Greetings Alan,

Wow! What a great first practice. It was so nice to see all the returning and new athletes! As a Reminder, check the athlete roster at the table to make sure you have completed all enrollment steps! I know many of you have questions still, feel free to talk to any coach, before or after practice, or Coach Elaine or any parents at the table this week! PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE NEWSLETTER. Please bring Jelly beans this week or pick up a scoop and bags at practice! Our Storm merchandise store is now open, please see details below. Rain Policy - We main be getting rain on Thursday We will not cancel practice unless it is raining at 6:00. It is hard to say if it will be raining in Castaic even if it is raining at your location. If it is raining when you arrive do not drop your child off!

Please remember to have your child dress warm for the night practices, it can be very cold at night. Be on time for pick up.

Reminder, all Sub Gremlins and Gremlin parents are to remain at practice and stay close to the gate in case your child needs you during practice! Please do not wait in the car!! All other parents are welcome to stay and watch or many parents like to walk around the outside gate. Parents are not allowed to be inside thew gate unless your sub, or gremlin child needs you.

Make sure you bring your child ready to go!

Each athlete should have:

1. A Large bottle of water, please -put a name on it
2. Wear loose fitting work out clothes
3. Warm up clothes, top and bottom -please put a name on it
4. Appropriate running shoes
5. Ready to have fun!!

This week Distance and Sprints athletes will have all practices at Castaic High together.

Distance runners are the athletes training for the 1500 meter(3.75 laps) 3000 meter 7.5 laps) and sometimes 800 (2 laps) (all new distance runners must have approval after a 1 mile test run)

Sprints are those training for the 400 (1 lap) and shorter and most field event athletes.

Next week on Feb 17th Approved Only Long Distance will go to Central Park on Monday nights until daylight savings time. This may be inconvenient for some families but it is just to dark at Castaic for the long runs! all other practices remain at Castaic High. see schedule below.

Uniforms will be available for pick up on Monday and Thursday before practice starts and after it is over. Please order before you go to practice as the internet is not great at Castaic

Coaches Needed - Track and Field is a very unique sport and needs many different areas of coaching events! We can train you and help guide you in any one of those areas. We need many assistant coaches. No experience needed, just a willingness to learn and care for the athletes! Storm is a family of many different backgrounds! If you would like to coach for our great organization, please contact Coach Elaine at coachelaine@runstorm.org. We are an all-volunteer organization and completely rely on volunteers to make us great!!

We are almost full, at this point we are over 300 athletes, so if you know anyone that would like to join please let them know! We will turn off registration next week.

Jelly Beans - We offer these at the end of every practice. We ask each family to donate 2 large packages of either of these items. We will also need parents to volunteer to put the jelly beans in a individual baggies, you can pick the up bags and scoops at practice and help hand out at the end of each practice. We will provide the baggies and the scoops! This a great way to volunteer if you can not help at the practice or meet! The athletes love this and it helps replace the glycogen used during practice, and it puts a smile on their face. You can bring them to any any practice!

We offer this to all athletes only, if you would like siblings to take one please bring extra so that we make sure we have plenty every day!!

We ask that parents do not get the candy as we would not be able to have enough for all of you!!

Newsletter - If you would like to add another email to receive our Newsletter, please click on the "join our newsletter" link on the website and add the email to our 2025 track and field list. We use this for all our important communication

Practice Schedule

All sprint and Distance practices are at Castaic High School Track this week!

Monday Feb 10th - 6:00 pm -7:15 - Sub Gremlin and Gremlin

6:00 - 7:45 pm - All other age groups All distance and sprinters

Tuesday Feb 11th - 6:00 pm -7:15 - Sub Gremlin and Gremlin

6:00 - 7:45 pm - All other age groups All distance and sprinters

Thursday Feb 13th - 6:00 pm -7:15 - Sub Gremlin and Gremlin

6:00 - 7:45 pm - All other age groups All distance and sprinters

Please arrive at 7:30 for pick up as practice will end early if it gets to cold or rains during all practices

Saturday Feb 15th- Practice 10:00 am - 12:00 am (Sub Gremlin and Gremlin 10:00-1:15)

Monday Feb. 17th- No Sprint practice, Castaic High is closed for Presidents Day

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm. -Approved Distance only* Central Park, Saugus - meet near Basketball Court

Storm Spirit Merchandise

Our spirit merchandise store is now open! We have shirts, hoodies, warm up gear, and many other items are available to purchase! Show you team spirit! All items are made to order so please be careful with your sizes as there are not returns! Items will take a few weeks to arrive. Last day to order for the first items is Feb 20th

Track & Field is a competitive sport, all athletes must attend at least three meets on Saturday, to be on the team. There will be no practice only athletes.

We have reached the point that we just can no longer accept athletes who only want to practice on our team, that takes away our coaches time in training our athletes who do compete, so our policy is that we do not accept practice only athletes. Saturday Meets are mandatory

Please click the following button to register for the 2024 Track & Field Program. Please note that the terms and conditions to registration belong to the Valley Youth Conference. This form is an exact electronic copy of the paperwork we had last year which was on paper.

New athletes we must have a copy of the proof of age (see below).

A proof of age document must be uploaded using the form on the runstorm.org website for each athlete that is New to the club. If you competed in 2023 Track & Field or 2023 Cross Country for Storm we have your proof of age document still on file.

The following items are acceptable:

1. Birth Certificate.

2. Photocopy of Birth Certificate.

3. Military Birth Certificate.

4. Passport.

5. Foreign Birth Document or Green Card.

6. Copy of School Record with documented date of birth.

7. Court decree.

8. Valid California Identification Card