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JV#3 – Scottsboro

Our next JV meet is 5pm, Tuesday March 18th, in Scottsboro.
In the football stadium (Next to Collins Intermediate School). The address is 102 Legion Dr.Scottsboro, AL 35768

From Harvest, take Highway 72 East into Scottsboro
Take Scottsboro Broad St. Exit
Turn LEFT off of ramp
LEFT after 1st Traffic Light at Collins Intermediate School (Stadium/Track off
of school parking lot)

IT WILL GET COLD AFTER THE SUN SETS! Bring appropriate coats/blankets.

Students are to follow same dismissal procedures as last week:

* S9 – 2:30 departure (Those at SHS 4th block are to leave class by 2:20 to
board bus at S9)
* SMS – 2:40 departure
* MMS – 2:50 departure

Pick up at S9 for those student-athletes riding the bus back from the meet.

2014 AHSAA Indoor Track Championships!

Due to the resent winter weather, The AHSAA State Indoor Track meet HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED for Mon & Tues Feb 3rd& 4th.

This year Sparkman has four athletes representing us at that meet.

For the Girl’s –
Junior Kelsey Johnson will be competing in the 60 METER HURDLES and the TRIPLE JUMP. Her PR time of 11.07 in the hurdles is .48 seconds off of the school record but she will have to shave yet another half second off of that to break into the top 10 in this highly competitive event.
Kelsey DOES own the Sparkman School Record, in the Girl’s Triple Jump with a mark of 30′-1″ , a mark that is good enough to have her seeded 15th! To break into the top 10 in this event she will probably need to improve by a foot and a half but we think she can do it.

Freshman, Gabrielle Griner will be competing in the POLEVAULT.
Her indoor mark of 8′-6″ has her seeded 10th in this event but that mark is a foot under her Sparkman, Girl’s Outdoor Record mark of 9′-6″ which she set at the end of last season. If she can find a way to equal that mark indoors she could very well finish in the points!

For the Boys –
Junior, Rob Russell will be competing in the POLEVAULT.
His current PR mark of 11′ has him seeded in 19th. The distance between him and a points finish, is a crowded 1.5 feet but Rob has recently purchased a new pole and in practice has shown that this, School Record tying height, is within his reach.

and Freshman Jake Russell will be taking on the 800 METERS, 1600 METERS and the HIGH JUMP!
Jake currently holds the school record in the indoor 800 meters and is poised to own the record for the other two events. He is within 1 second of 1600m record and just 2 inches below Sparkman’s High Jump record.

Good luck and LET’S GO SENATORS!

Christmas Break Work-out.

Parents/Student-athletes,

Below is a guide to follow regarding workouts over the holiday break. At the
completion of your workout, please send me an email or text. Include your name,
and simply state “Today’s workout complete.”

We will meet for practice at our regular time on Friday, January 3, 2014!

I wish you all a happy and safe holiday!

N. Jones
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Goal is to complete at least 6 days of practice during the Christmas break
(Alternate between workout choices according to your respective events).

Each Practice Day:

*Warm-up (2min. jog; Plyo’s; stretch) BEFORE EACH WORKOUT

*Cool down jog/stretch AFTER EACH WORKOUT

    *Core work – 2 sets of 25ct or 25sec<(e.g. Crunches; Planks; Lateral Obliques-Feet don’t touch floor; Flutter kicks; V-SitUps- sitting and bringing arms and legs up at the same time; etc.)

Sprinters/400m Runners =
*4x100m accelerated run – Focus on increasing speed over last 50m – (25sec. rest between each); 2×200 (30sec rest between each)
Or
*Speed Endurance – 5x150m (30 sec rest between each); 4-5 pairs of shortruns (run 50m, walk 50m; Run 100m, walk 100m; run 200m, walk 200m)
Or
*150m Buildups – 50m @ 50%race pace, 50m @ 75% race pace; 50m at 100% racepace.(Improves endurance/running efficiency)
Cool down jog/stretch

Middle Distance Runners (800m/1600m)
*Four mile run 50 % race pace
Or
*8x400m @ 80% race pace(1 min rest between)
Or
*3 mile run running each mile 3 seconds faster than the previous
Long Distance (3200)
*10x 200
Or
*5 mile run increasing from 50% race pace to 100% at last mile
Or
*4 miles easy
Throwers/Pole Vaulters
*Sprint drills: 3 x 20m (15sec. rest)
And
*3×200 (30sec rest between each)
*Push ups/Core work (see examples above)

Holiday Invitational

The SHS Track Team’s season opener,

“The Holiday Invitational

was as tough as expected.   How tough?
There were 88 athletes who turned in marks that met the “Elite” standards and 43 who were “National Elite”!
Our athletes stepped up to the challenge though and set

6 new, Sparkman Indoor Track records!

For the girls –
Jr, Kelsey Johnson set a new Sparkman Record (Indoor AND Outdoor) in the girls Triple Jump with a leap of  30′-1″. This beat the old School record by more than 3 FEET!

9th grader Gabrielle Griner set a NEW SHS Indoor Mark in the Girls Polevault with a jump of 8’6″ and finished in the points with a 6th.

Sophmore Kaitlyn Williams was edged out by her teammate, 8th grader Zariah Tramell (by just 3 thousandth of a second!) for the NEW SHS RECORD 0f 9.144 seconds in the girl’s 60 meter dash.

and 8th grader Renita Vander Schaaf set NEW SHS RECORDS for the indoor 800 meter (2:52.27) AND 1600 meters (6:11.31).

