PENINSULA TRACK & FIELD CLUB

NEWSLETTER – MARCH 2010-03-12

 

This is the first Peninsula Track Club newsletter for several years. The main object of the newsletter is to try to let everyone know what is happening with our athletes and their families. We have several training groups within the club and as training is on different days for these groups the athletes don’t get a chance to see what the other groups are doing.

We hope to have a short bio for all our coaches on the website soon but for those of you new to the club here is a list of our coaches for this season

Coaching Coordinator – Karen MacEwan

Thomas Riekki, Linda Riekki – Experienced athletes sprint and power group

Ravi Gungasinghe – Middle Distance group for 12 years and older

Mette Fossberg – Sprints, jumps, hurdles – grades 7 & 8

Nadja Steiner, Halley Cote, Jack Thornburgh – Junior Development 9-12 year olds

Thomas Feil, Alexandra Norman-Ross – Shot Put, Discus and Hammer

Dan Daniels – Masters Athletes

Tom Dingle, Jack Thornburgh, Lesley Foster – Track Rascals

We will also have a few of our older athletes volunteering to work with the JDs – more info to follow.

 

TRACK NEWS.

Report from Linda Riekki.

On February 20-21 Thomas Riekki, Dustin Sapala, Danielle Delage, Richard House and Grace Morgan went to the Kamloops Indoor Track meet.  For most of them it was their first indoor meet, and first opportunity to run the 60m and 60m hurdles. We were very pleased with their early season results, and they definitely had fun! If you looked at the pictures that were taken you wouldn’t know they had been to a track meet. Not a single picture was taken at the track. They were all pictures of them goofing around!   Maybe some of those pictures will end up on the website.

 

 

Race Walk Victoria Also on Feb 21st 3 of our athletes participated in a Race Walk competition on the Galloping Goose Trail :

Jaqueline Gaby – 1500m – 2nd – 8.52

Spencer Gaby – Open Men 5K – 1st – 34.15

Kelsey Vermilyea – Open Women 5K – 4th 32.05

Linfield College Meet, Oregon in March

Dustin Sapala and Grace Morgan attended this meet and results were:

Grace – 100m – 4th – 12.72

 200m – 3rd – 26.16

Dustin – 400mh – 8th – 60.9

Following the meet Grace flew to Hawaii with Comox Valley Courgars Coach John May and his athletes for a training camp.

World Masters Indoor Meet, Kamloops

Report from Dan Daniels

We came back with two new World Champions - Sandy Anderson (W65) in the
Pole Vault and myself in the M80 Pentathlon, with a new Canadian
age-group record of 2627 points.

Sandy also brought back a silver in the Shot (6.80m) and High Jump
(1.12m) as well as a bronze in the Weight throw (8.49m).

Peggy Morfitt (W70) came back with two bronze medals - one in the
Javelin (9.93m) and one in the Hammer (14.27m).  Don Brodeur (M55) also
gained a bronze in the Hammer, with his 31.85m throw.

Former Pen Track Javelin Coach Graham Morfitt was another gold medal
winner, out-throwing the rest of his M40 group with a great 60.29m.

Mette Fossberg also attended this meet but due to injury  (she broke both her wrists in January while training) wasn’t able to get in much practice before her events.

Tom and Florence Dingle were officials at this meet

 

Halley Cote and Shauna McInnis, although members of Pen Track, train with a group out of Uvic and attended a meet in Seatte in February with this group. Both girls had PBs in their events.

 

JD Cross Country wrap up

To celebrate the end of the cross country training at Saanich Fair Grounds, Halley and Nadja took the group to the climbing wall at Stelly’s school. A good time was had by all and they wrapped up the evening with pizza and juice.

 

Project Track 21  - Report from Dan Daniels

 Tthe Peninsula Recreation Commission has now agreed to include our Project in their Strategic
Plan - a big step forward in gaining recognition for the value of our
initiative as a major component in the development of recreational
facilities for all citizens of the Saanich Peninsula.

An email has also gone out with information regarding the  2nd "Run For Your
Life" Relay this summer - this year an 8 hour affair - as a fund-raiser
for the track , and  four evening "All-Comers" mid-week events during May and June, as community-awareness functions. Hopefully Dan will have had some feedback on these events.

Equipment Managers.

Giles Cote and Dean Ross have volunteered to be equipment managers for the club.

Other News from the Membership


Dan and Marjory Daniels are  singing in the Via Choralis performance of Mozart's "Requiem" at
St. Elizabeth's on Sunday, March 28 at 2:30.  Dan has tickets for this event  - 656-3669.

Lorenzo family – Fiona, Tommy, Annina, Naomi and Cameron are taking a trip!

 

We plan to go for the upcoming school year on our  45ft catamaran  called Phambili (pronounced Pumbeelee ) meaning "horizon"  or  "moving forward"  in Zulu. It is a  Ron Givens design,  cold moulded  and built on Saltspring Island by Bill Mosely. He and his wife, Domonique,  sailed the boat then named Outer Limits to New Zealand and back. We hope to leave Victoria in  early September and after one long hop down to San Francisco we will continue down the west Coast of the States and Mexico  and from there will  probably  head to the Marquesas, the Tuomotos archepelago,  Tahiti and  Bora Bora in French Polynesia before heading up to Hawaii and back across to the Queen Charlottes and down the Inside Passage to complete our trip.  Our main objective is to spend time together and if all our planned destinations are not reached, it will be of no great importance.

28 Hour Fast   On new years eve Naomi Lorenzo and Amelia Casciola endured a 28 hr fast in solidarity for those less fortunate in the world. During the previous few days they collected an enormous box of non perishibles for the food bank from friends and neighbours.

Lifeguard in Training

Jaqueline Gaby has passed her Bronze Star in her quest to become a lifeguard. She next trains for the Bronze Medallion.

That’s all for this month but keep the information coming for April’s newsletter.