Saturday | April 14, 2007

District Week

Wow! The results are coming in fast and furious. I'm working on them a little at a time. Since everyone has two weeks until the regional; meets, I'm not worried about having everything posted within a couple of days. (As I've talked about before, I am pulling back a little from the 20-30 hours a week spent working on the website during the spring season.) I have over 100 meets posted with quite a few more waiting and some big meets finishing today.

Thanks for the help of so many people in gathering results and thanks for everyone's patience in giving me time to get them posted before asking "where are the results that I want to see and why weren't they posted yesterday?"

Hardly anyone is reported the timing method used which, of course, will be a real problem when I start getting requests to change marks or add them to the performance lists. When meet directors let me know after the meet is posted, it only means that I must go back over the results and redo the performance lists a second time.

The best part is the high quality of plain ol' competition that I'm seeing in the results. Lots of tight team races and extremely close individual competitions. Looking through the results, I find myself wishing I'd been there to see this race or that because of the close times. I find myself imagining how exciting the finish of so many races must have been.

The best marks so far this season have easily been the 157-3 throw by DeSoto discus ace Skylar White and the 13-4 vaut by Mansfield's super soph Shade Weygandt. Skylar's toss mvoed her into the #8 spot on the all-time Texas list. Weygandt set a new outdoor state record to follow up with her national sophomore indoor record of 13-6 during the winter.

I received a call from Trinity coach Kevin Schamel the week with news that simply left me speechless. He had a jumper go 22-5, but only finished 4th in the the 26-2A meet! Two jumpers over 23 and two more over 22-5 made for perhaps the greatest long jump competition in 2A history. Terrence Tollier (Hempstead) moved to #4 on the yearly list with his winning leap.

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