Parent Assistance for Blaine Invitational

Hello,

This Thursday the Trinity Cross Country team is scheduled to compete at the Blaine Invitational. This is a replacement meet for the Farmington Invitational, a meet which no longer exists.

Upon signing up for this meet, we understood our first race to be at 4:30pm, but that has not proven to be correct. The Boys Varsity race is first at 3:45pm and Girls Varsity is next at 4:05pm.

Trinity will not allow their athletic teams to leave during the school day for competition unless it is a championship (Section or State) event. However, students can be excused at any time with parent approval.

At this point we are looking for parents to send notes with their students to be excused from school at 2:00pm on Thursday so we can leave together as a team for the meet and compete in the varsity races.

We were unable to switch to the large school race at Blaine to eliminate the time issue, because that division is full...and we would rather compete against the other schools our size anyway.

I am sorry that we need your assistance to get the students released from school because of the time crunch, but the alternative was to have no meet this week.

If students are unable to get permission to leave school early on Thursday, we are working to lineup a parent driver for the those runners and the runners in the later middle school races to bring students to the meet once the school day has ended to compete in the Junior High and Junior Varsity races.

Again, I am sorry for the headache involved with getting to this meet. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Jesse

Proposed Lineups for Blaine (if students can be excused early from school)-
Boys Varsity at 3:45pm:
Joe Hrbacek
Jeremy Troedson
Patrick Earhart
Cody Sommer
Karl Brummer
Chris Johnson
Jonathon Valentas
Charlie Leighton
JonElliott Brubaker
Jacob Bellomo

Girls Varsity at 4:05pm:
Carmen Quinlivan
Theresa Gross - unlikely to compete due to injury
Emily Brubaker - unlikely to compete due to injury
Catherine DeMarais
Katie Stephenson
Lucy Leighton
Linnea Bellomo
Lotus Schifsky

Boys Middle School at 4:55pm:
John Michael Berns
Rob Kranz

Girls Middle School at 5:05pm:
Sydney Kloster