Emily Pritt 6/4/23 Emily Pritt 6/4/23

PTF Youth Recap + Albina Invitational Meet Sign Up

Parents,

Congratulations to all of our athletes who competed this weekend at the PTF Youth Meet! Results can be found here. There were many PRs and incredible moments of team camaraderie and great sportsmanship seen out there today. Let’s keep it going this season!

Our next race sign-up is here. Please see below the sign-up for the Albina Invitational held on this upcoming Saturday, June 10th, at Union High School in Camas, WA. Please follow the link below to indicate interest in your athlete racing at this competition. BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m for up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14. You can also request one non-distance event for your athlete to try but a reminder that we will not be able to provide coaching and you will need to get your athlete to the start of their event! Please indicate your athlete’s interest in the sign-up. Requested events (especially relays) are subject to coaches discretion and availability.

Albina Invitational Sign Up

Nike Outdoor Nationals Middle School Races

The Nike Outdoor Nationals meet is being held from June 15th-18th with Middle School races being held on Thursday, June 15th and Friday, June 16th. These races are by invitation only and require an entry standard. The potential races and entry standards for our athletes are:

Boys 400m: 58.04
Girls 400m: 1:05
Boys 800m: 2:16
Girls 800m: 2:40
Boys 1 Mile/1500: 5:10/4:50
Girls 1 Mile/1500: 5:40/5:20

Athletes must be 6th-8th grade with a Sept 1, 2003 birthdate deadline. The cost of this event is $55 and must be covered by parents. If your athlete has hit one of these standards and wants to compete, please indicate so in the Albina Invitational Sign-Up. The entry deadline closes at 12:00pm on Sunday, June 11th so athletes will have one more chance at the Albina Invitational to qualify. However, many events may close due to field size limitations. I’m speaking with the event organizers about this tomorrow but if your athlete has hit this time, please submit it sooner rather than later.

Practice This Week

We will have practice tomorrow! Please make sure to arrive early if you have questions. We will have spikes and singlets again for purchase for those interested.

Emily Pritt 6/2/23 Emily Pritt 6/2/23

PTF Youth Meet Schedule

Parents,

PTF Youth Meet Update

Please see the approximate schedule for this weekend here. A note that the schedule will go girls then boys by age group. A reminder that you can find all additional information at PTF Youth Meet (Liberty High School, Portland, OR) and see the heat sheets below.

BTC Tent @ PTF Youth Meet

We will have two large red BTC tents at the meet in one of the warm up areas. We will target the warm up area by the large parking lot. This is where your athletes should come to meet the coaches and prepare for their races. We will make sure the athletes warm up, do their drills and get to the check in on time. It is very important that you arrive with plenty of time.

ATHLETE CHECK - IN

A BTC Coach will walk athletes over in their running event groups to check in! However, please see the information below on which coaches will warm up the group:

Saturday:
Boys 3000m: Emily Pritt & Troy Bash
Girls 3000m: Combined warm up with Boys 3000m
Boys 800m: Cole Hoff & Pete Brefczynski
Girls 800m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos, Dom Arce & Elliott Heath

Sunday:
Boys 1500m: Emily Pritt & Pete Brefczynski
Girls 1500m: Cole Hoff & Elliott Heath
Boys 400m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos & Dom Arce
Girls 400m: Emily Pritt & Pete Brefczynski
Boys 4x400m: Cole Hoff & Elliott Heath
Girls 4x400m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos & Emily Pritt

RUNNING EVENTS-Running event athletes must check in at the Clerk Circle at first call ......tent located on the west end of the infield.

FIELD EVENT-Field event athletes report directly to the event to check in.

BTC Team Entries

HEAT SHEETS/LIVE RESULTS

PTF Youth Meet event wavier

Spikes/BTC Gear

We have an assortment of discount codes for your participation in the youth season:

2023 BTC Dragonfly spikes: discount code BTCYOUTHSPIKES which will take $50 off your spikes.
BTC Pegasus 39: discount code BTCYOUTHPEGS which will take $50 off your shoes.
All BTC Gear: discount code BTCYOUTH2023 for 20% off your purchase.

Please do not use this code on uniforms or any service. This is meant to help our members purchase discounted gear only.

If you’d like to order spikes to use this weekend, after you place your order please email BOTH accounts at product@bowermantc.com and youth@bowermantc.com to indicate. We can bring the spikes to the meet.

Emily Pritt 6/2/23 Emily Pritt 6/2/23

BTC Youth- Important Information

Parents,

PTF Youth Meet Update

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. View this sheet to see if who has NOT filled out a waiver. Also, please see below for the Heat Sheets and the link to live results.

