The Empire Athletics training group coached by Gary Evans boasts three of the ten entrants in the Adidas Boost Boston Dream 100 field. On the boy's side 3A state champion Chauncy Smart and 4A state champion Lavonte Valentine will join recent Prefontaine high school 200m champion and 8th grader Tamari Davis who was third at this event last year. Coach Evans let us in on their training log as they prepare for this prestigious event.
Monday: Was a holiday so I gave everybody off.
Tuesday: Tamari got rained out so she just did some stretching. Chauncy and Lavonte did seven 100's jut working on technical positions.
Wednesday: Tamari did block starts and 3 x flying 50m with 20m fly zone. Chauncy and Lavonte had the day off.
Thursday: Tamari did block starts and had a hair appointment for graduation. Chauncey had graduation. Lavonte did block starts.
Tuesday: Tamari got rained out so she just did some stretching. Chauncy and Lavonte did seven 100's jut working on technical positions.
Wednesday: Tamari did block starts and 3 x flying 50m with 20m fly zone. Chauncy and Lavonte had the day off.
Thursday: Tamari did block starts and had a hair appointment for graduation. Chauncey had graduation. Lavonte did block starts.
Friday: Tamari graduated. Chauncy did block starts. Lavonte just relaxed.
Saturday: All three depart for Boston.
"We didn't put a whole lot of focus on these meets because they have so many others things going on graduating, testing, family get togethers, and they just finished up their middle and high school state championships," Evans said.
"All three have had a great year and accomplished what they need to and anything else is just icing on the cake," he added. "However, we're not saying in the kitchen all day to make that cake to put icing on it. Their kids I want them to have fun because it's summer. These workouts are just fine tuning and staying a little sharp. If you don't have it by now it's too late."