The girls' track regional was held this past Tuesday night, May 27th at our high school.
At the end of the week last week, the forecast was showing chilly and rainy weather for all this week with the possibility of thunderstorms beginning right before the meet was to start. Noel and I said that we would start praying that the rain would move out of the area long enough that the girls could have dry weather and have the best track conditions as possible; Praise the Lord! God really did give the runners a beautiful night to compete. (Even if the fans were still wearing coats and sitting under blankets)
When Nolan and I arrived at the meet, it was around 71 degrees and dry and Melayna and Annie were doing their stretches and warming up. Melayna wasn't running until a bit later in the evening, but she wanted to try to help distract Annie and keep her relaxed before her 100 hurdle prelims.
Coach Eric, and Coach Nate both showed up to not only cheer on some of the runners, but to help get all of the hurdles out on the track and set into place. I think they also knew how nervous Noel was for both Annie and Melayna and they were trying to distract him for a few minutes. Noel is always nervous for the girls but at this point, what can he do? They've worked hard all season... now it's just time to watch how it all plays out.
Morgan and Marissa both worked at the lake yesterday but they were able to make it to the track as the preliminary races were going. Thankfully they got there just in time to watch Annie win her preliminary heat and advance to the 100 hurdle finals.
And then after a thirty minute break, it was time for the 100 hurdle finals to kick off the start of the official regionals meet.
There was nothing left to do except to cheer for Annie and pray that it all worked out...
Annie ran a great race but unfortunately she four stepped the very last hurdle and that was just enough to get her outleaned at the finish line, finishing fourth on the night. Only the top three would advance to the state meet next weekend. She was definitely disappointed, but Melayna was able to go over to her right away and they prayed together and took a few minutes to regroup. They both still had the 300 low hurdles to run and they both needed to focus on that now. We were all disappointed for her, but it was such a sweet moment to see them praying together. No matter what, with God at the forefront of all that they do, these girls are always going to be okay.
And then before we knew it, Melayna was setting up her starting blocks and the 300 lows were getting ready to begin. Due to her seed time from sectionals, Melayna would be seeded 10th (out of 16) and would run in the first and slower heat.
Here is the video of her regional run. She went out hard and ran a good race finishing 2nd in her heat and 9th overall. She also ran a season's best time of 47.85 and just a tenth of a second off of her fastest time ever!!
My apologies for the screaming and cheering in the background. You can hear other parents cheering and even Nolan jumped in and joined the girls and I.
The night would end with the 4x400 relay team making an amazing comeback on the final homestretch and barely edging out another team for a third place finish and advancing to state. Annie was part of that team and will run at state and as an alternate, Melayna will also make the trip with the team.
And for the second year in a row, the Lady Tigers are Regional champions!!
Now it's time to just soak it in and enjoy the time with your teammates.
1 comment:
Great job!!!! That's awesome to run that well!
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