Week 11: OUTDOOR, Wheaton North Sat, Bulldog Relays & Fundraising Recap, Parent Sign-Ups

Hi everyone,

Here is some important information for you all:

• The outdoor season has begun

• Meet at Wheaton North on Saturday (Thursday's meet has been cancelled)

• Bulldog Relays Recap

• Fundraising Recap

• Parent Sign-Ups: Still need help with our last pasta party and banquet

• Team Photos are ready for pick-up

Welcome to Outdoor!

The outdoor season goes FAST! It's currently the first week of April, and the majority of our team will be done with their season after the first week of May. With that being said, we have a LOT of athletes who are poised to qualify to state and even place at that meet. You can review the meet schedule at www.gwtrackandfield.com.

Wheaton North on Saturday (Thursday's Meet Cancelled)

• 2 buses leave Biester at 10:45 and 11:45 Saturday morning (Delcid & Nugent)

• Limited Entry Meet. Line-Up will be ready by practice time today at www.gwtrackandfield.com

• Pole vault at 12:00, Field events at 12:30, and Running events at 1:00

• $5 admission for adults, $3 for students/children

• Order of events: 4x800, 4x100, 3200, 110HH, 100, 800, 4x200, 400, 300IH, 1600, 200, 4x400

• We can now use quarter inch spikes in all outdoor meets!

• Live Results will be available here: https://wwstiming.com/meets/32409

Bulldog Relays Recap

• A great run from the 4x2 of Owen Schmidt (PR), Jordan Ademuyiwa, Chase Martin-Scott, and Ollie Wintermute (making his debut on the track!)

• Owen Schmidt, Jordan, and Chase also came back in the 4x4 along with Keaton Peter (huge PR!) and had a great run!

• The 4x800 of Carpenter (PR), Fader (PR), Faris (PR), Hernandez (PR) WON the meet with a PR for that squad at 8:16.63. Way to go!

• The distance medley of Halden (1600m), Blew (400m), Meehan (800m), and Nitti (1200m) also WON the meet with a new Batavia fieldhouse record of 10:37.83. This was also a School Record and is currently ranked #2 in the state of IL!!

Fundraising Recap

The donation window has now closed. We raised $8,988 which will be used for uniforms, warm-ups, pasta parties, banquets, T-shirts, training software, and other various materials. Thank you SO MUCH for helping support our program.

Parent Sign-Ups Needed

We still have quite a few sign-up slots open for our last pasta party on April 11th (7 available slots) as well as the team banquet on May 9th (12 available slots). Please consider signing up for those slots using this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E4FACAD29AAF85-46982242-pasta

Team Photos Ready for Pick-Up

Finally, team photos are now available for pick-up. Many have already picked them up, the rest can be picked up during practice this week from event coaches. With that being said, a small number of photos are still waiting to arrive from Lifetouch. If you are missing your photos, we can wait a bit longer to see if they arrive in a future shipment; if not, we can reach out to LifeTouch directly.

That's it! I hope you all had a restful spring break. Here's to an excellent outdoor season!

All the best,

Coach Voland