Greetings!

We had a great meet on Saturday with lots of Personal Records and, and records broken!! I would like to thank the parents who volunteered to help this week! We had a few families that volunteered all day. A special thanks to the Rosdail family for running our staging and the Skoglund Family for announcing all day and staying for clean up! Also the Witham Family for working the finish line and data all day. We have to load 2 trucks at the end of the meet so please stay and help this week. Our meets will go much faster if we have enough help and do not have to rely on only a few parents. Thank you all for stepping up!

Our next track meet is this Saturday April 4th, at Castaic High! This meet will go very fast as it is only one team, The Pacers! I know many of you will be on spring break the next few weeks, please try to make it to the meets and practice if possible. You are still able to run even if you are out of town for practices!

Our first events will start at 8:30 (please see order of events below) If your athlete is running in the 4x100 relay they must sign by 8:00 to be considered for a team! Not every athlete will get on a relay team each week. Please see relay expectation and requirements below!

Please arrive at 7:45 am so you can do your warm-ups if you are in the first events . Track and field events will begin at 08:15-8:30 am. We can not predict times so please arrive with enough time to check in, get your tags, and warm up.

Volunteer Sign up

Will be sent out on Wednesday. We will be keeping track of your hours through this, so please sign up by Friday. We ask all family to volunteer a minimum of 8 hours through the season, although most do more!

Snack Bar items -This week we will supporting Castaic High School's Concession Stand. We are asking each family to bring an Item for them to sell. Coach Johnson has helped us so much with getting on the track for practice! Please contribute if possible, if you have multiple age groups just choose the youngest age group for your item. Please bring individually package items to sell.

Sub Gremlins - donuts

Gremlins- Gatorade/ soda/ juice

Junior - Candy items

Youth - chips, nuts, bars, any snack item

Intermediate - cut up fruit cups

Here is a brief description of what we need this Saturday, If your child is doing a filed event, please sign up for that!

Girls Long Jump - record measured marks, measure marks, rake and clear sand

Shot put - help record marks and shag the shot

Race Announcer - Sit in the middle of the field and announce the next race in order of events.

Finish line recorder- collect Tags from athletes and put them on the clip board for timers Help athletes get in their lanes

Tag pullers- pull tags off athletes at the end of the race or in staging

Data input - input race and field events at the timing table

Stagers- Put athletes in order in the middle of the field and take to starting line for each race

Race Escorts - walk athletes to the starting line and help them get on the track

Relay zone judges - help athletes on the track in their zone and report if they pass out of the zone

Set Up and Clean up - at the beginning and end of the race

Running Events 8:30 am

3000 Meter Run  JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

(All age groups may run together. In this event)

80-Meter Low Hurdles   JG, JB

100-Meter Low Hurdles  YG, YB, IG,

110-Meter Low Hurdles  - IB

4×100 Meter RelaySGG, SGB, GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB,IG,IB

1500 Meter Run  GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

400-Meter Dash  SGG, SGB, GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

100-Meter Dash  SGG, SGB, GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

800-Meter Run  SGG, SGB, GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

200-Meter Dash  SGG, SGB, GG, GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

4×400 Meter Relay  GG ,GB, BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG, IB

(all age groups may run together)

Field Event Order- 8:30 am- Girls and Boys may be called together

High Jump  BG, BB, JG, JB, YG, YB, IG/YW, IB/YM

Long Jump  SGG/GG, SGB/GB, IB, IG, JG, JB, YG, YB, BG, BB

Shot Put  YB, YG, IG, IB, BG, BB, JG, JB

Javelin - Junior and Bantam, Gremlin, Youth and Inter. Girls and Boys together

Practice Schedule- March 30th- April 4th 

Monday March 30 - 5:30 - 7:15 Sub and Gremlin ends at 6:50

Tuesday March 31 - 5:30 - 7:15 Sub and Gremlin ends at 6:50

Thursday April 2 - 5:30 - 7:15 Sub and Gremlin ends at 6:50

Saturday April 4- 7:30 am -2:00 pm - Meet @ Castaic High School

Meet Ribbons - Athletes will receive a ribbon after every meet for each event they compete in. We have boxes out on the tables by Tuesday or Thursday for you to pick up their ribbons. these are hard earned ribbons, please pick them up weekly!! You will see their time and place for each event! this week if they bettered their time from the last meet they will also recieve a black P.R. ribbon.!!

Team Remind app - We have set up a team remind app for each age group, Coaches will use this app during the meets to let you know when they need to go to the tent for event warm ups

Remind App for age groups:

Sub Gremlins https://www.remind.com/join/sgrem2026

Gremlins https://www.remind.com/join/grem2026

Bantams https://www.remind.com/join/bant2026

Juniors https://www.remind.com/join/juni2026

Youth/Int https://www.remind.com/join/yout2026

or you may download the app and then use the following codes to join those classes.

@sgrem2026

@grem2026

@bant2026

@juni2026

@yout2026 the youth coaches dionot use this very much

Relay Expectations and requirements

PLEASE REVIEW

Many parents are asking how relays are determined, here is a brief description on how this is done. We try to let all athletes try the event but there will be some weeks that the numbers do not work, but those who are there, and did not get on a team, we will try to make sure they are on a team in future week.

It is very important to the team that if your athlete signs up for a 4x100 relay that they are at the meet and checked in before 8:00 am so the coaches can assemble the teams. If your child is signed up for a relay and does not show up, or is late, it will effect every other relay runner, and disappoint those who can not compete. If they sign up for the 4x 400 and do not stay it will also disappoint those on the team that will not get to run.

This is the only event that we are strict on signing up for. Please don’t sign up for the relay if your athlete can not compete in the event.

Criteria for relay team assignment.

1) Coaches discretion

2) Attending practice

3) Able to hand off smoothly

4) Time in the 100 meters at a meet, sometimes the fastest athletes may not be selected for the A team due to many factors, based on this criteria

5) Attitude and Team Sportsmanship

6) Arriving at the meet on time 8:00 am

All of this is considered when coaches put together their teams (A-Team, B-Team, C-Team, etc…).

If you have any questions about this, please speak with your age group coach or Coach Elaine