Banquet Reminder!

Our annual Banquet is being held at the Middle School Cafeteria on Thursday night May 22 at 6:30. Athletes you should come dressed very nicely, I would really appreciate it. This banquet will probably be a Track banquet as the Baseball team had to make other plans, so I am going to talk your leg off have hopefully have some great times. Can't wait to see you there.
Coach Love

Highlights for the year!

I just wanted to tell you some of the high-lights of the year.
1. Girls are Conference Champs. We are the champions, we are the champions, of the world (As the Scorpions put it)
2. 4x800 Relay team setting a new school record. Twice!
3. Miranda setting the new shot put record. :)
4. Zach and Miranda making it to State!
5. Jessica Potts jumping into the 4x400 at MSD and did an awesome job.
6. Nathan Clink whooping some but at Hermann.
7. Girls finishing 2nd at Districts.
8. Winning the Varsity and JV meet at Hermann.
9. Winning MSD meet.
10. Winning Vienna meet.
11. Winning Osage meet.
12. Winning Fatima meet.
13. All the PR's the kids set.
14. All of the NASTY WET WEATHER.
15. All of the great parents that supported us.
And last but not least.
16. The victory lap at Conference.

I am sure there are more experiences that I probably have forgotten at this time. .
Enjoy.
Coach Love

No 'All-Staters' but some good performances

Well we didn't get Zach or Miranda to become all-staters, but they did preform like champions in my book. Miranda finished 12th with the second best throw of her life, great job Randi. Zach had an awesome race in the 3200 Friday night and bettered his PR by 22 seconds to 10:08, any other year this would have made him all state in Class 2, this time would have won class 1. Zach had two races on Saturday including the 1600, and the 800. Zach ran a pretty good race for 3 laps them locked up and couldn't progress any more, he ended up 11. The 800 was the heartbreak race, going around the 200 meter mark in the 800, someone tripped him up and he landed on his shoulder, but knowing Zach, he got back up and finished the race. Good job Zach.

To Miranda and Zach, I am proud of each one of you, you did a great job this weekend. You represented the school and yourself very well. Thank you for all that you have done.

Coach Love

Updated times!

Just to update some times for the State Meet this Friday and Saturday. Miranda will throw the shot put at 11 o'clock Friday morning and Zach will run the 3200M at 5:30. On Saturday, Zach will run the 1600M at 1:40 and the 800M at 2:55. I hope to see you there supporting our athletes. The cost is $7 to get in each day, man that sounds like highway robbery. Good luck to the athletes. Coach Love

Results are finally in from Sectionals

Girls Results
1600M 8 Hillary Gibson 6:07.73
3200M 5 Hillary Gibson 12:55.44
3200M 8 Kendra Jobe 14:41.58 
100 Hurdles 6 Jessica Schrimpf 17.45
300 Hurdles 6 Jessica Schrimpf 52.29
4x100 Relay 6 54.34  Cierra Bond, Becca Raithel, Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder
4x200 Relay 6 1:52.85 Cierra Bond, Becca Raithel, Allie Raithel, Morgan Roberts
4x800 Relay 5 10:33.39  Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel, Calla Lovell
Shot Put 2 Miranda Loesch 34-01.50


Boys Results

800M  3 Zach Bryant 2:05.78
1600M 2 Zach Bryant 4:43.44
3200M 2 Zach Bryant 10:34.11

Congrats to all of those that made it to Sectionals.  I am proud of you!
Coach Love

Miranda and Zach are going to state!

A big congrats go out to Miranda and Zach finishing in the top four at the sectional meet on Saturday. Miranda went into the meet seeded 3rd and came out in the #2 spot. You go girl! She will throw at 11 o'clock on Friday. Zach qualified for three events on Saturday. He will run the 3200 on Friday afternoon, and will run the 1600 and 800 on Saturday afternoon. I will have the times available latter on. I also want to say congrats to the 4x800 relay team for breaking their own record again. Calla, Sarah, Katie, and Allie have set the record to 10:33. I would like to send out a 'Great Job' to all of the other athletes that competed this weekend. If I am not mistaken, almost all of the athletes had a season best on saturday which is what you want, but things just did not work into thier favor. You guys had a great season. More information will be available this afternoon. Thanks for checking up on us
Coach Love

Schedule for Sectional Meet at South Callaway

For some reason I could not get the Schedule to upload so I am just going to give you time times for the events we are running in. Thanks and a wish of good luck to all of our athletes competing tomorrow.

