CHEETAHS
Ages 8 to 13
Begins 01-May
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8 pm Glenmore Track
Thursdays 6:30 - 8 pm Foothills Track
For 16 practices
Coaches: Nikki

JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT
Grade 7 and 8 athletes
Coaches: Ed,  Lou, Tony, Michelle
Mondays        6:15 - 8 pm        Foothills Track
Tuesdays        6:15 - 8 pm        Glenmore Track
Thursdays         6:15 - 8 pm        Foothills Track

PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT
Grade 9 and 10 athletes
Coaches: Juerg and Blair
Mondays 6 - 8 pm Foothills Track
Tuesdays 6 - 8 pm Glenmore Track
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm Foothills Track

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT GROUP
Grade 10 and up

Power Speed - Jumps/Sprints/Hurdles/Throws/CE
Coaches: Kim/Janet/Jill/Paul
Monday 5:30 - 7 pm Glenmore
Monday - Throwers 5:30 - 7:30 Glenmore
Tuesday 5 - 6:30 Glenmore
Tuesday - Jumpers 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Thursday  5:30 - 7 pm Glenmore

Sprints/hurdles/Mid Distance up to 800m
Coach: Jason Power Speed/Mid Distance
Monday 5 - 6:30 pm Foothills
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Thursday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Saturday 10 - 12 am Glenmore

Distance - 800m and up/Steeple Chase
Coaches: Christine/Hayleigh
Monday 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Wednesday 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Thursday 5:30 - 7 pm Foothills

Please call the office at 686-6011 for further information.

Imagine 1958, when it was far from hip to run or jog as a form of exercise in Calgary.

Enter young married couple Carol Kyle and her husband Doug from Toronto, a pair of competitive track and field athletes - Carol, a provincial record holder in Ontario for high jump, and Doug, a two-time Olympic long-distance runner.

Together, they created what has become a fixture in this city - the Calgary Track and Field Club.

More than 50 years and thousands of athletes later - as well as countless other track and field contributions - Carol has added to her many awards for volunteerism being named the Calgary Booster Club 2012 Sportsman Of The Year on March 19.

“It’s something that has been overlooked,” said Lawrence King, Booster Club director and the person who nominated Carol for the award.

“All of a sudden, I was thinking of Carol Kyle and her 51 years, that she was overlooked and (this was) something we should have done a long time ago.”

After the couple moved to Calgary in 1958, they realized the only track clubs in Alberta were in Edmonton and Lethbridge. That meant high school students who wanted to excel in track and field had the city championship and possibly provincial championship as their only track meets of the year.

CALTAF, as it became known, aimed to offer more.

Read the full story from The Calgary Herald.

Note: Maps to locations can be found here.

Cheetahs
Ages 8 to 13
Coaches:  Nikki, Tara and Julia
Begins: 01-May
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8 pm Glenmore Track
Thursdays 6:30 - 8 pm Foothills Track
For 16 practices

Junior development
Grade 7 and 8 athletes
Coaches:  Ed,  Lou, Tony, Michelle
April
Mondays 6:15 - 8 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
Wednesdays 6:30 - 8 pm Talisman Centre
Thursdays 6:15 - 8 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
When the weather permits practice will move outdoors to (same times):
Foothills - Monday
Glenmore - Thursdays

May
Mondays 6:15 - 8 pm Foothills Track
Tuesdays 6:15 - 8 pm Glenmore Track
Thursdays  6:15 - 8 pm Glenmore Track

Performance development
Grade 9 and 10 athletes
Coaches: Juerg and Blair
April
Mondays 6 - 8 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
Tuesdays 6 - 7 pm Oval at U of C; 7 - 8 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
When weather permits the schedule will change to:
Mondays 6 - 8 pm Foothills Track
Tuesdays 6 - 8 pm Glenmore Track
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm Foothills Track

Senior development
Grade 10 and up
Coaches: Kim/Janet/Jill/Paul
Power Speed - Jumps/Sprints/Hurdles/Throws/CE

April
Monday 5 - 7 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
Monday  6 - 8 pm  Jack Simpson for throwers
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Oval at U of C
Thursday 5 - 7 pm Jack Simpson Track at the U of C
When weather permits the schedule will change to:
Monday 5:30 - 7 pm Glenmore
Monday - Throwers 5:30 - 7:30 Glenmore
Tuesday 5 - 6:30 Glenmore
Tuesday - Jumpers 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Thursday  5 - 6:30 Glenmore

Power Speed/Mid Distance - Sprints/hurdles/Mid Distance up to 800m
Coach: Jason
April
Monday 5 - 7 pm Oval at the U of C - end at Weight Room at Foothills
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Oval
Thursday 5 - 7 pm Oval
Saturday 9 - 10:30 am Mt Royal University
When weather permits the schedule will change to:
Monday 5 - 6:30 pm Foothills
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Thursday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Saturday 10 - 12 am Glenmore

Distance
800m and up/Steeple Chase
Choach: Christine/Hayleigh
Begins: April Monday 5 - 7 pm Oval
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Oval
Thursday 5 - 7 pm Oval
Friday 5 - 7 pm Oval
When weather permits the schedule will change to:
Monday 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Tuesday 5 - 7 pm Glenmore
Wednesday 5 - 7 pm Foothills
Thursday 5:30 - 7 pm Foothills

Please call the office at 686-6011 for further information.

