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Another normal ol’ off-season this week for our distance kids.  Fortunately, we still have nice weather so we’ll get some good workouts in and have fun between racing seasons.  We will NOT have JH practice again on Tuesday because of home basketball games.  Those JH runners will also be off on Monday and Tuesday next week due to block scheduling at the HS but they are more than welcome to come to practice with the older runners over Christmas Break.  I will send that schedule out this week.  Our HS meet schedule is also nearly complete.  We are deciding between a couple of early meets then we’ll send that out as well.  

We have our December Booster Club meeting tomorrow night at 5:45 in the Fieldhouse for anyone who would like to attend.

This time of year there isn’t much happening but as crazy as things get in the season we are thankful for these ‘normal’ days.  We’re still dealing with teenagers so maybe ‘normal’ isn’t the proper term but you know what I mean.

Thank you for everything you do.  As always…GO RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Weekly Schedule 

Monday, December 11th

HS Practice –  6:00 – 6:50 am Optional Recovery Run, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Booster Club Meeting – 5:45 – 7:00 pm Track/XC Fieldhouse

Tuesday, December 12th

HS Practice –  6:00 – 6:40 am Optional Recovery Run, 6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – No JH Practice – Working at Home Basketball Games

Wednesday, December 13th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

Thursday, December 14th

HS Practice –  6:00 – 6:50 am Optional Recovery Run, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Friday, December 15th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:00 pm 

Saturday, December 16th

No practice

Not much new is happening this week.  We’ll continue to work our HS kids back into full training and our JH kids moving.  Our high school weight room days are moving to Tuesday and Wednesday moving forward.  The only change from last week is there will be NO JH practice on Tuesday.  Coach Parker and I will be working home basketball games and we have HS tryouts.  It was great to see so many JH kids out last week.  That’s a great looking group of kids that are going to be very good down the road.  I’m excited to have them!

Our Track meet schedule will be coming out soon.  We will have a couple of indoor meets in January and February for our HS runners then outdoor kicks off in March for everyone.  We will have some practice days over Christmas Break.  As always, if runners are in town they need to come run, if not then no worries.  We’ll have those dates for everyone soon as well.

Thank you for everything you do.  As always…GO RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Weekly Schedule 

Monday, December 4th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Tuesday, December 5th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – NO JH Practice 

Wednesday, December 6th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

Thursday, December 7th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Friday, December 8th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:00 pm 

Saturday, December 9th

No practice

We hope everyone enjoyed some time off and had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  

Thank you to everyone who helped out at our annual Hog Jog last week!  We had over 600 runners making this year’s race one of the largest we’ve ever had.  It was a fun time with a ton of families, alumni, and current HS and JH runners enjoying some terrific weather AND it was a great fundraiser for the program!  

We’ll start easing our HS runners back into workouts this week before getting back to full workouts next week.  We’ll also start back with our JH Off-Season workouts tomorrow.  If those runners aren’t playing 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, 6GC and 7GC runners will ride the same bus over as they did in the XC season.  I will confirm those buses again tomorrow with Transportation and then send out a Remind in the morning with exactly which buses the kids need to ride.  These are optional workouts.  The intent is to keep them moving in the winter months in preparation for the Track season in the Spring.  If we have bad weather I will send out a Remind and let the schools know.  Also, if for some reason there is an issue starting tomorrow with transportation, I will let everyone know that as well.

Our Track meet schedule will be coming out soon.  We will have a couple of indoor meets in January and February for our HS runners then outdoor kicks off in March for everyone.  We will have some practice days over Christmas Break.  As always, if runners are in town they need to come run, if not then no worries.  We’ll have those dates for everyone soon as well.

Thank you for everything you do.  As always…GO RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Weekly Schedule 

Monday, November 27th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Tuesday, November 28th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Workout

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Wednesday, November 29th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 3:00 pm

Thursday, November 30th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

JH Practice – 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Friday, December 1st

HS Practice –  2:00 – 3:00 pm 

Saturday, December 2nd

No practice

Congratulations to our girls Varsity and Rising Stars groups for their excellent performances at NXR yesterday!  NXR puts the top schools from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi all together.  Our Rising Stars (Freshman and Sophomores) took 3rd overall in their race and the Varsity squad ended up with a 10th place finish in the Championship race!  That means the ladies ranked in the top 10 out of all those states.  Pretty impressive and a great way to end the season!