4x800 Relay 1:15
100 Hurdles 2:05
4x200 Relay 2:45
Shot Put 3:00
1600 Girls 3:10
1600 Boys 3:30
4x100 Relay 3:45
300 Hurdles 4:25
800 4:45
Girls 3200 5:35
Boys 3200 6:05

Thanks and good luck
Coach Love

Schedule for Sectional Meet at South Callaway

For some reason I could not get the Schedule to upload so I am just going to give you time times for the events we are running in. Thanks and a wish of good luck to all of our athletes competing tomorrow.

4x800 Relay 1:15
100 Hurdles 2:05
4x200 Relay 2:45
Shot Put 3:00
1600 Girls 3:10
1600 Boys 3:30
4x100 Relay 3:45
300 Hurdles 4:25
800 4:45
Girls 3200 5:35
Boys 3200 6:05

Thanks and good luck
Coach Love

WOW! What a district meet!

Wow what a day! I must say that in the 8 years that I have been coaching track and field, this was the most fun I have had at a district meet. Our girls finished 2nd behind Blair Oaks. Congratulations Girls. Huge congratulations go out to Miranda Loesch, who won the Shot Put today with a NEW SCHOOL RECORD of 35'5". Congratulations Randi, you deserve it! We had some amazing races today, most of our girls we brought to the meet today get to run another day at sectionals. Without further ado, her are the top eight finishers at districts, the top four are all district and get to compete at sectionals next Saturday.

Girls
1st Blair Oaks
2nd Russellville


100M 7th Morgan Roberts 13.26
100 Hurdles 3rd Jessica Schrimpf 17.39
4x200 Relay 3rd Morgan Roberts, Allie Raithel, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond 1:53.51
4x800 Relay 3rd Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel 10:35.42
High Jump 7th Cierra Bond 4-10
Long Jump 7th Morgan Roberts 14-5.5
Discus 6th Miranda Loesch 92
400M 6th Becca Raithel 1:05.77
1600 4th Hillary Gibson 6:08.23
300 Hurdles 3rd Jessica Schrimpf 52.36
4x100 3rd Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond 54.61
Shot Put 1st Miranda Loesch 35-5
800M 5th Calla Lovell 2:34
800M 7th Allie Raithel 2:47
4x400 Relay 5th Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Hannah Schroeder, Cierra Bond 4:30.29
3200 2nd Hillary Gibson
3200 3rd Kendra Jobe


Boys

800 2nd Zach Bryant 2:06.76
1600 3rd Zach Bryant 4:45.45
3200 3rd Zach Bryant 10:30.29
3200 6th Nathan Clink 11:21

Great job to everyone.
Coach Love

Well its about to get exciting.

Tomorrow we start out post season! We have been picked by mo.milesplit.us to finish #2 in our district behind Blair Oaks, and if all goes well we should live up to those if not surpass them. I can't wait to unleash the beast within ourselves. I think we have a great chance at doing awesome tomorrow. Come out and see the action. We will not fail you. Hopefully I will get to make a few more posts on our new blog. Please comment on the blog, tell me what you like and what you don't like about it. If you don't want to leave a comment please email me at loves@cole.k12.mo.us Hope to see you all out at the track.

Schedule for Saturday May 3 at Blair Oaks

Weather was the name of the game!

