Apr 30, 2012
BYU Track Invitational - Meet information
Athletes and Parents,
our final meet is here before our championship meets (Region and State)
For BYU there is a mixture of qualifying standards and allowed entries. So this is a very tight list. Entries had to be finalized Monday morning at 8:00 AM, and we are not able to make changes.
All of our relays should be acceppted (Top 10 in each classification) and we will find out forshir which of our 3200 runners are accepted (Top 12 in each classification) Please take a look and let me know if you have any questions. For the relays and distance races, you will compete in the afternoon events (top overall in your event) or the morning session (the rest of the relays and open events that got in but are not the fastest Q number)
BYU Meet Planner and Schedule
Field Events
Friday, May 4
Facility opens at 7:00a
Implement Weigh-in 7:00a - 1:00p
8:30 Long Jump Boys 3A-5A (2 pits)
12:00 Long Jump Boys 1A-2A (2 pits)
8:30 Javelin Girls 3A-5A
11:30 Javelin Girls 1A-2A
8:30 Discus Girls 3A-5A
11:30 Discus Girls 1A-2A
8:30 Shot Put Boys 3A-5A
12:30 Shot Put Boys 1A-2A
10:00 High Jump Girls (2 pits)
10:00 Pole Vault Girls
Saturday, May 5
Facility opens at 6:30a
Implement Weigh-in 6:30a - 1:00p
8:00 Javelin Boys 1A-2A
9:30 Javelin Boys 3A-5A
9:00 Shot Put Girls 1A-2A
11:00 Shot Put Girls 3A-5A
9:00 Long Jump Girls 1A-2A (2 pits)
10:45 Long Jump Girls 3A-5A (2 pits)
9:00 High Jump Boys (2 pits)
10:00 Pole Vault Boys
1:00 Discus Boys 3A-5A
4:00 Discus Boys 1A-2A
Running Events
Friday, May 4
Facility opens at 7:00a
10:00 AM G 3200 Finals
10:28 AM B 3200 Finals
10:54 AM G 100H Trials 1A-2A (back-stretch)
AM G 100H Trials 3A-5A (back-stretch)
10:54 AM B 100 Trials 1A-2A (home-stretch)
AM B 100 Trials 3A-5A (home-stretch)
11:34 PM B 110H Trials 1A-2A (back-stretch)
PM B 110H Trials 3A-5A (back-stretch)
11:34 PM G 100 Trials 1A-2A (home-stretch)
PM G 100 Trials 3A-5A (home-stretch)
12:21 PM lunch
1:21 PM G 400 Trials 1A-2A
PM G 400 Trials 3A-5A
1:49 PM B 400 Trials 1A-2A
PM B 400 Trials 3A-5A
2:23 PM G 300H Trials 1A-2A
PM G 300H Trials 3A-5A
2:49 PM B 300H Trials 1A-2A
PM B 300H Trials 3A-5A
3:13 PM G 200 Trials 1A-2A
PM G 200 Trials 3A-5A
3:44 PM B 200 Trials 1A-2A
PM B 200 Trials 3A-5A Saturday, May 5
Facility opens at 6:30a
9:00 AM G 1600 Sections
9:48 AM B 1600 Sections
10:34 AM G 4x100 Sections
10:50 AM B 4x100 Sections
11:06 AM G 800 Sections
11:42 AM B 800 Sections
12:16 PM break
12:39 PM G Medley Section
1:09 PM B Medley Section
1:37 PM G 4x400 Sections
2:03 PM B 4x400 Sections
Golden Hour
2:50 PM Opening Ceremonies
3:00 PM G 4x100 Top Seeded Sections (2)
3:07 PM B 4x100 Top Seeded Sections (2)
3:15 PM G 1600 Top Seeded Section (top 18)
3:22 PM B 1600 Top Seeded Section (top 18)
3:32 PM G 100H Finals
3:41 PM B 110H Finals
3:50 PM G 100 Finals
3:55 PM B 100 Finals
4:00 PM G 400 Finals
4:05 PM B 400 Finals
4:15 PM G 300H Finals
4:20 PM B 300H Finals
4:30 PM G 800 Top Seeded Section (top 15)
4:33 PM B 800 Top Seeded Section (top 15)
4:41 PM G Medley Top Seeded Section (1)
4:46 PM B Medley Top Seeded Section (1)
4:56 PM G 200 Finals
5:01 PM B 200 Finals
5:11 PM G 4x400 Top Seeded Section (1)
5:16 PM B 4x400 Top Seeded Section (1)
Thanks,
Andy
Tiger Trials - A Huge Success
I just wanted to post a quick followup to our tiger Trials track meet on Saturday.
