Report from coach Robin:
Hello athletes and parents!
Congratulations to all of the athletes – Alex, Amelia, Andrew, Anna, Annette, Cole, Grace C, Grace L, John, Kevin, Lisa, Molly, Patrick, Phillip, Robin, Thomas and Vienna - who competed at the Calgary Hershey Meet yesterday. Among them, these seventeen JD athletes produced some outstanding results. I would especially like to congratulate Grace L and Robin, who were competing in their first meet. I thought you both competed very well, and Robin even managed to qualify for Hershey Provincials – well done new athletes!
As those of you who were at the meet will know, the results posted at the meet were a little disorganized, difficult to read, and some results were missing altogether. For these reasons, while I will acknowledge what I think were PBs in this email, I will not be recording any PBs from this meet in my official PB charts nor using them as part of the JD Awards criteria or as seed times for future meets. I have contacted the meet director to try to get the results that were not posted at the meet. This information is needed to confirm which athletes have qualified to compete at Hershey Provincials in Edmonton on Saturday 22 June. I know I am missing some ball throw results and Patrick’s 800m.
In the meantime, if you know you have qualified for Hershey Provincials by placing in the top four in any of your events (including the relay) at the Calgary Hershey meet, then you need to go online and register for Hershey Provincials. The link is below. Please note that CALATAF does not travel to Hershey Provincials as a team. Parents are responsible for getting their athlete to and from Edmonton and for booking a hotel room for them. Blair and I will be traveling to Hershey Provincials and have booked rooms at the meet hotel, which is the Delta Edmonton South Hotel and Conference Centre. Be certain to tell the staff at the hotel that you are attending the meet so that you receive the meet rate.
Link to the Hershey Provincials website (go to this link to register): Note that you must register online for Hershey Provincials no later than 18th June.
http://www.athleticsalberta.com/programs/hersheys-track-field-games-2013
Here are some meet highlights:
Our 4x100m relay teams ran very well, with both easily winning their races. The ladies team of Vienna to Grace C to Amelia to Molly placed 1st of three teams in 56.76s, while the men’s team of John to Alex to Cole to Thomas finished 1st of four teams in 52.36s. Well done relay runners! We’ll keep working on those exchanges!
JD’s winning 4x100m relay team: (from left) Grace, Molly, Amelia and Vienna – well done girls!
(Thanks to Grace’s family for the great photo!)
The following athletes have qualified for Hershey Provincials, by placing in the top four in at least one of their events (I am still missing some results, so my apologies to those athletes who are erroneously left off this list, or to those whose list of events is incomplete): Alex (800m, SLJ, 4x100m), Lisa (100m, 200m, ball throw), Annette (800m, 1600m), Cole (800m, ball throw, 4x100m),Molly (100m, 4x100m), Amelia (SLJ, 4x100m), Vienna (100m, 4x100m), Grace C (200m, 4x100m), Thomas (100m, ball throw, 4x100m), John (200m, 4x100m), Phillip (200m, 800m), Kevin (1600m), Patrick (400m), Kamila (800m, 1600m), and Robin (SLJ). Note that, at Provincials, athletes only compete in events that they finished in the top four at the Calgary meet. Read More »
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