2008 Woodie Awards
BSU duals with Idaho State
KYE JOHNSON
Assistant Sports Editor
Issue date: 4/5/07 Section: Sports
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In rare form the Boise State Track and Field team will square off in a dual meet with Idaho State Saturday. Breaking away from the traditional, multiple team track meets, the Broncos will host the Bengals in a throw back event in Bronco Stadium.
“It kind of a little bit old school,” BSU Head Track Coach Mike Maynard said about the dual. “It’s not very common now for collegiate teams to have dual meets.”
But this weekend’s dual meet with Idaho State is just the beginning of a bigger plan.
“One of the things that myself and the coach from Idaho State are trying to do is to kind of create or foster an in-state rivalry type meet,” Maynard said. “We would like to maybe make this thing into sort of like an Idaho collegiate state challenge to where we invited all of the colleges and Universities in the state of Idaho. To where somebody could say, ‘hey I’m the Idaho collegiate champion in 100 meters,’ or whatever the event might be.”
At this point Maynard understands the competition is wishful thinking. However, this weekend is certainly a step in the right direction for eventually turning this meet into something bigger.
“It kind of has a lot of meaning I think because on our team and Idaho State and a couple of the other colleges there is a lot of local kids on them and I think we could get some good spectatorship on that,” Maynard said. “This year as kind of one of the steps of the process of moving towards that type of competition is to have this dual meet with Idaho State and then we’ll invite a few of the other colleges.”
Maynard said he is happy to have ISU traveling to Boise for the inaugural dual because of the respect he has for its program.
“They’re a good team, I mean they’re a very good team,” Maynard said. “They are one of the top teams in their conference. And their coach Dave Nielsen goes out of his way to make sure his teams do well in this type of format. Across the board, they don’t have any holes and he makes sure he’s always making sure he’s got competitors in each event.”
Maynard also mentioned how his team is just starting to get to the point where he feels his athletes will start posting better times and scores.
“I’d say this weekend is really the last weekend where you’re going to see our athletes training impact them in a negative way a little bit,” Maynard said. “Next week, we start our first week of beginning to taper our training down a little bit to get ready for the meets in May and June.”
As for this weekend, from a team standpoint, Maynard is looking for a couple key individuals to break out.
“There are people who are definitely ready to bust out big,” Maynard said. “One the men’s side, I think Marlon Douglas really has a great upside and I think that Sean Chaney-Waller in the 400 could make a big step forward this weekend.”
As for hitting being on pace to where he wanted his team to be at this point in the season, Maynard couldn’t be happier.
“In many cases we’re ahead of where we thought we’d be,” he said. “And we’ve got six qualifiers for NCAA regionals already and if things go well this weekend, we may add for our five more.”
Saturday’s dual will begin with the women’s hammer throw, which is scheduled for 11 a.m.
“It kind of a little bit old school,” BSU Head Track Coach Mike Maynard said about the dual. “It’s not very common now for collegiate teams to have dual meets.”
But this weekend’s dual meet with Idaho State is just the beginning of a bigger plan.
“One of the things that myself and the coach from Idaho State are trying to do is to kind of create or foster an in-state rivalry type meet,” Maynard said. “We would like to maybe make this thing into sort of like an Idaho collegiate state challenge to where we invited all of the colleges and Universities in the state of Idaho. To where somebody could say, ‘hey I’m the Idaho collegiate champion in 100 meters,’ or whatever the event might be.”
At this point Maynard understands the competition is wishful thinking. However, this weekend is certainly a step in the right direction for eventually turning this meet into something bigger.
“It kind of has a lot of meaning I think because on our team and Idaho State and a couple of the other colleges there is a lot of local kids on them and I think we could get some good spectatorship on that,” Maynard said. “This year as kind of one of the steps of the process of moving towards that type of competition is to have this dual meet with Idaho State and then we’ll invite a few of the other colleges.”
Maynard said he is happy to have ISU traveling to Boise for the inaugural dual because of the respect he has for its program.
“They’re a good team, I mean they’re a very good team,” Maynard said. “They are one of the top teams in their conference. And their coach Dave Nielsen goes out of his way to make sure his teams do well in this type of format. Across the board, they don’t have any holes and he makes sure he’s always making sure he’s got competitors in each event.”
Maynard also mentioned how his team is just starting to get to the point where he feels his athletes will start posting better times and scores.
“I’d say this weekend is really the last weekend where you’re going to see our athletes training impact them in a negative way a little bit,” Maynard said. “Next week, we start our first week of beginning to taper our training down a little bit to get ready for the meets in May and June.”
As for this weekend, from a team standpoint, Maynard is looking for a couple key individuals to break out.
“There are people who are definitely ready to bust out big,” Maynard said. “One the men’s side, I think Marlon Douglas really has a great upside and I think that Sean Chaney-Waller in the 400 could make a big step forward this weekend.”
As for hitting being on pace to where he wanted his team to be at this point in the season, Maynard couldn’t be happier.
“In many cases we’re ahead of where we thought we’d be,” he said. “And we’ve got six qualifiers for NCAA regionals already and if things go well this weekend, we may add for our five more.”
Saturday’s dual will begin with the women’s hammer throw, which is scheduled for 11 a.m.
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