Upper Sandusky Meet

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

·         Cloverleaf was awesome! Even though it was a tough course, it looked like it was a PR day for many of the runners! Congrats!

·         Clague Park Fun Run is set for Tuesday, October 7^th. This is a tri-meet with Amherst and Westlake, an informal 1.5 – mile run and a tradition for these three SWC schools! We’re still trying to get buses for this race, but shouldn’t have a problem. Here’s the schedule:

7th Girls     4:30

7th Boys    4:45

8th Girls     5:00

8th Boys    5:15

·         We are organizing for the OHSAA Middle School Invitational. This is an optional race, where we take the top 40 athletes. We are taking 10 team boys & 10 open boys and 10 team girls & 10 open girls. We will base this first on who wants to go, then on the top times of each gender. We’re asking runners to let us know by Wednesday, October 1^st, if they want to attend this optional meet, so we can start planning for this race!

          If you are interested in going to this meet please fill out this form by Wednesday, October 1st.  Click here to get to the form. Reminder: The TOP 20 girls and TOP 20 boys will be attending.  

·         The end of the season is quickly approaching! With the end of our season soon upon us, the coaching staff is planning some fun activities that hopefully will promote team-building and an appreciation for the hard work put in this season! The next 2 weeks’ activities include:

Friday, October 3^rd                         Friday Night Dinner & AL CC Movie Night (in the Learwood Auditorium)

Saturday, October 4^th                     Dairy Queen AFTER Jack Wilhelm Invitational (parents can pick up athletes from Avon Lake Dairy Queen)

Wednesday, October 7^th              Clague Park Fun Run

Saturday, October 11^th                  End-of-season Bowling Celebration (after SWCs)

·         I’m attaching a copy of the Upper Sandusky Meet Cheat Sheet here.

Upper Sandusky Information:

·         We are replacing our Vermilion Invitational for the Upper Sandusky race. Parents, we realize this race is far away, but we strategically tried to find a replacement meet that has a flat, fast course for this particular week. Vermilion used to be the meet that met that criteria for us. Vermilion is no longer an option for us, and we’re not going back there.

·         We are leaving school early for this one! Students will be let out at 1:55 p.m., and we’re leaving Learwood between 2:10 – 2:15 p.m.

·         We should return to Learwood between 8:30 – 8:45 p.m. Parents, we’ll make sure students are doing homework on the bus.

·         This is an OPEN race! We’re running OPEN races from here on out.

·         Please pack a nice snack for this (crackers, banana, apple, water, sports drink), as you’ll want to eat prior to arriving to the meet and after your race.

·         Results will be on baumspage.com

·         Weather looks much better this week! Remember to dress in layers!

·         There is no concession stand, but all runners will get a free hot dog, potato chips, and water

·         This race is held at:

Harrison – Smith Park

East Wyandot Avenue

Upper Sandusky, Ohio

·          Here’s the schedule:

5:00 p.m.         All Boys

5:30 p.m.         All Girls

Awards Presentation will be held after the Girls’ Race

Cloverleaf Week

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

First, congratulations on participating in the 1^st Annual A.L. Fun Run! While the weather didn’t cooperate with us in the morning, it was still fun. According to our measurements, the course was about 1.91 miles in total length. The winning team was the NO NAMES!

1^st ANNUAL AVON LAKE FUN RUN RESULTS

Champions     NO NAMES                                         110 points

                        The names of the ‘No Names’          

Tyler Stepak   

                        Natalie Miller

                        Cole Sparker

                        Melanie Carr

                        Patrick Neipp

                        Catherine Arebaugh

                        Owen Bornhorst

Runners-Up    Flying Fergatis                                    124 points

3^rd place          My Name Is…                                      152 points

4^th place          Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles           160 points

5^th place          Team ‘Death’                                      164 points

6^th place          Shin Splinters                                      169 points

7^th place          A.L. Dragons                                        197 points

8^th place          Team 9                                                202 points

9^th place          Uni-Bacon-atis                                    209 points

10^th place        Killer Kats of Kandy Land                    229 points

·         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: any issues, see Coach Walters. We passed out apparel on Wednesday, but a lot of kids left their new clothes in her room. Stop by to claim your gear!

·         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 7^th, 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 in the near future.

·         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 18^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 here!

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. Any TEAM runner we rest will get their spot back for the Upper Sandusky race. We want to rest some runners who need it, while still allowing other runners to run TEAM this week. 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 on baumspage.com!

·         Weather looks great! For the first time in a few years, it looks like it will be sunny and dry (much to the disappointment of the kids).

