Summer Training for Cross Country and Track

Cross Country training this summer,
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-Coach Green

Track and Strength Training
Our new Track sprint/hurdle coach, Jordan Bucklew has a great summer plan in store.
Jordan took over the Sprint and Hurdle training for our track team and did an outstanding job. I've been looking for someone to take over as the Head Coach for Coronado for several years now, and he'll be a great asset to the program.

See details supplied by him below.

Dear Parents and Athletes,
As the Track & Field season winds down, I am working on creating some opportunities to continue the progression of our athletes throughout the off-season and into the next school year.
The purpose of this program is to improve our foot speed, acceleration, sprint mechanics, conditioning, race strategies, and provide a competitive arena both in practice and in live competition. While we will be focusing on skill development for track & field, the techniques learned in this program can be applied in other areas of sports development.
I have attached a calendar detailing tentative practices, as well as the Summer Nights Track and Field meets in San Diego.
Meets:
Meets are typically on Wednesday nights, with the exception of two meets (which are both held on Saturday & Sunday):
1.       The USATF Junior Championships in Norwalk, CA and
2.       The California State Games at UCHS
I can provide more information on those two meets at a later date.
Practices:
Practices will ideally be held Monday’s, Wednesday’s if there is no scheduled meet and/or some Friday's. Each practice will have a theme (i.e. running mechanics, acceleration, bounding/jumping, etc.) and a workout. Times will vary from 3/4pm during school to something more like 530/6pm during the summer.
Workouts will be specific to the athlete’s main events that they will running throughout the summer meets.    
Program Details:
Cost for Summer Training Program: $350 per athlete, please contact me for more information regarding sibling pricing.
What This Includes:
·         Summer program T-shirt
·         Entry fees to each summer series track meet (one event only)
·         Transportation (if needed)
·         Coaching at Meets & Practice Sessions
·         Coaching will be available for any athletes who choose to compete in the California State Games and/or USATF Championships. 
About Myself:
I have coached two seasons of track and field and six seasons of Varsity and JV basketball.

Professionally, I've serviced over 15,000 personal training, coaching, and skill development sessions that include private one-on-one, group workouts, boot camps, speed, agility, strength and skill specific sessions. I also previously served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for Montana State before coming back to Coronado. 

As an athlete, I was a three-sport collegiate athlete in football, basketball, and track and field, and captained in all three sports. Some personal accolades include 1st team all-state CIF football, all-league and section champion CIF basketball, junior college All-American in track and field in the Decathlon and NAIA All-American bids in track and field for Heptathlon and Decathlon. I also spent three years as a professional basketball player with the American Basketball Association.

Relevant certifications I've held include:

•USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach 
•USATF Level 1 Coach
•NSCA Certified Personal Trainer
•CAFS Level 1
•NFHS Certified Coach
Please feel free to contact me at jordanbucklew@gmail.com or by phone @ (559) 906-6854 by May 27^th to let me know you would like to sign up and/or if you have any questions regarding this summer program.
Looking forward to hearing back from you! 

Thank you!

Coach Jordan Bucklew
jordanbucklew@gmail.com
(559) 906-6854

18 May 2019: CIF Finals: Hickey and Perez advance to State Meet

At the CIF Track Finals held last Saturday at Mt. Carmel High School, it was no surprise that Coronado's Alysah Hickey would win both the High Jump and Long Jump to advance to the State Meet in Fresno this coming Saturday. We had also hoped that Teresa Perez would advance in the 800-meter run: that too came to pass. Alysah won both of her events easily, clearing 5 feet 8 inches in the high jump, and spanning 19 feet 7.5 inches in the long jump. She's the state leader in both events.  Teresa had to work a bit for her ticket to State as only the top three finishers go on. After a blazing fast start in the 800, Teresa was at the back of a tight pack at the 200-meter mark. She ran the first lap (400 meters) in 66.7 seconds. By then, she had moved up to mid-pack. With 250 meters left to go, she started passing other runners. At the top of the last curve, she was in second place, where she stayed until the finish. Her time was 2:13.71 so she ran about the same time for both laps (track aficionados call this "even splits"). The other runners came back to her.  

