Cross Country Parents:
Here is information regarding tomorrow’s SWC Preview Meet at
Lorain County Community College:
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We will be meeting at LEARWOOD (not Troy) from now on, per the
Athletic Department
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Athletes need to be at LEARWOOD at 6:15 a.m.
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Buses will depart at 6:30 a.m.
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We should return between 10:30 – 11 a.m.
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We will encourage athletes to call home to make sure parents do
not have to wait for the bus to arrive
Some
things to remember about the first meet:
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Parents, if you are taking your child home from the meet please
make sure to sign out with Coach Walters at the finish line. Only parents can
sign out athletes from the meet!
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After the race, results will be posted online at www.baumspage.com. On
that webpage, click on Cross Country. Then scroll down
to Southwestern Conference Preview (8/25/12). Click there to
find out results. Please note: results may not be updated until later in the
day that Saturday or perhaps even into the day on Sunday.
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Parents, we will include a course map on the blog site. It’s
best to view athletes running at the start line, at the mile mark (by the
tennis courts), and then at the finish. These locations are fairly close to
each other so you should be able to walk to each location without difficulty!
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The goal of the first meet is really simple: every runner must
finish the race without walking! After this meet we will refine our
individual/team goals.
Some other areas of note:
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So far our athletes have been doing very, very well! They are
exhibiting great team behavior, their workouts these last couple of weeks have
been unbelievable, and they are working well together!
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We are going to have a team meeting today to discuss
positive team behavior and the importance of supporting one another during
practice and at meets. Parents, please reinforce this concept with the athletes
as we have another very large team this year and only two coaches. Experienced
runners have been taught to support the new runners and to include everyone in
team workouts and upcoming meets. This is the most important aspect of our
season and we will not tolerate any inappropriate behavior at practice or at
meets. We have had a tradition of excellent behavior from our athletes and we
will continue to model such behavior this season. To this end, we really need
adult supervision to help meet these ends. Coach Walters will be at the finish
line, I will be at the start & finish, and will be at various points of the
race. Parents, if we can have some help at the campsite, that would be great.
Athletes will need to be reminded to stretch after their race and to go cheer
on their teammates when they are not running.
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If your athlete is complaining of injury, let me know so we can
set up a meeting with the ALHS athletic trainer at the high school. If athletes
are not diagnosed with an injury, they are expected to run at practice! Most of
the time everyone is fine, but some days—particularly harder workout days—we
are getting a lot of complaints of injury. It’s sometimes difficult on our end
to diagnose a high volume of ‘injured’ runners when the complaints are so
numerous on hard days, then nonexistent on easy days. Overall, the team seems
to be very healthy but this is an option if we do run into injuries this
season!
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We may need to re-outfit some of the athletes as their uniforms
might not fit. We will do this after practice today! Let us know if there is an
issue. We have a limited number of uniforms, but we’ll do our best to make sure
athletes feel as comfortable as possible with what we have.
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Last year, parents took pictures of athletes at meets and then
organized them for our end-of-season awards night. In the past we’ve either put
the season’s picture slideshow on CDs and passed them out on Awards Night, but
last year a parent created a website where our team could access pictures. If
anyone is interested in taking pictures and/or coordinating organization of
pictures, let us know! I think everyone would rather watch a slideshow presentation
of our season at our awards banquet, as opposed to listening to me speak!
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Thanks for all your support! We appreciate all the help with the
Friday Night Dinners and we look forward to seeing everyone this Saturday! This
is a great sport because athletes, parents, and coaches all work together to
make this a great experience for everyone! It’s been a great start to the
season and we are excited for our official start tomorrow!
Coach Rocco
Coach Walters
Avon Lake Cross Country
Here are directions to LCCC posted on the Team's blog:
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