Track Team in KL

Joy Kiehl

Last weekend, March 8-9^th, the track team traveled to Kuala Lumpur for a track meet against six other schools from Southeast Asia.

After around a six hour drive down to KL on Friday, the track team arrived at Alice Smith School. We were going to compete against schools from Singapore, Thailand, and KL. The first day of competition the Treagles (Track Eagles) were involved in the following races: 4x400m relay, 3000m, girls’ shot put, boys’ discus, and girls’ high jump.

The 4x400m relay boys, Yuuki Horie (11), Tien Min Tan (11), Garrett Miller (9), and Jared Douglas (10), were able to come in third place and tie the school record. Douglas also came in third place in the 3000m.

At the end of the first day of the meet, we drove to our hotel, which had a mall attached to, and expected to find food. However, to our dismay, we found that all the restaurants were closed. We all had to go out of the hotel to look for a restaurant. It took a while before we found a place to eat, since a lot of the restaurants outside were also closed.

On the second day of competition, Dalat had athletes involved in all races from the 100m to 1500m. Also, athletes competed in other jumping and throwing events. Douglas again received third place in the 1500m event. The Treagles worked really hard, and some of them beat their personal records. Grace Moon (11) said, “Our first track meet in KL was one that I would never forget. I got the chance to have awesome conversations and interactions with our track team, and I also had the chance to bond with a lot of the coaches! The best part of the trip was when we went to Krispy Kreme in one of the rest stops on the way to KL.”

Although the track team was not able to receive many medals because of the high level of competition, it was a good learning experience, and the Dalat athletes were able to improve their times and have fun.