California 2013 Trip

Believe it or not, HERE WE GO!!!  We will be leaving on Thursday, December 5th from the high school @ 6:50 am.  Please be on time!

We will have a FINAL REQUIRED MEETING on Wednensday, December 4th right after school in Coach Thompson's room.  Be sure to be there!

Here is the Itinerary for our Trip.  Or Click Here for a printable version. 

ITINERARY

Thursday, December 5, 2013                         

• 6:50 am—Depart SALEM HILLS HS—don’t be late!
• Lunch in Mesquite
• Check into the Fairfield Inn  in West Covina, CA (626-678-8988)
• Workout as a team
• Dinner on your own at any number of restaurants.
• Student must be in rooms and QUIET by 9:30pm.

Friday,  December 6, 2013                             

• Breakfast @ Hotel

·         8:00 am Check out the race course                                                

• Packet Pickup Mt San Antonio College Walnut, CA
• 11:00 am Return to the Hotel  
• 11:30 pm Depart for our trip to Balboa Beach
• Lunch at Ruby’s Diner at the beach
• 5:00 pm Return to Hotel
• Dinner on your own at any number of restaurants
• Student must be in rooms and Quiet by 9:30pm.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

• Early—Breakfast @ Hotel
• Races and Awards—Races are between 7:00 am and 10:00 am. 
• 11:00 am Return to the hotel
• Lunch on your own
• 2:30 pm Depart for Disneyland
• 4:00 pm Spend evening at Disneyland
• Dinner in the park
• 11:00 pm Exit Park and return to hotel and straight to bed

Sunday, December 8, 2013

• Breakfast @ Hotel
• Departure for Utah as early as it is safe and legal for the driver to drive
• 9:00 pm Return home (or earlier if we leave CA early)

Packing Suggestions:

DEODORANT (and other toiletries PLEASE!!!!!), Running shoes, racing shoes, uniform, “normal” clothes, workout clothes, swimsuit & towel, boogie board?,  jacket, picture ID, pillow/blanket, book, music, games, Video/DVD (PG or G), snacks, camera, CASH for food/souvenirs, Frisbee/football/volleyball,….

End of Season Team Banquet

It is time for us to once again gather and celebrate another season of Salem Hills Cross Country!  We want you to be with us, so PLEASE save the date and RSVP so you can come celebrate the efforts of our great kids!

What: End of Season Banquet--Dinner catered by Smokehouse BBQ, Awards, video highlights, etc.
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: Salem Hills Cafeteria
Who: All Salem Hills Cross Country athletes and their parents
Cost:  Athletes are no cost.  Parents are $8.00/person
RSVP:  Please go HERE to RSVP by Thursday, November 14th

End of Season

Our Varsity Boys after finishing 4th at the Utah State Championships

What a great end to a great season!  Thanks to all of you for your hard work and dedication throughout the season.  We, as coaches, are proud of the way you worked, competed and fought.  We saw a lot of improvement during the season--both collectively and individually.  

We want to give a SPECIAL shout-out to our men's Varsity team that was able to claim the Region VIII Championship and finished 4th place at the Utah State Championships.  Well done boys!  Our Varsity runners for the Region and State Championships were:  Gavin Hasty, Tate Muhlestein, Russell Lundberg, Devin Minson, Chayden Zeeman, Ramato Cooper and Critter Phillips.  Way to Represent!  Gavin Hasty was the individual Region VIII Champion as well.  He finished 3rd at the State Championships, followed by Tate Muhlestein, who finished 11th at State!
If you would like to take a look at your season bests, they are all up-to-date on Athletic.net.  Click HERE  to check out our team's results!

Also, we've taken almost 1,000 photos throughout this season.  They are all online for your enjoyment!  Click HERE to check out the team pictures!  Thanks to you athletes who manned the camera throughout the season to capture these great memories!

Mid-Season Post

So, as usual, the season is moving faster than this blog is being updated, so as a result, I'm a bit behind on posting information...  My apologies...  Here's a few items for anyone out there who checks this site occasionally:

Schedule Changes:
We have a couple of last minute changes to our schedule to finish out the last month of the season.  Here's what we have left with the specific information I currently have for each: (PS, we DO send an Itinerary home with your athlete before EVERY meet with specifics on dismissal time, race time, race location, weather forecast, course description, etc.--if you haven't seen those... It's your kid's fault!  :)

