On a beautiful summer's afternoon, the Hale XC team put up a near perfect score of 17 points to dominate the Palmyra Invitational and kick off the season on a great note.  The team focus going into the meet was to establish our 'For Us' team motto and set the tone for being a team that competes to win every week.  The team did a great job setting the tone from the start, positioning themselves up front and running as a pack of 6 through the first loop of the race holding 1-6 positions.  Letting loose a bit on the second half, the team ran smooth on the quiet stretches of the course and came through in solid duo groups with Elijah and Kai rolling through together followed closely by teammates John and Ethan and then shortly after by the sophomore duo of Joseph and Koda to finish the scoring.

The team also finished in the top 4 spots of the JV race.  It's a different way of running had the races been separate we would have seen these young men running up front.  How about three frosh scoring in their debut 5k races?  Caleb claimed the overall victory, with Brody, Ethan M and Iker following in 2-4th places.  Our 5th scorer was another frosh, with Evan finishing 8th overall and moving up 11 spots through the race!

Here's a detailed results workbook - 2024 Results Workbook

Runathon Recap
Thank you parents and families for attending and making it a fun night.  Also thanks for trusting the coaches as we looked to manage some unique weather conditions through the early part of the week.  We kept a close eye on the weather and were lucky to run at night time in some better running conditions.  As you saw we still made some major adjustments with many athletes, giving breaks, running a slower pace than previous years and shortening the run time from prior years to make sure we came out of it healthy.  It turned out being a very fun night and we had some great runs!  Thanks for those of you who got sponsors and some amazing donations to help the team!!  It was a busy week for sure, but we are looking forward to getting into a nice consistent groove now as we start school and enter the season.

*We will still take in any runathon donations, but fan shirt orders are now submitted and closed.


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We host our home meet this Friday!!  We will have a great test for the squad and are excited to go after it as a team this Friday. 

 ​Team/Meet Info 

Important Meet Notes:
All freshmen athletes will get out of school at 2:30 p.m.  Please get to the park right after changing.
All other athletes please stay until the end of school but get to the park by 3:30 p.m.
Our team camp will be under the pavilion we meet by during summer.
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​Families, if a few of you could please sign up to help at our t shirt stand or concessions when you're son is NOT racing we would appreciate it.  Our concessions will be a couple very simple items such as water or granola bars.  

Sign up Here to work a shift.

Here's the meet Schedule:

3:50 Freshmen Boys 
4:25 JV Girls
5:05 JV Boys  
5:40 Varsity Girls 
6:10 Varsity Boys

The pasta party will be Thursday at Coaches' house!  5:00 p.m. after practice.  Address to be given out at practice.

This Week

Monday - Labor Day practice 6:00 p.m. meet at Hale ready to run!  
Tuesday - For practice we will take school vans to the County Grounds trails in Wauwatosa for our workout.  We will want athletes ready to leave after school at 3:15 p.m.  We will return to Hale around 5:30 p.m. for pickup.
Wednesday/Thursday - regular practice after school
Friday - Home meet!
Sat/Sun - No team practices.  Veteran athletes will be given a run to do together/on own one of the days.

Picture Day
We will have team photos prior to practice on Monday, September 9th.

The final team olympic standings are in!  The 3k race shook up the standings yesterday!  Congrats to the BWG's team for securing the victory after a week of events.

Final Team Standings

BWG's  - 21 points (1st in 3k Race)
Goon Squad - 19 points (4th in 3k Race)
Trader Kais - 17 points (2nd in 3k Race)
Lightning Unicorns - 15 points (3rd in 3k Race)

Family Night Recap

Thanks to all the families that came out and also ran!  40  people in the race was so much fun and was followed up with total domination in dodgeball with families taking 4 out of the 5 games.  Thanks for the support and we look forward to a fun season.  Congratulations to alumni Joseph Hertel (competing at UW-Oshkosh) for securing the individual win.

​The 3k family night results can be seen here.  3k Family Results Document

Runathon Monday!

Our Monday practice will be the runathon and we would like athletes there by 8:30 p.m. to do some activation and plan to start at 8:45 p.m.  Families you do not need to attend but are welcome to of course!  We hope we have some great sponsors and it's a great night fundraising for the team and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.  Please submit all sponsor donations to Coach Mach by Friday, August 30th. 

Athletes are coming off of a great week of training and we may adjust the total progression time for some athletes to keep them healthy and get a proper and positive Monday progressive tempo workout.  Guys that have consistently run over 60 minutes all summer will do the full 60 but we may adjust total time for some to get a higher quality and the best workout needed for each guy!  

