Cross Country 2018
October 22, 2018

Greetings!

It is hard to believe this is our last week of practice for the regular season! The races on Saturday were incredible, and we were very glad to return to that course after 6 years. A lot of new times were added to the top 10.
 
On Thursday we will be adding Glo- sticks to our final practice.! We will give each athletes a few Glo- sticks items to run with, but feel free to visit the dollar store and buy extra if you really want to Glo in the dark and light up the night!! Parents please join in if you want.

Saturday is our VYC Championship race at Central Park. We will be scoring the teams and awarding the top 3 teams after each race. Please plan to stay a little longer . All athletes will also receive a medal and the top 3 athletes will get a trophy. the top 8 will be called up to the awards podium. Event T-shirts will also be available for sell.

We are the host for this meet and we will again need help to set up the course at 6:30 am and to clean up after the meet.

We will also be running the snack bar, and will need a lot of help and ask that each family bring items to sell Please see below for the item we ask you to bring. This is our final fundraiser and we use it to help with our awards banquet coming on November 4th. we also need 3-6 parents to help sell the items during the meet.

We have many volunteers taking picture during the meet. Please visit our Storm Cross Country Facebook page to see the photos and share yours! We will also be making meet videos of each race and adding to the website. [ Click here to visit our cross country facebook page]
Home Meet Parent Meeting
This weeks we will be hosting our Final Championship meet of he Season at Central Park. We will be giving top 8 awards and top 3 team awards. It is a fun meet and all finishers will receive a nice medal to end the season.

We will have a quick parent meeting Tuesday during practice at 6:15 to go over our duties and take sign ups to help. We will also talk more about post-season!

If you are unable to come please let me know if you can help!
This week’s practice schedule
Monday – October 22 @ 6:00  – Central Park

Tuesday – October 23 @ 6:00 pm  – Central Park

Thursday – October 25 @ 6:00 pm  – Central Park (Glo-Stick run)

Saturday – October 27 @ 8:00 am - Final Meet @ Central Park 8:00 am
Team Banquet
Please Mark your calendar for our team banquet on Sunday Nov. 4th. We will provide the dinner and ask you to bring horderves and dessert. We will send more info next week!!
Post Season Info
If you are interested in the Post-Season Please Let Coach Elaine know. All athletes in the top 16-25 rankings may be invited and should consider competed for the Valley United Striders!. There is team fee and uniform expense. Also athletes need to get a USATF membership card I will be sending out more info on Sunday next week. Post Season practice will start next Monday Oct. 29th at Central Park.
We will have a parent meeting on Tuesday at 6:15 and answer more questions. Our website is valleyunitedstriders.com and will be open for registration later this week.
Snack Bar Items Needed
This week's meet at Central Park is our turn to host the meet, and snack bar. Please donate the following items to sell. We need all items brought to the park by 7:30. if possible. We also need parents to run it. Please let Elaine know if you can help. Here is a list by age group of items we ask you to donate. Please bring items to the meet early!!
 
Sub and Gremlins  - Donuts, muffins ect.. Fresh donuts sell the best!

Bantams  - Drinks - water, soda , (coke , Dr Pepper ect) sell the best, also juice and Gatorade.

Midgets  - snack items like candy, chips bars cookies, brownies, must be in individual packages to sell, the kids love the sour patch type candy.

Youth  - fruit, nuts healthy bars

We also need parents to help set up the meet. Please arrive early!