FIRST PRACTICE: The Drury Athletic Department has scheduled a meeting of all student athletes for 4:00 pm on Monday August 17. Our first team meeting/practice will be immediately after that on Monday, Aug 17, at 5:00 pm. We'll run some during the week and expect to do a long run the next Sunday
morning.
TRAINING SHOES/GEAR: Training shoes have been ordered for just about everyone on the team so each runner on the team will have a new pair of trainers early in the fall. If you haven't done so, please contact Coach Van Arkel (xcountry@drury.edu) with 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 will be responsible for providing their own racing spikes in the fall. Drury is sponsored by Adidas and we will be wearing mostly Adidas gear (shoes excepted) on days of meets. Gear has been ordered and will hopefully include duffel bags, Adidas back packs, sack packs, outer wear, running shorts, tees, socks, sports bras and racing singlets. We'll look at getting technical tops and bottoms after practice starts. 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 on August 17. 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
