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Calaveras Enterprise sports reporter Guy Dossi met up with Calaveras High School head track and field coach Doug Avrit Monday afternoon before practice. Dossi spoke with Avrit about the recent spring break, the Stanford Invitational and about two basketball players who are new to the team. CE: Well, we are almost at the halfway point of the season. There is still a lot on the line, so what are your thoughts of how the team is performing up to this point? DA: We’ve got a lot of talent and we are trying to bring it all around and get ready for the pugh through April. We don’t have a cluster this week, but we start next week with our MLL clusters. I feel good, for the most part. We are trying to get people healthy so we can be at full strength. But a lot of kids are competing, running well, throwing well, jumping well, so we just hope that coming that two week break that we can get the team back together where we are practicing at regular times. We are looking forward to the home stretch. …show more content…

That’s a lot of time to be away from school. In that time I imagine some kids left town on vacation or had other obligations that kept them away from practicing. How did you handle the spring break? DA: The difficult thing is that we are a rural school. Kids live 20 miles away and not 10 minutes. For some kids, that becomes a challenge. You have kids that families go on vacation. We had good turnout, but it still wasn’t everybody that could make it here every day for practice. I think we do a pretty good job, but yes, it’s a difficult thing. It could be 16 or 17 days that a kid could miss and that could have a significant impact. If we know some kid is going to be gone, we talk them about another way they can train, but it’s not the same as coming to practice and getting the work in. CE: You had some of the members of your girls team compete at the Stanford Invitational over the weekend. How’d it

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