Indoor Track State Championships Saturday

Indoor track is a very peculiar situation in North Carolina.  It is of course an indoor sport but there are only two indoor tracks in the entire state so any athlete  that takes part in track and field during the winter  does so at outdoor events. 

There are no conference championships or regional champions so there is only one way to qualify for the state championship and that is by your best time of the year during winter meets.  You would think and I think this is so that running events are slower, field events are not quite as far as will happen during the spring when everyone breaks out the shorts.

The only way to qualify for the State indoor state championship is that you have to meet a minimum time or distance in any meet that you take part in during the winter.  If that time or distance meets the minimum then that athlete qualifies for the state meet which this year is being held at JDL Fast Track in Winston Salem.  The 4A meet is Saturday morning and the 3A in the afternoon. 

If you think the four county high school athletes who are track and field participants sit around and wait for the spring you are mistaken.  Some right now are playing basketball and come Saturday 32 athletes or relay teams have qualified for the state championships for our four public high schools.  Just imagine that if you do play two sports during the winter and in track and field you have done well enough to qualify for the state you know come spring when maybe all they will do is concentrate of track and field they will have better numbers.  This area is full of quality athletes.

This past weekend the state team wrestling titles were won and in 2A Newton Conover won the title.  Newton Conover this week forfeited the title after having used an ineligible wrestler.  Conover beat Carrboro 32-28 but by NCHSAA rule the state title winner will remain blank in 2A.  Seems unjust in many ways that Carrboro still finishes second.

This weekend begins the regional individual wrestling championships.  The Big East, Coastal, Eastern Carolina, Mideastern and Two River wrestlers will be in the same regional together.

Yesterday North Carolina Wesleyan Basketball got big wins.  The women playing at home and the final home game for seniors Alexis Fitzgerald and Nashville native Timyra Staton 16 points led the way in a 72-35 victory. The victory pushes the Lady Bishops into position to make the conference tournament next week?

The men were in Ferrum Virginia were they won 88-77.  The win moves the men into 6th place  and with four games to go before the season ending tournament if they hold on to 6th they will be in Justin Tankelewicz had 23, Chris Braswell 19, AJ Frye 19  and Adrian Moore 12.  A total team effort.

If you read this blog on any consistent basis then you know I let you know everyone in my family that has anything to do with sports.  Son in law Jerod Musante played soccer in college and since last summer has worked for the Carolina Railhawks and now Carolina FC.  He is in charge of the youth soccer program.

Son Brooks in a couple of weeks heading back to the US Olympic Training Center where he and other coaches will receive all the training tools possible for a coach to have.  Sounds like a trip abroad representing the USA  is up coming.