New combined JDHS track team gets first-time adventure

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Neither the current Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé track team nor athletes from the now-defunct Thunder Mountain High School joining the program this year have traveled to the Kodiak Invitational Track & Field Meet, the site of this weekend’s first contest of the season for the Crimson Bears.

“I think the transition has been great, we’ve come together as one big team and we’re really looking forward to traveling to Kodiak,” JDHS co-head coach Jessie Stringer said. Stringer is a returning JDHS coach. “That is going to be a new trip for both, neither team has competed there in many years and so we wanted to make sure that we started out the season country wise email marketing list with a meet that was new for both teams and they experience it together…I think this year we are really excited to have all the high schoolers in Juneau on one team.”

“It’s a great energy to have everybody competing together. It means our relay teams are full, all of our events are full. So we have more than one or two people in an event like the high jump, whereas before we might only have a few this year we have 20 kids practicing the high jump which is great. Another thing we’re actually most excited about is that a large portion of the team is new to track and field. We have a lot of depth and a lot of new energy.”