Which comes first — the meet or the stats?
April 19th, 2008, 11:33 pm · Post a Comment · posted by itsonlyagame
This past week I’ve heard not one but two people suggest that we sponsor an “honor roll” track meet for area teams. The State Journal-Register’s meet is nice, they say, but it would be nicer to have one just for the smaller schools that we cover.
I’ve thought about it for years. I think it’s a terrific idea. When I first got to the Journal-Courier, I started an honor roll for track, as well as for wrestling. I interned at the News-Gazette in Champaign many years ago, and that newspaper had honor rolls like that. Great idea. I think the News-Gazette sponsors a track honor roll meet, where the athletes with the best times and heights and distances are invited to compete. The wrestling honor roll, well, that’s just to give the wrestlers some recognition (and they really don’t get enough).
Our track honor roll was for recognition only. I figured, if enough people were interested enough in track to send in all their results, eventually we’d pursue sponsoring a meet.
They weren’t, so we didn’t.
The Varsity site would make keeping track of the best times and heights and distances in the area as easy as scratching in the triple jump. The site is set up so coaches can enter their own stats, if for some reason we don’t receive them.
Maybe we will sponsor that meet someday. But we’re going to need a little help.
