Greetings!

Wow! Our League final race on Satuday was awesome!! Almost all athletes had big Personal Records from our first Invitational race on Septembe 19th. It was so exciting to watch and cheer on all the Storm athletes!

Please save the date for our end of season banquet on November 1st. This is a fun awards dinner for our athletes and their immediate families! We will need a RSVP so we will have a count of how much food to order. Storm will provide Rattlers and Pizza, and we will have a sign pot luck up for appetizers, deserts, and drinks ! All athletes will receive a trophy and some will be honored with special awards! Come celebrate the season with us!!



Sunday Nov 1st - Storm Award Banquet- Canyon Country Community Center -18410 Sierra Hwy - 5:30 pm-8:30pm

SET-UP: 6 people to arrive early (5:00) to help put on table cloths, and table decorations. 



Servers: 7 people to help from 5:30 - 6:30 with serving the food. 

[Sign up to volunteer at the banquet]



Food and Drink Items

Sub Gremlins and Gremlins - Desserts for 10  

Bantams and Juniors -Appetizers, finger food, for 10

Youth and Intermediates - Water bottles, soda's, or individual bottles of juice, Please bring individual serving items such as cans, bottles or boxes, NO LITER BOTTLES



There will be a donation box at the party for you to contribute to take our Great Coaches out for a nice dinner! 

Post Season Practice Schedule -Oct.25th - Nov 1st

Monday - 6:00- 7:15 Central Park 27150 Bouquet Cyn. Rd. meet near the stairs

Tuesday - 6:00-7:15- Central Park 27150 Bouquet Cyn Rd. (meet near the stairs )-

Thursday - 6:00-7:15- Central Park 27150 Bouquet Cyn. Rd. (meet near the stairs )

Saturday - 8:30 am -10:00 - Valley United mandatoryall team Practice Central Park Fields 12,13,14.



Sunday Nov 1st - Storm Award Banquet- Canyon Country Community Center -18410 Sierra Hwy - 5:30 pm-8:30 pm

Post Season

If you are invited to Post season you must go on valleyunitedstriders.com by Wednesday Oct 28th and sign up for the team! Please be at practice Monday night!!

If your athlete is in, or maybe near the top 16 they may be invited to the A and B team, fee is $180.00 plus a uniform fee, or if they are only doing the local Association Race on Nov, 15th at Central Park they will sign up for a C or D team, the fee is $25.00 and they can use a loaner uniform, All ahtlethe will need to get a USATF membership or renew if you have one on No. 1st.

Steps for USATF Card:

Renew or apply for your USATF Card ON Nov. 1st (be sure to choose our team) VALLEY UNITED TRACK CLUB TEAM (33-0015) All new athletes will need to upload their birth document from this website after you get your card. I will not be able to register your athletes untill all steps are complete and all steps complete by Nov 5

https://www.usatf.org/home/top-utility-nav-content/membership

UNIFORMS

Please order your uniform today, as I need to make sure we have enough! I do have loaner jerseys fo all Local athletes so you may also choose to borrow rather than buy the uniform . We have a very large amount of new athletes this year.

Valley United SPIRIT WEAR

You can order shirts, hoodies, warmups, merchandise on our website at valleyunitedstriders.org It takes about 2 -3 weeks to get them . The store is open now and we have new items. There are no refunds or exchanges as most of these items are custom made for us. We will try to have all items ordered by Nov.1st, You can order from the top banner on the website

There will be a Mandatory all team meeting on Oct31st at Central Park

Third Annual Storm Turkey Trot

We would like to invite you all to a fun family Thanksgiving Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Morning November 26th at Central Park Field 10. We will have a 1K fun run for 10 and under and a 5K race for all ages. You will get a T- Shirt and custom medal for the first 400 entries ! Start your day off with a fun quick run before Turkey!!

This is a fundraiser for our Post season athletes, and we are Thankful for all your support

[Register Here]

Coaches Corner

Happy Monday Team!

What an end to a great season of Storm XC!! Saturday brought incredible weather and incredible performances! When you finish a championship race, there are some who left elated and some leave deflated. The goal is for everyone to have a PR and an incredible race!  And sometimes that just doesn’t happen…

My encouragement to the entire team is keep enjoying the journey! For those of you who killed it! Boom and great job! I saw many PR’s over 1 and even 2 minutes!!! For those who didn’t have a great race, for whatever reason, learn from it… but don’t dwell on it. Becoming a champion is not an overnight process. Being an all American requires great races and even seasons, mixed with bummer races and sometimes seasons. There isn’t one champion who would tell you the road was easy… Everyone wants to be the champ, but only ONE can stand on the top of the podium at the end of a race. We have athletes fighting for that top position and I applaud them… and they give the rest of the team a target to get after in practice. The majority of any team is being “part of the team”. You are working to improve their position and time. You set goals and work hard to achieve them. The whole range of athletes are important for Storm and we as coaches value EVERY ONE OF YOU! I loved seeing the “team” aspect Saturday when I watched Ryan Venegas have an incredible race, which was impressive on its own. He might have deserved a break but instead I saw him come down the finishing shoot to cheer on his teammates!! Boom Ryan!!

We’ll talk more about the races at the banquet, but how many of you did I tell directly: “you’ve turned into a runner this season”!! 

I warned you at the beginning of the season: what you put in, you’ll get out. I enjoyed experiencing the entire team receive the rewards of hard work!! Medals… Team Trophies… Smiles… High Fives… Hugs… Awesomeness….

Congratulations!

For a chunk of you we are on to post season which starts tonight! I’ll see you there! 

For those who have ended a great season, look for an email in the next week or so to give some guidance for post season training. TAKE A COUPLE WEEKS OFF, and then, if you want to make big jumps in track, it’ll be time to start hitting the road again. 

Running becomes something that is in you… an itch… an urge… a desire… part of your life… If it’s in you, don’t let it die during the offseason… As Prefontaine said: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”. Keep cultivating that gift… whatever you plant in the offseason is going to flourish in Track!!

See you tonight or see you at the banquet!

Thank you for an awesome season team!

Coach Jeremy

C: 661-670-7249

https://yellowhatcoach.com

Post Season Race Schedule

Sunday Nov. 15th - Association Qualifier Meet- Central Park -

Sunday Nov.22nd - Rgional Qualifier Meet - Escondito Ca. for all who qualify by placing in the over all top 30 or are on a a or B team that places in the top 5 in the Association meet

Saturday Dec 12th - Junior Olympic National Champioship -for all who qualify by placing in the over all top 30 or are on a a or B team that places in the top 5 in the Regional meet

Parent Reflection

We hope you all had a great Season, It was so awesome watching you all cheering and suporting the team! Storm is so much more than a team we are a Family! It was great seeing all the Alumni out to support the team !! See you all at the Banquet!