Practice Updates

With the end of the semester coming up, we wanted to give you all a few updates on how practice will be running until winter break.

• Distance practice: now begins at 4:30pm! We're done with structured workouts for the semester--great work on a successful cross country season!--but we'll continue to meet Monday-Thursday outside Union South.
• Sprints and Field practice: will remain at 5:30pm, but will now meet at the Near West Fields. 

Distance practice will ONLY RUN MONDAY AND TUESDAY THIS WEEK. THERE IS NO SPRINTS PRACTICE. Have a good Thanksgiving break, and we'll see you next week! Please feel free to reach out to the event VPs (Sam Culwell, Lauren Fligge, Grace Nwankwo, or Nathan Phillips) with any questions about practices or workouts!

Elections

This year, elections will be held on Thursday, December 4th, at 7pm. We'll start the night off with our cross country season recap and awards, and then move onto election speeches and appointments! If you think you're interested in running for a board position, reach out to the current board member for more information about each role. You must have five volunteer hours submitted to Volunteer Coordinator Jenna Auth in order to be eligible to run. If you do not have five volunteer hours completed and need to get some, Jenna can help you figure out what to do. Election interest forms can be found here!

socials

• Thanks to everyone who came to Brinner this week! We had so much fun scarfing down pancakes, and the pie-snipes were awesome! Hope that it got everyone into the holiday spirit and that you enjoyed spending some quality time with your fellow Cows.
• Send in your hometown (or Madison!) Turkey Trot photos (to Secretary Nora McCormick (me!)) to be featured on the WTC Instagram! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, run fast, and eat lots of pie 🦃🦃🦃
• This year's Holiday Lights Run will be held on Wednesday, December 3rd at 5:30pm. Distance practice will meet an hour later than usual and run over to the lights at Olin Park, and sprinters will meet us there (or, join distance for a run!). Bring a couple bones to get a candy cane at the end : )

Volunteering & Fundraising

The Cows have a bunch of awesome volunteering and fundraising opportunities coming up! You can find volunteering sign up here. NEW THIS YEAR: In order to be considered for a position for the 2025 Board, you MUST have completed at least five hours of volunteering in 2025. Reach out to Volunteer Coordinator Jenna Auth if you need help finding hours!

• Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered at concessions this year! We raised a TON of money for the club and ate approximately one thousand pretzels. New concessions spots will open in the winter for Kohl Center events--keep your eyes out!
• Save lives at this year's YoungbloodxWTC Blood Drive! We're looking for Cows to donate their blood as well as their time on December 11. Check out the volunteering spreadsheet for more information.