TIGRES: Need some motivation?

Spring is here and so, I've noticed, is Spring fever. Don't know about all of you, but I know that I can come up with lots of excuses for not running or for not trying something new. Thought you might like this video, it's one of my favorites and gets me motivated every time I watch it. Hope you like it too, and if you do please share it with your runners- it's a great reminder to do the best with what you are given, no excuses allowed:



Happy running,

Gretchen

Tigres Heritage Valley Meet

Random Photos

Results to follow - Hopefully tomorrow.

Meet Saturday @ Heritage Valley/Santa Paula

Our first (official) meet will be this Saturday at Heritage Valley. Use the link to the right for directions to Santa Paula High School. The meet will start promptly at 8:30. Please arrive by 8:00 a.m. to allow time for kids to warm up and get their event stickers from coaches.

Order of Events for all meets is as follows:

Event	Age Group
3200 meter	Midget, Youth & Intermediate
80M Hurdles	Midget only
100M Hurdles	Youth & Intermediate only
4x100 Relay	All
1600 Meter	All
400 M Dash	All
100 M Dash	All
800 M Run	All
200 M Dash	All
4x400 Relay	All except Gremlin
Shot Put (Throughout the day)	All except Gremlin
High Jump (Throughout the day)	All except Gremlin
Long Jump (Throughout the day)	All

Photo Days

Photo days with Steve Osman will be Monday April 7th and Tuesday April 8th. Athletes wear your racing jersey and black shorts.

Buena Track Rules

We would like to thank you all for participating in this years’ track club and thank you all who showed up and worked at our practice meet! We hope you are all having a wonderful time and your children love running.

As a reminder, we have a few rules we need to go over for the practices and meets.

• Please be respectful of the rules and remember it is for the safety of all and respect for Buena:
• Only coaches, athletes, and parent helpers/volunteers are allowed on the TRACK OR FIELD during practices or meets. NO EXCEPTIONS
• There is lots of grass behind the restrooms for siblings to run around on.
• Shoes are required at all times on the field.
• No food or drink is allowed on the track. Only water!
• The long jump sand pits are strictly for that. No playing or building sand castles in them.
• During the meets, do not give your child food or drink while they are in staging. It is disruptive and they could get sick during their race.
• No playing with footballs or other sport equipment on field.

Athletes need to be focused on practice and meet activities as outlined by the coaches. Any behavior that is distracting to the team and compromises the coaches’ efforts will not be tolerated. Behavior such as pushing or chasing others, even in “fun”, is particularly dangerous and unacceptable. Discipline for such behavior could include suspension from the team.

Thank you for your support!!

Practice Meet

Our practice meet is Saturday at Buena High School track.
Setup starts at 7:00 am, First event at 9:00 am if all goes smoothly we will finish around noon.

The Practice meet will have a reduced set of event options for the athletes than a regular season meet. We conduct almost every event (no 3200m) but not every age group does every event.

Gremlin Boys and Girls will compete in the 4x100m relay, 400m, 100m, and Long jump
Bantam Boys and Girls will compete in the 4x100m relay, 400m, 100m, and Long jump
Midget Boys and Girls will compete in the 4x100m relay, 800m, 200m and Shot Put
Youth & Intermediate Boys and Girls will compete in the 4x100m relay, 200m, 1600m, and High Jump.

Hurdles will only be run by Midgets and Youth & Intermediate athletes who have raced this event (in a meet) last year.

For the practice meet only! Each athlete can only chose up to 2 running events, including relay, and have no more than 3 total events
For regular meets! Each athlete can only chose up to 3 running events, including relay, and have no more than 4 total events. An athlete can chose 3 field events and 1 running; or 2 field and 2 running.

Have a great meet!!!

SOS Share our Soles

We will have a shoe swap container at the practice meet. We know many of your athletes bought new shoes this season so why not recycle those gently used ones. Athletes can donate and/or take from the bin. You don't have to donate a pair to take a pair. Any remaining shoes will be donated to Greg Woodburns S.O.S. Share our Soles Charity. Lets see how many shoes we can recycle! We will keep it going for a few weeks. You can also donate any other adult athletic shoes you have. Greg would appreciate it!
Thanks,
Terry VanWagoner and the Tigres Board

Buena High Track Schedule

Due a track meet this Thursday (March 13) we will not be practicing at the Buena track.

I have confirmed that Bantams, Midgets, Youth & Intermediate will practice at Arroyo Verde Park this Thursday.

Buena's home track schedule conflicts with our practice schedule on the upcoming days.

• Thursday, April 10
  
• Thursday, April 17

Field Event Practice Schedules

Monday:
Long jump - Midgets
High jump - none
Shot put - Bantams
Hurdles - none

Tuesday:
Long jump - Bantams and Gremlins
High jump - Y & Int.
Shot put - Midgets
Hurdles - Y & Int.

Wednesday:
Long Jump - none
High jump - Midgets
Shot put - Youth & Intermediate
Hurdles - none

Thursday:
Long jump - Y. & Int. plus any extras who missed their time slot
High jump - Bantams
Shot put - None
Hurdles - Midgets

Move to Buena

After two awesome weeks of running, training and getting to know our teammates at Arroyo Verde Park we will be moving practices to the Buena High School track starting this coming Monday March 10. I added age group practice schedule to the right column.

Please do not drop off (or pickup) younger athletes in the parking lot, walk them into the track and sign them in. The parking lot can get hectic between 4:15 and 4:30, Buena's track team is finishing practice and we are starting.

General Rules to remember about the Buena Track.

• No food
• Only Water to drink
• Do not pick a the "grass" it will not grow back.
• Use of spikes (Midgets, Y&I only) with coaches permission.

Reminders

• "Spring" forward this Saturday!!
• Practice Meet next Saturday March 15!!

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Youth and Intermediate

Just a reminder that practices this week are Tue/Wed/Thu from 4:30-6:00 at Arroyo Verde Park. Please meet at the swings as we did last week. Next week we'll move to Buena High School.

You guys did great in your first week, we are all really proud of how hard you worked. Hope you got lots of rest this weekend, and we'll see you at the park!

Happy Trails,

The Tigres Y&I Coaching staff