Keenan had the opportunity to compete on the Wichita Defenders (an awesome homeschool sports league) Track team this spring. After saying no to so many things for our kids over the past year, it was awesome to be able to let him compete in a sport again and he LOVED it!
It was a pretty short season - March 9th to May 3rd, but they had three practices a week and he got to compete in three meets.
Newton Meet, April 9th
Here is Keenan's 100 meter hurdles (I have muted the sound in all of the videos because I cheer SO loudly!) :)
His time was 13.67
His second event was the 1600 meter (1 mile) run
Here he is finishing the 1600
His time was 6:02
Keenan (on the left) starting out the 800 meter (1/2 mile) run
He prefers to start out in this position, so he can see everyone ahead of him
Finishing the first lap
Finishing the 800 with a huge lead!
His time was 2:40
He placed 1st in the 1600 and 800 8th grade boys, and 3rd in the 100 meter hurdles
* The day after this, Keenan broke his wrist and couldn't run or compete for three weeks*
Mulvane Meet, April 29th -first meet back, three days after he got his hard cast and could start running again. No more hurdles, since we couldn't risk him falling. :/
Starting out the 1600
He was chasing these guys down
Finishing the 1600
Coming into the finish of the 800
His 1600 time was 5:57(6th place) and 800 was 2:34 (5th place). New PRs for both
Nice photo of their team
Keenan did two brand new events at this meet - the 100 and 400 meter.
Video of the 100 meter
Starting out the 400
Finishing the 400, second in his heat
Start of the 800
Finishing the 800
Some candid shots from one of the other moms
His time for the 100 meter was 13:67 seconds (13th out of 26), 400 meter was 1:03 (7th out of 20) and 800 was 2:33 (5th out of 16)
He got a medal for placing in the top 6
Keenan had a great first track season, he throughly enjoyed it and hopes to do it again next year. We loved watching him compete and are so proud of his effort and progress!