in Getting Started by coach mike on 26 Aug 2007

Goals-When I started helping with Selmaville, I was an unpaid assistant coach. I was helping Wayne Steavens coach. Wayne was getting paid like $150.00 or something like that. We both had other jobs, we weren’t teachers, no one wanted the job. Wayne’ s job won’t allow him to be there some days, so I would run practices until he got there, on the job training. The previous years the boys teams had been good, winning a trophy at state each year the school had a full team. (thats a record that still is on going, having one of the teams win a trophy at the state meet). The girls on the other hand had not been able to win anything. The team consisted of a very good runner, one of the better ones in southern Illinois, her name was Megan Grizzle. She was an 8th grader, when I started coaching, so I set the goal of putting a good team around her to try to win a state trophy. So that seed was put in the girls heads. Lets work hard to get a trophy, lets make history and be the first Selmaville girls team to win a state trophy. They worked hard all season, and ended being 4th at Clay City in the state meet. The year was 1994 the girls on the team were Megan, Erin McMullen, Rene Brubaker, Audrey Hargis, Sara Spencer, and two fifth graders Erica Jansen and Shandi Murphy. The fifth graders saved the day. Megan had a great race, along with Erin, and the girls made school history. Last time I checked the girls are still winning those state trophies out there at Selmaville!!!!

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