With the start of the high school outdoor track and field season just a few short days away, Raccoon Valley Radio asked Greene County boys’ head coach Dean Lansman about the strategy for putting a lineup together. “There is a strategy, but even then you tend to move kids around from time to time. You do time trials in the beginning of the season, but you have a group of kids you may know are your one hundred and two hundred kids. That’s they’re maximum (distance) and you’re going to get  the most of their potential out of them. You have a group of 200 to 400 kids. They tend to be a little bit stronger, a little bit more endurance. They may not be the best 100 kid, but because they’re a little bit stronger they may be better suited for a little longer race and come on at the end. Sometimes you’ll end up with a kid that can run 200 through 800 meters, so you figure those things out, then you start putting the pieces of your lineup together.”

Lansman and girls’ coach Kelly Simpson may have more of a task than usual for putting a lineup together for the Greene County Early Bird Coed Meet on Monday, March 28 in Jefferson at Linduska Field because it’s been Spring Break all week and few of the athletes are here. Many will not have practiced for some 10 days before showing up for school Monday and competing in a meet at 4:30 p.m.