GMS Track & Field

Welcome to the Geneseo Middle School Track and Field webpage.

May 27th, 2025

We had a great turn out to the Breakfast of Champions this morning. We watched the highlight video , ate some donuts, and chatted about the year. We had an awesome year. Three Conference team championships, a Sectional team championship, five school records, an IESA 4A State Record, 33 state qualifiers, 15 state medals, and our first boy thrower to achieve two state medals in the same year.. That is incredible. If you missed the get together, here is the link to the highlight videos. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=30. Scroll down to 2025. If you have something you want added or see misspelled names in the video, please let us know.

If you have not returned any items, please take them to the middle school. There will still be office staff this week at the middle school. Uniforms, shoes, and implements need to be returned. If you can not get it in, email coach Ehlert and we will figure it out. tehlert@geneseoschools.org

This was a great year. We hope the best for all of you. Please consider doing sports all year long. 7^th graders this fall for 8^th grade there is cross country, football, volleyball, softball and golf available for you to do. 8^th graders, you have cross country, football, boys soccer, girls tennis, boys golf, girls golf, and volleyball available for you at the high school. Please consider doing something.

This summer there is a 5K run in Walnut, IL. Coach Monier and his family put on a race. Here is a link for the race. https://runsignup.com/walnut5kforals. Please consider participating in the run.

Thanks for Going All Out, Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable, Not Listening to the Little Person, Having Fun, and Dreaming Big this year.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

May 26th, 2025

We hope everyone is doing well. Tomorrow morning we will be having a get together for the whole track team. We will be celebrating our great year with a breakfast. We will be supplying the kids donuts. The kids need to supply the drink. This will start around 7:40/7:45.

We will celebrate the teams accomplishments. Three team conference championships, one team sectional championship, six school records, a state record, and 15 state medalists, just a few things to mention. We will also watch this year’s state highlight video.

For anyone who has not turned in their uniform or items they borrowed during the year, please bring them Tomorrow morning to turn in.

We are finishing up the highlight video from state. We are looking for some candid shots of the guys. We received a lot from the girls, just looking for some guys photos. If you could have them to us by 8:00, we will be able to get them in for the morning. If not, we will put them in after the breakfast of champions. The video is always a work in progress.

This was a great year and we would like to get together and enjoy it one last time.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

May 24th, 2025

Unbelievable weekend! Congratulations on another awesome state experience.

The magic was in the air both days this weekend. For the second straight year, we came home with 15 medals, we set 2 school records, and we set a new state record. Great job everyone!

Here are the medalists from this weekend:

8^th grade girls Pole Vault – Allison Tice – 7^th Place

7^th grade girls Pole Vault – Jaela Minnaert – 2^nd Place

7^th grade girls Pole Vault – Hailey Olson – 5^th Place

7^th grade boys Pole Vault – Will Ehlert – 4^th Place

8^th grade boys Shot Put – Isaac Ropp – 8^th Place

8^th grade girls 100 Hurdles – Emma Minnaert – 8^th Place

8^th grade boys 100 meter dash – Jett Znamenacek – 4^th Place

8^th grade girls Discus – Brenna Dykstra – 8^th Place

8^th grade boys Discus – Isaac Ropp – 7^th Place

7^th grade girls 4×100 Meter Dash – Jaela Minnaert, Elle Patterson, Aspen Znamenacek, Peyton Wexell (Alt. Norah Kuddes, Hailey Olson)

It was truly an incredible weekend. A huge thank you to all the athletes and parents who came to the meet to support GMS Track and Field. None of this could be possible without the Geneseo community. Thank you so much.

We are looking for photos from the kids and the parents, from this weekend. We are looking for the award stand photos, especially Brenna Dykstra and Isaac Ropp Discus award stand photos.

Kids we are looking for videos and photos from this weekend that you took at the meet. Please send them to coach Ehlert. tehlert@geneseoschools.org

Thanks for making this a special year. We had an amazing weekend. Perfect weather, state medalists, school records, a state record, great food, great memories, and a whole lot of smiles.

We will have more tomorrow. Have a great night and thank you for Dreaming Big!

May 23rd, 2025

Just an update for the whole team. The kids had an incredible day today. We came home with 6 state medalists so far. Here is a list of medal winners:

8^th Grade Girls pole vault – Allison Tice –7^th Place

^7th Grade Girls pole vault – Jaela Minnaert – 2^nd Place – New State Record and School Record

7^th Grade Girls pole vault – Hailey Olson – 5^th Place

8^th Grade Boys Shot Put – Isaac Ropp – 8^th Place

8^th Grade Girls 100 Meter Hurdles – Emma Minnaert – 8^th Place

8^th Grade Boys 100 Meter Dash – Jett Znamenacek – 4^th Place – New School Record – First ever boy or girl medalist in the 100 meter dash for Geneseo.

Unbelievable. Just a reminder to the state qualifiers, we leave at 6:00 am tomorrow. Be at the middle school by 5:50ish am. There will be a send off at the Dairy Queen shortly after 6:00.

Bring Cash for the concession stand. They do not take credit cards. We have a ton of water and Powerade. It will not be cold, just air temperature. Helps prevent cramping to drink at air temperature.

Look for our camp next to the maintenance building. We have two large Geneseo tents for anyone who is coming to support the team. We had a huge track team members presence who chose to come down and cheer. Thanks so much. It really helped the kids.

We have attached a photo of the time schedule for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is going to special. Go All Out!!!! Don’t listen to the little person!!!!! Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable!!!!! Have Fun!!!!!!

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 22nd, 2025

Kids had an awesome practice. They are ready to go. This is a long email. Sorry.

Tomorrow (Friday) we will be departing around 8:00 for the kids competing. Have the kids show up to school like normal. They will report to the gym. Please sign your athlete out, if your athlete is not coming back with us on the bus. We are encouraging kids to leave with their parents, if they want to. We have no idea what time the team bus will get back tomorrow night. The kids will eat at somewhere on the way back.

There will be a police escort out of town in the morning. Parents are meeting at the DQ/Dollar General parking lot. We will drive by that way on the way out.

The kids who are not going tomorrow, do not have practice tomorrow. They will go home after school. Have them do a little bit of running to stay loose.

Saturday the bus is going to leave at 6:00ish. Have the kids show up at 5:50. There should be a firetruck on this day also.

After the meet is done on Saturday, the kids are going to eat at Avanti’s in Peoria. I do not know what time we will get back.

The weather looks good for tomorrow. Highs in the 70’s for both days with little wind. You never know, it could rain. We have had some strange things happen at State before. Be prepared. Bring warm clothes for the mornings. It will be in the 50’s.

Be prepared for all kinds of weather. From sunscreen to sweats. It could be cool in the morning and rain during the day.

Our kids have run in this all year. We are ready and they are going to do great.

Please have the kids bring money for snacks and for IESA State merchandise. It can be an expensive day and weekend. Remember, parking costs $5 and there is admission for both days to get in, $12 online https://www.iesa.org/GoFan/index.asp?Activitycode=TR_3A4A&Day=1 and $15 for cash each day. Programs are usually around $5. T-Shirts can be around $20 and sweatshirts can be close to $30. It is very expensive and you do not have to get any clothing.

Concessions only have taken cash in the past. So please bring cash for the kids and yourselves.

We have attached a list of the state qualifiers and an estimated time they may run. Here is a website that can help also. https://www.iesa.org/activities/tr/fanzone/

Please let us know if you have any questions. This is an exciting time and the kids are going to be awesome.

Dream Big!!!!

May 21st, 2025

We are having a great week of practice. Please bring your spikes for practice tomorrow. We will be changing out the spikes with new ones at the end of practice. We will be done at 4:30 again.

There is a parade of champions set up during ASAP tomorrow. The kids need to meet in the library when they are called down. The kids will then walk around and be recognized in the hallway. It is a short celebration for the kids who qualified for state. Parents do not come to this.

Friday looks warm, in the 70’s, but beautiful. Only the team members who qualified will be heading down on the bus. We will be leaving at 8:00. If you would like to take your kids home early, not a problem. We will be stopping to eat at Chick-Fil-A or something like that on the way back.

Make sure you bring extra clothes to change into for all kinds of weather.

Saturday looks dry and warm also. Please plan accordingly with a lot of clothes. We will be leaving around 6:00 on Saturday morning.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!!

May 20th, 2025

What a crazy day today. We made a great call on canceling practice early in the day. The pole vaulters had an awesome practice at 5:00. All of them were able to make it. Great job.

Please bring your spikes for practice tomorrow and Thursday. We will be changing out the spikes with new ones at the end of practice. We will be done at 4:30 again. Tomorrow will be the last hard practice of the year.

Here are the state qualifiers for the meet. You can see where you are ranked from sectional times. https://www.iesa.org/activities/tr/qualifiers_State_3A4A.asp?Year=2025&Class=4A. Please let us know if you see something missing.

There is a parade of champions set up during ASAP on Thursday.

Friday looks to be in the 70’s, but beautiful. Only the team members who qualified will be heading down on the bus. We will be leaving at 8:00. If you would like to take your kids home early, not a problem. We will be stopping to eat in East Peoria on the way back.

Make sure you bring extra clothes to change into for all kinds of weather.

Saturday looks dry also. Please plan accordingly with a lot of clothes. We will be leaving around 6:00 on Saturday morning.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!!

May 19th, 2025

We had a good practice today. The kids received their ribbons and we took it easy. Tomorrow will be a wait and see practice. There is some weather coming. The pole vaulters did not get to do vault tonight and that has been shifted to tomorrow. We may not have practice, except for some field events, if there is a lot of rain. Trying to save legs. We will let you know during the day.

The Cubby Hole will be doing pre-orders again, if you are interested. They also have different gear at the state meet if you would like to wait. https://cubbyholeonline.com/iesa/. The word is that there were huge lines at the 1A/2A state meet last weekend.

By the way, we are in 4A when you are looking at all the information for this weekend.

The IESA is planning to get a list of qualifiers online by 12:00 tomorrow. If there is something missing, please let us know.

Friday we will leave around 8:00. We are waiting for the final time schedule and we will get more solidified answers for you.

Saturday we will be leaving pretty early. We are going to leave the middle school at 6:00am to beat the traffic at the stadium. Just a heads up.

Again, go to this link for State information https://www.iesa.org/activities/tr/index.asp?Year=2025&Class=7-1A You can also check here https://www.iesa.org/activities/tr/fanzone/

Have a great night.

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 18th, 2025 – Night

Congratulations again to everyone on a great year and weekend. We still have one week to go.

Tomorrow we need all the kids who performed at the sectional meet to come to practice. We will be handing out ribbons to anyone who placed in the top six at the meet. We will celebrate together our sectional success and then get a little work out in for the State Qualifiers.

Athletes who qualified for state, please bring running shoes and spikes to practice this week. We will be working on field events, hand offs, and workouts during the week.

Pole Vaulters, you will be working pole vault tomorrow (Monday).

Practice will be done at 5:00.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Keep Dreaming Big!

May 18th, 2025 – Morning

Great job yesterday! We had an awesome day. We won the 8^th grade girls division, placed 2^nd in the 7^th grade girls and 7^th grade boys divisions, and placed 3^rd in the 8^th grade boys division. There were 16 teams in each division, That is incredible.

Just like last year, the weather was brutal with the wind. We had many performances that were affected by the wind. Some of our kids just missed by centimeters of not going to state in field events. We also had some running events just missing. Crazy. The kids did their best. There were great performances everywhere on the track and field by the middle school kids. Great job!

Congratulations to Mark Shoemaker for breaking the 8^th grade boys long jump record. What is incredible is Cameron Proehl broke that record earlier this year. Great Job Mark and Cameron!

Here are the kids who qualified for state next weekend:

We have 33 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls – 9

Pole Vault – Jaela Minnaert
Pole Vault – Hailey Olson
High Jump – Bradlee Larson
400 Meter Dash – Jaela Minnaert
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Peyton Wexell, Jaela Minnaert, Elle Patterson, Aspen Znamenacek – Alt. Hailey Olson, Norah Kuddes
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Jaela Minnaert, Zania Sefton, Norah Kuddes, Aspen Znamenacek – Alt. Bradlee Larson, Emily Hayes

8th Grade Girls – 11

Pole Vault – Allison Tice
Pole Vault – Payton Riffe
Long Jump – Emma Hofer
Long Jump – Sophia Urquiza
Discus – Brenna Dykstra
100 Meter Hurdles – Emma Minnaert
800 Meter Run – Charlize Wachtel
1600 Meter Run – Charlize Wachtel
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Ashlynn Werthmann, Emma Hofer, Emma Minnaert, Annie Reed – Alt. Chloe Mance, Izzy Ong

7th Grade Boys – 6

Pole Vault – Will Ehlert
800 Meter Run – Kyle Wirth
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Henry Woodward, Will Ehlert, Drake Burton, Kyle Wirth – Alt. Cole Weinzierl, Ephraim Mueller

8th Grade Boys – 7

Discus – Isaac Ropp
Shot Put – Isaac Ropp
Long Jump – Mark Shoemaker
100 Meter Dash – Jett Znamenacek
110 Meter Hurdles – Jett Znamenacek
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Cameron Proehl, Willi Davis, Andrew Kreps, Jett Znamanecek – Alt. Mark Shoemaker, Wyatt Mickley

Please let us know if you see any mistakes with names. We do miss things.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!

May 16th, 2025 Night

A couple of things.

1) Girls running events 9:00, boys field events 9:00. Be at the track by 8:00 to warm up. If you are not in those events, be there by 10:30.

2) There is an admission fee. $10 for everyone. Adults, middle school kids, and seniors. That is a huge change.

3) Boosters need a ton of help for the concession stand. Here is the link for helping with the concession stand. Track Boosters: 2025 Track Concession Stand

4) There are sectional t-shirts available online at the Cubby Hole. www.cubbyholeonline.com There will also be generic shirts available at the meet on Saturday. They send about 130 shirts to the meet. They usually are sold out. If you do not get one, Cubby Hole will be selling sectional shirts until Sunday online.

5) Dress to layer. It is going to be cold in the morning. Feels like 40’s/50’s and then be a high of upper 60’s. Bring blankets for the camp.

6) Eat and drink during the day. Make sure you eat sugary things. We will have some snacks at the camp. Bring money for the concession stand. We will also have some fluids for the camp.

You are all going to be great tomorrow. Go All Out! Attack the wind and leave it on the track. Get some sleep and go through your events like you want to do them. Use some sport Psychology. Do not listen to the little person inside of you. Most of all, Have Fun!

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

May 16th, 2025 Morning

What a crazy week. Tomorrow we finally get to our sectional.

The girls running events/boys field events begin at 9:00. Please be here at 7:45/8:00 to warm up. We are anticipating the switch to happen between 11:30 and 12:30. Once the girls running and all the boys field get done, there will be a 20-30 minute break to get things organized and get the workers some food. If you are a boy running or girl in the field event in the second session, please be to the track by 10:30 am. You can be there earlier. We may need help with events.

Pole Vaulters, we need you all there by 8:00. We have to weigh in for the meet. You have to weigh underneath your pole weight. We also need your poles at the weigh in, so try to be at the meet by 8:00 to get organized. Weigh ins will be around 8:15. Weigh ins will be underneath the stadium in the track storage area.

We have 2 tents at the meet under the trees on the south end of the stadium for the kids to be at. So we should have plenty of shade for the kids. Temperatures are supposed to be in the 60 -70’s in the afternoon tomorrow. The temps will be in the lower 50’s around 8:00. We have bottles of Gatorade and bottles of water at the camp. The kids still need to bring fluids. Our bottles will not be iced. We need the bottles to be air temperature. Ice cold bottles of fluid will cause cramping of the muscles and we need to stay away from this.

We also have some snacks for the kids. We have Nutrigrain bars, and other snacks. Please make sure the kids have some money for the concession stand to get through the day. If you would like to bring some snacks for the kids, we will have tables at the camp you can set them on. Fruit, cookies, chips, are all good things to give the kids energy.

Tomorrow is going to be awesome. The kids are ready and are having a great year. The goal is just do their best. Leave it on the track. The kids need to remember to get comfortable being uncomfortable, don’t listen to the little person, go all out, Dream Big, and have fun.

We are still looking for help from parents. We also could use help at the field events if you can help. You get a front row seat to the meet. We will be setting up things in the morning, if anyone would like to help. We will be up there around 6:30/7:00.

Please let us know if you have any questions. You may get another email tonight.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

May 15th, 2025

We had a great night of practice. We also had the seed meeting and the kids are sitting pretty well for the meet.

Today and Tomorrow we are done with practice at 4:30.

Saturday we do need some help at the field events. We need help with raking at long jump, marking at discus and shot, and setting bars at high jump. If you are at the meet and see there needs help please jump in. You will have a front row seat to watching your kids. It will be similar to conference, other schools are running the events.

Boosters is still looking for help in the concession stand. You will be able to sneak away and watch your kid perform, if you need to. Here is the sign up link for the concession stand. Track Boosters: 2025 Track Concession Stand

The girls running events and boys field events begin at 9:00 am. Be at the track for warm ups by 7:45/8:00. We will be warming up, weighing shots and discs, and weighing in the pole vaulters.

There is an admission fee for this meet. All admission is $10 per person. This is big jump from last year. Just a heads up. The school district does get a cut of the gate, so that will go back into the athletic programs for the middle school.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 13th, 2025

Good Evening Everyone,

This week is going well. We handed out line ups tonight at practice. Line ups can be found here and on the webpage. Please let us know if you see any problems. We can only make changes tomorrow until 4:00. After that, we can only scratch at our seed meeting. Here are the line ups:

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQe8z-siZem74eEn_jJpv9EAUew75O0iG3sQO1qS9pEZEq2ce5WOL7E9pBFDb893LOJCEqE59O3sxWF/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTnRV6gUX8Y-O4ovJCyqXwq70go8MdBcjOE6MfcGSv9n18NNY-y2PULRM4DDYLT6yShtexKnFM0DOKt/pubhtml

Saturday is the sectional at home. Please consider helping at the concession stand. We may need help in other spots, we will know more tomorrow night after the seed meeting.

We are asking the kids to be smart this week and take it easy with their club sports. If their is an injury, we can not replace anyone on the line ups for the rest of the year.

Make sure you are getting plenty of healthy foods this week. It is supposed to be hot. Drink lots of fluids.

Sleep is important. Get 8-9 hours of sleep each night.

Tomorrow practice will be done at 5:00. Thursday and Friday, practice will be done by 4:30.

Saturday is the sectional. We will get more out to you after the sectional seed meeting tomorrow night.

Sectional t-shirts can be purchased online at www.cubbyholeonline.com. They also will be selling shirts at the meet also for around $20.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!

May 12th, 2025

We hope you had a great weekend. The kids were awesome on Saturday. A couple of things.

We will be getting line ups out for the kids tomorrow. Please bring your spikes and items to be at your best tomorrow and all week long.

The sectional is Saturday. If you cannot be at the Sectional, you cannot qualify for state. Please let us know if you are unavailable the next two weekends. Sectional is Saturday, May 17^th and State is Friday May 23^rd and Saturday May 24^th. The sectional starts at 9:00 and will get done between 4:00 – 6:00pm.

There are sectional t-shirts available online at the Cubby Hole. www.cubbyholeonline.com There will also be generic shirts available at the meet on Saturday. Shirts can be expensive, especially if you qualify for state. We do not know who is in each event yet. It may be best to wait and buy a shirt at the meet on Saturday.

Boosters needs a ton of help for the concession stand. Here is the link for helping with the concession stand. Track Boosters: 2025 Track Concession Stand

Please consider helping with the concession stand. Our boosters are amazing and really help out all the track and field teams.

It is supposed to be hot this week. Drink plenty of fluids. Gatorade, Powerade, and water are the best choices. Stay away from pop and energy drinks (Bubblr, Monster, Bang, Alani, Celsius). They cause you to get dehydrated. Make sure you are eating healthy and getting plenty of sleep this week.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We will get more out about this weekend tomorrow.

Dream Big!

May 10th, 2025

The kids were awesome today! We won all four divisions. We had some conflicts and everyone stepped up. Great job.

The weather was perfect and we had some amazing results. We had a school record get destroyed today. Jaela Minnaert broke the 7^th Grade Girls Pole Vault record with a jump of 8’6″. That is a 9 inch improvement. Great Job Jaela!

We want to send out a huge thank you to whoever helped out with pole vault today. A special thanks to Kael McCord and Jack Kreiss for running the pole vault today also.

We had a great crowd from Geneseo. Thanks for coming out and supporting Geneseo Track and Field.

Check out the results on the webpage.

Have a great weekend.

Keep Dreaming Big!

May 9th, 2025

A couple of things.

We will be leaving at 6:50. Be at the middle school by 6:40ish.

Bring plenty of clothes and socks. It will be cool in the morning and hot at lunch. Bring extra shoes. The grass will be wet in the morning. Bring sun screen. It will be sunny. Bring snacks. We do not stop for food on the way back. Parents, please sign your kids out at the camp, if you are taking them home early.

The meet is IESA style, just like conference, so the girls are running first and the boys are doing field first. Around 11:15 there will be a switch in the meet. I believe they run the girls hurdles after the 4×400.

We may need help at the pole vault. We are running the event and we could use some parents with the event. If you are interested, just show up in the morning at the pole vault area and ask. Jack Kreiss and Jocelyn Cechowicz are planning to help from the high school. Boys vault at 9:00, girls will be around 11:15ish.

Have a great night and Dream Big!

May 8th, 2025

Today we handed out medals from last nights meet and put together line ups for Saturday. We celebrated our success from last night also. The kids did an amazing job.

Tomorrow we are done with practice at 4:30.

Saturday we run at Dixon High School. The bus will leave around 6:50. Be at the school by 6:45. Here are the line ups for the meet:

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTdhxL17w9WnBRteMF47G0lKiLD5kT1Pa2VgcLyba-Df_fGMQ206JiRbtjCcNrhgoU9ap9DtKIQM3_V/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQFs0MIxY1hzYZ44XSfwYnau3qku0prDaL19mpXJqDL5nC8PBUZjj_MhebSWDjh9_JlhD_DwYRp6u2x/pubhtml

We have attached the meet information. There is an admission fee for fans.

Just a reminder about getting homework in. Eligibility runs tomorrow morning.

One last thing, we just realized that Cameron Proehl broke the 8^th grade boys long jump record. Cameron jumped 18’9.5 inches this year. That breaks the record by .5 inches. Congratulations Cameron.

Congratulations to all the teams this year. Winning 3 of the 4 conference meets and getting second in the other one is amazing. Keep working hard. We still have some more magic to make.

Dream Big!

May 7th, 2025

Wow, what a day!

We had an amazing day/night. The kids did incredible. We won 3 of the 4 meets. The 7^th grade girls, 8^th grade girls, and 7^th grade boys all were team champions. The 8^th grade boys were 2^nd place. Glenview did a great job and beat us by 22 points.

We had some interesting things that happened today.

1) Sorry for the late start with running events. The starters were given the wrong start time and that was the issue with the late start.

2) The FAT timing system had a faulty wire. There was a chair sitting on the wire heading to the press box.

3) We had an issue with the 400. The cones were still out from the mile and kids were confused and cut in early. That was a first for me in my coaching career. We will fix that for sectional. By the way, that did not affect the meet scores in the end. Glenview beat us fair and square.

4) The weather went from a high of 88 heat index to a feels like of 52 by the end of the meet. Crazy.

Just a weird day.

We did have 2 school records get beat tonight on the track. Jett Z. broke his own school record in the 100 meter dash and he also broke a record from 1980 and ran 24.15 FAT which equals 23.91 hand held. That is amazing. Congratulations Jett!

Tomorrow we have practice. We will be doing a recovery day on the track. A little bit of running and stretching. We will do some field events hard also. Practice will be done by 5:00.

Just a heads up. We will be leaving early for the Dixon meet on Saturday. We will leave around 6:45. We will get more information out in the next couple of days.

Congratulations everyone. It was an awesome night.

Thanks for Dreaming Big and keep the tradition alive.

May 6th, 2025

A beautiful day today. Tomorrow looks nice also. Make sure you bring sun block for tomorrow.

The kids get out after 6^th hour at 1:47. Go to 6^th hour and your teachers will dismiss you at the end of 6^th hour. Understand phys ed kids will also be getting dressed in the locker room. Please do not cause any problems in the locker room. We would hate to see you not be able to participate in the meet due to something you did in the locker room. Once you get changed, meet outside on the 8^th grade football field. We will organize there and then head to the track. Here are the updated line ups.

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSi92KiDq45Ggv7Z0I2NVdnLvVdhlrLbntoYuJCXwyfmrVzEptXVkpoT4N66x_0xcM7bubDgrPD3Hwy/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRCYG1_3z1To7oASqZ-1QIUhAIpuiNHc3Ky6_eA3ZXH_56-nYn647LIvPBJ_wBUNX9ONA_JDTC5ZLrt/pubhtml

We will be wearing our track uniforms. Please contact a coach if you have not received one yet.

The meet starts at 3:00. Please park in front of high school and at the GFAC parking lot. The middle school parking lot will not be available until 3:30. Also, the south lot next to the high school and football field will be off limits until after 3:15 due to busing needs.

We could use some help at each field event also. Please see the people in charge of the event to help. It would be raking, putting up bars, puling the tape for throws. We need an army to have a smooth meet. Please consider helping.

If you are not in an event, we need you helping with field events. For example, boys throwers help the girls throwers and girls throwers help the boys throwers. Same in long jump and high jump.

There are medals for the top three places in each event and a trophy for the winning teams.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Have a great night.

Dream Big!

May 5th, 2025

Kids were great at practice tonight. We did not have a chance to get line ups out for Wednesday. We were getting conflicts out of the way for Wednesday and Saturday. Speaking of conflicts. We need to know if your son or daughter can not make it on Saturday. Please email us if they are unavailable for the Dixon meet.

Wednesday the meet begins at 3:00 with the girls running events and boys field events. Once all the girls running events and boys field events are done, the meet will flip and the girls field events and boys running events will begin. This is something different than the rest of the meets this year.

We could use some help at the field events. The other schools are going to run the events and they may need some help. Our parents do a great job, so if you could help the visiting teams, the meet will more smoothly. Just ask the coaches at each field event if they need help. You will notice them struggling. Here is the meet information. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e13h5YHtHPuO8dC4j7iYr_A3p8dkQpjz7htG88h59TY/edit?tab=t.0

We will get more out about the meet tomorrow night. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

May 4th, 2025

Sorry this is so late in the weekend. It has been a crazy one for me. Soccer and baseball tournaments in Muscatine. We all hope you had a great weekend.

On Friday the kids did great at practice. We pushed some cars and had some fun. This was the last practice for some of the kids. We are now into championship meet season. We only get 3 entries per event and one relay for the Heartland Conference Championships and the Dixon Invitational. For sectional it cuts down to 2 entries and 1 relay. Here are the lists of kids who are still needing to come to practice:

7^th Grade Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT4hzBs-21-k32gQ6nX2cutERezmXkD3sfcQh-MJLtQnDimnFLBynCAz3qrNP_8LB-tA756GOrkg3Tp/pubhtml?gid=1583303046&single=true

8^th Grade Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT4hzBs-21-k32gQ6nX2cutERezmXkD3sfcQh-MJLtQnDimnFLBynCAz3qrNP_8LB-tA756GOrkg3Tp/pubhtml?gid=1456834897&single=true

7^th Grade Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSph0fX8WAL4IRsiecfUnCqOr3XQuIr-2vsVn-g1LI6Qv9Lji7O9pl-m-fy7Y8ESYBmj6XZniusWyMn/pubhtml?gid=1583303046&single=true

8^th Grade Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSph0fX8WAL4IRsiecfUnCqOr3XQuIr-2vsVn-g1LI6Qv9Lji7O9pl-m-fy7Y8ESYBmj6XZniusWyMn/pubhtml?gid=1456834897&single=true

We do sometimes miss a kid here or there. If you have any questions, please email the coaching staff.

For the kids who are not on the lists. Thank you so much for going all out, not listening to the little person, getting comfortable being uncomfortable, and Dreaming Big! Many of you pushed other kids to the top and made our program great. You are always still a part of the Geneseo Track and Field family. We will need help at Conference meet on Wednesday with field events and help with the sectional meet next Saturday. We will be sending out information on those meets soon. Please let us know if you would like to help.

For the kids coming back. Some may not participate in the rest of the meets. We keep 4 to 5 kids in events in case of injuries, conflicts, or illness. We will get line ups out tomorrow for the conference meet on Wednesday. We have practice tomorrow after school until 5:00.

