 Mr. Brown |
 Mrs. Pope |
 Mr. Walsh |
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Mr. Brown |
Mrs. Pope |
Mr. Walsh |
Listen to announcements and wait for the boy's informational meeting announcement.
Go to informational meeting and get boy's track and field informational packet.
Show the packet to your parents and make sure that you have a physical on file
Sign and pay the athletic fee and about $5.00 for shorts and sweatshirts. Then turn it in to one of the coach's.
Make sure you have you physical on file.
~$12.00 for track and field team shirt.
Current Physical on file
Grades cannot be lower than a C- or you will not run in practices and meets.
See Athletes Code of Conduct and Terms of Eligibility for more information.
Try your hardest no matter what!
Lake Zurich Middle School North
Wauconda
Barrington Station
Barrington Prairie
Hawthorn South
Hawthorn North
Grayslake
Fox River Grove
In the 110 meter hurdles you will jump over hurdles for 110 meters. In the last 10 meters or so you will sprint to the end. The number of hurdles that you will gracefully hop over is always going to be 8 to 10 depending what division you are in.
For a total of 100 meters you will want to sprint as fast as you can while trying to beat the other competitors.
For a total of 200 meters you will want to still sprint the whole way while trying to beat the other runners.
For a total of 400 meters (one whole lap of the track), you must be sprinting: BEATING THE OTHER RUNNERS.
For a total of 800 meters (two whole laps of the track), you must somewhat pace yourself and then at the end you should full out sprint.
For a total of 1600 meters ( four laps of the whole track), you must pace yourself and then full out sprint.
In this event your team consists of four people and you are running 100 meters each.
In this event your team will consist of four people and each person will run 200 meters each.
In this event your team will consist of four people and each member will run 400 meters each.
In this field event you will throw a shot put ball from inside a ring on the ground as far as you can. The ball weighs 12 pounds for the boys. You can throw the ball using several different techniques.
In this event you will throw a 1 kilogram discus as far as you can out of the ring that is in the ground. The key is to make it spin like a frisbee for that makes it go further. There are many different techniques for this to happen.
In this event you will run and jump as high as you can over a bar that is raised a certain height and is raised higher every time you clear a round. You get three tries to clear the bar. Whoever jumps the highest wins the event.
In this event you will run as fast as you can, then you will jump as far as you can into a sand pit. The person with the longest distance wins the event.