Do you put an exclamation mark at the end of an indoor season?  Well if you can you do, and did we ever!

We had a great meet in Edmonton on the weekend and it capped off a great indoor season.

I want to thank everyone, coaches, athletes, parents for making it a special fun few months for me.

The complete 100 page meet results are here.

I will keep my comments brief, I have yet to do the work on recording all the PBs we achieved.  There were so many. My flight to Havana leaves on Thursday morning so I need to just get this message out.

The Bantams:

Hanna, Cam and Grace.

Hannah with a 1.30 HJ and 7.67 SP, Cam with a PB in the 150 and first time under 3:00 in the 800m, and Grace well what can you say about a 1:48 600m followed up with a 2:32 800m?  Goodness Gracious Gracie!

Adeem, Nathan, Charles and Mehrdad.

I like the way you guys compete, you take turns letting the other guys win once in a while.  Who would have guessed that Mehrdad has the fastest 60m of the four of you?  How about Nathan’s 600m and Charles’ 800m (first time under 3:00!)?  Best of the bunch, both of them.  You go to the shot circle and it’s Adeem’s turn.  And the sportsmanship award goes to Charles who saved the day for Nathan and Adeem by going to find them so they wouldn’t miss flight 2 of the med ball throw.  Thanks Charles.  Great work guys!

The Midgets:

We have two provincial champions in our midst!

Mia in a tense, dramatic shot put (also silver in the weight throw) and Igor just had a rollicking good time in the hurdles (also silver in the shot put)!

Mia and Igor: congratulations to you both, that is a great achievement.  I am looking forward to the summer meets already!

Meghan was oh so close with a silver in the 200m and a bronze in the 60m (it’s the most competitive event of the meet so this is no small feat).

Anise struck silver in the triple jump then served notice that she’s a long sprinter by capturing her section in the 200m.

Why was the boys hurdles such a good time?  CALTAF swept the podium!  Harrison nabbed silver and NathanK cleaned up with the bronze.  Did I mention Ben Meister was next?

But you don’t have to win medals to set PBs and win the coach’s admiration and respect.

Merel did just that by registering the fourth fastest time in the 60m heats, winning her section in the 200m and putting in 45.74 (7th place) in the 300.  What about that 1.30m HJ and that 4.35 LJ?  All PBs.

Emma led the way with a 1.40m PB in the HJ.  Put ice on that hip kid.

Kiannah popped a big 5 meter PB in the weight throw.

Delainy and Marissa found out that those long distance races can be, well… long.  We’ll race again another day girls!  Marissa it was good we scratched the 800m anyway, how would you have got that PB in the HJ when they were at the same time?

Lyle had another PB in the HJ at 1.55m.  I’ll just keep entering you if you are going to get a PB every time.  Your 1200m was impressive, thanks for doing that.  We’ll do more of it now.

Sean made the semi-final in the 60m and then ran an 8.68.  That’s the way to do it, each race progressively faster.  Not everyone gets that believe it or not.

Matt went under 3:00 in the 800!  Not bad for someone caring around all that extra weight on his broken hand.

Harrison put in a monster PB in the 800, down to 2:26.  All that hockey is paying off!

I want a special shout out to the three girls who came to their first Edmonton meet, Jessica, Sarah and Merel.  I hope you had a great weekend!

REMINDER NO PRACTICES AT THE UNIVERSITY THIS WEEK AND NEXT.

I WILL SEE YOU AT TALISMAN CENTRE TOMORROW @6:15pm.  (bring your swimsuit if you want to hit the hot tub after we run a bit)

Now.  Let’s get ready for outdoors!

Coach Ed

CALTAF: Athletics Alberta Club of the Year 2011 (and 2009)

Congratulations to CALTAF  (belatedly) on winning the Athletics Alberta Club of the Year award for 2011. This is the second time CALTAF has won the award. The last time was 2009 (which was also the first time the award was offered!).

Thanks to Nicola Charlesworth for the above graphic!

2011 Athletics Alberta Awards (photo by Jan Lips)

Club of the Year 2011: Caltaf
George Gemer Award: Ed Moore - Caltaf
Junior Male Athlete of the Year: Gareth Hadfield
Youth Female Athlete of the Year Nominee: Adrianne Erdman
Bantam Female Award Recipient: Mia Hull
Midget Cross Country Award: Gillian Ceyhan
Junior Cross Country Award: Gareth Hadfield
Senior Cross Country Award Winner: Nyial Majock

View more pictures here by Jan Lips

See all the winners and nominations here (pdf)

Saturdays 10:30am to 11:45am Mt Royal University Indoor Track
Wednesdays 6:30 TO 7:45pm Talisman Center

It is $150 for the 8 week (16 practices) session. The athlete must also be a member of Athletics Alberta (our governing insuring provincial body) for $50 - this particular fee is payable just once in a calendar year.

