track S T A R T

Track season is in full swing. The boys had their first meet last Saturday.

Ty is doing hurdles and struggling already {again} with shin splints.

With the gracious help of friends who luckily live in our village, he's been receiving some medical help- manipulation and acupuncture.

He knocked down a few hurdles at the meet {something he never does} and even broke one without falling down. He also finished the race- which we're proud of.

He said they coach them to attack the hurdles which is what he obviously did. We're hopeful for better meets. Not the best start for him.

Justin had a great first weekend qualifying in both shot and disc for Europeans a the end of May.

He has his sights set on a school record in disc that he'd like to break. The article below was in on the Stars and Stripes blog this week. {I cut some of it out}

Williams, Billups, Dickey set field-events pace

By Rusty Bryan
Published: April 3, 2012

Track season opened two weeks after the high schools’ other spring sports Saturday, but Europe’s field-events elite apparently put the waiting time to good use by rounding into end-of-season form during the preseason.

Darian Billups and Justin Dickey weren’t quite that historic in the shot put and discus, respectively, but both served notice 2012 would be a special year. Billups, who won the European shot put title in 2011 with a heave of 46-9, registered 47-7.75 on Saturday at Ramstein, where Dickey, second in the discus in 2011 at 128-4.5, threw 139-9 in the same meet.

Although both have a way to go to challenge the DODDS-Europe records of Robert Young of Bitburg, 57-5 in the shot, established in 1978, and Ron Arnold’s 161-6 discus toss in 1980, each posted a distance better than the European champions have managed for the past five and six years, respectively. Heidelberg’s Brandon Simmons won the shot in 2006 with a toss of 48-11.25, and Ansbach’s Russell Bailey grabbed the 2005 discus title with a throw of 142-4.5.