August 9, 2019
Dear Cross Country Athletes and Parents,
We have a couple of updates for you since we sent out our initial email last week. The conference AD’s met this week and altered our Meet Schedule just a little bit. Specifically— the Moline Invite, Pioneer Invite, and Conference dates have changed. Due to these change, the practice calendar altered a bit as well. Attached is the new/updated practice calendar as well as the updated meet schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes as we know people plan things around the meets!
Just a reminder that our first practice is Wednesday, August 14th at GMS from 3-4:00pm. All of our practices go for an hour and are located at GMS unless we communicate differently with you ahead of time. We do want you to be aware that the three of us are all teachers, and we have institute that day. We will be in meetings until almost 3:00. There is no need to drop your athlete off super early for the first day of practice. They will wait outside on the benches until 3pm. Once we do open the doors (west doors by the west parking lot), athletes will report to the multi-purpose room (small gym).
Thursday, August 15th practice will go until 3:30. There is no practice Friday, and then the next week we will begin our 3:30-4:30 practice schedule. Hope this clarifies any confusion!
Our first “meet” will be the Time Trial on Tuesday, August 2oth. We will run this with the high school teams, and we also count this as our parent meeting! Running Wild will also be there selling gear and running shoes if anyone is interested.
We also have a blog that we update frequently with fun pictures from practice and meets as well as posting our meet results. https://gcsdstaff.org/gmsxc/
Please feel free to email with any other questions you might have!