to do, I will come back and critique these later but here are the videos of everyone:

Varsity Boys B:



Frosh Soph Boys:




Varsity Girls A:



Varsity Girls B:

BTW

If you click the icon on youtube with 4 arrows you can get the video to go full screen where it is easier to see. Also if you want to watch it frame by frame tomorrow let me know and i can talk you through your form.

Group 2

Varsity Boys:

Posture:

All of them have a slight forward lean, Kenny probably has the best of the group and Montoya probably has the biggest forward lean.

Arms:

For the most part pretty good, Leach never quite gets the elbow to open up behind him, which limits what his legs can do in front. A little asymmetry with everyone else.

Legs:

Very common problem, when the toe comes off the ground they are still pushing. This is the cause of that circular heel recovery, as a group we need to focus on bringing the leg forward as soon as it leaves the ground. Taylor is the only one who does a really good job of this, Kenny is probably the biggest culprit (very large circular hell recovery)

Distance Runners

Group 1: Distance Runners

Adam - Posture: Good, it stays upright the entire time. Arms: Adam actually does a really good job of taking his arms through the optimal range of motion. Short in Front, Big in Back. Legs: At toe off (when foot comes off the ground, Adam bends the knee a little bit before the thigh comes forward, this indicates a little bit of a backward push. I would tell him to focus on more of an Up and Down Motion with the legs rather than a forward and backward on. I would consider this excellent form though.

Chandler -
P: Good
A: Good
L: Loos like he keeps his foot on the ground a little long, which causes him to push late and like adam he has a problem with the knee bending before the thigh is brought forward

Chelsie -
P: Good
A: Good - Maybe a little limited but that is ok with a distance runner, she is getting the core rotation we need
L: Very good Ankle stays at 90 degrees, she brings the thigh forward immediately after it leaves the ground and if you watch she moves up and down while running. That undulation means she is being very reactive.

Danielle -
P: Good
A: Left Arm is limited, Right arm as a larger range of motion
L: Similar Problem with Adam and Chandler knee bends before coming forward we want to pull that thing right off the ground and move forward.

Eddie:
P: Good except that head may move up a little keep it in a neutral allignment
A: Good
L: Sinks a little too much in the support phase, try to lift that free hip when running.

Lucas -
P:Excellent
A:Good
L: Similar to Chandler, he puts the foot down softly and then waits and pushes late, we want more of a downward strike not a backward one.

Tonight

I will be posting Footage 1 Group at a time. Remember the Three Things we covered today Posture, Arms and Legs. PAL. You guys looked good, I wish I filmed the 200s and 100s afterward because you guys lost alot of it. The way we will do this is I will write some things for you to look at and then let you look at the video.

Breaking Down Footage Now

Here are the flying 30 Times:
I rounded up to the nearest tenth but since i did use the camera to calculate these times I put the actual time in parenthesis.
Boys
Taylor A 3.3 (3.30)
Eric 3.4 (3.37)
Nick 3.4 (3.37)
Alex H 3.5 (3.43)
Dominic L 3.5 (3.43)
Kenny 3.5 (3.46)
Jacob M 3.5 (3.47)
Christian 3.5 (3.50)
Joesph 3.5 (3.50)
Kean 3.5 (3.50)
Pelz 3.6 (3.54)
Taylor H 3.6 (3.56)
Artie V 3.6 (3.57)
Silva 3.7 (3.63)
Archer 3.7 (3.66)
Cookie 3.8 (3.74)
Eddie P 3.8 (3.77)
Mark B 3.9 (3.83)
Chandler H 3.9 (3.84)
Devon J 3.9 (3.90)
Adam G 4.1 (4.10)

Girls
Erika 3.7 (3.63)
Pauline 3.8 (3.73)
Taylor D 4.0 (3.96
Jada W 4.0 (4.00)
Ashlynn A 4.0 (4.00)
Lauren D 4.1 (4.03)
Sydney B 4.1 (4.04)
Michela S 4.1 (4.06)
Tula U 4.2 (4.17)
Megan P 4.2 (4.17)
Alexandra B 4.3 (4.23)
Aly M 4.4 (4.36)
Chelsie F 4.4 (4.40)
Kendyl A 4.7 (4.70)
Danielle Y 5.2 5.17)

This week

This will be our last week for the rest of the season we don't have a meet, so let's take advantage of it. Just wanted to give another plug to Coach Cunanans Website: http://www.coachcunanan.com/index.html

Lots of good videos in there, including jumping and relay videos from the gilroy meet. Check it out. - Coach Mike

Goal this year

Just a random thought but I think it would be great if we made it through the whole year and people had no idea how you win or lose a meet. Is their any other sport where you try to keep "how do you win" away from your athletes???

Gilroy Meet

Whew, that meet is over and we are now off and running into our season. We had 21 total PRs which brings our season total up to 24. The full list is posted on the homepage as well as full results of the meet, or you can go here

I didn't get to see ANY field events but some of the things I noticed from the Track and read about/heard about from the field.

*Girls 4 by 100 team (Catherine-Pauline-Erika-Lauren) ran a 51.80 (the school record team from last year didn't run this fast until April 23rd)

*Lucas Cook had a great finish in the Mile and Gabe Domiguez came soooo close to breaking 6 minutes, (6:01, which was a 14 second PR!)

