Booster Club Meeting

There will be a Cross Country Booster club meeting on Wednesday 9/16 at 7 p.m. in room A105 at Andover High School.  The club will discuss the following items:

• Fundraising successes
• Pasta feed logistics
• Coaching increased runners 
• Milaca Mega meet food
• Team needs: tents, message sticks
• Open Forum

Heggies Pizza pickup tomorrow

We have enough volunteers for Monday's Heggies delivery, thanks to all who emailed.  The truck will arrive around 4:30 p.m., we will discuss the process of splitting the orders prior to the truck arriving.  I will verify the truck arrival time with Heggies, last year the truck was  30 minutes late.

Pizza's will be distributed between 5 and 6:30 p.m.

Thanks,

Jeff

The Week of 9/9/13

Monday - Andover HS
Tuesday - Bunker Activity Center
Wednesday - Andover HS
Thursday -  Andover HS
Friday - Dismiss at 1:00 PM from classes

Meet Information

Lakeville Applejack Invitational at Aronson Park

Directions: Take Highway 50 exit. Turn Left (E) on 50.  Follow 50 east approximately 4 miles to Holyoke Ave. (fire station on NE corner).  Continue straight approximately 1/3 mile towards Aronson Park on the right— follow meet parking signs.

Start Time	Event	Distance	Number of runners per school
3:30 PM	Boys C Race	3,200 meters	No limit
3:55 PM	Girls C Race	3,200 meters	No limit
4:15 PM	Middle School Girls Race	1 mile	No limit
4:25 PM	Middle School Boys Race	1 mile	No limit
4:35 PM	Girls Junior Varsity Race	4,000 meters	No limit
5:05 PM	Boys Varsity Race	5,000 meters	**10** runners per school
5:35 PM	Girls Varsity Race	4,000 meters	**10** runners per school
6:05 PM	Boys Junior Varsity Race	5,000 meters	No limit
6:35 PM	Kid’s Fun Run	600 meters	--
6:45 PM	Awards Ceremony

Cambridge-Isanti Meet Pictures

I uploaded the pictures for Girls Varsity/JV and Boys Varsity.  I had to leave early and didn't get Boys JV.  If you have taken pictures, send me your links and I will get them on the Blog.

https://plus.google.com/photos/118390029626477569757/albums/5920867622716632609?authkey=CIKeh8nLua-3Nw

Schedule for 9/3 - 9/6/2013

Schedule Change:
The Cambridge-Isanti Invitational is at a new location this year. The meet will be held at the Isanti Middle School. Directions: Take Hyw 65 north to County Rd 5 (there are lights). Turn left and go west 1.2 miles on Co Rd 5, the middle school is on the left.

Practices begin at 3:00 PM
Tuesday - Andover HS, Pictures at pond.
Wednesday - Bunker Activity Center
Thursday - Out of class at 1:30, leave for Isanti MS at 1:45
Friday - Andover HS

St. Cloud Invitational - Cancelled for Monday

The meet for Monday, August 26th has been cancelled. They are working on moving the meet to a later day this week, possibly Wednesday or Thursday. Practice for Monday will be at 3:00 PM at Andover High School.

Snack Schedule

Here is the snack schedule for the season.  There are about 55 runners this year.  Looking to get about 3 cases of water, 4 gallons of chocolate milk. For snacks, anything healthy is great including granola bars, fish crackers, rice krispy bars and they also love homemade treats.  There are still a few dates open, just let me know.

RACES	Date	Water	Choc Milk	Snacks
Apollo	8/26
Cambridge	9/5	Lorimer	Kohake	Ritchie McKeefry
Lakeville	9/13	Heil	Pedersen	Daniel Peterson
Sophomore	9/17	Zuleger	Defoe	Rupkalvis
Milaca	9/21	Stangret	Williams	Stinson
Buffalo	9/26	Picht	Larkin	Doege Jengtes
Blaine	10/3	Andersen	Monfils	Meados Breuckman
Conference	10/10	Weikle	Saunders	Cofrin
Section	10/24	Walker	Olson

Important Dates Coming Up

Heggies Pizza: Pizza orders are due Thursday, August 29th.

Cub Bagging: There are still a number of runners that have not signed up for the Cub bagging fundraiser that is coming up Monday, September 2nd. We need to cover the 1:00 - 4:00 PM time slot. Please make an effort to attend one of the times.

Team Pictures: We will be meeting for individual and team photos on Tuesday, September 3rd. Yep the first day of school. Runners will be in full uniform for the team pictures. 

Week of August 26th

 All practices will be at 3:00 PM for the next few months.

