Hello, 12U families!

Looking forward to our first practice tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8^th at 4:30 pm at Buena High Track.

Below is some information for the upcoming season.

Goals for the season:

1. Safety
2. Fun and an appreciation for the benefits of sports and exercise
3. Good Sportsmanship
4. Developing your athlete’s abilities and helping them to achieve their goals.

Questions and information:

The most efficient way to communicate with me is through email on the website. I am also available for questions after practice. I will email regularly, especially once the meets begin in March. You can text me as well.

Practice:

12U will have team practices on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30-6:00 at the Buena High School track.

Parents are welcome to stay and watch, but only athletes and coaches are allowed on the field. Please be on time for pickup; a coach must stay with your athlete until you arrive.

Athletes will work with specialty coaches on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Preparation for practice:

Please have your athlete dressed and ready to go. They will need a bag to carry their belongings:

1. Sweatshirt and bottoms
2. Small towel (dish towel size)
3. Water bottle (NO food/Gatorade on the track – water only)
4. Spikes (if they choose to use them)
5. Good Running Shoes

A lot of athletes will have similar gear, which means many have the same water bottles, bags, and sweatshirts. PLEASE label everything!!

Attendance:

We understand that other sports, illnesses, and injuries may conflict with practice. You do not need to email me if your athlete does not attend practice; but I would appreciate knowing if they are injured and if they are not going to attend a meet. Please do not send them to practice if they are injured.

Meets:

12U athletes can participate in all of the events:

Field – Hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, and Shot Put

Relay – 4X100 and the 4X400

Distance – 3200, 1600, and 800

Sprints – 100, 200, and 400

12U Athletes can participate in 4 events at each meet with a maximum of 3 running events.  The 4X100 counts toward their running event total, but the 4X400 is free

Some athletes know what events they are interested in, while others are still deciding. We will encourage them to try everything until they decide which events they like the most. Event sign-ups will be on Mondays and Wednesdays by my bag on the field.

Setting up the relay teams for the 4X100 and the 4X400 takes time. Once your athlete selects the relay, they commit to three other team athletes. Relay teams will be created based on times and attendance. Sometimes, we cannot build a full relay team due to numbers, but we will do our best to ensure it is a fair process.

I will send out more information regarding meets as the dates come closer. However, for future planning, the meet schedule on the website is accurate.

We look forward to greeting former and new athletes tomorrow!!

See you soon,

Jim Montgomery

805-368-6999

12U@venturatigres.org

Team!

How is it that we are already concluding our 2022 track season?! Coach Kat and I both hope that you all can make it to the team picnic this Sunday at the Buena Quad to celebrate a fun and successful season. We both have seen growth in lots of the runners in many ways. Friendships made, PR’s set, new races tried, overcoming self doubt…. it’s been so good!

Our wonderful coaching team will be with us on Sunday to say goodbye and to give your runners ribbons and a gift. The Tigres program will be providing pizza (who doesn’t like pizza) and the attendees are bringing side dishes. Our assigned side dish is SALAD. Please bring what you can. The program suggests enough for 12 with serving utensils but no one cares if you bring more or less. Sunday is about having fun and sending the kids off to their action packed summers. Please make sure to bring a blanket or chairs if you wish.

If you are unable to make the picnic please reach out. We would like all of the athletes to receive their end of season gift.

Cheers!

Tomorrow will focus on specialties!  ALL varsity athletes are welcome to attend practice and train regardless of their qualifying event.

Apologies!

Hi Team!

What a fun meet we had on Saturday!! We are so happy with and proud of all of our athletes! Such a good showing. Lots of PR’s and lots of smiles.  Wanted to remind everyone that all of our JV runners are now finished with their 2022 track season! It went by sooo fast! Hoping to see them at the picnic May 15th to say goodbye. We will update you on that as we know more.

We will continue to hold practice M, T, W for our varsity athletes. The practice will end a little earlier due to the numbers being much smaller. Please plan to pick up your athlete about 5:30.

Thank you to all of the parents for your support!

Coach Kate and Kate

Hi 12U Families!

It looks like we have over 20 athletes who have not signed up for events this weekend. Please let us know by today what your athlete would like to run and/or if they do not plan to participate. We need to start getting our spreadsheets in order to be prepared for the weekend.

I hope that they all can attend and give their best for the final JV meet of the season- it will be an exciting one!

Here are names of athletes that have not signed up:

Girls: Anceline, Blake, Lily, Isabella G, Camille M, Amelia, Trudy, Zoe

Boys: Ian A, Nico, Isaac, Liam J, Manny, Tyler, Nathaniel, Samuel, Brennan, Jacob, Liam R, Levi R, Ezekiel, Cyrus, Mawson

Thank you-Coach Kate and Kat

Hi team!
Wanted to remind you all of a few things:
1. Team picture day is Wednesday. Please wear/bring your Tigres jersey for the picture!

2. The meet this weekend is at Buena High School at it starts at 3PM!!!!!!! Please make note to have the runners to the school by 2:30 if they are running the in the first events or 4×100 relay.

3. Please make sure to let us know if your runner will not be at practice this week but plans to run this weekend so we can get them signed up for events.

4. We have seen an uptick in excitable behavior as spring is in the air. Please remind your runner to respect other athlete’s personal space. We understand that part of being on the Tigres team is having fun on the field between events, although we would like the runners to keep their hands to themselves and forego wrestling. We would love for you as parents and caregivers to encourage using that energy to cheer on their teammates! These last few meets are important!!

Coach Kate and Coach Kat

Good Morning Tigres Families!

Congrats are in order for all of your athletes that ran and gave it their all this past weekend. We are so proud of all of them already…I can’t say that enough!  I can’t wait to see how these kids progress over the course of our season. Thank you to all of you for getting your runners to the facility on time and for cheering everyone on. It sure makes a difference!

Unfortunately we do not have track access this Wednesday 3/23 so practice is canceled. I strongly encourage all of your runners to attend specialty days this week if at all possible. We will have the event sign up sheet available today as well as T/Th this week. Please remind your runner to sign up! If you ever find that your runner has not signed up for events but is able to attend the meet, please still come! We can always add runners to races (other than relay).

Please reach out with any questions or concerns. Go 12U!

It’s he eve of the first meet and we are genuinely excited to see your athletes compete tomorrow! It’s been too long!! Us coaches have been prepping bib stickers, making and printing meet spreadsheets, discussing weather and cheering techniques…. Hopefully those of you at home are getting hydrated, planning to get some good rest tonight and staying positive.

Reminder to send your athlete with layers and layers of clothing (sorry for the harping… we’re both moms!). Thousand Oaks is generally warmer than Ventura although it can get quite cool at night. We all got to shiver more than our fair share at the practice meet. We don’t need to do that again! That goes for you in the stands too! bring blankets and layers so that you can stay to cheer on our team through the 4×400- our final event!

Please make sure to have your athlete on the field by 3:30 if not a few minutes earlier if they are running the 3200, hurdles, 4×100, and maybe even the long jump, or high jump. We are all hoping the meet runs quickly and efficiently which starts with all of us being on time.

Relay teams are never a guarantee. We would love nothing more than to see as many kids as possible run this event while they have the chance. Keep in mind that we need multiples of 4 to make that this happen so we have to work with the number of kids who signed up, rearrange, ask, switch, etc. If your child is not on a relay team it may mean that they are on a list to be an alternate incase someone is sick or injured or can’t make the meet last minute.

Thank you all for your support and for your wonderful kids! We will be cheering loudest for them tomorrow because WE ARE 12U! We believe in them.