For the boys – 9th grader Jake Russell set a NEW SHS RECORD in the 800 meters (2:15.23).

Apart from the new records, several students set good “first marks” in their events and two set new PR’s.
– In the Boys High Jump, Jake Russell bettered his old mark by 4″ going 5′- 2″ and tieing for 22nd,
Rob Russell set a new PR in the PoleVault with a jump of 11′

Magic City Invitational

Due to registration issues our kids could not compete in the season opening meet.

We look forward to seeing them in action at the Holiday Invitational!

No practice Tues. Nov 26th

Due to Holiday travel there will be no after school Track practice tomorrow, Tuesday the 26th.
This doesn’t mean athletes should lay off though! Make sure you get some running and conditioning in over the break. Practice starts again for the Indoor Track Squads on Monday Dec 2 !

Indoor Track is HERE!

Indoor season is upon us!

Tryouts - Girls 800m

Tryouts – Girls 800m

Tryouts - Boys 800m

Tryouts – Boys 800m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All indoor track meets will be held at the Birmingham “Crossplex”, a multi-million dollar indoor facility in Birmingham and The first Track meet is Saturday Dec. 7th!
As there are very few indoor facilities available for high schools, these meets become like “mini” state track meets. drawing many of the top athletes from around the state and some will even draw from Mississippi! Tenn and Ga actually WANT to bring their athletes to these meets as well but as their states do not have “official” Highschool indoor track seasons, they are not eligible to compete.
So as you can imagine this makes these indoor meets VERY competitive and perhaps not the best experience for new track athletes to start. Given this, the time constraints of preparing for a season that starts so soon, logistics and budgetary issues we will only be fielding a “scaled down” squad for indoor season.
This is why we have “try-outs” for the indoor squads. These teams will probably consist of those who are already competitive at the “State” level and those who have been training on their own in the “off season” but everyone is invited to try-out.

Next Meet – The 6A State Qualifier (Sectionals)

Thurs. Oct. 31st, 10 am – Bob Jones HS

The State Sectional Meet is just days away.
For many it will be their last chance to put an exclamation point on their year, to dig deep within themselves and find those extra few seconds to end the year with a New PR, a New School record and perhaps … a chance to go to state and do it again.

That’s the beauty of this sport, at the end of the day it is what is inside YOU. Did YOU find what it takes to go faster than you ever have before?
Every runner on this team has that potential and THIS meet is the meet to find it!

Let’s go Senators! One more time. Let’s see EVERY RUNNER get a PR!

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The latest State Cross Country rankings are out and for the Boys 5K distance, out of 2825 runners …
Sparkman’s own Anthony Parameswaran(Sr) is ranked 15th with a time that puts him on Milesplit’s “2nd US Team Elite”!

For the 6A division Anthony is ranked 3rd in our region and 8th in the state, and Sparkman 9th grader Jake Russell is ranked 10th in our region and 40th 6A state wide.

Sparkman continues to be a strong, 6A Boys presence in our region with (Soph)Bailey Herfurth ranked 11th, (Fresh)Harrison Miller ranked 14th and (Soph)Seth Graham  ranked 23rd.

For the girls, Senior Kelsey Johnson is ranked 10th in our Section and 8th grader Renita Vander Schaaf is ranked 14th.

“Dew It On the Trails”

Our JV teams continued to shine as they turned in a combined TEN NEW PRs!

For the girls, these times put them in podium position as they took a TEAM 3rd PLACE and once again Renita Vander Schaaf, led the way with a new PR time that was good enough for an Individual 3rd!

For complete results click here.

NEW PR’s for the JV GirlsRenita Vander Schaaf, Hailey Brown,Brooklynne Gallimore, Savanah Wilson, and Makenzi Coley,

NEW PR’s for the JV Boys John-David Ray,  Michael Fulda,  Kyler Waters,  Isaiah Vasquez, and Riley Edwards,

NEW PR’s for Varsity GirlsReza, Lauren

NEW PR’s for Varsity BoysCurry, Brandon

Arab Invitational – Another JV Girls Victory!

It was another good meet for our SHS runners!

JV Girls first place trophy - 2013 Arab Invitational

JV First – 2013 Arab Invitational

(complete SHS results and scoring can be found by clicking here)
We are now about half way through the season and the competition is getting tougher. Our runners turned it up though and gave us another good showing!

Our JV Girls WON the 2 mile … with all 7 of our them finishing in the top 12 with NEW PR’s!
Ren​ita Va​nder​ Scha​af took an individual 1st, Emilia Poole placing 3rd, Mary​-Franc​es Burch placed 6th, and Savanah Wilson, Brooklynne Gallimore, Hailey Brown and Makenzi Coley finishing 9th – 12th respectively!

The JV Boys moved three of our runners (including the current SHS record holder in the 2 mile) to Varsity and still finished 3rd !
Freshmn, Steven Underwood’s individual 6th place finish led the squad to their podium finish with his PR run. In fact all 8 JV Boys had PR times. They are John-David Ray, Michael Fulda, Jake Maier, Kyler Waters, Isaiah Vasquez, Dave Mehok, and Riley Edwards.

Our Varsity girls were once again in-eligible for team competition by being one runner short of a full team. Still, they girls turned in good times, with Junior Kelsey Johnson again led the squad, with an individual 5th place finish.

The Varsity Boys went with an all out blitz, entering 10 runners in the 5k event and coming up with a 4th place. Anthony Parameswaran, was the only runner who made it into the top 10 but that was good enough for a podium position 3rd place!
Freshman Kyle Rusak and Sophmore Ryan Magers were able to run NEW PR’s for this event.