Year End Pot Luck/Award Ceremony Update!! - Tuesday November 15th - 6 pm

Poof! Just like that, our season is over now that Sectionals concluded yesterday.  Now we are onto one of the finest Storm Cross Country traditions, the year-end Pot Luck and Award Ceremony!!

Due to so many potential conflicts, it will be held on Tuesday November 15^th at 6 pm in the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School commons.   Please sit tight and we will communicate to all of you the food assignments in the near future.

You will be turning in your uniforms at the ceremony.  If for some reason, you are not able to attend, please make arrangements with a friend or family member to return your uniform.  You will also be able to pick up your pictures on that night.

Go Storm! 

8AA Sectional Meet Information - Thursday October 27 - 3:30 pm

3:15 National Anthem

3:30 Boys Varsity

4:15 Girls Varsity

5:15 Awards

Little Falls Golf Course

1 Edgewater Drive

Little Falls, MN 56345

http://www.littlefallsgolf.com/

Please, no athletes in the Club House.  Portable toilets available on site.

Split times given at 1600 and 3200 meters

Concessions available

Section 8AA shirts available for purchase

Teams: Alexandria, Becker, Bemidji, Brainerd, Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Little Falls, Monticello, Moorhead, Rocori, St. Cloud Apollo, St. Cloud Technical High School, Sartell-St. Stephen, Sauk Rapids-Rice, Thief River Falls, Willmar 

Gopher State Events is timing the meet.  You can get results here:

http://www.gopherstateevents.com/results/cc_rslts/cc_rslts.asp?sport=Cross-Country

High School athletes are welcome to join us for the meet if they wish to attend.  Students will be let out at 1 pm.  The bus leaves at 1:15.  Sorry, but Middle School athletes are not able to join.

Best of luck to our Storm runners! Go Storm!

Central Lakes Conference Meet - Tuesday October 18th

Blackberry Ridge Golf Course
3125 Clubhouse Road
Sartell, MN  56377

http://blackberryridgegolf.com/


3:30  Girls JV
4:00  Boys JV
4:30  Girls Varsity
5:00  Boys Varsity
5:30  Girls JH  (3200 meters)
6:00  Boys JH  (3200 meters)

Junior High races are for 7th an 8th graders only. 

Awards Ceremony to follow the final race outside the clubhouse.  
* Varsity Team Championship Trophies
* All Conference: top 15 places in Varsity Races and Honorable Mention: places 16-25 in Varsity Races
* JV and JH races: ribbons for top 20 places (given at the finish of the races)

Portable toilets available.  Clubhouse is off limits. 

Pickle Events will be chip timing all the races and providing results. 

http://pickleevents.com/

Middle School students excused at 1 pm.
High School students excused at 1:20 pm. 

Annual Team Pasta Dinner Feed - Monday October 17

A huge "thank you" to the Mader family for hosting the annual pasta dinner for the runners on the day before the Central Lakes Conference meet! The dinner is for the athletes only. 

The Maders will be offering their home, pasta, sauce, meat and garlic bread.  Seniors are in charge of bringing a dessert to share with the others.  Their address is: 3288 Old Stone Ct NE in Sauk Rapids.

The Maders live just north of the high school. Athletes can drive over or walk and then parents can pick up the runners there. The festivities begin around 4:30 pm. 

Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball meet is still on!!

There was an error in an entry to the Central Lakes Conference website.  Today's meet will still be held as it was communicated to you all last week.

See you in Kimball today.  Go Storm!

Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball Invitational Meet - Monday October 10

The next meet after Litchfield is at the Kimball Golf Course on Monday, October 10. The course is located at: 11823 County Rd 150, Kimball, MN 55353. 320-398-2285

Schedule:

4:15 Boys AND Girls Junior High race (note: combined race) 2000 meters (not 3200 as usual)
4:40 Girls Varsity AND JV 
5:10 Boys Varsity AND JV

Awards:

Varsity Girls and Boys: medals 1-10, ribbons 11-15
JV Girls and Boys: Ribbons 1-15
JH Girls and Boys: Ribbons 1-15


Teams:

EV-W/Kimball,  Sauk Rapids-Rice, Paynesville, Litchfield, Maple Lake, New London Spicer 

Storm CC Alum Sam Sunstrom runs in SCSU Home Meet in Sauk Rapids - Friday October 7

Former Storm all-conference runner and 2013 graduate Sam Sunstrom (and older sister to current Storm runner Paige Sunstrom) will be participating in the SCSU Bob Waxlax Invitational meet at Wapicada Golf Course in Sauk Rapids this Friday, October 7th at 5 pm.  If you have the opportunity to go and cheer her on after practice, please do!  Please make sure you wear your Storm colors with pride!

Sam's biography can be found here: http://www.scsuhuskies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3134&path=cross

Wapicada is located at 4498 15th St NE, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379

(320) 251-7804

6th Grade Cross Country Information - Final Day Friday October 7

This years 6th graders final day of the season is this Friday, October 7th.   It is Storm After School Day as well, so you can turn your uniforms into Coach Sandie Lahr or the Middle School Office with your name attached to the uniform if you can't make it to your final practice on Friday.

We hope you had a great experience this year 6th graders and will be back next year.  If it was fun for you, please invite your friends to join you on the team next season!!

Litchfield Invitational Meet Info - Thursday October 6

The meet will take place at the Litchfield Golf Course located approximately one mile south of downtown Litchfield on Lake Ripley. You can take Hwy 22 south from downtown and turn west on Pleasure Drive at Lake Ripley Elementary School.

Litchfield Golf Course
405 West Pleasure Drive
Litchfield, MN 55355
320-693-6059

Schedule:
4:00 Middle School Boys 2500 meters Ribbons 1-20
4:02 Middle School Girls 2500 meters Ribbons 1-20
4:30 Boys Varsity  Medals 1-15
5:00 Girls Varsity  Medals 1-15
5:30 JV Boys  Ribbons 1-20
5:32 JV Girls  Ribbons 1-20

Teams:
Annandale, Albany, Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball,  Orono, Delano, Glencoe-Silver Lake, Howard Lake/Waverly -Winsted, Dassel-Cokato, Blake, Litchfield, Maple Lake, Sauk Rapids-Rice, Northwest Home School, New London-Spicer, Cambridge-Isanti, Hutchinson, St. Cloud Christian School, Holdingford, Lester Prairie - Mayer Lutheran, Watertown-Mayer