Our First Meet Thursday - Palmyra Invitational

We are looking forward to our first competition of the season this Thursday at Palmyra.  It will be a cool race because it's only one men's race with everyone competing at the same time.  They will separate scores into varsity/jv still.  Bus times and information can be found below,

Palmyra Meet Info

Our first pasta party of the year will be hosted this Wednesday by the Plier and Hutter families!  Thank you!  We will plan 5:00 p.m. for athletes to arrive.  The address will be given out to the team at practice.  

We will have practice 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week.  Our Labor Day Monday practice will be at 6:00 p.m. - a reminder that the school won't be open so be sure to take your running stuff home Saturday and come ready to run that Monday.

Fan Shirts

All athletes should have received a fan shirt order form!  Athletes will receive a team shirt from us for free so don't order them one.  These orders are for you all, family members, friends and coworkers etc.  Use the back of the page if you want to buy more.  Please turn in all orders with money by Wednesday's practice so I can submit the order to be made!

Great group this morning out at Minooka continuing to build fitness and team energy headed into the 2024 season!  Carrying the energy of the team, I decided I'd write our first blog for the 2024 season.  Our coaches are excited to get back to work with the team on August 19th!  I know our team is amped as well to get into competing and representing Hale XC.

One more week of summer XC...Let's make it a great week.
We will have one more week of summer runs from the park.  Let's make it a great week of training for returners, and look to have all of our frosh crew attend to get ready and used to our practice schedule for week 1!  Being ready to go day one allows coaches to keep athletes healthy and hit the ground running with solid training.  It would be awesome to have our full crew crushing it this next week.

Weeks 1 and 2 Schedule!

Starting prior to the school year and having a lot of events, I wanted to remind everyone of our schedule.  Please click here to see the schedule!  Or see below,

Week 1
Monday,  8/19/2024 -  Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons (Lockers given out to athletes)
Tuesday,  8/20/2024 -  Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons
Wednesday,  8/21/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons (Mentors, bring shirt to change into) 
Thursday,  8/22/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons
Friday,  8/23/2024  -   8:30 a.m. leave from Hale - Return ~1:30 p.m. from Minooka Park
Saturday,  8/24/2024  -  Family Night! Athletes arrive by 5:00 p.m. please. 3k at 6:00, families stick around for post race dodgeball

Week 2
Monday 8/26/2024 - Runathon! Athletes arrive to Hale track by 8:40 p.m.
Tuesday 8/27/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons
Wednesday 8/28/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons
Thursday 8/29/2024 - Palmyra Invitational! Bus Time: 1:45 p.m. Race times of 4:00 p.m. and 5:20 p.m.
Friday 8/30/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons
Saturday8/31/2024 - Practice at 7:45 a.m. at Hale Commons

Week 3 (Start of School)
Monday 9/2/2024 - Practice at 6:00 p.m. at Hale Weightroom lot (Come dressed to run, no school open)
Tuesday 9/3/2024 -  First day of School! Room 108 Today for practice, practices will be 3:15 after school each day.
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Runathon Reminder

The runathon is our only team fundraiser again this year.  Please ask family, friends and businesses to help support our team!  A lot of these funds are used to pay for our summer CWES camp and to keep it no up front cost for families in future years!!  We would love each athlete to raise at least $125.

For those getting sponsors on a per lap basis, I will put out how many laps athletes did the day after the event.  Fundraising money will be due the Friday after the runathon, but you can also turn in whenever you are done fundraising.  Don't be afraid to ask local businesses such as West Allis Cheese Shoppe, Oscar's, Pick N'Save, Performance Running or other businesses to support you and the team!

Team Store
Our 2024 Team Store is live and open through midnight on August 21st.  
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(Note before purchasing shirts that all athletes will get a 2024 Team shirt to keep for free)

Fan Shirts 
Order form will be handed out this year the first week -  for parents/family/friends looking to buy the team shirt and support with names on the back!

Team Roster and Family Support at Meets
Thank you Plier and Roe families for the great idea.  Prior to our first meet and after our team roster is finalized the second week, our coaches for the men's and women's programs will plan to provide families/parents a team roster with photo and grade level so you can help get to know the team and cheer loud for athletes at meets!  This will be handy especially for new families to the team.

Pasta Parties
Thanks to everyone that has signed up already!  We have a few open dates for pasta parties to fill.  Reach out with any questions.  Pasta Party Sign up form

Parent Info
Lastly, parents just make yourselves familiar with our team and how you can support the program and team.  There's nothing new here from what I communicated previously, but if you haven't familiarized yourself with it, I still have our team standards and parent information on our info page here,

2024 Parent Information