Preseason Practice At Omro

Friday, March 11, 2011 at Omro High School
Omro High School

Division: 2
Enrollment: 394
Coach: Jon Schwantz
Conference: Wisconsin Flyway
Conference Schools: Horican, Kettle Moraine Lutheran, Laconia, Lomira, Mayville, North Fond du Lac, Omro, Saint Mary's Springs Academy, Winnebago Lutheran Academy

Left: Junior Amanda Obot recorded fifth place finishes in the D2 100m and 200m dash events at the 2010 State Meet. She was also a member of the Foxes 4x2 relay team which placed 4th at La Crosse. Obot holds the school 100m and 200m dash records [12.51 (2010), 25.45 (2009)].

Right: Jessica Will won the Bronze Medal in the 100m D2 HH event at the 2010 State Meet and the Gold Medal in the 300m LH race. Seven of the top eight D2 300 LH athletes return for the 2011 season. Will was also a member of the Foxes 4x2 relay team which finished 4th at La Crosse in 2010. Will holds the 100m HH and 300m LH school records [15.30, 44.92] both set in 2010.

Above left: Jessica Will. Above right: Omro sophomore Teagan Augsburger is shown at the 2010 TFA Meet

Amanda Obot at the Deerfield Classic 2010

Downtown Omro has murals covering the whole side of some of the buildings. The murals depict early life along the Fox River that runs through the middle of Omro. The City Hall [right] serves as a museum. A little known secret about Omro is that the city is the home of the largest snowman in Wisconsin. The 'O' of the Omro logo is a part of the snowmans apparel. The buttons on the snowman are wheel covers.

Jon Schwantz [above] is the head girls and boys track coach at Omro. His athletes are made aware of performance goals [left] on a large display outside his classroom.

A former Omro athlete Jared Sanchez [below left] is an assistant coach at Omro. He leads warmups and is the hurdles coach.

Dash athletes performed a variety of station drills that included 'ab' exercises and running the stairs

The fundamentals of the high jump and hurdles were stressed in breakdown drills

Distance coach Tom Dobberstein [above far left] ran track at Omro in the 1980's and returned in the 90's as a coach. He is the head boys and girls cross country coach. His son is a distance runner for the Foxes. The distance runners made use of a mild day to run a special drill outside. The '4x4' drill involves running a square consisting of 4 city blocks 4 times. The first block is 'walked', the 2nd block is a jog, the third block is a run, while the final block which is uphill is a sprint. This progressive uphill exericse is taxing but the distance runners were aggressive in attacking this challenge. The athletes below had their own 'pet name' for the hill which was the fourth component of the walk-jog-run-sprint drill.

For the day the distance runners made two of the dash athletes [below right] 'Honorary Distance Runners' so that they could participate in the drill. Below Left: Janna Crowley [orange t-shirt] and Jordan Huth [Bucky Badger black t-shirt] finished 1-2 for the girls distance runners in the '4x4' drill.
On Friday the throwers at Omro were attending the Wisconsin High School State Powerlifters Association tournament.

Former Little Chute and UW-Oshkosh athlete Terri (Schwamb) Kruse [left] is the throwing coach for the Foxes. She set an outdoor WIAC Conference Record in 2007 in the Hammer Throw event for the UW-Oshkosh Titans.