Practices are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-7:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00-11:00am until meets begin-(some coaches begin their practices at different times, please check with your individual coach).

What to Wear: running shorts, tee shirt, and running shoes. Sweats or a jacket and long pants are strongly recommended at all practices and meets, as it tends to get cold quickly. Please carry all your track items in a sports bag and also MARK ALL SWEATS, JACKETS, PANTS, WATER BOTTLES etc. with your athlete's name. Always bring a water bottle, with your athlete's name written on it. Please be sure to have your athlete throw away or bring home their water bottle at the end of each practice. Boys should wear an athletic supporter or jockey-type underwear. Please use the bathroom at home before track practice, as there are no open ones at Royal HS, Monday through Friday.

Shoes: good running shoes are a must; Foot Pursuit (in Simi Valley) will give you a 10% discount on shoes. Spikes may not be worn by Gremlins and are not a necessity for all athletes (check with your coach).

Uniforms: will be given to your child before the first meet. The uniforms are yours to keep at the end of the season.

All teams are organized into age categories determined by the year of the child's birth:

What is great about running track is that when multiple heats are held for an event (100m is the classic example), the children are placed into the heats based on their best times so that they are always competing against others of their approximate abilities. That way, most kids over the season will win heats or come close to it. At least the chance is there since they improve their times and distances from week to week.

The schedule is posted on our calendar and will be available as a download in the forms and downloads section of the member's area of the website.

SCYTFC Varsity Championships are for those individuals or relay teams who have met a qualifying standard. If the athlete meets a qualifying standard in any event, he or she must compete in the SCYTFC Varsity Championships and may not compete in the SCYTFC Junior Varsity Championships. Even if an athlete meets only one qualifying standard, and may therefore compete only in that event in the SCYTFC Varsity Championships, he or she may not compete in the SCYTFC Junior Varsity Championships in the other events for which he or she did not qualify for. The top four finishers in each event at the SCYTFC Varsity Championships then qualify to compete in the SCYTFC-VCYTC Co-Conference Championships. SCYTFC Junior Varsity Championships are the only finals for all other individuals who did not meet a qualifying standard during the season.

Ribbons: Ribbons will be awarded to each individual for every event contested through the whole season. Medals go to the top six finishers at League Finals and to the top six at IEC with ribbons to other places through 9th. At the Open Finals, ribbons go to all contestants in each heat, just as during the regular season, plus medals are awarded to the top 6 individuals based on time or distance from all the heats.