Join Greensboro Pacesetters Track Club
Greensboro Pacesetters Track Club
To Potential Pacesetters,
Below is the information for 2023 but most of the information and dates stay close to the same each year. 2023 is a very Big year to train and compete with the Pacesetters as the National Junior Olympics Championships are at one of the most famous Tracks in the World, Haywood Field, Eugene, OR. We always include a big trip to the Oregon Coast at the same time as it is a spectacular area of the US.
To be put on our www.teamsnap.com email. Email me and I will send you an invitation from teamsnap to fill out.
We have competed in every USA National Junior Olympic Championship since 1979.
Few key items of interest to potential track runners.
1. About 40% of the team just trains all summer with us due to other conflicts. If you just want to train, this is fine but you still must join the club and become a member of USATF.
2. We have about 6-7 fun, free track meets on Wednesday night in the summer for everyone. They last from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM and all the events we can get in on that time. This is mainly for younger athletes 6 years old to 12. There is one open age group after that.
3. Do not wait until school is out to decide to train and run with us as 1/3 of the season is already over. Come out after your State meet.
4. Look at the Pacesetter Records(Top 10 list) on our website. If you want to be in the record book, you do need to plan and race in the summer. All of the records are from athletes who raced at some point in the summer. You do not do much racing but the experience helps you out tremendously.
5. Many of our star athletes in middle school go into high school and jump right into their school team races and schedule. This is the time to get ready to run fast in high school. Look at the fastest athletes ever in Guilford county in the 800, 1600, 3200, Long Jump and ++ more events.
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** DO NOT sign up for much of anything this summer, track camps, cross country camps, vacations until August if you want to go to the National JO Meet in Oregon.
** We must compete in the State/Association at NCAT Last weekend in June, then the regional meet in TBA July early and then the Nationals at Haywood Field, University of Oregon last week of July.
What you need to do in order to be ready for a great summer of competing:
1. Renew your USATF ASAP and make sure it is still birth date verified. Once you verify it last year, you do not have to do it again as long as you renew.
2. FIND relay team members during the high school track season this summer who want to compete with you in Florida. The Pacesetters have had athletes from Charlotte, Boone, and even Atlanta compete with us.
3. Check the Club records if we are missing your name from the list.
4. Any training questions, email me any time or call at night or on the weekends.
5. Coaches, volunteers and people who want to help out. USATF is getting a little crazy on screening volunteers. If you would like to help out this summer or just supervise some of the training runs or events, USATF has a required list of items you must complete including a background check. EMAIL or Call me for more information. This is good to do early.
6. EMAIL or Call with any questions. Charlie Brown snoopytrac@aol.com Cell phone 336-339-3248
Greensboro Pacesetters Track Club Basic Information.
Junior Olympic Track All ages including high school and middle school and younger:
A. First practice for summer track starts Mid May at TBA 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Email for the first day of practice. With Covid rules, we will see where we practice.
B. Practice is Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at TBA
C. Practice Thursday we will pick a location around the county to meet and run hard somewhere. It is usually different parks around the county such as Bur Mil and Hagan Stone Park.
1. The Junior Olympic Track and Field part of the Pacesetters runs from Mid May to the Nationals which is the last week of July until around August 1. This is the Main part of the club’s focus and training.
4. The Pacesetters compete in all track and field events. Our practice schedule in the summer(Mid-May) is Monday- Thursday from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Site TBA
5. If you want to be on our email list, send me an email at snoopytrac@aol.com
6. Due to everyone doing lots of things nowadays, some athletes just practice with us and may or may not compete in meets. We also have 5-6 fun free meets open to everyone which some athletes compete in only.
7. Look at our website to see our former National Champions and the top ten list of athletes who have competed for the Pacesetters in our club records. If you want to get faster, run with us.
8. Big suggestion, do not make summer plans until after the Junior Olympic meet schedule is out. Make vacation plans for August 1st or after.
9. If you have questions, call me at night or on the weekends.
10. Go to our website and check out the club records to give you an idea of what our athletes have done.
Joining the Club
1. You can try out practice for 2 days to see if you like to run. We like athletes to try it out as some end not really wanting to train hard.