• Friday, September 27th--Nebo Invitational @ Maple Mountain High School.  The schedule will go as follows:
• Frosh/Soph Girls @ 3:00
• Frosh/Soph Boys @ 3:30
• JV Girls @ 4:00
• JV Boys @ 4:30
• Varsity Girls @ 5:00
• Varsity Boys @ 5:30
• Wednesday, October 2nd--Sanpete Classic @ Skyline Mountain Resort (in Fairview).  They haven't released a schedule yet, but based on last year's schedule, it will probably be:
• JV Boys @ 4:00
• Combined Girls @ 4:30
• Varsity Boys @ 5:00
• CANCELLED--Friday, October 4th--Park City Invitational--We have decided NOT to go to Park City's inviational due to it's proximity to the Sanpete Classic.
• Tuesday, October 8th--Meet w/Maple Mountain HS @ the SF Sports Complex.  We decided to put together one last FLAT, FAST meet as a final tune-up prior to Region!  Schedule will probably be:
• Girls @ 3:30
• Boys @ 4:00
• Wednesday, October 16th--REGION VIII Championships @ Salem Hills HS.  We are hosting this meet and will DEFINITELY need parental help once again!  The schedule will proceed as follows:
• JV Girls @ 4:00
• JV Boys @ 4:30
• Varsity Girls @ 5:00
• Varsity Boys @ 5:30
• Wednesday, October 23rd--UHSAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS @ Sugarhouse Park (SLC).  We will leave at approximately 10:00 am.  The girls will race @ 1:30, the boys @ 3:00.

Season Results

I have been keeping track of our season results online at www.athletic.net.  You can view all meet results thus far in the season, unless I haven't received any results... Our team's exact link is:  http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/School.aspx?SchoolID=29229

USU AGGIE INVITATIONAL

2013 Aggie Invitational

Dear Parents-

In previous seasons the Salem Hills Cross Country team has traveled to Cedar City the first weekend of October for an overnight meet.  However, due to situations outside our control we will not be able to travel to Cedar City this season.  While we are disappointed about this, we are excited to have come up with what we believe to be a great alternative.

As hopefully your son/daughter has already told you, we will be taking the Salem Hills Cross Country team to the USU Aggie Invitational on Friday-Saturday September 6th-7th.  We have never traveled to Logan for a meet before, and have heard great things about this meet.  Additionally, it will be an opportunity for us as coaches to build relationships and network with college coaches/programs in Northern Utah.

While this meet is optional, we REALLY want everyone to come with us!  We’ve done our best to keep the costs at a minimum so money hopefully won’t be a deterrent for anyone.  We are asking each athlete to pay $50.00 to the SHHS Finance office to help with the cost of the trip.  While that won’t completely cover all costs, it will be close enough to make it work!  That will include:  Bus, Hotel, Dinner, Breakfast and Race Entry Fee.  The only other cost would be some money to buy lunch on our way home after the meet.  

Here are the items needed and due dates:

• By Wednesday, August 28th:
• Parent Permission slip filled out and returned to Coach Thompson
• By Friday, August 30th:
• $50.00 paid to the SHHS Finance office

Pre-Region Results

Here are the Pre-Region meet results from Wednesday evening.  We had a great meet with the Lady Skyhawks finishing in 2nd place and the Guys finishing 1st!!!  Way to go SKYHAWKS!  We are on our way!  Now the real work begins!

RESULTS

It's GO TIME!!!

Ready or not, here we GO!!!  Our season officially gets under way on Wednesday evening with the Pre-Region meet at Salem Hills.  Here is the schedule:

-Athletes be there by 5:30 pm to warm-up

-Girls race @ 6:30pm

-Boys race @ 7:00pm

We could still use some more parental assistance at the race if anyone is available.  Just find coach Thompson on the track before 6:15.  (He'll be the one running around like a crazy person...)

Cross Country Camp

We are in the midst of finalizing our numbers for Cross Country Camp this weekend.  We are going to be ordering our food and other stuff on Tuesday, so we need to know RIGHT AWAY if you're planning on being with us and haven't touched base with us!

I've had some parents asking about directions up to camp.  We would love to have ANY parents come up ANYTIME they would like!  We have a good time, and the more the merrier!  Here's the directions:

Directions to Shadow Mountain

• ·         Drive up Hobble Creek Canyon
• ·         Continue past the Golf Course, till the road forks
• ·         Take the LEFT FORK
• ·         Drive 4.5 miles up the Left Fork of Hobble Creek Canyon
• ·         You will see a turn-off on the LEFT side of the road.  There’s a small street sign that says “Whittemore Dr.” and there was a For Sale sign that says “Blackhawk” I think (last year, not sure if it’s still there...)  Take this turn-off.
• ·         Follow Whittemore Dr. up about 2.1 miles.  It will turn from pavement to dirt about ¼ mi up.  Each time the road forks (over the 2.1 miles), keep on Whittemore Dr.
• ·         At some point along the road, you will come across a gate that was new last year, but I’m not sure exactly where it is… There is an access code that must be entered.  It is 9512.
• ·         At about 2.1 miles, the road will fork again.  There’s a cabin up on your right.  Take the LEFT fork, called Oakwood Dr. 
• ·         The road will wind around for another .7 miles, and eventually becomes Nebo Circle.  You’ll pass through a gate, and into camp!  WELCOME!!

