Cloverleaf Information

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

Wadsworth was AWESOME! We went into the meet hoping to close the gap between us and Brecksville. We didn’t just close the gap, we slammed it shut. We’re now neck-and-neck with the #1 team in the Southwestern Conference. Now it’s time to get to work.

Boys finished in 4^th place, with Brecksville’s team in 2^nd. Once we get our full team together, we’ll be ready to go!

Girls finished in 2^nd place, with Brecksville edging us out by a mere 5 points! That’s a virtual dead-heat as we gear up for the championship meet!

Parents, we still have a surplus of paper plates, plastic cups, plastic silverware, napkins, and drinks for the dinners. Just stop by my room (404) to pick up what you need!

Apparel: we are still waiting! I’ve checked with the office twice and contacted the distributor. The office has NOT received anything, and I’ve yet to hear back from anyone. This has never taken more than 2 weeks, but now we’re past 3 weeks. I apologize…as a coaching staff we got this ball rolling back in August so we could have our stuff ordered earlier this year, and it seems like we’re still going to get it later. It’s frustrating.

Lost & Found: we have missing items in our classrooms. Please stop by again to claim your items! Any lost items, by the end of the season, will be donated to charity.

We have added a meet to our schedule! The Clague Park ‘Fun Run’ is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2^nd, at Clague Park in Westlake. We will be running with Amherst and Westlake. This is an additional meet that the three teams schedule each year—our little tradition. The race is 1.5 miles long and the kids LOVE it! We’ll post times for this next week.

Just a heads-up…very soon we will need to know who is willing to go to the OHSAA Middle School Cross Country Championships. We can take a maximum of 40 athletes: 10 Boys’ Team/10 Girls’ Team/10 Boys’ Open/10 Girls’ Open. The race is a week after the SWC Championship (Saturday, October 19^th). We’ll talk to the team about this but we need to know who can make this meet so we can take as many kids as we can, without leaving anybody out who would want to go!

I’m going to send out our Cheat Sheet to athletes tomorrow, but I’m attaching the one I sent out last week for review. Also, I’m attaching what Coach Arebaugh shared with the team last week as well.

Cloverleaf Information:

We will meet at Troy at 6:15 a.m.

We should return around noon.

This meet is where we take a lot of the OPEN runners and bump them up to TEAM status. Team runners will run a workout with me, then cheer on their teammates. All runners are expected to be in attendance!

Here’s the course map: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/cloverleaf/2013/Middle%20School%20Course%20map.pdf

Normal breakfast still applies, with a light snack both before & after the race. Bring water for both before and after the race, and don’t forget your sports drink!

Results will be back on baumspage.com!

Weather looks iffy (as of the time of my writing this). Bring rain gear, layers, and a tough mental state! Running is a messy business! Leave the complaining for our competitors—if it rains, we’ll tough it out!

Parents, this race usually charges an admission fee.

Concessions and t-shirts will be available.

This race is held at Cloverleaf High School (8525 Friendsville Road, Lodi, OH 44254).

Here’s the schedule:

9:00 a.m.         Girls Team

                        Maggie, Liz, Elena, Taylor, Bailey, Catherine, Shital

9:20 a.m.         Girls Open

                        All other girls

9:45 a.m.         Girls Team

                        Chris, Jake, Max, Patrick, Michael M., Michael W., Zivon

10:05 a.m.       Boys Open

                        All other boys