 

Although Alysah and Teresa were our only two State Qualifiers, a few Islanders made the podium trip to pick-up a CIF medal for finishing in the Top-6 for Division II.  Sofia Van Arsdale placed 5th in the 800, Madden Hundley placed 5th in the 1600, and Victoria Perez placed 3rd in the Discus.

Because they posted the top marks in our division (D-II), Alysah and Teresa are both D-II section champs for this year.  Team-Wise we placed 4th among the 66 Girls D-II schools.

Although he missed the podium by a couple of places, Nick Dunn had a great race in the 100-meter dash with an 8th place time of 11.18.

 

The girls 4x400 had a shot the top 6 but came up a little short in 8th place with a time of 4:11.44. All but one of that team had already run a race. Van Arsdale ran the first leg. She handed off to Abigail Hundley who had previously run the 1600. Regina Czerewko ran the third leg, and Teresa the anchor leg.

 

The State Meet is a two-day affair, held in Fresno at Buchanan High School. The Prelims are on Friday, the Finals on Saturday. Saturday could be interesting as Thunderstorms are in the weather forecast. 

11 May 2019: CIF Prelims

Last week we competed in the CIF Prelims at Mt. Carmel High School. The Prelims serve as the qualifier for the CIF finals, which, in turn, is the qualifier for the State Meet in Fresno on May 24th and 25th. There are two CIF Divisions for Track, appropriately named Division 1 and Division 2, with Division 2 comprised of schools with an enrollment under 2000. The top nine athletes per division per event advanced to the CIF finals next Saturday, also at Mt. Carmel. We advanced seven athletes in 6 events. The day started with field events at 9:00 A.M. Because last Saturday's meet was the preliminary event to next week's finals, the horizontal jumpers (long and triple jumps) took only three attempts to cull the field down to the final nine. Alysah Hickey cleared over 19 feet on all three of her attempts. Her best jump was her second where she cleared 19 feet 10.25 inches to set a new CIF Championship meet record. The former record was by Olympian Gail Devers who jumped 19 feet 6.5 inches in 1983.  Hickey also advanced in the high jump with a clearance of 5 feet 4 inches. If you've been following her exploits, you'll know that this is way under her normal performance.  At the prelims, she stopped when she surpassed all the other jumpers because the take-off area was wet and slippery from the rain that persisted until early afternoon. In the girl's discus throw, Victoria Perez advanced with the third best throw in our division with 115 feet 8 inches. Teresa Perez won the D-II 800 meter run in 2:16.05 followed by Sofia Van Arsdale who also advanced in eighth place with a time of 2:22.88. In the girls' 1600-meter run the Hundley sisters both advanced with Madden clocking 5:19.43 to win her heat and Abby placing third with 5:22.88 in the same heat. In the last girls' event of the day we placed eighth in the 4x400 relay with a time of 4:11.30 to move on to next week. That team consisted of Van Arsdale running the lead leg followed by Abby Hundley, Regina Czerewko, and Tresa Perez running anchor. Czerewko also competed in the 300 hurdles with a time of 51.25 but didn't advance to the finals.

We had one qualifier for the boys, Nick Dunn, who ran a personal best time of 11.01 seconds. Unfortunately for Nick, there was a 2.6 meters per second tailwind which kept him from setting a new school record. The maximum allowable wind for records is 2.0 meters per second. Our current record is 11.06 seconds set in 2008 by Kyle Brown at this meet. Brad Busby almost advanced in the boys' 1600-meter run with a time of 4:38.15. He's the second alternate, however, and may yet scratch-in.

Also running, but not advancing, were John Cook who clocked 18.17 for the 110 meter high hurdles, and the boys 4x100 relay team of Dunn, Shane Alihan, Kainoa Potter, and Zane Delcore with a time of 45.93.

