
Alpharetta Raider Early Bird Invitational
Bus leaving Pope at 7:15
Wear your warm-ups
This meet has a "rolling schedule", meaning once the 4x100 starts, the next events will follow as soon as the previous one is finished. So, there is no time schedule available. Make sure you are either on the bus, OR make sure you are there well in advance of your event. Better to be too early than too late.
Pack snacks, prepare for all weather, and have fun COMPETING!
February break practice time
2:00-4:00 (M-F)sprinters
Distance runners
Tuesday 4-5 Leita Thompson
Wed/Fri 2-330 PHS
Thursday 10-11 River
We will be competing in a varsity meet at Alpharetta HS on Sat Feb. 23!
This meet allows us extra athletes in open events and an extra relay so more athletes will have an opportunity to compete than a traditional Saturday invitational meet.
REGION MEET DATE CHANGE!
The region has decided to move the meet to a MONDAY/WEDNESDAY format this year. Please note this change on your calendar for April 22 and 24!
Greyhound Games
Results:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE ....IF YOU ARE NOT RECEIVING EMAILS PLEASE EMAIL POPETFXC@GMAIL.COM or BUDDSULL@GMAIL.COM with correct EMAIL ADDRESS
Click here for a list of athletes who have registered
Team spirit wear/player packs will be ordered based on the sizes given on registration link above
BOOSTER CLUB MESSAGE - Welcome to the 2019 Track Season To Do List
1. Register your athlete (use red button above)
2. Pay Booster Club Dues (pay at Kickoff Meeting with check or credit card(2.9% fee added)
or checks can be mailed to Wendy Corcoran (Treasurer), 4202 Vienna Way, Marietta, GA 30062
3. Use link to "Team Store" to order uniform and warm up (if needed - same as last year's) - Coach sent link via remind text and it is noted above.
4. Mark your calendar for Jan 31st - Kick off Meeting
5. Watch your email for important messages from the Booster Club coming soon!
January 21 (MLK) Practice will be from 12:00-2:00pm
First practice January 14th at 3:45!!
All athletes must have a current athletic physical on file in parentvue for the 2018-19 school year before participating in conditioning or practice.
If you have not gotten one yet, please get this taken care of as soon as you can.
Track and Field CONDITIONING starts Monday 11/26/2018 at 3:45.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday...approximately 1 hour...meet on the track. Must have current physical on file
Pressure free atmosphere, just take to time to work on you and get in better shape.
Slowly get the rust off and set the base and groundwork for the best season you can have!
Make this YOUR YEAR...OUR YEAR! #CIT
Registration Link Update Coming Soon
Congratulations to the boys who rain like the wind and are the 2018 6A STATE CHAMPIONS. Will Brown let the way with an 8th place finish followed closely by KC (10), Axel (11), Cole (13) and Tony (14). #TEAM
The ladies also ran well and finish 4th in the State meet. Sophie led the greyhounds with an incredible 5th place finish.
Both teams have been invited to compete in the Meet of Champions this week!! Awesome season GREYHOUNDS...we are proud of you!!!!
WOW, What a day for the Greyhounds!!! to start off the day Pope is led in the Open division by Davis and Brooke. The Open Girls WIN and the boys are third overall.
The JV teams were also successful as they both finished as the Region TEAM runnerup. Congrats to Muiz for WINNING the boys race and Isa for finishing 5th overall!!!
Pope runs GREAT at the Pickens Invite and as we prepared for the Regions Championships!!! Sophie WON the varsity division and along with Lorel (PR), Hope (season PR), Hannah Rose (PR), and Bella/Rachel/Sam (PR) the blue wave ran to a STRONG Runner up finish. WE are READY for the Region Championships!!!!
KC Leads the Varsity Boys to a TEAM WIN with an overall Individual runner up finish!!! Muiz WINS the JV section leading the JV team to a runner up finish. All teams have numerous athletes running personal best times as we head into the REgion Championships on 10/23.
After a great day of team bonding at Universal Studios the teams ran well at the Disney XC Classic. The Varsity boys ran as a pack to a TEAM Runner up finish. The JV Boys WON the TEAM Championship with Bryce,Tyler, Nic, Muiz and Noah running strong for the Hounds. The girls also ran a good race behind Sam, Bella, Ashley, Sophia and Aurora. Hope and Bella H ran strong for the Varsity Hounds as they did a tempo surging workout to prepare for the Championship part of the season. #OurTEAMIsQuality! #HighGoals
The Greyhounds prevail at the Cass Cartersville Invitational at Dellinger park. Starting off the day were the JV boys who ran to a great team score of 19 for a TEAM WIN behind the fleet feet of Muiz, Bryce, Noah, Alec and Tyler. The JV girls also ran well and brought home a 2nd place trophy being let by Isa, Alice, Bella P, Emma.
The girls WON the Varsity division, with Sophie's overall individual win. Also placing for the varsity girls in a very tight 1 point win over a Region rival were Hope, Laurel, Rachel and Hannah Rose. The Varsity boys also WON the TEAM Championship behind Will Brown's individual runner-up place with Axel, Tony, KC and CONOR coming through to show our team depth!!! Great job GREYHOUNDS.....Next up Disney!!!!
Practice times for fall break
Wednesday 4-5 RIVER (Column's Drive parking lot)
Thursday 8-2 Redtop Mountain $5 and permission form need to be turned in an envelope by Wednesday 9/26.
Friday 9-10 RIVER (Column's Drive parking lot)
Click here for the organization calendar/workout suggestions for the next 2 weeks that was handed out at practice on 9/20.
Congratulations to AXEL MATEO and SOPHIE BOICE who were selected as the 6A Runner of the week by Georgia milesplit!! Congrats!!!!
