Sunday, August 14, 2011

Pre-Region Notes & TEAM Camp review

Golden Eagles –
Wow what a great camp! We as coaches are very pleased with the progress our TEAM has made. We want to thank all of you for coming and being a part of camp and bringing your personalities, your goals, your dreams, and also working hard. Thank you all. TEAM Camp was AMAZING with so many highlights that included; the running, the breakfasts, the running, the otter pops, the running clinic thanks to our friends from Orem High, the running, the ropes course, the running, the wall, the running, the games, the running, the campfires, the running, the stories, the running, fun, the running, the BBQ’s, the running, the debut guitar song “cross country runner” by Katie, the running, the pranks by Sarah, the pranks pulled on Sarah, the running, the hikes, the running, the jokes by Daniel, the running, the swimming in the glacier lake, the running, the karaoke and dance party, the running, the fun, the running, the TEAM night dinner at Pizza Factory, and finally the running. The friendships & memories of these two weeks will really stick with all of you for a long time. Big time thanks to your wonderful parents for all their help with meals & support for this camp. Thanks to Coach Barker for organizing and getting all of our awards from our amazing sponsors. Thanks to all of our sponsors for donating all of the awards for the week. Thank you also to all of our guest speakers over the past two weeks the insight and wisdom they gave us really mean a lot & were great tips that we needed to hear. Thank you to Nebo School District for allowing us to use Shadow Mountain. Thank you to Mr. Penrod and the rest of our school administration for all their support for our TEAM over the past two weeks.  And finally Thank You for being the best TEAM in the whole state. Thank you for being such great examples to our kids. You all have been amazing to work with and we look forward to the rest of the season! Remember “the best is yet to be!” 


Now a few items of notes for all of you: First off practice will be at 3:00pm for the rest of the season. This means you will get to sleep in for the next week. Now practice details for the coming week of August 15th – August 19th are as follows. On Monday August 15th we will be holding practice at 3:00pm at Springville High School. Thanks to our friends of Springville High for allowing us to do this. Tuesday there will be no practice. (Great day to get all of your school stuff done) Wednesday we will be meeting at MMHS at 3:00pm. Thursday is our first meet of the season Pre-Region. The busses will be departing MMHS at 5:45pm for Springville High School.  The girls race will start at 6:30pm and the boys at 7:00pm. The course is approx. 2.96 miles of grass, asphalt and dirt trails. Spikes are not recommended. Friday August 19th we will have practice at 3:00pm at MMHS. 


Now on the paperwork side we need to collect the paperwork from everyone on the TEAM. Also, if you have not yet turned in your physical, or you have not had one for the year, you need to get that done ASAP. The forms are available on the left hand side of the blog. Participation fees & Player pack fees are also due Wednesday (August 17th). Please get this taken care of. Thank you. 


Seniors thank you for sharing so much with our underclassmen. Please underclassmen listen to what they have to offer you. They have been down this road before and know what is needed to have success & to keep going during the hard times. Now TEAM Keep the positive attitude, BE PATIENT, and keep working hard toward those TEAM and individual goals and good things WILL happen!

Happy Running!

--The Coaches


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