Blogs : John Wise

The juggling Rainbolt, bulk of the season, busy, busy, busy

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged so here goes …

First of all, you all have seen my previous blogs about Coach Rainbolt I’m sure, well check out this week’s Wichita State week in review on youtube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQDIeyefGw

Tom, I’m sure hoping you put this on the main page to showcase your former coach’s skills.  Haha!

Our team has been doing pretty well despite competing in some tough early season conditions.  It’s either been cold, windy, or both.  This past weekend we hosted the KT Woodman and decided to move it back a day to Sunday to get better weather.  It turned out to be only marginally better and very windy so our races around the track have yet to have good conditions with the exception of a trip to Sacramento State (which we only took a partial squad).

Anyways, now that I’m done complaining … our men’s team is looking very strong.  The throws crew is having a great early season portion of the schedule, hopefully they will keep that going throughout the outdoor season.  We have a freshmen javelin guy, Brett Trudo, who threw 237-7 a couple weeks ago and is among the nation’s leaders.  Two other javelin guys are over 215, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

I’m real happy with the way our guy sprinters are developing.  We think we have a nice group and if we can get some decent conditions we think we can produce some quick times in several events.  Last year we felt like our guys group was a year away from really getting is going and that’s how we feel about our girls right now.  Our girls’ group is young and developing but we are starting to see some signs of good things from them as well.  Jenny Snyder is having a great senior year in the hurdles and I’m excited to watch her run in the invitational hurdles at the Kansas Relays this week.

This is the toughest part of the schedule.  We are training very hard, racing often, and trying to keep kids on schedule in the classroom.  We head to Oregon next week, which I’m very excited about, to run at Hayward Field.  Once we get past that we’ll really start to look towards the MVC Championships.  Our men are getting ready for a battle and our women are looking to get back towards the top of the conference.  Busy time of the year, it will be over before we realize!

Great video

10:13 AM, April 18, 2008 .. Posted by trackshark

I don't know how Bolt does it. Clever with the video and it certainly was a classic. I'll look it up after vacation...but now I'm off to playing with the dolphins. They come out right on the sidewalks, so you can pet them.