Welcome

I would like to welcome all of you to Russellville HS/MS track blog. I will be highlighting many things with our track season. This year we have the priviledge of hosting our very first track meet at our brand new track facility. If you have not been out to the track, please stop by and make a lap or two. The facility is always open for you to use. On Tuesday March 20th, we will be hosting a quadrangle with 8 schools. Also on that day, we are going to have a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2:30pm. Hopefully we will also have some of our track and field alumni. If you ever have any questions please feel free to contact me at loves@cole.k12.mo.us
Thanks for reading.
Coach Love

Track Calendar

Coming Together!

Well we are coming together as a team. Each meet we go to we see significant progress. Last night at Linn was no exception. We had some great performances all around. A few that stand out is Grace Young going 33' in the triple jump, her PR. Also Taylor Young went 15' in all 3 of her jumps. Hannah Campbell ran the 300H for the first time in her career and ran a 55.57 which is very good. The 4x1 and 4x2 of Taylor Young, Grace Young, Hannah Campbell, and Emma Koestner looked the best that they have looked all year. Miranda Hill looked very good in the 1600 and 3200 finishing with very good marks of 5:49 and 12:49 respectively. Cassandra Carter looked very smooth in the 400 dash going 1:07. As far as the boys, they put together some great runs as well. Alan Murphy ended the night battling a Blair Oaks kid in the Pole Vault, both clearing 11' and barely missing on 11' 6". The 4x1 and 4x2 relay teams did a great job as well, they were Jayce Tschirgi, Alan Murphy, Jared Bischoff, and Alex Thompson. Jacob Robertson had a great night personally last night, getting a pr in both the 1600 and 3200. Alex Thompson also competed in the 3200 in his first race ever at that distance and ran a great race to come home in 12:11.
Thanks and hope to see you at a meet.
Coach Love

Today

We had kind of a booboo in our schedule, we were scheduled to go to Versailles today, but found out that we were originally scheduled to go to Linn today. So we are on our way to Linn today for the 2nd Annual Linn/Cole County Challenge. We are teaming up with Blair Oaks to take on Linn and Fatima. Both the high school and middle schools are competing tonight, should be a great night if the weather holds out. Thanks Coach Love

Hello All!

As you may know, I haven't blogged in awhile. But I making it a point to post things from here on out. I will be posting about the season and about the progress of the new track that is being built here at Russellville. So please check back often to see what we have been doing. Thanks Coach Love

Haden had a PR-ifect night!

Well the night best performances' probably has to go to Savannah Haden as she had 2 pr's and finished 1st in the 3200 and 2nd in the 1600 (in a come from behind win) on Tuesday night at Vienna's Black and Gold Invitational. We had some other good performances at the meet but Savannah did an awesome job. She had a season pr in the 1600 and a career pr in the 3200.

Here are the top eight finishers
Girls
1. Vienna 149
2. Russellville 119.5
3. New Bloomfield 71

100m 2nd 14.03 Morgan Roberts
400m 3rd 1:06.03 Sarah Koestner
400m 4th 1"1:10.44 Jessica Potts
800m 4th 2:57.87 Cassandra Carter
1600m 2nd 6:11.7 Savannah Haden
1600m 4th 6:35.55 Cassandra Carter
3200m 1st 13:56.06 Savannah Haden
100H 4th 20.18 Tanya Neal
100H 8th 22.57 Jamie Webster
300H 3rd 55.85 Tanya Neal
300H 5th 1:04.6 Jamie Webster
4x200 1st 2:00.29 Sarah Koestner, Morgan Roberts, Jessica Potts, Tanya Neal
4x400 1st 4:36.33 Sarah Koestner, jessica Potts, Casandra Carter, Tanya Neal
4x800 1st 11:26.00 Sarah Koestner, Savannah Haden, Casandra Carter, Jessica Potts
Shot Put 4th 32'8" Stephanie Baker
Discus 5th 99'10" Stephanie Baker
Pole Vault 3rd 6' Jamie Webster
Long Jump 4th 15' Morgan Roberts


Boys
1. Vienna 158.5
2. Steelville 91.33
3. Belle 88.5
10. Russellville 23

3200 4th 11:56.10 Nick Hartley
Shot Put 1st 43'10" Alex Earls
Discus 2nd 123'11" Alex Earls

Fatima Blue & Gold Results

I probably shouldn't say anything but, I can not believe that the weather has been so nice this spring. And last night the weather exactly what we wanted in order to run. The highlight of the night was Sarah Koestner again! Sarah won the 1600 and 3200 while smashing her own record in the 3200 by a mere 12 seconds. WOW! We also had some good performances throughout the night, Jessica Potts pr'd in the 400 and the 4x100 team did a great job getting their pr for the season. And Tanya Neal is doing a great job this year in the 300 hurdles, as she has brought her time down every single meet this year. Another girl doing well is Karen Wells, she is getting better and better as the season progresses. For the boys, Dustin Hagenhoff did a great job in the 1600 by getting a pr by about 10 seconds. Alex Earls is also doing very well in the disc and shot. Here are the results, i do not have team scores although i believe the girls finished 4th.

Here are the top 8 finishers

Girls:

4x800 8th 12:00 Cassandra Carter, Savannah Haden, Sue Englage, Karen Wells
100m 5th 13.2 Morgan Roberts
4x200 6th 1:55.23 Tanya Neal, Courtney Dawson, Jessica Potts, Morgan Roberts
1600m 1st 5:36 Sarah Koestner
1600m 8th 6:24 Savannah Haden
400m 6th 1:05.71 Jessica Potts
3200 1st 12:14.41 Sarah Koestner *****Current School Record*****
Shot Put 7th 30'8" Stephanie Baker
Discus 8th 82'3" Stephanie Baker

Boys:
Shot Put 1st 42'10" Alex Earls
Discus 2nd 128'1" Alex Earls

Thanks
Coach Love!