We won’t have any organized practice this week.  Runners need to take the week off and enjoy some time away.  If anyone wants to participate in the Hog Jog on Thursday we’d love to have them but it needs to be for fun and not trying to break a school record.  Here’s the link…

https://runsignup.com/Race/OK/Owasso/HogJog2017

We also need LOTS of volunteers for the race.  If you have a few hours on Thursday morning the help would be greatly appreciated!  Here’s the link…

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-43370166-hogjog#/

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.  

Thank you all for a terrific season!  I’m always a little sad for XC to end but I can’t wait for a great Track season!  As always…GO STATE CHAMPION RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

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…

Teamsgiving 2023

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

Congratulations to Dane Janowski who placed in the top 25 at the Meet of Champions on Saturday.  This week we are back to a normal practice schedule with weights tomorrow and Tuesday at 6:45 and our regular afternoon practice times.  We do have several NXR athletes participating in the Welcome Home 5k on Saturday to help get prepared for Houston.  If we have any JV wanting to race it’s a good course at Mohawk Park in Tulsa.  It’s totally flat and had a great crowd last year.  Packet Pick up opens at 8:30 and the race is scheduled to start at 10:10.  Here’s the link for anyone who would like to run…

https://runsignup.com/Race/OK/Tulsa/WelcomeHome5k

The NXR athletes should have an itinerary for Houston next week.  Please let me know if any parents need more information about the meet.

We have our end of the season banquet coming up on Tuesday, at 6:00 pm.  Please click on the link below and READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY to RSVP…

BANQUET RSVP LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-45705674-2023

BANQUET PAYMENT QR CODE

If anyone is willing to help out with the banquet please click on the link below…

BANQUET VOLUNTEER LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-43369426-hsorxc

Also, we are always trying to make sure our runners have plenty to eat at the end of practice.  Here is the weekly link to the snack sign up…

SNACKS LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-45891998-snacks

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.

Thank you for all you do! As always…GO STATE CHAMPION RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Weekly Schedule 

Monday, November 6th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 3:30 pm Workout

Tuesday, November 7th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am Weightroom, 2:00 – 3:30 pm Workout

Wednesday, November 8th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Thursday, November 9th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Friday, November 10th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Saturday, November 11th

No practice – Welcome Home 5k

Wow…What a weekend at State!  We had a TON of current ORXC athletes, alumni, and parents there to see our boys finish in the top 5 and our girls win their second straight state championship!  Since 2015 our boys’ teams have finished in the top 5 teams six times with four State Runner-Ups and our girls have finished in the top 5, seven out of the last eight years, finished on the podium six out of the last eight years, and now have three State Championships in the last four years!  It’s been an amazing run and I don’t plan on it stopping anytime soon!  

Thank you to everyone who helped out and cheered for ORXC this season. Between early morning practices, snacks, and hosting three meets we asked a lot of our athletes and families.  The only way we keep this streak going is with athletes, parents, and coaches all working together and trusting each other.  It was a great season and we greatly appreciate everyone in the ORXC family!

Coming up this week we’ll have a couple of fun days to celebrate State on Monday and Tuesday so practices will be a little shorter.  We’ll be done by 3:30 and we there will be NO weight room this week.  On Wednesday we’ll get back to our normal training schedule in preparation for NXR on November 18th.  I will send out more information regarding NXR in next Sunday’s post.  

We have our end of the season banquet coming up on Tuesday, November 7th at 6:00 pm.  Please click on the link below and READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY to RSVP…

BANQUET RSVP LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-45705674-2023

BANQUET PAYMENT QR CODE

If anyone is willing to help out with the banquet please click on the link below…

BANQUET VOLUNTEER LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-43369426-hsorxc

Also, we are always trying to make sure our runners have plenty to eat at the end of practice.  Here is the weekly link to the snack sign-up…

SNACKS VOLUNTEER LINK

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-45704376-snacks

As always, thank you to Kelly Mangelson for setting those up, and thank you for all you do! As always…GO STATE CHAMPION RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Weekly Schedule – Practice this week will be required for our Varsity Regional and State athletes and optional for our JV runners.

Monday, October 30th

HS Practice –  2:00 – 3:30 pm

Tuesday, October 31st

HS Practice –  2:00 – 3:30 pm

Wednesday, November 1st

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Thursday, November 2nd

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Friday, November 3rd

HS Practice –  2:00 – 4:30 pm

Saturday, November 4th

HS Practice –  8:00 – 10:30 am (NXR Runners only)

Congratulations to all of our Varsity athletes for qualifying for State this week!  We had several runners earn PR performances with Bella Nelson setting another school record and winning the girls 5K!  Julia Trost and Quinn Thomason also earned All-Regional honors for the girls and Dane Janowski earned All-Regional honors for the boys!  