We will get more information out tomorrow. This is a long email. Sorry.

Have a great night and please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream big!

May 1st, 2025

Great job everyone!

Results are posted on the website. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200

We had some great times, heights, and distances today. Keep up the great work.

Tomorrow we have practice. We are planning to push cars. After practice we will have the lists of all the kids who need to continue to come to practice the next few weeks. Practice will be done at 4:30.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Awesome job everyone.

April 30th, 2025

The guys did great tonight!

The weather was not perfect, but the guys handled it really well. We had some amazing performances in the drizzle and a lot of PR’s. The results are not finished yet. There are 2 to 3 events left to score. As of 9:50, the 8^th grade boys were winning the meet with 2 events left to score and the 7^th grade boys were winning their meet by over 30 points with 3 events to score. It will be really close in the 8^th grade, but we believe the 7^th grade will pull it out. Here are the results https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/607350/results

Tomorrow we have a home meet with the Pioneer Pacers. The field events will begin at 4:00 and running events will be at 5:30. This meet should go pretty quick. It is more of a intra-squad meet than anything. We sent out the line ups last night.

We will need volunteers to run events. We are short in many places. Please email us if you can help.

Just a reminder, we have practice on Friday.

April 29th, 2025

Tomorrow there is a half day for the kids. The boys have an invite. We shared the line ups last night for that. There is not practice for the rest of the team tomorrow. The guys run at Rock Island High School. The boys are leaving at 2:30. Be at the middle school at 2:15. The field events begin at 4:30. Track events will begin at 5:15.

There is a chance of rain tomorrow. Please bring rain gear (Umbrellas, ponchos, any thing to keep dry. We will take a tent for the guys to stay dry in also. Bring extra clothes to stay dry in. Also bring a trash bag to put your bags in to keep them dry.

Thursday we have the meet at home. Here are the line ups for Thursday.

Girls Line Ups – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTcG55TfsXoRz-IiamZiRg6Gfd1HAYyCiMfmfZGuYOvMJ-UC72PAhmSt_9g4zTPKDNt9tbT_Hrj8I5r/pubhtml

Boys line ups – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS-LTiTKj8gUP15qMctTmulmDQC_0TWsPikAgclEhtDEWo3Vk_BGukODYQZg4kfnY2TVIsJwnImADJd/pubhtml

Again, these are the line ups for Thursday.

We will need volunteers for the meet on Thursday. Please let us know if you can help. It is our last dual meet at home.

We will have practice on Friday for the whole team.

April 28th, 2025

Kids had another good practice today. The weather was warm and windy.

The guys received line ups today for Wednesday. Here it is. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DXB0aiC333RhGekA52c8V3-q_mCk9s6BU9t_9olZDes/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday is a half day. The boys bus is leaving at 2:30, so the guys need to be back to school by 2:15, There is not a place for the guys to hang out at school due to the in-service day. If the guys want to walk downtown and eat somewhere and come back that is fine.

The meet is at Rock Island High School

The guys that are running on Wednesday also received their uniforms. Wash the uniform in cold water, no bleach, and hang dry. Pretty simple.

Tomorrow, we will be handing out line ups for Thursday. There is no practice on Wednesday for the boys or girls. The coaches will be at the Rock Island Invite.

Thursday we have a meet at home.

Friday the kids have practice. This will be the last practice for some of the kids. We will be putting up sheets with the kids who need to continue to come to practice for the championship meet season. The last meets of the year have limited entries. Only 3 entries in the conference and Dixon Invite and only two entries in the Sectional meet. The season has really flown by and all the kids have done an amazing job so far. We will be pushing cars for practice on Friday.

April 26th, 2025

The pole vault practice/meet went well this morning. Started out chilly, but it was comfortable. We had 8 vaulters that could make it. The results will be up shortly.

Speaking of results, the girls results from Wednesday are up online. The girls did great. There are no official scores, but we added up some scores and the 8^th grade girls won big and the 7^th grade girls are in a dog fight with Glenview and Wilson. It is almost a 3 way tie for first. You can find the results at the website https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200

Great job everyone.

Have a great weekend.

Dream Big!

April 25th, 2025

We hope the kids have fun tonight at the dance.

Just a reminder for pole vaulters, we will be jumping at 9:00 in the morning. It is supposed to be chilly. Bring sweats and Under Armour if you need it. We will be outside. We need to get use to the conditions. It could be cold at Sectionals.

Everyone else, try to get out and run this weekend.

Enjoy the weekend.

April 24th, 2025

What a beautiful day. The kids had a great practice today.

Just a reminder. No practice tomorrow. Enjoy the dance.

We will be having a pole vault practice/meet on Saturday morning. We will start at 9:00am. The kids will need a little more sleep, due to the dance. Meet at the GFAC. If the weather is nice, we will be outside in the stadium.

Just a heads up. We are going to have practice next Friday, the day after the Pioneer dual. This is not on the calendar. Practice will go from 3:30 – 4:30. We will be pushing cars on that day.

We still do not have results from last nights meet. We will let you know when we get them.

April 23rd, 2025

Great job tonight girls. The girls had an awesome night to run. The girls teams competed really well. We do not have results and we do not know when they will come. The meet was an athletic.net meet, but it will take some time to enter the results. We will let you know as soon as we get the results.

Tomorrow we do have practice. The guys will get a workout in and the girls will have a recovery day for the ones that competed tonight. The girls who did not compete, we will have a workout for them to get them better.

Just a reminder, there is no practice on Friday. The kids need to concentrate on the school dance. They need to be kids and have fun. We encourage all the kids to go and be social at the dance. The dance will be the workout for the day.

Another reminder, Friday at 8:00, eligibility will run. Make sure you have all your missing assignments in Thursday.

April 22nd, 2025

What a crazy night. We had a 1:30 minute lightning delay. Fortunately we had shelter in the Sterling High School Gym and we were able to finish out the meet.

The guys ran awesome! We had a really good night. Results are posted. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200

We had some incredible performances and gained valuable data on the guys. We did not load up the meet and the 7^th grade guys won the meet by one point and the 8^th grade guys placed second, only losing to Sterling by one point. Great job guys!

Thanks for being patient with the weather and the speed of the meet. It was a long night. The meet was finished around 9:30. By the time we cleaned up the camp and left, we did not get back until 10:45. Thanks for getting all the guys picked up right away.

Tomorrow, the girls have their invite. The bus will be leaving after school around 4:00. The girls will meet in the gym after school and then get organized for their meet. The girls meet will start at 5:30. Their meet is at the Soule Bowl in East Moline. Coach Gillespie sent an email out explaining the girls meet.

Girls please make sure you have your uniform, shoes, and maybe some rain gear. There is a chance for some rain. It will be warm. Make sure you bring some snacks and fluids.

There is no practice for the guys after school today. The coaches will be at the girls meet.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 21st, 2025

Today was a good day for practice. We got line ups out for the guys and girls got their uniforms for Wednesday’s invitational.

Tomorrow for the guys is another dual/triangular. We are not having the girls go to this meet, since their is an invite on Wednesday. Here are the boys line ups for tomorrow.

Boys Line Ups: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1heARRls7jT_DaO98GfHzNiLNRp_rSu00T8Dv3n8WWrg/edit?usp=sharing

The guys will be getting out of class at 2:00. The bus will leave at 2:15. The guys are wearing their Phys. Ed. uniforms for this meet. The guys will get uniforms next week for their 1^st invite. The meet begins at 4:00 with the boys field events. The boys running events will begin after all the boys field events are finished. There are girls teams at this meet. Those team will have the girls running events while the boys are doing their field events. After the meet we will be coming straight home from the meet. It could be a late night. The meet will get done between 8:00 and 9:00. That being said, we will get home between 9:00 and 10:00.

There is an opportunity for snack packs for the kids. The Cafeteria staff wants it filled out by 8am day of the meet for kids to receive their snack. Here is the link if you are interested. https://forms.gle/T8ASCsEHNDL1o1B99

We are assuming there will be a concession stand. Have have the kids bring money for a concession stand. Also pack snacks for the kids, in case there is not a concession stand. There is a chance for rain, so pack some rain gear.

If you are taking your kid from the meet, please check with the coaches before you leave the meet. We may need someone to run in a relay and we also need for you to check your kid out. We have a sign out sheet that will be at our camp. Our camp may be in the bleachers or under a tent if it is raining.

There will not be any practice tomorrow for the guys or on Wednesday due to the girls meet.

The girls have a meet on Wednesday. Here are girls line ups.. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-x8htOrLYcWdObkTJvPI5pEvkezTsa44i6O5Kr23myc/edit?usp=sharing We will get more information out about their meet tomorrow. Their meet is at UTHS and starts at 5:30.

Only the girls who are on relays have practice tomorrow after school. Their practice could be done early.

This is a lot of information for you all. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 20th, 2025

This week is a busy one for the teams. On Tuesday, the boys team is heading to Sterling for a triangular with Sterling and the Sauk Valley Saints teams. We are planning on just taking the boys team to this meet. Not all the boys will be going to this meet. There are limitations on the field events. Not many more than 6 in each event for field events. We will have around 12 in each running event with multiple relays. We will get the line ups out tomorrow for the boys meet. There may be some girl field events to this meet. We have not made a final decision on the this one and we will let everyone know tomorrow about that. The Sterling meet will begin at 4:00 with the boys field events. After all the field events are done, the boys running events will begin.

Wednesday, the girls team has an invite at UTHS. That meet will begin around 5:30. This has limited entries in it also. Limitations are 3 in each event and only 1 relay. So it is very limited.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 15th, 2025

Great job tonight!

We had some incredible performances in the meet, in some windy conditions. The kids did an amazing job of fighting through the conditions.

A huge thank you to all the volunteers who helped with the meet. It takes an army to run a great meet and thank you for helping with the meet.

The results are posted. We know there are mistakes and we will fix them as we find them.

We have had some amazing performances at the last couple of meets. We have had some school records along the way. Jett Z. broke the school record tonight in the 100 meter dash. Last week there were some timing issues and he would have set the world record for juniors with his time, so we could not count that one. Tonight he ran 11.44 with a little wind behind his back. That is a little more accurate. We also had a record tied in the 7^th grade pole vault tonight. Jaela Minnaert tied the school record with a jump of 7’9”. We are also working on verifying another record from last week in the 8^th grade girls triple jump and we will get you updated as we figure it out.

The kids are doing great. Thank you all for your hard work.

Have a great night and Dream Big!

April 14th, 2025

Hello all! We hope you had a great weekend.

Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCasNQe9Tfbwpn0pWq0GuwAgfT5l74BWEmu10iz3tDA/edit?usp=sharing

Boys Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jF8qLlyjyZDxawuP5qJcAyBcBfgJ9jkfkDP0MHlyZXc/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the order of events for tomorrow: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18J1KonE5sWEFl-grqTfxz8Zu7x5AUlPHfwnCPioRAyI/edit?usp=sharing

The field events will begin around 4:00 and the running events will begin around 5:30. This meet is with Washington and Edison. Field events will start close to 4:00.

Have the kids wear their Phys. Ed Uniform. Grey shirt, Green Shorts. They can wear leggings and Under Armour. It is supposed to be chilly again. Please wear sweat tops and bottoms, jackets, gloves, stocking caps, and bring blankets. It will be chilly. It is going to be very windy tomorrow.

We can use help at the events again. Everyone has been great help. Please email us if you can help. If you show up and just want to help, ask a coach. We can always use extra help.

Just a reminder, on Tuesday April 22^nd, there is going to be a Triangular at Sterling. This was a TBA on the schedule and was confirmed today. This meet will have mostly boys in the meet. We may have a few girls go to the meet. The girls have an invitational the next night, so the triangular will be limited for the girls.

Dream Big!

April 10th, 2025

Awesome job everyone!

We want to thank everyone for an excellent meet. Thanks to all, who volunteered and helped out. Our timers did great. We had a couple of mistakes, but let’s get real, it is middle school, we are going to have mistakes.

The weather was awesome early and then turned into a cold, windy night. The kids handled the weather very well. Results are posted.

Tomorrow is Neon Day. We will do a recovery day, work on some field events, and get some soreness out. Practice will be done at 4:30.

Great job everyone!

Dream Big!

April 9th, 2025

Kids have had a great couple of practices. We are ready for another meet.

Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xeSny88KLVp7NKC9e7AyeFTWAR0s9Kl3MMbNv82jl50/edit?usp=sharing

Boys Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oBM1z59E3ACajx-yYPWRXKGssvodaVZ0-l_hm6mMthM/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the order of events for tomorrow: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZGPlk2ypkQRE59Za5_WKAB3oHmsPwtizrE0818hQeM0/edit?usp=sharing

The field events will begin around 4:00 and the running events will begin around 5:30. This meet is with John Deere. We will be running the 4×100 and 4×200 for the first time at a meet. We are also hoping to get pole vault in at this meet. It could be inside or outside. It will start close to 4:00

We can use help at the events again. Everyone has been great help. Please email us if you can help. If you show up and just want to help, ask a coach. We can always use extra help.

Just a heads up, on Tuesday April 22^nd, there is going to be a Triangular at Sterling. This was a TBA on the schedule and was confirmed today. This meet will have mostly boys in the meet. We may have a few girls go to the meet. The girls have an invitational the next night, so the triangular will be limited for the girls.

April 5th, 2025

Yesterday was an awesome practice. The kids worked hard. The plan was to push cars, but the rain made it unsafe to do that. We went to plan B and did a circuit inside with some competition. The kids did awesome. They may be a little sore today. We ended with some dodge ball and dancing.

This morning we had another pole vault meet. We had 17 competitors. We even had some Wilson kids here practicing and competing in the vault. The kids did great. It was tough for the kids not being able to be on the runway this week for practice, but we still had awesome performances. We had 2 seventh grade girls attempting to tie the seventh grade girls school record and we had many kids over or attempting state qualifying heights and this is only the first week of April. Awesome job everyone. Next week we will try to get a vault practice in before their next pole vault meet. Results are posted. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200

Everyone is doing amazing. Keep working hard. Take one of the days off this weekend. Try to get a workout in on the other day. Distance kids go for a longer run. Try to get 3-4 miles in.

Enjoy your weekend.

Dream Big!

Photos from pole vault:

Friday photos:

April 2nd, 2025

We made the decision to cancel the meet for tonight. It turned out to be a warm windy night with some slight showers. We made the decision not to have the meet on a couple of things. Wilson had a meet last night and they were not keen on the idea of doing the meet in the predicted bad weather. We were under a wind advisory until 7:00 and it really is not fun to run in the wind. The final item we looked at was the field events outside of the stadium would have been a disaster. We have attached a couple of photos of the discus area and the long jump area. We did not want to have anyone get hurt in slippery situations or ruin any shoes along the way.

Other than that, the kids need a day off. We have a lot of tired and sore bodies. Tomorrow we will get back at it and prepare for next weeks meet.

The pole vault meet on Saturday is still on. We will start setting up around 7:30am, warming up around 7:45 and hope to get vaulting shortly after that. There could be 3 or 4 Wilson kids at this meet.

Keep in mind, we do have practice on Friday.

Have a great night and let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 1st, 2025

It was a cold one today. We stretched out and did some hip strengthening exercises today. We also worked on some field events and hand offs. We were also able to get line ups done today for tomorrow’s meet. Here they are:

Girls Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR0andHFZl1QJvJBLebwLJ8HQ7eQ63HdxY4sU8Q5gQicJkWDnp1MwveP7fZ-TAqUBUIOL59OD4WxCms/pubhtml

Boys Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR1g2eohCjIHKGdqa3YUPsnExpqSxYq2R7IovXDywsiheOhQ6p7PGABlKpADYKdwAEF9eTOsGnutE_7/pubhtml

Here are the order of events for tomorrow https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTSPR4OEQjTMlSq7ncl37Tx0_KLQJTJBAq0mS6UGKuGzkDyDkEipFw3pLi_YkflC7Hs0yFCoMHfDB0i/pub

Things may change on this.

The field events will begin around 4:00 and the running events will begin around 5:30. This meet will be run like a real meet. This meet there will the 4×100 and 4×200 relays.

We can use help at the events again. We are looking for more timers. Everyone has been great help. Please email us if you can help. If you show up and just want to help, ask a coach. We can always use extra help.

We are going to try everything to get this meet in tomorrow. Thursday is not an option for Wilson.

We will be having the pole vault meet on Saturday morning, just like last weekend.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

March 27th, 2025

Great job tonight! The weather was nearly perfect for a little bit.

The results are posted. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200 There will always be some mistakes in the results and we will get them straightened out. Please let know if you see any.

Thanks again for everyone who volunteered tonight. We will need help again on Wednesday for the meet with Wilson. Please let us know if you can help. Everyone was great tonight.

Boosters want to thank everyone for the raffle. We brought in over $3,500. Great job.

Tomorrow we have practice from 3:20 – 4:30. It will be a recovery day. Please pick your athlete up at 4:30.

Attention Pole Vaulters. Saturday morning we are having a practice pole vault meet at the facility. We will be meeting at 7:45am and setting up. We will do a warm up and then get a practice meet in. If you can not make it we understand. Sorry for the late notice. We should be done by 9:15-9:30.

Great job tonight everyone. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

March 26th, 2025

Kids were sore today. That is expected. We stretched out and did some hip strengthening exercises today. We were also able to get line ups done today for tomorrow’s meet. Here they are:

Girls Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PZgnoKs5I7dnjccOhBwyYh1qC9Nug7uiUYdJkVO4-Cw/edit?usp=sharing

Boys Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uSdO-Jk1OaXG10dPPJNraip0Baz9dv3RibkH3EbSgmg/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the order of events for tomorrow https://docs.google.com/document/d/16yhP-wDtqZDo9bk6HVRvc1FYaC47qkeMug8c43N8MsM/edit?usp=sharing

The field events will begin around 4:00 and the running events will begin around 5:30. This meet is another practice meet, with more events. There will not be a 4×100 or 4×200.

We can use help at the events again. Everyone has been great help. Please email us if you can help. If you show up and just want to help, ask a coach. We can always use extra help.

We also are looking for a Geneseo Track and Field sweatshirt. The name on the back is “Trigg”. Someone accidentally picked it up off the bleachers at the football field high jump area. Please let us know if you accidentally grabbed it.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

March 25th, 2025

Awesome job tonight! The weather was chilly. Having a week off for Spring Break was hard for the kids and the kids did their best. This was a really good start for the teams. The results are posted. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/?page_id=200 We know there are some mistakes in the results and we will get them straightened out. Please let know if you see any.

Thanks for everyone who volunteered tonight. We will need more help on Thursday for the meet. Please let us know if you can help. Everyone was great tonight.

The booster raffle went well. Here were the winners:

Geneseo blanket and Gift Card – Leeeta Blondell

Dicks Sporting Goods Gift Card – Deb Yarger

Dicks Sporting Goods Gift Card – Trace Hager

Fareway Gift Card – Chris Dekezel

Fareway Gift Card – Beety Ericson

Geneseo Chamber Gift Certificate – Jerrod Minnaert

Geneseo Chamber Gift Certificate – Kim Chamberlain

Air Pods – Erika Keegan

Apple Watch – Valerie Shoemaker

Smart TV – Claire Nichols

Great job tonight everyone. Please let us know if you have any questions.

March 24th, 2025

Another great practice today. The kids got a lot done today. We were able to get line ups done today for tomorrow’s meet. Here they are:

Girls Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DFvSeyFd5rh7IgpTdU11eQKJ_kULGlpW3aVYHATPdM8/edit?usp=sharing

Boys Line Up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15jfC7FoREPVT-eSQXdanTqK_HQ0PsINAdUcc603Dl_Y/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the order of events for tomorrow https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nypMg-DObCZtfp-69E0p_g4GtpqeDPaHLP4owYxeISM/edit?usp=sharing

The field events will begin around 4:00 and the running events will begin around 5:30. This is truly a practice meet. Something for the kids to learn from.

Just a reminder to have the kids bring their booster raffle packets to the meet. We would like all the packets back, even if they did not sell any tickets. We reuse the envelopes each year. You can still purchase some at the meet. If your student athlete forgets to them, bring them to the meet at the concession stand. Boosters will be there collecting and selling tickets.

The kids have been amazing. We are ready for a couple of practice meets. Thanks for all the hard work.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

March 17th, 2025

We had a great turn out today for the first optional practice. We had around 50 kids make it in. No problem with the kids who did not make it. Some of you are out of town on vacation and some of you cannot get rides. We totally understand.

The kids had a workout and then the throwers worked on Shot Put today.

Tomorrow, we will have more field events available.

March 16th, 2025

The kids did great the last two weeks. We have some optional practices this week if you are around or interested. Here they are:

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9:30 – 11:00. We will also have a pole vault practice Tuesday and Wednesday Morning from 7:45 – 9:00ish.

The weather looks decent this week. Today will be cool. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. If you can make it to the voluntary practices, get on the track and work out there. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. 3 miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-3 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters do some sprints. Run ten 30-60 meter sprints. Distance: Do a couple of 800’s at mile race pace. Then do 400’s. Do the 400’s at 800 race pace.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Thursday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s (Run a 200 at your 400 pace, then sprint a 100) 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s (300 is done at your 800 pace). 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 4 miles.

Have fun. These workouts are just sample work outs. Modify them as much as you want. Come up with your own work outs. You know your body best. Do not over do it and hurt yourself. Do not do anything you can not do.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

March 13th, 2025

“Twin Day”

March 12th, 2025

We hope you are all doing well. Tomorrow is a “Twin Day”. Dress like someone else. The kids had a great practice. We did a 400 time trial to get a baseline on the kids.

Friday there is no practice.

Next week is spring break. Here is the plan for some volantary practices. This are not mandatory. Go be a kid. Go on vacation. Monday 9:30 – 11:00, Tuesday 9:30 – 11:00, Wednesday 9:30 – 11:00. We will meet at the GFAC at the high school and go from there. We are working on some pole vault sessions as well. These will be at a different time. Checking availability.

March 6th, 2025

The kids had a “black out” today. Here is a photo from the black out.

We also had a great turn out at the parent meeting. Thank you for coming. Here is the information if you missed it. Parent Meeting Agenda

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Boosters – The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for new track items, all the money goes back into the track and field program.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

March 5th, 2025

Just a couple of reminders.

1) Parent meeting tomorrow night after practice at 5:00. We will have the kids done a little early. The meeting will be in the main gym at the middle school. We will be done around 5:30.

2) Tomorrow is a “Black Out”. The kids are going to dress in all black.

Have a great night. Let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

March 4th, 2025

We had a great turn out yesterday and today for practice. We had around 160 kids at practice each day. We had some conflicts where students could not make it. Not a problem.

A couple of things:

1) If you have not received the parent letter, here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSsbWZZ2rX6zKVA4I3Kc-l3zCrWnXIBNDohPgz1fH5FGtSfTECFxFApNJsDzSmIh4Meej07hiP3Duc2/pub You will be able to find the practice schedule, meet schedule, and booster order form.

2) If you are interested in purchasing some spirit wear for the kids and your family, here is the website https://geneseomiddleschoolt-f25.itemorder.com/ The spirit wear is not mandatory, just a spot to get track and field clothing to support the team. The kids will be wearing their phys ed uniforms for dual meets and for invites the kids who are going to the invitationals will be issued a school uniform. Not everyone will get to wear these uniforms.

3) Practices will be done on time. The parents did an amazing job of getting the kids after practice last night and tonight. The kids will be leaving from the west doors. You can pick the kids up from the front lot or the side lot. This will help with the congestion of the parking lots. Make a plan with your kids where to pick them up.

4) There will be a parent meeting after practice on Thursday. This meeting will last around 30 minutes. Please try to attend.

5) Kids, make sure you wear your shoes and work out clothes for practice. Also, please leave your phones in your lockers. We do not need them at practice.

6) The kids received a Booster Raffle packet tonight. This is optional for the kids to do. We have one of the best booster clubs in the school district. Any money made on the raffle goes back to the kids. We are fortunate to have an incredible booster club. We have the best equipment in the area and maybe the state.

February 20th, 2025

We are about two weeks away from our first day of practice. We are starting this year March 3rd. Please get your physicals in to the nurses office. Here is the sign up link if you are interested. Track Sign Up

Here is a video of our past if you are interested 2025 Hype Video

May 18th, 2024

Congratulations on another awesome state experience!

The magic was in the air again this weekend. We came home with 15 medals and we set 1 school record. Great Job Everyone!!!!!!!

Here are the medalists from this weekend:

Madison Fontenoy – 8^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 6th Place

Meghan Scheider – 8^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 8th Place

Allison Tice – 7^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 4th Place

Micah Nicke – 8th Grade Boys 400 M Dash – 6^th Place

Addison Snell – 8^th Grade Girls Shot Put – 8th Place

Henley Bourne – 8^th Grade Boys Pole Vault – 7th Place

Jackson Frank – 8th Grade Boys Shot Put – 4^th Place

Jaydn Shipman– 8th Grade Boys Shot Put – 8th Place

Isaac Ropp – 7th Grade Boys Shot Put – 3rd Place

8th Grade Boys 4 x 400 M. Relay – Ian McShane, Nolan Burton, Cyrus Babcock, Micah Nicke (Alt. Aiden Hawkins, Lukas Rodriguez) – 6th Place

Micah Nicke broke the 8th Grade Boys 400 Meter Dash school record. Results are posted.

It was truly a great day. A huge thank you to all the athletes and parents who came to the meet to support GMS track and field.

We will have more tomorrow. Have a great night and Dream Big!!!!!!

May 17th, 2024

Sorry we have not posted in awhile. State track meet today.

The kids had a great day today. We came home with 7 state medalists so far. Here is a list of medal winners:

8^th Grade Girls pole vault – Meghan Scheider – 8^th Place

8^th Grade Girls pole vault – Madison Fontenoy – 6^th Place

7^th Grade Girls pole vault – Allison Tice – 4th Place

8^th Grade Girls Shot Put – Addison Snell – 8^th Place

8^th Grade Boys Shot Put – Jackson Frank – 4^th Place

8^th Grade Boys Shot Put – Jaydn Shipman – 8^th Place

8^th Grade Boys 400 Meter Dash – Micah Nicke – 6^th Place

Micah Nicke broke the 8th grade boys 400 meter record. Congratulations Micah.

We had a great day. Just a reminder to the state qualifiers, we leave at 6:00 am tomorrow. Be at the middle school by 5:45 am. There will be a send off at the Dairy Queen shortly after 6:00.

Bring Cash for the concession stand. They do not take credit cards. We have a ton of water and Powerade. It will not be cold, just air temperature. Helps prevent cramping to drink at air temperature.

Look for our camp next to the maintenance building. We have two large Geneseo tents for anyone who is coming to support the team. We had a huge 7^th grade boys presence and some other team members who chose to come down. Thanks so much.

Tomorrow is going to special. Go All Out!!!! Don’t listen to the little person!!!!! Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable!!!!! Have Fun!!!!!!

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 11th, 2024

Awesome Job!!!!!! We had an great day today!!!!! We won all 4 divisions. Unbelievable.

The 7th grade girls, 8th grade girls, 7th grade boys and 8th grade boys are all sectional team champions. Awesome job to all of you. Results are posted.

The weather was brutal with the wind. We had many performances that were affected by the wind. Some of our kids just missed by centimeters of not going to state. Emma Schroeder and Brenna Dykstra just missed going to state by centimeters. We also had some running events just missing. Jett Z missed going in the 100 meter dash by .02 seconds. In the 200, Jett ran the fastest time recorded by a middle school athlete in my coaching career. He ran 25.86. Unbelievable!

We had a few relays that just missed also. The 7^th grade girls and 7^th grade guys 4×100 just missed.

There were great performances everywhere on the track and field by the middle school kids. Great job!

Congratulations to Allison Tice for breaking the 7th grade girls pole vault record. Earlier this year, she tied the record. Today she broke it. Great Job Allison!!!!!

