SPARTAN PANCAKES!

PANCAKE BREAKFAST WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!

Thank you to the Lions Club and the Parents for putting this on!

 

PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Don't waste your time in Springfield, go to East Longmeadow High School.

Great Pancakes and chow!

TEAM PENTATHLON RECORD/DRIVE

The old record of 2938 points was beaten yesterday at the Team Pentathlon.

The old record was held by some of the all-time greats at our school including: Ali McMahon, Kayla Rybacki, Liann Simonds, and Julia Weithofer. 

This group of Paige Suse, Abby Laughlin, Elisabeth Cooke, Lauren Champigny and Kayla Fraser outscored some of OUR legends.

2960 POINTS!

Incredible!

We are holding a can and bottle drive Friday at the High School starting at either 9 or 10 AM. Please help us raise some really necessary money!

Thanks

MR. SUNTER

Folks, a tragedy occurred this past year in that Bryan Sunter was killed in an auto accident ( I believe) in West Springfield. I knew Bryan as a "free spirit". I did not know him well, but he made his presence known on the Boys Cross Country team.

Bryan's Dad, Ed is holding a fund raising Golf tournament and dinner this Friday to raise money for a Cross Country scholarship in his son's name.

I have known Mr. Sunter for a long time and he's truly one of the "good guys". I give him enormous credit for wanting to put together this endeavor that shall benefit an East Longmeadow Boy and Girl affiliated with the Cross Country team.

CAN & BOTTLE DRIVE

Saturday morning we have to do the first of our two Can & Bottle drives. It IS the first weekend after New Year's!

Captains and Team Leaders not attending the Freshman/Sophomore Championships are responsible for running the event!

MORE XC PRESS!

Coach Budd IS really proud of what this team accomplished this year.

East Longmeadow High School girls cross country: TRUE CHAMPIONS
Published: Monday, November 29, 2010, 5:00 AM Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010, 12:43 PM
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The East Longmeadow High School girls cross country team didn’t win any championships this season.
But in some people’s eyes, coach Michael Budd and his Spartans are true champions.

And next season, Budd wants other teams to become champions as well.
After spending hours and days with each other at practices and meets, East Longmeadow spent hours and days with each other away from the cross country course, and the benefactors of that time were various people and groups in Greater Springfield.

“I can’t pinpoint one thing (that was my favorite) because we did so much this season and we truly had so much fun and did a lot for giving back,” senior captain Jocelyn Kane said.

When Budd took over as the girls cross country coach this season, he didn’t want to be just another coach and he didn’t want his team to be just another team. He wanted more.
“I realized when I took over we weren’t going to have a very powerful team,” Budd said. “And one of the things I learned from watching (cross country coach) Art Keene at Amherst was he did a lot of community-effort type of things, and they did those together. I had been away from cross country for six years and I wanted us to be like Amherst.

“We wanted to be more involved.”

That “more involved” started in September when Budd took his 17 runners and two managers to the Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Anti-Bullying 5K Road Race and 2-Mile Walk in Springfield. The event was in memory of Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old from Springfield who committed suicide in 2009 after being repeatedly.

Kane, an honor roll student said, “Getting out there and running it, and afterward seeing all these people from different towns all coming together to celebrate somebody’s life . . . We were line dancing, and there was a song we didn’t know so we were going to get off (the dance floor), but a couple women told us to stay and said they would show us how to do it.

“There was so much love and togetherness. It was great.”

The Spartans had held a few car washes prior to the Walker event and planned on buying a new tent for their big meets. But the team instead donated their funds to the foundation in Walker-Hoover’s name.

“We had a great time there,” Budd said. “We saw a lot of people. We figured ‘What more can we do for the community?”

And they did more. On Oct. 30, with the players dressed in Halloween costumes, the team collected canned goods to donate to the open pantry in Springfield. Budd made the delivery last week.

“Instead of going unnoticed this year, coach Budd really told that ‘I know this is our growth year and I know we’re not going to have the best record, but why don’t we do what’s best for our community so we don’t go unnoticed’,” Kane said.
The Spartans hope they, as well as other teams, don’t go unnoticed next season. Budd is already planning on have teams participating in the Ted Dutkiewicz Memorial Races to bring canned goods to the 2011 event. He’s also tinkering with challenging other teams to a canned goods collection at a different point in the season.

East Longmeadow was selected as this year’s winner of the Ted Dutkiewicz Award, a statewide award which goes to the cross country team which best exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship.

Sure sounds like a true champion.

East LongmeadowGirls Cross CountryRoster Coach: Michael Budd Runners: Jocelyn Kane, Ashley Madison, Julianne Downie, Kristina Pioggia, Giorgi Bengston, Hannah Bernard, Anne Leighton, Meghan Salvon, Carly Driscoll, Kelsi Ford, Breanna Hobbs, Liann Simonds, Nicole Howell, Meredith McGowan, Catherine Merton, Nina Pham, Sarah VennManagers: Alexandria McMahon, Candace Kasper

CANNED GOODS DRIVE

Saturday from 8 to 11am at the high school as well as at the East Longmeadow Stop & Shop,we'll be taking in canned goods for the benefit of the Open Pantry.

The goal is 500 or more cans. We are also doing a can and bottle drive.

FUNDRAISER RACE

The Ladyspartans shall be participating in the Carl Joseph Walker Hoover Fundraiser Road Race on September 18 in Forest Park. Proceeds go to a scholarship in his honor and open up awareness of Bullying.

As many of you are aware, this young man from our Sister School ( New Leadership) committed suicide a couple of years ago after being bullied.

We are proud to represent in this event. For details log onto: http://www.carljoseph11.org/

10 PERSONAL BESTS/RAFFLE

The Ladyspartans had 10 personal bests last night at Smith!!! We defeated South Hadley and Brianna Tabin (7.33/42.99...WOW!)

This team showed a lot of character last night. It was not our best team performance, and many of you were sore as a result of practices this week.

New Leadership is on the horizon and they are DANGEROUS! If you track their performances since week one, you shall see that they have improved considerably overall. T

ime for us to step it up and get ready for the homestretch of the season. Well done!

Now GET OUT THERE AND SELL SOME TICKETS!

REMINDER

SPORTS NIGHT is Thursday November 5 at 6:00PM. All Track & Field candidates MUST attend and bring either one or both parents/guardians.

Forms shall be available to get eligible.

FUNDRAISERS

I have two wonderful ideas on how to raise money for the team. One is I would like to start an ALUMNI ORGANIZATION consisting of those that were previously members of the teams. One of my ideas has already been approved by Mr. Freccero, but I won't reveal it publicly because we would not want the other teams to try it first and be successful. We have always prided ourselves as being the trend setters. It is obvious we cannot do too many car washes in December. Both of these ideas need to be run by the parents in order to see if they are willing to give them a try. Your participation, of course shall be required. Please have them contact me via e-mail (darthbuddster@aol.com) so I can put together a time and date to meet with them that does not conflict with the Fall sports schedules.