10th Annual Age Group T&F Invitational at Coppin State University

Coach Andrew Lofton (left) Darnell Williams (Center) and Daniel Tulloch (Right)





 This meet went from bad to worst for all of us at the 10th Annual Age Group T&F Invitational meet hosted by the Team Maryland Track Club, taking place in Baltimore Maryland on Saturday May 25, 2013. The purpose of joining a track club is to be part of a team competing against other teams. Each place a member recieves for example first to eighth place gives your team points against other track clubs. The team with the highest points wins the meet.

On May 18, 2013, Daniel scored 5 points for his team.

3200 Meter run in Lower Merion, Pa. May 18, 2013

Event 1  Mixed 9-12 3200 Meter Run
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    Name                    Year Team                    Seed     Finals  Points
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Finals
  1 Hassman, Chloe           W02 Dashers                        12:40.88   10   
  2 Goldstein, Isabelle      W01 Ambler                         12:42.81    8   
  3 Coleman, Philip          M04 Ambler                         12:54.28    6   
  4 Tulloch, Daniel          M05 St Luke TC                     12:55.50    5   
  5 Wills, Ethan             M02 Ambler                         12:55.75    4   
  6 Marcelis, Annika         W03 Ambler                         12:57.08    3   
  7 Benson III, Leonard      M03 CEF                            12:59.40    2   
  8 Agostini, Vincent        M03 Dashers                        13:02.21    1   
  9 Bezar, Mia               W01 Dashers                        13:03.81 

A team also gives the members someone to talk to at 

track meets and in many cases but not for Daniel, 

someone to practice with. 

The coach of the team enters the members into the 

meets and the events. He directs the plans for 

their track and field development.

The St. Luke Spirit Track Club doing drills before the meet starts.






 Here is Daniel preparing to run down and pass two of his older competitors in the 1500 Meters. 

What is wrong with Daniel in this picture? He is way out in front of the rest of his competitors in the 400 Meter run.

 

Stephanie and David is looking on

The answer, he started in lane 7. He ended in lane 1. He was automatically "DQed" for running out of his lane. Daniel forgot the rules when it comes to running the 400 Meter Run. In this race, you stay in your lane that is assign to you. In the 800 Meter and 1500 Meter Runs, you move over into the first lane. The official went over the rules with all the "8 and under" participants before the race. Daniel was not listening. As a result, he won the race and was disqualified.

The good thing about this is that it happened in an invitational meet meaning it was a meet to try out new things before it counts toward moving up to nationals. Coach Andrew Lofton wanted to compare his time in the 400 Meter Run to his times in the 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, and the 3200 Meter runs. The 400 Meter did not go well Saturday. Since it was not a qualifying meet, he can come back from this disaster.









We decided to pull Daniel out of the Long Jump competition until further notice.
We do not have the time to train him in this event this year. We have less than a
month before USATF qualifying competition starts for this summer. We will
concentrate on his running events to prepare him to make it to nationals. 

We will regroup and try for better results on  June 2 at Gwynedd Mercy College. 
We will compete on June 8th @ Caravel Academy in Wilmington, DE at the Art 
Madric Track Classic. Then it will be time to compete in the USATF qualifying 
meets ending in Nationals at the end of July. At the beginning of July, it will be time
to compete in the international meets starting in Canada.