Coaches Corner

Coaches Corner 10-20-2010 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.

Chili Pepper Fesitval!

Recently we attended the Chili Pepper festival that the University of Arkansas hosts each year. This past year there were more than sixty men and womens teams to compete against. I say that mainly to place our top fifteen finishes in context. To continue in that vein, many of the teams that we raced against were Division 1, including but not limited to top rated Oklahoma State, the Univerisity of Arkansas and Indiana University.  That being said, our men and women ran great! I would say more but I think the following video sums it up pretty well. Looks like championship season is going to be a lot of fun........


Chili Pepper Invite - Augustana College Cross Country from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.

10-13-2010 Coaches Corner

Coaches Corner 10-13-2010 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.

600m Testing Results

We had excellent weather this past week. We also had a great round of testing. It's been roughly four weeks since we began fall track and things have only gotten better with time. The kids got a chance to relax this week and find out where their fitness was. We tested standing long jump, standing triple jump, a football throw and also a timed 600m run.

I had originally hoped that we would have a few athletes around 1:30 for the men's 600m. I was hoping that we would have some girls run around 1:45 as well for the same distance. Boy was I surprised when we had five men run under 1:30 and four girls run under 1:45. To clarify the fastest time clocked by a male was 1:23 by Adou Omot and 1:40 for the women by freshman Anne Parsely. Talk about some athletes! Below are the videos of our testing.

To put this into context, last year we had two men break 1:30 when we tested late in October and not a single female under 1:45 last year. Looks like its going to be a great year!


600m Test Women - 10/9/2010 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.



600m Test Men 1 - 20/8/2010 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.



600m Test Men 2 - 10/8/2010 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.

d2cross mentions Augie

Its always good to get press.  I was catching up on some of my reading and came across this article in the d2cross blog. If you aren't a follower of this blog you should be. He does a great job of covering the important races in d2 and provides interesting insight.


http://d2cross.blogspot.com/2010/09/statement-races-by-augustana-central.html

Augustana Service Project - Sioux Falls Marathon Water Stop

Each year we get up early on a Sunday morning and head down to the falls to hand out water to thirsty runners. This year we chose a 80's theme and every one of the kids came decked out in style. I shot some video and threw it together so you could get an idea of what we do at the waterstop.


Sioux Falls Waterstop - Augustana College from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.