Good Morning Everyone! 

Hopefully you all are enjoying Spring Break so far. 

Practice:

For those of you in town, I will see you T/W/Th this week. For those of you out of town, please send me your makeup workouts still, don't get behind with the week off! 

Thursday we will be having a beach practice. We will meet at the Oceanside Amphitheatre and do our workout from there. I scheduled it a little earlier, 3:30-4:45, so we have some sunshine left if anyone wants to jump in the ocean after. You are welcome to come early and/or stay late to hang out. 

This is a great time to get some extra work in at practice while we don't have competitions. You should start thinking about what you really want to focus on and try to lock in your specific events. Season is going to close up faster than you think, so start honing in now to get to finals later. Everyone will compete up to Conference Finals, only the top in league continue after that. 

The Caiman Club:

For those of you that missed our fundraiser launch, we started our Caiman Club Fundraiser. Everyone needs to make an account and get started please! It takes less than five minutes so please just bust it out when you read this. :) 

For a little background on this new platform, it is very similar to Snap!Raise, but only in the positive ways. Previously we'd raise a ton of money and they would take a cut. This new fundraiser is 100% in house, meaning we get everything but the credit card processing fee,(there's even an option for that to be covered too). Another difference is that the funds are made available immediately, rather than in a lump sum at the end of season, so we can use it right away. To clarify further, this money is only going straight to track and field, not the athletics program in general, not a third party, not the coaches. This is 100% for YOU, so make it positive and let's brainstorm some ideas of what we can do with the extra funds to get stuff for YOUR team. School budgets aren't growing as fast as our teams, so this is the best way we have to accomodate for us.

 Caiman Club Instructions in 2 easy Steps:

Step #1 - Register and Create a Player Profile on Caiman Sports:
Go to www.TheCaimanClub.com (http://www.thecaimanclub.com/)
Click "ALL CAMPAIGNS" at the top right of the Home page
Click the "View Campaign" button of your team's campaign 
Click the red "Start Fundraising" button
Click the "Join as an Individual" button
Fill out the information to "Register as an Individual"
Click the red "Register" button

Step #2 - Text 20 people the new Caiman Club Player Profile link:
Once registered, a unique fundraising profile will be created for you.

You can now easily copy the link and text it to 20 individuals who may want to support you and your team. 

We encourage you to send the link with a short message such as...
"Hi ___________, this is ________________. I'm raising financial support for my ___________ team at Classical Academy HS. I would love for you to consider helping me raise money so we can co
ver our uniforms, travel and events. I've a link for you to easily donate if you are interested. Thank you!"

Looking Forward:

As I stated earlier, the season wraps up fast so let's use these two bi-weeks to focus on honing our skills and getting a push in strength building. Please check the April Calendar and mark your own with the competition dates. Pay attention to the Invitationals specifically if you are in the top 3 of your event or have been in that top range running relays. Jaguar entries close April 10th, Esco Invite closes April 17th, and Dick Wilkins Frosh/Soph closes April 14th. Let me know in advance as we get closer if you are not going to make it so I can sub you out for the next runner.

Please also note that League meets 5 and 6 are scoring meets as well as Conference Finals. For those of you with Wed/Thur schedule conflicts in other sports or activities, plan to miss them to be there. Especially the boys, it is going to be a close fight for champions. For a lot of you, Coastal Finals is your last race of the season, we especially don't want you to miss that one! 

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Reach out with any questions as always if you need anything. :) 

Thank You,

PJ Musselman

760.717.9461