After the cancellation of the Owl Invitational and an early-season meet against Connersville and Seton, the two-week drought of competition ends this week at Anderson High School! It's time to dial in, get ready to race, and make sure that we are taking care of ourselves and our teammates. The schools we are competing against on Wednesday are both North Central Conference opponents and we will get a good feel for how we can expect to fare at the NCC meet in May. Both schools have improved significantly since last year.

On Saturday, we see another NCC opponent, Marion, at the Marion Relays meet. This is our first invitational of the season after the cancellation of the Owl Invitational, so be ready for tough competition and stricter rules of the meet! We will prepare you for everything you need to know this week.

Here is the link to the ongoing snack sign-up for this week's and all future meets. Please help us out by not accidentally editing anyone else's response. Having everyone's responses visible to each other seemed like the best possible method for handling this to make sure we don't accidentally over-cover or under-cover a meet.

Track athletes are expected to be at practice Monday through Friday each week. Athletes should be communicating with their jobs about their schedule changes. A full schedule of track meets will be made available as soon as possible. If an athlete cannot make it to practice, communication is required. An athlete will receive three excused absences, after which they will meet with a coach about their attendance and further action will be determined. Parents and athletes can reach out to Coach Lambright via the Google Voice number (765) 205-2647.

The only other meet that is not on this list right now is the Carmel Distance Showcase, a 3200-meter only event that we will take at most 5 athletes to.

We are no longer looking for a meet on April 12th and do not expect the Union City 4-way that they were trying to put together to happen.

All parent contact should come through ParentSquare. If you are not on the ParentSquare feed for RHS track and field, please reach out to Coach Lambright at your earliest convenience. We will no longer be using Remind as Richmond Community Schools has moved to streamline parent communication and help parents not have ten different apps on their phones.

While we would love to live in a world where we assume everyone will see all of our messages, we will continue to post workout plans and calendar events on SportsYou, something the cross country athletes and parents will be familiar with. You can join using the QR code on this paragraph, or by going to SportsYou.com and entering the code QYH8-WB4S. This will serve as a backup, always present information center, but all information on there will be duplicated here. The goal is to have one app that is always up to date, even when the next newsletter is a few days away.