Week of Feb. 24-29

What a great start to the season! Every day this week we had more and more athletes - ending the week with well over 100 Panthers out and ready to have a great season. Let's keep pushing the numbers and getting more people out.
If you have yet to check out the Parent-Athlete Meeting info, please hit the link and look through the slides (both parents and athletes); we do need record of who has looked through the info, so fill out the form at the end. And parents, also sign up to help at the PV Invite if you can.

Schedule for the Week:
Everyone: 
Monday - Friday - regular practice schedule 3:00p-5:00p
Saturday - talk to event coach for practice schedule
Tuesday & Thursday - weights at 6:15a-7:00a for anyone who isn't lifting (such as distance runners, maybe some sprinters)
Distance:
Monday - 5:45a long run - (Levels 2 and 3 required) *Where white or bright*
Wednesday & Friday - 6:15a for distance runners Levels 2&3 (no Fresh or Soph on Wed, no Fresh on Fri); yoga at 6:45a for everyone on Friday
Saturday - organize your own group run or on your own

Youngsters: Practice for our 6th-8th grade developmental camp will start on Monday, February 24th at 3:00p. We will practice on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:00p-4:30p (app.). We are working on our Youngsters race schedule. Hopefully in the next couple weeks we will have it finalized. We are also looking for a few people who might be interested in helping with our Youngsters (even just once a week). If you know of anyone, please contact Coach Holt. You don't have some great knowledge of track, just want to come have some fun with awesome kids.

Fundraising/Sponsors: You can find sponsor papers over on the right column of this blog. If you'd like some help with paying your participation fees, hotel fees, uniform, spirit pack and so on, go get some sponsors to help you out. *IMPORTANT INFO* with each sponsor, we need $25 turned into the finance office to put their name onto the invite t-shirt and website and stuff. The rest of their donation can go to you for TRACK. However, anything that you turn in to the school goes toward the whole team and can't get applied just to your fees. So make sure you keep everything but $25 from each sponsor and then you can take that "extra" money in to the finance office and pay the fee yourself (or use for whatever other TRACK things you need). If you have questions, please talk to Coach Holt first. Sponsors need to be turned in by March 8th to get on PV Invite shirts.

Participation Fee/Register My Athlete/Physical: Let's get these all taken care of soon. Registermyathlete is super easy and only takes a few minutes to do if you have your physical on file. If you don't have a physical from this year yet, you can still do the registermyathlete just also get your physical scheduled and taken care of ASAP. MUST BE COMPLETE BY MARCH 6th.

XC High Altitude Camp: XC runners, get this put on your calendar - High Altitude Camp will be held the same week as usual July 27th-30th at Deer Haven on Cedar Mountain. (Get this on your calendar, we'll remove this info after this week.)

Thought of the Week: "Pro tip: use the word 'choice' instead of 'sacrifice' and your mindset will change."
-Emma Coburn
Especially because so many of us are so busy... and track may not be our #1 sport or activity. But when we talk about making the "choice" to get out to practice, or the "choice" to join the team, or the "choice" to get homework done and grades caught up so we don't miss practice, we are really teaching ourselves and showing others that we want to be involved and want to do great things. And we are demonstrating that we want to be part of something that will make us a better person. Because each of us is making the conscious "choice" to do it!