Tom Rousculp
Dave,
This is great! So awesome to see such energy from the students AND the
community.
Keep it up and we'll see you on Sunday!!
Tom
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:04 AM, David and Leanne MacFarlane wrote:
> Hello HS coaches,
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> This is Dave MacFarlane from Roseburg HS and we have had some break
> throughs down here that I wanted to share with the rest of you.
> We already have a cycling program through the school called Step-up to help
> at-risk students stay in school and last Monday received
> an award from the Governor honoring the program for it's encouragement of
> physical fitness. At the beginning of the cyclocross season
> we made plans to participate as a HS team, but when the school Adm. found
> out that we were taking students out of town to race on the weekends,
> they were a little taken back and put a halt to it. I talked to John
> Wilson about this and he said that no other HS team was experiencing any
> problems
> so there was no track record as to what to do. So I actually went over the
> HS adm. heads and talked directly to the district superintendent and he
> was very supportive over getting something worked out. After many
> meetings, it was decided that the race team had to be an after school club
> sport like bowling, lacrosse, etc.
> So we made an application and we officially are now a club sport at the
> school that is open to all students not just the step-up kids (we are now up
> to 10 racers)
> We still have the hassle of setting up our own account and tax ID, but we
> are getting that done too. The local cycling club Umpqua Velo is donating a
> matching gift
> of up to $1400 to get us some new bikes too, as we do not have enough bikes
> for all 10 racers at the moment. I knew there would be barriers this season
> in cyclocross,
> I just didn't know that the hardest ones would be off the course.
>
> Dave
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