Dublin - Meet Writeup

Well as pointed out by one of my throwers Ive been slacking in my writeups so time to quit slacking.

This whole week has been dominated by our discus throwing. Which works for me since thats always been my specialty but the progress we've been making is unreal. Just to make a quick note about Wednesdays duel against Strongsville I believe we had over 25 PR's in the two events out of 24 throwers. It was a fun meet to watch and despite a groin injury Jesse still stole the show with a 160' half turn. We managed to win all 4 events and scored well with a big PR from Kristen (102) in disc for 3rd and Karly going 106' to win. Strongsville girls must have fed off our intensity since they had some solid PR's in both events as well.

So moving onto our overnighter meet down in C-bus. There was threatening weather all day but it luckily hit late Friday night and mostly held off for Saturday. Definitly had some bad wind but it worked well for discus. Despite the HUGE delay with some incompetent kids (apparently sending results to the press box translated to leave them on a table with 30mph winds to blow them away) and near 20min warmups. All that resulted in roughly 6+ hours of throwing.

So enough griping because we had a pretty solid day. Ryan opened up with a decent toss in the shot but missed out on finals. Jesse went 53 to win the event and once again had some monster fouls. Seriously, quit fouling so damn much. You too Kristen. Speaking of which Kristen had a 97' half turn in disc but missed finals as well and struggled with her fulls. Karly on the other hand opened up with a big PR of 113' and for awhile was winning the meet. Unfortunately she hit some big throws during finals warmups and couldnt connect during the comp ending up in 4th.

Switching events Hedy and Kristen had a good showing in the shot with Hedys 33'5'' which is an outdoor best scoring 3rd while Kristen (again with the half turns) went 32'8 for 5th. Marko apparently needed some 'encouragement' since his first 2rds were almost identical at 115' before going 132' in the 3rd round for a PR in disc. Once again- barely missing finals. And speaking of repeats Jesse again stole the show with his prelim series. Opening with a very conservative 165 he worked up a 170 int he 2nd round but was still releasing low and not getting enough air. That changed in the 3rd as he waited for the wind to settle down and launched a new PR at 183'5" destroying the old meet record of 167'10" and moving himself into 3rd in the overall state rankings.

This effort BARELY misses Butch Newhouse's 23yr old record for Brunswick of 184'10". During finals he fouled his first round, hit 173, then fouled his last throw. This is definitly a great sign for the rest of the season since conference is still over a month away!

Everyone had a solid day and now we have 2 relays coming up and a big dual vs Medina this coming Wednesday. Too bad the weather wont cooperate as it wont be over 60 the whole week and mostly rainy.