*Adam Groen is getting better (especially in the 2 mile) at running his own race. He came close to 2 of his PRs (mile/2 mile) and got a PR in the 800. Great early season start for him.

*Chelsie Faulk PR'd in the 800 (she could care less but I enjoyed it, haha) IN the mile she went out a little too fast, but that is alot better than going out WAY too fast and ran a season opening 6:08. (Im very excited for her)

*TJ Ornduff learned how tough it is to run a 400, but considering its his first ever he ran great. HE also had a PR in the triple jump.

*Erika Rodriguez, who has been working out since november for her senior year, came out well. Ran a PR in the 200 (26.18) and great 400 relay split (60.7, also a PR).

*Viz and Catherine started out the year with PRs in the 200.

*Pauline Olsen started the year right at 60 in the 400 in the open and relay and also ran a very fast 27.07 200.

*Alex Ukanwa took 10 seconds off his 800 meter PR and ran the first 2 400s of his track career.

*The meet ended beautifully all three 4 by 400 teams winning their races (more importantly running very well at this point in the season.) Such a great ending to the meet.

* Alex Hafenbecker just broke a minute in the 4 by 4 with a split of 59.97. His frosh-soph teammates of Uriel Flores, ALex Ukanwa and Lucas Cook also ran well to give them a time of 4:07 (they will be under 4 minutes in no time)

* The Varsity guys team (Who went to CCS last year) came out sharp, winning their heat and being less than 2 seconds off their best from last season. Eric Tolson had a PR of 54.0. Jacob Montoya held off a great runner from gilroy and one of the best in the CCS from sobrato by running a 52, just a week into the season. Viz had the new experience of getting the baton in first place and trying to run without someone to catch and Jacob Daw ran a strong leadoff leg, fresh off jumping 5'8 in the HJ.

*The Varstiy Girls 4 by 4 of Lauren Drewniany, Tula Urban, Erika Rodriguez and Pauline Olsen also had a solid performance. I was really happy with Lauren, who volenteered to run it because we needed someone. Its a tough race to run especially if you don't do 400 training, very selfless. Tula learned a little about race distribution. Erika ran her fastest lap ever with a 60.7 and Pauline followed that up with a 60.1.

*Taylor Duarte showed some speed in the 100 and from what I hear jumped well in the LJ. Coach Cunanan made sure to point out to me he was impressed.

*Annalise Disalvo ran a great 2nd leg in the 4 by 1, and got her first ever long jumps in.

*Artie Valencia ran a 2:16, with a 1:08 and a 1:08 perfect splits.

*Taylor Alonzo PRed in the LJ, once he gets rid of his nagging quad injury his new PR won't last long.

*Alberto Suarez had a 10 foot PR in the Discus, let me say that again a 10 FOOT PR.

*Diego Rodriguez matched Erika's 2 PRs with 2 of his own (SP and DT)

*Fa Saulala got 2 PRs with a small improvement on her great shot put from last week and for good measure also PRd in the DT

*Ramon Lucatero missed a 100 time because no one in his race knew 2 gun shots meant false start but he ran well, but he did make sure to hit a PR in the discus to the day was worth it.

*In the LJ, Devon Jones, Patrick Archer and Artie Valencia all found a little more distance than their first attempts at the event last week. Keep it up guys.

* I know coach Cunanan was impressed with Mark Butterworth and Daniel Silva in the Triple Jump.

* Aly Marusarz got her first hurdle race under her belt, I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous, she has been injured so I didn't know what to expect. Not only did she run it but she ran it well.

I just wanted everyone to get a time and a mark I was really impressed you all had a lot of great early season performances. Great job, have a good weekend see you Monday. -Coach Mike

Entering Results right now

Just want to let you guys know I am entering results now and I will post them a little later tonight. Preliminary Count 19 PRs. Great job. Now that all the new people established a mark that number is going to sky rocket. Be back soon with results! - Coach Mike

Meet vs Gilroy/Sobrato/Christopher

On Friday, (weather cooperating) we will have our first meet against other teams. It will be a 4 way meet with the other high schools in the south county. Just like the alumni meet last week this will be more of a 'meet specific practice'. Our first actual meet is on March 18th. Changing the starting date from Jan 5th to Feb 1st has really shortened out season and I just want to remind everyone that we don't care about meet results in March and April, only May. So if you are feeling unprepared for this meet its because you are, we have a progression we are going to follow and these upcoming meets in my mind are just practice.

Also in the next week or two expect some changes. Our roster is now at 60 athletes, which is great but it is also something we are unaccustomed to. (Last year we finished at 27 and had 7 of those graduate) Which means we have 40 new to track athletes. I am going to have to organize practice a little differently. Yesterday I know their were people who recieved no coaching whatsoever, which is not ok by me. Don't worry we will figure it out.

Bus will leave at 2:30, you guys will be let out of class at 2:15. The bus leaves on time, we wait for nobody. If you want to drive to Gilroy, you can. However, you are NOT allowed to drive anyone but yourself to the meet.

-Coach Mike