·         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

                        Mackenzie, Liz, Elle, Liv, Caroline, Ava, & Abby Baird

9:20 a.m.         Girls Open

                        All other girls

9:45 a.m.         Boys Team

                        Jacob Nasr, Ryan Keller, Brandon, Jacob Morris, Danny, Owen, Michael Mandel

10:05 a.m.       Boys Open

                        All other boys

Week of Avon Meet

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

• Great job at Tiffin last Saturday! That was our best overall finish. Our girls came in 7th place overall, and our boys came in 3rd place out of 42 teams! Our open races were amazing! Our girls came in 13th place out of 25 teams, and our boys won their open race, coming in 1st place out of 27 teams!

• If you still want to get a jacket, just let Coach Walters or Coach Rocco know on Friday.

• FYI parents: I've got a lot of supplies for the Friday Night Dinners in my classroom. Feel free to stop down and pick up any needed items before our next dinner.

• Speaking of which, there will be no Friday Night Dinner this Friday. Our next dinner will be next Friday, September 19.

• We will be having our 1st Annual Intra-Squad Meet this Saturday. We will be leaving TROY at 8 a.m., and should return between 10:30-11 a.m. We are going to LCCC. Coach Walters and I are organizing this event. It will be very low-key, but we would welcome a few parents to help out at the finish line. We'll need help organizing the runners into our 'chute' and we'll also need to assign place cards to each runner. We would also need a timer at the finish line to yell out times for our runners, as we won't be able to write down all the times (the course will be less than 2 miles, FYI). So, if you're interested in helping, please be at LCCC between 9-9:15 a.m. This should be fun!

• Injuries…please let us know! The trainer at the high school is very good, very nice, and…she’s very free. It doesn’t cost you anything to go see her. Although, Coach Arebaugh’s really good at diagnosing problems and he’s good at treating them (better than me). So let us know at the end of practice, or head up to the Athletic Office at the high school after school to see if Miss Reading can assist you! If she’s not in the trainer’s office she’ll be on the football field but she said you can meet her there too.

Avon Cross Country Course of Courage (ATHLETES):

• The Avon Meet on Thursday is going to have a lot of great competition. This is a perfect opportunity to practice racing with our SWC competition!
• We will be leaving Learwood at 3:15 p.m. and we should return around 7:30 p.m.
• Bring a healthy snack to eat after school on Thursday! Also, bring extra water for the meet.
• Right now, weather looks cool and dry (at least for the meet).
• Results will be posted on baumspage.com for this meet.
• This week's cheat sheet:  Click here.

Avon Cross Country Course of Courage (PARENTS):

• The course will be held at 3701 Veterans Memorial Parkway Avon, OH 44011
• Races start at the west end of the park (by fields #6 & #7)
• We've been told that the course is slightly different that last year's...if you remember last year's course, the start and finish were on opposite ends of the park. So, essentially, you had to run the length of the course to see the race. We'll have to find out what it's like this year!

SCHEDULE:

• Boys Team – 5:00 p.m.

Michael Kuban

Jacob Nasr

Charlie Krause

Ryan Keller

Joey Carson

Hunter Hall

                Brandon Holton

• Girls Team – 5:25 p.m.

Lauren Davis

Maggie Brion

Elena Stojanovski

Mackenzie Tyson

Alyssa Whalen

Lucy Ross

Elle Dils

• Girls Open – 5:50 p.m.

All other Girls!

• Boys Open – 6:15 p.m.

All other Boys!

Tiffen Week

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

• We had an awesome meet last week! Our boys’ team had a commanding win at the A.L. Earlybird, and our girls’ team came in 2^nd place to what probably is the best CC team in the state of Ohio.
• Execution was phenomenal! We set up camp, broke it down, and supported each other throughout the entire meet! Our goal this week is to keep up this consistency.
• Picture Day for athletes is Tuesday, September 9^th! We will remind all athletes of this at practice. Please bring your shirt, shorts, and jacket for our team and individual pictures.
• If you still want to get a jacket, just let Coach Walters or Coach Rocco know at the team dinner on Friday.
• Attention parents: thank you for bringing the extra water to my after the team dinners. I’ve been purchasing water for the kids on really hot days/hard workouts, and the extra water is used for this purpose as well. If you want to continue dropping off extra supplies from the Friday Night Dinners, I’ll make sure the kids received them sooner or later this season.
• We will be holding practice at Cahoon Park tomorrow, Thursday, September 4^th. We’ll be leaving between 3 – 3:15 p.m. and we should be back at 4:45 p.m.
• Injuries…please let us know! The trainer at the high school is very good, very nice, and…she’s very free. It doesn’t cost you anything to go see her. Although, Coach Arebaugh’s really good at diagnosing problems and he’s good at treating them (better than me). So let us know at the end of practice, or head up to the Athletic Office at the high school after school to see if Miss Reading can assist you! If she’s not in the trainer’s office she’ll be on the football field but she said you can meet her there too.

