First Practice Starts TODAY Wednesday 5/31

Parents,

TODAY (Wednesday May 31st) marks our first day of practice for the 2023 Youth Track Program. As a reminder, practice runs from 5:15pm-6:15pm at the Michael Johnson Track at Nike WHQ Campus. If you can, please try to arrive early and anticipate staying a few minutes after. It may take us slightly longer to get through the first practice.

The Director of the Youth Program, Emily Pritt, will address the athletes and parents before breaking the athletes up into groups based off age and ability for their practice. Before practice tomorrow please see our Youth Code of Conduct and Warm Up Drills which we will do every practice.

Uniform/Spike Night

At the end of the first day of practice, we will have uniforms and the new 2023 BTC Dragonfly available for try on and purchase in a range of youth sizes. If you’ve received a uniform in the mail and the sizing isn’t quite right, we will do size exchanges then.

PTF Youth Meet

This weekend is the PTF Youth Meet (Liberty High School, Portland, OR). For entries, please click below. If you are registered for an event and do not plan to complete, please message youth@bowermantc.com as soon as possible! There are a lot of athletes competing this weekend. Additionally, you are required to fill out the youth meet event waiver for each athlete. Your athlete will not be able to compete without filling out this waiver below.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

A reminder, to compete at the USATF meets, you must be a USATF member and have age verification. To get a membership please click the link here. To see the date of birth verification information, please click the link here. You must upload these documents through USATF Connect.

The deadline to complete this process is June 10th! The youth membership is good for a calendar year and should run your athlete through the 2023 cross country season as well. Please get on top of this process asap if you are even considering competing at USATF JO State, Regionals or Nationals.