Pella Atletieks Track & Field Club

Congratulations to the 2011 Pella High Boys/Girls XC teams and Pella Atletieks members Evan Jones, Wade Pingel, Aaron Houtz, Ryan Sievers, Ashely Kirkland, and Lydia VanEe on on their outstanding XC season and Class 3A State/District Performances.

The Pella High XC Boys Team brought home the Class 3A Boys Title: http://www.iahsaa.org/crosscountry/2011%20Cross%20Country%20Files/Meet%2...

The Pella High XC Girls Team placed 3rd place in the highly competitive Class 3A Girls Division:
http://www.ighsau.org/ccstate/2011/3axc.pdf

Congratulations to Pella Atletieks club members Kelcey Blommers, Tess Roorda, Payton Phelps and the entire Pella Middle School XC Team on their outstanding performances at the Washburn Classic-JH Class 3A (7th grade) State Meet. Pella took 1st place with 22 points followed by the next closest team (Spencer) with 41 points.

Blommers led the individual and team standings with an over-all 1st place finish with a time of 13:25. Roorda followed with a 2nd place team finish (3rd overall) in 13:57, and Phelps with a 3rd place team finish (5th overall) in 14:15.

You can find more info on the state XC meet @ http://www.iatfcc.org/images/stories/JrHigh/WashburnClassic/3a7thgirls11...

Photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/atletieks/sets/72157627916563359/

I need to cancel tonight's speed sessions. The distance session with coach George will go on as planned at 5:00 PM.

Practices for this week will be as follows:

Tuesday, June 28th
4:15-5:00 Speed session for Bantam & Younger
5:00-5:45 Distance session for all ages
5:00-5:45 Speed session for Midget and Youth
5:45-6:30 Speed session for Intermediate and Older

Wednesday, June 29th
5:00-5:45 Distance session for all ages
5:00-5:45 Throwing session for Bantam through Youth
6:00-6:45 Throwing session for Intermediate and Older

Thursday, June 30th
6:00-6:45 Speed Endurance session for All Ages

Practices for this week will be limited. Practices will resume regular schedules the following week. Great job this weekend by all participants in the State meet. I will be sending out registration information in a separate email.

Wednesday - Hurdling/Distance
Kari Pingel will coach a hurdle session @Central
3:30 - 4:30 Intermediate Girls and Young Women

Bryan George will coach a distance session @Central
5:00 - 5:45 Midget and Younger
5:45 - 6:30 Youth and Older

Thursday - Hurdling
Kari Pingel will coach a hurdle session @Pella High School
9:45 - 10:30 Midget and Youth Girls

I am going to adjust the practice times tonight. I am moving the later throws session up to be combined with the earlier throws session. Therefore, the practice schedule will look like the following:

Wednesday- skill
4:00-5:00 All Throwers (shot & disc)
5:00-5:45 Midget and Older High Jump

Sorry for the cancellation for today, but a couple of items have come up that need to take precedence. Kari is out of town until Thursday evening, Wade broke his leg Sunday, and I woke to water in my basement with more rain predicted for later today. When it rains it pours :) Therefore, I need to take care of business here at home. I will include the workout for today below, in case any of you want to run on your own this afternoon. Thanks for understanding.

Workout for this afternoon.

Speed Work:

Warm-up
1. 5 x Bleacher jumps (double leg jump up each or every other step) if they are available, walk down in between.

2. 5 x Bleacher sprints with walk down in between.

3. 3 x 40m with a 10m build-up (total 50m), rest 2 min between each sprint

4. 2 x 100m with 3 min rest between

Monday- No Practice

Tuesday- speed
3:30-4:15. Bantam and Younger
4:30-5:30 Midget
5:30-6:30 Youth
6:30-7:30 Intermediate and Older

Wednesday- skill
4:00-4:45 Bantam and Midget Throws (shot & disc)
5:00-5:45 Midget and Older High Jump
6:00-7:00 Youth and Older Throws

Thursday- speed endurance
4:00-4:30 Bantam and Younger
4:30-5:00 Midget and Youth
5:30-6:00 Intermediate and Older

Friday- rest
No practice, rest for state meet.

The 2011 Iowa Summer Olympic Track and Field meet will be held Saturday, July 16 at the Ames HS track.

Events begin at 8:30AM.

USATF youth rules apply, however some of the event age divisions are different that USATF. Categories are defined by the age your child is on July 15, 2011.

See more information at http://www.aauiowa.org/uploads/184_2011_TR_DistrictQualifier_EventDetail...

The Iowa AAU District Track and Field meet will be held at Ankeny HS at 9:30 AM, Saturday, June 25th.

Age categories and event options can be found on the following link below.

http://www.aauiowa.org/uploads/184_2011_TR_DistrictQualifier_EventDetail...