Dear Parents and Athletes,                                                           January 2003

It’s track time again! Welcome back to another great and exciting year with the Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Track and Field program.  We are now in our 20th year of providing a healthy, competitive, but most importantly a fun program for athletes in grades 4th through 8th grade. For those of you signing up for the first time, we welcome you and look forward to having you as part of our team.

Our program begins Monday March 10 (except for 8th graders who begin March 5) and ends Saturday April 26th for most runners.  However, if you qualify for the post season, the season continues and ends with the CYO Championship meet in early June. (See Post Season Qualification Criteria for more details).

This information booklet contains all the pertinent information you will need during the season.  It has “tentative” schedules, practices times and sites, directions/maps to track meet locations, and special events.  We ask that you keep this booklet handy at all times for future reference.  Please note that dates and times may change during the course of the season.  We will inform you or your child of all announcements, and changes at the end of our practices.  If you miss a practice or leave early, it is your responsibility to seek out any missed announcements.  We will do our best to announce changes several days in advance.  Also, if you have an E-mail address, please list it on the application. We will send changes through E-Mail accordingly.

Parents, the success of our program has been a result of your involvement.  This includes your time at meets cheering for the team and volunteering.  We can always use more parents assisting at the meets as timers and recorders.  If you’re interested in assisting during the meet as a timer or recorder, please let us know.  Also, any of you interested in coaching or helping out during practices?  We have approximately 20 plus coaches.  We have a large team and the more coaches we have assisting is a benefit to the kids.  No experience is required.  If you enjoy running, jumping, or shot putting,  we would love your enthusiasm and efforts.  If interested, or you have any questions, please see Mr. Lafferty or Mr. Losorelli. 

Also, please note these important requirements for being part of the team. First, you must be in grades 4th through 8th grade.  Second, you must be a registered parishioner at any of the local Catholic churches.  We encourage all children, regardless of parish, to run with us.  However if your local parish has an organized CYO track team, you are obligated to run for that team.  The Our Lady of Guadalupe runners will continue to be part of the OLMC team.  Next year 2004, Our Lady of Guadalupe will start it’s first year as an organized team.  

It is very important that you ensure that you are registered with the parish.  Any runner that participates with the team, and is not registered, will disqualify the entire team during the post season. 

Again, welcome to Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Track and Field 2002. 

Sincerely, the OMLC Coaching Staff
 

 Catholic Youth Organization  
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Mission Statement

Mission Statement

CYO Sports is one component of a parish’s comprehensive youth ministry program which enables the partnership of parents, coaches, priests, religious, teachers, and adult leaders to manage and support a sports program that allows youth to grow in their relationship with God and come to better understand themselves and the Catholic Faith. 

Such a program:

?         Employs healthy and enjoyable competition to promote the sharing of gospel values among athletes, parents, and coaches.

?         Assists parish leadership in nourishing the emotional, spiritual, social, and physical needs of young people.

?         Encourages young people to appreciate the gifts that they possess, and challenges them to share these gifts with their community.

?         Allows youth to witness the life of Christian discipleship in their coaches and adult leaders.

Encourages youth to become responsible members of their faith community.

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