Welcome back!

I apologise for the delay, however, I have been extremely busy so this week I plan to make up for it.

Today’s topic will cover who the Windsor Lancer Throwers are and what they’re trying to accomplish this CIS season.

To begin, who are the Windsor Lancer Throwers?

The throws team consists of:

Ami Schimanski – 4^th year Philosophy

Steffi Stephenson- 4^th year Biological Sciences

Shea McLaughlin- 4^th Human Kinetics

Celine Freeman-Gibb- 3^rd year Human Kinetics

Allison Loyst- 2^nd year Nursing

Jacinta Cowan- 1^st year Criminology

Cole Bloxam- Bachelors of Education  

Andy Ysebeart- BA History and Bachelors of Education, continuing studies

With coaches, Mike Miller and Nathan Lennie

Now that’s out of the way, I will talk about what their goal is, rather what our goal is this season. The main team goal ultimately, is to win the men’s and women’s CIS title. Now within the throws sector our goal is to medal as many athletes as possible on the podium and to score as many points at both OUA and CIS championships.

Currently looking at CIS ranking as of February 6, 2012, both the women’s and men’s teams are ranked first in the country. Notable performance by the men’s throwers are Andy Ysebeart in the shot put and Cole Bloxam in the shot put ranked 2^nd and 8^th respectively in the country. On the women’s side notable performances are in weight throw Ami Schimanski 3^rd, Steffi Stephenson 9^th, Shea McLaughlin 12^th, Celine Freeman-Gibb  15^th, Allison Loyst 20^th and Jacinta Cowan 27^th in the country. I would like to just note these results are as of Friday February 10^th and therefore are not completely correct due to many outstanding performances this weekend.  I will update Women’s Shot Put results as soon as I know what they are and give you an accurate Women’s Weight Throw ranking as well.

Now, this season ultimately the goal is to win. Hands down, win the Men’s National Title and the Women’s National Title. For the men this would be back to back wins and for the women this would be their 4^th consecutive national title. However, there are many setbacks as a team in general. But individually the goals are the same, do the absolute best you can possibly do without any regrets. I can speak for myself on this one and say that not only have I been working my butt of since the end of august for this potential team National Title, I’ve been doing it for me too. I want to win, not just win a few meets here and there, NO, I want to win OUA’s and I want to win CIS. Now, I’m sure that many of your reading this are thinking, well isn't she cocky, but the truth is, I’m just being honest. It’s every athletes dream to be the best; they want to outperform every other competitor they have the heart, the soul, the drive to win. And it takes more than just a few push ups, sprints, cleans and jerks to get there. It takes months upon months of perpetration, both physical and mental. Eventually, it all comes down to a moment; one moment where you need to make a decision, “Do I go for it?” or “Do I play it safe?” the answer is GO FOR IT. I’m actually getting a little too far ahead of myself and I’ll pull this entry back into perspective. The Lancer Throws have a dream, we want to win both Men’s and Women’s National Titles, and each one of us dreams of being on top of that podium getting that gold medal, with a huge grin on our faces thinking to our selves this is it, this is what I’ve poured countless hours minutes and seconds into, to get here, this is it, take it in and never forget.

As I promised I will post new results hopefully by tomorrow and if not definably by Monday morning, of what the rankings are. I am also going to introduce our Multi-eventers, who compete indoors with a Pentathlon, in which one element is Shot Put. I will take you through a step by step process of what there preparation is and who it differs from a strict throws workout. As well I will talk to you about what other elements go into throwing, a behind the scenes look if you will at what it takes to be the best.

Until next time,

throwergirl :)