BTC Tent @ PTF Youth Meet

PTF Youth Meet Schedule (“ROLLING SCHEDULE”)

I am still waiting on a confirmed meet schedule. There will be a projected meet schedule that I will send out when received (which should be later today) but parents need to know the schedule is a “Rolling Schedule”. This means the times listed are approximate and athletes and coaches need to “be ready” and listen to the announcer. It is possible that race times may occur up to 60 min earlier than the listed or up to 30 min later than listed.

As of now, running events begin at 9:00am in the order of 3000m, 100m, 800m, 4x100m. As soon as I have a firm schedule, I will send it out.

ATHLETE CHECK - IN

A BTC Coach will walk athletes over in their running event groups to check in! However, please see the information below on which coaches will warm up the group:

Saturday:
Boys 3000m: Emily Pritt & Troy Bash
Girls 3000m: Combined warm up with Boys 3000m
Boys 800m: Cole Hoff & Pete Brefczynski
Girls 800m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos, Dom Arce & Elliott Heath

RUNNING EVENTS-Running event athletes must check in at the Clerk Circle at first call ......tent located on the west end of the infield.

FIELD EVENT-Field event athletes report directly to the event to check in.

BTC Team Entries

HEAT SHEETS/LIVE RESULTS

PTF Youth Meet event wavier

Spikes/BTC Gear

If you were interested in purchasing the 2023 BTC Dragonfly spikes, you can do so online with the discount code BTCYOUTHSPIKES which will take $50 off your purchase. Additionally, we have created a 20% off code for BTC gear under BTCYOUTH2023. Please do not use this code on uniforms or any service. This is meant to help our members purchase discounted gear only.

Albina Invitational Sign-Up

Sign up for next Saturday (6/10) Albina Invitational will go out on Sunday night after the PTF youth meet. Sign-up will close on noon Tuesday, June 6th. A reminder that we will send out an announcement with a form for you to fill out indicating which races you’d like your athlete to compete in. We will register your athlete for the races. For the Albina Invitational, you will be able to register for 3 Events for age group 8U 9-10 11-12 and 4 Events for age groups 13-14.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

A reminder, to compete at the USATF meets (State, Regional, National), 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.

Emily Pritt 5/31/23 Emily Pritt 5/31/23

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

BTC Team Entries

PTF Youth Meet event wavier

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.

Emily Pritt 5/31/23 Emily Pritt 5/31/23

First Practice Starts TODAY 5/31

Parents,

Uniform/Spike Night

PTF Youth Meet

BTC Team Entries

PTF Youth Meet event wavier

USATF Membership & Age Verification

Emily Pritt 5/30/23 Emily Pritt 5/30/23

First Practice Starts Tomorrow!

Parents,

Tomorrow 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.

Uniform/Spike Night

At the end of the first day of practice tomorrow, 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

BTC Team Entries

PTF Youth Meet event wavier

USATF Membership & Age Verification

Emily Pritt 5/21/23 Emily Pritt 5/21/23

Final Reminder Portland Track Youth Meet Sign Up

Parents,

PTF Youth Meet is coming up quickly after the start of the season. There is an early deadline entry on May 20th. Please try to complete the sign up by 5:00pm today. Please follow the link below to indicate interest in your athlete racing at this competition. BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14. Please indicate your athlete’s interest in the sign-up. Requested events (especially relays) are subject to coaches discretion and availability.

If you have yet to sign up for the season, you can do that here.

PTF Youth Meet Sign Up

Practice Information

Practices will be held every Monday and Wednesday evening from 5:15pm-6:15pm at the Michael Johnson Track at Nike WHQ Campus starting on Wednesday May 31st and concluding during the last week of July where USATF Junior Olympic Championships will be held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Please try to arrive at 5:00pm on the first day of practice so we can answer questions and get organized quickly. A few coaches will plan to be around before and after practice to answer questions.

Practice Requirements

Every athlete should show up to practice with running shoes and water bottle (with your full name on it!). We expect athletes to be respectful to all other athletes and coaches and be responsive to coaches instructions. We also ask that you are respectful of the time commitment and arrive at the start of practice and pick up on time. Arriving late to drop off or pick up creates much difficulty on our staff within a limited practice time.

Uniforms

If you’ve received a uniform in the mail and the sizing isn’t quite right, we will do size exchanges the first few practices. Please try to handle this issue the first practice.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

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.

