Volunteers needed for middle school conference meet on Wednesday

Volunteers are needed to help set up and work the middle school conference meet this week. The meet will be held Wednesday afternoon (September 26) at the SIUE course. Volunteers are needed for the following shifts:

2:30 pm - set up
3:30 pm - concessions
4:00 pm - chutes
5:30 pm clean up

Please send an email to tom@tomatwood.net if you can help, or look for Val Sweatt and Diana Speicher at the course on Wednesday. Thanks!

There are no limits

Video for XC Banquet

This is a portion of the video/slideshow that will be shown at the Tiger cross country banquet in November. This segment focuses on the girls junior varsity team at the Edwardsville Invitational.

Video, editing: Tom Atwood
Photographs: Andy Thomas

Music: Tom Atwood (2nd movement from Lamentations)
©2007 Edwardsville Cross Country Booster Club
All Rights Reserved

Boosters discuss track merger; vote set for Oct.3

The XC Booster Club will vote October 3 on a proposal to merge with the track booster club. Cross-country boosters met last night to discuss the merger, and appointed a committee to structure the new combined booster club. Committee members include former XC booster club president Dave Goodhue, former VP Tom Atwood, and current Treasurer Lee Speicher.

The committee's recommendations will be presented at a meeting of the full booster club in two weeks. At that meeting, a vote on whether or not to merge will be taken.

Please be sure to attend the meeting at 7 pm on Wednesday, October 3 in Coach Cunningham's classroom (A249) at Edwardsville High School.

Thanks!

A big thank you to Roger Mueller, Keith Dudding, Micky Burge-Beckley and Monica Laurent for organizing the food at the remaining high school away meets. A big thank you also goes out to the parents who are bringing drinks and additional food for the athletes at these meets. The booster club wouldn’t be a success without the support and dedication of the parents. Thanks for all the time and effort.

Signed,
The Executive Board, Edwardsville XC Booster Club.

Proposal to merge track, cross-country booster clubs to be discussed Wednesday night

A proposal to merge the Edwardsville Cross Country Booster Club with the Edwardsville Track Booster Club will be discussed at a meeting this week of the XC boosters. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 19 at 7:00 pm in Coach Cunningham's classroom #A249.

Please make every effort to attend this important meeting.

Volunteers Needed for Lincoln Invitational on Tuesday

Edwardsville Cross Country Booster Club President Roger Mueller on Gator at Edwardsville Invitational

Volunteers from the XC Booster Club are needed to help with the Lincoln Invitational middle school meet this Tuesday, September 18. The meet begins at 4 pm at the SIUE cross-country course, but we need volunteers to come earlier to help with set up. Here's the schedule:

2:00 pm - set up tents & concessions
3:00 pm - concessions and t-shirt sales open
4:00 pm - races begin; chute volunteers needed
5:30 pm - clean up

If you are able to help, please leave a comment below or email Tom Atwood (tom@tomatwood.net), and he will put you in touch with the right people at the course. Thanks!

Video, photos posted from Edwardsville Invitational

Video of the boys and girls varsity races from yesterday's Edwardsville Invitational has been posted. Keith will create a link to the video on mudmountain.org, or you can see it now by clicking on the link below:

Edwardsville Invitational Video

The video will be expanded for the high school cross country banquet in November, and will include Tiger runners from yesterday's JV and open races.

Some of Andy Thomas' photos from the Edwardsville Invitational have also been posted. Look for the link on mudmountain.org, or just click link bel0w:

Andy Thomas Photos

If you want printable jpeg files of any of Andy's photos, let Tom Atwood (tom@tomatwood.net) know and he will email them to you.

Thanks to volunteers; see you at the Edwardsville Invitational

Saturday, September 15, 2007
6:00 am - ice pickup at EHS
6:30 am - set up tents, concessions at SIUE course
7:30 am - concessions open
9:00 am - races begin; chutes
11:00am - clean up

Thanks again!

Help Wanted: Edwardsville Invitational this Saturday at SIUE

Terri Dalla Riva helps set up for Mud Mountain XII

Volunteers are needed at the Edwardsville Invitational (high school meet) at the SIUE cross country course this Saturday morning, September 15. Twenty teams will participate in the meet.

We need help in the following areas:

• Set up - starting at 6 am with ice pickup at the high school. We need a truck or SUV to deliver ice to the course for concessions. We will set up tents, finish line, concessions, etc, at the course.
• Concessions, chute - teams will begin arriving around 7:30 am, so that's when the concession stand will open. We also need several volunteers to help with the chute once races begin at 9 am.
• Clean up - after the meet is over. Usually takes about an hour.

