Summer 2025

Hello runners!

The cross country team will start pre-season activities on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.  We will introduce ourselves, warm up, then run. The length you run will vary depending on how much you’ve been running over the past weeks and months. After running we’ll do some exercises as a team and call it a day. Our first meet is scheduled for September 10th, and we will want to gradually ramp up to the point where all of us are ready to run a 3.1-mile race on that date.

The expectation on any varsity team is that all members will make team practices, meets, and events their top priority. Work and/or Co-op, other school clubs, etc. are not an excuse to miss a practice or a race. On race days all team members who are healthy and able will be running in the meet. There is no limit to the number of people who are allowed to run. As for practices, they begin at 2:45 on all school days except Thursdays, when they begin at 3:30. Sports buses will be available after practices and home meets except that there are none on Fridays.

The physical exam that you submit to the school nurse will allow you to compete for thirteen months from the date of the appointment. Please schedule one if yours expires before or during the season, which ends around the second week of November. The permission form signed by your parent/guardian is also required before athletes are allowed to participate – YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE REGISTRATION, THE CONCUSSION TEST AND SUBMIT A RECENT PHYSICAL ASAP! 

On the first day of practice we will meet outside the main entrance to the school building. Please be there, dressed for exercise, with a full water bottle and anything else you feel you need, ready to start practice at 10:00. Our practice schedule for that week is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:00 to 11:30. After Tuesday’s practice we will probably meet on the track.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at jskogstrom@minuteman.org.  I look forward to working with you all in the fall!

Sincerely,
John Skogstrom
Cross Country Coach
Math Teacher