Fall Cross Country Info/Running Shoes!

FIRST PRACTICE: Our first team meeting will be Monday, Aug 17, at 4:00 pm at the O'Reilly Center. We'll run mornings that first week and expect to do a long run on Sunday morning.

TRAINING SHOES/GEAR: I will be ordering training shoes starting July 1 so each runner on the team has a new pair of trainers in the fall. All runners need to contact Coach Van Arkel (xcountry@drury.edu) with their training shoe brand, model and size (no experimental or beta models; only tried and true). Drury will cover up to $125 of the purchase price of trainers. Runners are responsible for providing their own racing spikes. Drury is sponsored by Adidas and we will be wearing mostly Adidas gear (shoes excepted) on days of meets. Also, each runner will be responsible for selling a Drury Sports Auction cash bash ticket in the fall in exchange for obtaining their gear.

PHYSICALS: For those freshmen and juniors who have not yet completed their physical, physicals for all incoming freshmen and junior runners will be given by the Drury team doctor on Monday, August 17. For those who can be on campus this summer, Dr. Woods is also available some Mondays in July. Physicals are required before any freshman or junior can practice.

MEDICAL FORMS: All freshmen runners must have all medical forms, including insurance card(front & back) and sickle cell test results, on file with the trainers by 4:30 pm on August 117. Signed forms must be returned to the athletic trainers and must be on file before you can practice. Links to the forms are on the Drury Panthers Athletic Training web page. Returning runners are required to update medical history and health insurance info before they can practice.


Coach Van Arkel