Congratulations to Bella Nelson and Isaac Krueger for their overall wins at the Welcome Home 5k yesterday! For the girls, Julia Trost was second, followed by Quinn Thomason and Lilith Johnson. Audrey Toews and Aspen Reimer both scored in their age groups as well. Eric Harding finished second behind Isaac with Nos Graham scoring in his age group. Overall it was a fun race with a lot of respect and honor paid to our Veterans. Great stuff!
We have made it to NXR Week! We should find out by Wednesday if our girls and boys squads made the regional championship race. If they do, we’ll be taking them to Houston Friday morning and racing early on Saturday. It’s a long trip but it’s an amazing experience for our athletes to race some of the best schools from five different states. This is our third year to go and we want to continue improving until we get a squad to Portland for the Nike Cross National Championships. It’s going to happen my friends. It’s going to happen.
This week we will also have our annual TEAMSgiving on Wednesday for our HS runners. We’ll go for a short run and then share a potluck meal together. If your athlete hasn’t signed up here is the link…
We won’t have any organized practice over Thanksgiving break. HS runners need to take the week off after a long season. We’ll start back with our JH Off-Season workouts on November 27th. If those runners aren’t playing in another sport they can come over and get in a workout on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 3:15 – 4:30. 8GC athletes will walk up to the Fieldhouse and the 6GC and 7GC will ride the same bus over as they did in the XC season. These are optional workouts. The intent is to keep them moving in the winter months in preparation for the Track season in the Spring. I will double check with transportation on exactly what buses JH runners from the 7GC and 6GC centers but it should be the same as the XC season. I will confirm and let everyone know this week.
Here are pics from our end of the season ORXC Banquet last week. Thank you Doug Boughman!
https://www.douglasabaughman.com/OwassoXC2023/Banquet11723/n-5TC3vp
Thank you for all you do! As always…GO STATE CHAMPION RAMS! – Coach Collins
Weekly Schedule
Monday, November 13th
HS Practice – 6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Workout
Tuesday, November 14th
HS Practice – 6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Workout
Wednesday, November 15th
HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Thursday, November 16th
HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Friday, November 17th
NXR Runners leave at 6:00
HS Practice – 2:00 – 2:45 pm
Saturday, November 18th
No practice – NXR