Sean K Robison Sr.

Repost from http://ga.milesplit.us/teams/SG/announcement/9042

South Gwinnett Boys competed at the Coaches Invitational at Georgia Tech on Friday and Saturday and performed well.

South Gwinnett took 3rd place overall in the Swedish Medley Relay, which is 100,100,200,400. Bryant Crenshaw was the 1st leg, followed by Jonathan Krause, Kevin Gary did the 200m 3rd leg and Mark Watts anchored the team with the 400m 4th leg. They ran in a blistering time of 1:33.34.

South also competed in the 4x100, 4x800 and the 4x400 which came in 3rd overall in a time of 3:23.85 on the legs of Mark Watts, Jonathan Krause, Bryant Crenshaw and Kevin Gary.

Tim Daniel and Bo Zombra tied for 10th in the High Jump and Mark Watts competed in the Triple Jump.

It was a great meet and the guys performed well.

The girls competed in the Stephenson relays at Panthersville Stadium on Saturday.

Repost of article I wrote on Milesplit.com, http://ga.milesplit.us/teams/SG/announcement/8586

At South Gwinnett we are really excited about the 2010 high school season of track and field. We have a brand new track, new runways and pits, a reinvigorated booster club and a talented pool of athletes.

For the first time in several years South is hosting 2 track meets which we plan to make not only annual events but a quality set of meets that are popular not just locally but regionally for the quality of the meet both in competition and handling.

March 3, 2010 will be one of the first JV and 9th grade meets of the season. Racing the Comets JV is open to all JV as well as 9th grade teams. There is no limit to the number of entries per team so all teams attending can give their athletes an opportunity to compete. The exciting thing about this meet is that it is Fully Automated Timing, (FAT), so a lot of young athletes will get their first FAT of the season and some athletes will get their first FAT every.

We choose to do the JV meet this way so that younger athletes have an opportunity to begin to track their own progress and be able to see through [url]http://ga.Milesplit.com[/url] how they are improving their performance in their events. It also gives them a verified time that they can use to enter meets such as the Nike National Outdoor Meet.

Racing the Comets on March 6, 2010 is exactly as it sounds a fast meet. The quality of the teams coming to the first installment of this meet looks to make it a very fast and exciting meet. Some of the athletes to watch at this meet will be Kevin Gary in the 200 and 400m. Kevin finished last year at the State Meet in 3rd place and is one of the two athletes who is returning from last season to go after the not only first place in the state of Georgia but also to try to set a new 400m time for 5A in the state of Georgia. Look for Aaron Wimberly to shine in the 300m hurdles as well as the 100m. Aaron is coming off a terrific high school football season as one of the top running backs in the county. South Gwinnett's 4x100 and 4x400 will once again be in excellent form and will look to break the County record again this year in both races. South also looks to be much stronger this year in the field events and we look to see some much improved performances there as well. Look to see De'jah Howard improve her performance in the 300m hurdles after breaking the school record twice last year in first time ever running track.

Some of the other teams to watch are Eastside's Kenya Shakoor, Kimberly Thomas, J'quyra Moncur-Blue and Mart Boatwright.
Look for Heritage High's Aaron Worthy and Jenkins Rufus.

Redan High’s Lamesha Glover, Crystal Mcbride, and Otavius Johnson are sure to put up some good performances.
The relays will be exciting to watch as Redan, Eastside, and Columbia will challenge South Gwinnett for dominance in the 4x100 and the 4x400.
Relays on the girls side will be just as exciting with Redan, Eastside Columbia, Heritage and others challenging for bragging rights across classifications.
There will also be surprise performances at this year’s meet as well.
As of the writing of this article there are still openings available for both boys and girls teams for the Varsity meet on March 6th and the JV/9th grade meet has no team restrictions.
We look forward to seeing all the teams planning to run in first Racing the Comets Classic series.
GO COMETS!!!

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With the completion of the resurfacing of South Gwinnett's track the Comets are ready to light up the 2010 Track and Field Season by holding 2 home meets for the 2010 High School Track and Field Season.

Racing the Comets JV, will be open to all JV runners including 9th grade, on March 3, 2010 at South Gwinnett.

On March 6, 2010 Racing the Comets, will be held at South Gwinnett. This meet is for Varsity Boys and Girls teams and is at this point an invitational meet. If your team is interested in competing at this meet contact Coach Pritchard at sharard_prtichard@gwinnett.k12.ga.us

We plan to makes these quality annual events with fast times and record distances and a showcase for fastest teams in Georgia.

Times for both these meets will be Fully Automated Time.

Since these are both first time meets, winning times and distances will be meet records. It is also an opportunity to beat the all time events' records for Snell Stadium.

Start times for these meets are TBA but will be avaliable soon.

Concessions will be avaliable at both of these meets as well as t-shirts will be avaliable for sale.

Stay tuned we will be providing updated information about these meets on our new South Gwinnett Track and Field Website.

GO COMETS!!!!

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The end of summer always seems to be the hottest time of year and this year with the debate during the Congressional August recess on the debate on the direction health care should take has definetly heated the end of summer up.

