Summer was a much needed break after the past year and I am disappointed it is already over. In a future post, I will share how I honed my inspiration and motivation skills for coaching while hiking my kids up mountains in Colorado. More importantly, the beginning of the school year is upon us and means reconnecting with the team, welcoming the first-year students, and the Go Johnnies Challenge.
Saint John’s will be doing our annual online fundraising event next week on Thursday, September 2nd. The fall fundraising event helps coaches plan for the upcoming year and has been invaluable in allowing us to expand opportunities for the team. We have used previous fundraising to cover travel expenses for cross country trips to Oregon and track and field trips to California. We are hopeful that we can resume those trips this year. We have an outstanding group of seniors and it would be fun to travel with them.
In the week leading up to the Go Johnnies Challenge, Joe and I will be making good on our promise from last year: for every ten donors, we would compete/complete one event of the decathlon. With over 100 donors, we are reluctantly doing the decathlon. We have both battled injuries this year and will hobble to the start line next week.
We will be posting some likely embarrassing videos and results next week leading up to the September 2nd fundraising event.
Details: Go Johnnies Challenge
The website is currently up and you can donate anytime before the end of the day on September 2nd.