Track and Field

               All meets are held at SLVHS

                             @ 4pm

 

 

 

 

Hello!

I want to give you all some details regarding the upcoming Track and Field season! I’m so excited to have some excellent coaches step up once again this year. These wonderful coaches are volunteering their time and energy training with your children and work hard to make this a positive and fun experience for everyone that participates, we are very lucky to have them!

 

Juliette Smith will be coaching the hurdles for her third year. The athletes are already asking and hoping you’ll be coaching them! We are so stoked to have you back! 

 

Mark Giblin is an experienced personal trainer and Spartan athlete and head coach. He will be programming and leading conditioning for the team this year and working with our middle and long distance runners. Welcome back Mark! 

 

Katherine Little has been a volunteer with the SLV running program in both middle and high school for the last 8 years! She is now the throwing coach at the high school and has graciously offered to help our middle schoolers this year. Thank you! 

 

Still looking for a jumping coach and help with the sprinting events, if you know anyone let me know. Even if you can run a clinic or two, that would be super helpful.

 

In addition to our coaches, we will need some extra support with volunteers at the meets. We host all of the meets here at SLV and it is a huge undertaking that requires a ton of volunteer help. A signup link will be available in my weekly communication email. 

 

Track and Field Events 

100m

200m

400m

800m

1600m

4x100m

4x400m

High Jump 

Long Jump

Shot Put

Discus

 

THE TRAINING SCHEDULE AND SOME IMPORTANT DATES

 

We will only have the athletes out on the track if their event is on the training schedule for that day. There will be NO training on your own this year, if you are not working with a coach and signed in then you can not be out on the track. There will be multiple schools using our facilities this year and this schedule has been designed to make sharing the space safe.  

 

If your athlete is sick or injured they may not come to practice to hang out and watch. If they are injured at practice we will have to call you to come pick them up, We do not have enough volunteer coaches to support supervising athletes who are not participating. 

 

On early out Mondays, if a student chooses to remain on campus until practice they must follow school rules and find a quiet spot to work on school work. There will be no supervision on campus for the 40 minutes before practice.

 

Athletes should be signed in and out on the track to do their warm up lap by 2:30.  We will start our group warm up at 2:45. 

 

Monday 2:45-4

Middle distance/long distance and 4x400 relay Mark 

High Jump/Long jump (new coach) and Kim 

Shotput/Discus Katherine 

 

Tuesday 2:45-4

100m and 200m and 4x100 relay Kim 

Hurdles Juliette 

 

Wednesday 2:45-4

Middle and long distance 4x400  Mark 

High Jump/ Long Jump (new coach) and Kim 

Shotput/Discus Katherine 

 

Thursday 2:45-4 

100m and 200m and 4x100 relay Kim and new coach 

Hurdles Juliette 

 

Friday 3:30-12am jk 

Meets 

No practice on non scheduled meet days 

 

 

A Google sign up form will be available on our athletic department page at our school website. In addition, a link will be sent out in the weekly school newsletter for both the middle school and the nature Academy this week. 

 

Communication will be weekly with the team once the roster is complete. I email the training schedule and post it in front of Lupita‘s office weekly. Again, many of the athletes will not be required to come to practice every day as training for their events will not be daily so it's super important to check the schedule on Sunday nights!

 

All athletes will be put into a group A,B,C boys and girls. This placement is based on a CCS calculation that is height, weight and age. 

The athletes will get their placement on Monday April 14th and will sign up for their events. 

 

Relay teams for both the 4x100 and 4x400 will be created on Tuesday. Teams must be created in their groupings, no combination a,b,c teams) 

 

-The first week of practice will be April 1st-3rd

-No Practice on Friday the 4th 

-No practice during spring break week April 7th-12th

-First Meet is the 18th of April

#2 4/25

#3 5/2

#4 5/9 (qualifier) 

Finals 5/16 (only top finishers in each group participate in final and they must participate in qualifiers to be in final (even if they’ve been a top finisher all season) 

 

I'm so excited to get out on that track to start training with you all! Go Panthers!

 

Cheers, 

 

Kim Lyons 

Head Track and Field Coach 

San Lorenzo Valley Middle School

[email protected]

415.531.0369