Last night at South Callaway for the South Callaway Invitational we were greeted with some horrible weather. This affected some of our kids. Our team still did rather well finishing third while not running in a few events. So here are our results:

Girls
1st Blair Oaks 111.5
2nd Fayette 64
3rd Russellville 58
4th Fatima 55.5
5th Hallsville 55.5
6th South Callaway

100m Morgan Roberts 5th 13.95
800M Calla Lovell 3rd 2:40
Allie Raithel 4th 2:48
1600M Sarah Koestner 3rd 6:00
Hillary Gibson 5th 6:09
3200M Hillary Gibson 4th 13:35
Savannah Haden 7th 14:21
4x100 5th 55.42 Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
4x200 3rd 1:54.9 Morgan Roberts, Allie Ratihel, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
4x800 2nd 10:33 Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel
TJ Jessica Schrimpf 8th 29'11"
Shot Put Miranda Loesch 3rd 33'1"



Boys
1st Iberia 96.5
2nd Fayette 63
3rd Linn 63
4th South Callaway 57.6
5th Fatima 51.5
14th Russellville 17

1600 Zach Bryant 4:47 2nd
3200 Zach Bryant 10:30 2nd
Nathan Clink 8th 12:08

Thanks
Coach Love

Pictures

The Clink Clan!

Nathan above!

&

Kristin below

The Raithel girls getting some advice from Pops!

Look at this hand-off!

Thanks to Debra and Glenda!

Another great meet, not 1st but a good 2nd place for the girls!

Well last night at the Blue and Gold Invitational at Fatima High School the girls didn't win, but we had come great performances. We set many personal records. The new pr's came from Wendy Weber in the 300 hurdles, Jessica Schrimpf in the 300 hurdles, Miranda Loesch in the Shot Put, the 4x200 relay team, the 4x800 relay team (they broke their own record), Hannah Schroeder in the 400, and also the 4x400 relay team. So all in all we had a pretty good meet. We had a top 6 finisher in every event except the triple jump and the pole vault. On the boys side we did our norm again, Zach Bryant won the 1600 and 3200, while Nathan Clink came home in 4th in the 3200. Not to shabby either. Great job to day.

Top 8 finishers

Girls
1st Blair Oaks 165
2nd Russellville 115
3rd Osage 99
4th Fatima 76
5th Vienna 74
6th MSD 30

4x800 10:35.87 1st Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel
100H 17.9 2nd Jessica Schrimpf
100 13.4 4th Morgan Roberts
4x200 1:53.07 2nd Morgan Roberts, Allie Raithel, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
1600 6:05 4th Sarah Koestner
6:11 5th Hillary Gibson
4x100 54.5 3rd Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
400 1:07.24 4th Hannah Schroeder
300 51.1 2nd Jessica Schrimpf
57.9 8th Wendy Weber
800 2:32 2nd Calla Lovell
200 28.19 6th Becca Raithel
28.29 7th Cierra Bond
3200 13:19 1st Hillary Gibson
14:02 7th Kendra Jobe
4x400 4:29 3rd Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Katie Leithauser, Sarah Koestner
HJ 4'8" 4th Cierra Bond
4'4" 6th Hannah Schroeder
TJ 29'9" 7th Jessica Schrimpf
LJ 14'7" 4th Morgan Roberts
SP 33'11" 2nd Miranda Loesch
Discus 92'4" 6th Miranda Loesch

Boys
Not team scores at present time
1600 4:42 1st Zach Bryant
3200 10:45 1st Zach Bryant
11:32 4th Nathan Clink
Discus 110'6" 7th Alex Earls

JV Meet canceled for today April 18.

The meet today at Fatima has been canceled due to the rainy weather. Thanks.

Record Breakers and Conference Champs!

Our new record holders in the 4x800 Relay and their coach

Coach Craig, Calla, Katie, Allie, Sarah

2008 Show-Me Conference Champions
Miranda throwing the shot!
The Field Event Relay getting ready to rock and roll!
Thanks Kathy and Randy for the Pictures

Pictures from the Vienna Meet

The 800 Girls on their first lap!
Calla went on to win again!

Jessica running in the 200 in almost darkness!

Becca being Becca :)

Our Hurdlers huddling!
Jessica and Wendy

What a Meet!

Well if you have not noticed we are having a great year. The girls as a team, have now won 6 of their 7 meets they have been in, and the boys have made great strides this year as well. And last night at the Vienna Invitational it was the same old, same old. The girls won again, and the boys did a fine job as well. It was kind of a crazy meet, with the last two events run in almost complete darkness. The two mile was cut short by a lap because of miscounting the laps. But overall it was another superb meet by your Russellville Indians. Go Big Blue! Here are the top eight results!