Here are the kids who qualified for state next weekend:

We have 33 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls – 7

Pole Vault – Allison Tice
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Paige Sides, Ashlyn Werthmann, Emma Minnaert, Chloe Mance, Annie Reed, Olivia Ruby

8th Grade Girls – 13

100 Meter Dash – Ainsleigh Misfeldt
400 Meter Dash – Olivia DeSplinter
Pole Vault – Madison Fontenoy
Pole Vault – Meghan Scheider
Shot Put – Addison Snell
Long Jump – Alivia Brown
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Ainsleigh Misfeldt, Olivia DeSplinter, Addie Hadsall, Madison Fontenoy, Ellah Clifton, Brooklyn Schnowske
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Olivia DeSplinter, Olivia Yost, Ellah Clifton, Katherine Barrickman, Tessa Courtright, Evy DeBaene

7th Grade Boys – 3

Discus – Isaac Ropp
Shot Put – Isaac Ropp
Pole Vault – Alden Brown
Pole Vault – Collin Kreiss

8th Grade Boys – 10

Pole Vault – Henley Bourne
Discus – Jackson Frank
Shot Put – Jackson Frank
Shot Put – Jaydn Shipman
400 Meter Dash – Micah Nicke
800 Meter Dash – Micah Nicke
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Nolan Burton, Cyrus Babcock, Ian McShane, Micah Nicke, Jaxson Seals, Adrian Rodriguez
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Nolan Burton, Cyrus Babcock, Ian McShane, Micah Nicke, Aiden Hawkins, Adrian Rodriguez

Please let us know if you see any mistakes.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!

May 7th, 2024

This week has gone well. We handed out line ups last night at practice. Please let us know if you see any problems. We can only make changes tomorrow night at our seed meeting. Here are the line ups:

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQuYauWJThLuC_xEjbP3npAARgIzPSsJ08rIOO5DghScvv3X4WeRdqDxAyg2kQ4V_JNvPxjB6AgTpv-/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQuGW-Fj_ufuXF4q1rSjqV4pj38EAk1WCjiuMIxsxGvNptPCJncnrjc9u18d23McL8ZyQz-14OQtnvj/pubhtml

Saturday is the sectional at home. Please consider helping at the concession stand. We may need help in other spots, we will know more tomorrow night after the seed meeting.

We are asking the kids to be smart this week and take it easy with their club sports. If their is an injury, we can not replace anyone on the line ups for the rest of the year.

Make sure you are getting plenty of healthy foods this week. It is supposed to be hot. Drink lots of fluids.

Sleep is important. Get 8-9 hours of sleep each night.

Thursday and Friday, practice will be done by 4:30.

Saturday is the sectional. We will get more out to you after the sectional seed meeting tonight.

Sectional t-shirts can be purchased online at www.cubbyholeonline.com. They also will be selling shirts at the meet also for around $18.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!

May 4th, 2024

The kids were awesome today! We won all four divisions.

The weather was perfect and we had some amazing results. We had a school record tied today. Allison Tice tied the 7^th Grade Girls Pole Vault record. Great Job Allison!

We want to send out a huge thank you to whoever helped out with pole vault today. A special thanks to Jocelyn Cechowicz and Cooper Schaad for running the pole vault today also.

Thanks for coming out and supporting Geneseo Track and Field.

Check out the results on the webpage.

Have a great weekend.

Keep Dreaming Big!

May 3rd, 2024

Pre meet day. Tomorrow we are at Dixon High School. Bus leaves at 6:45. Be at the school by 6:35. Pole Vaulters get there at 6:15. We have to pack poles.

We had a contest for a dress up day today. Kids wanted to have Jersey Day, Neon Day, and Pretty Princess Day. Neon day won. Check out the photos.

May 2nd, 2024

The kids have been great this week. We handed out medals yesterday from the conference meet. We have a couple of photos below.

Tonight we had a good work out. Tried to shake out some sore legs from Tuessday. The kids really went hard at the meet. Worked Field Events.

Saturday we are at the Dixon Invitational. The meet starts at 9:00. Bus will leave at 6:45. We will have line ups up soon. Please let us know if you can not make it to the meet on Saturday.

Dream Big!

Team Medalists

7th Grade Girls

8th Grade Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 30th, 2024

What an incredible night!

The kids were awesome tonight. We ended up winning three of the four team meets. 7^th Grade Girls, 8^th Grade Girls, and 7^th Grade Boys all won team championships. In one of the best conference meets we have ever witnessed, the 8^th grade boys came in 3^rd, only 13 points away from winning.

What an exciting finish in the 8^th grade boys 4×400. A battle all the way around the track. Micah Nicke received the baton in 2^nd place about 10 meters behind and blew out a 55 second leg to win the 4×400. What an incredible race.

Jackson Frank Broke his own school record in the 8^th grade shot put. He threw 50” 7”. Wow! Are you kidding me! Incredible.

Olivia Despinter was amazing in the open 400 and got 2^nd. Wow! She ran 1:03 and got second! What a fast meet.

7^th Grade Girls shot put went 1, 2 and 4. The 8^th grade guys went 1, 2 in both shot and discus.

Jett ran like a Jet and ended up winning both the 100 and 200. Plus he was on the winning 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays.

These were just a few of the incredible things going on. Everywhere you looked magic was happening. Great job to everyone!

Results are posted. Get some sleep.

Way to Dream Big!

April 29th, 2024

Another beautiful day. Tomorrow looks nice also. Make sure you bring sun block for tomorrow.

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQv9J_p3-KYtM7zIKbv6quDZ-gl6AmBX_voySK2G28s6Ndy30HVaIJ7B7aNhkQ_JceKvvY1cfH06CA6/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT546XkonpD0K5N0U-NlDLdb0vnStNoUeZUQhnXHdyE2VjQ3rA4sZ1KIbP47VEh_qggITHXXZE2c_RE/pubhtml

We will be wearing our track uniforms. Please contact a coach if you have not received one yet.

We do need help at the concession stand. You can leave to watch your athlete participate when you need to. Here is the link again. Track Boosters: Tue., Apr 30 GMS Conference Track Meet (signupgenius.com)

Our boosters are incredible and we are very fortunate to have all the equipment and uniforms we have. Boosters has helped with all of it. Just this year the boosters has donated over $10,000 for equipment for the kids to use. Please consider helping in the concession stand.

If you are not in an event, we need you helping with field events. For example, boys throwers help the girls throwers and girls throwers help the boys throwers. Same in long jump and high jump.

There are medals for the top three places in each event and a trophy for the winning teams.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Have a great night.

Dream Big!

April 26th, 2024

A great week for the kids. Wednesday the boys had their invitational and both teams won the meet. The results are posted.

Yesterday we pushed cars. Check out the photos below. We also posted lists of kids that need to continue coming to practice for the next couple of weeks. It is championship meet season, so we only can have 2 or 3 kids per meet for the rest of the year. Here are the lists. List.

We did not have practice today. School dance is tonight.

Tomorrow we have a pole vault practice, if you can make it. Meet at the facility at 8:00am.

Have a great weekend

April 22nd, 2024

The kids did great tonight. We had a tough wind to deal with, but all the kids did an amazing job.

We believe all the teams won all four track meets. We had a school record tied tonight. Jett Znamenacek tied the school record in the 100 Meter dash. Great job Jett! Keep working hard and hopefully you will not have to share the record. He shares the record with Jerron Nordstrom from 2013.

All the results are posted. There are mistakes and we will get them fixed as they roll in.

A huge thank you to all who volunteered tonight in some capacity. Thank you timers, field event workers, people who helped in the concession stand (I think there was a sighting of Dr. Brumbaugh flipping burgers at the concession stand), and anyone else who helped somewhere at the meet. Thank you so much for your help. It truly takes an army to make this work.

Tomorrow we will get out line ups for the boys meet on Wednesday and get uniforms out to the guys competing on Wednesday.

Awesome job tonight everyone!

Keep Dreaming Big!

April 19th, 2024

The teams had a good workout this week. The weather has been horrible. The meet was cancelled again last night.

They received their line ups for Monday today. Just a few changes from Thursday’s line ups. Here they are:

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRoKwPaLz0-mMs7neWPLkTbVdNYX4QlLqofGzCwm5PLiObJ6JGkSL9ta-iH2nsMbIo-53DYnEqR8M0M/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQDrpVNXtM_z8njxyoHooE48R95bx1p9ifJGVt3LOAGZFmGSX2nDzRnhJ2htcoay265wi3dReyh_uhY/pubhtml

There is a change in the order of events for Monday for the field events, compared to the last two home meets we have had. Here is the order:

8th Girls Long Jump South Pit, 8th Boys to Follow

7th Girls Long Jump North Pit, 7th Boys to Follow

ALL Triple Jump South Pit, immediately following 8th grade boys long jump

8th Boys High Jump West Pit, 8th Girls to Follow after Long Jump

7th Boys High Jump East Pit, 7th Girls to Follow

8th/7th Grade Boys Shot Put, 8th/7th Girls to Follow

8th/7th Grade Girls Discus, 8th/7th Boys to Follow

The field events have switched. Please note this.

Just a reminder, there is pole vault practice Saturday morning at 8:00am, if you can make it. Meet at the facility. Bring clothes for inside and outside. It is cold outside, if we do vault outside. We will be done by 10:00am.

We do need volunteers for Monday in timing and at field events. We had the perfect line up on Thursday for volunteers. Hopefully, many of you can make it Monday. Please let us know if you can help. Coach Mathew is the lead on the volunteers. tmathew@geneseoschools.org.

Reminder the boosters need help in the concessions also.

Have a great day!

Dream Big!

April 17th, 2024

Sorry it has been a little bit since our last post. The meet from last night’s cancellation is rescheduled for tomorrow. We do need volunteers if you can help.

The kids have been doing great. We just need to get a meet in.

April 17th, 2024 Later in the day

We hope all is well. Great practice tonight. The kids received line ups for tomorrow. Here they are:

Girls – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vScKXwSZsk5fdoXaoPKkygtIORIaT3SswvgLnC6-mYp6nq81J0mMBNyGUfGFkiUvZh2y0BUNYnYzg7c/pubhtml

Boys – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRv43XD34IovXI5_FQNVfeGhnFqZc0WaFLawqcamoU3qBJ9rJfQxsWveBULrHJxv5EReTN86tV0y0BV/pubhtml

We will start the field events around 3:30. The running events will begin around 5:00. Please email us or Coach Mathew.

We are still in need of volunteers everywhere. Timers and field events. Boosters are also looking for people in the concession stand.

It is going to be cooler and wet. Bring lots of clothes, umbrellas, ponchos. Be prepared.

Have a great night. We are assuming we forgot something, so there may be another email. We know you are shocked on that one.

Dream Big!

April 10th, 2024

The girls did awesome tonight!

We had many great performances and we had some let downs. All a part of track and field. You will have your ups and downs. For the third meet of the year, it was a very successful meet for the girls. Everything is a learning moment. We have some sore legs. Make sure you ice down your legs and get a good stretch.

We do not have results yet. We will get them tomorrow at some point. Be patient. Unofficially, we believe both the 7^th and 8^th grade girls teams won the meet. As soon as we get the results we will get them posted.

Great job tonight girls!

Dream Big!

April 9th, 2024

The kids are awesome! Another great practice tonight. Just a few things.

The girls have a meet tomorrow. There are two different bus times. We have a bus leaving at 3:30 and one leaving around 4:00. When you get out of school head to the gym and wait there. Mr. Mathew will riding with the bus at 4:00 to the meet. The meet tomorrow starts around 5:00 for the field events. Running events begin at 5:30. The meet is at Browning Field in Moline. Info for meet.

Here are the line ups for the girls. Girls line ups

If you are checking your athlete out of the meet, stop by the camp and sign out. We need a parent to sign the athlete out. Also, please tell a coach you are leaving. We may need to replace an athlete in a relay and may ask if you can stay to help the team out.

The girls received their uniforms today that are in the meet tomorrow. If you did not get a uniform, contact coach Gillespie to get one tomorrow. Follow these instructions for the uniforms. Wash in cold water. Do not use bleach. Hang dry. Pretty simple.

The boys do not have practice tomorrow. Enjoy your day off.

Addison Snell misplaced her spikes last night. Someone may have grabbed them by mistake. They are pink Nike spikes with a white bag. She had some black leggings in the bag also. The shoes are a size 9 or 9.5. Please let us know if you accidentally grabbed them.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 8th, 2024

What an incredible day! We had an eclipse, a track meet, and perfect weather for both.

The kids did an amazing job tonight. We had a school record in the 8^th grade shot put. Jackson Frank broke his 8^th grade shot put record this week. He threw around 49’7”. Great job Jackson!

There were some great times, distances, and heights. Keep up the great work. The results are posted.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped with the meet. The meet went very smooth. This was Wilson’s first meet of the year and this was our first relay experience of the year also. We had some monster performances in the relays. Pretty exciting, this early in the year.

Tomorrow, the girls will get line ups for the meet on Wednesday. We will also hand out uniforms for the kids that are in the meet on Wednesday. The top 3 kids in field events and running events for 7^th and 8^th grade will be in the individual events. Relays will be made with the coaches discretion of times from a combination of events. Not everyone will be in the meet on Wednesday. The boys will not have practice on Wednesday. We do have practice tomorrow (Tuesday) thought. Practice goes from after school until 5:00.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Great job tonight!

Dream Big!

April 4th, 2024

The kids are awesome! They are working hard and not letting the weather bother them.

Just a reminder, we do have practice tomorrow. Practice goes from after school to 4:30.

We are attaching the line ups for Monday. Please let us know if you see any mistakes.

Girls Line Ups – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRNFw6e4sb_itp2PJ8C-91VnTjyI3YwqVc6Omb4-ExpvFUJB-vGnS58CUI_qCGA5wfhQjJxjQ7mskDj/pubhtml

Boys Line Ups – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQMztrBKq8MO9kNmSlWUYr143oR6wXMXcYtImQbhp1H16UatFvgxz3u8Xt8mnIQWYFf59BiCRrJaAj3/pubhtml

We are in need of volunteers for the meet on Monday. Please consider helping with the meet.

We are missing a medium Geneseo track and field sweat shirt. There is a name on the tag. Claerhout. Please let us know if you accidentally picked it up.

Have a great night.

Dream Big!

April 3rd, 2024

We have had an interesting week of practices being inside. We are getting a lot done in minimal space. A hurricane came through yesterday.

Today is a “Twin Day” dress up day for the kids. They will be dressing up like someone else on the team.

We are still having issues with the Yahoo email accounts. We apologize for any inconveniences. Kids if you know your parents have a Yahoo account, forward this on to them.

We are going to try to get the field events going by 3:30 on Monday. We will do our best to get them going by then. Wilson has to come early due to busing issues.

We are needing volunteers again for the meet on Monday. We had an incredible group of volunteers help with the Colona/Bradford/Glenview meet. It was the smoothest meet we have every hosted. Hopefully we can get as much help on Monday. The weather looks nice right now. Please email coaches. Coach Mathew coordinates the volunteers, his email is tmathew@geneseoschools.org.

Also, the boosters need some help in the concession stand all year. Here is a sign up link for our meet on Monday. Track Boosters: Mon, 4/8 GMS/Moline Meet (signupgenius.com)

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 1st, 2024

We hope you enjoyed your Easter weekend. Just a few things tonight.

1) We are moving the track meet Wednesday to Monday the 8^th. The weather looks bad all week. Monday looks great right now. We will have practice after school on Wednesday. We will get more out about Monday’s meet with Wilson later this week. We will need volunteers for the meet. Please contact us or coach Mathew tmathew@geneseoschools.org if you can help out on Wednesday.

2) If the high school girls track meet gets cancelled tomorrow, we are going to have Pole Vault practice after our regular practice. This is “IF” the high school girls track meet gets cancelled tomorrow. We will have the normal practice from after school until 5:00 and then we will head over to the facility and have a pole vault practice until 6:15ish. We hope you can make the practice.

3) We have a few lost and found things from the meet from Thursday. Please see if any of it is yours from Thursday.

Please let us know if you any questions.

Dream Big!

March 28th, 2024

What a great night to have a track meet. First we want to thank all the volunteers. This was our best run meet we have ever had. Thank you so much.

The kids did amazing. The results are posted. There are always mistakes. Please let us know if you catch one and we will get them changed. We know of one. Coach Ehlert’s daughter did not run the hurdles, so we need to figure that one out.

We had one school record. Jackson Frank broke the 8th grade boys shot put record. Jackson threw the shot 48′ 0.75″ or 14.65 meters. Congratulations Jackson.

Tomorrow we have pole vault at 7:45am in the facility. We will be done around 9:00ish.

Here were the winners of the Booster Raffle:

Kim Chamberlin – Air Pods

Heidi Wilson – Apple Watch

Terry Hansen – Smart TV

Theresa Smith – $50 Gift Certificate

Tanner Dwyer – $50 Gift Certificate

June Minard – Fareway Gift Card

Jaclyn Claerhart – Fareway Gift Card

Kate Davis – $50 Dick’s Card

Sharon Vanantwerp – $50 Dick’s Card

Sara Dykstra – $100 Gift Card

One more thing. Boosters could use help at the high school track meet tomorrow in the concession stand. The meet starts at 4:00 and will be done around 7:00. If you could be there at any time, it would be helpful. Email coach Ehlert if you are interested.

We do not have practice besides pole vault tomorrow. Have an awesome weekend.

Great job tonight everyone!

March 27th, 2024

Sorry we have not posted in awhile. We hope you had a great spring break! The kids have been great.

Tomorrow we have our first meet of the year. Field events will begin at 4:00. Here are the line ups:

Girls

Boys

The kids received their spirit gear last night at practice.

We had a “black out” Here are some photos.

March 18th, 2024

The kids did great the last two weeks. We have some optional practices this week if you are around or interested. Here they are:

Monday, Tuesday, and Wendesday from 12:00 – 1:00. We will also have a pole vault practice Tuesday Morning from 7:45 – 9:00ish.

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-3 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters do some sprints. Run ten 30-60 meter sprints. Distance: Do a couple of 800’s at mile race pace. Then do 400’s. Do the 400’s at 800 race pace.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 4 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

March 14th, 2024

Today the kids will be signing up for interested events.

Please use this Google Form to identify which events you are interested in for the 2024 Track and Field season. We would like you to select the events that interest you the most. In a meet you can participate in a maximum of four events, so please identify which ones you would like to try out! If you are not interested in an event, pick “no interest.” Remember, you can only have one event that is “1st pick,” one event that is “2nd pick” and so on.

Only select “5th pick” for an event IF there is a fifth event you have a strong interest in and you just can’t narrow it down to four events. It is also ok if you are only interested in two or three events!

Remember if you are interested in a relay, you will need to sign up for the individual distance, and we will create relays based off that selection and times. 🙂

Girls interests

Boys interests

Please bring any raffle packets you have sold or not selling also.

March 13th, 2024

A great start so far. We have some awesome kids. The kids have had a great week of practice. Some of the kids are going to be sore. Please have them stretch and ice their legs down.

For those of you who made it to the parent meeting last Thursday. Thank you for coming. If you missed it here are the highlights:

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Boosters – The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for new track items, all the money goes back into the track and field program.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Track and field spirit wear. There is an online store this year. The store closes tonight March 1^3th at 11:59 pm. Here is the link for the gear. Online Store

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

Please email us if you have any questions. We are very excited about this year.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 4th, 2024

Hello all! We start practices today after school . Here is the link to the parent letter. 2024 Parent Letter

Hype Video

We will be done with practice at 5:00 today.

Practices this week will be like this:

Tuesday – After school until 5:00

Wednesday – After school until 5:00

Thursday – After school until 5:00

Friday – No school / No practice today

May 20th, 2023

Congratulations on an awesome weekend!!!!!

The magic was in the air again this weekend. The 8^th grade guys finished Fourth as a team, we won an individual state championship, we came home with 19 medals, set 1 state record, and we set 1 school record. Absolutely amazing!!!!!!!

Here are the medalist from this weekend:

Molly Snyder – 8^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 4th Place

Meghan Scheider – 7^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 8th Place

Micah Nicke – 7^th Grade Boys 400 M Dash – 5^th Place

Jack Kreiss – 8^th Grade Boys High Jump – 5^th Place

Bella Brown – 8^th Grade Girls Shot Put – 4^th Place

Leah Falk – 8^th Grade Girls 100 Hurdles – 4^th Place

Jack Mickley – 8^th Grade Boys 110 Hurdles – 4^th Place

Megan Ehlert – 7^th Grade Girls High Jump – 5^th Place

Finn Schaad – 8^th Grade Boys Pole Vault – 2nd Place

Addison Snell – 7^th Grade Girls Shot Put – 3^rd Place

Jackson Frank – 7^th Grade Boys Shot Put – 1^st Place

Bella Brown – 8^th Grade Girls Discus – 7^th Place

Micah Nicke – 7^th Grade Boys 400 M Dash – 6^th Place

Jerry Maciejewski – 8^th Grade 800 M Run – 2^nd Place

7^th Grade Boys 4 x 400 M. Relay – Ian McShane, Cyrus Babcock, Jaxson Seals, Micah Nicke (Alt. Aiden Hawkins) – 6^th Place

Jackson Frank broke the 7^th grade boys Shot Put state record at 44’2″ and Finn Schaad set the school record for the Pole Vault at 11’0″.

It was truly an amazing day. A huge thank you to all the parents who came to the meet to support GMS track and field.

We will have more tomorrow. Have a great night and Dream Big!!!!!!

Photos from the weekend

May 18th, 2023

Things have been great this week. The kids are ready for Friday and Saturday.

Here is a list of events our kids are in and time schedule. The schedule is approximate and will change.

Schedule

Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 13th, 2023

Awesome Job!!!!!! We had an incredible day today!!!!! We won all 4 divisions. Unbelievable.

The 7th grade girls, 8th grade girls, 7th grade boys and 8th grade boys are all sectional team champions. Awesome job to all of you.

The weather was absolutely perfect.

Congratulations to Jackson Frank for destroying the 7th grade boys shot put record that was set in 1990. Great Job Jackson!!!!!

Here are the kids who qualified for state next weekend:

We have 40 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls – 14

High Jump – Megan Ehlert
Pole Vault – Meghan Scheider
Shot Put – Addison Snell
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Ainsleigh Misfeldt, Penny Kline, Brooklyn Schnowske, Olivia Yost, Karlee Hankins
4 x 200 Meter Relay – Tessa Courtright, Allison Boone, Addison Hadsall, Olivia DeSplinter, Madison Fontenoy
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Ida Rowald, Penny Kline, Olivia Yost, Olivia DeSplinter, Ainsleigh Misfeldt

8th Grade Girls – 10

100 Meter Hurdles – Leah Falk
100 Meter Dash – Leah Falk
800 Meter Run – Ayla Schultz
1600 Meter Run – Brooklyn Smith
1600 Meter Run – Lucille Wachtel
High Jump – Megan Hursman
High Jump – Brooklyn Smith
Pole Vault – Molly Snyder
Discus – Bella Brown
Shot Put – Bella Brown
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Megan Hursman, Payton Boone, Aya Stroh, Leah Falk, Lauren Piquard
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Brooklyn Smith, Megan Hursman, Ayla Schultz, Leah Falk, Aya Stroh

7th Grade Boys – 9

Discus – Jaydn Shipman
Shot Put – Jackson Frank
Shot Put – Jaydn Shipman
Pole Vault – Kael McCord
400 Meter Dash – Micah Nicke
800 Meter Run – Micah Nicke
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Ian McShane, Micah Nicke, Jaxson Seals, Cyrus Babcock, Austen Kane
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Ian McShane, Aiden Haskins, Cyrus Babcock, Micah Nicke, Jaxson Seals

8th Grade Boys – 7

Pole Vault – Finn Schaad
High Jump – Jack Kreiss
High Jump – Jaydon Burrage
110 Meter Hurdles – Jack Mickley
400 Meter Dash – Jerry Maciejewski
800 Meter Dash – Jerry Maciejewski
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Jack Mickley, Keaton Ariano, Jack Kreiss, Jerry Maciejewski, Micah Johnson

Congratulations to all. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

May 9th, 2023

A lot of information for today:

We would like the kids to take it easy at their club sports this week. If you are tired and sore at sectional, you may not qualify for state. We are in a loaded sectional and we need to be the best we can be.
Please make sure you are eating plenty of healthy foods this week. Carbohydrates are a great thing for athletes. Pasta is a wise choice. With all the heat, make sure you are drinking plenty of fluids. Stay away from energy drinks, pop, and coffee. Sports drinks are a must. Pedialyte makes a great sports drink. Extra salt would also be a good thing, if you do not have high blood pressure.
Sleep is important. 8-9 hours a night are also a must.
Friday we will have practice from 3:30-4:30.
Saturday is the sectional meet. We handed out sectional line ups tonight. Please look them over and see if there are any conflicts. The kids run on Saturday and if they qualify for state they will run the next weekend on Friday or Saturday or even both at state. Even the alternates go to state. If someone gets hurt, they will run. We can not replace anyone on relays after the seed meeting on Wednesday night. We will get more about the sectional tomorrow.
Sectional shirts can be found at www.cubbyholeonline.com. You can order the shirts. They will be sent to your home. You will probably not get the shirts by Saturday
Bring water to practice. Stay hydrated.

Line ups for sectional (There could be some changes):

Girls

Boys

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

May 6th, 2023

Great job today!!!!! We won all four divisions at the Dixon Invitational. We had some pretty impressive performances. Results are posted.

We did have a school record today. Madison Fontenoy broke the 7th grade girls school record for pole vault. She jumped 7’6″. Meghan Scheider broke the record earlier this year. Keep pushing each other girls. Great job!!!!

We will be sending more information about next weeks sectional tomorrow.

Great job everyone. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!

May 5th, 2023

We have had a great week. Weather looks awesome for tomorrow. Be prepared for warm and cool weather. Girls do running first and boys do field first at 9:00am. The switch will be around 10:45 – 11:15 and the boys will do running and girls will do field events. We are at Dixon High School.

Bring money for concessions. Bring extra socks. Bring sunscreen. Bring sweats.

Go all out tomorrow. This will be a fun meet.

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 2nd, 2023

Congratulations girls. Both teams won conference. Great job girls!!!!

Tomorrow the guys run at Rock Island High School. Field events start at 4:45 and running events will start at 5:30.

Girls you do not have practice tomorrow.

Thanks go out to all our volunteers for helping run an incredible meet. We had a lot of compliments. None of this happens without you.

Results are posted from tonights meet.

Dream Big!!!!

May 1st, 2023

Hope you are all doing well. Girls conference is tomorrow at home. We need help with the field events if you can help out. The field events are at 4:30 and running events are at 5:30.

Here are the line ups for the next two days. The boys are at Rock Island on Wednesday.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

April 29th, 2023

Things went great on Thursday. Everyone did an amazing job!!! We won all four divisions. Great job teams!!!!!

We had one school record. Finn Schaad broke the 8th grade boys pole vault record. He went 10’9″. Amazing. Congratulations Finn!!!!

Yesterday we pushed cars and did some dancing. This is the last practice for some kids. We are going into championship meet season now. Conference is this week and there is only so many spots for each event. Here is a list of the kids who need to come for the rest of the year. We have a meet the next three Saturday’s. Please let us know if you will not be able to make it.

If you are not on the list, please do not be discouraged. These teams are amazing and we have a lot of talent. We thank everyone for working so hard this year. We wish everyone the best in the future.

The students on the list we now have to step it up even more and go all out. Not all the students on the list may not compete in the championship meets. We keep enough students in case of injuries or other issues that may occur.

Monday we will be getting line ups out for the conference meets.

Dream Big!!!!

April 26th, 2023

We have a home meet tomorrow. Please consider volunteering.

Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Ups –https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQB2thW8sQDB5QWVuJ34o2QTAuT5robQzYmAnhKDAV_UlwqrJSfjYv_EMRTjMoCgubCaKdlSkUSXTmK/pubhtml

Boys Line Ups –https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTZZmI1S2cv6p__7TQBXZR0xo0_M9iNPx5isaisc80Qo5hbejkz6P4benusIDHIha79b0PPxruFf3-Z/pubhtml

April 19th, 2023 Part 2

Great job tonight ladies!!! Both the 7th and 8th grade girls were awesome tonight. The 7th grade girls won their division by 70 points and the 8th grade girls won their division by 140 points. We had many amazing perfromances. Results are posted. Way to Dream Big Girls!!!!!

April 19th, 2023 Part 1

Girls track meet today at Rock Island High School. The field events begin at 4:45 and the running events begin at 5:15.

Here are the line ups for tonight. Girls Line Ups

Hope to see you there. Good luck ladies.

April 17th, 2023

Congratulations to both the girls and boys teams for winning the Jack and Jill Relays. Both the 7th and 8th grade teams won their divisions. When we get the results, we will get them posted. Congratulations teams.

April 15h, 2023

Results from Wednesday have been posted. The 7th grade guys finished second and the 8th grade guys won the meet. Congratulations guys.

We have had a great week of practice. We handed out line ups for Monday yesterday. Here they are: Jack and Jill Line Ups

The girls also received their uniforms and their line ups for Wednesday. We will get those posted soon. As for uniforms for all the kids, please follow these instructions when cleaning them:

Do not Bleach. Wash in cold water. Do not dry the uniforms in the dryer. Hang dry them.

