SWC Week

Cross Country Videos.... ENJOY.

Boys


Girls
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jT3RAsve-dWEpGRjVPRXBCZU0/view?usp=sharing

(Youtube would not let me upload girls, because of copyright issues)  




SWC WEEK

 Here we go! This is the final race of the season. Let's get to work:

• Please check Coach Rocco’s room for any missing items! At the end of our season we’re going to place all missing items in Learwood’s Lost & Found! Anything not claimed at year’s end will be donated to charity.

• Parents, while this final race is centrally located, make sure to remind kids to stick together!

• Time to get some rest! Eat healthy, drink a lot of water, stock up on sleep (9 hours, 15 minutes a night), and STRETCH before bed! Avoid soda, junk food, and limit sweets to one dessert a day! Remember, it’s not what you do Friday night, it’s what you do this whole week.

• Parents: we've been very flexible with the athletes' sports schedules this season...we are going to ask that those other sports be flexible with us this week. We are tapering this week, and we need the kids to REST! We've been pushing them these last few weeks, and I know a lot of them are participating in multiple sports. We want them to peak at the right time, and that means they've got to rest this whole week. If you could adjust their sports' schedules this week, we would really appreciate it!

• Parents and athletes: typically athletes like to toilet paper my house the week of SWCs (it's tradition). Just remember: we love Coach Rocco and we would NOT want to do any damage to his home. Also, the tradition also stipulates that athletes meet the next day to clean up--don't forget that.

• State Meet Info: we’ll go over the list of athletes who expressed interest in attending this meet—we’ll probably go over this Thursday-Friday of this week, and we’ll follow up with information next week.

• Parents: we’ll be updating Avon Lake’s Team Records & Individual Records. We’ll also post this on the blog after SWCs. As soon as this is updated, I’ll send it to the kids and update our bulletin board.

• I’m including Avon Lake’s SWC History here. Take a look at what athletes have done over the last 25+ years!

Southwestern Conference Championship

• Bus leaves at Troy at 11:10 a.m. (be there at 11 a.m.).

• We would like ALL athletes to ride the bus TO and FROM this meet! We would like the entire team to be present for the awards ceremony at SWCs! GO AVON LAKE!

• Boys run at 12:30 p.m.
• Girls run at 1 p.m.

• Parents, there is an Elementary Race at 11:45 a.m. It's 800 meters and it's open to any young athlete in the Southwestern Conference (grades 1 - 6). If you want to pre-register a runner, please email Coach Rocco at rob.rocco@avonlakecityschools.org. If you don't pre-register, you can still register the day of the SWC Championship at a table by the starting line. The starting line for this race is close to our middle school start line.

• SWC Awards Ceremony will be at 1:30 p.m. Top 7 runners (All-SWC) will be recognized, then Top 8-14 runners (2^nd Team All-SWC) will be recognized, then the SWC schools will be recognized. The awards ceremony will be by the tennis courts.

•  SWC apparel will be available! We pre-ordered but they may have extra apparel should you want to get something.

• We’ll leave around 2:15ish.

• Thanks for a great year!

SCHEDULE FOR PRACTICE

Wednesday

No Practice

Run 20-30 EASY on OWN

Thursday

Practice @Learwood 3:30-4:30

20 minutes EASY

Friday

Practice @Learwood 10:00am-11:00am

10 minutes EASY