The Upcoming Week - Last Meet for Some

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Week 22 Hughson Cross Country

The first part of the week will be pretty low volume, just trying to freshen up for TVL Finals.  VG has a separarate session from the rest of the team.  We all have a DAY OFF on Thursday and a longish OYO on Friday.

Saturday we're taking the varsity + hopefully a few select underclassmen up to Folsom to gain experience on the section meet course.  This workout has helped us a lot over the past years really lock in and get ready to race on that tough course.  

Team Dinner 6:00 PM on Tuesday in Reeder Hall

Huge thanks to Cheree Hill (Tucker's Mom) for putting together our team dinner.  It's a lot of work, but you guys have put in a lot of work and Mrs. Hill wanted to recognize you and do something special on what for many of you, will be your next to the last day this season.  

Mr.s Hill is looking for a few parents to help her out.  If you are able, please contact her at 209-981-9775

Athletes Who Will Finish after TVL Finals

The vast majority of group 5 will be done after TVL finals.  This means that Thursday, you will report to the track and field group.  If you are playing a winter sport, you can report to your new team on Thursday.  For subs, I've entered a: VB team, VG team, JVB Team, FSG team, and SB team.  I have a few more days to work on entries, so if you think your season needs to end Wednesday OR, you really want to go run subs and you're worried I may pull you out, have a converstaion with me or one of the other coaches before I make any final entries.  

Here's who I have competing at Sub Sections

FS Girls

Gia, Alina, Nayeli, Amaya, Adriane

Varsity Girls

Zuleima, Sophia, Jaelyne, Maggie, Grace, Jordana, Maritza, Allison, Emily

JV Boys

Oscar, Jacob, Juan N, Jochoa, Juan V, Jude, Jace

Soph Boys

Esai, Lucas, Tucker, Noah H, Anthony, Max, Logan, Nate

Varsity Boys

Jeremiah, Sam, MAson, Shane, Carlos, Juan P, Eddie, Tyler, Manny, Diego

Upcoming Week - The Heat Returns

 It's October and We're Back in the 100s

Varsity groups, we're going to workout on Monday and Wednesday mornings.  You'll need to be extra diligent on getting to bed on time this week and as we move forward.  

Please see this week's schedule

All of the sessions (even 4 and 5) are designed to keep you guys cooler and more able to recover.  The 4/5 workouts on Monday and Wednesday are on the shaded part of the arb loop and will have adequate recovery time for you to get water. 

Crystal Springs Invitational

One of the Most Iconic Courses in California!

This Saturday, we'll be heading to Belmot, CA to race on one of the TRULY historic cross country courses in CA, Crystal Springs.  The course has been hosting up to 30 meets a year for over 60 years now and some of the best HS runners of all time have raced there.  You guys will get your chance in a week!

The course is tough, but not brutal.  There are rolling hills the whole way, with one very long uphill in the first mile and a very steep uphill in the last mile. See the course profile 

This will be a long day for us, please see the itinerary for what to bring. 

I'm not sure if our varsity teams will be assigned to the "championship" division or the regular varsity division.  I'd prefer the championship division because racing good teams makes you faster.  Plus, we'll have a little more time to chill upon arrival before we have to race if we run in the championship division.  

Volunteer Opportunities

As You Know, We Don't Do That Many Fundraisers

However, when we do, they usually do well for us.

We have our main fundraising opportunity of the year coming up in about a month.

• Friday, 10/16: Parents will work the snack bar at the homecoming game and the athletes that went to Woodbridge will sell raffle tickets at the game. 
• Saturday, 10/17: Hughson Supercross Invitational

It stinks that the two events are back to back again this year, but in that 24 hour stretch, we'll be able to fund everything out team does for the whole year.  

• Athletes who went to Woodbridge - Sign up Here and pay back your free trip to So-Cal by selling as many raffle tickets as you can
• Parents - We still need lots of help in the snack bar for the varsity game at homecoming. 
• Parents, Friends, Family - We need lots of volunteers to make our Supercross Event a Success. Please sign up here

When signing up for supercross, don't worry.  We will have an experienced volunteer at each area, whose lead you can follow. 

Woodbridge Parking

This is a Huge Meet.  

They charge for parking and are very particular about what route to take to the park so as not to create chaos on the city streets around the park. If you are planning to attend the meet, please read read through the information below. 

 

F.  The Parking and Traffic Plan:

a.  Everyone attending the meet needs to purchase a parking pass for their vehicle (including school vans).  Parking passes must be purchased online.  No parking passes can be bought at the Great Park.  Please make sure this crucial information gets to each family.  Unhappy parents can make life tough for all of us

a.     Parking passes for Friday: https://gofan.co/event/6763955 

Please read through the parking instructions from the meet webpage

We will set up our team area behind the starting line between fields 17 and 18.  So you may want to consider parking in Lot 5.  Many of the other lots are already sold out, so jump on that ASAP

Woodbridge Invitational

Woodbridge Invite, 9/18

Many of you know that the woodbridge invitational is the largest meet in North America with over 520 schools from over 25 states competing.  Some of the best programs in the United States come to CA for an early season test of fitness against each other.  

We will be competing in the small schools  division on Friday night....our very own Friday Night Lights! 

Our top 7 boys and top 7 girls will make the trip to see how we stack up against the best small schools in our state and at lest 5 other states.  

Travel Roster - Girls

• Grace
• Maggie
• Sophia
• Allison
• Melanie
• Maritza
• Jaelyn

Travel Roster - Boys

• Manny
• Mason
• Sam
• Juan
• Shane
• Tyler
• Diego

In the past, our boys have placed as high as 3rd place and our girls have placed as high as 4th place.  Our top individual finisher was Emily Fife, who took 4th in 2018 with a time of 18:03.  The fields will be much tougher this year and a top 10 team finish is possible for both our squads, but not guarunteed.  The top 6 teams in each event will receive commemorative patches for their lettermans jackets.  The top 100 finishers in each varsity race will receive a medal.  

If you are going

Please see our meet itinerary.  Also, understand that your training schedule will be different than the rest of the team next week, since you will compete on Friday night while the rest of the squad will compete on Saturday.  You can preview the course with the "Course Flyover" video   The video makes the course look really long, but you can check the course map here.  It's 3 miles, super fast, and you'll certainly PR

If you are not going but want to watch

Races will be live streamed on RunnerSpace and race splits will be updated in real time on AthleticLIVE

All parents and athletes should can check out the meet website woodbridgexcclassic.com

TVL Opener This Wednesday

 Bus Will Depart From Back Lot at 3:30

• 5:00 JV Girls
• 5:30 JV Boys
• 6:00 Var Girls
• 6:30 Var Boys

Long Cool Downs for varsity athletes.  Monday and Tue will be low volume.  We'll get some of the mileage back on Wed, Thu, and Sat.  

Here's the schedule for the rest of the week.