For those who missed the meeting on Tuesday here are some links to some information that was covered.

Summer Registration  

Parent Meeting Agenda 

Slides 

2026 - XC New Athlete & Returners TRAINING SCHEDULE 

 

Athlete/Parent Meeting

 

We will have a runner/parent meeting for those who would like to run Cross Country this coming season, on Tuesday May 26th at 6:00 p.m. in the High School Lecture Hall (across from the attendance office).  We invite those interested, to come and meet the coaches and learn about Summer XC and what you need to do to be part of the team for this Fall.  It is very important that you attend, or have a parent attend for you, so you know what is expected and what will be happening this summer and upcoming season.

 Summer Registration 

Upcoming Dates

 Dates to look forward to:

May 20 - REP Night of 5000s @ Corner Canyon High

May 26 - Athlete/ Parent Meeting at 6:00pm in the MRHS Lecture Hall 

May 30  - Utah Summer Games 5k and 10k 

June 6- Utah Valley Marathon Aide Station 19.4 

June 8 - Summer XC Practices Start 

June 11-13 - Utah Summer Games Track and Field

June 29 - July 5-  UHSAA Moratorium 

August 1 - Time Trials@?  

August 3 - XC Season Officially Starts 

August 3-5 - Summer XC Camp 

August 12 - Pre-Region?

October 13 - Region Championships?  

October 28 - State Championships

October 31 - JV State 

 

End of the Season Banquet

 

Banquet

Saturday November 22nd at 6:00pm in the High School Tech Atrium.   We will do an assigned Potluck for dinner this year.  HERE is a link to sign up to bring something as well as RSVP, please do this ASAP. 
This is for athletes and parents, if you are bringing an extra family member please specify that number on the sign up sheet. It will be formal dress for athletes (i.e. Boys in a shirt and tie and Girls in a dress or skirt) and nice casual for parents. 

We would love to see all of you attend!

A link to the photo drive was sent on the groupme, please add any pics of the team by Tuesday night.

End of the Season

The State Championships last week did not quite turn out how we wanted, with our Boys placing 14th and our Girls placing 12th out of 18 teams.  However, we hope we can learn from the good and the bad and push forward to improve and do better.  We still had some of our team run well, and whether you ran well or it was a rough day, hopefully the experience was a positive one in being able to compete.  It is alright to fail, as long as you get back up from that failure and work to be better.  We also had a lot of young athletes compete at State, some first timers, and what a cool experience that is to compete at the State Championships!  Hopefully the young athletes take that experience, whether they ran well or not, and make it a s positive for the future and have a desire to work even harder for next year.  Hopefully our seniors who competed can do the same, and move forward and be better in any future running and other endeavors. 

The JV State Race seemed to go pretty well for those who competed, with the majority of our 13 boys and 9 girls who raced running good races and even getting PRs.  We hope to get all of our JV athletes to stick around in the future at the end of the season and continue to compete.  We did have 22 athletes compete this year compared to 8 last season, so that was a big improvement in numbers.  

We would like to thank all of the parents and families who put on our team dinner on Tuesday and all those who came to State and JV State races to cheer and support the team.

Our Halloween Run on Thursday was fun and we had some great costumes, especially group costumes: Wizard of Oz, Snow White and the 5 Dwarfs, Bananas, Caterpillars, Wanna Be Gangsters, etc.  

We will have our End of the Season Banquet on Saturday November 22 at 6:00pm in the Tech Atrium.  More Info to follow.

We would like to see athletes continue to train through the offseason, offseason training is so important if you want to be a good athlete.  This XC season we saw less kids at practice everyday and less mileage run all summer that any other team we have had.  That summer training and mileage is crucial and without it we can't compete with other teams that are doing it, so we need to fix that in the future.  No matter how hard you train in the season you will never catch up to those who consistently training during both offseason and season, and we need all athletes and their parents to realize that.  For example, a boy who runs 20 miles a week in the summer can't compete with a boy doing 60 miles, plus whatever extra things that other athlete is doing out of running, it just doesn't work.  If you want to be good you have to be willing to put in the time and work or it is never going to happen.  

