MAKING CROSS COUNTRY SPECIAL

1.    Pasta parties

2.   Team parties after meets with or without the coach

3.   Big picnic after one practice

4.   Spaghetti Warehouse [restaurant] before State

5.   End of the year dinner/banquet

6.   Respect for each other            

7.   Game day every Friday                 

8.     Pizza parties at parents'houses

9.   Practice/running at parks

10. Frisbee football                      

11. Go out to eat after big meets

12. Friendly/supportive teammates

13. Have a web page for your team

14. Travel out of state to a meet

15. Ultimate frisbee every Friday before a Saturday meet

16.  Sunday morning breakfast

17. Team soccer games/big field and two soccer balls

18. Milkshake run, ice cream run. popsicle run, pizza run, DQ run

19.  300-mile relay

20.  Mud football     

21.   Team shirts—seniors design

22.  Clue game—run to a certain place and get a clue as to where you should go next

23.  Senior's choice [of workout or training game]

24.  Cross country camp with teammates

25.  Make spirit boxes for teammates

26.  Breakfast at teammate's house after a summer workout

27.   Running itself

28.  Water slides/swimming/aqua jogging

29.   Camping

30.  Go-carts

31.  Capture the flag and playing tag

32.  Rainbow race. Cones with numbered colored tags inside them are scattered about the school campus. Teams of 2 or 3 run to the various cones and pick out the lowest number.

33.  Play fox and hounds

34.   New friendships with team members of all ages

35. 24-hour relay/14-hour relay

36. Go to an amusement park together

37. Slumber parties

38.   Team camp

39. Run to the top of a huge hill

40.   Indian-file runs

41.  Meeting new people at meets

42.  Seniors give underclassmen a gift

43.  Girl team members make matching scrunches

44.  Holiday run with another team at the end of the season/best costume award

45.  Get a playing card every mile. At the end of the run, the runner with the best hand gets a movie pass

46.  Decorate varsity houses before state meet

47.  Girls try to do their hair the same/braids

48.   Teammates

49.  Wearing the honor vest for being the top runner in a meet

50. Nicknames for teammates