Emilee tried track this year!! I was hoping she would and I thought she would be good at it, and I thought she would like it. All of those things turned out to be true. She tried the high jump. She did pretty good but if she wants to keep doing it we need to get her a coach to really help her get the technique down. She did good when Liz gave her a crash course. When she didn’t have someone that new what they were doing that could tell her where her form was breaking down it was a little tricky. She did fine with it and we will see if she wants to do it again next year.
She started out in the 400 meter dash, and then her coach added her to the 200 meter dash and the 4 x 400 meter relay, then the last two meets he added her to the 4 x 100 meter relay. She placed in the top three for almost every race she was in and ended up qualifying to go to the three league meets. She placed in the the top 5 for all of the league events she did. They broke the school record for the 4 x 400 relay at their last meet of the year. She is a fast little stinker. We are trying to convince her to do a running club for a while over the summer or fall to help improve her running technique and make her even faster. It was a lot of fun to watch her race and enjoy doing something she is good at. I recorded a few of her races, I need to be better at that. I like to watch them and cheer and it is hard to do that if I record her.
Her 400 meter time was about 1:08 by the end of the season. Her 200 meter time was just over 29 seconds. The best 400 x4 relay time was 4:31.