We are giving everyone a week off to reset and recover, but then you should get back at it.  If you are not competing in a Winter Sport you should still be training. If you are not competing in another Spring Sport you should plan on doing Track and Field.  We have heard that some athletes think they want to skip Track and come back out for XC.  That is a poor decision if you want to improve!  We have never seen an athlete not do Track and come back to XC and be better, they always fall behind.  If you want to get faster you need to run Track and compete.  We have a good group of young athletes and we want to keep improving our team, and hope that most of you are willing to work toward that.

Here are some things that you can do to improve as an athlete, whether you are already working on these things or need to start doing them:

- Don't settle for being mediocre, always try to be the very best version of yourself that you can be

-Train consistently in the offseason months, the offseason will often times make or break your season

-Learn to verbally communicate with coaches (physically going and having conversations)

-Talking to coaches before and after races: every athlete should talk to a coach before they race and go over a race plan, and go talk to the coach afterward to evaluate the race 

-Be coachable, trust the coaches and the process and actually do what they ask you to do

-Learn to take feedback whether perceived as negative or positive, and know that if a coach is giving feedback that it is positive in intention of the outcome whether it seems positive or not.  If a coach didn't care they wouldn't give any feedback at all, so them giving feedback means they care.

-Be responsible, you shouldn't always have to be asked to do what  you already know you should be doing

-Always be respectful of coaches, teammates, and yourself

-Be consistent in your training, consistency is the key to any kind of improvement 

-Stretch everyday after working out

-Hit the weight room, whether in practice, a weights class (recommended), or on your own -every athlete should always be working on getting stronger

-Eat healthier and more balanced nutrition daily

-Do the extra exercises that coaches give you to do after practice, everyday

- Set and work towards weekly goals every week (individual and team)

- Be completive, a race is a race, and shouldn't be a painful run in a park, the purpose is to compete

-Focus on the Team needs and not just on yourself, selfish athletes usually don't accomplish much on their own and and teams don't accomplish anything with selfish athletes

-Always be working on a positive attitude, your mind controls your body and if you are always negative you will struggle with improving and finding joy in what you do, somedays days are rough and you have to grind it out and then reset for next time

- Be tough and have some grit, you don't get strong by doing the easy things, and all of you can do hard things in life

-Make practices a priority in the season and offseason, this includes being present and giving a 100% each day

-Be a student of your sport, always be looking for ways to be better.  Know who you are competing against and they they are going to do so you can be prepared to compete.  Know who the best athletes are at each level, high school-professional (locally, nationally, and on the world stage), and what they do to be the best.

We would love to have athletes, and parents if needed, talk to the Coaching Staff about these things if needed, so that we can improve and get our team back to where we want to be, competing for Championships and having fun doing it!

 

Out of State Post Season Trips

Parents and Athletes, 

There have been several questions as to whether we will attend a postseason out of state race such as Nike Southwest or BrooksXC (formerly Foot Locker).  We have decided we will not be taking a trip as a team out state for one of these events this year, for multiple reasons.   First of all our team did not have a big enough interest to go to California.  In the past we have needed enough athletes willing to train and go to compete that we are able to fill a travel bus.  The cost could be extremely high with less athletes going on such a trip, a charter bus costs around $9,000 nowadays.  With Brooks taking over Foot Locker (after 45 years), it is unclear as to what the quality of this event will be like as a first year event, and most Utah teams are not going this year.  
Another reason is because we had less than impressive Region and State performances as a team.  Even though we saw some individuals do well and some big season improvements from our young athletes, our team fell short overall of our team goals.  We need to work on improving individually and as a whole in the future.  If we can't compete in State or even Region, there isn't a point to go compete on a bigger stage.  We need to get ourselves so we can compete locally before we try to go to another state to race at a Regional Qualifying Championship.  If our team was a top 5 team in the State we would go to Nike SW to compete in the Regional Championship race in Arizona.  If we had top 5 individual runners we would also look at an event that could benefit those individuals. 
Ultimately these trips should be earned and our team did not train through the summer the way they should have, and we only had one boy and one girl on the entire team hit their minimum mileage for the summer training. We also had more absences at practices during the season than ever before.  This lack of commitment was manifest in our team performances throughout the season. These out of state trips can be a great experience and a lot of fun, but they should be earned.  Also when we go on these trips it is to race, not just play, we do oftentimes try to play along the way, but the race is the priority and reason for the trip.  We hope to have our athletes be more committed to training and competing in the future so that we can make some of these big out of state events part of our culture once again.