We had 30 schools represented, and approximately 967 Athletes.
With all of the planning and a ton of help from our great volunteers we had a very successful. Running a meet is tricky because I loose track a bit of how our team is doing. Throughout the day I kept hearing and seeing great performances, but wasnt until (Coach Timo from AF - a great guy and announcer) let us know that Orem won the girls and the boys team championship.
Thank you so much to all of you that came and helped, without your support we are not able to take on such an endeavour.
With this being our 2nd year doing it, we are looking forward to many more to come,
Thanks and congratulations,
Andy
Apr 20, 2012
Can You Think Your Way To That Hole-In-One?
I enjoyed this article and beleive it is completely applicable to our team. Perception is key. You either have a positive perception (I can reach my goal to XXX) or you have a negative perception and allow other things to become a distraction.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
FYI
April 18, 2012
Psychologists at Purdue University have come up with an interesting twist on the old notion of the power of positive thinking. Call it the power of positive perception: They've shown that you may be able to improve your golf game by believing the hole you're aiming for is larger than it really is.
Jessica Witt, who studies how perception and performance are related, decided to look at golf — specifically, how the appearance of the hole changes depending on whether you're playing well or poorly.
So she took a large poster board to a golf course with circles of different sizes drawn on it. Some circles matched the size of the golf hole, some were larger and some were smaller. As golfers finished their rounds, she showed them her poster board and asked them to select the circle that matched the size of the hole.
After she got the golfers' scores, she did some math: "The golfers who did better and had a lower score selected larger circles as matching the size of the hole," Witt says. The good golfers overestimated the size of the hole by 10 to 20 percent.
But then Witt wondered whether this difference in perception could be put to use to improve a golfer's game. So she tried an experiment. In her lab, she made an artificial putting green and used an optical illusion to make the golf hole appear larger or smaller than it really was.
Wikimedia Commons
Which Orange Circle Is Larger? In this optical trick, known as the Ebbinghaus illusion, both orange circles are the same size. (Go ahead, measure!) When small circles were projected around a golf hole, golfers perceived the hole to be larger and subsequently made more putts.
The trick involved projecting small circles of light around the hole to make it look larger, or projecting large circles of light around the hole to make it look smaller. It's an optical trick called the Ebbinghaus illusion, which you can see here on the left.
"The illusion wouldn't interfere with the putting; it would only change what people perceived," Witt says. The hole itself never changed sizes.
As she writes in the journal Psychological Science, the result was clear: "When people perceived the hole to be bigger, they also made their putts more successfully." Witt thinks the change in perception to make a task seem easier will apply in a lot of different circumstances.
Perception And Confidence In Other Activities
"These effects aren't specific to athletes," she says. "We find them in everybody, in all kinds of tasks. So if you have to walk up a hill to get to work, if you're tired or low energy or wearing a heavy backpack, that hill looks steeper or a distance looks farther. So it's apparent in everybody, not just in athletes."
Related NPR Stories
Bigger, Taller, Stronger: Guns Change What You See April 16, 2012
The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain Feb. 29, 2012
'Incognito': What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind May 31, 2011
Witt says along with a positive perception comes confidence — if the hill doesn't seem too steep, or the golf hole appears bigger than it really is, that altered perception gives you confidence in your abilities.
But Tim Woodman, who heads the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at Bangor University in Wales, says for athletes at least, just having more confidence doesn't guarantee top performance.
"It's not quite as simple as the more confident you are, the better," he says. "It's the more confident you are, the better — up to a certain point." He says that confidence is important, but self-doubt can help, too.
"If you're good at something but you doubt yourself a little bit, you're more likely to try that bit harder," he says. "Whereas if you are confident and you know you're very good at something, you might just slack off a little bit and move into some sort of cruise control, and then actually not perform very well."