2. Cost $70.00 for the summer and you must get a USATF membership card. You must help out 2 days in the fall XC season also(required).
a. We are doing a new system for 2022.
b. Email me with your name and email address
c. I will send you an invite from www.teamsnap.com go to www.teamsnap.com link and register for the club online. You also pay here online for the club membership.
d. Club Membership fee and even donations can be paid online at paypal.me/greensboropacesetter Make sure you put down athletes name who payment is for or what you are paying for.
3. Fill out Pacesetter Membership form and pay the membership fee online after you get your USATF Membership number. TBA location of payment system and sign the volunteer requirement for the fall.
4. Then go to www.usatf.organd join as a youth memberships or renew from last year. Instructions below.
Joining the Greensboro Pacesetters with USATF, Quick version
1. YOU MUST FILL OUT A MEMBERSHIP FORM, USATF CARD AND PROVIDE 2 COPIES OF YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE. USATF Club # 13-0622
A. Your USATF membership number can be obtained at WWW.USATF.ORG,register as Greensboro Pacesetters 13-0622
B. Immediately send a copy of your birth certificate with your USATF number on it to the online system USATF is currently doing.
C. This must be done ASAP or by June 1. We can not enter you in meets until this is done.
For Coaches and Volunteers: As like everyone, USATF is going a little crazy in the requirements.
1. Join USATF as a coach and list the Greensboro Pacesetters Track Club as your club, USATF Club # 13-0622, our name should pop up in club box.
2. Then do the YOUTH background check at www.usatf.org at the same time. this is good for 2 years now instead of every year.
3. Then go to the coaching area and take the about one hour course on Safesport with your USATF number. Every Olympic sport coach has to do this. Easy but must be done.
4. Background check takes about 2 days. Once you are listed as approved, you are ready to help out with the kids.
5. One of the best parts about doing this is that you get in free to every JO state, regional and national meet. This actually saves money if you go to the meets and is cheaper than buying a ticket.
How does Track and Field work?
Mid-May to August 1
Track and field for Junior Olympics
7-18 years old, practice, Invitational meets, All comers meets
Mid-August to Dec. 1
Cross Country and distance running for kids 8th grade and below. All high school athletes should be competing for their high school team.
December to February
Indoor track and field for high school athletes.
There is one track meet in Winston-Salem for younger kids. Everyone is practicing on their own or with their high school team. There are a few FEW indoor meets in Winston as All comers meets for any age. You can also travel to NYC for meets if you really think you must compete.
March to May
Outdoor track and field for high school athletes
Outdoor Track and field for middle school athletes
Younger athletes can compete in large, wild developmental meets. Practice is up to the coaches when they can have it.
Contact Coach Crump about when he may start.
2014 USATF National JO Championships Video of Pacesetters
Nolan Cook dominates winning the 15-16 1500 Final
Nolan Cook Semi-finals of 1500, you know you are the man when you take a water break on the first lap and put the cup in the garbage can to keep the track clean. Yes, this is in the middle of a race.
Steeplechase Nolan Cook 2nd place 15-16
Tori Martin 2nd place steeplechase 15-16
This is after 5 hours in the sun for the morning pole vaults of 10’ 10”.
4x 800 15-16 relay 6th place
Good, solid run for all the runners.
Olivia Romine running her best time in 1500 13-14 girls
2014 USATF Junior National Championships Eugene Oregon
Blair Ramsey semi-finals 1500, she has to run fast to get into the finals.
Blair Ramsey finals, Great race for 7th of the best 19 and under athletes in USA.
Middle School Cross Country 5th-8th grade
In the Fall, Coach Sachin Anchan has a group training for the Junior Olympic cross country meets which runs from Mid-August to Early December.
Mark also has a small group who wants to train and get in shape in the winter( January to March/April/Early May) before the spring and summer meets. This is running training only. This is NOT for high school athletes who should be running for their high schools.
Fall Cross Country
Meet at the tennis courts at Grimsley High School. We will practice at least 2 days per week. Most practices will be on Mondays and Thursdays. Practices are usually at the park across the street from Grimsley or at Bur-Mill Park.
Additional Information:
TBA
Pacesetter Track Club Records and all time top 10 list
Look at the list at our website. If you made the list, email me with name, age group, event, time and meet. I will try and get them up later this week. Do this NOW. Once school and the fall XC season starts, it will be hard to change the list.