We will get more information out tomorrow.

Enjoy the weekend.

April 12th, 2023

Great job tonight guys! Results will posted as soon as we get them. The guys fought hard and we believe the 8th grade guys may have won the meet and the seventh grade guys were in the top 3 teams. We will have to see. There is some great talent in the conference this year.

The weather was beautiful. Keep working hard at practice.

Dream Big!!!!

April 11th, 2023

What a great week of weather. We hope you had a great weekend. Sorry we have been behind on the website.

Tomorrow we have a boys meet at Browning Field in Moline. Here are the line ups.

Boys Line Ups

Bus leaves at 3:30. The field events being at 5:00, running events start at 5:30. We should be done by 8:00. Be back home between 8:30 – 9:00. When your athlete is done with their events, have them sign out with a coach. We may need some subs for some events, if someone gets hurt. So, talk to a coach before you leave.

Bring plenty of fluids and snacks for the meet.

We are not having practice for the girls or boys who are not participating in the meet. Enjoy the day off.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!

April 5th, 2023

Great job tonight. The weather was very cold and windy and you all rocked it. We won all the divisions. Great job!

We had one school record last night. Meghan Scheider broke the 7th grade girls pole vault record. Congratulations Meghan.

The results are posted.

A huge thank you to all our volunteers. The meet went really smoothly. We are having a great year of volunteers this year. Keep it up. We do not have a home meet for a couple of weeks. We will need a lot of help for the sectional on May 13th. Please block off some time to help for Sectionals. We need a ton of help in the concession stand.

Have a great night. Dream Big!!!!!

April 4th, 2023

Hope all is well. We have a meet tomorrow. We did not have a chance to get line ups out. Here are the boys and girls line ups.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

There will be some changes going on with injuries and illnesses. We will not change the current relays.

Boys please email changes to coach Ehlert.

Girls please email changes to coach Gillespie.

March 30th, 2023

What a great meet. The kids did awesome. We will have results up shortly.

The weather was great and it was a great choice to move the meet back a day. Sorry for any conflicts.

We want to shoot a huge shout out to the volunteers. Everyone did a great job. Thank you so much.

We are cancelling practice for tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be severe. Have a great weekend. We will see you on Monday.

Dream Big!!!!!!

March 27th, 2023

It was great to be back with the kids today. We had great participation from the kids with the optional practices over break. Today was an awesome practice. The weather was great and we were able to get a lot in.

Here are the the line ups for Wednesday:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

Have a great night.

March 15th, 2023

Great job tonight. We had some awesome performances. The weather was chilly, but the kids gave it their all.

If you have any photos, shoot them our way and we will post some on the website.

The booster raffle was a success. We will post the winners as soon as we can.

Have a great night!!!!

March 14th, 2023

We have had a great start to the year. Tomorrow, we have a practice meet at the high school. Field events will begin at 4:15ish. Running events will start after 5:30. Here are the line ups for events:

Boys Line Ups

Girls Line Ups

Please bring all your raffle packets tomorrow. Also, dress warm, it is going to be windy.

March 10th, 2023

A great start so far. We have some awesome kids. The kids had a great practice last night. They did huricane training. You will have to ask the kids about it. Some of the kids are going to be sore. Please have them stretch and ice their legs down.

For those of you who made it to the parent meeting. Thank you for coming. If you missed it (The weather was horrible), here are the highlights:

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Boosters were represented – Mindy Brown talked about signs, spirit wear opportunities, and concession stand options. The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for new track items, all the money goes back into the track and field program.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Track and field spirit wear. There is an online store this year. The store closes Sunday, March 12^th at 11:59 pm. Here is the link for the gear. Online Store

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

Please email us if you have any questions. We are very excited about this year.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 8th, 2023

The kids are doing awesome. Keep it up. We have had a great start to the 2023 year.

Tomorrow is a Black Out at practice. Wear black clothes and have some fun. Also, just a reminder, we have a parent meeting after practice. Please come and meet the coaching staff.

Keep working hard and Dream Big!!!!

March 6th, 2023 Part 2

We had a great turn out today. There were around 170 kids who were at practice today. Great job picking up your kids. Practices will be done by 5:00 every day.

The kids recieved packets for a booster raffle. Please try to have your students sell some. More information to come on this.

March 6th, 2023

Hello all! We start practices today after school . Here is the link to the parent letter. 2023 Parent Letter

We will be done with practice at 5:00 today.

Practices this week will be like this:

Tuesday – After school until 5:00

Wednesday – After school until 5:00

Thursday – After school until 5:00

Friday – No school / No practice today

February 6th, 2023

We are one month away from our first day of practice. We are starting this year March 6th. Please get your physicals in to the nurses office. Here is the sign up link if you are interested. Track Sign Up

Here is a video of our past if you are interested 2023 Hype Video

June 1st, 2022

Thank you to all who came to the GMS track celebration tonight. It was a great turn out. It was great to see all the kids one more time. The highlight is online. Check it out.

Thanks for all the positive comments.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 21st, 2022

What an incredible weekend!!!!!!!

The magic is still alive. This should not happen and it has again. The 7th grade guys finished Runner-up as a team, we won 4 state championships, we came home with 36 medals, set 4 state records (1st year for the four class system, so if you won, you have a state record, pretty cool), and we set 2 school records.

Here are the medalist from this weekend:

Jocelyn Cechowicz – 8^th Grade Girls Pole Vault – 1^st Place

Leah Falk – 7^th Grade Girls 400 M Dash – 7^th Place

Jerry Maciejewski – 7^th Grade Boys 400 M Dash – 2nd Place

Cedric Kehoe – 8^th Grade Boys 400 M Dash – 8^th Place

Jayden Burrage – 7^th Grade Boys Discus – 7^th Place

Finn Schaad – 7^th Grade Boys Pole Vault – 1^st Place

Jack Kriess – 7^th Grade Boys Pole Vault – 5^th Place

Bella Brown – 7^th Grade Girls Shot Put – 4^th Place

Mathew Darnall – 8^th Grade Boys Pole Vault – 2^nd Place

Lizzie Rapps – 8^th Grade Girls 200 M Dash – 6^th Place

Jerry Maciejewski – 7^th Grade 800 M Run – 1st Place

7^th Grade Girls 4 x 100 M. Relay – Megan Hursman, Payton Boone, Aya Stroh, Leah Falk (Alt. Claire Swanson) – 1^st Place

8^th Grade Girls 4 x 100 M. Relay – Katy Wilson, Madison Reade, Lizzie Rapps, Nina Schmedding (Alt. Charlotte Kroll) – 2^nd Place

8^th Grade Boys 4 x 100 M. Relay – Gavin Hintgen, Wesley Schaapveld, Isaac Nixon, Cedric Kehoe (Alt. Grayson Carlson) – 7^th Place

7^th Grade Girls 4 x 400 M. Relay – Megan Hursman, Aya Stroh, Ayla Schulz, Leah Falk (Alt. Molly Snyder) – 8^th Place

7^th Grade Boys 4 x 400 M. Relay – Jerry Maciejewski, Keaton Ariano, Finn Schaad, Jack Mickley (Alt. Micah Johnson) – 8^th Place

Finn Schaad broke the 7th grade boys school record in the pole vault and Jerry Maciejewski broke the 7th grade boys school record in the 800 M Run.

It was an incredible day. If you have photos of your athlete on the podium, please send them to coach Ehlert and we will get them on the website.

Thanks for dreaming big!!!!!!!

May 18th, 2022

Things have been great this week. The kids are ready for Friday and Saturday.

Here is a list of the kids and what time their events are:

Events and Schedule

Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 13th, 2022

Awesome Job!!!!!! We had an incredible day today!!!!! We won 3 of the 4 divisions. Unbelievable.

The 7th grade girls, 8th grade girls, and 7th grade boys were all sectional team champions. The 8th grade boys were very close and fought all the way to the end and they ended up 2nd as a team. Awesome job to all of you.

The heat was horrible and you all did a great job of fighting it off.

Congratulations to Lizzie Rapps for destroying her own 200 meter school record. She improved it by almost a second.

Here are the kids who qualified for state next weekend:

We have 33 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls –

High Jump – Megan Hursman
Pole Vault – Elena Anderson
Shot Put – Bella Brown
400 Meter Run – Leah Falk
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Megan Hursman, Payton Boone, Aya Stroh, Leah Falk – Alt. Claire Swanson
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Megan Hursman, Aya Stroh, Ayla Schultz, Leah Falk – Alt. Molly Snyder

8th Grade Girls –

100 Meter Dash – Nina Schmedding
200 Meter Dash – Lizzie Rapps
400 Meter Dash – Nina Schmedding
Long Jump – Lizzie Rapps
Long Jump – Anna Davis
Pole Vault – Jocelyn Cechowicz
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Katy Wilson, Madison Reade, Lizzie Rapps, Nina Schmedding – Alt. Charlotte Kroll
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Nina Schmedding, Anna Davis, Kameryn Keegan, Lizzie Rapps – Alt. Charlotte Kroll

7th Grade Boys –

Discus – Jaydon Burrage
Shot Put – Colten Mooney
High Jump – Jack Mickley
Pole Vault – Finn Schaad
Pole Vault – Jack Kriess
110 Hurdles – Jack Mickley
400 Meter Dash – Jerry Maciejewski
800 Meter Run – Jerry Maciejewski
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Jack Mickley, Bret Brown Keaton Ariano, Jerry Maciejewski – Alt. Jayden Wexell
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Jack Mickley, Keaton Ariano, Finn Schaad, Jerry Maciejewski – Alt. Micah Johnson

8th Grade Boys –

Pole Vault – Mathew Darnall
400 Meter Dash – Cedric Kehoe
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Gavin Hintgen, Wesley Schaapveld, Isaac Nixon Cedric Kehoe – Alt. Grayson Carlson

Congratulations to all. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

May 9th, 2022

A lot of information for today:

We are not going to have the team go to the Jack and Jill relays tomorrow. There are a lot of reasons for this, but we need to be safe this week. Running in the predicted 97 degree heat index without any acclimation to the heat is really not a good idea. We need to be prepared for the sectional meet and having this meet so close to the sectional just does not work out for us.
We will practice tomorrow from 3:20 – 4:30. This gives the kids in the choir concert plenty of time to do both practice and be at the choir concert on time.
Wednesday, we are not having practice. The high school girls team has their sectional track meet at home and we have a lot of coaches working the meet. The kids need to be rested for our sectional meet and this gives them a day to relax.
We would like the kids to take it easy at their club sports this week. If you are tired and sore at sectional, you may not qualify for state. We are in a loaded sectional and we need to be the best we can be.
Please make sure you are eating plenty of healthy foods this week. Carbohydrates are a great thing for athletes. Pasta is a wise choice. With all the heat, make sure you are drinking plenty of fluids. Stay away from energy drinks, pop, and coffee. Sports drinks are a must. Pedialyte makes a great sports drink. Extra salt would also be a good thing, if you do not have high blood pressure.
Sleep is important. 8-9 hours a night are also a must.
Thursday we will have practice from 3:30-4:30.
Friday is the sectional meet. We handed out sectional line ups tonight. Please look them over and see if there any conflicts. The kids run on Friday and if they qualify for state they will run the next weekend on Friday or Saturday or even both at state. Even the alternates go to state. If someone gets hurt, they will run. We can not replace anyone on relays after the seed meeting on Wednesday night. We need to know tomorrow by 12:00, so we can get them into the computer by 3:00. After 3:00, we have to make changes at the seed meeting and it is kind of a pain in the butt to d. We will get more about the sectional tomorrow.
Sectional shirts can be found at www.cubbyholeonline.com. You can order the shirts. They will be sent to your home. You will probably not get the shirts by Friday.
Roguing corn opportunites are available for this summer. If you are interested, please contact Coach Monier. You have the opportunity to make some cash this summer. We will shoot a separate email out with more information.
Tomorrow is Neon day. Where bright colors to reflect the light an stay cool. Dri Fit clothing will keep you cool.
Bring water to practice. Stay hydrated.

Line ups for sectional (There could be some changes):

Girls

Boys

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

May 7th, 2022

What an incredible day. The weather was perfect and so were our kids. We won all 4 divisions. Congratulations to all the kids. There were some amazing times ran today. We bettered 3 school records again today. Jocelyn Cechowicz increased her 8th grade girls school record to 9’6″, Lizzie Rapps lowered her 8th grade 200 record to 27.01, and Molly Snyder tied the 7th grade pole vault record and jumped 6’9″. Congratulations ladies. Results are posted.

Enjoy the weekend. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!!

May 6th, 2022

Tomorrow we are at Dixon. We would like the kids at the middle school by 6:45. The buses will leave shortly after that. The boys will start field events and girls will start running events at 9:00am. The switch will be between 10:30 and 11:00.

Here are the line ups.

Girls

Boys

Please bring extra socks, shoes, clothes, some cash for food at the concession stand. Also bring sun block. The grass will be really wet in the morning. It will be sunny and we want you to be protected. This is a green uniform meet.

Have a great night and Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 4th, 2022

Congratulations girls. Two more team conference championships!!!!!! Both the 7th and 8th grade girls team won their meets also. What a great couple of days. GMS Track and Field Heartland Conference Champions x 4!!!!!!

There were some incredible performances tonight and we had incredible weather to go with it.

There were three school records at the meet tonight. In the exhibition pole vault we had two records tonight. Jocelyn Cechowicz tied her 8th grade girls school record of 9’0″ and had a great attempt at 9’6″. Mathew Darnall broke the 8th grade boys school record with a jump of 10’1″. Malachi Schaad, the old school record holder was there to help Mathew out tonight. That was really cool.

And finally Lizzie Rapps becomes the 4th Rapps in the family to put her name on the record board, joining Becca, Drew, and Ali. Lizzie broke the 8th grade girls 200 meter dash time, running 27.29 seconds FAT, which converts to 27.05 seconds hand held. All of our records are in hand held times.

Congratulations to all the new record holders tonight.

A shout out to all our volunteers and the boys team for helping with the meet tonight. Great job workers.

Tomorrow we have practice and we will be getting medals out from the meets and handing out line ups for Saturday’s meet in Dixon.

Everyone is doing awesome. Keep up the hard work.

Results are posted. Congratulations to all the teams for winning the conference meets.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!

May 3rd, 2022

Sorry for not updating in a bit. The guys did great tonight, conference champs x 2. Results are posted on the website. Incredible job guys.

Girls your turn is tomorrow. Good luck. We will get more up when we can.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

April 29th, 2022

We had a fun practice tonight. Tonight was twin night. Check out the photos.

We also did a little dancing for the warm up (to get ready for the school dance) and pushed cars tonight for some strength. Check out those photos also.

We posted the Championship meet rosters. Those people need to continue to come to practice. The rest of the team is semi-retiring until next year’s sports seasons. We have enjoyed the whole group, but it is time to get ready for conference, sectionals, and hopefully state. Here are the rosters for championship meet season:

Girls –

7th Grade

8th Grade

Boys

Have a great night and enjoy the dance.

Twin Day Photos

Car pushing photos:

April 28th, 2022

Incredible night!!!!!!! All the kids gave it their all. We had some amazing performances tonight. We had a school record in the 8th grade girls pole vault. Jocelyn Cechowicz broke the school record by a foot. Greta Bolme tied the old school record. Sorry Greta, only Jocelyn’s name goes on the record board, but I thought I would recognize your special achievement.

The results are posted. Please let us know if you see any mistakes.

A huge thank you to all who volunteered tonight. We can not do this without your help. We had a small army helping at the finish line and it was awesome. Thanks for the help.

Thanks also to the boosters for running an incredible concession stand. They work their butts off and all the money comes back into the program. Thank you so much. We have an incredible facility and everyone loves coming to run here.

Tomorrow we will have lists up for the athletes who need to continue with practice the rest of the year. Championship meet season is coming and we will have limited spots in the meets. Everyone has been great this year. Please do not be bummed if you do not make the list. There are some amazing athletes and it is hard to make the list. You will always be a part of the track family and we will need your help for the conference meets, if you can help out. We will need help with all the field events.

Again, incredible job all season long. Practice gets done at 4:30. Just a reminder, tomorrow is “twin day:”

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

April 27th, 2022

We have a meet tomorrow at home with Washington and Edison. Field events begin at 4:30 and running events begin at 5:30. Please consider volunteering. Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

April 26th, 2022

The kids have been awesome this week. They are really working hard.

Yesterday was Princess and Pirate day. Here are some photos.

April 24th, 2022

Sorry we have not posted in a bit. Things have been crazy. Let’s look back at the last 9 days. We have had 2 track meets. One for the guys and one for the girls. Results are posted. We also had some awesome practices. Most have been inside, due to the weather. Finally in the last 3 days did we get some good weather. That looks to be short lived. It is going to be chilly again tomorrow.

Our next meet is Thursday. We have a home meet with Washington and Edison. We will need volunteer help again for this meet. Please consider helping us out. This will be the last meet where all the team will be in the meet. After this meet, we will only be inviting the top 4 or 5 for each event.

Things are going really well. We only have 4 weeks of school left. Dream Big!!!!!!!

April 15th, 2022

Awesome job last night guys. The wind was horrible, but we were fortunate to have some wind block being at Rocky. The sun helped and it did not feel to cold.

The guys did great. We will not get results until tonight or maybe even Monday. It is a Holiday weekend for some people, so they will do their best to get them to us as fast as they can.

The girls received line ups yesterday. There still could be some changes with conflicts. Here they are:

Girls Line Ups for Moline Invite

Just a reminder, there is no practice today. Enjoy the extended weekend. We will be having an optional practice on Monday at 2:00 and be done at 3:30. We will meet at the middle school for this one.

Have a great weekend and Dream Big!!!!!!!

April 12th, 2022

The kids did outstanding this evening. We won all four divisions. When we get the results we will post them.

For the boys meet tomorrow, we get out of class at 2:45 and leave at 3:00. The field events begin 4:30 and running events begin at 5:00.

There is supposed to be nasty weather tomorrow. They may postpone the meet to Thursday. If they do that, they will let us know by 10:00 tomorrow morning. So that would mean the meet would be on Thursday. We will approach that road if it happens.

Everyone did great today. Thanks to all who traveled to cheer on the teams.

Have a great night and thanks for Dreaming Big!!!!!!

April 9th, 2022

What an incredible start to a day. The sun is back hooray!!!!!

The kids had a great practice yesterday. They also received line ups for Tuesday. We had a couple of mistakes and made some changes. We also need to know if you are uable to be in the meet on Tuesday, so we can make changes this weekend. Please let us know if you see any mistakes or there are any conflicts.

Tuesday Girls Line Ups

Tuesday Boys Line Ups

Wednesday Boys Line Ups

Make sure the kids run one of the next two days. Have them play soccer, basketball, ride a bike, play tag, just get out and move.

Have a great weekend

April 6th, 2022

Awesome job tonight!!!!!!!

All 4 teams won their meets tonight. Incredible. We had great performances everywhere with the teams.

There were over 350 kids in the meet tonight. That is amazing for a middle school meet.

A huge thank you to anyone who volunteered at any of the events. The meet was done by 8:10. That is awesome. There were a lot of heats. Great job with everything.

Results are posted.

Have a great night and keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

April 5th, 2022

Kids have been awesome this week. We have a track meet tomorrow with Wilson. Please consider volunteering. Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

March 30th, 2022

Awesome job tonight!!!!! It was a great night for the kids. The weather was not ideal, but we were fortunate and finished before 8:00 and missed the rain.

We will have more later.

The results are posted.

March 29th, 2022

We hope the kids had a great break. We had a great turn out over the break for the optional practices.

Yesterday we had a great practice and we handed out line ups for tomorrow. We are still looking for volunteers to help at the meet. Please let us know if you can help.

Here are the line ups for tomorrow.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

March 18th, 2022

The kids did great the last two weeks. We have some optional practices next week if you are around or interested. Here they are:

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 2:00 – 3:00. We will also have some pole vault practices after their workout from 3:00-4:00

The weather looks decent next week. Monday will be nice and then it will get cool again. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. If you can make it to the voluntary practices, get on the track and work out there. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. 3 miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-3 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters do some sprints. Run ten 30-60 meter sprints. Distance: Do a couple of 800’s at mile race pace. Then do 400’s. Do the 400’s at 800 race pace.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 4 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

March 16th, 2022

What a phenomenal night!!!!!

The weather was great. The kids were great. The volunteers were great. Just a fun night.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the meet. Timers, field event help, and a huge thanks to the booster club for having an awesome raffle and concession stand. They did not expect that big of a crowd. Here is a note from the boosters and the winners of the raffle:

Track Families-

Thank you so much for supporting the Track and Field Booster Raffle. All of the money raised goes back into our track program to support our student athlete and coaches. We have been very fortunate in the past few years to be able to purchase items (high jump pits, pole vault pits and poles, hurdles, starting blocks, an FAT timing system, and much more) to make our venue one of the best in our area!

Congratulations to our winners and thanks again for your support!

43″ Smart TV- Trista Whiting

Apple Airpods- Emily Lehman

Dick’s Sporting Goods $50- Kayla Bries

Dick’s Sporting Goods $50- Alex Rangel

Fareway $50- Deb Laliman

Fareway $50- Nikki Smith

Geneseo Chamber Giftcard $50- Lori Kays

Geneseo Chamber Giftcard $50- Brian Hofer

Great Revivalist Brew Lab Giftcard- J Harrington

Caffeine & Carbs $25 Giftcard- Kevin Cathelyn (donated back and another ticket was drawn- Paul Rapps).

Eat Out Giftcard Bundle $80- Janice Nylin

We had some incredible times, jumps, and distances made tonight. Awesome job kids. We had a tied school record already. Jocelyn Cechowicz tied the 8th grade girls pole vault record. Great Job!!!!!!

Just a reminder the clothing store closes tonight. One last chance to get some items.

Results are posted on the webpage. Please let us know if you see any mistakes.

Thanks for coming out to the meet tonight. What an incredible start for the year.

We have practice after school tomorrow until 5:00.

Have a great night, thanks for going all out tonight and Dream Big!!!!!!!!

March 15th, 2022

Another great day. Practice was awesome!!!!

Here are the line ups for tomorrow’s meet.

Girls Line Up

Boys Line Up

A couple of things about tomorrow. The kids will be wearing their phys. ed. uniforms for the meet. They will go to the main gym at the middle school, get organized, and then walk over to the track to warm up. The kids need to bring all their bookbags and instruments. They will not be able to get back into the school after the meet.

The field events will begin around 4:00ish. The kids have to get warmed up and we will have to get things set up. Here is the order of field events:

7th and 8th Girls High Jump First / 7th and 8th Boys High Jump Second

7th and 8th Boys Long Jump First / 7th and 8th Girls Long Jump Second

7th and 8th Girls Shot Put First / 7th and 8th Boys Shot Put Second

7th and 8th Boys Discus First / 7th and 8th Girls Discus Second

8th Grade Boys and Girls Pole Vault will be at the same time.

There are only 4 running events. They will start between 5:30 and 6:00 after the field events get done. Here are the running events for tomorrow:

1600m Run

60m Hurdles

100m Dash

400m run

This is a practice meet. We are doing a lot of learning, so be patient. We can use a lot of help with field events and timing. Please consider helping.

The weather is supposed to be nice. Please bring a sweatshirt for the end of the night when it gets cold.

There is a concession stand tomorrow. The raffle will be drawn at the meet. Please bring any packets tomorrow, sold or not. We will reuse the envelopes and unused tickets.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

March 11th, 2022

Today was a “white out”. The kids had another great practice.

At practice, we had the kids sign up for events they are interested in. If you missed practice, get signed up for us please.

Here are the sign up links.

Girls sign up link

Boys sign up link

Try to get some type of activity in this weekend. Run one of the days over the weekend, if you can. Sunday looks better than Saturday.

Here is a photo of the kids who remembered to wear white. Have a great weekend.

March 10th, 2022

A good start so far. We have some awesome kids. The kids had a great practice tonight. They did huricane training. You will have to ask the kids about it.

For those of you who made it to the parent meeting. Thank you for coming. If you missed it, here are the highlights:

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Track and field spirit wear. There is an online store this year. The store closes Sunday, March 13^th at 11:59 pm.

Things we forgot about:

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

Please email us if you have any questions. We are very excited about this year.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 8th, 2022

The kids have been great for the first two days. We have around 180 kids signed up for track so far. We are always looking for more. It is not too late to join.

Yesterday, the kids recieved booster raffle packets. Please try to sell as many tickets as you can. Each kid received 15. If they sell one great, if they sell all 15, awesome. Every dollar comes back to Geneseo Track and Field. We have incredible facilities and a lot of it is due to the hard work of our booster club.

Thursday there is a parent meeting after practice. Please try to make it.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!

March 3rd, 2022

Geneseo Middle School track and field begins Today The kids will have an informational meeting from 3:30 – 4:15 in the main gym. We will have more information up on the website after the meeting today.

Next week we will start practices on Monday from 3:20ish to 5:00. Friday we will be done by 4:30.

Here are some important items for you to look at. The practice schedule and meet schedules can always change. The volunteer form is for those of you who can help us at meets. Very important for us to get as much help as we can for meets. The Spirit Gear is just for you to get Geneseo Track and Field gear. This is not required. The booster form is for those of you who are interested in being part of the boosters. We have an incredible booster program. Please consider joining.

Practice Schedule

Meet Schedule

Volunteer Form

Spirit Gear / Clothing Store

Boosters Form

May 15th, 2021

Everyone did great today. Congratulations to the 7th and 8th grade girls teams on your team sectional championships. Guys you did a great job also. Both teams placed 4th. There were 12 teams at the sectional. Great job.

We are going to meet as a team to celebrate the year on Monday in the main gym. Please wash your uniform and bring it on Monday. Also bring any items you borrowed from the year, like shoes, shots, or discus.

Results are posted.

Great job and thanks for Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!!

May 7th, 2021

Great job last night. Results are posted. Have a great weekend.

May 6th, 2021

Here are the line ups for tomorrow’s meet:

Boys Line Ups

Girls Line Ups

April 27th, 2021

Here are the line ups for the kids:

Boys Line Ups

Girls Line Ups

April 22nd, 2021

Awesome Job Tonight!!!!!!!

The kids did a great job tonight. The weather was incredible also. Just a perfect night for a track meet.

We want to send out a huge thank you to all the parents and volunteers for helping with the meet. For the first meet in two years, the meet ran very smooth. Please consider volunteering at the meet next week. We need a lot of help and the help we had tonight was awesome. Thank you very much.

The results are posted. We actually have the results going during the meet. It usually takes about 10-15 minutes to load after each meet, so it is almost live. Check them out. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/. Look under the results tab.

Tomorrow we have practice for all the kids. Boys and girls will meet from 2:25 4:00. We will be ending practice at the middle school. Again, you will need to pick your kids up at the middle school at 4:00.

We were very excited to see the kids compete. They all did a great job. There were some awesome performances tonight.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

See you tomorrow and Dream Big!!!!!!!!!!!

April 21st, 2021

Wow, we are kind of behind on the website. Sorry. We have our first track meet tomorrow. We have an intra squad meet tomorrow night at home. The field events will begin at 3:00. All field events will be held outside the track at the high school. High jump will be at the middle school. Long jump, shot put, and discus will be north of the stadium. Pole Vault will be inside the High School Facility.

Running events will be starting around 5:00 on the high school track. We want to try to get all the field events done before starting the running events.

The kids need to wear their phys ed uniforms. Green shorts, white/grey top.

Physical distancing rules will be in effect. Stay 6 feet apart and you have to wear a mask.

Here are the line ups for the kids:

Boys Line Ups

Girls Line Ups

We hope to see you at the meet.

April 12th, 2021

Boys had a great practice on Friday and the girls had another great practice today. The girls were timed in a 400 today. The boys will get that tomorrow. Thursday and Friday we are looking at running the 100 meter dash for times.

We need the kids to tell us what events they are interested in doing this year. Coach Gillespie put together a video on how to do this. So, check the video out and then fill out the google forms.

Video tutorial on how to fill out the Google Form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Uh71hQyHCsyWxNM8ivsf0R49S-BZK1A/view?usp=sharing

GIRLS google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd69Q93NX4AawSZE4VBxiCBvQMUcNmPxVmF50hLj7LYjlcFEw/viewform?usp=sf_link

BOYS google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccL6ZaYBf_l8nti64ZHSuajkNGsdMb8q9nR_Gv_enjGA-Jcg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Also, we need the kids to be doing some workouts on their own on the days we are not practicing. We will try to put some on the webpage, but please check your emails. We are sending them out daily.