Woodman says top athletes find the right balance between confidence and uncertainty to perform at their peak.
http://n.pr/HQxxVE
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
FYI
April 18, 2012
Psychologists at Purdue University have come up with an interesting twist on the old notion of the power of positive thinking. Call it the power of positive perception: They've shown that you may be able to improve your golf game by believing the hole you're aiming for is larger than it really is.
Jessica Witt, who studies how perception and performance are related, decided to look at golf — specifically, how the appearance of the hole changes depending on whether you're playing well or poorly.
So she took a large poster board to a golf course with circles of different sizes drawn on it. Some circles matched the size of the golf hole, some were larger and some were smaller. As golfers finished their rounds, she showed them her poster board and asked them to select the circle that matched the size of the hole.
After she got the golfers' scores, she did some math: "The golfers who did better and had a lower score selected larger circles as matching the size of the hole," Witt says. The good golfers overestimated the size of the hole by 10 to 20 percent.
But then Witt wondered whether this difference in perception could be put to use to improve a golfer's game. So she tried an experiment. In her lab, she made an artificial putting green and used an optical illusion to make the golf hole appear larger or smaller than it really was.
Wikimedia Commons
Which Orange Circle Is Larger? In this optical trick, known as the Ebbinghaus illusion, both orange circles are the same size. (Go ahead, measure!) When small circles were projected around a golf hole, golfers perceived the hole to be larger and subsequently made more putts.
The trick involved projecting small circles of light around the hole to make it look larger, or projecting large circles of light around the hole to make it look smaller. It's an optical trick called the Ebbinghaus illusion, which you can see here on the left.
"The illusion wouldn't interfere with the putting; it would only change what people perceived," Witt says. The hole itself never changed sizes.
As she writes in the journal Psychological Science, the result was clear: "When people perceived the hole to be bigger, they also made their putts more successfully." Witt thinks the change in perception to make a task seem easier will apply in a lot of different circumstances.
Perception And Confidence In Other Activities
"These effects aren't specific to athletes," she says. "We find them in everybody, in all kinds of tasks. So if you have to walk up a hill to get to work, if you're tired or low energy or wearing a heavy backpack, that hill looks steeper or a distance looks farther. So it's apparent in everybody, not just in athletes."
Related NPR Stories
Bigger, Taller, Stronger: Guns Change What You See April 16, 2012
The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain Feb. 29, 2012
'Incognito': What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind May 31, 2011
Witt says along with a positive perception comes confidence — if the hill doesn't seem too steep, or the golf hole appears bigger than it really is, that altered perception gives you confidence in your abilities.
But Tim Woodman, who heads the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at Bangor University in Wales, says for athletes at least, just having more confidence doesn't guarantee top performance.
"It's not quite as simple as the more confident you are, the better," he says. "It's the more confident you are, the better — up to a certain point." He says that confidence is important, but self-doubt can help, too.
"If you're good at something but you doubt yourself a little bit, you're more likely to try that bit harder," he says. "Whereas if you are confident and you know you're very good at something, you might just slack off a little bit and move into some sort of cruise control, and then actually not perform very well."
Woodman says top athletes find the right balance between confidence and uncertainty to perform at their peak.
http://n.pr/HQxxVE
Apr 19, 2012
Utah County Meet Schedule
Hello everyone, sorry for taking so long to publish schedule:
Friday Start time 3:30
1600 Finals
100/110 Hurdles Prelims
100 M Prelims
400 M Prelims
300m Hurdles Prelims
200m Prelims
Friday Field Events:
Girls Long Jump
Boys High Jump
Girls Shot Put
Boys Disc
Girls Javelin
Saturday 9AM start Time
3200 (Finals)
100/110m Hurdles
100M
400M
4x100 Relay
300m Hurdles
800 (Finals)
Medley Relay
200M
4x400m Relay
Field Events (Opposite Friday)
thanks everyone,
Andy
Friday Start time 3:30
1600 Finals
100/110 Hurdles Prelims
100 M Prelims
400 M Prelims
300m Hurdles Prelims
200m Prelims
Friday Field Events:
Girls Long Jump
Boys High Jump
Girls Shot Put
Boys Disc
Girls Javelin
Saturday 9AM start Time
3200 (Finals)
100/110m Hurdles
100M
400M
4x100 Relay
300m Hurdles
800 (Finals)
Medley Relay
200M
4x400m Relay
Field Events (Opposite Friday)
thanks everyone,
Andy
Apr 15, 2012
Tiger Trials - Volunteers needed
Parents,
We will be hosting the Tiger Trials Invitational on Saturday April 28th. We are anticipating between 25 - 35 schools to be competing, and will need you support. We are looking for volunteers to help in a variety of ways. We will have specialized officials at each event, so you will not need to be an expert, just willing to help out. The meet will start @ 8:30 and go till probably 4 or 5 depending on size!
