Have you ever joined a sport thinking that it was a team sport and found otherwise? At the beginning of my freshman year I couldn't wait to play football, but my real love was track and field. I expected for everyone to be excited when the track season started. They were, but for a different reason, it was rest time for them. No one in my high school took track seriously my senior year and I took it for granted. Then college came. Yes I played football as well I am competing in track, but the atmosphere is completely different. The track team is about the TEAM, not individuals, and everyone on the team cares about the team. I was expecting no one to really care about track and field because from what I heard this college was a football school. And I just figured that since this school was so small it would not care about track but I think I have seen more people at track meets than at football games. But that was not the case.
My first year in high school track was an exciting year, in the beginning. I remember talking to other teammates and they seemed excited. That made me even more excited because I did really well in Junior High. I was told that track at my school was just as big as football and I loved football. But like I said earlier track and field is my favorite. I love a sport where you have a team but you work as individuals to score points for the team. I think it lets you prove something and you get to make new friends and meet all sorts of people.
My first day of practice came and I was really excited. Everyone met in our hot gym because it was raining and had been raining all day. The practice started like a normal practice our coach took attendance then we stretched as a team. Then we warmed up as a team, I was feeling really good about the team. That whole practice we practiced as a team as one unit. The next day we went outside and the whole thing changed. We stretched like we did before and coach gave everyone their workouts and people started doing them.
Some of the greatest racing I've ever seen is on the short tracks. ... This track has been known as the World's Fastest Half-Mile Track (even though it's .533 miles long), with speeds between 135-145 miles per hour. This track is a concrete track, while the aprons and pits are asphalt. ... At this track there's also a middle and a high line. ... Bristol is by far the more exciting race track, in my opinion. ...
The Controversy of Tracking The idea of "tracking" came about in the beginning of the 20th century, and has been surrounded by much controversy. According to James Rosenbaum, "tracking refers to any practice which creates homogeneous classed stratified on the basis of achievement or career goals. ... There are many different types of tracking in different grades ranging from kindergarten to secondary education. ... There are many different views on whether tracking is a positive advantage in the schooling structures or that it is a negative disadvantage that needs to be reversed. . Society i...
When the threat is internal, it's hard to track, so we deal with it as it arises. ... We need a method of tracking possible threats to the U.S.'... General was to have created the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (Bush). ... The problem lies with the INS's inability to keep track of address changes (Sperry). ... Who tracks the immigrants in the U.S. under student visas? ...
New eye tracking techniques improve realism of aircraft simulators A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IMBE). ... Their eye-tracker can record and analyze accurately up to 500 eye positions per second. ... Eizenman believes that "these improvements make our eye-tracker very effective in monitoring ...
In the book Tracks by Louise Erdrich, Fleur is presented as a strong, powerful person who has to face several problems. ... She was able to transform herself into animals and in dreams she was able to track animals so that when she woke she could hunt them. ... Another thing that made her a mythical figure was that she could track animals in her sleep and when she wakes she could hurt the animal. ...
State Track There I was after a whole year of hard work . ... It was the first day of the state track meet and as all of the teams were setting up their team camps of all types and sizes. The coaches walking their laps around the track to check the track for things out of place and to discuss their plans for the day. ... My team-mate in the event threw the shot the best that he has ever thrown in his track career which made him excited and filled with joy. ... As I was doing this a track official came up to me and told me that I could not be on the field unless I had an event going on at...
Track Versus Cross Country "Runners, get set! ... The many running events in track have varied distances. ... Eight full laps around the track make the longest event, the 3200 meter dash. ... As in track, women and men run different distances in cross country. ... Track takes place during the spring months of the year. ...
In Jeannie Oakes" Tracking: Can Schools Take a Different Route?, she states, "Track level differences get produced as teachers and students interact at school.aE The competition many students feel academically is hard and furious. ... This is the reason that tracking comes about in schools. ... "Tracking is both a response to significant differences among students and an ongoing contribution to those differences,aE everyone knows their strengths and weaknesses and need not be reminded of them by being placed, by someone else, into an ability group. ...
Welcome to what it feels like being a track star. ... Track has made me stronger, physically and mentally. ... Track continues to be a positive impact in my life. The reality of Track is a painful reality. ... Track and Field has given me so much in life. ...