      Also, here's our Tentative Itinerary for Camp.  

Thursday, Aug 1^st:

• 8:00 am—Meet at SHHS to bus up to Shadow Mountain
• 9:30 am—Arrive at Shadow Mountain, set up camp
• 10:30 am—Clinic—Hawk Harper of Runner’s Corner
• 12:00 pm—Lunch
• 1:00 pm—Set up camp
• 2:00 pm—Free time (horseshoes, volleyball, Frisbee, cards, etc)
• 4:00 pm—Team building activities
• 5:30 pm—Dinner
• 6:30 pm—Clinic—Visualiziation
• 7:30 pm—Evening team run
• 9:00 pm—Bonfire—Skits!
• 12:00 am—Lights out

Friday, Aug 2^nd:

• 8:00 am—Morning team run
• 9:00 am—Breakfast
• 10:00 am—Nature Hike/Swimming @ “The Lake”
• 12:00 pm—Lunch @ the Lake
• 2:00 pm—Free time
• 4:00 pm—Team games
• 5:00 pm—Goal Setting Session (personal and team)
• 6:00 pm—Dinner
• 7:30 pm—Games
• 9:00 pm—Flag Retirement Ceremony
• 9:30 pm—Movie in the Woods
• 11:30 pm—Midnight Team Run!
• 12:30 am—Lights out

Saturday, Aug 3^rd:

• 8:30 am—Morning team run
• 9:30 am—Breakfast
• 10:30 am—Clinic—Natalie & Nachelle Stewart
• 11:30 am—Break camp
• 1:00 pm—Depart Shadow Mountain
• 1:30-2:00 pm—Arrive home at SHHS

Summer Update

We, as Coaches, wanted to send out a quick reminder about our summer conditioning that is going on right now, and also some further information concerning our team CAMP that is coming up!

PARENT MEETING

In order for the District to allow us to do all the fun overnighters that are a part of our season, we must have a parent meeting to explain what the season entails and to ask for a parent "vote of approval" for our overnighters (Cross Country Camp, Cedar City and California.)  It is required that all runners and a parent be represented at the meeting!  Please do EVERYTHING in your power to be present!

Date:  Tuesday, July 23rd
Time:  7:00 pm
Place:  SHHS Cafeteria



SUMMER RUNNING

M, W, F Practices--We are practicing together as a team each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 7:00 am.  We meet at the SHHS Track.  These practices are official team practices and we need everyone to be in attendance if they are in town.

Thursday Practices--We meet on Thursday evenings to do a Trail Run.  The location varies week to week, but generally we'll meet at the Track and carpool from there!  These are great runs!  Don't miss them! 

-This Thursday (July 18th) both coaches are out of town, but the Captains are leading a Thursday evening run followed by water games and dinner!  Meet at the Track at 7:00 pm to join the fun.  The captains will have a signup sheet at practice this week to sign up for dinner assignments!

It's time to get SERIOUS!!!

Hopefully you've all been having a great summer so far and have been getting a lot of mileage in. It is CRITICAL that we establish a strong base in the summer so we can compete the way we want to in the Fall! If you've been slacking, GET OUT AND RUN!!! RIGHT NOW!!!! 

 We wanted to make sure you remember a few items: 

 1- Be sure you are reporting your weekly mileage online every week. We have had a lot of you NOT doing that... Get on it and report what you're running! The link is at the top of this page! 

2- Starting on MONDAY, JULY 1ST we will be practicing 3 mornings/week. We will meet at the track each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 am. You need to do everything in your power to be in attendance with us each day. This is the "REAL" season now, so you need to be there! 

 3- We have not had very many kids submit their paperwork. That needs to be done ASAP. If you need paperwork, see Coach Thompson at practice! 

 4- Our Cross Country Camp will be August 1st-3rd at Shadow Mountain up Hobble Creek Canyon. They are district owned cabins, and we have a GREAT time! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!!! In order to be invited, you must be attending practice and log at least 80 miles if you're new or 150 miles if you're a returner. You're running out of time, so you'd better get on it!!! 

 We are looking forward to this season and hope you are as well! Our philosophy is the more the merrier, so get your friends and come join us! We'll see you on Monday morning!

Team Meeting!

Here we go again!

We are SO EXCITED to be getting started once again with an exciting season of Cross Country!  What an awesome year we are going to have together!  We will be kicking off the season with our first meeting on Thursday, May 23rd.  We will meet in the SHHS Cafeteria after school.  Make every effort to be there!  We will be discussing our Summer Conditioning program, our Summer Camp and much, much more!  We will be giving out a significant amount of paperwork, so be sure to be there!  If you can't make it, you need to get with Coach Thompson soon to get the necessary paperwork and information!