We had LOTS of new additions to the lists. Make sure you get your name in the correct spot. The team reset a few 20 + year old records this year. Blair broke a 31 year old record and Nolan broke one that was 28 years old. Tori and Nolan killed the steeplechase record.
If you are missing medals from this summer, let me know the event, meet name and place.
Cross Country Meets:
1. Everyone must help out at least 2 times this fall in our XC meets. This is what you signed up for as part of the track club. If you can not help out(we would rather have your help), you can pay the extra $100 in order for us to hire people/other schools to help in the XC meets. Sending a check will be fine.
2. Helping out is actually a lot of fun. We need lots of workers at all the meets. The jobs can fit what you like to do. Timer, crowd control, starting line help, chute workers, Write down race numbers at end of chute, pull tags at chute, set up course, take down course, sell T-shirts, post results, more people to help in chute, back up starter, traffic control, registration, +++
3. Some of the volunteers have been helping us in the meets for over 20 years. Once your child gets out of high school, come on back out and help us out.
4. The XC meets are what pays for all the free things we do such as the All Comers meets, Guilford County HS XC Championships and other events. Free race numbers for the high school teams.
5. High School athletes: YOU need to stay after the meets and help us the rest of the day. Tell your high schools you need to help take down the course and put everything up.
6. Hagan Stone Park still has a lot of damage from the storms last spring. If you are good at moving limbs or have a chainsaw, we need to get a group out there this week to make the trail usable in parts.
High School Cross Country Athletes:
The XC HS season is very short this year with a November 1 State Meet. You need to put in the hard work now and September and be ready for peaking early. Once the 2nd week of October is done, the season is about over. Be ready to peak early this year.
Athletes, you should try and get together to have some hard workouts in September and Early October on the weekends your high school is not training.
High School Track and Field Athletes:
The outdoor 3A and 4A season is also short this year. Again, be ready to work hard in February and March to have an early peak for the State meet.
Indoor Track will be very important this year about getting into shape. Southwest will be having 2 indoors meets at JDL and the County Championships will be a little later this year.
Pacesetter Sweats, performance T's, T-shirts,
It is to short a span to get what we need over the summer on time. We are going to get Pacesetter clothing this fall to purchase. We will try and have the items at Off n Running this fall and give you about 5 weeks to purchase them. What is not purchased will be boxed up.
This way you can wear the Pacesetter clothing in the Winter and Spring and some new athletes might ask you about the club.
We went through all the old uniforms in my attic and put all the extras in boxes. I will try and have a night to come by in August and you can pick out any you want to have. There are mostly bigger sizes but a few smaller ones are left.
Clayton took pictures of all the old uniforms and we will have them on our picture website soon.
https://greensboropacesetterstrackclub.shutterfly.com
Pictures:
We are starting to find all the old pictures of our club athletes and putting some on the internet at:
https://greensboropacesetterstrackclub.shutterfly.com
I need your pictures of ANY year you have of pacesetter athletes competing. They need to be labeled by at least the year taken and hopefully, year, meet, event, person in photo.
CHECK out what is up now and see what you can add to it. We even need OLD runners photos(parents I coached).
Any questions, let me know. We had a very nice season this year and look to having an even better year in 2015.
Track and Field web sites which may help you out.
High School
Fantastic facts on NC high school track. Every state meet in last 50 years.
This is the milesplit site for NC.
NC track coaches association
NC high school association
National site on high school athletics.
College
Every NCAA 1, 2, and 3 team and athlete results for every performance on the team in EVERY meet. You can look and see what it takes to be on a college team and what they are running now. Unbelievable site for information.
Wow, USA track coaches association, All college results must be on here for NCAA qualifying, huge amount of information.
NCAA Clearinghouse: YOU must go through here in order to compete in college. Every potential college athletes will need to do this after their junior year and before their senior. You can register now to get an account and see what is required.
Coaching Information
Huge and very well done free 456 page coaching manual for any track and field event and meet management. Wonderful site for youth sports.
Basic coaching information and international results and rules.
General
The site for how to qualify for a USA team. Drug testing information, coaching information, some results if you can find them, what support there is for Olympic and international USA athletes, coaching clinics, level 1, 2, 3
International governing body of Track and Field. Look up any world class athlete in world to see their performances, coaching information, lots of world wide videos, +++
Great information on National and World Class running.
Huge site on a multitude of links dealing with all parts of track and field
Track video
NY meets and information