Girls
1st Russellville 148
2nd Vienna 110
3rd Iberia 94
4th Fatima 84
5th Dixon 76

4x800 Relay 1st 10:57 Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel
100H 4th Jessica Schrimpf 18.27
4x200 Relay 1st 1:58.7 Hannah Schroeder, Allie Raithel, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
1600 2nd 6:09.92 Sarah Koestner
4th 6:16 Kendra Jobe
5th 6:16 Hillary Gibson
4x100 1st :57 Calla Lovell, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
400 5th 1:11 Jessica Potts
7th 1:12.2 Hannah Schroeder
300H 4th 56.73 Jessica Schrimpf
800 1st Calla Lovell 2:36
2nd Sarah Koestner 2:44
5th Allie Raithel 2:54
200 4th 29.61 Cierra Bond
7th 30.42 Becca Raithel
3200 1st 13:38 Hillary Gibson
3rd 13:47 Kendra Jobe
5th 15:14 Savannah Haden
4x400 Relay 2nd 4:49 Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Katie Leithauser, Sarah Koestner
Shot Put 4th 32' Miranda Loesch
7th 29'1" Stephanie Baker
Discus 3rd 100'9" Miranda Loesch
Triple Jump 6th 29'9" Jessica Schrimpf
High Jump 3rd 4'8" Cierra Bond
6th 4'6" Hannah Schroeder

Boys Results
1st Iberia 160.5
2nd Chamois 127
3rd Vienna 105
4th Fatima 101.5
5th Newberg 48
6th Dixon 47
7th Russellville 38

1600 1st Zach Bryant 4:50
800 1st Zach Bryant 2:08
2900 1st Zach Bryant 9:54 (Yes the distance is correct, they miscounted the laps)
3rd Nathan Clink 10:30
Shot Put 7th Alex Earls 36'11"

Congrats to all that ran and threw!

Calling all photograhpers! I need your pics.

If you have taken any pictures of our athletes I would love to have them. If you would like to send me them via email, my address is loves@cole.k12.mo.us. Or if you would like to burn them to a disc and send them to me that would be great also. Thanks to all of you fans, we love you!

Another Meet Canceled

The meet at Harrisburg has been canceled. Sorry!

Meet Canceled

Meet has been canceled for today. There will be practice though at the high school tonight.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Well, no news on the meet for today yet, but if you look outside you should know that it probably will not happen.
I would like to thank all of you that support our program, without you guys it would not be nearly as fun. You guys make things happen for us. As soon as I know anything on the meet today I will let you know. Thanks for reading.
Coach Love

Goal #1 Accomplished! Conference Champs

Well, we did it. The girls became Show-Me Conference champions last night at Linn. After last years disappointment of getting rained out, we finally had the chance to win conference for the first time in our schools history. The meet started out with a huge bang. The girls 4x800 relay team of Calla, Sarah, Katie, and Allie set a new school record, on that has been there since 1983. Congrats to you four. I am so proud of all of our athletes as they did their best and it finally showed. You girls are awesome. Without further delay, here are the top six finishers. The top three are also All-Conference.

Girls
1st Russellville 162
2nd Fatima 120
3rd Linn 117
4th Chamois 50
5th St. Elizabeth 43
6th New Bloomfield 31

100M
2nd 13.59 Morgan Roberts

200M
2nd 28.15 Cierra Bond
4th 28.88 Becca Raithel

400M
3rd 1:07.6 Hannah Schroeder
6th 1:12.08 Jessica Potts

800M
1st 2:34.9 Calla Lovell
2nd 2:39 Allie Raithel

1600M
4th 6:07 Sarah Koestner
5th 6:18 Hillary Gibson

3200M
2nd 13:43 Hillary Gibson
3rd 13:49 Kendra Jobe

100H
1st 18.2 Jessica Schrimpf
4th 20.66 Wendy Weber

300H
2nd 52.56 Jessica Schrimpf
5th 58.24 Wendy Weber

4x100 Relay
1st 55.25 Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond

4x200 Relay
1st 1:54.3 Hannah Schroeder, Morgan Roberts, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond

