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ok.. i was waiting for the del rio news paper to come out.... to see what our sports section would have to read about us track guys who ran hard at whataburger.... but alll i see in a 3 line article about us. 3 LINES!!!.
butt when the basketball team made it to the playoffs. everyone was going crazzy .. and all the sudden the newspaper writes a 10 PAGE article about them. they become famous for making the playoffs... on the paper where our 3 line article came out. the basketball team is still on the front page.. they lost like 4 weeks ago GET OVER IT !!!....what happend to our del rio cross country team?? does anyone one from del rio know other than a runner???? no !! why ??? cause noone cares about a 4 time district winning team.. noone cares about a team that is 4 places away from going to state.. !! whats the deal w\t these ppl..

that is usually how it goes, no matter where you are. for some reason, track just doesn't draw that much media attention. but hopefully if we all continue to do so well, that will change!

Part of the problem is that the newspaper does not know about the track meets. You and your coaches need to be proactive and get them the results (possibly even pointing out the more newsworthy performances) so that they know what is going on. If there is a particulary big meet coming up, like districts, let them know in advance and clue them in as to when the big events are happening, incase they can't send a reporter/photographer out all day, at least then they can get some coverage. You probably won't get much in for smaller meets, but you might be able to garner an article or two for the bigger ones (it depends on the size of the paper).

flyingowl wrote:Part of the problem is that the newspaper does not know about the track meets. You and your coaches need to be proactive and get them the results (possibly even pointing out the more newsworthy performances) so that they know what is going on. If there is a particulary big meet coming up, like districts, let them know in advance and clue them in as to when the big events are happening, incase they can't send a reporter/photographer out all day, at least then they can get some coverage. You probably won't get much in for smaller meets, but you might be able to garner an article or two for the bigger ones (it depends on the size of the paper).

Flying Owl? So I'm assuming you got to Rice. Do you work with Coach Butler? He's a real expert when it comes to Russian technique!

Yes, I vault at Rice with Coach Butler. He is an amazing sorce of knowledge when it come to the vault, and he is always trying to learn more, this summer he is going to europe (greece i believe) to study and learn more with some of the european coaches. He truely believes in what people have been calling russian technique, the petrov model is what most of what we do is based off of, jumping and training alike.