WTC’s youth cross country program is set to begin on Sunday, August 28. The program will be held at the J. Lee Gould Track & Field Facility at Leary Field, Bacon St., Waltham, and will be held each Sunday through Thursday through December. The program is open to boys and girls, ages 8-14, and will involve training and racing through grass fields and wooded trails. Members will choose which nights they want to attend, but are expected to attend at least 2 nights per week. Members who also participate on their middle schools’ cross country teams will continue to train with their middle school teams until their season is over and then join our club program (though they are welcome to practice and compete with WTC on days that such does not conflict with their middle school program).

TENTATIVE CROSS COUNTRY COMPETITION SCHEDULE

• SUNDAY, SEPT. 18: CVS RACE IN PROVIDENCE, RI, 8:00 A.M. (ALL MEMBERS SHOULD ATTEND)
• SUNDAY, OCT. 2: FRANKLIN PARK DEVELOPMENT 1.1 MILE RACE
• SUNDAY, OCT. 9: WAYLAND XC CHALLENGE (THIS IS A TEAM SCORING RACE)
• SUNDAY, OCT. 16: FRANKLIN PARK DEVELOPMENT 1.1 MILE RACE
• SUNDAY, OCT. 23: MAYOR’S CUP AT FRANKLIN PARK (SAME COURSE AS DEVELOPMENT RACES ON OCT. 3 & 18, ALL MEMBERS SHOULD ATTEND, THIS IS A TEAM SCORING RACE)
• SATURDAY, NOV. 5: MIDDLE SCHOOL STATE MEET IN TEWKSBURY
• SUNDAY, NOV. 6: AMHERST, NH XC INVITATIONAL
• SUNDAY, NOV. 13: NE JR OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIPS AT FREESTYLE FARM IN AMHERST, NH (ALL MEMBERS SHOULD ATTEND)
• SUNDAY, NOV. 20: REGION 1 JR. OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIPS IN QUEENSBURY, NY

Club member TJ Noonan finished third in the Youth Boys (13-14) javelin at the National Junior Olympic Championships in Wichita, Kansas this past weekend. His throw of 171’5″ was a personal record and was a huge improvement on his seed and national qualifying distance of 164’5″.

Read more about TJ’s throw at Wicked Local. Full results can be found here.