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WEEK #7 PROGRESS WAS MADE ✔️

Reagan’s own Jasmine Montgomery with a FAST season opener ⚡️ @Reagan_TF @jazzyo82 @hinojosa_david @ShaneMeling

4X1 and 4X2 set Don Hardin Alamo Relays Meet Records today. 4X2 1:40.29 4X1 47.38

Congratulations to Our Young Rattlers! This past Tuesday and Wednesday, our Bush Bulldogs and Lopez Panthers competed in the District Small and Large Zone Track and Field Meets. Our Lady Bulldogs were champions in both the 8th grade and 7th grade divisions of the Small Zone Meet. The 8th grade girls scored 203 points, while the 7th grade girls added 225 points, for an impressive combined total of 428 points. The 8th grade girls also delivered an outstanding performance in the hurdles, sweeping the 100-meter hurdles and finishing 1st, 3rd, and 4th in the 300-meter hurdles. Our Lady Panthers competed in the Large Zone Meet and scored a combined 198 points. The 7th grade girls scored 121 points, finishing just 16 points shy of the team title, while the 8th grade girls placed fifth overall with 77 points. Lopez was led by Kamsi Ozigbo, who captured gold in the 100 meters (13.20), Triple Jump (34'2"), and High Jump (5'0"), finishing the Large Zone Meet with three gold medals and the highest individual point total of the meet (30 points). Congratulations to the following 8th Grade District Medalists: Gold Medalists 4x100 Relay (Bush) – Phoenix Laughlin, Avalee Pruitt, Ainsley Van Winkle, Avery Gibbons Kamsi Ozigbo (Lopez) – 100M, Triple Jump, High Jump Emmeline Moyer (Bush) – 100H Avery Gibbons (Bush) – 300H, Triple Jump Mia Fahey (Bush) – Shot Put Madison Harris (Bush) – Discus Silver Medalists 4x200 Relay (Bush) – Phoenix Laughlin, Avalee Pruitt, Zia Murji, Ainsley Van Winkle 4x400 Relay (Bush) – Phoenix Laughlin, Emmeline Moyer, Ava Delgado, Avery Gibbons Sofia Torres (Bush) – 800M Ariya Hasanali (Bush) – 400M Avalee Pruitt (Bush) – 200M Avery Gibbons (Bush) – Long Jump Bronze Medalists Ariya Hasanali (Bush) – 800M Emmeline Moyer (Bush) – 300H Sofia Torres (Bush) – 1600M Phoenix Laughlin (Bush) – Triple Jump Rishona Henry (Lopez) – 100M Delahney Dohogne (Lopez) – Shot Put Congratulations to all of our athletes and coaches on a tremendous showing at the District Zone Meets. The future of Rattler Track & Field is bright!

Championship season is right around the corner! Reagan Girls’ Track has built a legacy of championship moments, like this one, when our own @jazzyo82 won the @adidas High School Girls’ Dream 100M in downtown Boston. 🔥 It’s an incredible honor and privilege to be part of this program. And for every athlete who steps onto the track, there’s an opportunity waiting — the chance to leave your mark and add your chapter to the legacy that has been built before you.

The Most Important Step in Hurdling is After the Hurdle When watching a hurdle race, eyes naturally focus on the moment of clearance. Coaches often deconstruct technique at the hurdle: take-off distance, lead-leg attack, arm carriage, hip engagement, or trail-leg snap. These elements are, no doubt, critical to strong hurdling. But the truly decisive moments in high-level hurdling often happen after the athlete has cleared the hurdle. The Touch Down On the very first contact when the lead foot touches down, several things happen: The body is rotating forward from the hurdle clearance. Center of mass is dropping downward. The athlete must immediately return to sprint rhythm. This moment happens incredibly fast as the typical sprinter’s ground-contact time is one tenth of a second. In .10, the nervous system must stabilize the body, absorb the landing, and re-establish powerful sprint mechanics. Elite hurdlers make this transition almost invisibly, landing and continuing sprinting as if the hurdle never interrupted rhythm. The Flawed Landing If the brain senses any instability when the lead foot touches down, it responds instantly. The leg may stiffen slightly to prevent collapse. The next stride may shorten. Both disrupt rhythm. These changes are often so small that they are difficult to observe, but their effects manifest quickly. When the stride pattern changes, the athlete approaches the next hurdle outside of the trained pattern, requiring a last-moment adjustment. Instead of attacking the hurdle efficiently, safety requires a higher vertical lift at the cost of rhythm and speed. Small Difference-Big Separation Hurdle races are rarely decided by a single dramatic mistake. More often, the difference between good hurdlers and great ones comes from tiny disruptions that accumulate across the race. And many of those disruptions begin with the first step after landing. The art of hurdling is not released solely by learning to cleanly clear barriers at low speed. It is manifest in building the foundation of efficient mechanics while prioritizing the nervous system as the CEO that governs stabilizing the body, regaining sprint posture, and re-entering sprint mode in a split second.

Championship season is on the horizon. We have spent months training our rehearsal mindset and focusing on the process that produces outcome. Our athletes are aware of the challenging and exciting truth: Rehearsal–the mindset that drives our development–is soon finished. From this point forward, competition carries permanence–this attempt cannot be wasted. Once that rule is acknowledged, movement changes. Risk disappears. Release tightens. In the attempt to “make it count,” our athletes’ expression slowly gets replaced by manufactured effort rather than trusting what delivered growth over a season. Sprinters try to drive longer but never fully open. Hurdlers manufacture rhythm instead of allowing flow. Jumpers protect the board and lose projection. Throwers rush release to guarantee a mark. Effort can be deceiving; it feels responsible, controlled, earned, but when effort replaces expression, timing windows shorten. Champions do not urgently remind themselves how badly they want something, or how hard they’ve worked, or what it would mean to their parents to win. They protect their system from unnecessary noise. Advice that feels powerful—intent, hype, the thought of rising to the occasion—can become interference. Champions do not change behavior in championship moments. They release the pattern that has been built in rehearsal moments all season long. This drives our focus on rehearsal mindset in competition environments throughout the season. Athletes must feel the narrowing of the moment long before the permanence of the championship meet arrives. They must learn what their system does when the attempt counts. And when those moments appear, the instinct for someone driven to compete is recognizable: Try harder. But replicable performance does not come from trying harder; it comes from allowing the system to remain open. Championship season does not reward desire. It rewards expression. When expression is present, manufactured effort stays quiet. Movement opens. Outcomes follow. Our athletes’ bodies already hold the freedom. Over the next few weeks our job is simple: Help athletes recognize when their effort replaces the release we’ve been training. When they understand that the nervous system will only do what it knows it can safely do, they stop forcing outcomes. They stop adding effort where it inhibits, and they start understanding that the process they’ve embraced week-after-week this season, will carry them through. Our preparation will become more precise in the coming weeks. We can sense the window of opportunity narrowing and the finality approaching. However, our rehearsal mindset will remain. Our reminders will resonate. Reduce the noise; follow the pattern; release and flow; allow the nervous system to do the best work it knows to do. If trusting our progress is our anchor, competition posture becomes less mysterious. Our path to our championship potential is certainly not easier, just clearer.

Despite 20 mph wind gust, the athletes were able to make some improvements this week! We used our hand held anemometer to try to get accurate wind speeds. We had headwinds for all events except the long jump. We noted the wind reading (tailwind) for long jump. PROUD of how the athletes competed last night!