Week 15: Conant Fri, Home JV Conference Sat, Banquet & V/FS Conference Next Week, Celebrations

Hi everyone,

Here is some important information for this week:

Conant Invite on Friday

Limited entry A-B-C style meet
White Bus leaving Biester at 3:15 with all field events (Delcid)
Yellow Bus leaving Biester at 3:45 for everyone else (Frazier)
Field events begin at 5:00, running events begin at 5:30
Entry Fee: $7 for adults, $4 for students
Order of Events: 4x800, "B" then "C" groups of 3200, 4x100, group "A" of 3200, 110HH, 100, 800, 4x200, 400, 300 IH, 1600, 200, 4x400
Entries are posted at www.gwtrackandfield.com
Everyone competing at this meet will still go to tomorrow's meet at 8:00 as a worker and cheer on teammates

Home Meet JV Conference on Saturday

"Conant Crew" who competed the night before should arrive at 8:00 for their work assignment
Field event athletes arrive at 7:50 along with early distance events
Running event athletes arrive at 9:00
Athletes should know their events, but official entries will be posted soon at www.gwtrackandfield.com.
Order of events: Freshmen 3200 @ 9:30, Freshmen 4x800 @ 9:45, then remaining running events at 10:00 -- 4x800 (JV), 4x100, 3200 (JV), 110 HH, 100, 800, 4x200, 300 IH, 200, 4x400
For many of our athletes, this will be the last meet of the season

Banquet Next Week (Tuesday) and V/FS Conference Next Week (Thursday)

As a reminder, next week's banquet is now on Tuesday, May 7th. Athletes and their families should arrive at the cafeteria at 4:45 so that we can begin promptly at 5:00. We aim to be done at 7:00!
Some of our athletes will continue on to the V/FS conference at York on Thursday of next week. This line-up will be finalized tomorrow. Sectionals and state will follow in the weeks after!

Celebrations:

Runner of the week: Mason Ellens. Mason had a 0.3 sec PR in 100 and 200. He is ranked 7th in the state for 100, just 0.1 from 1st in the state. He is also ranked 7th in the state in the 200, just 0.03 off Tyquan Cox’s school record
Field athlete of the week: Luke Benson. Luke had a PR and school record in Triple Jump and is also ranked 7th in the state at 46’5”. He also had a PR and State qualifying mark in High Jump at 6’3".
Fire in the eyes: Matt King. In the mile, Matt King had a strong PR and won the race by over 10 seconds. Running that PR by himself!
Captain’s Award: Bode Haber. Bode worked PV for the entire meet (several hours!), supported his teammates, and even had coaches from other schools compliment his hard work. He then proceeded to vault himself until after the 4x400. Thanks for supporting the team, Bode!
Awesome Award:
Matthew Murin. Matthew had a huge 6-second PR in the 400. Mr. Murin was a young athlete in a big invite, and has great things coming!
Ben Saucedo - Ben had a season best in shot put AND discus at the Arnold Invite. State qualifying marks are right around the corner!
Ben Schoettle - Ben had another half second PR in 110H of 16.2. Ben is the fastest freshman 110 hurdler we’ve ever had, his time is within the top 10 efforts in GW history, and he is ranked as the 3rd best freshmen in the state of Illinois.

That's all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,

Coach Voland