Welcome Parents of East High Runners

There are lots of ways parents can assist kids and coaches on the running team.  Parents can add to the fun for kids and relieve some pressure from coaches, so that we can have more varied practices and happy kids.  

1. Make sure your student is registered and eligible, including a physical on file with ASD from the most recent 18 months. 

2. Make sure your student can get to practices and the bus for travel days and races. 

3. Join the remind app (phone number or email works) and/or East XC facebook page for announcements, changes to the schedule, and sharing photos of the kids. If you want the remind to come via email, not text, then email me and I will invite you. To get short text reminders instructions are here. 

4. Come to the races and cheer for all the kids, but be especially loud for East runners. Do give your teenager ample space around their peers (don't hover over your kid 100% of the time when they are with friends), but it is OK to hang out with the East group and certainly cheer loudest for yours. 

5. Donate food or snacks (fruit, granola bars...) for practices or races. SIGN UP GENIUS. 

6. Help with carpooling

7. Make sure your student has good running shoes, shorts, tights/leggings, or non-cotton sweatpants, and sports brac, a good running watch,  cell phone holder for running. Knowing when to turn around on a run can be a safety issue.  Skinny Raven gives high school runners a 20% discount on Spike day and 10% rest of the season. See our Gear Info Page.   This year we will use different jerseys so kids can wear solid black shorts, recommend athletes get their own solid black shorts to run in for what is most comfortable for them. 

8. Help host team parties after races, as coaches and captains decide to have them. 

9. Help organize or provide food for end of season awards banquet. 

10. Let a coach know if your student is undergoing serious, academic, emotional, or physical (illness or injury) stress. We don't want to add stress to their lives. We run to reduce stress and improve health. 

11.  Help with our fundraisers each year: one is a feed station at the Mayor's Marathon in June, and sometimes we have done other opportunities. 

12. Donate $$ to the East XC booster club. Checks can be made to the East High XC running booster club. Our current treasurer is Lance Howe, who has kids on the team.  This money gets used for uniforms, shirts, food, travel, spikes, equipment for disadvantaged students, or awards for kids. 

13. Contact the coaches if you have any questions. 

14. Help recruit within the school, your other sports teams, and incoming 8th graders to our team.