Tomorrow’s meet is at Oxnard High Schoo and starts at the normal time (8:30).

A few reminders:

• If you are participating in the 4×100 relay, you need to be on the field by 8:45 at the latest.
• The weather should be great, but please remember to bring some warmer clothes and make sure they are labeled.
• The order of events is the same as all other meets, but please pay attention to not only the calls, but what event is currently taking place to know when you will be competing.

We’re looking forward to a great meet!  If you have any question, please email youth@venturatigres.org or call/text 650-678-3681.

Despite the soggy conditions, the Youth/Intermediate team is going to brave the conditions!  We’re going to meet under the overhang by the snack bar, get hustling and be done with our workout by 5:30.  Please be ready to pick up athletes at 5:30.

We understand if you want to keep athletes home, but for those of you who would like to get in a Wednesday workout, we’ll be there!

Please congratulate this week’s videos of the week:

Girl’s Bolt of the Week

Boy’s Bolt of the Week

Girl’s Kick of the Week

Boy’s Kick of the Week

Not every meet is going to be a PR fest like the last one, but our meet at Moorpark still saw some great results.  We had some really nice weather and even got a timely tail wind for the 100’s that picked up even more to help produce some great times in the 200’s.  It was a really solid all around performance for our Youth/Intermediate teams.

It was also great to see some of our team helping teammates who struggled (some really nice kids on this team!).  We had the 4×4 teams willing to pitch in picking up trash at the end of the meet (what a reward :)) and lots of great examples of leaders getting athletes warmed ups for events.

This week, we are hoping to get in a full week of practice, but weather may be an issue.  We are going to do our best to practice on Wednesday, regardless of rain, so keep your eyes out for any cancelation announcements.

The Oxnard Stars are hosting us this Saturday – we’re looking forward to another great meet!

Tomorrow we are competing against the Moorpark Striders at Moorpark High School.  Historically, the Striders have put on really well run meets and the stadium is probably the best in Ventura County.  Let’s remember to be great guests and treat the volunteers and competitors with respect.

A few reminders about the meet:

The meet starts at 8:30 and follows the same order of events as listed on our website.

If you are planning on running the 4×100 relay, you need to be ON THE FIELD AT 8:45!!!

It is going to be a little chilly, so please remember to bring your warm clothes (label everything) and keep them on until just prior to competing (you should be wearing them in staging).

Hurdles should report to the field to begin their warm up at 8:15.

The great thing about Track and Field is that while we are on a team and there are places awarded in competitions, the improvement of athletes relative to themselves is one of the most satisfying accomplishments to follow.  With the athletic.net website, every performance is tracked and recorded from youth track, all the way through high school and sometimes even beyond.

For those who are unfamiliar with athletic.net, when you go to the site, if you enter in an athlete’s name in the search bar at the top of the page, you can find all of their results.  You can also enter Ventura Tigres (or other clubs) in the same search bar and see all of our team’s meet results.

The results from Saturday have been posted in athletic.net!  Typically it takes a day or two after our meets have been completed for results to find their way to the website. Also, results are usually pretty accurate, but occasionally mistakes are made.  If you happen to see anything incorrect, please let me know.  From Saturday’s meet, unfortunately one of the Youth Girls 100 meter heats was not captured due to the camera shorting out because of the power cords getting wet – SORRY!!!

Please congratulate this week’s videos of the week!

Girl’s Bolt of the Week

Boy’s Bolt of the Week

Girl’s Kick of the Week

Boy’s Kick of the Week

Weather has been a challenge so far this season with cold practices, but Saturday was something we don’t deal with often – RAIN!!!  I’m sure everyone was soaked by the time the meet was over, but the enthusiasm, team bonding, sportsmanship and performances didn’t seem to be bothered at all by the conditions.

PR’s (personal records) don’t happen every time an athlete competes and it is usually more rare when the conditions are less than ideal.  However, I am blown away by how much our team improved in one short week.  To demonstrate just how amazing everyone did, there were 45 instances of athletes who competed in the same event on Saturday as they did in the practice meet last weekend.  Of those 45, 34 were PR’s!!!  That is AMAZING, especially considering the conditions!  One area that especially stood out is the girl’s 1600 meters where 6 girls who competed at the practice meet also competed on Saturday.  Between those 6 girls, they cut a total of 80 seconds off there time – over 13 seconds per athlete!!!

This kind of improvement doesn’t happen without working hard at practices.  It is impressive to see how the athletes are feeding off of each other in workouts, challenging themselves and their teammates.  Between the hard work and the friendships that are forming, this is turning out to be a special team.  We can’t wait to see what they can accomplish!

This week, we are traveling to Moorpark to face the Striders.  As usual, the event sign up sheets will be at practice all week.  Please sign up as early as possible.  Remember, if you sign up for the 4×100 relay, we need to know if something comes up and you can’t make it.  We also need to make sure 4×100 athletes are ON THE FIELD at 8:45.

Looking forward to another great week of practices!

If you have any questions, please email youth@ventutratigres.org or call 650-678-3681.

We are expecting some rain tomorrow, but we are also expecting to continue on with the meet.  If there happens to be a cancelation, Tigres will send out an announcement.

So, bring food, warm clothes, some rain gear and maybe a few pairs of socks.

A few other things to remember:

• If you are planning on running the 4×100 relay, you need to be on the field no later than 8:45.  If you are not on the field at 8:45, you will not be running the 4×100 relay.
• Please know that we don’t know the exact times when events will be run.  There are quite a few factors including how many athletes the other clubs we host have and how many athletes sign up for the different events.  However, the order of events always stays the same and is listed on our website.
• We are really trying to focus on sportsmanship, including shaking hands with competitors, being gracious winners when things go well and not sulking when things don’t go as well as we’d like.  Please try to encourage this with your athletes.

The real meets are starting!  Time to see how our team stacks up against some outside competition.  We can’t wait to see how they do!!!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email youth@venturatigres.org or call 650-678-3681.