Boys you have practice tomorrow. Girls, here is a workout for you for tomorrow(The guys did this today):

Sprinters: Do 15 minutes of fartlek. Jog 50 meters, go faster for 50 meters, jog 50 meters, go faster for 50 meters, walk 100 meters.

Throwers: Sprint 10 meters, walk 10 meters x 10

Distance: Do 25 Minutes of fartllek. Jog a telephone pole, go faster a telephone pole, jog a telephone pole, go faster for a telephone pole, walk a telephone pole.

All girls do 10 squats, 20 core activities (Sit-ups, Planks), 10 Push ups, 5 lunges on each leg. Do 3 sets.

April 8th, 2021

Girls had a great practice tonight. Parents, awesome job getting the kids picked up. Just a reminder we will be ending practice at the community center for the first 3 weeks. Practice will be done by 4:00.

Boys you practice tomorrow.

Girls you are off. Girls get a workout in. Do a warm up and then get a recovery run in today. Sprinters, jog a mile. Distance kids jog 1 – 2 miles. Throwers go for a bike ride or jog a mile. Everyone can do sit ups, push ups, lunges, squats, and any type of core. Just get out and move. We will have more detailed workouts for you next week.

Have a great day

April 7th, 2021

We hope you are having a great day. Thanks to all of you who were able to view the parent meeting today. Here is the link to the video, if you had conflicts or would like to view it again.

Parent Meeting Video

Also, the track spirit gear order is due tomorrow by Midnight (Thursday). Here are a couple of links for gear.

Middle school link

High school link

Have a great day and Dream Big!!!!!!!

April 6th, 2021

Hello all. We started practice today for the 2021 season. We had a great turn out for being in a Pandemic. We had over 100 kids today. Anyone can still join. This year is going to look a lot different from years past. Please be patient with the process. We are tying all kinds of new things out this year.

Sorry we have not been up on the webpage yet. We did send some things out in an email earlier. If you are not getting the Skyward emails, please contact coach Ehlert or coach Gillespie.

There will be a parent meeting at 1:00 on April 7th. This is a google meet. If you can not make it, we will record it and get it online for you to view. Not a problem. Here is the link meet.google.com/rgi-csgm-bqd

Have a great day!!!!!

May 18th, 2020

Happy first day of summer break!!!! This weekend would have been the IESA State Track and Field finals. The year went fast. Hopefully you are all hanging in there.

Ideas for workouts this week:

Monday – Go long – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 3-5 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Fartlek Runs – Use the telephone poles as guides. Sprinters/Throwers: Do 4 sets of sprint a telephone pole, jog a telephone pole, sprint a telephone pole, jog a telephone pole, walk a telephone pole. Distance: Do 2 to 3 miles of race pace a telephone pole, jog a telephone pole, race pace a telephone pole, jog a telephone pole, walk a telephone pole.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Thursday – Hill Repeats – Sprinter/Throwers: Sprint up a short hill 10 times. Have about 2-3 minutes rest in between. Distance: Find a longer hill and do 10 – 12 hills with a jogging rest in between.

Friday – We are doing sprints today – Sprinters/Throwers: Do a good warm up. Jog a half mile. Do 2-3 build ups. Build up 30 meters and then sprint 30 meters. Rest for 3 minutes. Repeat. Do ten of these today. Make sure you are stretching everyday for a recovery. Distance: Do a good warm up. Jog a mile. Do 2-3 build ups. Build up 30 meters and then sprint 30 meters. Rest for 3 minutes. Repeat. Do ten of these today. Do a mile cool down. Make sure you are stretching everyday for a recovery.

May 10th, 2020

Happy Mother’s Day!!!!!!!! We hope you are all doing well. The IESA sent this out to us this week.

In cooperation with the IESA, The Cubby Hole is going to do a state track shirt for this years season. We have created an online store that can be found on our website www.cubbyholeonline.com The items will be shipped directly to the people that order.

Sorry we missed getting workouts up last week. The kids probably needed a week off anyway.

Here are some more for this week.

Monday – Sprinters, Jumpers, and Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters, Jumpers, Throwers : Broken 300’s. 6 or 8 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 6 or 8 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Broken 300 – Run a 200 at a 400 pace, jog 100, sprint 100

Broken 500 – Run a 300 at a 800 pace, jog 100 sprint 200

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Thursday – Tuesday – Sprinters: Do a ladder work out. 300, 200, 100, 50. Do a couple of sets of these. Try to go all out and then have 3 minutes of recovery between reps. Distance: Do a couple of 800’s at mile race pace. Then do 400’s. Do the 400’s at 800 race pace.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

Remember to have fun. These workouts are just sample work outs. Modify them as much as you want. Come up with your own work outs. You know your body best. Do not over do it and hurt yourself. Do not do anything you can not do.

April 27th, 2020

We hope things are well with everyone. We know we are a little late this week. Things have been busy. We have been seeing students out and that is awesome. Remember, the fall is not too far away.

Workouts for high school cross country are already starting. If you are a boy or a girl interested in high school cross country, contact Coach Ehlert. Coach Ehlert is the boys coach and he will get the girls names to Coach Timmerman. tehlert@genesoschools.org Both the coaches can get you workouts to get you ready for the fall.

The weather is starting to get nice. When you are running on the road, please make sure you are wearing bright colors. Neon is great. Also when you run, please run on the left side of the road running into traffic. You need to be able to see the cars coming at you. If you are on the right side of the road, cars may hit you from behind and you never had a chance.

Here are some workout ideas for this week:

Monday – Go long – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 3-5 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Keep exercising, eating healthy, getting plenty of sleep, and being social.

Hang in there and Dream Big!!!!!!!

April 20th, 2020

Well it’s official, no track season. With school being canelled for the rest of the year, we will have no track season. We are still going to put up workouts for you. We want you to move forward and keep getting better. Cross country kids, your workouts start now to get better for the fall.

Here are some workout ideas for this week:

Monday – Go long – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 3-5 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters: Work on speed today. 30 meter sprints x 5-10. Have 3 minutes rest in between. Distance: 2 miles of 200’s. Jog a 200, race pace a 200. 200 race pace should be between 35-40 seconds.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

April 13th, 2020

Sorry we are a little behind.

We hope your are doing well with your physical distancing (much better term than social distancing. Thank you Martin Rooney). It’s good to be social.

Workouts for this week:

Monday – Go long – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-5 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters/Throwers/Jumpers: Do a ladder work out. 300, 200, 100, 50. Do a couple of sets of these. Try to go all out and then have 3 minutes of recovery between reps. Distance: Do a couple of 800’s at mile race pace. Then do 400’s. Do the 400’s at 800 race pace.

Wednesday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 3 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-5 miles long effort. Weight workouts also.

Thursday – Hill Repeats – Sprinter/Throwers: Sprint up a short hill 10 times. Have about 2-3 minutes rest in between. Distance: Find a longer hill and do 8 – 10 hills with a jogging rest in between.

Friday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also. Throwers relax.

We hope everyone is staying safe. The weather this week looks cold with some snow possibilities. Hang in there.

April 6th, 2020

Happy Monday!!!! The weather has been great. Looks like we will have another good week this week also. Maybe some rain at night.

Bad news. The IESA announced there will not be a track and field state series for 2020. No sectionals or state. We do not know how the rest of the year will go for school. We are scheduled to come back on May 1st right now. The State of Illinois will let us know if we can come back.

Good news. The track gear is in if you ordered clothing. Please contact coach Ehlert or coach Gillespie if you ordered clothing and we will figure out a way to get it to you.

Workouts for this week:

Monday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Wednesday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 3 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-5 miles long effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also. Throwers relax.

Hang in there. This has been a crazy experience for all of us.

Something to think about. One of the guys I get my passion from says this, “Instead of spending time worrying about what you are without, be more concerned with what you are within.” – Martin Rooney

Everyone has a warrior within. Bring out the warrior and be great.

Have a great week. Hang in there and Dream Big!!!!

March 30th, 2020

Hello all. The weather this week looks good. Maybe some rain at the end of the week. The temps will be a lot better than last week. Here are some more ideas for workouts. You can always go back and do workout from previous weeks. Do workouts you like.

Monday – We are doing sprints today – Sprinters/Throwers: Do a good warm up. Jog a half mile. Do 2-3 build ups. Build up 30 meters and then sprint 30 meters. Rest for 3 minutes. Repeat. Do ten of these today. Make sure you are stretching everyday for a recovery. Distance: Do a good warm up. Jog a mile. Do 2-3 build ups. Build up 30 meters and then sprint 30 meters. Rest for 3 minutes. Repeat. Do ten of these today. Do a mile cool down. Make sure you are stretching everyday for a recovery.

Tuesday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Wednesday – Hill Repeats – Sprinter/Throwers: Sprint up a short hill 10 times. Have about 2-3 minutes rest in between. Distance: Find a longer hill and do 8 – 10 hills with a jogging rest in between.

Thursday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s. 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out. Throwers: Do some weights.

Broken 300 – Run a 200 at a 400 pace, jog 100, sprint 100

Broken 500 – Run a 300 at a 800 pace, jog 100 sprint 200

Just a few reminders, these are just ideas. Just be active. Play basketball. Jump on a trampoline. Ride a bike. Be a kid. Make sure you are doing your remote learning activities for the mind. Get off of your electronics and let the brain relax. Try to eat healthy and make sure you are getting 8-9 hours of sleep. Hang in there.

March 23rd, 2020

Happy Spring Break!!!! Not only are we on a “Shelter in place” order, we woke up to 2 inches of snow. This has to be one of the bottom ten spring breaks in history. Hopefully everyone is well and warm. We have been seeing kids out on runs. Way to go!!!!! Stay active. This will help out the mind and body. Here are some more ideas for workouts for this week.

Monday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Wednesday – Sprinters/Throwers: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles. Throwers relax.

Remember, these are just ideas. Just be active. Play basketball. Ride a bike. Be a kid. Also try to read some books. Get off of your electronics and let the brain relax. Try to eat healthy and make sure you are getting 8-9 hours of sleep. You can get to much sleep. Hang in there.

March 16th, 2020

Thanks to all who returned booster raffle packets today. With all the chaos, we are going to postpone the raffle. There are many packets still with kids. We want to be fair to all who purchased tickets. If you still have a packet please email the coaches and let us know.

The clothing order has been extended until tomorrow night at midnight. We wanted to give everyone an extra day to get organized. Here is the link for the web store https://geneseomiddleschooltrack2020.itemorder.com.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

March 15th, 2020

Weather looks to be good for the next few weeks. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. Four miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s. 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Broken 300 – Run a 200 at a 400 pace, jog 100, sprint 100

Broken 500 – Run a 300 at a 800 pace, jog 100 sprint 200

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

We will be posting more. Hang in there.

March 14th, 2020

Athletes and Parents,

In coordination with the shut down of the Geneseo school district from March 17th through March 30th due to the COVID-19 virus, all track practices and meets have been cancelled for that time frame as well. This includes the cancellation of our intrasquad meet scheduled for Monday, March 16th. There will be no practice on Monday, March 16th either.

We encourage you to stay positive and active during this suspension of our season. Please continue to get work outs in on your own as you see fit. Check the GMS Track and Field website for workout ideas.

Please bring your booster packets with money collected and unused raffle tickets on Monday. You can give these packets to your homeroom teacher on Monday.

Coach Gillespie

Coach Ehlert

March 13th, 2020

Neon Day today!!!!!

March 12th, 2020

With our first meet coming up Monday, it is time for the athletes to start signing up for the events they are interested in. Students, follow the appropriate link below to take a Google Form survey about the events you want to participate in.

Remember, you can only participate in FOUR events at a maximum. However, this does not mean that you have to sign up for four events. If you are only interested in three, two or one events, then only sign up for those.

Also, if you are interested in running a relay, then sign up to participate in that distance as an “open” event. For example, if you want to run in the 4×400 relay, sign up for the 400. We will then make relay teams based on your responses.

GIRLS event selection form

BOYS event selection form

Also, parents, we need many of you to make our meets a success! Thank you to those that have volunteered so far, but we still need many more volunteers, including for our intrasquad meet on Monday. Please use the link below to sign up to volunteer.

Volunteer link

Finally, tomorrow will be our first dress up day. Dress in neon for practice!

March 6th, 2020

We had a great practice today, the kids had an opportunity to check out some field events and get a short workout in. Please have your athlete get in a run/workout 1 of the days this weekend.

Parents, please consider volunteering to help at our home meets. We need an army to make the meet run smoothly and quickly! Follow the link below to volunteer. We appreciate your help!

Volunteer link

March 5th, 2020

A good start so far. We have some awesome kids. We took it easy tonight and rested the sore legs from last night. We worked on field events.

For those of you who made it to the parent meeting. Thank you for coming. If you missed it, here are the highlights:

– We showed a highlight video from the past ten years. Short video. Video

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Important form to turn in (Volunteer Form)

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Boosters were represented – Mindy Brown and Melissa Pischke talked about signs, spirit wear opportunities, and concession stand options. The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for a new pole vault system for the future and all the money goes back into the track and field program.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Track and field spirit wear. There is an online store this year. Clothing Order Form The store closes Monday, March 16^th at 11:59 pm.

Things we forgot about:

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

Please email us if you have any questions. We are very excited about this year.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 4th, 2020

We had a great start today. Around 200 kids showed up. Tomorrow, have the kids wear clothes for a workout. Just a reminder we will be having a parent meeting tomorrow night from 5:00 – 5:30 in the main gym at the middle school. The kids received the forms from the March 2nd post and a booster raffle packet. Have a great night.

March 2nd, 2020

Geneseo Middle School track and field begins on Wednesday. The kids will have an informational meeting from 3:30 – 4:30 in the main gym. The rest of the week looks like this:

Wednesday – 3:30 – 4:30

Thursday – 3:30 – 5:00 Parent Meeting at 5:00

Friday – 3:30 – 4:30.

Here are some important documents your kids will get at the meeting:

Parent Letter

Practice Schedule

Track Meet Schedule

Track Meet Directions

Clothing Order Form

Here is information for track boosters.

Booster Form

June 4th, 2019

It’s been a couple of weeks. What an incredible year. The highlight video is done and on the web page. On Tuesday, June 11th, the 8th grade girls who represented the middle school at state have been invited to the city council meeting to be recognized. What a great honor. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!

May 18th, 2019

Did that really happen again. The kids were amazing this weekend. Everyone left everything on the track. Congratulations go out to the 8th grade girls team for repeating as IESA State Team Champions. All the kids did awesome. The weather was crazy and the kids handled it really well. All in all, we brought home 18 medals. We had 8 individual medals. That is the most individual medals in program history. Incredible. Here is the list of state medalists:

8th Grade Girls Long Jump – Annie Wirth – 1st Place
8th Grade Girls High Jump – Annie Wirth – 1st Place
8th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Taylor Krueger – 8th Place
8th Grade Girls Shot Put – Drayana DeBoef – 7th Place
8th Grade Boys 1600 Meter Run – Will Taylor – 3rd Place
7th Grade Boys Pole Vault – Cooper Schaad – 3rd Place
7th Grade Boys High Jump – Thomas Allen – 2nd Place
8th Grade Boys High Jump – Karson Emry – 5th Place
8th Grade Girls 4 x 200 meter relay – Alexa Jolly, Joselyn Reisner, Phoebe Shoemaker, Hanna Stroud – Sierra Krueger, (Alternate) – 4th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Annie Wirth, Taylor Krueger, Danielle Beach, Addison Pischke – Joselyn Reisner (Alternate) – 1st Place

We had 6 school records:

8th Grade Girls Long Jump
8th Grade Girls High Jump
7th Grade Girls Pole Vault
7th Grade Boys High Jump
8th Grade Girls 4 x 200 meter relay
8th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay

We also set an IESA State Class AA record:

8th Grade Girls Long Jump

We also tied an IESA State Class AA record:

8th Grade Girls High Jump

Parents, if you have any photos please send them our way. Thanks for everything you do. Here are some photos on the IESA Facebook. Photos

May 17th, 2019

The kids had a historic day today. We had six medalists (A new Friday record for the program). Taylor Krueger placed 8th in the 8th grade girls 400, Drayana DeBoef placed 7th in the 8th grade girls shot put (She is the first girl to earn a medal in the shot put), Will Taylor placed 3rd in the 8th grade boys 1600 meter run, Cooper Schaad placed 3rd in the 7th grade boys pole vault (The first medal in GMS history in the pole vault), and Annie Wirth won the high jump tying the state record (5’5″), and she won the long jump, breaking the school and state records (18’7.25″). Two state records, and two state championships. Phenomenal!!!!! Johnna Shoemaker also added to the fun and broke the school record in the 7th grade girls pole vault. Awesome job everyone. All the kids did well.

Tomorrow has the potential to do some more historic things.

Dream Big!!!!!

May 14th, 2019

Things are going really well. The seeds are posted on the IESA web page. Here is the link State Qualifiers.

Great job teams.

On Thursday, wear a track shirt of some type, we will take a photo for the paper.

May 11th, 2019

Sectional Team Champs x 4!!!!!!!! The weather was horrible, but our kids ran strong. With rain in the morning and the temperature dropping with lots of wind in the afternoon, it made it hard for the kids to hit the automatic times to qualify for state. That being said, our kids did great and we were able to qualify many events to state and we even had a school record in the process. Cooper Schaad smashed his school record and vaulted an impressive 9 feet 3 inches. Way to go Cooper.

We have 35 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls –

Discus – Olivia Marshall
Pole Vault – Johnna Shoemaker
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Brooke Boone, Megan McClanahan, Emma Debaene, Katelyn Seaman- Alt. Jill Corso

8th Grade Girls –

100 Meter hurdles – Phoebe Shoemaker
400 Meter Dash – Taylor Krueger
1600 Meter Run – Jaide Flowers
Shot Put – Drayana DeBoef
Discus – Drayana DeBoef
Long Jump – Annie Wirth
High Jump – Annie Wirth
Pole Vault – Phoebe Shoemaker
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Addison Pischke, Taylor Krueger, Dani Beach, Annie Wirth- Alt. Allison Griffin
4 x 200 Meter Relay – Alexa Jolly, Joselyn Reisner, Phoebe Shomaker, Hanna Stroud – Alt. Sierra Krueger
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Annie Wirth, Taylor Krueger, Danielle Beach, Addison Pischke – Alt. Joselyn Reisner

7th Grade Boys –

Discus – Karson Bannister
High Jump – Thomas Allen and Jackson Reade
Pole Vault – Cooper Schaad
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Caine Craterfield, Jeron Neal, Caleb Craterfield, Cade VanOpdorp – Alt. Reed Preston
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Caine Craterfield, Jeron Neal, Caleb Craterfield, Cade VanOpdorp – Alt. Thomas Allen

8th Grade Boys –

800 Meter Run – Will Taylor
1600 Meter Run – Will Taylor
High Jump – Karson Emry and Alex Slaymaker
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Tyler Gehl, Caleb Durian, Josiah King, Will Taylor – Alt. Nathan Ryerson

Congratulations to all. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

May 10th, 2019

Sectionals are finally here. Tomorrow the bus leaves at 7:45am. The girls will start running events and boys will start field events at 10:00am. The boys hurdles will be in the afternoon session. The afternoon session will begin around 1:00. The kids have a schedule of events and we have posted the schedule online. Schedule

Tomorrow the forecast is for some rain in the morning. Please have your kids bring extra clothes and shoes. Please have them bring sweats and blankets to stay warm. Also bring rain gear and umbrellas to stay dry. We will have two tents set up for a camp with some walls on them to try to help out. We are bringing 150 water bottles for the kids, so 2 for each kid. Please have them bring extra water and money for snacks.

Parents, we encourage you to bring snacks for the kids. Fruit, cookies, any thing with sugar would be great. We will have a couple of tables to set things on in the tents. Have the kids eat breakfast in the morning. Then they can snack during the day to keep the sugar levels high.

Things look great and the kids are going to be awesome.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 9th, 2019

Jack and Jill on Tuesday went great. Sorry we did not have a post for that. Things have been crazy with the seed meeting last night. The kids did great on Tuesday. We won all the events except for three. Incredible. Great job teams.

Here are the line ups for Saturday:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

The meet is at Rockridge High School on Saturday. The girls running events and boys field events begin at 10:00am. They expect the switch to occur around 1:00pm. The girls hurdles will be the first event for running events at 10:00am. The guys hurdles will be the first event around 1:00pm for the boys running events. Just wanted to give you a heads up on that.

Here is the order of events for the sectional meet:

Order of events

May 6th, 2019

Jack and Jill tomorrow at home. Please consider volunteering. Here are the line ups:

Jack and Jill

May 4th, 2019

What a beautiful day!!!!!!! The weather was great any our kids ran great also. We had 3 team champions today. 8th grade girls, 7th grade boys, and 8th grade boys all brought home team championships today. The 7th grade girls also did a great job and finished 3rd. Great job teams.

There were 2 school records today. Annie Wirth broke her school record in high jump and increased it to 5’7″ and the 8th grade girls 4×200 relay consisting of Alexa Jolly, Pheobe Shoemaker, Joselyn Reisner, and Hanna Stroud broke that record. Congratulations girls. The results are posted.

Great job today. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

May 3rd, 2019

Tomorrow we are at Dixon High School for the Dixon Invitational. The bus will leave at 7:00, so have the kids at the middle school by 6:50. The girls run at 9:00 and the boys field events begin at 9:00. The meet will switch around 11:00. Boys will then run and the girls will begin field events. Line ups are posted.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

Tuesday we are looking for 3 timers, 1 high jump helper, 2 long jump helpers, and 2 triple jump helpers. Please consider helping. This is a fun meet for the kids.

May 2nd, 2019

The girls results are in. Conference champs x 4. That is a great night. Congratulations.

May 1st, 2019

What a great night of weather. The kids did awesome. The boys won both team championships and we believe the girls won both also. We will not get official results for the girls meet until tomorrow. The boys results are posted.

Practice is from 3:30 – 5:00 tomorrow.

The high school girls are hosting conference tomorrow. The meet starts at 3:00, so the parking lot may be a little crazy. If anyone can help the boosters out, they may need help in the concession stand tomorrow night. Stop by and help if you can. The high school boys host their invite on Friday. The boosters could use a little help there also. All the money made from the concessions comes back to the track program. Please try to help out if you can.

Great job tonight and congratulations to all the team members. We have some special teams this year.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!!!

April 30th, 2019

Conference meets are tomorrow. The girls travel to Browning Field in Moline. Field events begin at 5:00. Running events are at 5:30.

Boys travel to Rock Island High School. Field events 4:30 and running events are at 5:00.

Here are the line ups:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

Hope to see you there.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!!!

April 25th, 2019

Fun day today. We let the kids play games today. This was our last day as an entire team. We posted lists of kids that need to continue to come for the post / championship season. Everyone has had a great year. We will have an end of the year gathering for all the kids later in May. Please let us know if you see any names that are not spelled correctly on the lists.

Girls List

Boys List

April 24th, 2019

The girls did awesome tonight. Both the 7^th and 8^th grade teams won their meets. Congrats. We had 4 school records tonight. Annie Wirth broke school records in the 8^th grade long jump and high jump. Dani Beach broke the school record in the 8^th grade triple jump. The 8^th grade girls consisting of Addison Pischke, Taylor Krueger, Dani Beach, and Annie Wirth broke the school record in the 4×100 meter relay. Congratulations girls. Results are posted.

Practice is from 3:30 – 5:00 tomorrow.

Great job tonight girls.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!

April 23rd, 2019

The kids did great tonight. The weather was perfect. We will not get results until tomorrow. There were a lot of personal best tonight.

Tomorrow, the rest of the girls team will run at Rock Island. The field events being at 4:30 and the running events begin at 5:00. Here are their line ups

Girls Line Ups

There is no practice tomorrow.

April 22nd, 2019

The meet tomorrow is at Princeton High School. Girls run first and boys field events start at 4:15. After the girls running events are done, the boys running events will begin around 6:00. The boys hurdlers will run right away, after the girls. That will be the only boys running event that will run that early.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

April 18th, 2019

Everyone did a great job tonight. Both the boys teams won their meets. Congratulations. There were some amazing performances in the chilly weather. A huge thank you to all of the volunteers. The meet ran very smooth.

We did have two school records tonight. We ran a mini pole vault meet in the facility for our kids. Johnna Shoemaker broke the 7^th grade girls pole vault record and Cooper Schaad broke the 7^th grade boys pole vault record. Congrats to both.

Results are posted.

April 16th, 2019

Beautiful day. Hard workout tonight. Boys line ups for Thursday are here:

Boys Line Ups

April 12th, 2019

Meet cancelled for tonight. We did not have practice today. Have a great weekend. Athletes, please workout 2 of the next 3 days. Run, bike, swim, play basketball, play soccer, and be a kid. We will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend.

April 10th, 2019

The kids had a great practice tonight. Here are the line ups for Friday.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

Today was not ideal to be outside. We had an indoor workout and the kids were awesome. They worked very hard. Tomorrow, we will go easy and get the legs back under them.

As for Friday, we handed out line ups this evening. The kids who are on the list will be going to the track meet. The other kids will not be traveling to the meet. They will have the night off from track and there will not be practice. Tomorrow, we will be handing out uniforms to the kids going to the Friday track meet and all the kids will have practice working on field events, hurdles, starts, and hand offs.

Friday’s weather looks very cold. Please plan on bringing tights, sweats, jackets, gloves, stocking caps, blankets, or anything to keep warm. Rockridge is in the middle of a corn field and there is no protection from the wind. The current forecast is for a high of 48 and 25 – 35 MPH winds. It could be very chilly.

Rockridge charges admission for the track meet. $3 for adults, $2 for children, or $7 for a family.

There will be a concession stand, so send some extra cash for snacks or hot chocolate or pack a dinner for the kids.

The meet will begin with the girls running events and the boys field events at 4:00. Once all the girls running events are done, the meet will flip and then the boys running events and girls field events will begin. That is usually around 6:00ish.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dream Big!!!!!!!!

April 8th, 2019

The kids were great again tonight. The weather was perfect and the meet went awesome. A huge thank you to anyone who volunteered for all our dual and triangular meets this year. Tonight went very smooth. The finish line help is awesome and the press box help is incredible.

The results are posted. Congratulations go out to Annie Wirth and Danielle Beach for breaking school records tonight. Annie broke the 8^th Grade Girls High Jump Record. She jumped 5 foot 5 inches tonight. She also broke the 8th Grade girls long jump record, jumping 16′ 3.5″. Danielle Broke the 8th Grade triple jump record at 32′ 5″. That is exciting.

If you have any photos of any of the meets please send them our way. We would love to get them on the website.

Here is what the rest of the week looks like:

Tuesday – Practice 3:30 – 5:00

Wednesday – Practice 3:30 – 5:00

Thursday – Practice 3:30 – 5:00

Friday – Rockridge Track Meet – Events will begin at 4:00

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!

April 5th, 2019

Have a great weekend. We need volunteers on Monday. Please let us know if you can help.

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

April 4th, 2019

The kids did another great job tonight. The weather was a little scary at first. Monday looks like better weather. Looks like 70 degree weather is on the way.

A huge thank you to the volunteers. The meet would not go as well with out you. Getting done by 7:45 tonight was huge. Monday, we are looking for volunteers for the meet. Please consider helping. Without great help, the meets do not flow so well. Thanks again to all our great helpers at the meets. This will be our last home dual or triangular.

Monday, we will have less entries for the field events. We will chat with the kids tomorrow about it.

Sorry for the late email. The Wilson team did not have enough room on their bus, so some of their team had to wait for another bus to come out and get the kids. Coach Wagner saved the day and let them into the high school to stay warm and dry. I relieved Coach Wagner around 8:30 and the Wilson team got out of the high school around 9:00. We are fortunate to be able to have good busing and be able to have our buses stay with the teams at the events.

Just a reminder, tomorrow practice is done at 4:30. We will make line ups for Monday and then work hand offs, starts, field events, and hurdles.

Results are posted.

Have a great night and keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!

April 3rd, 2019

It has been awhile. Hopefully your spring break went well. We have a home meet tomorrow. We need help with volunteers. Please consider helping. Here are the line ups for the kids:

Girls Line Ups

Boys Line Ups

March 21st, 2019

Another great night!!!! The kids were awesome. The weather was cold and windy and the kids went all out. We are proud of all the kids. Another great night of learning about track and field. Results are posted.

