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***2006 DyeStatCal
Featured Meets***
Alicia King (Rancho Verde)
In a world of "Me, me, me," it is nice to come across a situation where someone today kind of looks to the "family" and "us" of an activity and makes some personal sacrifices for the good of the group. At last weekend's Southern Section Divisional meet in the Division I 200 we noticed the non-participation of Alicia King of Rancho Verde HS in Moreno Valley. It turns out in talking to Coach Chris Drescher of RV that Alicia felt the 4x400 relay squad would need her strong participation to move on to the State Qualifying meet, and she personally made the decision to drop the half lap event and rest up for the 4x4 race. The decision turned out to be a good one, with the squad racing a big seasonal best of 3:52.55 for 4th place Division I, a school record, and a qualifying time for the challenging Southern Section State Qualifying competition this Friday. With the mark the #7 qualifier for the Section finals, but ahead of the 3:53.17 "at-large" qualifier for the state meet, with a good race Friday the long baton group should be back in a week for State at Cerritos, with King's personal sacrifice a good part of the reason for that possibility! Alicia took the time to answer some questions or us about her season, running, and last Saturday. 1) Sure seems like it has been an exciting year out your
way in track this I'm glad to be a part of a team that has come so far. We have a
great 2) How long have you been involved in track and how did you get started? I've been running track for almost 9 years and I became involved
because most 3) What other sports have you been involved with along the way? I tried out flag football in middile school but for the most part
the only 4) What is the sense of "team" that there is to this year's
Rancho Verde For the most part all of us want to help each other out in any way
that we 5) What events did you qualify into the CIF SS Divisional meet in? I qualified in both the 400 and 1600 meter relay's the 100 and 200. 6) I seemed to notice that you did not run the 200 meters--what
were your After I ran the 100 I realized that I would not be able to run the
200 and 7) I assume you came back to run the 4x400 relay - what were your
thoughts I figured that since I didn't run the 200 I'd do a good in job in
the relay 8) How did the 4x400 group do Saturday? We did a really good job. We ended up breaking the school record
with a time 9) Two weeks to go, what do you think you can accomplish in those two weeks? Hopefully I'll be able to pull my weight again and help both relays
advance Thanks and best of luck |
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