Congress's current version of "health care reform" should have already died. For anyone who owns a business and last time I checked that would be all of us in the real estate business anything that is going to end up creating more cost in the form of higher taxes for businesses should be a read flag that we have to do whatever we can to defeated it. It will end up costs more money that gets taken away from our bottom line and in some cases make drive many of us out of business.

I am not a doomsayer, or trying to scare anyone but those are simple ecomomics facts that cannot be argued.

I think everyone agrees that there are definte reforms that need to be accomplished to rein in the every increasing size of the cost of health care. Single payer is not the answer, period.

Our allies in the developed world have had single payer for a long time and it doesn't work. In Great Britian women are having to bear children in restrooms, Doctor's office, or at home because there are no beds avaliable in hospitals.

Private insurance is now being suggested as an option in some provinces in Canada because the provincial healthcare system is not adequately providing for the needs of its citizens.

The United States has always been an advocate of free market solutions. It is the reason we lead the world in so many catergories and the world looks to the US for leadership on so many issues because the free market and freedom loving people find a way to deliver what is needed.

Here are some suggestions on what the debate should be about concerning health care reform, these are from the Heritage Foundation website at Heritage.org: retrieved August 27, 2009

A Consensus on the Problems

over $2.4 trillion on health care (almost 17 percent of GDP), and the government accounts for almost one-half of all health care spending.[1]

85 percent of all employers offer only one health plan for their employees

Premiums continue to rise in the private sector

Similar restrictions on personal choice face enrollees in government programs.

Medicaid, 23 percent are not accepting new Medicaid patients, and 18 percent are accepting only some paients

Medicare, serious legislative efforts are underway that will likely chip away at seniors' access to the private plans they want in Medicare

Those without coverage remains constant, the individuals are not the same

45 percent of uninsured are uninsured for less than four months; only 16 percent are uninsured for more than 18 months

This churning in the health insurance markets, and the lack of portability, is almost entirely the result of outdated government policies.

Two Competing Health Care Visions

General agreement on the outcomes Americans are looking for in any health care reform proposal: affordability, accessibility, portability, and quality.

On one side, there are those who believe that centralizing power in Washington is the best approach to achieve serious and long-lasting health care reform.

Proposals for a new public health plan and a federal health insurance exchange, as well as an individual mandate to purchase a government-approved package of benefits, clarify their intent: Washington control over health care financing and delivery.

The result,
Congress would ultimately be in charge of health care decisions.
A massive one-size-fits-all government system
Would depend on flawed financing schemes, new mandates, and higher taxes to pay for it.

On the other side, there are those who believe that individuals and families should be the key decision-makers in health care and that they should control the flow of health care dollars in a reformed system. They are concerned that a centralized system of federal decision-making would:
Diminish individuals' control over their personal health care decisions;
Directly undermine state autonomy and authority in health policy, undercutting both innovation and experimentation to expand coverage and deliver quality care, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens;
Generate and perpetuate unsustainable federal spending; and
Ultimately, in the face of serious budget crises, lead to government rationing of care and services.

Key Elements for a Workable Solution

1. Tax Equity. The cornerstone of any serious health care reform proposal must address the tax treatment of health insurance. Today, individuals who purchase coverage through their place of work receive an unlimited tax break on the value of their health care benefits. However, those who purchase coverage on their own receive no comparable tax break.

There is broad bipartisan agreement, especially among health care economists and experts, that the current tax treatment of employer-based coverage is inequitable and regressive. Ideally, Congress should replace the current tax exclusion with a system of universal tax credits. Moreover, as a general principle, Congress should provide tax relief for those who purchase coverage on their own and redirect other health care spending to help low-income individuals and families purchase private health insurance coverage.

I wanted to take this opportunity to pause and reflect as our nation celebrates its 233rd Birthday.

I hope everyone who lives in this country understands and realizes how lucky we all are to live in the freeest land on the face of this little blue planet.

Never has a country existed on the earth which has accomplished as much as we have in a relative short time.

We came for the original 13 colonies of approximately 7 to 10 million citzens to a nation in 2009 of over 300 million.

Our founding fathers were some of the greatest minds of any age who had the courage, understanding of history and desire to build a new nation free and different from anything that had every been tried before and did everything they could to get the nation off on the right path and on a course to sustainability. On this day we should take the opportunity to remember and thank our Father in Heaven for blessing these men with the great gift of foresight and courage to build an American Nation.

We have helped citzens of many nations of this world in their times of need. It was the US with our allies that rebuilt western Europe and Japan after WWII. Germany, Japan and Italy where our enemies and we came to their aid and helped them rebuild. Japan become one of our major trading partners and has become an economice super power it is own right.

The improvements in the standard of living that much of the world enjoys has been in many respects because of the ingenuity of many citzens of the United States of America, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Benjamin Franklin just to name a few.

We went from the concept presented by Pres. Kennedy in 1960 to the moon in 1969. We have expanded our understanding of the universe that we are a part of with the Hubble and Spizter space telescopes.

Ronald Reagan brought us the concepts of peace through strength and economic prosperity which started this nation on a 20 plus year run of prosperity which has neverbeen seen before.

I have listed just a few of the many wonders and blessings that our nation has brought to the world. We should always leave the world better than we found it and for 233 years we have as a people have tried to do just that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA and everyone have a GREAT 4th of JULY.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!