We would like to thank all who volunteered at the meet tonight. We were a little short handed due to the high school meet in Sterling tonight. Our press box crew does an amazing job getting the results online and announcing the meet. Please consider volunteering for the April 4^th and April 8^th home track meets. It’s a great way to learn about track and being close to the kids. Thanks again.

Tomorrow, we do not have practice. We are going to offer some optional practices for anyone who is around next week. These are purely optional and are for any kids who can make it. No problem if you can not make it. Here are the days and times:

Tuesday (26th) 10:00 – 11:30

Wednesday (27th) 10:00 -11:30

Friday (29th) 10:00 – 11:30

Boosters announced the raffle winners on Tuesday. Here is a note from boosters:

Thank you for your support of the 2019 Track Raffle. Congratulations to the lucky winners!
Geneseo Blanket- Vickie Conrad
Movie Night- Amy Roberts
$50 Dicks Sporting Goods- Katy Wilson
$50 Dicks Sporting Goods-Thomas Allen
$50 Fareway Giftcard- Vickie Conrad
$50 Fareway Giftcard- Jandi Ludin
Apple Watch- Angelica Disterhoft
42” Smart TV- Bob Tuftee

Have a great spring break and Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!

March 20th, 2019

The kids are ready for a real meet. Tomorrow we have the Colona/Cambridge triangular meet. Please let us know if you can volunteer. We are looking for high jump help and timers. Here are the line ups:

Girls Line-Ups

Boys Line-Ups

March 19th, 2019

Great job tonight!!!!! The kids did awesome. A very good practice meet. The results are posted. We will have more later.

March 18th, 2019

The kids are ready for a meet. Tomorrow we have the intra-squad meet. Here are the line ups:

Girls Line-Ups

Boys Line-Ups

The field events are planning on starting at 4:00. We may start earlier, be prepared. The running events will begin around 5:15ish.

Hope to see you there.

March 15th, 2019

Awesome week. We have a practice meet on Tuesday. Please let us know if you can volunteer. The kids received a parent letter tonight. Here are a couple of pics from neon day. Have a great weekend.

March 13th, 2019

Things are going great. Here is where you sign up for events:

Girls

Boys

March 7th, 2019

What a great week of practice. We have some awesome kids. We took it easy tonight and rested the sore legs from last night. We worked on field events.

For those of you who made it to the parent meeting. Thank you for coming. If you missed it, here are the highlights:

– We showed a highlight video from the past ten years. Short video. Video

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule

– Introduced the coaching staff.

– Went over the events.

– Important form to turn in (Volunteer Form)

– Went over the web page https://gcsdstaff.org/gmstrackandfield/

– Boosters were represented – Mindy Brown talked about signs, spirit wear opportunities, and concession stand options. The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for more a new pole vault system for the future and all the money goes back into the track and field program.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. Our program is the base for all sports at the high school. Our goal is to make you fast.

– Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

– Track and field spirit wear. There is an online store this year. The store closes Wednesday, March 13^th at midnight. https://geneseotrack.itemorder.com

Things we forgot about:

– Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30.

Please email us if you have any questions. We are very excited about this year.

Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 4th, 2019

A great start to the year. We have around 200 athletes signed up and had a great showing tonight at the informational meeting. The kids received a packet tonight:

Parent Volunteer Sheet

We are very excited about this year. Please let us know if you have any questions. Dream Big!!!!!!!

March 1st, 2019

Geneseo Middle School track and field begins on Monday. The kids will have an informational meeting from 3:30 – 4:30 in the main gym. The rest of the week looks like this:

Tuesday – 3:30 – 5:00

Wednesday – 3:30 – 5:00

Thursday – 3:30 – 5:00 Parent Meeting at 5:00

Friday – No Practice.

February 7th, 2019

We are about a month away from the 2019 season. Please get your physicals updated. You can sign up with the physical education teachers. Please let us know if you have any questions.

June 12th, 2018

The city council and the mayor honored the girls tonight. One last celebration. Here is a photo.

May 29th, 2018

Last night we had our meet and greet at the high school. A great turn out. Thanks for coming out. What a great year. Here is a great photo of Annie Wirth and Erika Furbeck. Annie won the IESA long jump and Erika won the IHSA long jump. Pretty cool.

May 23rd, 2018

Tomorrow we are having a breakfast of champions at 7:45. All track kids are invited. We will watch the highlight video and get you to class. Have a great night.

May 19th, 2018

Did that really just happen. Incredible weekend for the program. Everyone left everything on the track. Congratulations go out to the 7th grade girls team for being our first IESA State Team Champions. All the kids did awesome. The weather was hot and the kids were hotter. All in all, we brought home 25 medals. The third most medals we have ever received. Incredible. Here is the list of state medalists:

7th Grade Girls Long Jump – Annie Wirth – 1st Place
7th Grade Girls High Jump – Annie Wirth – 1st Place
8th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Ali Rapps – 5th Place
7th Grade Girls 100 meter hurdles – Addison Pishke – 6th Place
8th Grade Girls 100 meter hurdles – Ali Rapps – 3rd Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay – Addison Pischke, Taylor Krueger, Danielle Beach, Annie Wirth – Hanna Stroud (Alternate) – 1st Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 200 meter relay – Alexa Jolly, Joselyn Reisner, Sierra Krueger, Phoebe Shoemaker – Lexi Manthe (Alternate)- 7th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Annie Wirth, Taylor Krueger, Danielle Beach, Addison Pischke – Joselyn Reisner (Alternate) – 1st Place Place
7th Grade Boys 4 x 400 meter relay – Dennis Thompson, Caleb Durian, Josiah King, Connor Nelson – Bennett Kreiner (Alternate) – 3rd Place

We had 7 school records:

7th Grade Girls Long Jump
8th Grade Girls 400 meter dash
8th Grade Girls 100 meter hurdles
8th Grade Boys Pole Vault
7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay
7th Grade Girls 4 x 200 meter relay
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay

We also set an IESA State Class AA record:

7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay

Parents, if you have any photos please send them our way. Thanks for everything you do.

May 18th, 2018

The kids did incredible today. We had three medalists. Ali Rapps placed 5th in the 8th grade girls 400 and Annie Wirth won the long jump and high jump. Two state championships. Wow!!!!! Ali Rapps and Addison Pischke also advanced to the finals of the girls 100 hurdles tomorrow. Ali broke the school record in the 8th grade girls 400 meter dash and Annie broke the 7th grade high jump record. Awesome job girls. All the kids did well.

Tomorrow has the potential to do some more historic things.

Dream Big!!!!!

May 16th, 2018

Things are going really well. The seeds are posted on the IESA web page. Here is the link IESA State Qualifiers. Great job teams.

Tomorrow, wear a track shirt of some type, we will take a photo for the paper.

May 12th, 2018

Great efforts today. Three teams won their sectional (7th grade girls, 7th grade boys, 8th grade girls) and the other placed third (8th Grade boys). Awesome job. We did have two school records. Ali Rapps broke the 8th Grade Girls 400 meter record and Malakai Schaad broke the 8th grade pole vault record. Results are posted. The original results showed the relays with some of the alternates. There are five athletes listed and the computer chooses four to show. It is normally in alphabetically order. There were some parents asking. We wrote in the correct runner for when the newspaper takes the results. Please let us know if you have any questions.

We have 44 state qualifiers. Please let us know if we missed something:

7th Grade Girls –

100 Meter Hurdles – Addison Pischke, Phoebe Shoemaker
400 Meter Dash – Addison Pischke
High Jump – Annie Wirth
Long Jump – Annie Wirth
Discus – Drayana DeBoef
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Danielle Beach, Taylor Krueger, Addison Pischke, Annie Wirth – Alt. Hanna Stroud
4 x 200 Meter Relay – Alexa Jolly, Sierra Krueger, Joselyn Reisner, Phoebe Shomaker – Alt. Alexis Manthe
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Danielle Beach, Taylor Krueger, Addison Pischke, Annie Wirth – Alt. Joselyn Reisner

8th Grade Girls –

100 Meter hurdles – Ali Rapps
400 Meter Dash – Ali Rapps
1600 Meter Run – Lacey Laxton
Shot Put – Hannah Copeland
Discus – Kylie Dejohn, Taylor Zvonik
Long Jump – Hannah Copeland
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Ali Rapps, Reagan Lommell, Savannah Reisner, Ella Swanson – Alt. Jordan Porter
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Mallory Bealer, Savannah Reisner, Ali Rapps, Jordan Porter – Alt. Eliza Farley

7th Grade Boys –

400 Meter Dash – Connor Nelson
800 Meter Run – Josiah King
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Josiah King, John Snyder, Daniel Thompson, Connor Nelson – Alt. Landon Gunnison
4 x 200 Meter Relay – Joe Sebastian, Nathan Ryerson, Caleb Durian, Dennis Thompson – Alt. Tayt Hager
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Dennis Thompson, Connor Nelson, Caleb Durian, Josiah King – Alt. Bennett Kreiner

8th Grade Boys –

100 Meter Hurdles – Anthony Pierce
1600 Meter Run – Justin Johnson
Shot Put – Nathan VanDeWoestyne
Discus – Kaden Davison
Pole Vault – Malakai Schaad
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Tyler Coons, Anthony Pierce, Nathan Vergane, Tanner Vincent – Alt. Max Sottos
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Tyler Coons, Drayton DeBoef, Anthony Pierce, Hunter Holke – Nathan Vergane

Congratulations to all.

May 9th, 2018

Practices have been going great. The kids are working really hard. Saturday is the sectional at home. Here are the line ups for Saturday. We will girls up in the morning.

Do a little dance for good weather on Saturday. The weather people are predicting some inclement weather.

May 5th, 2018

Amazing day. The kids were awesome. All four teams won their meet. We had four school records at the meet. The 7th grade girls high jump, 7th grade girls 100 meter dash, 7th grade girls 200 meter dash, and the 7th grade girls 4×200 meter relay. The 7th grade boys are not to far off of the 4×200 meter relay record. Keep working hard. Unbelievable by everyone today. Results are posted.

Just a reminder, we have practice on Monday at 3:30. Feliz Cinco de Mayo and have a great weekend. See you on Monday.

Great things are happening and more are to come. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!

May 4th, 2018

The kids had a couple of great days of practice. Tomorrow we head to Dixon. The bus leaves at 6:55. Be at the middle school by 6:50. Line ups are below.

Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

May 2nd, 2018

The girls made it a sweep. Conference champions times four. Congratulations girls and boys. The weather was crazy. After two weather delays, we finished the meet. Great job kids. A special thank you to all who volunteered. The meet ran really smooth. The high school coaches did an amazing job setting up the meet. We were able to use the F.A.T. system and just had a few problems. Boosters you are awesome and all the workers did an amazing job.

We did have two school records this evening. The 7th grade girls long jump record and 7th grade girls 4×100 meter relay record were smashed. Congratulations girls. Results are posted.

Great job again and keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!

May 1st, 2018

What a great night. A little windy, but great weather. Both boys teams are conference champions. Congratulations guys. We will receive results later tonight.

Tomorrow the girls have conference at home. Please come out and watch the girls. There is an admission fee. Adults $3 Students $1. Line ups for girls are below.

Great job guys, ladies Dream Big tonight!!!!

Girls Line Up

April 30th, 2018

Great weather. Tomorrow is boys conference. The line ups are below. Girls practice tomorrow is going to be done at 4:30. Please pick the girls up early.

Wednesday we are hosting the girls conference meet. We need a lot of help for this meet. The boys are not practicing. We are asking the boys to help at the meet. We need throwers to help with shot and discus. The hurdlers are still going to practice the hurdles, then help set up for the girls meet. We also need the boys to help with long jump and triple jump. We will have two pits running, so we need help with raking and other jobs. If anyone can help volunteer, either at concessions or at the meet please let us know.

The kids are doing an awesome job and great things are going to happen the next three weeks. Please let us know if you have any questions. Dream Big!!!!!!

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 27th, 2018

A little windy today. We let the kids have some fun and push some cars at the beginning of practice. Photos are below. Kids are working hard. Spring has finally arrived. Next week is conference week. Boys on Tuesday and the girls host on Wednesday. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!

April 25th, 2018

The boys did great. Both the teams won their divisions. It was a perfect night to compete. Great job boys!!!!! Results are posted.

April 24th, 2018

What a beautiful day. Finally. The boys have are at the Rock Island Invite tomorrow. Here are the boys line ups.

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 23rd, 2018

Great job tonight!!!!! The weather was perfect and the kids ran great.

Results are posted.

April 21st, 2018

Monday’s weather looks good for a meet. Here are the line ups. Please let us know if you you can help with the meet.

Girls Line Ups

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 17th, 2018

Jack and Jill relays tomorrow. The weather does not look to good. We will see.

Line Ups

April 13th, 2018

Well the weather finally got us. The Rockridge officials decided to cancel the meet due to the wet weather potential. Probably a good choice. The meet will not be made up. Have the kids run over the weekend. We will have a track workout on Monday.

April 12th, 2018

Hope the weather holds off for tomorrow. Every time we look at the weather we get different forecast. The meet is at Rockridge tomorrow. Here are the line-ups. Girls will be up shortly.

Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 10th, 2018

Awesome job girls. Everyone ran great. We had some pretty amazing performances. The results will not be sent to us until tomorrow. We will try to get them up as soon as we can. Unofficially we believe the girls won both divisions. The girls did have one school record tonight. The 8th grade girls hurdle record was broken.

Great job girls!!!!!

April 9th, 2018

Hope you had a great weekend. The girls have a meet tomorrow at Browning Field in Moline. Here are the girls line ups.

Girls Line Ups

April 5th, 2018

The kids did a great job again tonight. Thank you to all the volunteers. There were a ton of kids and we got the meet done before 7:45. That is amazing. We would not be able to do that without all the great help we get.

The results are posted.

April 4th, 2018

Wilson dual tomorrow. Here are the line ups.

Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

April 2nd, 2018

We hope you all had a great spring break. We had a great turn out at the optional practices over break. There around 70 kids each day.

Just a reminder, there is a home meet on Thursday. Please consider volunteering for an event. Dress warm this week. The weather looks cold an wet.

March 22nd, 2018

Incredible night. The kids were awesome. Thanks to all who volunteered. One of our best run meets ever.

We had another school record tonight in the 7th grade girls high jump. Results are posted.

There is no practice tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend. We are going to have some voluntary practices over the break. If you can make it great, if not no problem. These are not mandatory. We will meet Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 – 11:30 at the middle school.

Great job tonight. Keep Dreaming Big!!!!!!!!!

March 21st, 2018

Triangular Meet tomorrow. Here are the line ups.

Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

March 20th, 2018

Awesome job tonight under very cold weather. Parents, thank you for being patient. Try to warm up. A huge thank you to all who volunteered. You made things go great. Results are posted. The 7th Grade girls long jump record was broken this evening. Great Job!!!!!

March 19th, 2018

Intra-Squad meet tomorrow. Here are the line ups.

Girls

7th Grade Boys

8th Grade Boys

March 16, 2018

Today was Leprechaun Day!!!!

March 15th, 2018

Things are going great. The kids are working hard.

Athletes sign up for what your interested in. This does not mean you are locked in to these events. You will have a chance to try other events during the year.

https://goo.gl/forms/B0YfzGe1hPsrht6T2

March 8th, 2018

Practices have been going great this week. We have had some great indoor workouts and we were able to get outside today. There may be some sore legs. Make sure you are stretching and icing.

The kids received some track boosters raffle information this week.

The kids will turn raffle packets in at practice on March 19th (Monday). Winning tickets will be drawn on March 20th during the GMS Track & Field Intra-squad meet. Winners will be contacted if they are not present. Proceeds of raffle will directly support the Geneseo HS/MS Track & Field teams through the purchase of equipment and services that support the teams throughout the season. (Checks payable to: Geneseo Track Boosters)
Questions? Please contact: geneseotrackboosters@gmail.com

You can also visit their facebook page: Geneseo Cross Country & Track Boosters

Let us know if you have any questions. Dream Big!!!!!

Photos from Neon Day

March 7th, 2018

A good start so far. There are around 200 boys and girls out for track. Here is the forms the students received this week. Please contact us if you have any questions. The sweats and t-shirts are not required. These are just spirit wear for the kids.

2018 Parent Letter

2018 Practice Schedule

2018 Track Schedule

2018 Track Directions

2018 Clothing Order Form

2018 Track Volunteer Form

2018 Authorization to Treat Form

Remember we have a parent meeting on Tomorrow @ 5:00. It will be in the main gym at the middle school.

Tomorrow is “Neon Day”. Wear something bright.

January 6th, 2018

ITCCCA clinic was this weekend. I was fortunate to be able to speak again. Here is the presentation and videos. Please email me if you have any questions. Thanks for coming to the ITCCCA clinic.

2018 ITCCCA Speed Drills and Hurdle Drills Powerpoint

Intro Video

Sprinters Link Video

Middle Distance Link Video

Distance Link Video

Usain Bolt Video

What we do at Geneseo Middle School Video

Usain Bolt Training Video

Speed Workout Video

Elite Strength and Conditioning Video

Hurdle Drills – Lead Leg / Trail Leg Warm Up

Hurdle Drills – Walking Lead Leg / Trail Leg (Side of Hurdle – Warm Up

Hurdle Drills – Walking Lead Leg / Trail Leg (Center of Hurdle)- Warm Up

Hurdle Drills – 50 – 75% Progression

Hurdle Drills – Uneven Spacing

Hurdle Drills – Final Drills

Geneseo Middle School Wellness Video

Geneseo Middle School Wellness Video 2

May 20th, 2017

Unbelievable!!!!!!!! We were hoping for another historic day and we got one. Congratulations go out to the 8th grade girls team for being our first IESA State trophy girls recipients. The 8th grade girls finished runner-up. All the kids did awesome. The weather started off horrible and then turned into the most amazing weather ever. All in all, we brought home 31 medals. The second most medals we have ever received. Incredible. Here is the list of state medalists:

7th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Ali Rapps – 2nd Place
8th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Esther Brown – 2nd Place
8th Grade Girls high jump – Abby Reakes – 4th Place
8th Grade Girls high jump – Evie Wilson – 5th Place
7th Grade Girls 100 meter hurdles – Ali Rapps – 3rd Place
8th Grade Boys Discus – Nathan Beneke- 7th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay – Ali Rapps, Reagan Lommell, Elizabeth Maciejewski, Kammie Ludwig – Savannah Reisner (Alternate) – 5th Place
8th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay – Esther Brown, Chloe Adams, Alison Bowers, Taylor Desplinter – Alternate Maddi Barickman – 4th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Kammie Ludwig, Mallory Bealer, Savannah Reisner, Ali Rapps – Hannah Copeland (Alternate) – 4th Place
8th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Esther Brown, Maddi Barickman, Chloe Adams, Alison Bowers – Taylor DeSplinter (Alternate) – 2nd Place
8th Grade Boys 4 x 400 meter relay – Mason Jones, Ethan Holke, Dominic DeBoef, Rafe Morrison – Brendan Hipkins (Alternate) – 8th Place

We had two school records:

7th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Ali Rapps
7th Grade Girls 100 meter hurdles – Ali Rapps

Parents, if you have any photos please send them our way. Thanks for everything you do.

May 19th, 2017

The kids did great today. We had four medalists. Ali Rapps placed 2nd in the 7th grade girls 400, Esther brown placed 2nd in the 8th grade girls 400, Abby Reakes placed 4th in the 8th grade girls high jump and Evie Wilson placed 5th in the 8th grade girls high jump. Ali Rapps also advance to the finals of the 7th grade girls 100 hurdles tomorrow. Ali also broke the school record in the 400 meter dash. Awesome job girls. All the kids did well.

Tomorrow has the potential to do some more historic things.

Dream Big!!!!!

May 16th, 2017

Things are going really well. The seeds are posted on the IESA web page. Here is the link IESA State Qualifiers. Great job teams.

May 13th, 2017

Awesome Job!!!!!!! The kids did amazing. The 7th grade girls, 8th grade girls, and 8th grade boys are all sectional champions!!!! The 7th grade boys did great also. They ended up 2nd as a team. Results are posted.

We have a lot of state qualifiers and had a lot of school records. Please let us know if we missed something:

State Qualifiers:

7th Grade Girls:

100 Meter hurdles ‚Äì Ali Rapps
100 Meter Dash – Kammie Ludwig
400 Meter Dash ‚Äì Ali Rapps
1600 Meter Run – Lacey Laxton
High Jump ‚Äì Kammie Ludwig
Shot Put – Hannah Copeland
Discus ‚Äì Kylie DeJohn
4 x 100 Meter Relay ‚Äì Ali Rapps, Reagan Lommell, Elizebeth Maciejewski, Kammie Ludwig – Alt. Savannah Reisner
4 x 400 Meter Relay ‚Äì Kammie Ludwig, Mallory Bealer, Savannah Reisner, Ali Rapps – Alt. Hannah Copeland

8th Grade Girls:

100 Meter Hurdles ‚Äì Taylor DeSplinter and Brooke Harms
100 Meter Dash – Allison Bowers
400 Meter Dash – Esther Brown
800 Meter Run ‚Äì Megan Soria
1600 Meter Run – Tricia Elden
Shot Put ‚Äì Brenna McGuire
Discus ‚Äì Maddie Barickman and Allie Mackey
Long Jump – Taylor DeSplinter
High Jump – Abby Reakes and Evie Wilson
Pole Vault – Alex Hicks
4 x 100 Meter Relay ‚Äì Esther Brown, Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers, Taylor DeSplinter, Alt. Maddie Barickman
4×200 – Emma Terronez, Sydne Sexton, Cadence Talbert, Brenna McGuire – Alt. Jena Hart
4 x 400 Meter Relay ‚Äì Esther Brown, Maddie Barickman, Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers – Alt. Taylor DeSplinter

7th Grade Boys:

110 Meter Hurdles ‚Äì Anthony Pierce
Discus – Nathan VanDeWoeStyne
Pole Vualt – Malakai Schaad
4 x 100 Meter Relay ‚Äì Tyler Coons, Nathan Vergane, Drayton DeBoef, Tanner Vincent – Alt. Jonathan Maxwell
4 x 400 Meter Relay ‚Äì Tyler Coons, Nathan Vergane, Hunter Clark-Holke, Drayton DeBoef – Alt. Tanner Vincent

8th Grade Boys:

110 Meter Hurdles ‚Äì Rafe Morrison
800 Meter Run – Rafe Morrison
Discus – PJ Moser and Nathan Beneke
Pole Vault – Tannen Rink
4 x 100 Meter Relay ‚Äì Brendan Hipkins, Mason Jones, Ethan Holke, Rafe Morrison ‚Äì Alt. Dominic DeBoef
4 x 400 Meter Relay ‚Äì Mason Jones, Dominic DeBoef, Ethan Holke, Rafe Morrison ‚Äì Alt. Brendan Hipkins,

School Records:

Ali Rapps broke the 7th Grade girls 100 meter hurdles record.
Ali Rapps broke the 7th grade girls 400 meter record.
Kammie Ludwig tied the 7th Grade Girls High Jump record.
Tannen Rink tied the 8th grade boys pole vault record.
Malakai Schaad tied the 7th grade boys pole vault record
The 7th grade girls 4×100 record was broken by Ali Rapps, Reagan Lommell, Elizabeth Maciejewski, and Kammie Ludwig
The 8th grade girls 4×200 record was broken by Emma Terronez, Sydne Sexton, Cadence Talbert, and Brenna McGuire.

Way to Dream Big!!!!!

May 6th, 2017

The kids were great today. We had some pretty amazing results. First of all, all the teams won their divisions. If that was not enough, we had two school records broken at the meet. The 8th Grade Girls 100 Meter Dash record was broken by Allison Bowers and Abby Reakes decided to break her mom’s 8th Grade Girls record.

The 100 meter dash record was from 1983. One of our oldest records. And the high jump record was from 1989.

Congratulations to all the track kids. Keep up the hard work.

Here is the new 8th Grade High Jump Record holder with a very proud mama

May 4th, 2017

Girls results are posted. Have a great day.

May 3rd, 2017

Boys conference was tonight. The boys also did great. The 7th and 8th grade teams won their divisions. Heartland Conference Champions x 4. Awesome job boys and girls. We still have not received girls results. Boys results are posted.

May 2nd, 2017

Girls conference was tonight. The girls did great. They won both the 7th and 8th grade team divisions. Congratulations on being Heartland Conference Champions. No results yet.

April 28th, 2017

Today we had a pink out to support a friend with breast cancer. Enjoy the photos.

April 26th, 2017

Tonight was the Jack and Jill relays. The kids did amazing. Under cool and wet conditions both the boys and girls teams won their divisions. We had some incredible performances. We do not have results yet. If anyone has taken photos this year, please send them to us. We would like to try to get some up. Great job tonight.

April 24th, 2017

Another beautiful night for the kids to run. The kids did great again. All the teams won their divisions. Results are posted.

April 19th, 2017

Beautiful night. The kids performed awesome. All the kids did great. It was nice to get back at it. There are some sore legs, make sure you ice them down.

There were a couple of school records tonight in the 8th grade girls pole vault and the 8th grade boys pole vault.

All the kids are doing incredible. Keep up the hard work. The results are posted, actually we tried something new and it worked great. The results will be live at the meets. Once the results are turned into the press box, you will be able to see them online. It takes about 5 minutes after they get entered, but you will be able to see the results at the home meets from now on.

Great job tonight.

April 8th, 2017

There has been some questions about the 8th grade boys 4×100. They announced at the meet, the boys had broken the record. The record was wrong in the program. Our team set the record in 2014 and the time was 47.90. Reed Vanderheyden, Adam DeYoung, Jarron Nordstrom, and Drew Rapps hold that record.

April 7th, 2017

Incredible. That would describe everything tonight. The weather was great and the kids were awesome. All the teams won their divisions. We had some meet records this evening:

8th Grade Girls 4×100 Meter Relay – Esther Brown, Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers, Taylor DeSplinter

7th Grade Girls 400 Meter Dash – Ali Rapps

7th Grade Girls 4×400 Meter Relay – Kammie Ludwig, Mallory Bealer, Savannah Reisner, Ali Rapps

8th Grade Girls Discus – Maddi Barickman

The kids did great. Remember we have some optional practices next week. Here they are:

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:00 – 11:30.

The weather looks to be better next week. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. If y0u can make it to the voluntary practices, get on the track and work out there. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. Five miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s. 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

April 6th, 2017

Girls meet was cancelled last night. We are heading to Rockridge tomorrow. The kids are doing great. The results from Tuesday are posted.

April 4th, 2017

Things are going well. The boys had a meet tonight. Both teams won their divisions. They did a great job. If you have any photos, please send them our way. We will get them posted as soon as we can. We do not have the results yet. Once we get them, we will post them.

The girls team is supposed to have their meet tomorrow. The weather does not look good. We will just have wait and see.

Great job tonight.

March 28th, 2017

Wow. We did not notice we have not been posting anything. Sorry about that. The meet went great tonight. Sorry about the PA problems. We are trying to figure it out. Hopefully by Thursday we will have something better.

The kids were awesome. The results are posted. If you have any photos from tonight, please send them our way. We will get them up.

There was a new school record tonight in the 8th grade boys pole vault. Two boys tied for the record. Awesome job guys.

March 16th, 2017

Practices have been going great this week. We have had some great indoor workouts and we were able to get outside today. There may be some sore legs. Make sure you are stretching and icing.

Here is the information for the Booster Club membership also 2017-booster-membership

The kids received some track boosters raffle information this week. Here it is:

GENESEO TRACK & FIELD BOOSTERS
2017 RAFFLE FUNDRAISER

$100 RUNNING WILD gift card

Apple iPad

$100 Fairway gift certificate (donated by Fairway)

Parent BLEACHER BASKET: fleece tie blanket, rain poncho & umbrella

@home MOVIE NIGHT package: pizza, popcorn, candy, DVD

Track Spirit Wear
** additional prizes may be added . . . please “like” and check the Geneseo Cross Country & Track Boosters FB page for updates **

$5 = 1 ticket $20 = 5 tickets

You will turn raffle packets in at practice on March 20th (Monday). Winning tickets will be drawn on March 23th during the GMS Track & Field Intra-squad meet. Winners will be contacted if they are not present. Proceeds of raffle will directly support the Geneseo HS/MS Track & Field teams through the purchase of equipment and services that support the teams throughout the season. (Checks payable to: Geneseo Track Boosters)
Questions? Please contact: geneseotrackboosters@gmail.com

You can also visit their facebook page: Geneseo Cross Country & Track Boosters

Let us know if you have any questions. Dream Big!!!!!

