Qualifying for Drake

To me the Drake relays are a big deal. All high Schools in Iowa compete to qualify for it. And even once you are in colleges they compete to get into to it.. we are not competing against each other but still everyone around the united states tries to go to Drake. So i seem to think that it can be a big deal. ever since freshman year i have gone to it. my first year we ran in 2 events, the 4x100 and the sprint medley. I still remember the meet we were at and trying to make the cut off time for the sprint med to get into drake. It was a meet here in town held at Kingston. I was running the First leg of the relay so after i ran i stood there yelling at the relay team and staring at the clock. Our 400 runner Nicole had just gotten the baton and we were doing very good..i knew she could catch us up even more and make us receive the cut off time. When we were done running i looked up and we had cut at least 3 or 4 seconds off of our time!! we had qualified. the teams came together jumping up and down so happy that we had made it. the nest year Trying to qualify for drake seemed to be easier because we had the same relay team as the year before, so therefore we had already worked together and knew what it took. last year we made in the same events (4x100 and the sprint medley). last year for the sprint medley we even placed. We ran and got 5th place out at 30 teams..at the drake relays!! i am hoping this year we can do the same thing and maybe even get 4th place.
this year i am hoping to make it into Drake for the 4x1000 and the sprint med. i think since i have only qualified for the same 2 events every year that i should try and make it for a third one this year. I was thinking about an open event, like the open 200 or the 100. i know it might be hard and take a lot of time and effort to do it, but i know if i put all of that in i can achieve it in the end.