Mission Statement: To create an environment that promotes and fosters individual and team excellence. That each of us may strive to reach our full potential physically, emotionally, spiritually and professionally.
Goals:
Physically:
- Develop runner speed through speed, endurance and resistance based training while maintaining a “good, better, best” running mentality
- Emphasize to our runners that the quality of miles is more important than the quantity
- Incorporate individual data - such as heart rate and VO2 max - to better personalize the workouts of each athlete. Coaches will use personal data (heart rate, VO2 Max) to help personalize the workout for each runner.
- Re-establish Cloverleaf Cross Country as a respected distance running program in the State of Ohio.
- Educate each athlete about the benefits of distance running so that that information maybe used throughout their lifetime - competitive running and leisure exercise.
- Establish team and personal goals.
Emotionally:
- Provide positive support to teenagers to help them learn how to handle life’s challenges of peer pressure, self-doubt etc..
- Promote an attitude of accountability to my team and my teammates - report to practice on time, attend each practice as scheduled, be accountable and responsible to my coaching staff about my need to miss a scheduled practice or meet. "
- Surround student-athletes with positive role models.
- Establish team and personal goals.
Spiritually:
- Provide positive support to teenagers who may search for spiritual direction in their life
- Encourage student-athletes to make the right moral choices even when no one is watching
- Surround student-athletes with spiritually sound role models.
- Establish team and personal goals.
Professionally:
- Encourage student-athletes to be successful in the classroom and monitor their academic progress on a regular basis.
- Promote a positive image of our team at Cloverleaf H.S., Cloverleaf community and our state.
- Establish team and personal goals.