State Championships and JV State

The State Championships will be held on Wednesday this week at Sugarhouse Park

The State Championships are next Wednesday with 6A Boys racing at 2:30pm and 6A Girls racing at 3:15pm at Sugarhouse Park.  State Info

The bus will leave the HS at 12:45 p.m.. Coach Barnes will cover entrance fees for those who have been running and coming to practice regularly and who are able to come. Remember, that the priority is to come and support our competing varsity runners, not just to socialize.  Please come ready to cheer and wear your Sentinel gear.  It looks like nice Fall weather, but dress appropriately.  If you are wanting to come, please let Coach Barnes know at practice Monday or by Tuesday morning.

Spectator info for State will be posted at the bottom of this post.

We will have a team dinner on Tuesday at 5:30pm for State participants and JV runners at The Cove Pond pavilion (6979 W Rose Canyon Road), hosted by multiple parents and families.  Please dress warm.

There is a JV State Championship that is being held on Saturday November 1 at the Spanish Fork Sports Complex.  If those  alternates and others who have been training would like to run at this let Coach Barnes know by Tuesday, if you haven't already, so he can get registration and entry fees taken care of.  We will not be taking a bus, so transportation is on your own.  

Info is HERE

Schedule 

Monday - Monarch Meadows Park @ 3:25 p.m.

Tuesday -  Monarch Meadows Park @ 3:25 p.m.

Wednesday - State Championships @ Sugarhouse Park 2:30 p.m.

Thursday -  Halloween Run @ Rosecrest Park 3:50 p.m.

Friday - TBA

Saturday - JV State @ Spanish Fork Sports Complex

Schedule

9:00am 6A Girls

9:30am 6A Boys

10:00am 5A Girls

10:30am 5A Boys

11:00am 1A-4A Girls

11:30am 1A-4A Boys

State Parking Pass Purchase and Entry for Fans:

 

Spectators will be charged for parking to enter the venue. Fans will not be able to enter the venue without parking the facility.Vehicles will be charged $25. RV’s and other oversize vehicles will be charged at $50, due to the use of multiple

parking spots. Parking passes can be purchased on the UHSAA GoFan online ticket portal at

https://gofan.co/app/school/UHSAA.

There will be no cash option for purchase. It is advised for everyone to prepurchase parking passes to allow for faster parking and entrance into the facility. 

 

Individuals who hold UHSAA Annual Passes will show the pass at the parking lot entry gate to receive wristbands for them and another individual. 

 

Patrons and teams are encouraged to leave after their respective awards ceremonies to allow more parking for patrons and team busses. There will be a parking attendant at the exit gate to ensure people do not enter the facility through an alternate route. 

 

"Assistance to Competitors

Coaches, please educate the members of your team, their parents and others that will come to support your student athletes that per rule 9-7-4 it is a disqualification for a competitor who receives any assistance from another person. The most common form of the violation of this rule is when a non-competitor runs along side a competitor during the race (pacing). This has been a problem in the past. It would be unfortunate to have to

disqualify a runner for the actions of someone not in the race. Please help by informing those who will be there to support your team. Also, any runner who assists another runner will also be disqualified."