4x400 Relay
1st 4:42 Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Katie Leithauser, Sarah Koestner

4x800 Relay
1st 10:36.15 Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel

High Jump
3rd 5'0" Cirra Bond

Triple Jump
4th 29'3" Jessica Schrimpf

Long Jump
4th 13'0" Morgan Roberts

Shot Put
2nd 29'10" Miranda Loesch
4th 26'6" Stephanie Baker

Discus
3rd 93'10" Miranda Loesch
6th 73'5" Stephanie Baker

Boys
1st Chamois 160
2nd Fatima 151.5
3rd Linn 128.5
4th St. Elizabeth 40
5th Russellville 37
6th New Bloomfield 16

800M
2nd 2:08.15 Zach Bryant

1600M
1st 4:40.7 Zach Bryant

3200M
3rd 10:42.3 Zach Bryant

Shot Put
3rd 37'3" Alex Earls

Discus
3rd 110'1" Alex Earls
6th 80'4" Rick Morelock

Congrats to all!

Some pictures from the last meet at MSD

What a bunch of good looking guys!
Coach Love and Coach Craig

Hannah handing off to Morgan in the 4x200 Relay!

Hillary running the 1600M, and look there's Katie in the back cheering!

The girls of the Sprint Medley
Kendra, Calla, Allie, Katie

4 for 5 Not too Bad!

Wow! Last night was awesome. We thought that we had no way of winning because we knew North Callaway was a pretty darn good team and throughout the meet we were behind, but when all was said and done, the Russellville girls won it. Great job girls. Its amazing how many things you can learn about your athletes when you try them in different events, we had a girl that had to miss the meet and so we replaced her with another one that has never run the 400m and bam! Jessica P. did an amazing job coming around in 68 seconds. You go girl! We also had another new event at the meet, the sprint medley and we put a few different girls in that, and bam! here comes Allie R. in the 200 portion and smokes it. Great job Allie. We went to MSD looking for some answers and really all we got were some more puzzle pieces to play with. But that is not a bad thing, that is a great thing. This is what coaches live for. Now we also can't forget the boys. They did a pretty good job themselves. Out of 13 schools their, we finished 6th. Now that doesn't sound very good, but we only have 5 boys running on the team yesterday, which is pretty darn good. Zach had a great day winning the 800, 1600, and the 3200. Go Zach! We also had Alex E. place really well in the Shot and Discus. Great job all around to the Indian Track and Field Team.


Results
Girls
1st Russellville 131
2nd North Callaway 128
3rd Wellsville-Middletown 66
4th Paris 57

4x800 1st 11:08 Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel
100m 3rd 13.5 Morgan Roberts
4x200 2nd 1:56 Hannah Schroeder, Morgan Roberts, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
Sprint Medley 2nd 2:08.5 Calla Lovell, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel, Kendra Jobe
1600 4th 6:13 Sarah Koestner
5th 6:26 Hillary Gibson
4x100 2nd 55.3 Hannah Schroeder, Morgan Roberts, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond
400 4th 1:09 Becca Raithel
5th 1:10 Hannah Schroeder
800 2nd 2:37 Calla Lovell
3rd 2:45 Allie Raithel
200 4th 28.8 Cierra Bond
5th 30.03 Hannah Schroeder
3200 3rd 14.01 Hillary Gibson
4th 14:17 Kendra Jobe
4x4 2nd 4:39 Becca Raithel, Katie Leithauser, Jessica Potts, Sarah Koestner
High Jump 3rd 4'5" Cierra Bond
Triple Jump 4th 26'4" Allie Raithel
Long Jump 1st 14' 3" Morgan Roberts
Shot Put 1st 31'4" Miranda Loesch
6th 26'4" Sam Eicholz
Discus 1st 85'4" Miranda Loesch


Boys
1st chamois 149
2nd North Callaway 92
3rd Illinois School for the Deaf 63
4th Paris 55
5th Higbee 50
6th Russellville 42

1600 1st 4:54 Zach Bryant
800 1st 2:08.63 Zach Bryant
3200 1st 10:41 Zach Bryant
5th 11:40 Nathan Clink
Shot Put 5th 336'2" Alex Earls
Discus 2nd 106'9" Alex Earls

Thanks for reading
Coach Love

Chalk up another W!

