Greetings Alan,

Our first day of practice was awesome! We are looking forward to this week! I was informed by Castaic today that the track has been over booked for the first half hour of practice tonight, so we will improvise!! We will be meeting behind the stands and will walk up to the upper field together and do our warm up drills up there.. We will walk around the outside of the track to the stairs on the back side. If you are late please do not drop your athlete off if we have already gone up, Please walk them up to find us! We will be going back to the track at 6:30 for the remainder of our practice!! Please note that the online store will close this Thursday and there will be no way to order after that!! https://scstorm.p3gear.com/

Please bring your Jelly beans to practice !!

Uniforms will be available for Pick Up Tuesday and Saturday only, this week. Please be sure to pick them up this week

Please make sure your child has the following items with them and that they have running specific shoes, not vans, cross trainers, basketball shoes, ect.

1) All athletes should have warm up type gear, sweats, jackets ect.

You should make sure all items are marked with their name!

2) Please make sure they have a bottle of water with their names on it.

3) Bring a copy of your birth document or upload on the website if you have not provided on yet! All payments are due also

You will notice on the Practice schedule that on Mondays the Distance athletes will meet at Central Park until we go on Day lights saving time. Athletes that have been on our cross country team, and returning distance track athletes, are considered approved distance athletes. If you would like your child to try distance and they are new they must get permission from Coach Elaine or Coach Jeremy, and do a 1 mile run test.to attend this practice.

Last day to order Uniforms - We will be placing the final order for Uniforms on Monday Feb 20th. If you have not ordered yet please do so asap. the 2nd order of uniforms will arrive in late February. We do however have most uniforms in stock now 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.

We are still in need of a few assistant coaches and parent helpers No experience needed, just a willingness to learn and care for the athletes! We are especially in need of a Hurdle Coach!! 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!!

Practice Days and Location For Feb 11- 18th

Monday - Castaic High - Sub Gremlin & Gremlin - 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

All other age groups - 6:00 pm -7:45 pm

Approved distance - 6:00- 7:15 -Central Park Mondays only, near basketball courts

Tuesday - Castaic -Sub Gremlin & Gremlin - 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

All other age groups - 6:00 pm -7:45pm

Thursday - Castaic High - Sub Gremlin & Gremlin - 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

All other age groups - 6:00 pm -7:45pm

Saturday Castaic High - Sub Gremlin & Gremlin - 8:00 am - 9:15 am

All other age groups - 8:00 am -9:45 am

We ask you attend at least 2 practices per week! There may be some slight changes as the season progresses, We will always make sure they are in the weekly newsletter. We can not control this as this is a school decision. We have all become masters of flexibility!!

Our online Store is now open. Show your Storm Spirit!! This store will be Open for ordering Until Feb 16th ONLY. Many of these items are custom made by P3 Inc. It will take 3 weeks from the close of the store to receive the items. Please choose sizes carefully, as there are no returns, or exchanges.

https://scstorm.p3gear.com/

Jelly Beans/Jolly Ranchers - We offer these at the end of every practice. We ask each family to donate 2 large packages of either of these items. We will also need parents to volunteer to put the jelly beans in a individual baggies, and help hand out at the end of each practice. The athletes love this and it helps replace the glycogen used during practice and puts a smile on their face. You can bring this to any practice !

We offer this to all athletes, if you would like sibling to take one please bring extra so that we make sure we have plenty every day!!

Get on the right track!

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 2022 Track & Field or 2022 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