Titan Indoor Track Bulletin - Jan 13, 2013
"TITAN INDOOR INVITATIONAL
"Through the years, I’ve figured out how to change bad weather into good weather: change or cancel track and field plans. Once we made the decision not to go to Logan, the snow stopped, sun came out, roads cleared, etc. Happens every time. But, some great things happened anyway at our "Titan Indoor Invitational". In fact, Indoor School Records were set in the high jump by Mason Leishman (5'10.50) and Jordan Anderson (4'08.50). And many PR’s were set in the 1600m run. Maddy Neyts broke her outdoor PR by almost 18-seconds and Becca Jacobsen improved by 10-seconds. Zach Griffin also PR’ed running 2-seconds faster than outdoors. With the indoor tight turns, that is impressive.
While we were only able to stage competition in a limited number of events, some very good things happened in those events. Winners in the Girls competition were: Ashley Rodriguez, 60m hurdles (12.21), Gentry Skidmore, 60m dash (8.88), Bella Williams, 1600m run (5:49.74, the #3 all-time indoor mark), and Jordan Anderson in the high jump with her school record jump. Katrina Dunlap, Becca Jacobsen, Adriana McFarland and Mallory Ashby won the 4x400m relay in 4:47.6.
Winning events for the Boys were Karson Nielson, 60m hurdles (9.57), Jace Skidmore, 60m dash (7.78), Cameron Dower, 400m dash (58.3) and Landon Greenhalgh, 1600m run (4:43.6).
The winners of each event have a choice of a t-shirt or Titan headband. Pick them up Monday.
Besides the competition, there was some great pole vaulting after most had left. Ali Morris, Mallory Ashby, Kenzie Fleming, Nick Merriman and Treston Cullimore were "flying" by the time we got kicked out of the gym.
It would have been nice to have gone to USU for the meet, but is was still great to improvise, compete, and have some fun. Thanks to those who showed up and especially thanks to Coaches Busby and Wilcox. Their influence on the athletes and program was evident as there were more distance runners participating than all of the other events combined. Distance runners and distance coaches are the best!

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Selected as the first Athletes of the Week this season were Jordan Anderson and Mason Leishman for their school records in the high jump.
WSU MEET
Info can be found in an earlier post. All field events will be contested Friday, running events Saturday. EVERYONE should plan on competing. It will be smaller than in previous years because many schools will be going to the meet at BYU.

WORKOUTS
Indoor Track is low key. However, we ask you to try a little harder to make it to every workout. As coaches, we get a little tired of answering questions, explaining drills, etc., about things we covered in previous workouts. Help us out.

ALUMNI UPDATE
The only alum action I could find was Lindsey McFarland. She ran 2:21.55 to finish 5^th at the Snake River Open at Idaho State. That’s a good start to her season.

T-SHIRTS / SPANDEX
Reminder that our indoor t-shirts are $10 and the spandex for girls are $15, boys are $20. Pay in the office (make sure the money goes into Track) and bring me the receipt.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Jan 18 - WSU Field Events @ 4:30
Jan 19 - WSU Running Events @ 9:00 am
Feb 1 / 2 - UHSTCA Indoor Championships @ Olympic Oval
Feb 8 - Utah Distance Challenge @ Olympic Oval @ 5:00
Feb 14-16- Simplot Games