Well we did it again, last night at the Hermann Quad, we had two wins. The Varsity girls placed 1st and also the JV girls won. We did it all without the field events, as they were not run because of the rains that they had received. It was a late night but everyone did a great job. On the boys side, we only had 2 guys competing and Nathan Clink was outstanding, he won both the mile and the 2 mile races, finishing with a PR in both. Great job Nathan and all of the girls. Here are the top five finishers:

Girls
Team Points
Varsity
Russellville 71
Hermann 69
New Haven 17
St. James 6

Junior Varsity
Russellville 44
Hermann 35
New Haven 9
St. James 7

100M
2nd Morgan Roberts 13.68
5th Cierra Bond 14.32

200M
2nd Becca Raithel 29.2
3rd Cierra Bond 29.21
5th Morgan Roberts 30.46

400M
4th Hannah Schroeder 1:14

800M
2nd Sarah Koestner 2:47.1
3rd Allie Raithel 2:54.22

1600M
1st Sarah Koestner 6:15.31
2nd Calla Lovell 6:24.69
3rd Hillary Gibson 6:32.21

3200M
1st Hillary Gibson 14:04.52

100 Hurdles
1st Jessica Schrimpf 19.13

300 Hurdles
2nd Jessica Schrimpf 54.26

4x100 Relay
1st Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond 56.71

4x200 Relay
2nd Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond 1:56.88

4x400 Relay
2nd Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Katie Leithauser, Sarah Koestner 4:47.3

4x800 Relay
1st Calla Lovell, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel, Sarah Koestner 11:18.33



Junior Varsity
100M
3rd Ericka Thompson 15.57
4th Kristin Clink 16.56
5th Katie Volkart 16.69

200m
1st Ericka Thompson 32.27
4th Kristin Clink 34.44

400M
1st Kendra Jobe 1:14.78

1600M
1st Kendra Jobe 6:36.06
2nd Savannah Haden 7:01.8

3200M
1st Kendra Jobe 14:30.08
2nd Savannah Haden 14.53.74

4x200M
2nd Ericka Thompson, Kristin Clink, Katie Volkart, Savannah Haden 2:18.43


Boys Varsity
Points
Hermann 59
St. James 57
Hew Haven 16
Russellville 15

JV
Hew Haven 32
St. James 28
Herman 28
Russellville 3

800M
3rd Nathan Clink 2:25

1600
1st Nathan Clink 5:14.81

3200
1st Nathan Clink 11:43.29

Junior Varsity
100M
5th Anthony Pitts-Fugate 14.62

200M
4th Anthony Pitts-Fugate 31.87

Sunny, Cloudy, Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Cold & Rainy

That's what our meet was like yesterday. We were not for sure if it would happen at all with the weather forcast, but we arrived and it was a great day for a track meet, but as the meet went on the worse the conditions were. We did not get to complete the entire meet probably because the meet started about 30 minutes late for some unknown reason. Oh well. No matter the weather we did have a few good races. The first race of the day was one of the best. The 4x800 girls seemed to be shot from a cannon and they were at the lead for the 2nd and 3rd leg and finished a little behind Blair Oaks for second in a great time of 10:56. Great race girls. Another great race was Zach in the 1600. He ran a very smart race and took the lead on lap 4 and held on for the win, beating his arch nemisis Peanut. The 4x200, & 4x100 relay girls also did a great job. So here are the results. Our girls finished tied for 4th out of 21 teams, not bad but, hopefully if the meet were to be completed we should have moved up to 3rd. But we didn't and we are at 4th. Not too bad though.

Boys
1600M Zach Bryant - 1st - 4:46

Girls
4x800M Calla Lovell, Sarah Koestner, Katie Leithauser, Allie Raithel - 2nd - 10:56
100H Jessica Schrimpf - 6th - 18.26
4x200M Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond - 3rd - 1:56
1600M Sarah Koestner - 4th - 6:11
4x100M Morgan Roberts, Hannah Schroeder, Becca Raithel, Cierra Bond - 3rd - :56
300H Jessica Schrimpf - 5th - 55.1

Another win!

