Track & Field 2022
January 6, 2021

Greetings!

Happy New Years to all our Storm Family! Please be sure to read the entire Newsletter as although many things stay on each week, there is always new items.
As many of you know there was a terrible accident last week involving 2 Storm Alumni athletes. Please see below for more details and how you can help support the families.

Our team is quickly filling up we have reached 80% of our team capacity, we encourage you to sign up now! We will be closing registration soon! If you have already registered you must pay the team fee's before January 15th to receive the sale price!

Please place your uniform order by TODAY!!! as this is the last date for us to order new uniforms to insure they are here on time. We have not changed uniforms, so if yours still fit, you do not need to order a new one. I will be ordering a few extra so that you can switch your size if needed, but because we are trying to keep our cost down , we do not want to order a lot of extra uniforms.

OLD members who are not returning - if you are no longer interested in receiving our newsletter please use the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email. All 2022 athletes must stay on the newsletter list as this is our main way of communication. You can add more emails to this list by clicking on the "join our email list" on our website

Covid Concerns- As you all know, things change daily with Covid concerns. We want to assure you that we will follow all L.A. County Department of Heath, and all William S. Hart rules for youth sports, We have been following safely for 2 years and have not experienced any cases or out breaks. We will have the most updated information on our website by February 8th. This is why it is very important for you to attend the Parent Orientation on February 8th.

Track & Field 2022 Registration is now open. Please read carefully the instructions below on how to sign up. we are so excited to hopefully be back to a full regular season in 2022!!

Coaches Needed - It has been 2 years since we have had a full program. Due to to not having our seasons we are in need of many new coaches! Track and Field is a very unique sport and needs many different area's of coaching events! We can train you and help guide you in any one of those area's. We need many head coaches and assistant coaches. No experience needed, just a willingness to learn and care for the athletes! Storm is a family of many different backgrounds! If you would like to coach for our great organization, please contact Coach Elaine at coachelaine@runstorm.org. You can click on the "document" link on our website to send in your coaches application and complete your background check. We are an all volunteer organization and completely rely on volunteers to make us great!!

Coaches needed -
Head & Assistant Sprint Age group coaches - all ages
Long Jump
High Jump
Shot Put
Hurdles
Distance

Practice Facilities
Many have been asking about our practice locations this year due to the Lacrosse team at most schools bumping us from the track. We have diligently been working on securing practice days at all of the 7 local high schools and COC. We are working on Saturday's at Canyon High or Castaic High and 1 day a week at COC . I have contacted all 7 schools to try to secure days. Here is the results I have gotten so far for practice days. We do hope that most of our Saturday's will be at either Castaic or Canyon High but we are actively trying to get more practice days. For now have Tuesday practice secured at COC and 2 nights at Castaic High ( Monday and Wednesday or Thursday) We ask you attend at least 2 practices per week!
Please understand that this may change and we may not get our permit until late January! We will send dates and locations as soon as they ae confirmed! For now, here are tentative dates to start the season!

Registration- is still open
Parent Orientation- Feb 8th - 5:30 pm ( Sub and Gremlins 5 to 8 year olds, or 7:00pm. all others. - The Centre at Santa Clarita Sorts Complex
First Practice - Feb 12th - 8:00 am - 9:30 am - Castaic High School

2022 Track & Field Sign Ups
Sign ups for the 2022 Track & Field Season
 
AGE GROUPS
Athletes compete in a variety of running and field events
according to their year of birth: 
 
SUB-GREMLIN
5-6 Girls and Boys (SG/SB)
(Year Born) 2016-2017
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 4×100 Meter relay, Long Jump
 
GREMLIN
7-8 Girls and Boys (GG/GB)
(Year Born) 2014-2015
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, 4×100 and 4X400 Meter relay, Long Jump
 
BANTAM
9-10 Girls and Boys (BG/BB)
(Year Born) 2012-2013
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, 4×100 Meter relay, 4×400 Meter relay, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put
 
