Cross County 2013 Video

Parents and Athletes,

I am putting a link to the wonderful video Mrs. Ross created of our fantastic season this year.  Thank you for taking the time to make this movie, Mrs. Ross.

Here is the link:

http://learwoodsocialstudies7thgrade.weebly.com/student-work-2012-2013.html

Coach Walters

SWC Week!

BOWLING MONEY IS DUE TOMORROW (THURSDAY)  $12.00 in a sealed envelope with athlete's name on it!!!  You may be able to run like a champion but can you bowl like a king? 

SWC WEEK

Here we go! This is the final week of the season. 

Please check Coach Walters’ room for any missing items! At the end of our season we’re going to place all missing items in Learwood’s Lost & Found.

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

Time to get some rest! Eat healthy this week, 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 and athletes: typically athletes like to toilet paper my house the Thursday before SWCs. But, there’s a lot of construction on my street and my front yard is a mud pit with the sewer separation project. I think we should skip this tradition this year. Maybe Coach Arebaugh will allow his house to be toilet papered! He said he likes toilet paper in his yard, it was weird but that’s what he said to me.

Bowling Reminder: after SWCs we meet at Spevock’s Bowling in Avon Lake. We’ll be bowling from 4 – 6 p.m. Make sure Coach Walters has the $12 by Thursday of this week! Cash only please! Athletes, please bring your uniforms/jackets to bowling. The coaching staff will be collecting uniforms/jackets. Don’t worry about washing them, we’ll do that!

Parents: I’ve updated the bulletin board with our records. I am going to re-update it and laminate the Avon Lake SWC History, plus boys’ and girls’ records at Learwood, after our season. If you have any new pictures to print out and post, let me know and we’ll decorate it after SWCs.

I’m including Avon Lake’s SWC History here. Take a look at what athletes have done over the last 20 years!

Southwestern Conference Championship

Bus leaves at Troy at 12:10 p.m.

Boys run at 1:30 p.m.

Girls run at 2 p.m.

SWC Awards Ceremony at 2:30 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.

There is an Elementary Race at 12:45 p.m. It’s 800 meters and it’s open to any young athlete in the SWC! If interested, Cathy Juergens at Troy is registering athletes (cathy.juergens@avonlakecityschools.org).

SWC apparel will be available!

We’ll leave around 3:15ish.

Once we return to Avon Lake, go home, shower, then come bowl with your team (don’t forget your uniforms if you’re not running at the OHSAA Championships).

I’m posting the final Cheat Sheet of the season! Thanks for a great year!

OHSAA Middle School Championship Meet

This meet will be held at Waggoner Road Junior High School in Reynoldsburg, OH

Approximate departure will be 6:45 a.m. We should return by 4 p.m. (probably later if we stop to get something to eat)

Boys Open 11:00 a.m.

Girls Open 11:30 a.m.

Boys Team 12:00 p.m.

Girls Team 12:30 p.m.

We have to finalize who’s going to this race…we’ll talk to the team Thursday and/or Friday about this (after we discuss SWCs)

Avon lake records 2012 season from Mrs. Walters' Classroom

Jack Wilhelm Meet

BOWLING MONEY DUE BY THURSDAY....

1. $12.00 CASH

2. In a sealed envelope with athlete's name on it

3. Give to Coach Walters 

4. 10/12 4pm-6pm at Spevocks

5.  Bring uniform to the bowling alley.  Does NOT need to be washed.  (Unless you are going to the 10/19 meet.) 

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

Parents, please remind your kids about the importance of ALWAYS sticking together at meets. We stress this as a coaching staff prior to every meet, but if you could talk about the importance of athletes always sticking together, that would help. We want athletes together at all times. Whenever athletes go cheer on other runners, use the restroom, go to concessions to buy something, or warm-up/cool-down, we tell them they must be with someone else from Avon Lake. If you could reinforce this concept we would greatly appreciate it!

We need to know who’s going to the OHSAA Middle School Cross Country Championships! Please sign up on the blog site so the coaching staff can appropriately register runners for this race.

Time to eat healthy, drink plenty of water, and stock up on rest! Our hard workouts are over for the year. It’s time to rest, we are beginning to taper. Taper…this is one of the greatest words in an endurance athlete’s vocabulary. For this last week, avoid all soda, eat very healthy foods, drink plenty of water, get a LOT of sleep (middle schoolers need to average 9 hours 15 minutes of sleep a night), and STRETCH after practice, on Sunday, and before you go to bed each night. It’s not what you do the day before a race, it matters what you do the WEEK before a race!