If you can help, email Tom Atwood (tom@tomatwood.net), or just sign up in the "comments" section below. Thanks!

Food, Gatorade needed for upcoming away meets

Tiger runners enjoy sub sandwiches, fruit, and drinks after Peoria Woodruff Invitational (Click image to enlarge)

From Pam Nelson:

It would be much appreciated if we could get volunteers to donate a cooler of Gatorade or water, some fruit, paper plates (2 pkgs) or sweets to the next few Tiger away meets. Some of you have already been kind and brought for past meets. Thank you.

The Dudding family will possibly be volunteering to coordinate either the Sept 22 or Sept 29th Peoria meet. Roger Mueller may be able to coordinate the other Peoria. Mickey Burge-Beckley has agreed to do the Centralia meet.

If you would like to offer to bring something for the Centralia meet on Sat, Oct 6 please email Mickey Burge-Beckley at mud_turtle@hotmail.com. The other coordinators for the Peoria meets will be in touch soon.

I can bring a small folding table if needed, in case we aren’t able to get a picnic table at one of the meets. I may have offended the other team at Saturday’s meet by moving their watermelon to the other end after I covered the table we were using and I don’t want that to happen. So if the family coordinating the food needs my table just let me know.

Thanks again for helping.

Send Pics for Photo of the Day

A new web-addition to www.mudmountain.org is called "Photo of the Day." The new site, which can be linked from the Booster Club page, will feature a different photo every day (or so) of Edwardsville high school and middle school cross-country runners.

If you have a snapshot or photo of a favorite runner or cross-country moment that you would like to share with Photo of the Day, just email it to tom@tomatwood.net. The site will also feature some of Andy Thomas' "greatest hits" during the season.

To see the website, click on this direct link: Photo of the Day

Thanks to Holly Romann, who sent the following pictures from this week's Alton Invitational middle school meet:


Start of the Alton Invitational boys varsity race on Thursday, Sept. 6
Photo/Holly Romann


Lincoln Middle School brothers Michael and Randy Romann run at Alton
Photo/Holly Romann

Hope you enjoy the new site.

Join the Booster Club

Booster club volunteers work concessions at Mud Mountain XII

To the Parents of our Edwardsville Cross-Country Athletes:
Now that the “race” of a new school year and cross-country season has begun, we’d like you to consider including the Edwardsville Cross Country Booster Club activities among your “to do” list. Our booster club program has been fortunate to include many active parents in the past; we need your help to sustain our program growth.

Our activities include the annual Mud Mountain 5K, our main fund raiser (see video of race below), as well as providing volunteers for our middle school and high school home races.


Mud Mountain XII • August 11, 2007

We also provide meals to our high school athletes at away meets (great grilled burgers and ‘dogs), sell t-shirts at home meets and ensure the course is ready for competition. At the end of the season, we coordinate the banquet activities. In addition, we provide a very enthusiastic fan base for all of our kids at our home and away competitions!

Membership in the Edwardsville Cross-County Booster Club is $10/Individual or $20/Family. The fee offsets club mailing costs and provides money for the booster club to spend on our athletes. For a membership form, or for more information, email tom@tomatwood.net, and it will be sent to you.

We have three booster club meetings scheduled for the upcoming season Wednesday, September 19, Wednesday, October 3, and Wednesday, October 17. The meetings begin at 7:00pm and will be held at Edwardsville High School in room A249.

Our home meets require volunteers for set-up crew, concession sales, chute workers, t-shirt sales, and clean-up crew. Attached is a listing of our home meets for the middle schools and high school. Please review the dates and let us know when and how you can help us by emailing Val Sweatt at vls2262@sbcglobal.net.

We’d like to establish the following volunteer committees: Mud Mountain, Concessions, Home Meet Activities, and Banquet (EHS banquet is scheduled for Thursday, November 8). Please contact Diana Speicher at speicher@charter.net if you’d like to be a committee member or a committee chairperson.

On behalf of the Edwardsville Cross County Booster Club, thank you for your help.

Signed,

Roger & Sue Mueller, President
Randy Dunn, Vice-President
Lee Speicher, Treasurer
Monica Laurent, Secretary

2007 XC Booster Club Meeting Schedule

Lee Speicher, Randy Dunn, and Steve Nelson
at Granite City Invitational on Sept. 1.

Welcome to the Edwardsville XC Booster Club 2007 website. The booster club will be meeting regularly during the fall cross-country season. Here's the schedule through October:

Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 pm.

All meetings will be held in Coach Cunningham's classroom at Edwardsville High School, Room #A249.

See you there!