Well we went to Osage and did another great job. All of the girls have been working their tails off and it is showing early this season. Right now, most of the guys and girls are meeting their best marks from last year, meaning that they should be even better when the end of the season nears. I couldn't ask for a better team of runners and throwers, they are doing a great job. Here are the results from the meet we had at Osage.

Girls Results:			Osage Quad
	1st	Russelville	93 Pts
	2nd	Osage	90 Pts
	3rd	Iberia	87 Pts
	4th	California	71 Pts
	5th	Versailles	23 Pts
4x800 Relay	1st	11:19	Calla Lovell
			Katie Leithauser
			Sarah Koestner
			Allie Raithel
100 H	1st	17.92	Jessica Schrimpf
100M Dash	2nd	13.76	Morgan Roberts
	5th	14.94	Jessica Potts
4x200 Relay	2nd	01:56.6	Morgan Roberts
			Hannah Schroeder
			Becca Raithel
			Cierra Bond
1600M	2nd	6:50	Kendra Jobe
	3rd	7:03	Savannah Haden
4x100 Relay	1st	56.13	Morgan Roberts
			Hannah Schroeder
			Becca Raithel
			Cierra Bond
400M Dash	2nd	1:10	Hannah Schroeder
300H	1st	53.83	Jessica Schrimpf
800M	3rd	2:41	Sarah Koestner
	4th	2:43	Allie Raithel
	5th	2:44	Calla Lovell
200M Dash	4th	9:21	Jessica Potts
3200M	1st	15:08	Savannah Haden
	2nd	15:10	Kendra Jobe
4x400 Relay	2nd	4:43	Sarah Koestner
			Jessica Schrimpf
			Katie Leithauser
			Becca Raithel
Shot Put	3rd	32'2"	Miranda Loesch
High Jump	4th	4'8"	Cierra Bond
Long Jump	4th	13'4"	Cierra Bond
Triple Jump	5th	29'10"	Jessica Schrimpf
Boys Results:
1600M	2nd	4:54	Zach Bryant
	4th	5:27	Nathan Clink
800M	2nd	2:12	Zach Bryant
3200M	4th	12:01	Nathan Clink
Discus	4th	106'5"	Alex Earls

Next Meet: Monday @ Osage

Our meet scheduled for last Monday, has been rescheduled for this Monday March 24. The bus leaves at 2:15. Have a Happy Easter.

First meet, First Win!

Well, last night we went to Fatima for a 6 team practice meet, and the girls came away with a victory. The team win is great and all, but they showed some pretty good times and most of the kids looked very strong. Despite having rain on our DIRT track almost everyday, we did exceptionally well. Coach Miller and myself thought everyone did at least what was expected or much better. I thought we would be decent, but we were better than that. You fans better be watching out for us by the end of the year. Here are the results from last nights meet:

Girls
100M
-2-M. Roberts - 13.92
200M
-2-C. Bond - 29.14
-6-J. Potts - 31.62
400M
-3-B. Raithel - 67.8
-4-H. Schroeder - 68
800M
1-C. Lovell - 2:44
2-S. Koestner - 2:45
4-K. Leithauser - 2:57
1600M
-4-S. Koestner - 6:23
-5-H. Gibson - 6:32
-6-K. Jobe - 6:42
3200M
-2-H. Gibson-NT
-4-K. Jobe - 15:00
-5-S. Miller -NT
4x100m Relay
-1-H. Schroeder, M. Roberts, B. Raithel, C. Bond - 54.39
-3-K. Volkart, E. Thompson, K. Clink, J. Potts - 1:02.5
4x200M Relay
-1-H. Schroeder, M. Roberts, B. Raithel, C. Bond - 1:56.36
4x400M Relay
-2-B. Raithel, J. Schrimpf, K. Leithauser, S. Koestner -4:42
4x800M Relay
-3-C. Lovell, K. Leithauser, S. Koestner, K. Jobe - 11:51
100 Hurdles
-2-J. Schrimpf 18.17
-4-W. Weber 21.46
300 Hurdles
-1-J. Schrimpf 52.44
-5-W. Weber 60.96
Shot Put
-2-M. Loesch - 31'9"
-6-S. Baker - 25'3"
Discus
-3-M. Loesch - 86'4"
High Jump
-4-C. Bond - 4'8"
Long Jump
-3-M. Roberts - 14'1"
Triple Jump
-3- J. Schrimpf - 29'7"