Movie Night is tonight (Friday, October 4^th). We will be watching the Karate Kid (1984 version)! For my money, this is the best movie about a kid who learns karate, probably ever. In fact, it’s my favorite movie of all-time. Parents, this is a PG-rated film, but there are no inappropriate scenes (it’s played on the ABC Family Channel all the time). We will be watching it after our Friday Night Dinner in the auditorium. We should be done by 7:15ish, if not earlier. This is an optional activity we plan for the kids, you do not have to be in attendance!

I’m attaching a copy of last week’s Meet Cheat Sheet here. Next week’s final ‘Cheat Sheet’ of the year will be passed out at our final team meeting (either Monday or Tuesday).

Jack Wilhelm Information:

We will meet at DAIRY QUEEN parking lot at 7:45 a.m.

We will return to DAIRY QUEEN around 11:15ish, where we will get ice cream.

Athletes, the coaching staff cannot afford to buy you all ice cream (sorry), so make sure to bring money for your ice cream/lunch (this should be your last ‘garbage’ food you eat until SWCs).

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 NOT be posted for this race. Times will NOT be posted either. Coach Walters will be highlighting times on a spreadsheet, which can be tough to do with the large volume of runners we’ve got, so if you can help out on Saturday please let us know!

This race is at LCCC. The same course map is used. We’ve got a link of it on the blog.

 Here’s the schedule:

10:00 a.m.       ALL Girls                    

10:30 a.m.       ALL Boys

Vermilion Meet Information

Cross Country Athletes and Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

Cloverleaf was really wet, really muddy, and, actually, really fun! The bus ride home, not so much. I’ve just finished doing laundry from the meet, and I washed a lot of the jackets, some shirts/shorts, and also have some missing water bottles from this meet. Please check the Lost & Found in Coach Walters’ room for any lost items!

Clague Park Fun Run is set for Wednesday, October 2^nd. 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

Boy runners: we need to know who wants to go to the OHSAA Middle School Cross Country Championships! We are allowed to take 20 total boys, and we’ll take the top 20, but before we decide who are the top 20 boy runners, we first need to know who’s eligible to go to this optional race. So, let us know by Wednesday, October 2^nd, so we can start planning for this race! Girl runners, we can take all of you if you want to go. We’ll register all girl runners and then scratch whoever can’t make it. We’ll give more information for this race as we receive it.

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! Next week’s activities include:

Wednesday, October 2^nd              Clague Park Fun Run

Friday, October 4^th                          Friday Night Dinner & AL CC Movie Night (in the Learwood Auditorium)

Saturday, October 5^th                     Dairy Queen AFTER Jack Wilhelm Invitational (parents can pick up athletes from Avon Lake Dairy Queen)

I’m attaching a copy of the Cloverleaf Meet Cheat Sheet here. I’ll post this week’s version later in the week.

Vermilion Information:

We will meet at Troy at 6:20 a.m. (last early-morning meet!)

We should return to Troy at 11:30 a.m.

This is the last TEAM/OPEN race of the season (except for the new OHSAA M.S. C.C. Championship)

Here’s the course map: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/vermilion/2013/JH_d_MS%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 are on baumspage.com

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

This race is held at Sailorway Middle School (5355 Sailorway Drive, Vermilion, OH 44089).

Here’s the schedule:

8:30 a.m.         Girls Team

                                    Lauren, Faith, Claire, Emma, Mackenzie, Maggie, and Elena

9:00 a.m.         Boys Team

                                    Michael P., Chris, Charlie, Matt, Dan, Jake, and Ian

9:30 a.m.         Girls Open

                                    All other girls

10:00 a.m.       Boys Open

All other boys

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

Wadsworth Meet Information

Course Map for Avon Cross Country Meet that is TONIGHT!!!

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

·         Tiffin was amazing! We had the following results:

Boys’ Team came in 10^th out of 41 teams

Boys’ Open came in 3^rd out of 27 teams

Girls’ Team came in 9^th out of 41 teams

Girls’ Open came in 6^th out of 27 teams

·         Thanks again to everyone for all your help setting up & breaking down camp, and for cleaning everything up!

·         Parents, once again, we’ve got a surplus of paper plates, plastic cups, plastic silverware, and napkins for this Friday night’s dinner.

·         Parents & athletes, if you MUST miss a practice and/or meet, you need to, at the very least, let us know. This week we are hearing from 3^rd parties that athletes will not be at practice. With 2 coaches in the building, this shouldn’t be difficult. We are going to address attendance prior to Thursday’s meet. If you do not have an excused absence from practice or a meet (from a parent), then you will charged an UNEXCUSED absence. Three unexcused absences and you are off the team. Really, there should be ZERO unexcused absences. We will give you a heads-up if you are approaching the limit on unexcused absences. We don’t want to remove anyone from the team at this point, but if you’re a part of this team you need to be with your team.