Tiffin Carnival Information (ATHLETES):

• Okay, SWC Preview was about seeing what we’ve got and what everyone else has in our conference (Southwestern Conference). Avon Lake Earlybird was our first big meet, and our home meet. Tiffin Carnival is all about SIZE! It’s the biggest meet we’ll attend this year! We get to compete against schools we won’t see again for the rest of the year! The best advice for this week: enjoy it! You’ve just got to experience it.  
• We will meet at Troy at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, and we should return between 5:30 – 6 p.m.
• Eat a good breakfast for this one! You don’t have to wake up super early. Parents, kids should pack a good, healthy lunch as they will be eating their pre-race meal once we get to Tiffin. Food high in carbohydrates are preferred. Remember that food helps build up the necessary glycogen, which produces the energy needed in races. Pasta, whole wheat bread, bagels, cereal (Cheerios…but watch the bus floor because you’ll be the one cleaning it up), apples, bananas, grapes, orange juice (limited quantity), yogurt, 1 chocolate cookie…these are examples of good food to bring as part of your lunch, which is vitally important as that is your pre-race meal.
• We want to eat our pre-race meal (lunch) 2-4 hours before our race. So we’ll let the team know when they should eat.
• Bring a healthy snack home, along with enough to drink. You’ll need something before your race, something after (water AND sports drink). You can also bring money and buy some unhealthy food after your race.
• Again, we’ll be stressing healthy eating/drinking this season. But it’s good to have one ‘cheat’ meal a week…maybe make the pizza you eat after the race that reward for a week of healthy eating. We have been talking to the team about eating an ‘unhealthy’ meal after their race on Saturday, but keeping it healthy Sunday – Friday.
• Right now, the weather says it’s about a 90% chance of rain. So…bring rain gear, hat, wrap your gear in your duffel bag in plastic (to keep it dry), and bring sandals to wear on the ride home! It’s a long ride home, and you’ll want your feet to be dry.
• Results will be posted on baumspage.com this year (it’s different than last year).
• I’m also including the Tiffin Meet Cheat Sheet for this week. Make sure to study this!  Click here to read it. 

Tiffin Carnival Information (PARENTS):

• Information from Tiffin’s website can be found here: http://www.tiffin.k12.oh.us/Athletics/Cross-Country-Carnival/
• We will meet at Troy at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, and we should return between 5:30 – 6 p.m.
• Make sure kids get a healthy breakfast and that they pack a healthy lunch (plus more food than normal…it’s going to be a long day).
• There will be food and t-shirts available.
• Watch the time…it is very hectic parking at this meet, since it’s so large. We try to get there a little early so kids can eat, and so we have enough time to find a place to set up camp. Plus, the buses have to wait to get into the park, so it takes time. I would leave earlier than what your GPS says so you’re not rushed!
• The race is held at Hedges-Boyer Park (491 Coe Street, Tiffin, OH).
• The meet managers encourage spectators to enter the park using the rear entrance off Summit Street and to park at the bottom of the park. You have to walk to the start/finish (pretty much the same place), but it’s worth it as you’ll end up sitting in your car if you try entering the top of the park (they stop traffic during races).
• The map for this race is really hard to read, but this is the one on the school website: http://www.tiffin.k12.oh.us/documents/Sports/ccc/CC%20Carnival%20Course%20Maps..pdf

The start is naturally a good place to be, then turn left, as the kids will run out, turn left, and come back. Then, if you can jog (or walk fast) to the softball field and/or woods, that’s another good place to be. Then find a good spot at the finish! There are a lot of people there so maybe get a little away from the finish…lining up along the last turn to the finish isn’t bad…the kids will be able to see and hear you there.

SCHEDULE:

• Boys Team – 1:05 p.m.

Michael Kuban

Jacob Nasr

Charlie Krause

Jake Meier

Hunter Hall

Abud Salem

Ryan Keller

• Girls Team – 1:50 p.m.

Lauren Davis

Maggie Brion

Liz Murdkock

Mackenzie Tyson

Elena Stojanovski

Olivia Crimaldi

Lucy Ross

• Boys Open – 2:15 p.m.

All other boys!

• Girls Open – 2:40 p.m.

All other girls!