Monday - Apollo Invitations, schedule below, at the VA Hospital across the street from high school.
Tuesday - Bunker
Wednesday - Andover HS
Thursday - Bunker
Friday - Andover HS

Apollo Invitational Schedule

12:30 - Load bus

4:00 - Junior High Girls 3000 m

4:25 - Junior High Boys 3000 m

4:50 Gilrs JV

5:15 Boys JV

5:40 Girls Varsity

6:05 Boys Varsity

Note: We will be back some time around 8:00 PM. On the way up runners should have a snack, a little larger one for those running later.
Directions: Take Hwy 10 to MN-23 (Division St) and go West. Take a right on MN-15 and turn left onto 8th St N/Veterans Dr. Turn right on 44th Ave the high school will be on the right and road to the VA hospital will be on the left at the signal lights.

Practice Schedule for August 19th - 23rd

Practices this week will be at 8:30 and end at 10:30.
Monday -  Andover HS
Tuesday - Bunker Activity Center
Wednesday - Andover HS (2 mile Time Trial wear uniforms)
Thursday - Bunker Activity Center
Friday - Andover HS

Note: Next week we have a meet in St. Cloud Monday and all practices will be afternoon practices. Start time will be 3:00 PM.

Lockers & Uniforms

Friday, August 16th will be locker and uniform distribution day. We will begin the process right after practice at 10:30 AM.

First Week 8/12/2013

There will be a parent meeting Thursday evening at 7:00 PM in the Media Center. Please arrange to have at least one parent at the meeting.

Practice Schedule:
Monday - 8:30 AM @ Andover HS, meet at the bus doors
Tuesday - 8:30 AM @ Andover HS, meet at the bus doors
Wednesday - 8:30 AM @ Bunker Activity Center
Thursday - 8:30 AM @ Bunker Activity Center
Friday - 8:30 AM @ Andover HS, meet at the bus doors
 

Apparel

Andover Cross Country Apparel  

     

Crew neck sweatshirt- 33.00     Small_______     Medium_______     Large______    XLarge ______

 Running shorts- 15.00 Small_______     Medium_______     Large______    XLarge ______

*Make checks payable to Taho

*Return in envelope by Friday August 16th to captains

Registration Information

Registration begins Monday, August 5th. For parents of high school students there is an online registration option, the steps are listed below. For middle school runners the process must be done in person at the high school.


1. Go to Anoka Hennepin School District Website

2. Parents tab

3. My student

4. Online payment/Registration

5. Log in with AH connect password

6. Activities

7. Choose Activity

8. Click forms and follow steps for registering

To register you must have a physical on file within the last 3 years or program will not allow you to register.

If you need a new physical this year you will need to bring the new copy to the Activities Office. The new date will be entered and then you will be able to register online the next day.

If you need help with the Log in or password for AH Connect call 506-HELP.

2013 Schedule - A First Look

Tuesday, July 9th Morning Practice Cancelled

Looking at the radar and listening to the thunder this morning it appears today would be a good day to run in the afternoon. Keep in mind that tomorrow will be back at Bunker for some resistance running in the Lazy River. Practice will end at around 10:45, so it's a later one.

Summer Running Camp Info

2013 Andover Running Camp

• Improve your endurance
• Improve your strength     
• Improve your running stride
• Improve your understanding of fitness training
• Improve your knowledge of nutrition
• Run with friends

Information
• Cost: $50 (make checks payable to Andover Cross Country)
• Practices will be from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Monday - Friday
• First day - Monday, June 17th
• No contact days - July 4th Week
• Last day - Wednesday, July 31st

What to bring
• Running watch
• Water bottle

Form and Schedule

Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting Date: 10/30/12
Meeting Time: 7:00
Meeting Place: AHS Room A-105

Participants: Rick Dubay, Laurie Jensen, Scott Clark, Kelly McKeefry, Jeff McKeefry

The members discussed the upcoming parent meeting.  The meeting will be on Wednesday November 14th at 6:30 PM in the Media Center.  The team discussed options for fundraising activities: Grocery bagging, Heggies pizza selling, activity cards.  The board proposed a vote for moving the fiscal year from Jan 1 - Dec 31 to June 1 to May 31.  The vote passed 4 to 0.  The committee discussed the open positions on the board and made recommendations to have committees for fundraising and communications.  The current members: Rick Dubay - Treasurer and Jeff McKeefry - President moved to create a secretary, vice president fundraising chair and communications chair positions.  There will be a vote at the next meeting on 11/13 to address these open positions.  The team discussed creating a flyer that would show the teams achievements over the past years.  A flyer was created awhile back, but needed to be refreshed with current data.  The updates would be sent to Rick Dubay to have the pamphlet completed.  The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. The next meeting will be held on 11/13 at AHS 7:00 p.m, room B-105.

Boys Results 2012

Here are the results for the boys team. To see complete meet results go to Apple Raceberry Jam.

Girls Results 2012

Here are the results for the girls team. To see meet results go to Apple Raceberryjam at: Apple Raceberry Jam