Track Co-op May Send More Athletes to State

By Jeffrey Jacobson

Will Potosi/Cassville have a better potential of sending athletes to state in track? I asked some of the athletes from Potosi to see how they felt about the situation. There were some mixed feelings about the co-op, but overall the athletes thought it would be beneficial in the end because of the increase in athletes for the teams. “It will also help,” Taylar Pleumer, a senior track athlete at Potosi said, “because Cassville has a full track that we could all use to practice on.”

A few of the track athletes thought that the co-op would make the team the better. The majority of the people said that it would help because there would be more athletes. Taylar also said that it would help because Cassville has some good athletes that would be good to have on the team. Taylar also added that it will help with the funding because Potosi is having a hard time getting the funds to keep the track program going, but with the co-op, both teams won’t have to worry about any funding problems for a while. Potosi has been lacking funds to run the program and has been just barely getting by. With the co-op, the funding issue will be fixed for Potosi because there will be two schools funding one program.

A few of the track athletes from Potosi thought that the athletes from Potosi and Cassville will get along well because we have already had a co-op in football with Cassville, and that worked out really well. The athletes from Potosi and Cassville are all becoming really good friends from the co-op between football, so there should not be any problems with the co-op in track.

Finally, will this co-op be sending more athletes to state? Lily Reynolds, another Potosi senior, thought that there will be more people going to state because of the increase of athletes. Taylar said that she thought it would send more people to state because the athletes that went to state from Potosi and Cassville will now be on the same team, and because of the increase of boys on the team, which Potosi was lacking. She stated that with the increase of boys on the team, it will help with the boys' relay teams because they will not have to have distance guys running in sprint relays. That will help by improving the relay team that already went to state, and it could make a new relay team that could make it to state.