Last Chance to Order Storm merchandise This Morrning August 28th at 10:00 am. All items are custom made to order so please be very careful to order the correct size, as there are no returns or exchanges! All items are optional, but if you want to show your Storm Spirit check it out. !! Items will be delivered by Sept 20th!! Just in time for the fall weather.

Storm Spirit Store-

 https://scstorm.p3gear.com/

UNIFORMS- Please pick it up at practice today!

Here we go!!

This week we start our races! Our first race will be at College of the Canyons. The start will be at the track area. We will have a tent inside the gates please look for the Storm flag! This race is a pre-season competition with the 15 other VYC teams, and we will have a 3 mile open community race at 7:30 am before the youth races if you would like to see how much you have improved too! 

We will register all Storm athletes, so you do not need to do anything!! 

All parents or coach that would like to do the 3 mile open you can register on the track Saturday morning at 7:00 am. The cost for the 3 mile race is $15.00 this a fundraiser race for our VYC Conference and the COC XC team! There will be medals for the first 3 male and female athletes, and ribbons for the 4th-8th place runners. Please see below for the race schedule!

This is a great race for the beginning runners to get comfortable with racing and it is very exciting for them.

Parents can bring chairs/ blankets /tarps to sit on. We all sit together in our team area!

Our Conference and team is an all volunteer organization and rely only on parents and volunteers to help conduct the meets. We will need volunteers to help give out tags and work the finish line. We also need a parent to bring tents to the meet!

Here is what we need:

Tent set up -7:00 - am bring tents and set up -2 people

Tag table- 7:00 - help hand out athletes tags - 2 people 

Finish Line - Finish of each meet 2 people

Races - Rabbits to lead the races( bike ok) Turtles parents to follow the last runners in each race ( parents will not be allowed to run on the course during the races with their children)

Clean up - 2 people, help clean up and load tents

Please sign up at practice or email the job you are able to do!

You can see a information flyer and results on our website each week, Just click on the cross country link, or your can also see the results and information on the VYC website, vyc-xc.org.

All results will be posted to

livetrackresults.com

At this meet girls and boys in the same age group will run together

Practice Week of August 28th - Sept. 2nd 2023 

Monday - West Creek Park, 6:00-7:15 pm 

Tuesday- COC at 6:00 -7:15 pm - meet past the baseball fields

Thursday -Central Park Fields 7 -6:00 - 7:15 

Saturday - 7:30 am - 10:30 am - First Race at COC Track

Happy Monday Team!

3 weeks in, YOU MADE IT!!! We’ve managed to conquer Killer Hill, Evil Twin, the water tower for some, and a time trial. And for those of you who made it Saturday to the beach run, we had a blast with AMAZING weather!!

So what do we do now? You should be feeling stronger, more confident in your running, and faster! As I said at the first practice this should translate into feeling like you crested a big hill and are ready for the next challenge.

Coming up this week will be some more speed, some more hills, and a little longer distance. This is when running gets really fun! We start preparing to transition into the next phase of the season, RACING!!!

Racing is the time when you get to show off all the hard work you’ve put into each workout. This coming Saturday is the pre-season race at COC and it will be a great time to get your body acclimated to what race day looks like. You’ll challenge yourself to compete against your teammates and the other teams in our conference. And you’ll enjoy our Storm family as we all compete to do our best and be the best.

It’s going to be hot Monday and Tuesday so be ready. We’ll modify workouts if it is too hot, but come ready to work.

A couple reminders:

1. Stretch on your own at home! Get ahead and stay ahead of tight calves. Going through the calf stretches 2 times at home will only help.
2. Keep up with good nutrition, and enough of it! Now’s the time we as coaches start to hear of stomach cramping during practices. Normally, that is a direct result of NOT eating enough. So make sure you have a good breakfast, make sure you eat a solid lunch, and make sure you have a snack after school. You don’t want to be stuffed, but you need nutrition to keep training hard.

That’s it for now.

See you this week at practice. 

Coach Jeremy,