If you can only come either the Sat or Wed please speak to the coach when you register.

More information and a map to the locations are available here.

What a fantastic day we had up at the University yesterday!

Congratulations to all the athletes who ran and thank you to all the parents who helped out, and a special big thanks to Coach Hayleigh who did it all herself as I was working at the finish line all day.

You can read the full results below
http://calgarytrackcouncil.com/2012/DOResults11.htm

I was very happy about a lot of things.  We had thirty athletes who competed, that is almost the entire group.

Almost everyone had PBs in the 60m which tells me you are all getting faster.  Some people had huge improvements like Caitlin and Sean who improved by about a half second.  That’s a lot in a race that only takes 8 or 9 seconds.  Talk about the depth in our group: 1st in 14 yr old girls (Meghan), 2nd in 13 yr old girls (Emma) and 3rd in 12 year old girls (Hanna).

The relays were exciting because we had so many teams and I got to watch so many of you run.  Our Midget Boys team (NathanK, Sean, Harrison, Lyle)  came second to another team from the CALTAF PD group and our Midget Girls (Merel, Erica, Delainy, Caitlin) proved themselves real competitors in with the older girls and women.  Our two Bantam Boys teams came second (EthanP, Liam, Matt, EthanN) and fourth (NathanC, Charles, Adeem, Jeremy).  Our Bantam Girls teams came first (MIa, Grace, Lauren, Emma) in a great race with Calgary Olympic Track and sixth (Kiannah, Syd, Maddie, Hawaa).  The fact that we can put six relay teams on the track confirms for me the depth of the group and the enthusiasm and commitment the athletes bring to the sport.  Thanks so everyone who ran!

I didn’t ask too many of you run the 150m or 200m because they came right after the 4×200 relays, still I saw good early season speed from Cam and Mia, NathanC, Adeem, Harrison, Sean and Ben.  Just like in the 60s almost everyone recorded PBs.

The 800s were highly entertaining!  I watched all of you run through cross-country season and I’ve been looking forward to some racing on the track. The next meet, on January 8, has both a 600m and a 1000m in it so let’s think about what it will take to run one of those distances now.  Sahad’s 2:29 was a PB which goes to show what a little (or in his case a lot) of hard work will do for you.

PBs?  For those of you not up on all the track lingo PB stands for Personal Best and it means the fastest you’ve ever run.  It is one of the ways we measure success in our group.  We all see the races on the track and it’s obvious who wins those but as coaches we look beyond that to the effort and improvement shown by each individual athlete.

Not everyone had a PB on Saturday.  Sometimes it just doesn’t happen and that’s OK.  Some of you, especially those of you going into second year Midget, have the bar set pretty high already and PBs will take an extraordinary effort to achieve.  Don’t worry, keep training, I assure you that for the beginning of the season we are in great shape.

I especially want to congratulate the athletes who are new to our group.  You survived your first track meet; well done!  Saturday was the first time I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching Sydney, Erica, Merel (great relay leg!), NathanC, Adeem, Charles, Jeremy, SImon, Liam, EthanP and last but not least EthanN (great finish in the 800!).

See you at practice tomorrow!

Coach Ed

Most of us were up in Edmonton yesterday at the Provincial Championships so let’s wrap up the season with a report from that event.

CALTAF had the largest number of entries of any club in the province (33) and a presence in just about every race that was impossible to miss.
The course was hard, with a single track switchback pathway on the downhill and an unforgiving long hill into the finish. It was what I would call a character builder and I think everyone who ran is a better runner today because of it. Most important was the outstanding effort put in by everyone!

I will cover the results of the Cheetahs and the JD athletes.

In the first race of the day, the Peewee Girls 1700m, Colette Benko was 15th (out of 43) and Emily Stirling was next in 16th.

In the Peewee Boys 1700m, Charles Voglewede was 7th (out of 34),
Jarvis Chantler was 20th and Sam Yardley was 28th.

In the Bantam Girls 2km we had seven entered and we won second place in the team competition. Hats off to the Leduc club who has had a lock on this event for many years. The top finisher from our group was Marissa Stirling, 5th (out of 24) then Lauren Yardley 10th, Grace Hilton 13th, Maddy Lee 15th, Deia Hida 17th, Cam Knowles 22nd and Rhea Foster 23rd.

In the Bantam Boys 2km Ethan Nishimura, in his first competition with the club, was 5th (out of 17) and Matt Voglewede was 15th.

In the Midget Girls 3km Sarah Voglewede ran a gutsy 22nd.

Congratulations to everyone who ran cross country with us this year and thanks for making it an exciting and fun two months for me.

–Coach Ed

Here is a map of all the Caltaf training locations.

1km
2km
Men’s 8km
Woman’s 5km