The Aguirre's

I did not win 5000 dollars but I did get a new nephew

So on Saturday I went to this store because I was suppossed to be a finalist in this drawing for $5000. Sure I was a finalist if you count being one of 100 a finalist so I wasted some time at this store and looked at furniture sigh.... I never win anything.

However this Easter was exciting because my newest nephew Nathan was born. He is really cute and Rene and I ended up spending most of the holiday weekend at the hospital or watching my neice Roselia. Seeing labor, a epideral, and an eventual C-section have not driven thoughts of babies from my mind. So I think that's good so here's pictures.

Nathan

We're breaking Rene in.

Me feeding the baby.

Track Meet of Injustice

So here's the follow up to the track meet that happened on monday of last week. Overall my students didn't run as well as I would have liked. Waiting a weekend to run was I think a little detrimental to my kids, that and they're junior highers so they are very twitchy. So after all that and one of my distance runners turning blue on the final lap because she didn't breathe (a little deja vu for all my old track buddies), then we have the injustice of west texas athletics.
So here's how it works, if you attend certain schools whose students have parents with money and the right skin tone you get preferintial treatment. We deal with it all the time. It's usually subtle and you can't really do much about it.
Well on the last relay of the night we ran poorly, however the third place team crossed the finish line and threw the baton down on the track. So the rules are really clear here, throwing down the baton is bad sportsmanship and if you do it at any point you are disqualified. The track official threw the red flag because he saw the baton hit the ground, all the timers and pickers saw it and said DQ. And our girls should have gotten third. They got the medals and then the track official realized which school he had DQ'ed. AND OVERTURNED THE DQ BECAUSE HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE THE GIRL THROW THE BATON!!!!!!!!! They removed the medals from around our kids neck.
So I being a reasonable person and being confused talked to the official who had the nerve to say since he hadn't seen it leave her hand he couldn't tell if she had thrown it and when the asked the people who were timing if she done it he couldn't make the call.
Well guess what I WAS A TIMER AND I SAW IT AND HE DIDN'T ASK ANY OF US!!!!!! He slipped up because when I said that I saw it, he asked if I had an official role and when I answered yes he kind of got quite.
We filed an official protest and got the starting clerk, the finish clerk, and the third place timer all from other schools to sign on and say that they saw the incident. We were told we filed the protest too late.
Yeah, gotta love a system that is okay with flagrant favoritism and unethical behavior.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Coach A

And then came the wind

So my last track meet of the year scheduled for today has been canceled due to the quite legitimate complaint that winds of 60 mph variety might actually pick up a 7th grade hurdler and cause them to hurdle through the air.
So I guess it's one day of rest before the complete stupidity that is me helping at a high school district meet set starting blocks on the track. Turns out you need 8 college graduates to do that task. Who knew?

Coach A

Big Pile of Poop or my name is MUD

So it is Wednesday I am alive but very tired. Tuesday I went to school with a positive attitude, ready and excited for the meet. Tuesday at the Track meet I realized that while I had assumed or really understood that my 9th grade 800 runners were not doing prelims they infact were running in the prelims and since I told them not to be there, they weren't and had to be scratched from the event. These were two runners who would have placed in the top 6. I wanted to punch myself in the face. It wasn't totally my fault since no one from the coaching staff heard or went to pick up our heat sheets on Monday which would have shown me I was wrong before I stopped two of our best runners for running in city in the 800. Yeah so that sucked. I slept poorly last night and dreamed about it. This morning when I got to school, I told the girls what had happened and they were sad and disappointed but reasonably so. They both had already ran in one race and were going to get to run in another. So I felt a little bit better until Crazy irate soccer mom showed up during my conference 1st period and started screaming and makeing irrational accusations about how we had done this all on purpose just to punish her child. Had to get an administrator involved and after she told the mom to stop attacking us started to cry. Yes that's right I bawled like a baby. I just felt so bad alreay for taking away these girls chance to run and I was angry that this mom was acting like we had done this on purpose. Like what coach in their right mind wouldn't let winning runners compete thereby taking points in the city meet away from the entire team...
Mom finally calmed down and apologized sort of, but I spent the next 10 minutes trying to pull myself together and not look like a mess in front of the kids and I succeded but was tired all day. And of course the repurcussions of a crazy parent continued with talks adminstrators and Lori our head coach getting in some trouble for not getting the packet. And you know stupidness.
But hey on the upside my little 7th grade jumpers did really well. Two of them jumped their best jumps ever in long jump and one of them took 2nd in the triple jump, out jumping her best mark every jump by a foot or more. So the day ended well. But I am exhasted and ready for bed.

One more day of my track to go, finals in running. Hopefully the day will go well.

Coach A

Blogging for spite

Today is the first day of my marathon track week. We just completed the field events for the 9th and 8th graders. I got home at 8:00. Not too bad. The 9th graders kicked butt in the triple jump but my other jumpers 8th grade long and triple and 9th grade triple struggled. I was a little disappointed most of my jumpers jumped a foot less than they had at any other meet. Did have one of my long jumpers do really well though.
Tommorow is track prelims. God help us all we might be there until midnight. So far I am not terribly exhasted. Not really very much at all, but I'm sure that will change as the nights get longer.
Rene is in Austin doing some work with some Latino students down there. So Chava and I are alone for the week. Not that I will have a lot of free time to miss Rene seeing as I will be working until all hours of the night. YEAH ME!!!

Coach A