MUS Track

The Track Blog is back with big news about Alum Lee Ellis Moore

As the 2012 season approaches we begin to start the year with new post and there is probably no better way than when we begin by sharing just a little in the success of one of our former best. Lee Ellis Moore '07, holds 3 individual school records and is a member of 2 record relay teams. He continued his excellence in track at Ole MIss becoming one of the best 400m hurdle runners in the nation, and has qualified to attend the 2012 US Olympic Trials. But he recently was honored by as a winner of the NCAA Today's Top VIII Award. Read more about this at the link below:

http://www.olemisssports.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/011312aab.html

Coaches are always proud of the accomplishments we get to share with those we coach on the field, court, or track. But I believe what really warms our hearts as coaches is when we see our guys take the things they have learned while competing and apply them in the real world to make a difference. Lee is certainly a prime of example of that.

2011 Track Recap

Our guys who qualified performed well at the State meet. The 4*100 relay team came in 2nd. That group was James Rantzow, Jak Kinney, Alex Dale, and Dustin Conway. The 4*200 team finished 4th with Will Whitley replacing Kinney. Conway followed up with a 6th place finish in the 200. In the field events we had Harrison WIlliams finish 5th in the high jump, John Sousalous 5th in the long jump and Frasier Humphreys 7th in the pole vault.

This team shows a lot of promise for the future as we return all of our point producers from the regional and state meet. We also have some excellent track kids moving up from the lower school team. We look forward to next spring with great expectations.

Each year the Robert Hussey Track MVP Award is presented to the athlete who produces the most points for the team during the season. This year our winner is Dustin Conway. Dustin is a 10th grader who anchored both our 4*100 and 4*200 relay teams and was consistently our top sprinter in the 100 and 200 throughout the season. Congrats to Dustin.

Owls youth shows promise in region

When we started this track season we knew we would be a young team but I do not think we had any idea how young we would be. Every point we scored in the region was by an underclassman. Congrats to those guys who have qualified for the state meet. In the field events we advanced Frasier Humphreys (10) in the pole vault, John Sousalous (11) in the long jump, and Harrison Williams (09) in the high jump. On the track Dustin Conway (10) qualified in the 200 and the 4*100 Relay (James Rantzow (10), Jak Kinney (10), Alex Dale (11), Conway) and 4*200 relay (Rantzow, Will Whitley (10), Dale, Conway) both claimed region victories thus advancing to the state. The state meet is this Friday and our guys are looking to improve on those solid region performances.

COMPLETE MUS RESULTS

2011 Regional Results

Congrats to the ECS Girls and CBHS Boys for their outstanding work in capturing team crowns this week. We do not formally give out an athlete of the meet award but if we did I do not think anyone would dispute that Kacey Nobert of St. Agnes and Sam Tabor of ECS would be the winners. Ms. Nobert set 2 individual meet records and heleped set another in a relay. Mr. Tabor set a new meet mark in the Decathlon and then preceded to win 3 other individual events. Good look to all of our region next week at the State Meet.

COMPLETE MEET RESULTS

Region Track Meet Info

Heading into Friday our meet has run smoothly and we have enjoyed some great weather. LInks below show results up to this point and also there is a meet program for Friday

TUESDAY FIELD EVENT RESULTS

WEDNESDAY PRELIMS AND 3200 RESULTS

FRIDAY MEET PROGRAM

Region Track Begins

The D-II West Region Track meet will start on Tuesday, May 17 at MUS. All of the field events will be competed on Tuesday beginning at 4:30.

SESSION SCHEDULE

Below are links to the Meet Programs for each session.

TUESDAY FIELD EVENTS

WEDNESDAY RUNNING EVENTS

FRIDAY RUNNING EVENTS

Track team earns victory.

The Varsity team had it's best outing of the season yesterday as the team gears up for regional competition. Using a team multi event scoring system the Owls came out ahead of CBHS, BCS and Bishop Byrne. More importantly several of the guys really performed very well individually. Senior Sam Cox cleared a season best 14' 6" in the pole vault, Junior Ben Benton set personal best in both the discus and shot put making him a candidate for a state meet appearance, and Junior John Sousalous continued his solid performances in the long jump and triple jump. Freshman Harrison Williams had a very good day as well winning the high jump and showing very good improvement in the 110 Hurdles.

COMPLETE MEET RESULTS

Next up is the regional decathlon. After several very strong years we are rebuilding in this event and will have all newcomeres. Competing for the Owls will be Sophomore Will Whitley and freshmen Trey Moore, Anthony Walton, and Harrison Williams. This event take place next Tuesday and Wednesday here at MUS.

Young Owls look great at Shelby League Championships

In one of the most dominating performances I can remember the Lower School track team capped off a great season last Friday night. The team got off to a great start during the field events on Thursday. Strong showings by Drew RIchmond (2nd in Shot Put), David Nelson (2nd in discus), Jack Gray (3rd in discus), Bradley Foley (3rd in long jump), Gaines Whittington (5th in long jump), and then the 1-2 finish in the high jump of Rashad Orange and Preston White (Both cleared 5'4" with Rashad winning based on fewer misses) MUS had a large lead going into the running events Friday evening.

Orange and Whiitington started on Friday as they finished 2nd and 3rd in the 100m hurdles. The next event was the 4*100 relay where the team of Chris Davis, Nick Dunn, Bradley Foley, and Terrell Jackson not only won but set a new school record. This started a trend. In the next event, the 1600M run, Pierce Rose ties the school record (Set 30 years ago by Shea Ross) in bringing home a gold medal. In the 100M Dash the team got a gold medal by Malik Gatewood and a bronze by Nick Dunn. The 4*200 relay team of Chris Davis, Gaines Whittington, Stewart Love, and Nick Dunn kept the gold medal charge going. Next up was the 400M dash where all season long Terrell Jackson had assaulted the record book breaking and setting new school records each week. He continued in that mode as he flew to victory followed closely by Brad Foley in 4th place. All the team was charged up for the next race as Rashad Orange attempted go after the longest standing lower school record set by our own Judd Peters back in 1977 in the 800M run. With a great closing kick and the support of his teammates Rashad sprinted to victory and the league and school record. Pierce Rose finished a strong 2nd. Dunn and Davis bring home a 2nd and 3rdplace in the 200M dash. The lone disappointment for the meet was in the 4*400 relay where the group of Orange, Hays Moreland, Foley, and Jackson smashed the school and league record by over 4 seconds but were DQ'ed for a baton infraction. Still the team scored 154 points which more than doubled the 73 points accumulated by 2nd place ECS. Also the Dan Griffin Outstanding Athlete Award went to Rashad Orange.

A special thanks to Coaches Bakke, Rogers, Husseth, and Kiehl for their work all season with this very talented group.

COMPLETE MEET RESULTS

Middle School Meet 4 results

On a cool and cloudy spring day here are the results. Congrats to Terrell Jackson for resetting the 400M Dash record that he broke earlier in the season

MEET RESULTS

Collierville Results

Team finished 8th at the Collierville Dragon Relays. John Sousoulas led the team in scoring winning the triple jump with a PR of 42'10" and finishing 4th in the long jump. Eli Goldstein led the pole vault group finishing 2nd with a season best jump of 13'0". Sam Cox also cleared 13' to finish 4th and Frasier Humphreys set a new PR at 10'6" to finish 8th. Dustin Conway set a new PR in the 200 running 22.72 in the prelims and then captured 4th place in the finals. and the 4*200 relay team (Edward Lake, James Rantzow, Jak Kinney, and Conway) finished 4th.