Hoover High School
Cross Country and Track

Welcome to the Track and Cross Country Home of the Hoover Bucs!

OUTDOOR TRACK SEASON IS HERE !!!

The first day of practice is January 23, 2009.  The Bucs are attempting to better their red-trophy finish of last year!  The schedule page is updated.  Hoover is hosting two meets for middle school students, a freshmen/JV meet, the freshmen/JV championships, and two varsity meets this year.  Trips are planned to New Orleans and Mobile (as well as an Indoor event in Boston, Mass.).

MANDATORY MEETING FOR PARENTS AND ATHLETES:  MONDAY FEB. 9th

See this Newsletter:        Newsletter

NEXT MEET:  Hoover Relays (Saturday, April 18, 2009)

Freshman/JV Championships (Hoover Track - April 14, 2009)

What a beautiful (if chilly) night.  The Boys and Girls teams won their respective contests over the area JV and Freshman teams.  The freshman girls 4 x 400 team broke an elevan year old record with a 4:14.65 time.  Several Hoover athletes won and there were PRs tied, and set in many events.

MOUNTAIN BROOK INVITATIONAL (April 10 & 11, 2009)

What a great meet.  Both the boys and the girls won the competition, with everyone contributing to some very big wins.  The girls edged Mountain Brook and St. Paul's, as well as Collins Hill from Georgia.  The Boys swept everyone away winning by more than 140 points.  See the results page for more.

Mobile Challenge of Champions (April 3 & 4, 2009)

On a windy pair of days, Hoover athletes made a very good showing.  Chalandra Gooden set a new school record in the 200 meter dash - a record that had stood for 28 years.  Breona Humphrey reset the school record in the 400m, and the girls 4 x 100m freshman relay team reset that records, too.  Bryan Probst won the open division mile, and Patrick McGregor won the invitational division mile. 

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RELAYS (March 27 & 28, 2009)

Hoover Athletes traveled to Tallahasse, Florida, to compete in this regional invitational, with many teams from all over the South and a few from the Northeast.  Despite some wet conditions, the team performed very well with many noteworthy performances: Brionne Williams and Anthony May won the high jump events and Laura Bedsole won the pole vault.  Emmanuel Camacho won the shot put and Phillip Pritchett won the 100m dash. Nicole Charley and Brian Jackson finished second in the triple jump and Jessica Shelley finshed second in the 100m hurdles.  The girls 4x200m relay won, and their 4x100m and distance medley relays finished second.  The boys distance medley team won, and their 4x200m relay also finished second.

HOMEWOOD INVITATIONAL (March 28, 2009)

Not all of the Hoover team went south to Florida.  Several athletes competed at the Homewood Invitational.  The meet was postoned for four hours due to weather and the field events and track were wet. The boys team finished fouth and the girls finished tenth. Antonio Gaylord won the discus, and Matthew Braswell won the Javelin.

NIKE INDOOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (March 14, 2009)

Hoover athlete Patrick McGregor travelled to Boston, Ma. for the indoor mile, and he finished second in 4:08.61, breaking the Hoover indoor 1600m record in the process.  Patrick gets credit for a 4:07.17 for the 1600m.  Well done Patrick!!

VESTAVIA HILLS KING OF THE MOUNTAIN (March 14, 2009)

This meet was pretty-much a rain out (although one Hoover Thrower got into the Discus).

HOOVER INVITATIONAL (March 6-7, 2009)

Both the Girls and Guys shown in this Home meet, winning the competition.  In a replay of last week, Madison Brown and Matthew Braswell broke the school records in the Javelin throw, and Breona Humphrey reset the 200m Freshman record and the Freshman long jump record.

OAK MOUNTAIN ICE BREAKER (February 28, 2009)

On a very cold and misty Saturday, Hoover represented very well with new records in the Varsity Girls and Boys Javelin and the Freshman Girls 200 (a record that was last set in 1981!). Results are posted on the schedule page.