2023 Track Meet Schedule & Information

6/03-6/04 PDX Track Festival Middle School Boys Mile/Girls 1500m (Portland, OR)
6/03-6/04 PTF Youth Meet (Liberty High School, Portland, OR)
6/10- Albina Roadracers Invitational (Union High School, Camas, WA)
6/15-6/17- Nike Outdoor Nationals (Hayward Field, Eugene, OR)
6/24-6/25 USATF Association State Championship (Springfield High School, Springfield, OR)
7/06-7/09 USATF JO Regional Championship (Mt. Hood Community College, Portland, OR)
07/24-7/30 USATF JO National Championships (Hayward Field, Eugene, OR)

Some of these races will be by qualification or invitation only (PDX Track Fest MS Mile, Nike Outdoor, USATF Regional & National Championships).

BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for the following:

-PDX Track Fest/Youth Meet (entry includes up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14)
-Albina Invitational (up to 1 individual and 1 relay entry)
-USATF State Championship (up to 2 events)

If qualified and interested in competing at Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF Regional & National Championships, we will ask for additional payment to cover the race entry fees.

Emily Pritt 5/17/23 Emily Pritt 5/17/23

Portland Track Youth Meet Sign Up

Parents,

PTF Youth Meet is coming up quickly after the start of the season. There is an early deadline entry on May 20th. Please try to complete the sign up by May 20th. Please follow the link below to indicate interest in your athlete racing at this competition. BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14. Please indicate your athlete’s interest in the sign-up. Requested events (especially relays) are subject to coaches discretion and availability.

If you have yet to sign up for the season, you can do that here.

PTF Youth Meet Sign Up

Practice Information

Please try to arrive at 5:00pm on the first day of practice so we can answer questions and get organized quickly. A few coaches will plan to be around before and after practice to answer questions.

Practice Requirements

Uniforms

If you’ve received a uniform in the mail and the sizing isn’t quite right, we will do size exchanges the first few practices. Please try to handle this issue the first practice.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

2023 Track Meet Schedule & Information

Some of these races will be by qualification or invitation only (PDX Track Fest MS Mile, Nike Outdoor, USATF Regional & National Championships).

BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for the following:

-PDX Track Fest/Youth Meet (entry includes up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14)
-Albina Invitational (up to 1 individual and 1 relay entry)
-USATF State Championship (up to 2 events)

If qualified and interested in competing at Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF Regional & National Championships, we will ask for additional payment to cover the race entry fees.

Emily Pritt 5/1/23 Emily Pritt 5/1/23

2023 Summer Track Program Information

2023 Summer Track Program

BTC Parents-

We’re less than one month away from the start of practice. Last reminder that you can sign up here.

Practice Information

Please try to arrive at 5:00pm on the first day of practice so we can answer questions and get organized quickly. A few coaches will plan to be around before and after practice to answer questions.

Practice Requirements

Uniforms

If you’ve received a uniform in the mail and the sizing isn’t quite right, we will do size exchanges the first few practices. Please try to handle this issue the first practice.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

2023 Track Meet Schedule & Information

Some of these races will be by qualification or invitation only (PDX Track Fest MS Mile, Nike Outdoor, USATF Regional & National Championships).

BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for the following:

-PDX Track Fest/Youth Meet (entry includes up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14)
-Albina Invitational (up to 1 individual and 1 relay entry)
-USATF State Championship (up to 2 events)

If qualified and interested in competing at Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF Regional & National Championships, we will ask for additional payment to cover the race entry fees.

PTF Youth Meet

Sign up is due on Sunday, May 28th at 12:00pm which is before our practices start. Please follow the link below to indicate interest in your athlete racing at this competition.

PTF Youth Meet Sign Up

Emily Pritt 4/17/23 Emily Pritt 4/17/23

2023 Summer Track Program Sign-Up Reminder!

2023 Summer Track Program

BTC Parents-

A quick reminder that our first day of our 2023 Summer Track Program will start in a little over six weeks! Make sure to sign your athletes up in the next few weeks so our coaching staff can be best prepared.

Practices will be held every Monday and Wednesday evening from 5:15pm-6:15pm at Nike WHQ Campus starting on Wednesday May 31st. Practices conclude during the last week of July where USATF Junior Olympic Championships will be held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Please visit the website here to sign up and receive more information. Make sure you are signed up for youth announcements to receive the most up to date information on 2023 summer track program!

2023 Track Meet Schedule (TBD)
6/10 (TBD)- Albina Roadracers Invitational
6/03-6/04 PDX Track Festival Middle School Mile (Portland, OR)
6/24-6/25 USATF Association State Championship (Springfield, OR)
7/06-7/09 USATF JO Regional Championship (TBD)
07/24-7/30 USATF JO National Championships (Hayward Field, Eugene, OR)

2023 High School Running Camp

For those eighth graders that will be freshman in high school during the fall of 2023, we recommend looking into joining us this summer in Bend for our High School Running Camp.

More information on camp can be found here.