Thank you so much to all of our volunteers for all your help and hard work yesterday.  I can’t tell you how many coaches thanked us for hosting yesterday and how well everything went.  That only happened because we had so many parents willing to help.  It was great for our runners to get to be on their home turf for such a big meet.  Thank you again!

We will leave for State on Friday and compete on Saturday morning.  There is an itinerary listed below.  We have been incredibly fortunate to have a huge amount of parents, JV athletes, and alumni attend the State meet each year to support our Varsity athletes.  We’d love to see a crowd again this season!  Come support your XC Rams!

Our JH runners will have their end of the year season party this Thursday at lunch.  Coach Graham sent out a Remind earlier with the details.  We will pass out their season t-shirts, a little late obviously, and get to miss an hour of school so fun times all around.  Those kids had an awesome season this year!  We’re excited to see our 8GC runners move up to the HS level next year and about how many of our 7GC and 6GC runners looked so good.  It will be fun to watch them continue to grow and get faster.

We are ALWAYS in need of snacks for our runners!  The sooner they get calories after their workout the quicker they can start to recover for the next day’s workout.  We purchase whole chocolate milk as a recovery drink with the Booster Club fee but if you’re at Sam’s or Costco and can grab some extra granola bars, fruit snacks, or crackers we could definitely use them.  Kelly Mangelson was kind enough to make a snack sign up if you’d like to help out…

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4AA8A92FA1FE3-45476833-snacks

Thank you for all you do! As always…GO RAMS!  –  Coach Collins

Monday, October 23rd

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am – Weight Room – Required for ALL HS athletes

              2:00 – 4:00 pm – Workout 

Tuesday, October 24th

HS Practice –  6:45 – 7:30 am – Weight Room – Required for ALL HS athletes

              2:00 – 4:00 pm – Workout 

Wednesday, October 25th

HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00 pm – Workout  

Thursday, October 26th

HS Practice – 2:00 – 4:00 pm – Workout  

Friday, October 27th

HS Practice – 2:00 – 2:45 pm – JV Athletes can leave at the end of the school day

Varsity Athletes State Itinerary

Girls – Bella Nelson, Julia Trost, Quinn Thomason, Lilith Johnson, Rilee Shea, Audrey Toews, Kate Stocksen, Aspen Reimer

Boys – Dane Janowski, Collin Yost, Sam Hays, Isaac Krueger, Evan Carter, Gabe Baughman, Eric Harding, Caleb Miles

Go to school 1st through 3rd Hours

11:00 am – Check in at Fieldhouse

11:30 am – Leave Fieldhouse

12:00 pm – Lunch at Chick Fil A – Tulsa Hills

1:00 pm – Leave for Edmond Santa Fe

3:00 pm – Arrive at course, workout

5:00 pm – Check in at Hotel

6:00 pm – Dinner at Hotel

8:00 pm – Team meeting/Active Recovery

9:00 pm – Room Check

Fairfield Inn and Suites

13520 Plaza Terrace, Oklahoma City, OK 73120

Phone: (405) 608-0900

Saturday, October 28th

OSSAA State Meet

Edmond Santa Fe High School

1901 W 15th St

Edmond, OK 73013

($13 cash entry at the gate)

($10 entry fee for digital tickets)

https://gofan.co/event/1128711?schoolId=OSSAA

5:30 – Wake Up

6:30 – Leave for course (light breakfast to go)

7:00 – Arrive at course, set up tent, get bibs, shake out jog

7:40 – Girls Start Warm-Up (No phones/parents from this point on)

8:00 – Coaches Meeting

8:30 – Girls 5k race

8:25 – Boys Warm-Up (No phones/parents from this point on)

9:15 – Boys 5k race

10:00 – Awards ceremony

10:30 – Leave Edmond Santa Fe

11:00 – Lunch at Hidalgo’s in Edmond

3:00 – 3:30 – Bus back at Fieldhouse

The cost for Regionals is $10 cash at the event or tickets may be pre-purchased using the GoFan app. Tickets purchased via GoFan are $7 plus a processing fee. Tickets purchased in advance are less expensive and will help speed up the line entering the park. Just show the attendants your digital receipt. Thanks!

Here is the link to GoFan…

https://gofan.co/event/1128713?schoolId=OSSAA

Here is a QR code as well…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k1d1zO-LQx2av4yZWDCTKSsHT7TMYA1HwOcMENsjAh8/edit#gid=0