Catholic Middle School Track and Field April 5: 7th & Grade Edition1
April 7, 2013
1 st Meet a Relative Success! Despite Issues With Some Field Events, We Managed! It was a reasonably warm day considering the weather we’ve
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had this spring. Most of our athletes didn’t seem to mind too much as they busied themselves running around with friends, cheering on their teammates and performing on the
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track and field. As with any first event out of the box, there are some difficulties. We had a little difficulty with the throwing
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events and high jump, but we hope to have those issues solved for Monday.
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Holy Family! The kids from Holy Family had an awesome first meet! Shaking off the chilly temps and perhaps some preseason rust Holy Family performed well in their out door debut!
Samiya Abuyoum, an 8th grader raised some eyebrows
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with an opening time in the 400m of 1:14! But Holy
Some of the state and country’s athletes have preformed in the Des Moines Area Catholic Middle School Track Meet?
Family weren’t finished! Every one of their hurdlers improved their times by a full second! . In the 200m dash Marina Mubarak ran very well and had a strong finish. Time: 31.3 Nicole Quang pushed herself throughout the whole race and really kicked it in for a time also right around 31 seconds. Jake Powell shaved a full 3 seconds off his initial time finishing very
National champions such as Obsie Birru (Sacred Heart/Grand View) who won the Division II National Championship in cross country and Katie Flood (St. Augustin/Washington) who won the Division I 1500m last year! Let’s not forget all of the state champions who have run in this meet! How about Tom Farrell from Holy Trinity who is a state cross country champion from the 1970’s and Karissa Schweizer who is a state champion in the 3000m from 2011! Who will the next champion from this meet be?
strongly.
Congratulation to all the Holy Family athletes for a great first Meet!
50 Years of Greatness Can you believe it! Since 1963, on the old 330-yard cinder track at the old Dowling High School over on 10th and College, this meet has been held featuring some of the greatest athletes in our state and country! We are proud of all of the athletes who have competed on the “Black Oval” through these years!
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Commemorative t-shirts and other apparel will be available for purchase later this season!
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Holy Trinity!
Ashlie and Cole
HT is pleased to see our distance runners picking up where they left off last year. Strong efforts and nice
Ashlie and Cole are still doin’ it after
finishes by Vivian Broderick and Cate Freeman for
inspiring and successful careers in middle
the girls. On the boy’s side, Tristan Clubb turned in
school and high school. Both are
nice runs for distance and we add another distance
individual state champions and both are
runner, newcomer to the team Michael Ode with a
competing at the next level in college.
strong finish in the 800M.
Ashlie ,who competes for the
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national powerhouse University of
We are excited to see Emily Flood and Susie Gaul on
Minnesota Golden Gophers won the
top in the hurdles. Emily Flood, Alexa Seifer and 7th
1500m at the University of Arkansas
grader Adaora Nwizu turned in strong finishes in our
Razorback Spring Invite and just
sprints and Cole Billings, 7th grader Spencer Hobbs,
this past Saturday finished 2nd in the
Aaron Krah and Jake Hummel did the same for the
Steeplechase at the Crimson Tide
boys.
Invite in Alabama! Cole, after his state champion run
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on the track for Dowling Catholic last season, including a Drake Relays Championship in the 3200m, is helping Central College in Pella turn the corner for the track program in becoming a national powerhouse!
Thanks to all our athletes for making us proud for being runners, throwers and jumpers for the Maroons! 3
Thank You! Thanks to all of our athletes, fans, coaches, parents and supporters for making The Des Moines Area Catholic Middle School Track Programs one of the best meets in the country for our young people. Thanks for giving our kids a wonderful experience with the great sport of track and field. We hope they continue making us proud as they take their talents on to the next level at Dowling Catholic High School! Also thank you to all those who give so generously to help make our event a success.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway to peace, taking as Jesus did this sinful world as it is and not as I would have it. Trusting you will make all things right if I surrender to your will, that I might be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with you in the next. Amen�
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