Here are the areas we are specifically looking for:
Starter assistant -
Shot Measure -
Shot Measure -
Disc Measure -
Disc Measure -
Javelin Measure -
Javelin Measure -
High Jump Assistant -
Long Jump Measure -
Long Jump Measure -
Wind Gauge Operator – (Long Jump)
Wind Gauge Operator Sprints / Asst. Hurdle Crew coordinater –
Concessions –
Concessions –
Concessions –
Concessions -
Awards coordinater -
Timing Help - Working in press box on computers
Timing Help - Working in press box on computers
There will be a few other places we need help, so the more volunteers we get the better it will be!
Please reach out to Andy Jacobs if you are willing to help and any prefrence you may have.
thanks
Andy Jacobs
801-358-3333
oremcrosscountry@gmail.com
We will be hosting the Tiger Trials Invitational on Saturday April 28th. We are anticipating between 25 - 35 schools to be competing, and will need you support. We are looking for volunteers to help in a variety of ways. We will have specialized officials at each event, so you will not need to be an expert, just willing to help out. The meet will start @ 8:30 and go till probably 4 or 5 depending on size!
Here are the areas we are specifically looking for:
Starter assistant -
Shot Measure -
Shot Measure -
Disc Measure -
Disc Measure -
Javelin Measure -
Javelin Measure -
High Jump Assistant -
Long Jump Measure -
Long Jump Measure -
Wind Gauge Operator – (Long Jump)
Wind Gauge Operator Sprints / Asst. Hurdle Crew coordinater –
Concessions –
Concessions –
Concessions –
Concessions -
Awards coordinater -
Timing Help - Working in press box on computers
Timing Help - Working in press box on computers
There will be a few other places we need help, so the more volunteers we get the better it will be!
Please reach out to Andy Jacobs if you are willing to help and any prefrence you may have.
thanks
Andy Jacobs
801-358-3333
oremcrosscountry@gmail.com
Apr 9, 2012
Spring Break Workouts
We will meet mornings at 8:30am. Andy will also do jump practice Wednesday at 8:30am and Thursday at 5:30pm - we want ALL high jumpers and long jumpers to attend. Workouts will be updated on the team calendar.
Apr 6, 2012
UVU Invite
Here is the schedule of events. The meet is at Utah Valley University. Please make sure you are there and on time for your event!
thanks
Andy
Girls then boys
** All events will go fastest to slowest
8:00am
1600 Meter
100 M Hurdles
110 M Hurdles
100 Meters
2K meter Steeple
4X100 Meter Relay
400 Meters
300 Meter Hurdles
800 Meters
Sprint Medley
200 Meters
3200 Meters
4X400 Meter Relay
Girls then boys
**We will roll the schedule if possible
8:00am
Girls Discus
Boys Shot
Runway 1) Girls Long Jump
Runway 2) Boys Long Jump
Girls High Jump
10:00am
Boys High Jump
Girls Shot
Boys Discus
11:00
Boys Pole Vault
12:00
Girls Javelin
2:00
Boys Javelin
thanks
Andy
Girls then boys
** All events will go fastest to slowest
8:00am
1600 Meter
100 M Hurdles
110 M Hurdles
100 Meters
2K meter Steeple
4X100 Meter Relay
400 Meters
300 Meter Hurdles
800 Meters
Sprint Medley
200 Meters
3200 Meters
4X400 Meter Relay
Girls then boys
**We will roll the schedule if possible
8:00am
Girls Discus
Boys Shot
Runway 1) Girls Long Jump
Runway 2) Boys Long Jump
Girls High Jump
10:00am
Boys High Jump
Girls Shot
Boys Discus
11:00
Boys Pole Vault
12:00
Girls Javelin
2:00
Boys Javelin
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