Santa Clarita Track Club
Santa Clarita Track Club Newsletter
  February 18, 2013
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Track 2013
Storm Kids Running
Develop your speed

 

Build your Endurance

 

Improve your Technique

 

Events:

 

Running Events: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 3000m, 4x100m, 4x400m, 80m Hurdles, 100m Hurdles

 

Field Events:
Long Jump, Shot Put, High Jump

 

Track is the one sport that is good training for all sports, whether its Football, Basketball, Soccer, or Baseball, Track & Field will improve your speed, endurance and coordination.

 

 

Practice will begin on
February 16, 2013
 
Mardi Gras Madness
 
Mardi Gras Madness Logo
March 2, 2013
We are now accepting signups for the 2013 Mardi Gras Madness 5K, please visit the event website at www.mgm5k.com
Jass Players
   

 

What a great first practice he held on Saturday, The team looks fantastic.

 

At Night Practices please be sure that the kids have a sweat shirt & pants or warm ups to wear home, it can be cold.

 

Water, please be sure that your child comes to practice with a water bottle. Please be sure to write his/her name on the bottle.

 

RAIN POLICY posted below in the practice schedule, mostly if its raining practice will be canceled. light drizzling and we may start practice. (Please don't call, there is no way of telling until we get to the track, and Alan will be working still first hour).

  • Sign-Ups Closed,
    • Some athletes paperwork is incomplete, we must have everything to certify our roster, athletes who remain incomplete when we certify our roster will be dropped from the team.
  • This Weeks Practice Schedule
  • Coaches Clinic Sunday 2/24
  • Spiritwear - Stormwear orders this week! See below.
  • Urgent Alert Text System
 
Track & Field Sign Ups

At this time the team is full, Thank you for your interest in the Storm Track Club.

 
Practice This Week
Feb 18 2013 - Holiday - NO PRACTICE
Feb 19 2013 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Saugus HS Track
 
Feb 21 2013 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Saugus High School

 

Feb 23 2013 9:00 am - 11:00 am Valencia HS Track

RAIN POLICY

If it is raining practice is canceled. However we will practice in a light sprinkle. This makes it tricky, many times it is not raining at the track when it's raining at home. Do not drop off your athlete if there is a chance for a canceled practice, please stick around

 

Please be sure to text STORMTF to 41411 to be added to our urgent alert system, in the event of a canceled practice, we will send a group text alert out telling parents to pick up their athlete.
 
Uniforms
Uniforms will be available at Saturday Practices. Please try to make Saturday February 23 will be our final pick up day.
 
Juice it Up Fundraiser Coupon Books
Juice It Up coupon books will be available to purchase at practices. Coupon books are $10 each (Over $80 value in savings). 30-page coupon book includes Free Smoothies, Buy One Get One Free coupons, discount coupons on smoothies, frozen yogurt, juice, muffins, bagels and more! The Storm Track Club earns 50% on all sales. Coupon books make great gifts for teachers, babysitters, friends and family. Contact Christine Hupalo at cmhupalo@yahoo.com or buy at upcoming practices!

Remember that Juice it up is located just down the street and makes a great after practice treat!

 
Jelly Beans and Jolly Ranchers
Jelly Beans Parents we ask that you bring 2 bags of jelly beans or Jolly Ranchers. At the end of each practice we give the kids a few jelly beans as a treat. For the kids with braces, we give them a Jolly Rancher. The kids must be heading out the gate in order to get them.
 
Volunteers Needed
We need some key volunteers to help us our this year.
We are in need of 1 or 2 assistant directors to help coordinate volunteers.
Alan needs help with a few dads who have pick up trucks to move equipment from the storage unit across the street on meet days, we have a lot of home meets and will need a crew of trucks, for both setup and tear down.

We are in need of 1 or 2 assistants for Uniform coordinators, and Spiritwear coordinators.
We will be trying to fill these positions at the parent meeting. Please feel free to see Michele, Coach Elaine or Coach Jeremy.
 
Spirit Wear
Storm Spirit Wear and Merchandise ordering will be available at Saturday Practices, the last date to order is 2/23/13. Pick up will be 2 weeks later.
 
Coaches Clinic
LA84 Foundation Coaches Clinic will be held on February 24th at Moorpark High School. 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. We will post more information about the clinic as it becomes available.
Click Here for The Clinic Agenda
 
Urgent Alert Text System
If you would like to join our Urgent Alert Text System, on your cell phone text the word "STORMTF" to 41411 and you should be greeted with a welcome message, we use this system rarely for very important urgent alerts, for example, We cancel practice early due to unforeseen circumstances.
 
Sincerely,

Alan Bingham
Santa Clarita Track Club