3/30: Meet Registration is Open now, practice, uniforms

Track parents-

1. Our first practice for the Monday/Wednesday groups will be tomorrow, March 31 at the Longmeadow High School track. Tuesday/Thursday groups will begin on Tuesday, April 1. The practice schedule, the coach assignments, and kid assignments are all on the “Practice Groups” page of longmeadowtrack.org.

2. We will have uniform distribution at the end of practice on Monday and Tuesday. Big ups to Cindi Clark and Katherine Coyne for preparing all the uniform packets! Please note that we were short on a few sizes--those will be given out in a couple of weeks if your packet does not include a T-shirt and singlet.

3. We will be having our first meet of the season on Saturday, April 5, starting at 8:30 am.  We'll be doing it in waves, with Grades 1-3 first, then Grades 4-5, then Grades 6-8.  More details about the meet logistics will be sent later in the week.

4.  Registration for the meet is on athletic.net and closes Thursday, April 3 at 7 pm. If you do not sign up, your child can still run the meet, but we won't be able to record your results and your child won't figure into the scoring.

The meet is called "Longmeadow Youth Track Meet April 5."  The longmeadowtrack.org website on the Info Sheet page has a link to an article on athletic.net explaining how to sign up an individual for a track meet.  

In 2022, I also recorded my own video (link on the homepage of longmeadowtrack.org) showing you step-by-step how to sign up for a Longmeadow meet on athletic.net.  As I explain, you can sign up even if your athlete is unattached, i.e., you have not linked your athlete with the Longmeadow Parks & Rec team code.  It appears that some folks are having trouble attaching their child to the team on athletic.net.  There is another video link on the website on how to do that, but if you cannot manage it, it’s perfectly fine for athletic.net purposes to be “unattached.”

Finally, some parents did not go to the step of selecting events, and as a result, their child was listed as “not registered.”  The step-by-step video I recorded in 2022 addresses this precise point, so I encourage you to consult it.

If you have not already created an athletic.net account, there is a link on the website for an article explaining how to do that.

Any other athletic.net issues, please click on their "Get Help" button.

Coach Alex