Food Donations at CYO Track and Field Saturday

CYO Athletics will be accepting food donations this Saturday, May 19th, at the All Comers and Individual Championship Meets. The food will be donated to the Food Bank @ St. Mary's. CYO Athletics families are encouraged to participate and take the opportunity to talk with their athletes about the importance of incorporating proper nutrition into their diet. For more information about what food to donate to St. Mary's, Click Here, and for a resource for you to discuss proper nutrition and facts about hunger with your athletes, Click Here.

CYO Athletics - "Lay your heart on the line"

In these words, the head football coach of Marshall University exhorts his team to give their best effort in the movie, "We Are Marshall". Heart is a much used word in athletics. We can point to athletes giving their best effort and Jesus Christ living out his full commitment in His Passion as lessons for our youth in CYO Athletics.

In our upcoming track season, we are asking our athletes to lay their heart on the line and "wear red" to advocate for heart health. We are sending out materials for our coaches to review with our athletes and families about the importance of cardiovascular health and encouraging them to wear red socks, bands, wrist bands, ribbons, shoelaces, etc. in our preliminary (May 5) and qualifying (May 12) meets.

Volunteers Needed This Saturday

CYO Athletics Track & Field season starts this Saturday with the Preliminary Meet at Southwest Athletics Complex in West Seattle (2801 SW Thistle St, Seattle, WA 98106). Every Track meet requires over two dozen volunteers. Track teams are assigned events to have volunteers for, so people interested in earning volunteer hours should contact their team's coach to see if they can help. For the full schedule of this season's Track & Field events, visit the Track & Field page on the CYO Athletics website.

Last PLC Training for 2010-2011 School Year

Next Tuesday, April 19th, following the Pre-season Track & Field coach meeting, CYO Athletics will be providing the final scheduled Play Like A Champion Today coaches training for the 2010-2011 school year. The Track & Field coach meeting is scheduled in the Isaac Orr Conference room from 7:00-8:00pm and the Play Like a Champion Today coaches training will follow until around 11:00pm.

There will be coaches trainings scheduled again near the end of August in preparation for the soccer season and the 2011-2012 school year, but coaches who need the training prior to next year are encouraged to come next Tuesday, and get the training done sooner rather than later. Coaches coming to the training, who are not coming to the 7:00pm Track & Field coach meeting, should plan to arrive at the Isaac Orr Conference room by 8:00pm.

AA & AAA Meet Changes

We received a call from the Highline school district that they are having a championship soccer game at Highline Stadium on Saturday at 7:00pm. According to the district it is their policy that if a school in the district has an event in the stadium, any other event regardless of confirmation of use gets bumped. Therefore this is where we are at.

We feel that it is better to keep this meet on Saturday rather than move it to Sunday, not be able to start until Noon, and have the meet last until about 9pm, or later.

Therefore we are going to start the day pretty early, and we will need to hustle through each meet.

The AAA Meet will now start at 8:30am with the coaches meeting at 8:00am.

The AA Meet will start now at 1:30pm with the coaches meeting at 1:00pm.

We know this is not ideal. Of course we would prefer to not have the added pressure of getting this thing done, and out of there, by 6:30pm, but it is what it is, and it is out of our control.

Since this is going to need to go very quickly we need everyone down at the field at 8:00am, volunteers and coaches, for the AAA meet coaches/volunteer meetings. In addition I need everyone ready to go by 1:30pm, for the AA Meet.

The awards ceremonies. Pictures , etc, are going to need to be moved along so as soon as the kids get their trophies, as we are going to have to get everyone out and moving. We understand, once again this is not ideal, but we are going to be very pressed for time.

Track Team Championships

Congratulations Flyers and St. Al/John for winning the team titles!

We still have a lot of lost and found, so let us know if you're missing anything.

Team Championships this Saturday

The last Track meet of the year is this Saturday at Highline Stadium. We're hoping for warm weather, and another great day. As usual we'll need all the volunteers we can get to help facilitate events and keep the meets from going long. Good luck to all the athletes!

Individual Championships on Sunday

The Track & Field season is rolling along. A special thanks to all our volunteers last weekend at both Saturday meets and Sunday's Pentathlon. Everybody pitched in to make the events successful. This Sunday is the all-comers meet from noon to 2:00 at Highline Memorial Stadium, immediately followed by the Individual Championships. Once again we will need all the volunteers we can get to record times, spot, and help events run quickly and accurately. See everyone on Sunday!

Track Season Underway

CYO Athletics kicked off the Track & Field season Saturday at Highline Stadium. We had crazy weather, but everyone took it in stride and plowed through the events. This Saturday is our Qualifying meet, and we're going to need even more volunteers than we had last Saturday (this time we actually have to record results).

Coaches, remember that your final rosters for track are due this Friday. Make sure EVERYONE is listed on the roster, whether they came last week or not, so that no one is left out.

Track and Field Registrations Due This Week

CYO Athletics Track and Field Registrations are due this Thursday, April 9th. We're looking forward to a great season!

Also, any CYO coaches interested in opportunities to learn more about coaching should visit the ASEP website (American Sport Education Program). We mentioned ASEP in our October 2008 E-letter, and want to remind coaches about all the varieties of resources ASEP can provide. Use the following URL to visit their website:

http://www.asep.com/