SPXC

This page is intended to be a resource page for parents and athletes. First, here is a small PDF for parents and athletes that should answer any questions about my coaching philosophy and team culture.

Parent's Guide to Saint Pat's Cross Country

Camp Comeca-I need the number of people planning on going by Wed May 29th. Here is all of the information in a short brochure.

We use the remind app to streamline our communications. Remind will also get rid of most of the chatter. We will have a group for HS Cross and a group for MS Cross, parents are welcome and encouraged to join. Communication for MS athletes goes through the parents.

To join you go to remind.com and start a free account, then text the group code to 810-10. The group codes are:
HS- @c926kh
MS-@k7gh99k

Here is a 1 minute video on how to join
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLP__QYSOj4

Here is a PDF that tells parents how to join.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/md0nln9s85l8lwp/remind-overview-parents.pdf?dl=0

Workouts are on Final Surge. If you are not on Final Surge, I will need to add you. Send the email you want to use to t.oneill@npcschools.org and I will email you an invite. From there you just follow the link in the invite and it takes you to our page. You will accept me as coach and you will be able to see all of the workouts and record your mileage.

I also have many of the PDF’s on Sycamore under the cross-country area as well as on Final Surge in the resources area. I will also put links to resource on this page.

We will have some group runs, and some Sat breakfast runs. Any parents interested in hosting a breakfast run please let me know.

Important dates

Down time and recovery. Annual break transition from track to cross.
HS athletes take 10 days OFF. No running until May 30.
MS athletes. If you want a jump on training just start running 1 mile a day 3 times the first week, 5 times the second week, from then on 6 times a week. Consistency is way more important than how fast or how far.

June 3 Summer conditioning starts. Weight room 3x week with FB or VB 9 (girls only)

June 11 Camp @ Comeca (Cozad)
*July 16 Cozad Day Camp w/college coaches

Physicals-

Athletes will have to have a physical before any group workouts or camp.

Tracking workouts-more on final surge

We will be using final surge to track workouts as mentioned above. You will need an email address for me to send the invite to the group. MS students, I will need a parents email address. The software on the computer is free. There is an app for your phone, it is also free.

Tee’s will be earned for the following tracked and verified distances in the summer shred program.
300 miles, 400 miles and 500 miles.

State Championship is not won in October, it is won in the summer time.

Jacket orders-This is a jacket order year. We don't order every year as there is a minimum of 6 to order. These jackets are NOT required. We will place our order June 30 to ensure we have them by the start of the season. Click on the link for all of the information.

Summer fun race Dates (none of these are required)

May 25 Tyler Vanderheiden Memorial 2m and 5m
June 7 Twilight 1mi and 5k
June 8 American Legion Heroes March
June 15 Nebraskaland Days 5k, 10k and 1 mi
June 29 Silasen Hal Marathon and 5k
July 4 Firecracker 5k, 10k and 1 mi
July 13 State Games Track
July 14 State Games Triathlons
July 20 Lincoln County Fair 5k
July 20 Neb State Games 5k
July 27 Share a Spare Color 5k
Aug 3 Whitakers Way
Nov 28 Turkey Trot 5k

More Track
June 1st 2024 – USATF Nebraska Outdoor Championships at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. This meet will include Steeplechase for Youth 13 up and Masters Athletics along with Hammer Throw! (Sanctioned) | Register and Results
6/1/2024 Gothenburg Invite (Sanctioned) Register
6/8/2024 Bengals Invite
6/12/2024 Millard South Pole Vault Only Meet Register
June 9th – June 16th Nebraska Junior Olympic Championship at Gretna High School with Steeple and Hammer at UNL (Sanctioned)
6/25/2024 – 6/30/2024 USATF National Outdoor Championships
7/4/204 – 7/6/2024 USATF Region 8 Championships

NOTE TO MS
Dual Sports the AD's have changed most of the schedule so there are not many games the same day as cross country meets. XC practices will be in the mornings during the school year.