The South Windsor High School 2024-2025 Indoor Track season started on Thursday, December 5th. Being almost a week into the season, athletes have already set their goals and what they wish to achieve for this season.
All the coaches have different hopes and goals for the team this year, especially Coach Griebel. Joining the team last year, assistant Coach Griebel helped the team tremendously. As the sprinting coach, she gave the sprinters pointers that helped better their performance in meets. She is really excited for this season and knows how much all the athletes have been putting in work during the off-season.
When asked by The Prowl what she would do differently from last season to this one, Griebel said, “Last year because it was my first year, it was a little inconsistent. Especially with people not knowing when I would be at practices, so hopefully the communication can be more clear, so that it’s expected when I’ll be at practice.”
All the coaches have the same goal for this season which is to help the athletes reach their goals. But, to do this, the athletes need to have goals that they want to achieve and work hard to attain them.
The track athletes have a lot to do this season, especially with the new practice schedule set in place by both head coaches. Their schedule has been split into Day 1 and Day 2 to help the athletes make sure they get the most out of practice for their events.
The coaches split up the days so there isn’t just one athlete having to practice every single day for their event to help them get the rest they need to recover and perform better during meets. Both the days have different events listed that athletes can practice for a certain block of time before moving onto the next.
The new schedule also helps the athletes better manage their practice time and also helps the multi-event athletes break their event training into different time blocks and days for more effective results.
Along with a new schedule, there is a different determination set amongst the athletes this year. One athlete in particular, Junior Lauren Ledger has a lot of goals for herself and is hoping to experience and try new events this season.
“I’m looking forward to meeting new people and getting faster,” Ledger said when talking about what she looks forward to for this season.
With having individual goals for the season, the athletes have the determination to attain that goal. They have worked hard over their off season and are excited to show it off this season at their first meet, on December 14 at Hartford Public.
