Well, it is Pine View Invite week, so we have a lot to do. Please remember, everyone is expected to be available to help this weekend at the meet. Although we will try and get as many athletes in to events as possible, we are limited in the number of our entries (just like every other team) and not everyone will compete. Nonetheless, we expect every PV track and field athlete to be here and ready to help on Friday and Saturday. (We do have a JV meet on Tuesday the 27th in Cedar, so everyone will get a meet soon.)
Assignments: Boys have been asked to bring 20 oz gatorades, and girls have been asked to bring 16-17 oz waters. Please have those to practice or Coach Holt by Wednesday.
We also still need a few parents to help in concessions for the early shift Friday afternoon (starting around 12:30p until around 3:30) and on Saturday (8:30-11:00 and 11:00-1:30). Email pineviewtrack@gmail.com or text on the remind app.
A few athletes will be excused throughout the day to help with the setup. Everyone else will be out at lunch. Get a quick lunch and get out to the track by noon to help setup. MS'ers you will need to arrange your own rides over to the HS.
A few other reminders:
- At our team meeting on Monday (go do drills first and then come to the lecture hall) we will discuss availability to the rest of the meets for the season, so please check your calendars.
- All registermyathlete and fees must be completed and cleared for further participation with the team (including practice)
- Distance runners - remember you practice contract is due (signed by a parent) and that Levels 2, 3, and 4 have an early morning long run at 5:30a (wear white or bright and bring a light if you would like).
- Athletes of the Week - still looking for nominations for Athletes of the Week from our first meets and the first few weeks of practice. Send us the name and a short reason why he/she is being nominated. You can nominated a guy, a girl, a field athlete, a sprinter, a distance runner, whatever... He or she doesn't need to be your gender or your specific event even. Just think of someone (or many someones) who really showed what PV Track and Field is all about. Email to pineviewtrack@gmail.com or text on the remind app. Or even deliver to Coach on Monday morning.
- We do have a Youth Track Meet (K-8th) scheduled for Wed, March 28th. This will take place from 3:45p-6:00p. Everyone needs to plan on sticking around after a short practice to help with that meet. Also, spread the word around so we get kids out.
And... we have our biggest numbers in over a decade, but now we start to lose people. Go get everyone that you have ever seen out for track and bring them back. A nice word about how we miss them and want them with us goes a very long way!
Finally, for our team meeting tomorrow, we will be talking about an idea presented by Brene Brown called vunerability and why it is so important to help us become our best selves on and off the track. If you would like to learn a bit about this before, go check out this Ted Talk from her.
and our thought for the week comes from one of her books...
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly..." - Teddy Roosevelt
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