If you have respect for a sport there’s a morality to the meaning of what you should do to become the best as an all around athlete down to the smallest of detail an average person can live on without but a true athlete that can not. One that does not know can never do what needs to be actually done. So before we get off into the indoor season why don’t we take a small dive on were it came to be.

Track and field, a sport that has almost revealed itself nearing the beginning of time. A time where man exists with the dawning year of the ninth century in olympia, a society among the greek culture that held the first running event recorded accompanied with the help of bronze statues possibly offered for rewards to the early running athlete. The sport did not come into officiality until the year 776 B.C. when a cook named Koroibos ran and won a 600 foot dash in the Original olympic stadium. A stadium that held the first 13 official  Ancient Olympic games consisted of running and throwing. Thus Track and field eventually was born as history tells the tale.

The season for Park University Track and field team started off with a bang. Were two athletes have already qualified for Nationals at Johnson County Community College on Friday January 19th in Overland Park Kansas . A Jerocean Fletcher in the 400 clocking in at a whopping 57 seconds and Aaliyah Brown’s talented acts wasn’t too short of amazing either, throwing a magnificent 13.4 meters starting off the season in the shot put. But these athletes are no strangers to the road towards All american. They both have done it season after season, since their sophomore year.

This season in particular is very important above all. The reason why you ask? There are only 3 more indoor Track meets left. With so little time to qualify in this stage of the season it’s nothing but the pressure on those who have gotten so close to qualifying but just couldn’t get it in time. So most of the participants on the team are relying on the outdoor part of the season only to perform better as they always have. Many of people all around has had their doubts and high expectations of the Park Track team. But in the fog of confusion and pressure the team manages to do quite well for a little private school form the Midwest.

Instead hope beams over the horizon into the future with a new batch of freshman and transfers. They have come  for the kill this year. The indoor season has put a fire up under our fellow athletes to do more than just focus but to actually excel and move forward. The men’s team at an all time high gpa of 2.7 and the Womans at a 3.5. The expectations this season is very high for most but above all important to the smallest group of the team, the coaching staff. Head coach Brian Renshaw has been planning out a strategy for who to run what race and how they can execute it for more than just points this year. It will be for the qualification for Nationals.

When you walk through practice it’s nothing but focus and the utmost respect by the following as a valuable wholehearted athlete should be  towards one’s coach. The relays are as strong as ever with projected numbers to qualify for nationals by a landslide. The program over the years have evolved for the better and seemingly continues to slowly get up there with the big dogs of their sport. Park university’s Track team has evolved into something more of a spectacle over the years and now possibly at its peak primed and ready for the win.