Home track meet and more

What a busy sports day at OHHS. There was varsity baseball, softball, tennis, and boy's golf, in addition to the track meet. I was busy taking pictures at the track meet, so don't know how the other teams did.

Speaking of track, it was a long time coming, but we hosted our first track meet in nearly a decade. The day started out cool and cloudy, but as the meet progressed, both the sun and the wind visted Wildcat Memorial Stadium. With a few exceptions, the meet ran smoothly, but slow. It was slow due to some difficulties with our new fully automatic timing system, but the problems were overcome and our tracksters did well.
One thing that really helped was the volunteer efforts by a large number of the OHHS teachers. I saw Mrs. Molitor, Mr. Collins, and Senora Veach with stopwatches at the finish line, Mr. McLeod braving wild javelins, and Mr. Farmer at the shot put. I know there were more, I just can't remember them all. Of course, Mr. Black from ROTC was Mr. Starter for the day, and Mrs. Wichers put in a lot of work getting all the volunteer organized. Thanks to you all!
On the girls side, out of 16 events, our girls won 9, placed 2nd in 4, finished 1-2 in 3, and had a finisher in the top 3 in 14 of the events. Becky Freeman throwing the discus was only 3 feet short of placing 3rd. Our ladies ran, jumped, and threw for a combined 20 2008 season personal records.

PRs of note were Hope Thompson shaving over a second off her 200 meter dash time, Mariah Ferguson with 20 seconds off her 2-mile time, Amanda Alvorado throwing the javelin an additional 17 feet, and Janessa Ramos cutting .78 seconds off her previous 100 dash best.
The boys won 3 of 17 events, placing 2nd in 6, and placing someone in the top 3 in 14 events. Again, in the discus, Stephen Lewis was just 3 feet short of placing 3rd. The boys set 33 new personal records for this season.
Ben Page cut over 18 seconds and Nate Miller cut almost 11 seconds off their 3200 meter times, Donovan Hunt added 2 feet to his long jump best, Cody Klauer ran 16 seconds faster in the 1600, and Clarence LaMont added 9 feet to his javelin throw.

Below are a few pictures I picked out to post.