The first League meet was incredible and all of you did such a great job getting your athletes there on time even with the early start!. As you see the League meets are a lot bigger. We will also have some "pay to run" teams visit many of our meets. The Warriors, Calabasas, United, and Simi are visiting teams and do not count in our standings, so when your child gets their ribbons from the meet their placing will have those teams removed. We will have ribbons for each athletes every week and need parents help pass them out at the end of practice on Monday or Tuesday. 

This week will be even a different schedule as this is a Southern California USATF Sanctioned Invitational Meet. The flyer is on the cross country schedule page, all athletes are invited, you are registered and paid for by the team! We will have over 30 teams at this meet!

Awards We will be giving medals to the top 8 finishers and special event ribbons to the next 42 finishers. We will also be scoring the teams and giving a team award to the top 3 teams. Sub Gremlin girls and boys will have their own race for this meet and will run together. The 15- 18 young Men and women will also have a separate race and will run together, this race is also open to coaches and parents! Please see the schedule below.

We also will be working the finish line so we need 4 parents to work it. Please sign up at practice or email to work a shift. We will also have a quick parent meeting on Thursday at the beginning of practice to explain the volunteer opportunities! We take pride in having the best Home Meets!! 

Race Results  

You can see all results and upcoming meets on our website, just click on the cross country link! Results can also be found livetrackresults.com and on vyc-xc.org 

Please check out and like our Facebook page, Storm Cross Country for some great picture from Anthony Calderon. He will have a link to download them soon!! Anthony tries to take action shots of all our athletes through out the meets!! This is all volunteer for him, but if you see a phot you love please, see the details below to order a package!! You can also share your pictures on our Facebook page

This week we will be posting results during the meet at livetrackresults.com 

Meet Volunteer needs this week :

Start line set up - 7:00 -4 people

Tent set up -6:45 - set up team tents -2 people

Tag table- 7:00 - help hand out athletes tags - 2 people 

Finish Line / Timers - Finish of each meet 4 people

Races - Rabbits to lead the races( bike ok) Turtles parents to follow the last runners in each race ( parents will not be allowed to run on the course during the races with their children)

Clean up - 2 people, help clean up and load tents

Please sign up at practice or email!

Storm Spirit Merchandise

Many of the ordered merchandise had a typo on it!! We are working on getting them redone asap !!

https://www.jetblackchain.com/online-store/Santa-Clarita-Storm-c162594001

Action Photo Opportunity

Race Times Saturday All times are Approximate - Races will overlap

Arrive at 7:30

8:15 - Coaches meeting

8:30 am - SUB-GREMLIN Girls & Boys – 5/6 

8:45 am - GREMLIN GIRLS – 7/8  

9:00 am - GREMLIN BOYS – 7/8  

9:20 am - BANTAM GIRLS - 9/10  

9:40 am - BANTAM BOYS – 9/10  

10:00 am -JUNIOR GIRLS – 11/12  

10:20 am -JUNIOR BOYS – 11/12  

10:40 am -YOUTH GIRLS – 13/14  

11:05 am - YOUTH BOYS – 13/14  

11:30 am - 15-18 Women & 15-18 Men Open & Masters

All parents and coaches invited!  

Cross Country Practice Schedule Sept. 9th -14th

Monday -September 2nd 6:00 pm - West Creek Park 24247 Village Circle Dr. Valencia. Meet at the Pavilion

Tuesday -September 3rd -6:00 Pm - College of the Canyons

Thursday -September 5th 6:00 pm - Central Park- Field 13/14

We will have a quick parent meeting at the start of practice to set up for our home meet

Saturday- September 14th - Valley United Striders Invitational - Central Park All athletes are invited!!

Coach Jeremy's Notes to the Team 

Athletes, Parents, and Coaches,

What a great kickoff to the official racing season! It was hot but you were all ready and we were very fortunate to get the races off early. I’m sure you saw we have some competition out there which is great! Every race was huge and there was a ton of excitement as there were close to 700 athletes, even in the heat! I want to reiterate as well: most of the top 8 in every race are national All-Americans. We are fortunate to race with the elite in the Nation every single week. This should keep us all working hard for more improvement!

That is the name of the game which poses the question, how do we keep improving? There’s a simple answer: workout by workout, race by race, and season by season! Newbies, keep working and realize with determination you can reach the top levels. Seasoned pro’s keep working and don’t become complacent… those newbies want it bad, don’t give up your spot! I heard some of the athletes quoting Karate Kid at the meet: No Retreat, No Surrender!!! Boom!

I have 2 topics for this week to focus on your improvement:

1.   Be ready to race

2.   When I think of being ready to race it starts with preparing with a good breakfast. Oatmeal, apple, banana, PB&J, protein shake… I’d stay away from Milk unless you’ve tested that out.

3.   Then you show up and you have to remove any doubt in yourself. You are going to race as hard as your mind tells you to race! If you point out the challenges (it’s hot, I’m tired, I don’t like this course, I’m scared..), you are letting your mind tell your body it isn’t going to give your all. Don’t do that!!!

4.   Quit letting yourself tell yourself YOU CAN’T!!! Only you can pull out the best in yourself every day. Coaches will encourage, parents will encourage, but… you gotta make the decision to push and give it your all!

5.   So… BE EXCELLENT AND DON’T BRING ANYTHING LESS THAN YOUR BEST TO EACH PRACTICE AND THE RACES!!

6.   Give it your all… ALL the way to the finish line

7.   The best feeling after a race is the satisfaction you gave it your all. Whether you lose or win or PR or don’t PR, you gave every ounce of mental and physical energy. 

8.   Remember this feeling when you are in the middle of the race, towards the end, and especially when you see the finish line!

                                                              i.     Don’t EVER think you can rest during the race if you want to be EXCELLENT!! You rest 8-10 hours a night to recover from your AMAZING practices and races!

Ok, so what’s in store for this week:

1.   We are preparing for the Invitational at Central Park this Saturday. Boom, HOME COURSE!!! It’ll be warm and sunny this week so bring lots of fluid including an electrolyte drink. Eat a solid breakfast. And remember, everyone races the same conditions, but everyone doesn’t prepare the same way. So be prepared!

2.   The invitational is a fun meet because there will be team trophies to earn! And… amazing competition! It’ll be larger than last week, we could exceed 2000 runners! To put that into perspective, nationals is only about 3500-4000 runners!!

3.   We will continue pushing the workouts and developing speed and strength as we are just beginning this racing season. Tonight, the older kids will get to run the power lines that are just down the path from fountain of youth. Tuesday night we ALL get to run on the COC hills Thursday night we’ll run the course at race pace, broken up into 2 or 3 segments.

4.   We will also be adding some strides at the end of the long run. This will help with the kicking speed at the end of the race. 

5.   Talking about the kick. While some certainly have more raw speed than others, remember, the kick in cross-country is normally a battle of will! Who wants to give more. The key word is battle, so prepare at the end of the race to BATTLE!! Please make sure your athletes reads this message!!



That’s it for now, let’s get after it tonight and this week!

Have fun,

Coach Jeremy