-Coach Green

3 May 2019: City League Finals

Our final League Meet of the season was the City League Finals at Kearny High School last Friday. The main purpose of this event was to qualify athletes for the CIF prelims, but a secondary purpose was to name the League Champions for each event as well as the Athletes of the Year for both Track and Field events. League Championship medals were awarded to the top three athletes in each event. After all the running and jumping, we advanced 15 athletes to the CIF prelims.  There are three ways to advance to CIF. You win your event; you hit a qualification mark; you advance by place. The last method needs a little more explanation. If you don't get in by winning or by mark, you can still advance by being among the top 27 athletes in all the other league finals in Division-2 on that day (last Friday). Below I'll indicate how an athlete advanced by using the short cuts "won," "mark," and "place." I'll go in order of our events.

Our first race was the boys' 4x100 meter relay manned by Shane Alihan, Nick Dunn, Zane Delcore, and Kaiona Potter, in that order. They placed 3rd  in the league race with a time of 45.21 but placed 19th in D-2 to advance to CIF by place.  In the girls' 1600, Madden Hundley advanced by both mark and place with a time of 5:15.28. Abigail Hundley advanced by place with 5:31.81, and Samantha Russell placed 4th with 6:16.39. Madden's places were 2nd for both our league and the CIF behind Christian's Alaina Zamorano. In the boys' 1600, Brad Busby advanced by place with a time of 4:40.78 followed by Cole Mullins (4:47.04), and Conor Youngblood (5:40.80). In the boys' 100 hurdles, John Cook advanced by winning with a time of 17.70 followed by Orion James (18.42), Noah Wahamaki (19.02), and Tim Shumaker (20.35).  The girls' 100 was an extremely fast race with the top two girls in the San Diego section going head-to-head.  Madison's Aysah Shaheed nipped Alysah Hickey at the tape with a time of 11.90. Hickey ran 11.92 followed by Brianna Finnegan (14.13) and Daniela Rassvetaieff (14.18). Finnegan came back in the 200 with a time of 29.14. Dunn advanced by place in the boys' 100 with a time of 11.19 and came back later in the 200 to advance by place with a time of 23.00. He followed up by placing 4th in the long jump with 19 feet 7 inches. The girls' 800 was won by Teresa Perez in 2:17.25.  She outlasted Christian's Zamorano in a very close race. The pair are the top 2 seeds in D-2 going into the CIF prelims. Sofia Van Arsdale also qualified by mark with a time of 2:23.50 followed by Madden Hundley qualifying by place in 2:31.14, and Abigail Hundley in 2:32.30. There's a good chance that Abigail will scratch in to the CIF prelims as she's now sitting in 30th place. Regina Czerewko picked up the 2nd place medal in the 300-meter hurdles. Her time put her 19th among D-2 hurdlers, so she advanced by place. In that same race Jasmine Chaney placed 5th with a time of 57.31. Regina also placed 5th in the 400 with a time of 64.81.

The girls put together a last minute 4x400 team consisting of Teresa Perez, Czerewko, Abigail Hundley, and Finnegan to clock 4:20.47 behind Christian. This was fast enough to advance to the CIF finals by place. The boys' 4x400 team consisting of Alihan, Wahamaki, Jesse Vernallis, and Potter placed 2nd behind Madison with 3:48.22 after Crawford was DQ'd for cutting a runner off at their third handoff.

In the girls' field events, Hickey won both the girls high jump and long jump with marks of 5 feet 8 inches and 20 feet 1.5 inches respectively. She's the state leader in both events. Victoria Perez won the discus-throw with a toss of 118 feet 9 inches to advance. She also advanced in the shot-put by place with a heave of 31 feet 9 inches.

In the boys' throws, Jack Weisbrod was our top performer with a heave of 37-9 in the shot-put and 78-1 in the discus. Joe Whalen, Andrew Needham, and Asa Valdiva were our other shot putters in that order. Needham and Whalen were or next two in the discus.

-Coach Green