MIDGET
11-12 Girls and Boys (MG/MB)
(Year Born) 2010-2011
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, 3000 Meter, 4×100 Meter relay, 4×400 Meter relay, 80 Meter hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put
 
YOUTH
13-14 Girls and Boys (YG/YB)
(Year Born) 2008-2009
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, 3000 Meter, 4×100 Meter relay, 4×400 Meter relay, 100 Meter hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put
 
15-18 Girls and Boys
(Year Born) 2004-2007
100 Meter, 200 Meter, 400 Meter, 800 Meter, 1500 Meter, 3000 Meter, 4×100 Meter relay, 4×400 Meter relay, 100 Meter hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put
 
Please be sure to read the  Parent Handbook  it will answer most questions anyone should have. (It should be posted to our website in a couple of days).
 
The above paperwork files require  Adobe Acrobat Reader , Click here to download a free copy.
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
Elaine Bingham , Head Coach Track & Field
OPEN , Director Storm Track & Field
Alan Bingham , President, Santa Clarita Track Club
Please visit our 2022 Track and field sign up page on our website
Storm Alumni Saugus Athletes
Last week while running to Central Park during practice for Saugus High, there was a terrible accident. A group of athletes were crossing the street, and a driver ran a red light going at least 50 miles a hour. Two boys were hit and many others witnessed it. Both of the boys were Storm alumni athletes, and had critical injuries. Our hearts go out to all the families, coaches, and athletes that were there. I have not been given permission to share their names but many of you know and love them.
We are a Family and even when athletes move on to high school we still support them. At tis time we have been told that both boys are making good progress towards healing, but it will be a very long recuperation. In support of the families we would like to help with securing donations for food, gas and anything that will help them get through this extremely difficult time.

If you would like to contribute please mail or drop off gift cards, checks or any items. We also have a "donation link on our website if you would like to contribute in that way. I will send all donations to the families on January 15th. Please mail to:
Santa Clarita Track Club C/O Alan Bingham
27900 Youngberry Dr.
Saugus Ca 91350
Track & Field is a competitive sport, all athletes must attend at least three meets on Saturday, to be on the team. There will be no practice only athletes.

We have reached the point that we just can no longer accept athletes who only want to practice on our team, that takes away our coaches time in training our athletes who do compete, so our policy is that we do not accept practice only athletes. Saturday Meets are mandatory

Please click the following button to register for the 2020 Track & Field Program. Please note that the terms and conditions to registration belong to the Valley Youth Conference. This form is an exact electronic copy of the paperwork we had last year which was on paper.
The payment option is a separate option.
Uniform purchase is also a separate option. (Every athlete must compete in a uniform, but you are not required to buy a new one every year, if your uniform from last year or cross country is still good you may use that one, if your child has out grown it, you might want to purchase a new one).
New athletes we must have a copy of the proof of age (see below).

A proof of age document must be uploaded using the form on the runstorm.org website for each athlete that is New to the club. If you competed in 2021 Track & Field or 2021 Cross Country for Storm we have your proof of age document still on file.

The following items are acceptable:
1. Birth Certificate.
2. Photocopy of Birth Certificate.
3. Military Birth Certificate.
4. Passport.
5. Foreign Birth Document or Green Card.
6. Copy of School Record with documented date of birth.
7. Court decree.
8. Valid California Identification Card
Parent Packet & City Waiver
We've updated our parent packet, you can download it by clicking here.

The Santa Clarita City waiver is no longer needed and we've removed it from our sign up packet, if you received one with your sign-up packet email, please disregard it.
Storm Merchandise Store
The Storm store is your one stop shop for everything from sweats, warm up suits and t-shirts. click the button to check it out.

Remember it will take a few weeks to get items from the store. Now is a good time to order warm ups or sweats for the colder weather. Also parents can show their team spirits and order shirts!!