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.

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!

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)

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!

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 season is upon us!

Tryouts – Girls 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.

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.