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Varsity Track

Coach Paul Baur Coach Ken Key

Welcome to the Westminster Academy Track and Field Home Page, now being updated for the upcoming 2011 track season. Here we hope you will find all the information you are looking for with regard to the WA Track and Field Program.

God has blessed us with a wonderful facility, on which we are privileged to train and work with our own team, and to host other schools in great competitive opportunities.

On the left side of this page you will find links to addition pages: such as meet information about our home meets and other South Florida track and field events, information for our team members and track parents, information about our history and school records.

Key 2011 Dates at a Glance

  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011, Roaring Lions Time Trials
  • Saturday, February 26, 2011 Westminster Academy Relay Carnival
  • Friday, March 25, 2011, Westminster Academy Varsity Invitational
  • Tuesday, March 29, Westminster Academy Middle School Invitational.  It is possible that this date may change to Sat. April 2.

The Middle School Invitational will be a qualifying performance meet for the flrunners middle school state meet.  Performances that meet the flrunners standards will qualify athletes to participation in the state meet. 

The rest of the WA Track Meet Schedule is being scheduled as well. Please email Ken Key or phone Paul Baur to request entry into the following dates:

  • Thur, Feb 17, regular Varsity Meet

  • Thur, Feb 24, regular Middle School Meet

  • Fri, March 4, opening Lower School Meet, selected events

  • Tue, March 8, regular Varsity Meet

  • Thur, March 10, second Lower School Meet

  • Thur, March 24, combined LS and MS Meet

  • If we do not participate in Florida Relays, we will host a varsity home meet on Friday, April 1, and move the MS INV date to April 2.   Decision likely in December or January.

Who We Are:

The Westminster Academy Track and Field Teams were founded by Coach Ken Key in 1975 and 1976. Under the direction of Coach Key, Westminster Academy Track and Field teams have now won 5 State Championships, and 3 State Runner-up titles. In his 35 years at the head of the program, WA teams have won 40 district championships. More than 20 athletes have won a total exceeding 35 individual and relay state championship titles.

Coach Paul Baur competed in track and field and a season of cross country in high school in Louisiana. He threw javelin at LSU and at the University of Florida. Paul served as an assistant track coach for two years at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, while earning his Masters Degree. Coach Baur teaches History classes at WA, were he also heads the Fellowship of Christian Athletes program.

Westminster teams under Coach Baur have earned a reputation for strong competition and excellent sportsmanship, including the 2005 girls team which won Coach Baur his first district championship title, and the 2007-2008 boys teams which finished third in the state meet in 2007, and are the reigning state champions in 2008. In five years his athletes have broken over half of the school records, including the 2007 state champions 4 x 400 boys relay.

 

State Champs Team

Contact information:

Coach Ken Key

email at school office: keyk@wacad.edu

email at home office: watrack@bellsouth.net

Coach Paul Baur

email 24/7/365:   baurp@wacad.edu

 

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One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13,14