Welcome to the 2014/2015 Sports Page for Valleyfield!

Welcome all returning students and new students to Valleyfield! This page will be where the teachers will update you on sporting events and about our teams at Valleyfield. Stay tuned as the new school year has started and for all the great sports that will be happening at our school!

Cross Country City Finals

Congratulations to our West Division Championship runners who competed on October 17. We are proud to have so many qualifiers and great athletes. A special congratulations goes to Ella from Grade 5 who came in 22nd and qualified to run in the TDSB city finals. Ella ran today and finished in 15th place!!! Out of the hundreds of girls who went to meets all over the city, she's the 15th fastest 2km runner in the city. We are proud of your success.

Cross Country Qualifiers

Congratulations to all of our cross country runners who went to Centennial Park to compete on October 8th. We are proud of all of our finishers. Runners in grades 3-6 who finished in the top 50 in their race have qualified to run again at the West Division Championship on October 17. This year we had 10 runners qualify.

3 Boys

Omar 

Sami 

4 Boys

Hannan 

4 Girls

Olivia 

5 Boys

Jaden 

5 Girls

Ella 

Michelle

Khadijo

6 Boys

David

6 Girls

Cherokee

We are once again looking for parents willing to help by volunteering to drive some of our Valleyfield athletes to the meet. Please contact Mr. Graydon by calling the school or emailing ken.graydon@tdsb.on.ca

Urgent Appeal for Parents

We need 2 more parent volunteers for Tuesday's Cross Country meet. If you are available and would be willing to help, our athletes and coaches would appreciate it.

Thanks

Cross Country Selections

Primary and Junior selections for the October 8 Cross Country Running Meet have been made. Students who have signed permission forms to tryout and participate in cross country or "Mileage Club" have permission to attend the meet. We will be travelling by school bus to Centennial park on Oct 8th. Please see the running schedule below. For grade 1 and 2 students, the run is non-competitive and runners will not be given a placement. For grade 3-6 students, they will compete against other students and be given a placement. We will need parent volunteers on the day of the meet. Please contact Mr. Graydon at ken.graydon@tdsb.on.ca or call 416-394-7590 to help out.

Cross Country can be very difficult exercise and we salute all that tried their best to complete the distances.

Cross Country and Mileage Club

It is cross country season again. Please see the tab above for more information specific to cross country tryouts. Primary students will have three tryouts, Sept. 24, 25 and 26. Junior Students will tryout in their regular Phys. Ed. classes. Students in grades 1 and 2 must run 1km (1000m) continuously. Grade 3's - 1.5km (1500km) and Grades 4-6 must run 2km (2000m). Anyone who can not complete the distance is not allowed to compete in the West Division Qualifier meet on October 8 at Etobicoke's Centennial Park. All students are encouraged to tryout if they are interested.

Proper equipment for cross country tryouts includes: running shoes, track pants or shorts, and appropriate shirt or sweatshirt. On some colder days a jacket and hat may be appropriate.

The Mileage Club will be an ongoing running club for those that want to improve their physical fitness and meet goals. Students will be asked to monitor their progress and get rewards for their accumulated "mileage". The club will continue past the cross country meets in the fall and resume in the spring. Milege club is open to all students in grades 4-6.

Track and Field Update

Well, it was a long and tiring day, but we had a great time. Thanks to all of the athletes who tried their best and made Valleyfield one of the best behaved, but loudest team in the stands. Supporting each other is perhaps what we learned most about. Individual achievements will be posted here. All athletes that placed in the top 8 in their event scored points for Valleyfield, and we await the official results tomorrow (Friday). Grade 4, 5 and 6 students that placed in the top 4 in their events will be invited back to the West Championship Friday May 24.