Team Points
1. Russellville 154
2. Fatima 133
3. Linn 82
4. Chamois 50
5. St. Elizabeth 49
6. New Bloomfield 45

Boys
800M
-1-Z. Bryant - 2:09
1600M
-2-Z. Bryant - 4:51
3200M
-3-Z. Bryant - 11:11
Shot Put
-6-A. Earls - 33'8"
Discus
-6-A. Earls - 107'4"


Great job to all those involved.

Our First Meet!

Well we are headed to our first meet today at Fatima, it is a little quad so it will be a great time to get some practice before our first medal meet of the year. Things have been going really good so far, except for mother-nature. Hopefully she will keep some of this precipitation for the summer months when we need some. Our team this year is fairly good sized, especially on the girls side, we have 25 girls but only 8 boys. The kids have been competing in practice trying to make it into the meets as only the fastest ones will make the team. But things are looking pretty darn good for us this year. Check back here for the results and hopefully some pictures. Have a great day.
Coach

Captains

The whole team voted for capitans for this year, and the results are in. Miranda, Zach, Allie, Calla, and Jessica S. are our capitans for the year. I know they will do a great job. Good luck to you all.
Coach Love

Only 1 Week

We have only one week until our first meet of the season. We have only been on the track one day this year so far. We are going to try and get on it this week. I still can't believe that in one week from today we are to be competing. Wow. Hopefully the weather will cooperate with us this week and we can get some great workouts in. Love ya all.
Coach Love

Assistant Coaches

If you have ever coached a sport, you know how much a good assistant is worth. Well I am so lucky to have one of those assistant coaches. Coach Craig Miller has been at my hip for 5 years and I must say they do not come any better. Craig is not in the education industry, but he puts all he has into the kids and the sport that he can. I can not thank him enough for all that he does. I know he will not like this post because of the praise for him. But THANK YOU for all you do Craig.
To all others have a great weekend.

Weather, Weather, Weather

We all know that the weather in the spring sports season is very unpredictable, well we can predict that the weather is unpredictable. Yesterday I was setting at home with the windows open and feeling the wonderful spring air, thinking man it would be nice to have a week of this, then i heard the weather report. Boy am I depressed. We are going to get tons of rain and even some snow. What a downer. So the weather will slow our progress a little, since our track is as muddy as my my dogs belly. Hope all is well with you.

Welcome to the R-Ville Track and Field Blog

Well things are starting to get going. Our first practice was on Monday the 25th of February. And we got in one good week of practice, this next week we will have all of our team members present and things should start rolling along pretty fast. Here is a list of our meets for the year:

Day	Date	Level	Location	Time
M	03/17	Var/JV	Osage	4:00 p.m.
Th	03/20	Var	Fatima	3:00 p.m.
Th	03/27	Var/JV	Linn Invitational	1:00 p.m.
T	04/01	Var/JV	Hermann Quad	4:00 p.m.
F	04/04	Var	MSD Invitational	1:00 p.m.
M	04/07	Var/JV	Show Me Conference	4:00 p.m.
Th	04/10	Var	Eldon Relays	2:00 p.m.
S	04/12	Var	Harrisburg Relays	9:00 a.m.
T	04/15	Var	Vienna Track Meet	2:00 p.m.
F	04/18	JV	Fatima JV	3:00 p.m.
T	04/22	Var	Fatima Varsity	3:00 p.m.
F	04/25	Var/JV	South Callaway Relays	TBA
S	05/03	Var	Districts	TBA

Can't wait to get to our first meet. Check back for updates.
Coach Love