University of Kentucky Indoor Invitational Meet (February 21,2009)

As a warm up to the season a few athletes traveled to Lexington, KY, for an Indoor meet.  A link to the results is on the 2009 Indoor Season Schedules page.  There were 4 new Hoover records set in the meet.  Congratulations to Maudrecus and Briona Humphrey for resetting the Freshman Girls and Varsity Boys 400 meter records and to Anthony May and Brionne Williams for setting the Varsity Boys and Girls High Jump records!

Reebok Boston Indoor Games (February 7, 2009)

As a continuation of his great senior year, Patrick McGregor traveled to Boston to participate in the Reebock Indoor Games, running in the indoor mile.  On this small track, Pat ran the 16+ laps in a new school record time of 4:09.41 for the mile.  That equates to 4:08.96 for the 1600 meters.  Pat finished third.  A link to the race results is on the 2009 Indoor Track Schedule page.

A new year and a fresh start, if you are looking for the past meet synopses that used to cover this page, check the historical records pages.

If you have photos of the Bucs in action that you'd like to share, send them on a CD to Steve Bedsole.  Please indicate at which meet they were taken so we can get them posted in the correct gallery.

Molly McGregor will also need photos for use in the XC and Track Year Book.  This is a highlight of the year and is cherished by the athletes.  Please help her get photos of every athlete - all the photos provided to Steve for the website will be forwarded to Molly, so you can kill two birds with one stone. 

Thanks to Kirby Perkins, Melinda Hayes, Bill Evans, Randy Meinberg, and Steve Bedsole for photos during 2007-2008 seasons.  A very special thanks to Tom Neil for professional photos from Great American!

 GO BUCS!!!

2006-2007 was a great season for the Hoover Bucs!  Check out the 2007-2008 schedule, results, and photo gallery for this year's season.  Be sure to check back often for updates on the season and important info.

Check out the results for each part of the season (Cross Country, Indoor, Outdoor). The meet name on the schedule will become a link to the results (as they are made available).   Of course you can check out results from previous seasons in the Historical Results section.

Please note that due to file size constraints on our web server, we will delete prior season photos and replace them with current season photos.  Cross Country and/or Track season photos can be ordered anytime during the year - see the ordering process below.

Site Updates

• April 15 -- Updated the front page and added the JV/Freshman Championships results.
• April 13 -- Updated the front page and added results for the Mobile Challenge of Champions and the Mountain Brook Invitational.
• March 31 -- Updated the front page and added results for Homewood and FSU Relays
• March 16 -- Updated the front page and the outdoor and indoor schedule pages to include the latest available results.
• March 5 -- Updated the front page and the schedule page to include the results from teh Oak Mountain Icebreaker.
• February 23 -- Updated web-page to include indoor meet results from Boston and Kentucky.
• January 18 -- Updated the OUtdoor Track Scheduel Page and the Home Page. Added synopses to the 2008 Cross Country, 2008 Outdoor Track, and 2007 Cross Country pages.
  November 12 -- Posted the State Meet Results and updated the home page.
• November 2 -- Posted the sectional results and updated the home page.
• October 26 -- Posted the Hoover Invitational results and updated the home page.
• October 20 -- Posted the Chile-Pepper results and updated the home page.
• October 14 -- Posted the Great American Results and updated the front page.
• October 5 -- Posted the Mountain Brook INvitational results and the Jesse Owens Results, updated the home page.
• September 28 -- Posted the JV results from McCallie and update the front page.  Still waiting on the MBHS Invite results.
• September 25 -- Posted the results from the Memphis Twilight and McCallie Invitational meets (Hooray, my Adobe Acrobat writer is working again!)  McCallie Results are still incomplete for the JV races (frowny face).  See the links on the schedule page.
• September 9 -- Posted the results from the Tuesday Two-Mile Tussle and updated the front page.
• September 6 -- Posted the results from the Clara Bowl and the Chickasaw Trails meets.  Updated the front page.
• September 3 -- Posted the Oak Mountain Invitational results, updated the front page, and the Cross Country Schedule.
• July 28 -- Updated the Cross Country Schedule.
• June 17 -- Updated the Cross Country Schedule.

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