Pre-Season Information

Athletes-

Welcome to Salem Hills Cross Country 2010! We're excited to have you with us, and we look forward to working with each and every one of you throughout the coming summer and fall. Whether you are a returning member of our team or you are new to the sport and/or our team, we are thrilled to have you as one of us!

A couple quick items:

1- We want to make sure we have an accurate email address for each of you. If you didn't receive an email from us today (5/20), will you please reply and let us know what your email address is? If your parents want to be on our email list, feel free to get us their address!

2- We want you and all your friends! Cross Country, like most everything else in life, is more fun when you do it with a bunch of friends! So, get your friends out with you. Even if they have no running experience, we want them to be with us. The more athletes the better! Please get your friends to come out and be with us!

3- We want to remind you to get running right away, working on getting into shape for the season. The more miles you can log this summer, the greater level of success you'll experience this fall as we compete. Be sure to log your miles each day in your team Running Log we gave you at the meeting on Tuesday. Set a goal for how many miles you want to run this summer, then keep track of them to see your progress. We will award T-shirts for athletes who hit certain milestones (300, 500, 700) during the summer.

4- We will start practicing next week. For those who can make it, we'll practice on Tuesday morning at 8:00 am (for the high school students who don't have school). We'll run together on Wednesday (May 26th) at 2:45, then Friday the 28th at 8:00 am. Starting May 31st, we'll run on Mon, Wed and Fri at 7:00 am. Be there every day that you can! We want to see your smiling face! :)

Again, we are EXCITED to have you with us, and hope you stick with it. We as coaches are committed to making you your very best, while at the same time having fun. It's going to take some hard work and dedication on your part, but we are confident in your ability to be successful in this great sport!

Cross Country Meeting

It is time to once again begin talking about Cross Country! We can't believe how fast this school year has flown by, and that it's already time to get started in planning for the 2010 Season!

We will be having a brief information meeting on TUESDAY, MAY 18th at 3:00 in Coach Thompson's classroom (D-203). Please plan on being in attendance as we will be discussing numerous important details concerning our summer conditioning, team goals, expectations, etc.

We look forward to seeing you there!