We’re coming down the home stretch and into our CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON! After so many weeks and months of hard work, reaching the final few meets of the 2024 season is exciting. For our JH and several of our JV athletes the Conference meet on Tuesday will be their final competition. We will announce the final 7 Varsity runners on Wednesday. Those athletes will practice on Thursday and Friday in preparation for Regionals on October 26th. Any runners not on the Varsity team will have the rest of the week off and then resume practice as usual on Monday, October 21st. If we have any athletes going to another sport, they will go on the 21st as well. We do still have the Nike NXR meet in November for qualifying Varsity runners and underclassmen (Freshman and Sophomores.) (More info on Nike is coming out next week.) Any runners not moving to another sport will stay with XC through Thanksgiving Break. After the break, we will start with Track practice. Their schedule won’t change much. We’ll simply change the training slightly to better prepare for Track races. Our JH runners will also wrap up the season on Tuesday. We’ll give those runners some time off before they return to off-season Track practice on the Monday after Thanksgiving Break.
ORXC is again hosting the OSSAA East Regional meet on October 26th at O’Brien Park. Hosting each year allows us to control the course, purchase equipment for our program, and have some say in how the post-season works. In comparison to the Owasso Invitational, this is a small meet in terms of the number of athletes but a large meet in terms of spectators. We will once again need help with parking and concessions at the meet. Please consider helping out while you watch some of the fastest teams in the area compete to go to the State meet in Edmond!
Here is the volunteer link for Regionals from Kelly Mangelson…
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-50386241-2024#/
We can also use help for athletes not running in the meet, especially if they need NHS or NJHS hours.
Here is the link for athletes… https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-52300829-2024#/
We’ve had some incredible races and performances this season, but I know the best is yet to come! Like we tell the kids all the time…LAST ONE BEST ONE! Let’s make sure the ORXC Army is out in full force this Tuesday to support our runners!
Thank you for all you do and, as always…GO RAMS!!!
Weekly Schedule
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QzyY2qfOHo2_L_1kTiUvFDOWSlMb8c4QHgifNu47t0k/edit?usp=sharing