Spring Break Trip

start of 2010 recruiting class

The NCAA official recruiting start date was July 1st. Due to my anniversary being on that day and being out of the office and a few other things I had to get done this past week July 6th will be the official start day of calls for us this year. We have already had a few recruits on campus. But the big push for first phone calls will start today. This is an exciting time for us. This will be the first full year of recruiting and I am excited to see what I can do with that big of a time period.

Back from Traveling

Started my traveling off by heading out to San Francisco, California for the State Community College Meet. Got to see a lot of recruits talk to a lot of coaches and make great contacts. So all in all it was a good trip.

The day after I got back it was off to St. Louis for the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National meet. It was a good meet and we had a great view from our hotel of the arch. On Friday Antwoine competed in the high jump. A miss at 6'7" cost him a spot on the All American stand. He would have been about 4th or 5th place. He was 7th place with a height of 6'9".



Saturday it was Andreas turn. She set a school record and made the finals for the first time at the national meet with a throw of 44'6" or 13.56m. She was also 7th place.

Both competed well so there is no complaints.

Now my attention shift totally to try to find some more recruits and finish up this years recruiting class strong. Things have been going well and I think I will sign a few more before its all said and done.

Catching up

So it has been a while since I have posted last. Been busy trying to get recruiting and the team going. We are hosting the conference meet here at McPherson this weekend. I feel that the team is ready to go. We should have some individuals that will be competitive within the conference and will score us some points.

On the recruiting end of things we have had some good days and bad. Last Tuesday we got commitments from Garrett Sharp a 6'6" High Jumper and Andy Woodward who has vaulted 13'6". These will be a huge boost to the track team starting next December. I was also able to watch Jacob Jantzen run a PR in the 200 last Tuesday night. He ran 23.1. I have been talking with some good distance runners but they are all still in the midst of the admissions process. I hope to get them through this process soon and get them there packages so we can see where they stand for next year. If I were able to get one of them they would make a huge impact on the team.

I am going to try and do a better job of updating things on here from now on, hopefully after the season is done I will have time to stop and think for a few mins on a daily basis.

Good weekend

Antowine Lamb

McPherson Track and Field had a good weekend. We had an auto qualifier for nationals in Antowine Lamb who jumped 6-9.5 in the High Jump which currently leads the nation and is the new school record. Andrea Swansons throw of 41-08.75 in the shot also provisionally qualified her for the national meet.

Rachel Leuthold also set a school record in the Pole Vault with 10-08.

There were 6 collegiate PR's from the team at this meet as well.

The team is having another great week of practice with some great weather to go along.....

Sunday we also found out that Torey Fry of Wichita East will be joining the Lady Bulldogs starting next fall with cross country. So all in all a very good weekend.

Three commit

Yesterday was a good day of recruiting. I had three people commit to McPherson. We had Sam Bolin of Kansas City MO, Paula Carpenter of Cheney KS and Brian Reed of Fort Scott all tell me they want to sign letters of intent to run for McPherson next year. I am very excited to add the three of them.