The long wait is finally over.
As the Tecumseh track and field team this spring will have a new home track to call home, the Arrows will christen the new track with a very special event tomorrow night at Spitzer Stadium, as the 2016 Tecumseh Track and Field/Cross Country Amazing Race Challenge will take place, as the brand new track welcomes its first ever event .
“Everything is done with the track except for the lines,” said Tecumseh track coach Mark Holbrook. “What has been holding it up is that it has to be a certain temperature with no moisture, and when they started to put down a line, it started to flake, so they had to wait.”
“(Yesterday) was a great example where it rained all day and in the past we would not be able to do anything, now we can.”
Holbrook knows that this will be a quality track for the future athletes at Tecumseh, and it will bring a lot of students out for track that may now otherwise go out.
“It is nice to go out on our new track,” he said. “As a coach, I am excited. This year, we had 67 kids out for track, and I think is a draw. A lot of athletic kids who didn’t do anything in the spring are coming out for track.”
The first event on the new track will take place tomorrow night with their Amazing Race, which begins at 8 p.m. with their fund raiser. The student athletes will go out into the community to get donations and will run 1,000 miles as a team. All levels of athletes will participate in this event including high school, middle school and the Running Club, consisting of kids from all grades.
“If the parents want to walk, they can also walk a little bit,” Holbrook said. “Funds will be raised for uniforms and equipment. We have already bought a lot of items for the track.”
“It is nice for the school that all of these athletes actually want to come out for track, and we will be hosting our first meet at the track April 26.”
For their first meet, the Arrows will host Northwestern, Shawnee and Bethel.
Also this year, the Central Buckeye Conference league meet will be held at Tecumseh in May, which will be a big event this year for the Arrows.
“It will be a great event,” Holbrook said. “With our seating and facilities that we have, I really think there is nothing like it in our league. It stands out above everyone in the CBC.”
