I am writing this
in hopes it finds everybody having a great start to their school year. It is
still early but we all know that Track season will be upon us quickly. First, let
me introduce myself to those whom I have not met. I am Coach Matt Smith from
Spring Mills High School. Our school is going into our third year, and being
that we are a new school we have some pretty fantastic facilities. We hosted
about 10 meets last year between freshman and varsity and those meets gave us a
lot of practice running our FAT system. We have become pretty efficient at the
process, as some of you may know, it takes a lot of
work to learn how to run a track meet with that system. I am hoping some of you
are looking to attend new track meets this year, and hopefully some are willing
to travel to our area to see some different competition. We are in Berkeley
County, near Jefferson and Morgan County. So the competition up our way is very
good. Spring Mills will be hosting two invitationals
this year. The Cardinal Classic was our first invitational we hosted last
year, which will be held on a Friday night (4/22). This upcoming season we will
be adding the Paul Arbogast Memorial track meet
(4/16). Paul was a colleague and a close friend. He was the type of
person that would go out of his way to make your day better. The students
revered him and he was a great educator. The proceeds from this meet will be
donated to Mr. Arbogast’s scholarship fund. We are
hoping to make this a great event with some of the best teams in the state
attending the event. Please consider adding this event to your schedule. If you
would like more information please e-mail me back @ matthew.smith@k12.wv.us or give me a
call at (540) 686-6839. Thank you so much for your time.