Avon Information:

·         The meet is located at Veterans Park (3701 Veterans Memorial Parkway)

·         Due to busing issues, we will be leaving Avon Lake at 4 p.m.

·         We should return around 7 p.m.

·         Refreshments and shirts will be on sale

·         This race will determine who’s running Team and Open at Wadsworth

·         Here’s the schedule:

5:00 p.m.             Boys Team

5:25 p.m.             Girls Team

5:50 p.m.             Girls Open

6:15 p.m.             Boys Open

Wadsworth Information:

·         We will meet at Troy at 6:10 a.m. Buses leave at 6:15 a.m.

·         We should return before 1 p.m.

·         Wadsworth’s course is probably the most beautiful course of the season. Parents, you will love watching the kids run this race! Athletes, it’s a faster course, and, proportionally-speaking, the best competition we’ll face in our regular season!

·         Eat a normal breakfast when you wake up Saturday morning, with a light snack both before and after your race.

·         Remember to stay hydrated! Coach Arebaugh and I have preached this consistently the last 2 weeks. Keep it up! Bring water and a sports drink to drink after your race. It will be much cooler than the previous meets this season!

·         This race has NO results online. It’s very old-school.

·         Avon’s Invitational will help decide who’s running Team and Open for Wadsworth.

·         Here’s the schedule:

9:00 a.m.              Boys Team

9:30 a.m.              Girls Team

10:00 a.m.           Boys Open

10:30 a.m.           Girls Open

Parents:

·         Concessions and t-shirts will be available

·         The race is held at Memorial Park in Wadsworth, Ohio 44281. It is in the center of town, right by the football stadium off of Grandview Avenue. The sign for the park is pretty discreet…you might miss it. Allow for a little extra time to make sure you find the place, but parking/traffic won’t be a problem. It’s just a middle school meet so it’s not too bad.

·         Please avoid parking on or near the white line on the course.

·         The map for this race is not the best. I’ll scan it and send it out. But, the best place to watch is at the start, the pond (they’ll circle the pond twice), then you can see them when they enter the woods, then when they exit the woods to the finish. It’s a fan-friendly course!

Tiffin Carnival

This week's cheat sheet!! Click here

Cross Country Athletes & Parents:

Here’s our weekly update:

•  We had an awesome meet last week! Both boys’ and girls’ teams beat all the SWC schools! Congrats on two great meets to kick off our season!
• Execution was phenomenal again! 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 Thursday, September 5^th! We notified all athletes of this at practice. Please bring your shirt, shorts, and jacket for our team and individual pictures.
• Just another reminder: if you need to switch any piece of uniform, let us know. We are still waiting on the additional shirts for the guys, but we can make what we’ve been given work. Just let us know on Friday at the dinner!
• Attention parents: we have a TON of paper plates, plastic cups, plastic silverware, and napkins from last Friday’s dinner. So to all those parents out there organizing this week’s dinner…don’t worry about getting any of that stuff! I’ve got everything in my room and I’ll get out of practice early Friday to get you what you need.
• Apparel orders should be in next week. This is based on our history ordering through this company, so this is just my best guess. But we should be good to go before the Wadsworth Invite.
•  I still have to confirm this, but we’ll more than likely be at Cahoon Park again on Monday, September 9^th. Parents, just a heads-up.
•   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 in the SWC has. 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 9:10 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.
• You might want to bring sandals, but this is one meet where your feet will probably remain dry.
• We won’t be able to walk the entire course, as races will be held throughout the day, but the entire course is marked with a spray-painted white line.
• Results will be posted on Tiffin’s school website: www.tiffin.k12.oh.us.
• I’ll be sending out our Weekly ‘Cheat Sheet’ tomorrow!

Tiffin Carnival Information (PARENTS):

• Information from Tiffin’s website can be found here: http://www.tiffin.k12.oh.us/userfiles/939/file/carn%20instructions%2C%20times%2C%20maps%2C%20etc%202013(1).pdf
• We will meet at Troy at 9:10 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 I found a better one online: http://www2.pickerington.k12.oh.us/bldgs/north/panther_athletics/cross_country_info/Lakeview%20JH%20CC:TF/Cross_Country/course%20maps/Tiffin.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.

Chris Stepak

Michael Petrus

Daniel Francy

Charlie Krause

Ian Stewart

Patrick Neipp

Michael Whalen

 Girls Team – 1:50 p.m.

Lauren Davis

Taylor Baiers

Faith Lengen

Mackenzie Tyson

Maggie Brion

Emma Murdock

Bailey Shee

Boys Open – 2:15 p.m.

All other boys!

Girls Open – 2:50 p.m.

All other girls!