collapsed <\/a>under the weight of snow and has been closed since.<\/p>\nThe Juneau-Douglas High School track and field team, which has competed for the past two seasons in the \u201cBig C Relays\u201d at the facility, decided to reschedule that weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did some research and looked around for something that would fit our team well,\u201d assistant coach Jesse Stringer said, who found two such meets in Washington state.<\/p>\n
The team competes Friday in Gig Harbor Washington with Gig Harbor and Yelm High Schools. Saturday, the team travels three hours east on Interstate-90 for the Don Holder Relays in Yakima, Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to find something comparable to Big C\u2019s, like a big event that\u2019s fun, maybe has some events that we won\u2019t see for the rest of the season like the steeplechase, distance medley relay, we\u2019ll get to watch the javelin,\u201d Stringer said of the Yakima meet, which has over two schools signed up for it.<\/p>\n
Head coach Janette Gagnon has family in the Yakima-area who has agreed to help lodge JDHS\u2019 18 athletes.<\/p>\n
Gagnon admits the trip will be an experiment for the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little scary because we haven\u2019t had feet on the track that much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Adair-Kennedy track is still 3\/4 covered in a foot of snow. The back 200 meters of the the track is also covered in an inch of ice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t really run a full lap this season on the track,\u201d Stringer said following Wedneday\u2019s practice at Adair-Kennedy. \u201cWe ran a lap over it today, but there\u2019s ice back there, right? So we\u2019re just going to go down there and see what we got and see what we can do \u2014 we\u2019re in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead, much of the training runners like freshmen Anna Iverson has completed thus far has been on pavement \u2014 or snow.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited that there won\u2019t be a lot of snow,\u201d Iverson said about the Washington trip. \u201cAlso I\u2019ve never run anywhere else besides in Alaska for a meet. So I think it\u2019ll be a neat experience and not a lot of teams get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iverson is one freshman to keep an eye on this season. She surprised herself and the rest of the state after placing 11th overall in the last year\u2019s state cross country meet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think it\u2019ll work out good for her,\u201d Gagnon said of Iverson\u2019s shift from running trails to track.<\/p>\n
Sadie Tuckerwood, the reigning state girls cross country champion, will train with both the JDHS track and soccer teams and will not be going on the Washington trip.<\/p>\n
The eight other girls going for JDHS include: Kamy Hamrick, Gabryel Kito, Ashleigh and Gretchen Neal, Sophia Perry and Elizabeth Ramseth.<\/p>\n
The boys side traveling also consists of nine members, including Tim McKenna, a long-distance runner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know it\u2019s probably going to be harder competition than we usually face,\u201d McKenna said of the meet.<\/p>\n
McKenna will be joined by Sahil Bathija, Arne Ellefson-Carnes, Dalton Hoy, Tomas Mesa, Shadrach Stitz, Cody and Tyler Weldon and John White on the trip.<\/p>\n
JDHS Track schedule<\/strong><\/p>\nMarch 31 @ Gig Harbor<\/p>\n
April 1 @ Yakima (Don Holder Relays)<\/p>\n
April 15 Guy Thibodeau All-Comers Meet<\/p>\n
April 21-22 @ Ketchikan<\/p>\n
April 28-29 @ Sitka<\/p>\n
May 5-6 Capital Invite<\/p>\n
May 12-13 @ Haines<\/p>\n
May 19-20 Regionals<\/p>\n
May 25-28 @ Palmer (State Meet)<\/p>\n
June 3-4 @ Kodiak (Brian Young Invite)<\/p>\n
*Home meets at Thunder Mountain High School<\/p>\n
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\n\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n
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