Week 8: Food Drive, Lake Park Invite at NCC Sat, Picture Day 3/17, Awards, School Records

Hi everyone,

We have a LOT of important information to share with you this week:

• Food Drive from today - March 20th

• Lake Park Invite at North Central College this Saturday

• Mustang Relays and Distance Madness for limited distance athletes

• Picture Day is 1 week away

• Awards from last week

• School Records

Annual Food Drive starts today!

• Thank you to Lisa Carpenter for coordinating our food drive drop-off with the Glen House Food Pantry

• We will collect food pantry donations through March 20th (Thursday of next week) at our pasta party

• Donating in paper bags (like those found at Trader Joe's or Mariano's) makes donating easier!

• Athletes can bring canned goods to the PE office before, during, or after school, or they can bring items to practice.

• This year's top needs include: mac and cheese, cereal, beans, syrup, pancake mix, dish soap, canned fruit, canned chicken, sugar, canned pasta, mayo, ketchup.

• I'll be sending periodic emails with updates on how this is going this week and next.

• Thank you for helping us support our local community.

Bob Nihells Invite on Saturday at North Central College, hosted by Lake Park (limited entries)

• Entries are limited to about 2 entries per event, per level. Entries should be available by Wednesday's practice.

• Field event bus (Coach Kim) leaves at 7:15, field events start at 8:30

• Running event bus (Coach Frazier) leaves at 8:15, events start at 9:30

• ¼” spikes permitted

• Admission charge: $7 adults, $4 students/children. Seniors/children under 5 are free. Cash or GoFan digital tickets: https://gofan.co/event/3310051?schoolId=IL15547

• Spectators will be on the 3rd level walking track, no seating / bleachers available. Bring folding chairs!!

Mustang Relays at NCC and Distance Madness at Batavia

• These meets are extremely limited, to just a handful of total athletes each

• Our Mustang Relays 4x800 (Carpenter, Faris, Keaton Peter, Matt King) goes off tonight at 7:10 for those following along on athletic.net.

• Faris, Grady, Carpenter, and Camp are entered to compete in the 1600 and King is entered to compete in the 3200 this Friday at Distance Madness in Batavia. We will find out soon who is accepted to run.

Picture Day is 1 week away

• Our picture day will be Monday, March 17, 1 week from today

• Athletes should bring uniforms and warm-up jackets to practice that day

• Paper forms will be distributed before then, and families can order online at mylifetouch.com. Picture ID is EVT26DT6X for online orders.

• If athletes will be taking individual photos, they must have a hard copy of the order form (per lifetouch requirements)

Weekly Awards

Each week, we will recognize a handful of athletes for exceptional efforts at our meets. Our team captains have selected the following athletes from last week's home meet to be recognized.

Pictured: Mason Ellens, Liam Grady, Jayden McKay, Chase Martin Scott. Not pictured: Rowan Rivera

• Runner of the week: MASON ELLENS - This guy is one of the most prolific runners this program has seen, at Batavia he finished the 55 with a time of 6.41 which is currently an Illinois #1 time. - Jacob Blew

• Field athlete of the week: JAYDEN MCKAY - This week's field athlete of the week is going to a guy who at Batavia jumped 9" higher this year than he did last year. That is a 2" PR which is great to see this early in the season. This week's Field athlete of the week goes to Jayden McKay. - Brandon Carpenter

• Captains Award: ROWAN RIVERA - Rowan always has a positive attitude and gets everyone together to cheer like crazy for the 4x400 and other races. He gets his thrower crew pumped as well. This week's captains award goes to Rowan Rivera. - James Morris

• Fire in the eyes: CHASE MARTIN SCOTT - This person was a crucial part to winning the 4x4 relay this past meet. Passing a kid to take first with another whole lap still to run and continued to gap the kid. This week's awesome award goes to CMT! - Mason Ellens

• Awesome Award: LIAM GRADY - This guys had a massive pr in the 3200 and almost won it in the final 800. This guy also always works hard at practice and never misses a day. The hard work is definitely paying off which is why the awesome award goes to Liam Grady. - Graham Faris

Honoring School Records

As varsity records are broken, we will begin honoring those school records with write-ups and specialty T-shirts.

Pictured: Ben Schoettle and Mason Ellens

• The old varsity 200 record by Tyquan Cox was 21.86, set in 2019. Mason Ellens got the new varsity 200m record at 21.84 last outdoor season. That 21.84 broke a 5-year-old record by 0.02 seconds.

• The old 55 dash record by Tyquan Cox was 6.53, also set in 2019. Mason Ellens got the new varsity 55m dash record this past Saturday with a 6.41. That 6.41 broke a 6-year-old record by 0.12. That’s HUGE in the 55.

• The old 55 hurdle record was set by Nate Larkin in 2005 at 7.8. Ben Schoettle got the new varsity 55m hurdle record this past Saturday at 7.77. That 7.77 broke a 20-year-old record by 0.03. Congrats Mason and Ben!!

That's it! Remember to bookmark www.gwtrackandfield.com and join our Remind to stay connected. 

Not doing track? Please let me know so I can remove you from this list and finalize our roster. 

All the best,

Coach Voland