Practice / Meet Updates

I hope you all had a great holidays and are ready to get after it in 2024. A couple of updates wrt practice and meets.

Practices:

I'm cancelling the evening practice on Monday Jan. 8th at EMU. I'm going to stay home and watch the National Championship game. We're still on for practice at the dome on Monday afternoon.

I need to cancel both the afternoon and evening practices on Monday the 22nd. I will be out of town that weekend and not returning in time. The online schedule has been updated to reflect these changes.

Just a reminder that there will be no practice at the dome on Monday the 15th (MLKJ holiday). There will be a practice that evening at EMU.

Meets:

Jan 6th: No meet at the LAB this weekend. There are meets at GVSU (shot/weight) and SVSU (shot only). If you are planning to attend either, let me know, If there are enough people going, I might make the road trip.

Jan. 13th: Back on at the LAB (shot & discus). I'm planning to attend this meet. Please make every effort to attend. Thanks.

Jan. 20th/21st: I will be out of town that weekend. There a couple of local meets on the schedule. Shot only at the LAB on Saturday. Shot & weight at UofM on Sunday.

I think that covers it. Reach out if you have any questions.

Results from the LAB MITS Meet: 29Dec’23

Over the holidays, several of our throwers got some throws in at the LAB. Zoe had her first meet of the indoor season. Maggie had a consistent series in discus with 3 of 4 throws over 90ft. Aria moved up to the 6lb shot this year and had a nice PR with 3 throws over 13ft. Teegan is busy with basketball this winter and hasn’t been able to get many reps yet. It’s still early in the season and he’ll find his rhythm in discus and start hitting some big marks. For me, it was good to finally get out to a meet after missing the first two. Being out there and watching the throwers in person always helps with identifying areas to work on.

Teegan Simmons – 49’ 1” (shot 2nd)

– 133’ 10” (discus 4th) - SR

Maggie Kandt – 38’ 2.5” (6lb shot)

– 94’ 10” (discus 13th in the high school division) – SR

Zoe Ghanbari – 32’ 3.5” (6lb shot) - SR

Aria Simmons – 13’ 7” (6lb shot) - PR

Complete results can be found at https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/522159/entries.

Results from the LAB MITS Meet: 16Dec’23

While I was down at the National Throws Coaches Association conference, Teegan and Maggie made a return trip to the LAB. This week they added discus to the mix which is tough during indoor given the practice limitations. Not surprisingly, both struggled in their first discus comp since August. That’ll come around with reps. In shot put, Teegan took first at just under 50ft and Maggie had some nice fill in marks after last week’s big PR.

Teegan Simmons – 49’ 10” (shot 1st)

– 130’ 2” (discus 6th)

Maggie Kandt – 39’ 4” (6lb shot)

– 80’ 9” (discus 17th in the high school division)

Complete results can be found at https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/522158/results.