Special Olympics!!!!!!!!

Well we just returned from a magnificent trip down to Springfield to volunteer for the Special Olympics track meet. We took down 16 athletes and we helped with the running of the meet. We started out by escorting the athletes from the end of the race to the awards area. We then helped with the running of the relay events in the afternoon. Today we had some kids help with the standing long jump, softball throw, and timing of some more races.
I didn't really know what to expect and neither did our athletes, but we sure got our hearts full of love. I thought the experience was life changing. We meet so many wonderful athletes and their amazing smiles and stories. I think we each found a person that melted our hearts. For me it was probably Tommy or Justin. Tommy is an older gentleman that was running when we arrived and continued for another 6 miles. When he was done he was just a big bundle of joy. We talked and talked with him the entire day. Hopefully he will get to continue his journey to Nationals in Nebraska. As for Justin, he was a 19 year old that was blind, but he was the nicest kids you would ever want to meet. He ran the 50 meter run with a helper (and won), did the standing long jump and the softball toss. All that time I was in complete amazement. There were so many athletes that you couldn't help but give a high five and a big hug. I remember one athletes, unfortunately forgot his name but after his race I gave him a big high five and he came over and gave me the biggest hug. I am tearing up just thinking about the time we had there. Hopefully some of our athletes learned a thing or two about life and love. I know I sure did. We had such a wonderful time. I would like to thank all of the kids that went, and a huge thanks to Lana Dobson for being a chaperon. Hopefully we will get to do this for many years to come. Here is a list of athletes I would like to thank for coming and helping.
Kyle Peek, Ben Rice, Bradley Skinner, Colby Anderson, Zach Bryant, Billy Hendricks, Allie Raithel, Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Kendra Jobe, Chrissy Distler, Kaitlyn Taube, Izzy Michitch, Jessica Potts, Kyrsten Dobson, & Stephanie Baker.
Thanks
Coach Love

All-State Performers

Congratulations to Sarah Koestner and Zach Bryant for being named All-State. Sarah placed 5th at the state track meet in the 1600m with a school record of 5:26.5. Zach placed 6th in the 3200m at 9:58.01. Congratulations goes out to all of the athletes this year. We had a great season and hopefully we will have many more All-Staters in the years to come. We just gettin' started.
A big congrats go out to Sarah and Zach, they performed their best when it counted, you guys did great.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love ya
Coach Love

District Results

Well we had a pretty good district meet last weekend at Blair Oaks High School. We had qualifiers where we thought there would be. There were some good races along with a some disappointing ones. But here are the results. The top 4 qualify for sectionals next saturday at Centralia High School

Girls

Fatima Blue & Gold Track Meet

Well everything went well especially the weather. This was the nicest day we have had so far this year for a meet. And the weather worked well for us, as Sarah Koestner set the school record in the 1600m run, and Zach came up just seconds from breaking the 800m record. Here are the results

Boys
1st Versailles 124 pts
2nd Fatima 109.5
3rd Vienna 75.5

9th Russellville 40 pts

Shot Put: Alex Earls 39'3" 5th
1600M: Zach Bryant 4:40 1st
Discus: Alex Earls 127'2" 5th
800M: Zach Bryant 2:00.66 1st
3200M: Zach Bryant 10:44 1st


Girls
1st Fatima 121 pts
2nd Blair Oaks 117 pts
3rd Russellville 85 pts

LJ: Morgan Roberts 15'1" 3rd
Shot: Stephanie Baker 31'3" 7th
4x800 Relay: Hillary Gibson, Katie Leithauser, Cassandra Carter, Izzy Mitchich 11:01 3rd
100H: Jessica Schrimpf 17.95 5th
TJ: Jessica Schrimpf 30'2" 3rd
100M: Morgan Roberts 13.6 3rd
4x200 Relay: Hannah Schroeder, Kyrsten Dobson, Morgan Roberts, Becca Raithel 58.72 3rd
1600M: Sarah Koestner 5:35.24 1st
1600M: Savannah Haden 6:20.75 4th
4x100 Relay Hannah Schroeder, Kyrsten Dobson, Morgan Roberts, Becca Raithel 57.35 6th
400M: Jessica Potts 1:09.89 8th
300H: Jessica Schrimpf 54.46 4th
300H: Wendy Weber 56.72 7th
800M: Katie Leithauser 2:42.9 6th
200M: Becca Raithel 29.27 4th
3200M: Sarah Koestner 12:54.84 2nd
3200M: Hillary Gibson 13.13.77 4th
4x400 Relay: Becca Raithel, Jessica Schrimpf, Hannah Schroeder, Kyrsten Dobson 4:43.96 6th

Crusader Classic

We took three athletes to the Crusader Classic on Saturday at Lincoln University and had some pretty good results. Sarah Koestner won the 1600 & 3200 with Hillary Gibson placing 7th in the 1600 and 6th in the 3200. Zach Bryant was 2nd in the 800. Great job to those athletes for doing so well the day after running in South Callaway.
Coach Love

Fatima & South Callaway Meets

Well, i don't have any of the results from the last two meets but i will put them up as soon as i get them. Sorry for the delay.