Congrats to all athletes who proved the POPE PRIDE this weekend at the Warpath Invitational. Our Varsity girls started out the day with a 5th place team finish behind absolutely fantastic improvements of ALL 7 athletes. Sopie, Hope, Lorel, HR, Rachel, Bella and Sarah !! Your hard work is paying dividends ladies #Goals!!! The varsity boys sent a message on Saturday with a TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP against some quality teams from across the State. Our top 5 boys were all under 16:27!! Congrats Axel, Will, Cole, KC and Tony!!!
The JV teams continued the BLUE wave with Samantha, Sophia, Katherine, Isa and Bella P running strong for the Hounds. The JV boys were led by to a Runnerup finish by Muiz (under 18!!!), Bryce, Tyler, Alec and Will Be. Our Open athletes definitely proved themselves and were led by Sophia D who finished 2nd overall with a GREAT finishing kick! Also scoring for the Hounds in the Open divisions were Brooke, Aurora, Abbey and Olivia R. William W WON the boys Open division in decisive fashion with Noah, Lambert, Mick and Davis all running well as the Greyhounds WON the Open division. Congrats Hounds!!
In the Cobb County Championships the Greyhounds started off the day with the JV girls and were led by Sarah, Katherine, Samantha, Isa, Samantha and Olivia T to place third overall. The JV boys then toed the line and scoring for PXC were Alec Bailey, Zane, Vaclav, Davis and Lambert. GREAT JOB frosh/soph runners, the future of PXC is in good hands!!!
The varsity teams places 2nd/4th in the County Championships and were led by Tony, Will, Axel, KC and Cole who all placedin the top 12 overall. Sophie continued running well and finished 4th overall behind a solid group of Hope, Lorel, Hannah Rose and Bella!! WE have a lot of work to do before Region/State but we are on the right path!!!! Results (Meet management has been notified that several athletes are not listed in the results...most likely a chip issue,
With some relief from the humidity the Hounds ran at the mentally challenging Battle of Atlanta course with great success! Starting the day off were the varsity boys led by Will Brown( 13), Tony(14), Cole(15), Conor and Nick to a 2nd place out of 42 teams!!!!! The varsity girls were up next and under Sophie’s incredible 3rd place finish, and in the top 20, Lorel (16) and Hannah Rose (18), BOTH Pr’ed with performances under 21:00, and finalizing the Greyhounds score were Rachel and Bella H. for a 3rd place podium finish!!!!!
The JV girls ran next and definitely made us proud by WINNING their division behind the fleet feet of Isa, Alice, Makenna, Aurora and Bella P!!!! Congrats ladies!!! The JV boys also ran well as they finished 3rd overall with Bryce, Zane, Alec , Parker and William W. and Lambert leading the way for our large group of JV runners!! The Open athletes also received a trophy for their efforts with Clay, Nikhil, Jayda, Audrey, Madalyn and Olivia P all scoring for the 'Hounds.
Great day Greyhounds…..…WE are proud of the success you are
having because of your hard work!!!
Results
PRACTICE TIMES FOR THE SEASON
Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 3:45-6:00
Wednesday/Friday 6:20-7:30 (athletes can shower at school)
TEAM ROSTER
Team selection was based on attendance at 10 summer practices OR achieving the required time for the 2 mile time trial.
Let's go Greyhounds...Looking forward to a GREAT year!!
Kick Off Party is Thursday 8/16 @ 630 in the PHS cafeteria.
ALL PRACTICES AT POPE LOWER FIELD.
Current list of cleared athletes 8.2
IF YOU ARE NOT ON THIS LIST AND THERE IS NOT A 19 NEXT TO YOUR NAME THEN YOUR PHYSICAL IS NOT CURRENT AND YOU CAN NOT ATTEND PRACTICE!!!
2018 XC season schedule SUMMER calendar TEAM store for spiritwear
Current athletes who are cleared for XC as of 7/31/18. Please note if your physical has been received by clicking on the various tabs of the Excel spreadsheet!! IF the paperwork isn't complete PLEASE update ASAP!!!!!
DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO PRATICE IF THEY ARE NOT CLEARED!!!
IN ORDER TO RUN XC:
1. Complete a 2018-2019 physical.
Physical form for 2018-2019. Your physical MUST be completed AFTER 4/15/2018. Upload to you student vue account.
2. Register for XC through the grey button to the right. ------->
Congratulations to both the boys and the girls who brought home Region Trophies! Girls are Region CHAMPIONS and boys finished runner-up! Outstanding job!
The girls scored in 13 of 16 events with both athletes scoring in 7 events!!
The boys scored in 15 of 16 events with both athletes scoring in 9 events
Congratulations to the following athletes who are advancing to SECTIONALS!!
Girls: 7 Athletes (10 events)
Denise Issah: 100/200/Triple Jump(champion)/4x400
Hope Thornton: 800/1600/4x400
Brooke Mizelle: 4x400
Skylar Pocock: 4x400
Haylee Benson: High Jump(champion)/4x400
Meggie Hudson: Long Jump/4x400alt
Carolyn Deady: Shot Put(champion)/Discus
Boys: 11 Athletes(11 events)
Zach Owens: 100/4x100/4x400
Harry Coppedge-Reaves: 200/4x100
Tony Parisi: 800(champion)/4x400
Daunte Ford: 110H
Will Wideman: 300h/Long Jump/Triple Jump/4x400
Matthew McAlpine: 4x100/4x400alt
Will Zegers: 4x100/4x400
DeBrady Ford: Shot Put/Discus
Marco Guillen: Shot Put
Joe Stellmach: 4x100alt
Muiz Yoonis: 4x400alt