After the Rockdale Relays and the Buffalo Relays in Giddings, Rockdale High School boys track coach Lewis Edmonson is looking to challenge some of his best athletes by taking them to Cuero on Saturday, where they will face 4A and 5A competition.
“I’m really excited for them to go,” Edmonson said. “I didn’t even plan on running this meet.
“I got an e-mail from the head track coach at Cuero informing me that this will a really competitive meet and that he’d like to have us down there. So I asked Coach Miller if we could make the trip down there and gave me the okay.”
The Jack Adcock Gobbler Relays in Cuero will feature many schools Rockdale hardly ever crosses paths with including Sweeny, East Bernard, Ingleside, Yoakum, Port Lavaca-Calhoun, Victoria East, Goliad, Shiner-St. Paul, Luling and host Cuero.
“I’m especially looking forward to facing Goliad,” Edmonson said. “Their four-by-two qualified for state last season and I want to see how our group does against them.”
The 4x200-meter relay team of Cam’Ron Valdez, KeSean Raven, Qua’Shawn Crawford and Will Storey is undefeated so far this season and has improved their time from 1:32.95 to 1:32.25 in the course of a week.
The sprint relay team placed second at their home relay but won the gold in Giddings, improving their time from 43.46 to 43.34. That team included Storey, Valdez, Raven and Levi Baggerly.
Edmonson also talked about decisions he’ll have to make since many of his top runners compete in multiple events.
“With Will, he could very well qualify in the 100-meter dash and the four-by-two,” Edmonson said. “And those events come right after each other at every meet.
“So what I’m starting to do in practice is have him sprint a hundred meters and then run a two hundred with a similar amount of down time to get him used to a situation he might potentially be in. I’ll see how it goes in practice and how he does. But if it comes down to it, we want to save him for the relay.”
SPRING BREAK—The Rockdale track teams had off-season workouts from Monday to Wednesday over the break.
“We had a really good turnout at our workouts,” Edmon-son said. “Almost all of our kids showed up.
“To me, it’s really important to get just a couple of workouts in over the break just because for every week you don’t workout you get setback two weeks. Just because it takes one week to get back into the swing of things.”
LEXINGTON—The Lady Tiger track team and the junior varsity boys will compete at the Lexington Relays on Thursday.
According to Edmonson, many varsity boys athletes will also run in Lexington.
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