Successful BVU Open!

Well for my first home meet here at BVU as a coach, I think everything went very well. As always there were a few little glitches that need to be fixed before we host our next two meets on the 8th and 9th, but overall things went well. As a track coach hosting meets is a little different than most sports that host home events. Coaches are usually considered the Meet Director as well which means I organize the meet in ever facet, including rounding up volunteers, timers, starters, field judges, etc. It also means organizing the set up of the facility, which includes marking sector lines, setting up the pole vault and high jump pits, preparing long jump pits, roping off the track, etc. Then there comes the seeding of events for the meet which usually takes about 2 hours depending on how many teams you have and the organization of the meet. Then you must print up a thousand copies of heat sheets, finish line sheets, field event score sheets and anything else that coaches or workers might need. Often times we will also have t-shirts for event champions which need to be ordered (although this meet we did not have those). Oh and there is also the purchase and supply of food for the workers. As the meet goes on there are always questions and concerns from judges, timers, starters, other coaches, parents, workers, about anything and everything. So the day gets a little crazy for the head coach and it is really hard to coach on those days. However I have a wonderful coaching staff who is very helpful and takes care of all the athletes. I always manage to pull myself away to make it to every event area and provide a little coaching help during the meet. Our next two meets should be a little easier as former coach Brett Carney will be helping out as our meet director. This will definately take a huge load off my shoulders on meet day. Again this all may be hard on my physically and mentally but its my wife who's the tough one as she takes all of this on as well and still manages to keep me sane. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be able to get through these meets. 

Ok lets move on to the meet itself and how the Beavers preformed!  We had some amazing performances and really improved on last years results at this same meet. I've highlighted some of the improvements but there were many more people who preformed very well behind the scenes and in relays.