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BSU track heads to Hornet Invitational
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Boise State track and field Head Coach Mike Maynard knows a thing or two about patience. Being a head coach in any collegiate program is a full-time job, but for Maynard and his team it means actively competing almost six months out of the year. According to Maynard it requires not just patience, but plenty of endurance too.
“There’s kind of a process of building, peaking, bringing it back down, rebuilding and then re-peaking at the right times,” Maynard said. “We’re in the process right now of restarting what we’ve been doing and we’ll be in heavy training here for the next two or three weeks.”
Boise State’s track and field team will now enter the final phase of a three-part season for the Broncos. Last month the men’s track team won the Western Athletic Conference Indoor Championships in Nampa, while the women finished third.
Both the men and women will now prepare and compete outdoors for the remainder of the season.
“For us we really have three seasons,” Maynard said. “We have cross country, then indoors and now we’re getting ready to start our outdoor season.”
On Saturday BSU will travel to Sacramento, Calif. to compete in the Hornet Invitational. What’s unique about this tournament for the Broncos is that this facility will be the host of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June.
“One of the reasons I like to go to this competition is because it gives those athletes of ours who have an opportunity later in the year to go back to the national championships a chance to compete on this site and get that experience,” Maynard said.
More than 30 teams will compete Saturday and Coach Maynard expects just about everyone to be in the same boat. Because it is so early in the outdoor season many teams will come in under their peak.
“While there will be some high-level performances many people are still in training and as a result performances are slightly depressed,” Maynard said. The Broncos will arrive in Sacramento fresh and Maynard said he doesn’t expect the team to be at its best just yet.
“If you’re really stroking on all cylinders right now in middle to late March, you’re going to have a problem in middle to late June,” Maynard said. “The great coaches and great athletes understand that and it’s really a process of sharpening your competitive edge.”
On Friday, April 7, the team will return to Boise to compete against Idaho State.
“Once we get back home and the sun is shining we hope to get a lot of people out to our meet,” Maynard said. “We’re getting excited for the chance to compete outdoors.”
TATE CASTLETON
Sports Writer