Indian Hills Cross Country

2025 Boys and Girls District Champions!

Expectations Quiz Click Here

Miss practice on August 17?  You MUST read through the slides HERE and take the expectations quiz HERE before coming to practice.

IHMS Team Gear Store (Optional.  Store closes August 31)

Week 2: August 24-28

It was a great first week of cross country practice! Here’s what to expect this week.

• Schedule (also on Bound)

  • Monday - Practice 4:00 - 5:15

  • Tuesday - Practice 4:00 - 5:15

  • Wednesday - Practice 4:00 - 5:15 (Some will go off campus)

  • Thursday - NO PRACTICE (Back to School Night)

  • Friday - Practice 4:00 - 5:15. This will be our time trial/ qualifying run! Remember, in addition to attending the required number of practices, runners must show their fitness to be eligible for a meet by completing the two-mile time trial in under 18:00 (will be eligible for two mile races in meets) or under 22:00 (will be eligible for one mile races in meets). Runners must also complete the time trial with minimal walking. There will be more chances if they don’t meet the criteria at the first time trial. (We’ll do a make up one on Monday August 31 for those that can’t attend practice on Friday).

• Bring to practice:

  • Running shoes

  • Water bottle

  • Clothes they can run in

• Additional Meet:

  • We will be bringing a small team of runners (top 14 girls and top 14 boys from the first meet) to the Blue Valley SW Middle School Invitational on September 16. This is not on the Bound calendar yet for reasons I don’t understand and can’t change, but it should show up eventually. This is a HUGE meet with tons of schools, so we don’t bring the entire team. We will have an idea after time trials where everyone stands, but we won’t know for sure who we will invite until after the meet on September 8.

• Missing Practice:

  • Please let Coach Dailey know if your runner will miss practice (they can also tell a coach in person if that is easier). If it is an ongoing conflict, you can just tell us once and not have to keep emailing us every week. We don’t really look at unexcused absences for practice the first couple of weeks, but will starting next week. It is totally okay if your runner wants to only come 2-3 days a week and think of this more as a running club than a competitive sport, but let us know that, too. They can still run in a meet later in the season if they want to try it out.

• Jerseys:

  • We will pass out jerseys next week once we know who qualifies for running in the first meet. We don’t have jersey shorts, so the runners have to bring their own. They are supposed to be all match (black in our case), so please try and bring black shorts. It’s middle school cross country, though, so it’s not the end of the world if they are a different color.

• Team Store:

  • If you want to buy any IHMS Cross Country gear, the link is at the bottom of this email. It is also on the website. This is 100% optional.

• Pickup after practice:

  • One of the coaches will check all three parking lots before leaving to make sure everyone is picked up. If your runner is somewhere else, though, we might not see them and think they are gone, so please pick them up in a parking lot (unless they walk or bike home). We don’t want anyone to end up stranded!

Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. Hopefully we will have good weather this week!

Nick Dailey

Micheal Bazan

Brett Ewing

Margaret Thompson

2026 Info

• We (all of Shawnee Mission) are transitioning to using a registration/ scheduling program called Bound for athletics.  Click HERE for more information.  (We are still getting used to it, also, so please be patient as we figure out how to use it.)

• In addition to the meets on the schedule (see tabs for the link) there will likely be a meet for A team runners at Blue Valley Southwest High School on September 16.  More info to come on that one.

• Practice will begin on Monday, August 17 and take place every day (M-F) from 4:00 - 5:15.  I believe there will be a calendar available in Bound, but it is not functional yet.  If it isn't user-friendly, we'll use a Google Calendar.

• Please read over the IHMS XC expectations for info about what to expect, and/ or come to the parent meeting on August 4 at 6:00 pm in the IHMS cafeteria.  If you can't make the meeting, HERE is a copy of the slideshow.

• Last day to register/ come out for the team is Friday, August 21.

• More info and expectations.