Arizona Trip 2018

Hello Team:

I apologize for getting this out so late.The history of this trip has always been on a short timeline. We are starting our 3rd week and only a handful of quality workouts and only one meet. The trip we take is to Chandler Arizona for the Chandler Rotary Invite. The meet includes over 150 teams over 2 days.

We have a few from last year and are trying to fill the trip with new members this year. From our workouts and meet last week we want to include as many as we can, but the meet is limited to Varsity runners at three different levels. There is also a limit of just 2-3 per event.

Benefits of this trip include a great team bonding experience. This is a TEAM event and we want to enjoy the travel and the experience as much as the competition. The cost of the trip includes our Charter Bus down and around and then back. The reason we do the bus is to keep transportation available (no cost for multiple coaches driving 3 or more vans). We also are able to change or add runners at the final days if needed. The cost vs flying and transportation is about the same or even maybe a little less.

We also have hotel rooms booked at the Days Hotel in Mesa. The total cost of the bus and hotel and our entry fee will stay at $500. This is still less that our actual costs and we will ask for help with one of the team dinners and we will cover the rest. The breakdown for the bus is about $375 and hotel is about $100 for 3 nights.

We split the bus up among the entire team to keep the cost fair and affortable

We offer 2 different fundraisers including our online snapraise and our runathon donation drive. We also may use some funds from our team fundraiser track meet and a couple of team dinners (Chillis and maybe one other).

There is no reason the kids can't reduce this cost by fundraising if they put in the effort (parents can help support this too)

Nothing is due until the fundraising is over after April 19th and final payment will be due by May 15th and be added to the required fee on IC

We plan to leave on Wednesday March 21st
We have the 22nd to practice and do some team activities .
The meet is all day on Friday and Saturday. We qualify for different sessions. We will have food and water along the way and leave after the meet on Saturday and our driver will get us back to Parker on Sunday around noon.

I will have a detailed letter available and the coaches info as well. If you have any questions along the way, please email me.

Entries are due on Wednesday March 14th, so please let me know by then so we can try to get everyone in 2-4 races over the 2 days.

This is a great quality meet in great weather and low altitude. The performances can be fast, and the awards are amazing. The experience is priceless! All performances will be reported on MileSplit, but wont count towards rankings since it is an out of state event. The memories have been very positive and the team looks forward to this each year. This will be our 5th straight year and we have always had some great performances and feedback.

I hope you will consider this and let us work with you.

roger.miller@dcsdk12.org