Table of Contents

• Events
• Warming up
• Training
• Record Breakers
• Did you know?
  (Cool Track Facts)
• Track and Field Links
• Bibliography

Chimacum Middle School

ThinkQuest Jr.

Meet the Team

Featured site:
The International Amateur Athletics Federation

Around the Track and Back

Bibliography:

The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Release 6. Connecticut:
      Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Coombs, Charles. Be a winner in Track And Field.
      New York: William Morrow and Company, 1975.

McNab, Tom. Athletics: Field Events. Great Britain:
      Brockhampton Press, 1972.

Bush, Jim with Valentine, Tom. Inside Track. Chicago:
      Henry Regnery Company, 1974.

Clarke, Ron with Boyle, Raelene. Successful Track & Field.
      New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.

Canham, Don and Micoleau, Tyler. Track Techniques
      Illustrated. Toronto: A. S. Barnes and Company,
      Inc., 1952.

Jackson, Colin. The Young Track And Field Athlete.
      New York: DK Publishing Inc., 1996.

Thompson, Peter J L, M.Sc. Introduction to Coaching Theory.
      England: The International Amateur Athletic Federation, 1999.

"Track and Field," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 96 Encyclopedia.
      (c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
      (c) Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. All rights reserved.

Recommended Reading:

Wilt, Fred editor. How They Ran, Second Edition.
       California: Tafnew Press, 1973.

Conger, Ray M., M.A. Track and Field.
      New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1939.

Daws, Ron. The Self-Made Olympian. California:
      World Publications, 1977.

Thompson, Donnis H. Modern Track and Field for Girls and Women.
      Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1973.

Lasco, Diana. Developing a Successful Women's Track and Field
      Program. New York: Parker Publishing Company, Inc., 1986.

Web Sites:

IAAF International Amateur Athletics Federation. Internet
      WWW page, at URL: <http://www.iaaf.org/>.
      (current version at March 1999).

Refer to our Links page for other sites we collected and visited.

Graphics, Pictures, etc.

Artwork in this site is created by the members of this team.

Photographs were taken by the students of students and/or the High School assistant track coach with the express permission, including parent permission where needed. Names are not being used for safety and privacy reasons.

Clipart on this site was donated by Chimacum High School from a CD clipart collection set that the High School purchased, copyright Nova Development Corporation.

The team would also like to thank Heather and Sam for helping us type and for helping us obtain information. Thanks also goes out to Caitlyn for all her great help and to Charlotte and Cameron and Erica. Oh and thanks to Garrett (a thinkquest Jr. participant from last year) for finding some of our errors!
Thank you all so much for your support!