MIDGETS TEAM PAGE (11-12)

Tomorrow will focus on specialties!  ALL varsity athletes are welcome to attend practice and train regardless of their qualifying event.

Apologies!

Hi Team!

What a fun meet we had on Saturday!! We are so happy with and proud of all of our athletes! Such a good showing. Lots of PR’s and lots of smiles.  Wanted to remind everyone that all of our JV runners are now finished with their 2022 track season! It went by sooo fast! Hoping to see them at the picnic May 15th to say goodbye. We will update you on that as we know more.

We will continue to hold practice M, T, W for our varsity athletes. The practice will end a little earlier due to the numbers being much smaller. Please plan to pick up your athlete about 5:30.

Thank you to all of the parents for your support!

Coach Kate and Kate

Hi 12U Families!

It looks like we have over 20 athletes who have not signed up for events this weekend. Please let us know by today what your athlete would like to run and/or if they do not plan to participate. We need to start getting our spreadsheets in order to be prepared for the weekend.

I hope that they all can attend and give their best for the final JV meet of the season- it will be an exciting one!

Here are names of athletes that have not signed up:

Girls: Anceline, Blake, Lily, Isabella G, Camille M, Amelia, Trudy, Zoe

Boys: Ian A, Nico, Isaac, Liam J, Manny, Tyler, Nathaniel, Samuel, Brennan, Jacob, Liam R, Levi R, Ezekiel, Cyrus, Mawson

Thank you-Coach Kate and Kat

Hi team!
Wanted to remind you all of a few things:
1. Team picture day is Wednesday. Please wear/bring your Tigres jersey for the picture!

2. The meet this weekend is at Buena High School at it starts at 3PM!!!!!!! Please make note to have the runners to the school by 2:30 if they are running the in the first events or 4×100 relay.

3. Please make sure to let us know if your runner will not be at practice this week but plans to run this weekend so we can get them signed up for events.

4. We have seen an uptick in excitable behavior as spring is in the air. Please remind your runner to respect other athlete’s personal space. We understand that part of being on the Tigres team is having fun on the field between events, although we would like the runners to keep their hands to themselves and forego wrestling. We would love for you as parents and caregivers to encourage using that energy to cheer on their teammates! These last few meets are important!!

Coach Kate and Coach Kat

Good Morning Tigres Families!

Congrats are in order for all of your athletes that ran and gave it their all this past weekend. We are so proud of all of them already…I can’t say that enough!  I can’t wait to see how these kids progress over the course of our season. Thank you to all of you for getting your runners to the facility on time and for cheering everyone on. It sure makes a difference!

Unfortunately we do not have track access this Wednesday 3/23 so practice is canceled. I strongly encourage all of your runners to attend specialty days this week if at all possible. We will have the event sign up sheet available today as well as T/Th this week. Please remind your runner to sign up! If you ever find that your runner has not signed up for events but is able to attend the meet, please still come! We can always add runners to races (other than relay).

Please reach out with any questions or concerns. Go 12U!

It’s he eve of the first meet and we are genuinely excited to see your athletes compete tomorrow! It’s been too long!! Us coaches have been prepping bib stickers, making and printing meet spreadsheets, discussing weather and cheering techniques…. Hopefully those of you at home are getting hydrated, planning to get some good rest tonight and staying positive.

Reminder to send your athlete with layers and layers of clothing (sorry for the harping… we’re both moms!). Thousand Oaks is generally warmer than Ventura although it can get quite cool at night. We all got to shiver more than our fair share at the practice meet. We don’t need to do that again! That goes for you in the stands too! bring blankets and layers so that you can stay to cheer on our team through the 4×400- our final event!

Please make sure to have your athlete on the field by 3:30 if not a few minutes earlier if they are running the 3200, hurdles, 4×100, and maybe even the long jump, or high jump. We are all hoping the meet runs quickly and efficiently which starts with all of us being on time.

Relay teams are never a guarantee. We would love nothing more than to see as many kids as possible run this event while they have the chance. Keep in mind that we need multiples of 4 to make that this happen so we have to work with the number of kids who signed up, rearrange, ask, switch, etc. If your child is not on a relay team it may mean that they are on a list to be an alternate incase someone is sick or injured or can’t make the meet last minute.

Thank you all for your support and for your wonderful kids! We will be cheering loudest for them tomorrow because WE ARE 12U! We believe in them.

Hello 12U Families!

Just another reminder that we are practicing at the Ventura High School track all week.

We are excited preparing for the upcoming meet in Thousand Oaks! Please note that this is an AFTERNOON meet. It starts at 4pm and will run into the night under the lights. Make sure your athlete is at the Thousand Oaks Facility and on the field by 3:30 ready to warm up if they are participating in any of the first events. This is especially important for the 4×100 relay teams. You can find the order of events here Order of Events – Ventura Tigres We generally don’t have start times for each event as it is all dependent on how many runners/heats each team has.

It is important to note that if your athlete signs up for a relay team they need to make sure to be at the meet and/or let us know ahead of time if something comes up. The runners rely on one another! The 4×400 relay is at the end of the day so if your runner signs up for that event, please make sure you stay until the end.

We are already seeing progress happening with many of our athletes! Keep up the good work 12U!!

Hi 12U families,

Our athletes have been training hard, and we are all so excited that the meets are about to begin!

Our practice meet is this Saturday, March 5th at Buena High School. The event options are limited for this meet since the primary focus is training the volunteers. For this meet only, 12U will be able to participate in 1 field event and 2 running events. 

Our field options for this meet are the Shot Put and the High Jump. Athletes must pre-qualify to compete in the High Jump and may attempt to do so at specialty practices on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays.

Our running choices for this meet are:

• Hurdles (pre-qualification required)
• 4X100 Relay
• 800
• 200
• 4X400 (This is a “free” event that does not count towards their total running events. Tigres is known for our numerous 4×400 teams and we want to keep this fun tradition alive!)

The event sign-up sheets will be on clipboards by the Coach’s bag on both Monday and Wednesday. We would like your athletes to sign themselves up for their events to increase their independence at the meets by knowing what events they chose. If your athlete will not attend the practice meet, we’ll ask them to draw a line through their name. If they plan to participate but are not at practice this week, feel free to email us their choices by Wednesday evening.

The meet is scheduled to begin at 8:30. Please have your athlete arrive by 8:00 and meet us by the Coaches bag on the field (near where we warm-up). We meet 30 minutes before the start of each Meet to get the athletes their stickers, warm them up, and make last-minute adjustments to relay teams.

We expect that the athletes will be independent at the meets. This means that they are nearby coaches and are ready to run when called for their event. Each athlete will receive a list of their events on their sticker at check-in. Coaches will not remind athletes throughout the meet of their schedule. Coaches will also not search for athletes who are not nearby when they are called to compete. If an athlete misses their race, they will not be rescheduled for a later heat.

Your athlete will need sweats (labeled), water, snacks, and sunscreen. I recommend that they have a bag with water and their sweats on the field, but keep their food in the stands with the 12U EZ-Up. There is no food allowed on the track.

Saturday will be shorter than a typical meet, but it is a great way to get a feel for what happens at our real meets, and for our parent volunteers to learn their jobs.

Thanks so much!

Kate (323)687-8515

Kat (202)412-3105

12u@venturatigres.org