March 9th, 2017

A good start this week. There are around 200 boys and girls out for track. Here is the forms the students received this week. Please contact us if you have any questions. The sweats and t-shirts are not required. These are just spirit wear for the kids.

2017-track-parent-letter-docx

2017-track-practice-calendar

2017-gms-track-schedule

2017-track-directions

2017-trackandfieldorderform

2017-parent-volunteer-sheet

gms-authorization-for-medical-treatment

2017-iesa-concussion-sign-off

Remember we have a parent meeting on Monday the 13th @ 5:00. It will be in the main gym at the middle school.

We had a new dress up today. Multiples day. The 8th grade girls threw down a challenge to the team, who could get the most to dress alike. Here are some photos from tonight:

All the kids who participated.

A 7th grade girls group. A 8th grade girls group (Winning Group)

A set of 8th grade twins. 7th grade triplets.

7th Grade triplets. Pink boys and girls.

Shades of blue. Purple people eaters.

Cross country lovers Their shoes multiplied.

March 3rd, 2017

Track practices will begin Monday, March 6th. Please make sure your students have a current physical at the middle school. The first week of practices look like this:

Monday – 7th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Tuesday – 8th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Wednesday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Thursday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Friday – 7th and 8th Grade No practice.

We are very excited for the season to start. Dream Big!!!!!!!!!!!

January 19th, 2017

Was very fortunate to be able to speak at the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association (ITCCCA) clinic last weekend. There were over 1,000 coaches attending the clinic. There was a very good turn out of middle school coaches. Here is the presentation and videos from the clinic.

Middle School Track and Field Presentation

Intro Video

Geneseo Middle School Wellness Video

Geneseo Middle School Wellness Video #2

What can you do with limited space? Video

What we do at Geneseo Middle School Video

Here are a couple of photos from the clinic. Freddy accepted his 2A coach of the year award there:

June 7th, 2016

The high school had their banquet tonight. The kids had a great time. We made a video from the kids when they were in middle school and then from this years state meet. Check it out. 2016 GHS Highlight Video.

Congrats guys.

May 28th, 2016

Congratulations go out to the high school boys team. Today, they finished second as a team at the IHSA state track and field championships. Awesome job guys. Way to Dream Big!!!!!

May 26th, 2016

What a great year. For those who attended last night, thanks for coming. The highlight video has been posted. Let us know if you need anything. Thanks for Dreaming Big!!!!!!!! Have a great summer.

May 23rd, 2016

Thanks for sending photos in. On Wednesday night at 6:30 at the GMS main gym, the state medalists are meeting to get their photos taken. Stop by and congratulate the kids. We will be watching the highlight video after the kids get their photos. Also, all the team members will be turning their uniforms in at that time if they still have them. This has been an incredible year.

May 21st, 2016

Incredible!!!!!!!! We were hoping for a historic day and we received one. Congratulations go out to the 7th grade girls 4 x 400 meter relay team of Esther Brown, Maddi Barickman, Riley Coulter, Chloe Adams, and the alternate Emma Terronez for being our first IESA relay state champions. All the kids were amazing. The weather was perfect. All in all, we brought home 22 medals. The second most medals we have ever received. Unbelievable. Here is the list of state medalists:

7th Grade Girls 400 meter dash – Esther Brown – 5th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 meter relay – Esther Brown, Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers, Taylor Desplinter – Alternate Sydne Sexton – 5th Place
7th Grade Boys 800 meter run – Rafe Morrison – 7th Place
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Esther Brown, Maddi Barickman, Riley Coulter, Chloe Adams – Alternate Emma Terronez – 1st Place (State Champions)
7th Grade Boys 4 x 400 meter relay – Mason Jones, Brendan Hipkins, Ehtan Holke, Rafe Morrison – Alternate Dominic DeBoef – 6th Place
8th Grade Girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Ava Bieneman, Anna Girten, Elaina Hines, Keeli Frerichs – Alternate Anna Pierce – 8th Place

Parents, if you have any photos please send them our way. Thanks for everything you do. Here are some photos from the weekend:

May 20th, 2016

The kids did great today. Gracie Erickson broke her own school record in the pole vault at 6’6″. Esther Brown had an incredible day and placed 5th in the 400 meter dash. She broke her own school record by 2 seconds (1:02.35). Awesome job girls. All the kids did well.

Tomorrow has the potential to do some historic things.

Dream Big!!!!!

May 17th, 2016

Things are going really well. The seeds are posted on the IESA web page. There is a link at the top. We have some great seeds. Great job teams.

May 14th, 2016

Great job teams. The wind was brutal and the kids did awesome. The 7th and 8th grade girls teams won their sectionals. The 7th grade boys finished a close third and the 8th grade boys finished a very close second as teams.

We will get some more information out to you about the IESA State weekend soon.

Even with the brutal winds, we qualified many things. We have 34 qualifiers. Unbelievable with that weather. Here is the list of qualifiers:

7th Grade Girls:

100 Meter hurdles – Brooke Harms
400 Meter Dash – Esther Brown
High Jump – Evelyn Wilson
Pole Vault – Gracie Erickson
Discus – Maddie Barickman
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers, Esther Brown, Taylor Desplinter – Alt. Sidney Sexton
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Chloe Adams, Maddie Barickman, Esther Brown, Riley Coulter – Alt. Emma Terronez

8th Grade Girls:

100 Meter Hurdles – Keeli Frerichs
800 Meter Run – Keeli Frerichs
Shot Put – Eden McAvoy
Shot Put – Bailey Mitchell
Discus – Eden McAvoy
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Ava Bieneman, Jaime Bizarri, Keeli Frerichs, Elaina Hines – Alt. Addison Seei
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Ava Bieneman, Keeli Frerichs, Anna Girten, Elaina Hines – Alt. Anna Pierce

7th Grade Boys:

110 Meter Hurdles – Rafe Morrison
800 Meter Run – Rafe Morrison
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Brendan Hipkins, Mason Jones, Bruce Moore, Rafe Morrison – Alt. Mitchell Wirth
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Brendan Hipkins, Ethan Holke, Mason Jones, Rafe Morrison – Alt. Dominic DeBoef

8th Grade Boys:

110 Meter Hurdles – Kyle Hofer
4 x 100 Meter Relay – Maison Cooper, Jerry Green, Kyle Hofer, Jordan Seely – Alt. William Venneberg
4 x 400 Meter Relay – Mitchel Benhart, Neo Colter, Kyle Hofer, William Venneberg – Alt. Maison Cooper

May 11th, 2016

Practices have been going great. The kids are working really hard. Saturday is the sectional at Rockridge High School. Here are the line ups for Saturday.

Sectional line ups.

Do a little dance for good weather on Saturday. The weather people are predicting some March weather. But what do they know.

Dream Big!!!!!!

May 7th, 2016

The kids were awesome. We had good weather and the kids took advantage of it. All four teams won their division. Great job!!!!! The results are posted. Please send us some photos. We did put some up from the boys conference.

May 5th, 2016

Beautiful day today. The line-ups for Saturday have been handed out. Here they are:

Dixon Invite – Geneso Line Ups – 7th Grade Girls

Dixon Invite – Geneso Line Ups – 8th Grade Girls

Dixon Invite – Geneso Line Ups – 7th Grade Boys

Dixon Invite – Geneso Line Ups – 8th Grade Boys

The bus will leave at 6:55. Please have the kids to the middle school by 6:50.

The girls running events and boys field events will start at 9:00. After the girls running events finish, there will be a short break and then the meet will flip. The girls field events and boys field events will then begin. This is normally around 11:00 – 11:30.

This will be a great warm up for the IESA sectional next weekend.

May 4th, 2016

The girls were incredible tonight. Both the 7th and 8th grade teams are Heartland Conference Champions. The girls had a really good night. The results are posted. There was a school record broken after converting times to hand held times. Esther Brown broke the 400 meter record tonight. Congratulations Esther and congratulations ladies on being conference champions. Please send us photos of the boys or girls meets. Things are going really well for all the teams in the program. Dream Big!!!!!!!

May 3rd, 2016

Great job to the boys teams!!!!!! The 8th grade boys won conference and we are still waiting on the official results for the 7th grade boys. There was some confusion on the scores. They were announced as the winners by one point, but then after some review of the scoring they did not win the meet. They are reviewing the results and we will have them hopefully tomorrow. Currently we placed second. Our 7th grade guys did awesome. They scored at least 122 points. That normally wins the meet. Great job guys. Practice tomorrow is done at 4:30.

Tomorrow the girls run in the conference meet in Rock Island. Good luck girls.

May 2nd, 2016

It has been a while. Sorry. Tomorrow is the Boys Heartland Conference meet. The boys meet is at Browning Field in Moline. Field events will begin around 4:30. Running events are supposed to start at 5:00.

The Girls Heartland Conference meet will be on Wednesday at Rock Island High School.

Finally have some good weather. Practices have been going great. The kids are working hard.

Here are the line-ups for conference:

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Boys

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April 26th, 2016

Jack and Jill tomorrow. Here are the line ups. Throwing events start at 4:15 and running events start at 4:45.

Jack and Jill line ups

April 25th, 2016

Disappointing. That is all that needs to be said. The weather people predicted severe weather, and we received perfect weather. The decision to cancel the meet was made at noon when the weather forecast called for 100% chance of thunderstorms at 5:00 pm. Dixon did not want to make the trip and then have to go back due to the bad weather. Totally understandable.

We tried to make the best of it and have a informal intra-squad meet at practice. The kids worked hard and ran really well. We got some good times and marks in some events.

The results came in from the Pioneer invitational. Those results are posted.

Jack and Jill is on Wednesday. Hopefully we will get some good weather.

April 24th, 2016

Weather was great this weekend. Lets hope for some of the same tomorrow. There will be kids participating at the middle school at 3:30. Please wait until all the buses are gone before going into the bus lot. Here are the line ups for tomorrow:

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Boys line ups

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Hope to see you there.

April 19th, 2016

Kids have had a couple of great days of practice. The girls have a meet tomorrow at Browning Field in Moline, IL. Field events start at 4:15. Here is the girls line up:

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Boys only will practice after school. Hopefully the rain will stay away.

April 17th, 2016

Amazing weekend. The weather was awesome. The high school boys team had a great night on Friday. They won the Galesburg Invite for the first time. Awesome job guys. The girls high school team went to the Rock Island Invite on Saturday and did well also.

Hope this weather continues for the rest of the year. See you tomorrow.

April 15th, 2016

Great job tonight!!!! The kids were awesome. All the teams won their divisions. We had 5 meet records:

7th Grade Girls 4 x 100 Relay – Esther Brown, Chloe Adams, Allison Bowers, Taylor Desplinter
7th Grade Girls 4 x 400 Relay – Esther Brown, Emma Terronez, Riley Coulter, Chloe Adams
7th Grade Boys 4 x 100 Relay – Mason Jones, Rafe Morrison, Bruce Moore, Brendon Hipkins
7th Grade Boys 1600 Meter Run – Mitchell Wirth
8th Grade Boys 400 Meter Dash – Kyle Hofer

Congratulations to all the record setters. Things are going really well. Make sure you get out and play around this weekend. Go for a bike ride, roller blade, play soccer, play basketball, and just have some fun. Make sure you stretch and get your core work in. Results are posted.

Awesome job again. Dream Big!!!!!!

April 13th, 2016

Finally have good weather. The forecast for Friday is awesome. Line ups were given tonight for Friday. Here they are.

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Boys Line Ups:

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The kids running on Friday will get uniforms tomorrow. Please have the kids take of the uniforms. The uniforms need to be washed in cold. Hang dry. Do not bleach. Do not iron. We are fortunate to have uniforms.

There will not be practice for the kids who are not running at the meet. They have a three day weekend.

The meet on Friday will have the girls start running events at 4:00 and the boys start field events at 4:00. Once the girls running events are finished, the boys will begin their running events and the girls will begin their field events.

This is an IESA meet. All the uniforms have to match. If the kids on a relay are wearing any tights underneath their uniform, they have to match. The do not have to wear tights. They just can’t have some kids wearing white and some kids wearing black. If they are wearing tights they have to match.

April 11th, 2016

The kids are doing incredible. The weather has not been the best. I will be very glad to see the wind disappear. The results have been posted.

The boys track meet for Wednesday at Rock Island has been cancelled. There is a conflict at their track with some maintenance that just came up. We will still have practice for the boys to get ready for the track meet on Friday.

Another great night for the kids though. If you have any photos, send them our way. We have posted some from the last couple of meets.

Have a great night.

April 9th, 2016

Looks like a cold weekend. Monday looks good though. Here are the line ups for Monday. This meet has some limited entries, so not as many kids will be participating. We still want the kids to come to the meet to support the team and help with the meet. We always have things the kids can help with.

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Boys line ups

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Boosters could really use some help with the concessions if you have time. Thanks to all of the people who helped on Thursday.

Here a couple photos from Bandana, Hat, and Crazy socks day.

April 7th, 2016

The kids did awesome. The weather was a little cold. Better than Monday. The results are posted. Thank you to all who volunteered. A big thank you to all who helped pick up the trash. The stadium looked great. If you have taken any photos of the kids at the meet, please send them our way. We would love to get them up on the web page. Great job again.

On a side note, it was great to see Hannah Soria at the last two track meets. She had some great success at nationals last weekend. She had a couple of top ten finishes.

April 6th, 2016

We have a home meet tomorrow. Again, we have limited spaces for the field events. Some of the kids will be doing their field events (high jump, long jump, shot, and discus) at 3:30 at the middle school. The itinerary’s are below and you can see the line ups for the kids.

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Boys line ups-

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April 4th, 2016

Awesome job tonight. The results are posted. It was a cold night. Great job staying focused. Parents please send us any photos you have, so we can get them up on the web page.

A very special thank you to all the workers. Thank you to all who volunteered their time. Everything was great tonight. Hopefully we will get some better weather soon.

April 3rd, 2016

Tomorrow is supposed to be cool. Please remember to dress warm. The high will be around 45 with no rain. Once the sun goes down it will be cooler. Again bring lots of sweats and maybe a blanket.

April 2nd, 2016

Windy today. Stay safe. Monday we have a triangular meet with Pioneer(Jordan/Seton) and Glenview. We are going to try something new with some of the kids. We have limited spaces for the field events. Some of the kids will be doing their field events (high jump, shot, and discus) at 3:30 at the middle school. The itinerary’s are below and you can see the line ups for the kids.

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March 30th, 2016

A great start to the year. The kids did great. Too bad the weather had to stop it short. The results have been posted. We had some great performances.

We did have a lost bag at the meet. Please check your bags and see if you found something extra.

Thank you to all the volunteers. Parents if you have any photos, please send them our way so we can post them on the web page.

Awesome job again. See you tomorrow.

March 29th, 2016

Kids have had a couple of good days of practice. The spirit wear arrived tonight and the kids received it. Tomorrow we have our intra-squad meet. Here are the line ups:

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Things have been great.

March 27th, 2016

Congratulations to the boys and girls high school track teams on a great day yesterday at the unofficial indoor state championships. Here is a list of accomplishments:

Reece Bodeen – 6th in 60 m hurdles
Will Daniels – 5th in high jump
Arthur Atwell – 1st in pole vault
Reed Vanderheyden – 3rd in 60 meter hurdles
Quinn Singbush – 3rd in 200 m dash
Nick Swartzendruber, Andrew Benhart, Nathan Soria, and Cayson Frerichs – 1st in 4×800 relay
Quinn Singbush, Reed Vanderheyden, Andrew Pischke, Lucas Hofer – 3rd in 4×200 relay
Lucas Hofer, Nick Swartzendruber, Andrew Benhart, Reed Vanderheyden – 4th in 4×400 relay

A great day for all the participants.

March 25th, 2016

Interesting weather this week. The last two days have been productive. We had a great showing for some optional practices. Yesterday there were over 50 kids and today we had 60 kids. Great job for being voluntary. The coaches were very excited with your work and we hope you had fun.

A few reminders:

Monday we have practice from 3:30 – 5:00.
The raffle tickets for the fundraiser are due back Monday or Tuesday
We have an intra-squad meet on Wednesday.

Hope you have a great weekend. See you on Monday.

March 22nd, 2016

Today’s practice has been cancelled. We had some conflicts. Thursday and Friday are still on. Sorry for any inconvenience.

March 19th, 2016

Congrats to the boys and girls high school teams on a great meet today. Many great performances. The boys are rolling. They just missed winning the meet by 6 points.

Also, congratulations to Hannah Soria on her skiing accomplishments. She had a great weekend last week and was the overall champion at the Rocky/Central Junior Championships. She will be heading to the U16 Nationals in a few weeks. Check her out at https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sswsc%20alpine. Good luck Hannah.

March 18th, 2016

Weather looks to be good this week. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. If y0u can make it to the voluntary practices, get on the track and work out there. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. Five miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s. 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

March 16th, 2016

Awesome Black Out today!!!!!! The kids are doing awesome. Just a reminder, there is no practice on Friday. Also, we will have some voluntary practices over spring break. These practices are not mandatory. Some of the coaches will be coming in during the break to help with the kids. Here are the times and the days:

Tuesday, March 22nd 10:00 – 11:30 Thursday, March 24th 10:00 – 11:30 Friday, March 25th 10:00 – 11:30

The track and field boosters are running a raffle. The kids received envelopes. There are some great prizes. Here is a link to the boosters Facebook page Boosters.

Here is the parent letter from tonight March 16 Parent Letter.

Here are some photos from tonight:

March 14th, 2016

Practices have gone well. We had a parent meeting tonight. Here is what was discussed:

– Eligibility for student athletes – Passing all classes. IESA Rule – Introduced the coaching staff. – Went over the events. – Important forms to turn in (Pink Sheet/Girls, Blue Sheet/Boys, Yellow Volunteer Sheet) – Went over the web page. – Boosters spoke – Mindy Brown talked about signs, spirit wear opportunities, and concession stand options. The boosters are also have a raffle this year. We are trying to raise money for more hurdles for next year. We are also purchasing an FAT timing system for the track meets.

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports.

– Kids can do other sports. They can miss practices. Just remember, if they miss meets or practices and someone else runs faster, they have moved down the list. We want the kids to have fun and enjoy all sports. – Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30. – Have fun.

Things we forgot about:

Uniforms. The kids wear their Phys Ed clothes for duals and tri-angulars. For invitationals we have uniforms that will be checked out from the school.

Please email us if you have any questions.

March 10th, 2016

Great weather this week. We have over 200 kids signed up. Two great days of practice. Just a few reminders. Tomorrow practice is done at 4:30. Also, sweats and t-shirt orders are due tomorrow. Here are the kids from yesterday before the “Hurricane” hit:

7th Grade Boys and Girls

8th Grade Boys and Girls

March 7th, 2016

A good start today. There are about 40 7th grade boys and around 70 7th grade girls. Here is the forms the students received tonight. Please contact us if you have any questions. The sweats and t-shirts are not required. These are just spirit wear for the kids.

2016 Track Parent Letter

2016 Track Practice Calendar

2016 MS TR Schedule

2016 Track directions

GMS Track Sweats & T-Shirt Order Page

2016 PARENT VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET

2016 Authorization for Medical Treatment Form

March 2nd, 2016

Track practices will begin Monday, March 7th. Please make sure your students have a current physical at the middle school. The first week of practices look like this:

Monday – 7th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Tuesday – 8th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Wednesday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Thursday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Friday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 4:30

We are very excited for the season to start. Dream Big!!!!!!!!!!!

May 23rd, 2015

What a great weekend. The kids did an awesome job. We brought home 18 medals and had 4 school records. Here is a list of medalists:

8th grade boys 110 meter hurdles – Colton Pischke – 1st Place(State Champion)
8th grade boys 1600 meter run – Kaden Rink – 6th Place
8th grade boys 800 meter run – Kaden Rink – 3rd Place
7th grade boys 4 x 100 meter relay – 6th Place – Kyle Hofer, William Venneberg, Keaton Johnson, Maison Cooper – Alternate Neo Colter
8th grade girls 4 x 100 meter relay – 2nd Place – Julia Poel, Rachel Daniels, Hannah Soria, Tori Verbeck – Alternate Diana Scherer
8th grade girls 4 x 400 meter relay – 3rd place – Julia Poel, Alexandria Horne, Diana Scherer, Hannah Soria – Alternate Tori Verbeck

School Records

8th grade girls long jump – Alexys Johnson
8th grade girls 4 x 100 meter relay – Julia Poel, Rachel Daniels, Hannah Soria, Tori Verbeck
8th grade girls 4 x 400 meter relay – Julia Poel, Alexandria Horne, Diana Scherer, Hannah Soria
8th grade boys 1600 meter run – Kaden Rink

Parents, if you have any photos please send them our way. Thanks for everything you do.

May 21st, 2015

Things are going well. Here is a schedule of events for the weekend.

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The weekend is going to be a lot of fun. The kids will be around 8:50 on Friday and 6:00 am on Saturday. If you can get some snacks for the camp, the kids would enjoy this. Brownies, cookies, fruit, or chips are good ideas. See you tomorrow at the meet.

May 16th, 2015

What a great day. We were very fortunate to have great weather. There were a lot of storms that just missed us. The kids did an awesome job today. Three sectional team champions and a runner-up. We do not have official results. We will get them up as soon as we can. Great job teams.

May 15th, 2015

Just a reminder about the sectional track meet tomorrow. The meet starts at 9:00. Let us know if you would like to help out.

May 11th, 2015

Weather was not fun tonight. Kids did a good job of overcoming the wind and cold. Both the boys teams are conference champs. Great job to all the kids. Results are posted.

May 9th, 2015

Perfect weather today. The kids matched the day. We ran awesome. Great job to the kids and parents. There were two school records broken today. Ava Bieneman broke a 18 year old record in the 400 with a time of 1:04.54 and Kaden Rink broke a 28 year old record in the 1600 with a time of 4:46.64. Congratulations to both of these young kids. All four levels won their divisions today. The whole team was amazing. The results are posted. Remember guys we have conference on Monday at Rock Island. Have a great weekend.

May 6th, 2015

Congratulations to the 7th and 8th grade girls track and field teams. Both teams won their conference meets. Results are posted. Congrats to both teams.

May 3rd, 2015

The Jack and Jill results have arrived. They are posted. The kids did great. We won both the 7th and 8th grade divisions. Great job everyone.

The high school teams are doing great also. Congratulations to all the high school kids also.

April 30th, 2015

The kids did a great job last night. We do not have any results from the meet. We have posted a split sheet. When we do splits, we do the best we can to make them accurate. It is very hard to see where the middle of the exchange zone is to get the splits. A lot of people like to stop their watch when the athletes hand the baton off. This is actually inaccurate. You need to take the split in the middle of the exchange zone and this is difficult to do from a distance. We have received some photos and we will get them up as soon as we can.

Tonight the kids pushed cars and the distance kids headed to the DQ for a long run.

April 27th, 2015

Great weather. What a fun meet. Dixon was awesome and the meet turned out incredible. Kids did another amazing job. Results are posted. Have a great night.

April 21st, 2015

Windy meet. Great job. Kids had another great performance. Results are posted.

April 17th, 2015

Another great night for Geneseo Track and Field. The weather was a little hot for the kids. They still did great. All four teams won their divisions. Results are posted. If you have any photos, we would love to have them. There are some up from Monday’s meet if you scroll down. Great job again. Results are posted.

April 16th, 2015

Great meet last night for the boys. They did an outstanding job last night. The results have come in and are posted. The girls results from Monday are still coming in. We have the 7th grade results. Once we get the 8th grade we will get them up.

The boys won meets according to the results. There are some scoring errors, so I think the 8th grade boys will end up second after some adjustments. A great job was done by all. We have our meet at Rockridge tomorrow. There is a new format. The girls will run first and the boys will do field events first. Then the boys will do the running events and the girls will do the field events second. The meet starts at 4:00. Hope to see you there

April 14th, 2015

The girls team did awesome last night. Some pretty amazing performances. Great efforts. We have not received the results yet. We will get them posted as soon as we get them. The boys meet is in Moline tomorrow. Here are the line ups:

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Field events will begin at 4:15 and the running events will begin at 5:00. The meet went until 8:00 last night. We expect the same timeline for tomorrow. There are a lot of kids running in this meet.

A special shout out to the high school programs. The boys and girls teams are running well.

April 9th, 2015

Sorry for not being up to date. We got a little busy. Spring break went well. We had 20 – 30 athletes each day voluntary practices were offered. The weather was not cooperating today. Tornado watch means no meet. This weather is crazy. Monday the girls have a meet. They will get line ups and uniforms tomorrow.

A big congratulations to Josie Brown for being selected as one of fifteen individuals in the state of Illinois for the IESA scholar attitude award. A great honor for her.

Tomorrow is twin day. We should have some photos for you.

March 28th, 2015

Weather looks to be great this week. Get outside and enjoy yourselves. Play some soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, go for a bike ride, jog, and just have fun. You are kids and need to be kids. Those kids looking for some workout ideas, here are a few ideas: Sprinters get some sprints in every other day. If y0u can make it to the voluntary practices, get on the track and work out there. Distance kids also need to get some sprints in every other day. On the other day, go for a run, anywhere from 2-4 miles is good enough. You need to have one day where you go long during the week. Five miles at the most. Remember, if you practice slow, you will be slow. If you practice fast, you will be fast. Below is a sample of for the week (Remember, these are all voluntary):

Monday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Tuesday – Sprinters: Broken 300’s. 5 or 6 will work. Remember, 200 at 400 pace. 100 all out. Distance: Broken 500’s. 5 or 6 also. Remember, 300 at 800 pace. 200 all out.

Wednesday – Sprinters: easy run 1 – 2 miles. Do some weight work outs. Body weight is enough. Distance: 2-4 miles medium effort. Weight workouts also.

Friday – Long run for both. Sprinters 2 miles. Distance 3 – 5 miles.

Anyone on a beach, get some sprints in on the beach. Best training you can do for a work out.

Have a great break.

March 27th, 2015

Again, great job last night. There will be some voluntary practices over spring break. Some of the coaches will be coming in during the break to help with the kids. Here are the times and the days:

Tuesday, March 31st 10:00 – 11:30 Thursday, April 2nd 10:00 – 11:30 Friday, April 3rd 10:00 – 11:30

Just a reminder we have practice on Monday, April 6th from 3:30 – 5:00. If you can not make it we understand.

Ideas for running over break. Distance kids get some sprints every other day. Run long on the other days 3 – 4 miles. Try to work out 4 or 5 days during the break. If you get more in great.

March 27th Parent Letter

Other than that, have a great break!!!!!!!!

March 26th, 2015

Great job tonight. A good practice meet for the kids. A little bit colder than predicted by the weather folks. All in all, a good start for the kids. No practice tomorrow. We will talk to the kids tomorrow about spring break and our next practices. If you have any photos, please send them our way and we will post them. Parents who volunteered, awesome job, thank you. Results are posted.

March 18th, 2015

Kids had a great practice. The parent meeting went well. Here are some things we discussed:

Things we forgot to talk about:

– Our program is to develop kids for all sports. – Kids can do other sports. They can miss practices. Just remember, if they miss meets or practices and someone else runs faster, they have moved down the list. We want the kids to have fun and enjoy all sports. – Remember to pick your students up at 5:00. We are done at 5:00. We do not let students out late. Fridays we are done at 4:30. – Have fun.

Please email us if you have any questions.

March 17th, 2015

The weather has been great so far. It looks like the temps are going to be in the 40’s and 50’s the next week. Have the kids wear appropriate clothing. Tomorrow night we have a parent meeting after practice at 5:00. The meeting should last around 30 minutes. Hope to see you there.

There was a parent letter handed out tonight. Track Parent Letter(3-17-2015)

March 15th, 2015

Beautiful weekend. Hope the kids were able to enjoy it. Tomorrow we will be doing some timing in the great weather. It is supposed to cool off on Tuesday. We will still be going outside. The kids need to bring warm clothes. If the kids are sore, have them ice their body down. This will get rid of most of the soreness.

March 11th, 2015

A great start to the year. We have around 200 kids out. We have been educating the kids on track and field. The weather has been great. Sounds like a “hurricane” is coming for tomorrow though. The kids will be a little sore after tomorrow. If you know anyone who still wants to come out, it is not too late.

March 8th, 2015

Practices start on Monday (7th Grade) and Tuesday (8th Grade). The students do not need to dress out. The following are some important forms the kids will receive:

2015 Track Parent Letter

2015 Track Practice Schedule

2015 Authorization for Medical Treatment Form

2015 MS TR Schedule

2015 Track directions

PARENT VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET 2015

Track Sweat Order Form 2015

Here are the practice times for the first week:

Monday – 7th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Tuesday – 8th Grade only 3:30 – 4:30

Wednesday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Thursday – 7th and 8th Grade 3:30 – 5:00

Friday – No Practice

June 8th, 2014

Just a reminder about Tuesday Night at the City Council. Also, we just found an article about Reed Vanderheyden in the Dispatch from May 30th. Here is a link ARTICLE

Have a great night.

June 5th, 2014

Just found out today, the track teams will be recognized by the Geneseo City Council. The council will recognize the 7th and 8th grade boys teams and girls who medaled at the state meet. The meeting is Tuesday June 10th at 6:00 pm at City Hall.

June 1st, 2014

Congratulations to the High School track and field teams!! Way to go. AJ Marmion and Nick Verbeck medaled at the IHSA championships this weekend. Nick placed 7th in Shot Put and AJ won the state championship in the Discus. Way to dream big guys.

Let us know if anyone is interested in the 2014 highlight video. We have DVD’s available.

May 29th, 2014

Awesome assembly. Thanks to Mr. Versluis and the Jazz band for some awesome music. Thanks to all who showed up to support the team. If you have any photos from the assembly, please send them to us and we will get them posted. What an incredible year. The highlight video is downloaded and ready to watch. Check it out. Have a great night.

May 25th, 2014

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. 42 medalists. 12 school records. 1 all time state record. 2 state trophies. What else really needs to be said. This weekend was nearly perfect. The 7th grade boys placed 3rd as a team and the 8th grade boys finished 2nd as a team. Here is the list of medalists:

8th grade boys 400 meter dash – Jarron Nordstrom – 5th place
7th grade boys 1600 meter run – Kaden Rink – 3rd place
7th grade boys 110 meter hurdles – Colton Pischke – 3rd place
8th grade boys 110 meter hurdles – Reed Vandeheyden – 1st place (State Champion)
8th grade boys Shot Put – Cole Howard – 3rd place
7th grade boys 800 meter run – Kaden Rink – 3rd place
8th grade boys 800 meter run – Reed Vanderheyden – 2nd place
7th grade girls 4 x 100 meter relay – 4th place – Julia Poel, Hannah Himmelman, Hannah Soria, Tori Verbeck – Alternate Kristen Polowy
8th grade girls 4 x 100 meter relay – 8th place – Reece Bodeen, Lauren Murray, Veronica Eilers, Rebekah Beard – Alternate Heaher Dietrich
8th grade boys 4 x 100 meter relay – 2nd place – Adam DeYoung, Drew Rapps, Reed Vanderheyden, Jarron Nordstrom – Alternate Reed Adams
7th grade girls 4 x 400 meter relay – 2nd place – Julia Poel, Hannah Soria, Tori Verbeck, Josie Brown – Alternate Hannah Himmelman
7th grade boys 4 x 400 meter relay – 5th place – Colton Pischke, Nathan Carroll, Zac Olson, Kaden Rink – Alternate Carson Cocquit
8th grade girls 4 x 400 meter relay – 4th place – RaeLynn Versluys, Lauren Murray, Rebekah Beard, Reece Bodeen – Alternate Kenzie Davison
8th grade boys 4 x 400 meter relay – 2nd place – Adam DeYoung, Drew Rapps, Jarron Nordstrom, Reed Vanderheyden – Alternate Cameron Darin

Unbelievable. Parents if you have photos please send them our way. We would love to get them up on the web page. Have a great weekend. Results are posted.

May 21st, 2014

Things are going well. Here is a schedule of events for the weekend.

IESA State Track Meet 2014

Tomorrow is popsicle day. Boosters are bringing popsicles at the end of practice. Seeds are posted on the IESA webpage. The weekend is going to be a lot of fun. The kids will be leaving at 9:00 on Friday and 6:00 am on Saturday. If you can get some snacks for the camp, the kids would enjoy this. Brownies, cookies, fruit, or chips are good ideas.

May 17th, 2014

Sectional Champions x 4!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job teams. All the teams won their divisions. The weather was awesome. The kids performed awesome. What a fun day. There were 9 school records. 7th Grade Girls 100 hurdles, 7th Grade Girls 4×100 Relay, 7th Grade Girls 4×400 Relay, 8th Grade Girls Pole Vault, 8th Grade Girls 4×200 Relay, 8th Grade Girls 4×400 Relay 8th Grade Boys 100 Meter Dash, 8th Grade Boys 110 Hurdles, 8th Grade Boys 4×100 Relay, and the 8th Grade Boys 4×400 Relay. Overall we are taking more kids to state this year than ever. Results are posted. IESA State is Friday and Saturday. Great job teams!!!!!!!

May 14th, 2014

Twinkie Day!!!!! Enjoy the photos.

May 12th, 2014

We did some sprints today. Practice schedule this week goes as follows:

Tuesday 3:30 – 4:30 Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 Thursday 3:30 – 4:30 Friday 3:30 – 4:30

Kids are working hard. Saturday is coming up fast. We could still use some help. Please contact us if you are available.

May 10th, 2014

Incredible. We had great weather and the kids were awesome. All the teams won their divisions. There were 6 school records broken today. The 8th grade girls 4×200, 8th grade girls 4×400, 7th grade boys 1600 meter run, 8th grade boys 4×100 meter relay, 8th grade boys 4×400 meter relay, and the 8th grade boys 110 meter hurdles records were all broken today. The 7th grade boys 800 meter run was just missed by .07 seconds. It was close. There were many personal records also. We host the IESA Sectional next week and could use some help. Please contact coach Ehlert if you are interested in helping. Great job today. Results are posted.

May 7th, 2014

The weather is starting to warm up. It was a hot one today. The boys had some fun celebrating their success and the girls were off to their conference championships. The girls did awesome. Both the 7th and 8th grade girls teams won conference. Congratulations girls. There was a school record in the 7th grade girls 4 x 100 meter relay. Great job girls. Speaking of school records, the 8th grade boys 110 hurdles record was broken last night. Congratulations to all the new record holders. Things are going really well and we still have room to improve. Great job boys and girls teams. 3 Heartland Conference Team Championships and a runner – up. Saturday we head to Dixon. Hope to see you there. Results for the girls will be posted in the morning.

May 6th, 2014

Great job tonight. The boys were awesome. The 7th grade boys finished 2nd to an awesome Eddison team and the 8th grade boys won their meet. Heartland Conference Champions. We had some incredible performances and some school records tonight. Results are posted. We want to wish the girls good luck at their meet tomorrow. Again, great job tonight.

April 30th, 2014

Awesome job tonight. The kids did great. Jack and Jill is always a fun meet. The boys and girls did an incredible job of working together. Conference is next week. Great job teams. We will get official results later and we will post them.

April 29th, 2014

Practices have been going great. The kids have a positive attitude, even with the inclement weather. On Friday we pushed cars, had hat day, and the distance kids ran to the Dairy queen. Tomorrow is Jack and Jill hope to see you there. Here are some photos from Friday:

April 24th, 2014

The weather finally got to us. No meet tonight. Rain, rain, and more rain. We will look into rescheduling the meet. Does not look promising. Not to many days match up. We will try our best. Tomorrow is hat day and we are pushing cars for a workout. It will be a fun day. The distance kids may run to the DQ. Things are going really well. We had a great practice indoor. Ask the kids about the push up walks.

April 22nd, 2014

Another good night for a track meet, the kids did really well. All the teams won their divisions. The meet went quick. The kids are a little rusty from spring break. This was expected. Times were good. The wind was a little strong down the back stretch. It was great to get back on the track. Results are posted.

April 11th, 2014

Incredible night. Great weather. Awesome results. All of the teams won their divisions. Great job GMS Track and Field. Sorry for getting home so late. Perfect conditions for a track meet. Next week is spring break. Have a great time off. We are having optional practices on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 10:00 – 11:30, if anyone is interested. They are not required. We are having them for anyone who is around and wants to get a work out in. We hope you have fun over break and we wish we could be with the kids are heading to the beach. Again, be a kid and play. Soccer, baseball, basketball, what ever activity you love, just be a kid. We will see you after break. Again, great job tonight. Results are posted.

April 9th, 2014

The kids were awesome last night. The wind was pretty tough around corner three and four. Overall, both the 7th and 8th grade boys teams won the meet. We had some incredible times and distances again. Looks like we will have great weather for Friday. Keep up the hard work. Results have not been sent to us yet. We will get them up as soon as we can.

April 7th, 2014

Great job tonight. The kids were awesome. The weather was nearly perfect, except for a few rain drops. Things are going really well. All four teams won tonight. We had one school record tonight. The 8th Grade Boys 4×100 relay broke the school record. Everyone was awesome. The kids are running really well and we are just getting started. Have a great night.

March 31st, 2014

Sorry we have not been on here in a while. We will try to do a better job updating. A good night for the meet. 60’s and windy. We will take it. A great first meet for the kids. A lot of good things were seen tonight. Results are posted. If anyone got any photos, send them to us. We will post them. Thank you to our volunteers. The meet went great. Great job teams.

March 14th, 2014

We have had a great turn out this week for track practices. The boys have around 100 out for both 7th and 8th grade. Girls are above 80 for both 7th and 8th grade. We have new people signing up everyday, which is great. Next week’s weather looks great compared to the past few months. Highs in the 40’s and 50’s all week.

Here are the forms which were handed out this week for the kids:

2014 Track Parent Letter-1

2014 MS TR Schedule

Track directions 2014

Auth for Med Treatment 2013-14

PARENT VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET 2014

Track Sweat Order Form 2014

2014 Practice Schedule

Please get the medical form, volunteer sheet, and sweat/t-shirt order forms to us as soon as possible. We would like to order the gear by Monday night.

We are excited for another great year!!!!!!

May 25th, 2013

The highlight video is online. Check it out. Also, there are some great photos of our kids on the IESA website. Look under Class AA State Meet Photo Album. Will have some more news this week. Come back and check it out.

May 19th, 2013

The kids were awesome!!!!!!! To say we had a great weekend would be an understatement. An overview of the weekend: 17 medalists, a state runner up trophy (7th Grade Boys), an individual state champion (7th Grade 110 Hurdles), 7 school records, tons of personal records, and Mr. Ehlert’s first ice shower. We are so proud of every kid on the team. We will update the webpage when we get some photos. Great job everyone and congratulations on an incredible weekend. Here are some photos.

May 14th, 2013

Parents, here is an updated schedule for the weekend. IESA State Track Meet 2013 There is a better time schedule to look at. The kids will be leaving at 9:00 on Friday and 6:15 am on Saturday. If you can get some snacks for the camp, the kids would enjoy this. Brownies, cookies, fruit, or chips are good ideas.

May 12th, 2013

Great job yesterday. With a horrible wind (25 mph sustained wind for the whole thing), all teams won their divisions. We have 37 team members heading to state. Individual events (# of athletes): 100 (2), 200 (2), 400 (2), 800 (4), 1600 (3), 110 Hurdles (5), Shot Put (1), Discus (2), High Jump (3), and Long Jump (2). Relays: 7th Grade Girls 4×100 and 4×400, 8th Grade Girls 4×100 and 4×400, 7th Grade boys 4×100, 4×200, and 4×400, and 8th Grade Boys 4×100 and 4×400. The kids did really well. We had three school records: 7th grade 100 meter dash, 7th grade 110 hurdles, and 8th grade 110 hurdles. On Tuesday the state will have all the qualifiers on their web page. Congratulations to the whole team on a great day.

May 8th, 2013

Results are posted. We are still looking for people to volunteer for Saturday’s sectional meet. Please contact us.

May 7th, 2013

Heartland Conference Champions!!!!!!!! The team won all 4 divisions. Great job. Results will be posted tomorrow. The boys teams had 7 records tonight: 7th grade 100 meter dash, 7th grade 110 meter hurdles, 7th grade 400 meter dash, 7th grade 4×400 relay, 8th grade boys triple jump, 8th grade long jump, and 8th grade high jump. All the kids performed awesome tonight. A lot of personal records. Keep up the great work. Sectionals are on Saturday at home. See you tomorrow.

May 3rd, 2013

Tomorrow’s meet has been cancelled. We have practice at 3:30 on Monday. There is an hour early out, but all the coaches have meetings. The kids will have a study time in the gym. If you have any questions, please contact us.

May 2nd, 2013

Results are posted from Wednesday. Both the 7th grade and 8th grade teams won the meet. Congratulations. The kids are doing really well. The kids received a parent letter tonight. Here it is. Track Parent Letter(5-2-2013) We need volunteers for the sectional meet on Saturday May 11th. Let us know if you can help.

May 1st, 2013

Awesome. What a beautiful night. Kids did great. We won 11 running events tonight. Official results will be sent tomorrow. We had a lot of personal records (pr’s) tonight. Things look really good for both the boys and girls. Keep working hard.

April 26th, 2013

Results are posted.

April 25th, 2013

Great night for a track meet. Some great performances out of the kids. Two school records tonight. 7th grade boys 100 meter dash again and 7th grade boys 4 x 100 meter relay. Great job boys. The 7th Grade Girls, 7th Grade boys and 8th Grade boys won their divisions. 8th Grade girls finished 2nd. An excellent job by all the kids, boys and girls. Results will be posted in the morning. A special thank you to all the parents and volunteers. We had high school coaches, high school track members, administration, parents, and staff from the middle school all helping out. Great job.

April 23rd, 2013

Update on the girls meet. The scores were added wrong and the 8th grade girls ended up winning the meet. Congratulations girls. Results are posted. The kids had a great practice. Keep working hard. Today was watermelon day. Check out the photos.

April 22nd, 2013

Finally some good weather. Great job at your meet tonight girls. The 7th grade girls won and the 8th grade girls placed second. We had some great performances. The 7th grade girls long jump record was broke.

The boys had an awesome practice also. We are looking for volunteers for the meet on Thursday. Please let us know if you can help. Results for the girls meet will be posted tomorrow.

April 18th, 2013

Tonight was crazy day. The weather was crazy and so were the kids here are some photos from the practice. Kirk Hienrick made an appearance to motivate the kids. Great work at practice. Check out the photos.

April 16th, 2013

Great job with adapting to the situation last night. The weather has not been the best this season. Way to be patient during the lightning delay. The results are posted. A special thanks to the parents who volunteered time to the meet. We had a school record in the 7th grade 100 m dash. Jarren Nordstrom broke the record. Great job Jarren!!!!

April 12th, 2013

The weather this year is crazy. Cold, wet, and windy. Not a good combination for track and field. The Rockridge invitational has been cancelled. It will not be rescheduled.

April 11th, 2013

Girls did a great job on Tuesday. The results are posted. Today was a black out. Check out the photos.

April 9th, 2013

Great job last night boys team. We had some great times and distances last night. The results are posted. We had a few girls run last night and they also did great. Keep up the hard work!!!!!!

April 5th, 2013

Results are posted. Great job again. The 7th grade boys ended up winning their meet by 1.5 points.

April 4th, 2013

What a great night for a track meet. Sorry we have been absent from the web page. We are going to try to do a better job of updating the webpage. The kids did an awesome job tonight. We did not receive results. We were told they would have them to us by Monday. Unofficially the 8th grade boys won. It will be interesting to see how the 7th grade boys did. They had a very good night and there were some great surprises. It was exciting. We had a lot of fun. We will get the results up as soon as we can. Thanks for being patient.

March 4th, 2013

There will be informational meetings for the track teams this week. 7th Grade will meet Wednesday, March 6th from 3:25 – 4:30. 8th Grade will meet Thursday March 7th from 3:25 – 4:30. The students will meet in the main Gymnasium. No student can participate in practices without a physical. Physical sheets may be picked up in the nurses office. If you have any questions, please contact Coach Ward or Coach Ehlert.

May 28th, 2012

What a great year. We hope you had as much fun as we did. We will be adding photos to the webpage during the summer. We received a lot from parents. Thank you very much for the photos. Looking back on the year, we were very successful. We started the year with 200 athletes, both the boys and girls teams won all their duals and invitationals, we won all levels of conference for the first time in school history, the 7th grade boys, 7th grade girls, and 8th grade girls all won sectionals as teams, we had 40 athletes qualify for the IESA state track meet, we had 13 medalists at the state track meet, and we broke 15 school records as a group. That is an incredible year. We hope all the kids had a good time this year and we wish the 8th graders good luck in their adventures in high school. Keep coming back to the webpage, we will try to update it as much as possible.

Thank you for being a part of the Geneseo Middle School Track and Field tradition. Have a great summer.

May 21st, 2012

What a great a weekend. Sorry we have not posted. It was a long weekend in the sun. The kids were awesome. We had personal records all weekend. There were five school records. The 7th grade girls 200 meter dash, 7th grade boys 110 meter hurdles, 7th grade boys high jump, 8th grade boys 4×200 relay, and 8th grade boys 4×400 relay all broke school records We ended up medaling in 5 events. The 7th grade boys 110 meter hurdles finished 3rd, the 7th grade boys high jump finished 6th, the 7th grade boys 4 x 100 meter relay finished 5th, the 8th grade boys high jump finished 8th, and the 8th grade boys 4 x 400 relay finished 8th. Again a great weekend. Just to keep in mind when you are looking at the results, there are over 260 schools in our class. That means there are about 1000 students who run in your event. If you made it to state you are pretty special. The results are posted. Reminder to all athletes, we are doing the breakfast of champions on Wednesday morning at 7:50. If you have not turned in your uniform, please bring it to us during the next two days. Again, awesome job to everyone. The 2012 highlight video is also posted. If you would like a copy of the dvd, please contact us. They cost 2 dollars.

May 15th, 2012

We are having a great year. The 7th and 8th grade boys teams ended up winning conference last night. It was a crazy night. First it started off very hot and then with one track event left, the weather turned horrible and it rained hard. At one point the rain was going sideways. The meet officials decided to call the meet due to the lightning and other storms coming into the area. Our kids did an awesome job. The results are posted. This is the first time all levels have won conference in the same year. Congratulations track and field teams.

Friday we will have 9 kids running at state. We will be leaving at 9:00 in the morning. Saturday we have 40 kids going to state. We will be leaving at 6:15 in the morning. It should be a great weekend.

May 13th, 2012

Sectional results are on the webpage. Also there were some great pictures taken and are located on the Leafprints website. Leafprints.

Tonight the 7th and 8th grade girls teams won conference. At the meet two school records were broken. The 7th grade girls high jump and 8th grade girls triple jump were broken. Congratulations girls. We will have the results up in the morning.

May 12th, 2012

What a great day. Results are posted. We qualified 40 athletes for the IESA State Track Meet this weekend. The 7th Grade Girls, 8th Grade girls and 7th Grade boys are all Sectional Team champions. The 8th Grade boys finished second. We also had 5 school records broken. The 7th Grade Girls 4×100 relay, 7th Grade Boys Hurdles, 7th Grade Boys Long Jump, 7th Grade Girls 100 Meter Dash, and the 8th Grade Girls 4×400 relay broke school records. We would like to thank all the parents and volunteers, for making the track meet a great success. Again, what a great day.

May 9th, 2012

Practices have been going well this week. Sectionals are on Saturday. The kids need to be at the High School by 9:30. Just a couple reminders. Girls running events go first with boys field events. Then the Boys running events will go second with girls field events. The meet will last around 7 hours. There is an admission fee for the meet. The IESA sets the price at $2 for children and $3 for adults. Not to bad. There will also be t-shirts for sale on site. The price of t-shirts are $17.

Girls conference will be on Monday at Rock Island High School and Boys Conference will be Tuesday at Browning Field in Moline.

Hope to see you all over the weekend.

May 5th, 2012

Another great day for the Leafs. Riding the momentum from the High School Girls and Boys teams (Girls won Conference, Boys Placed 3rd at own invitational), the teams did awesome. Today the Middle School teams brought 1st place trophies home in all the divisions. More school records were also set today. Records were set in the 7th grade Girls 4 x 800, 8th Grade Girls 4 x 800, and the 7th Grade Boys 4 x 800. The kids are running really well right now. These are exciting times. Sectionals are next Saturday at home. We are in need of workers. Please let us know if you can help. Tell everyone you know to come out and watch. The kids would love to have a big crowd at home. Have a great weekend and congratulations to all the kids. It was a great day.

May 3rd, 2012

A great night for Track and Field. Our kids were awesome tonight. The results will not be in until tomorrow. Glenview will email us the results and we will post them as soon as we get them. We do know we had a school record in the triple jump by a 7th grade girl. Very impressive.

Sorry we have not posted in awhile. The track meet on Tuesday will not be rescheduled. There are too many conflicts. Saturday’s meet in Dixon will begin at 9:00 am with the girls running events and boys field events. We will be leaving the middle school at 7:00 am. The meet usually ends by 2:00. We should be back by 4:00, maybe earlier.

We just want to send a huge thank you to all the parents and kids on being patient with the weather and being positive. We are having great results and the kids are doing very well.

April 29th, 2012

A great week of practices with the kids. We had some fun during the week. Pushed some cars, ran to the Dairy Queen, and did well at the track meets. This week will be very busy. We need some help at our home track meet on Tuesday. It is a dual with Wilson so it should go pretty quick. We are still looking for volunteers for the Sectional track meet on May 12th. If you are interested in volunteering please contact us. Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday April 30th – Boys and girls practice 3:30 – 5:00 Tuesday May 1st – Home track meet with Wilson. Field Events 4:30 Wednesday May 2nd – Boys and girls practice 3:30 – 5:00 Thursday May 3rd – Jack and Jill Relays at Soule Bowl, East Moline Friday May 4th – Boys and girls practice 3:30 – 4:30 Saturday May 5th – Dixon Relays

April 23rd, 2012

Practices for this week go as follows:

Monday – Girls 3:30 – 5:00 Boys Track Meet at Rock Island High School Tuesday – No practice. 1 hour early out Wednesday – Girls Track Meet at Moline (Browning Field) Boys 3:30 – 5:00 Thursday – Boys and Girls 3:30 – 5:00 Friday – Boys and Girls 3:30 – 4:30

What a great night at the Rock Island Invitational. Results are posted.

April 21st, 2012

Sorry for not posting in awhile. Been kind of busy. The kids had a great week. Practices went really well and the meet on Thursday was perfect. We have been very lucky with weather this year. A huge thank you to the parents who helped with the meet on Thursday. There were a ton of heats and we were able to get done by 7:45. That is a good night for as many kids who ran. Many personal bests were run and it was fun to end with an awesome race in the 8th grade 4×400. Most of the results have been posted. We are having some trouble with some of the results. Be patient and we will get them up. We will have some more photos up this week. We have received photos and are sorting them out. Monday the meet is at Rock Island High School for the boys. Here are the line ups:

7th Itenary April 23rd, 2012

8th Itenary April 23th2012

Hope to see you on Monday.

April 14th, 2012

What a great night. The kids ran awesome. The weather was not ideal, but our kids really worked hard and as a team, all the teams won. We even won the overall team award. We would like to apologize for the late night. Rockridge has a new athletic director and this was his first track meet. They did a good job of running the meet. The results are posted. A huge thank you to the parents for being patient with all three track meets this week. We do have a home track meet on Thursday and will need some volunteers. Please let us know if you can help.

Photos from the Rock Island Invite

April 12th, 2012

We have had a couple of good days. The girls started it off with a great track meet on Wednesday night. Both the 7th grade and 8th grade girls teams won the Rock Island Invitational. Results are available. The boys split their team up for their meet today at Glenview and tomorrow at Rockridge. Today the 7th grade finished 2nd and the 8th grade finished 5th at the Glenview Invite. The Glenview results will be sent tomorrow sometime. Tomorrow both the boys and girls participate in the Rockridge Invitational. A great week for most of the kids to get a track meet in.

April 10th, 2012

It has been a while for a post. Lots of things going on. Hopefully everyone had a great spring break. If you have not heard, coach Ehlert added to his family over the break and his wife had a baby boy. Exciting times for his family.

This week is kind of busy. Wednesday there is a girls track meet at Rock Island High School. Thursday there is a boys track meet at Glenview at the Soule Bowl in East Moline. The team will be split for this meet. Here are the boys line up.

7th Itenary April 12th, 2012

8th Itenary April 12th, 2012

On Friday the boys and girls teams will be heading to Rockridge in Taylor Ridge, IL. It will be at Rockridge High School. Here are the line ups for the boys. We will get the girls line ups on also.

7th Itenary April 13th2012

8th Itenary April 13th2012

Here are some photos from past meets.

March 30th, 2012

Another great night. The kids did awesome at the meet. All the teams won their meets. We had many individual winners. The results will are posted. Just a reminder, there is no practice next week. Our next practice will be April 9th at 3:30.

March 27th, 2012

Practices are still going well. Easy practice tonight. Here are the boys line-ups for Thursday:

7th Itenary March 29th, 2012

8th Itenary March 29th, 2012

We will have the girls line-ups soon. There is also a parent note that will be given out.

Track Parent Letter(3-27-2012)

If you have any photos from track meets, please send them and we will post them on the webpage.

Photos from the Intra-squad meet:

March 22nd, 2012

What an awesome night!!! The intra-squad meet was a great success. The kids did awesome. The night started with a little rain and then cleared off to be a perfect night for running. We had some great performances. We will have the results posted soon. A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered and our student managers. The meet was a lot easier with the great help we had. Just a reminder, practice ends at 4:30 tomorrow. If you have photos from the meets, send them to us and we will post them in the blog.

March 21st, 2012

The track and field gear came in today. The kids received their sweats and shirts. Notice on the website we have added a throwers page and a track shoes and spikes page. Great information provided by coach Johnson. Please contact us if you have any questions. Do a rain dance. We could use a little luck for tomorrow.

March 20th, 2012

Things are still going well. We have an intra-squad meet on Thursday. We will have the results posted for you hopefully by friday. If anyone is interested in helping with the meet please contact us. The kids will have a parent letter tonight for you. We will also have the track line ups for you.

Track Parent Letter(3-20-2012)

8th Boys Itenary March 22nd, 2012

7th Boys Itenary March 22nd, 2012

March 15th, 2012

A great week of practice. We had time trials in the 100 meters and 400 meters tonight. The kids did great. They are all sore and tired from a hard week of practice, so they think their times are slow. They actually did a great job. We will post their results soon. Hat/bandana day went well also. The kids have the next three days off. That will really help their soreness. Have a great weekend.

Parent Meeting Video

March 13th, 2012

Practices have been great this week. An awesome turnout for the parent meeting. Thanks to the parents for coming. The video from the meeting will be up soon. The kids had great participation in the”black out”today. On Thursday we are doing a hat/bandana day. The kids are really working hard.

March 9th, 2012

The first week is done. What a great week. Next weeks practices go as follows:

Monday March 12th – All Girls and Boys 3:25 – 5:00 Tuesday March 13th – All Girls and Boys 3:25 – 5:00 (Parent Meeting 5:00) Wednesday March 14th – All Girls and Boys 3:25 – 5:00 Thursday March 15th – All Girls and Boys 3:25 – 5:00 Friday March 16th – No School – No Practice

Tuesday we are also having a “Black out”, everyone wear black. Have a great weekend.

March 8th, 2012

We have had a great turn out this week. The boys have around 100 for both 7th and 8th grade. Girls are above 80 for both 7th and 8th grade. We have new people signing up everyday, which is great. Reminder that clothing order forms are due Friday. We will be getting the order out on Monday. Next week’s weather looks great. Highs in the 60’s all week. A great start for the year.

March 5th, 2012

Practices started today for 7th grade. A great turnout. It is not to late to join. If you know anyone who wants to join, have them talk to the coaches.

March 1st, 2012

Practices start on Monday (7th Grade) and Tuesday (8th Grade). The following are some important forms the kids recieve:

2012 Track Parent Letter

2012 MS TR Schedule

2012 Track directions

Field Trip Permission Slip 2012

2012 Track Practice Schedule

2012 Track Parent Volunteer Sign Up Sheet

2012 Track Sweat Order Form

February 27th, 2012

Parents and athletes. Practices will begin a week from today. The first week of practice will go as follows:

Monday March 5th – 7th Grade Girls and Boys 3:30 – 4:30 Tuesday March 6th – 8th Grade Girls and Boys 3:30 – 4:30 Wednesday March 7th – 7th Grade Girls and Boys 3:30 – 4:30 Thursday March 8th – 8th Grade Girls and Boys 3:30 – 4:30

February 8th, 2012

Parents if you are in need of a physical, here is the form. Physical form.

February 1st, 2012

Track practices will begin in March. Please make sure you have a current health physical on file. The schedule has been posted and is available on this website and the middle school calendar.

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