Dear Kadoka Area,
This week starts a series leading to the school year’s beginning. We have begun to have
informational meetings for our fall sports. As part of my partnership with our excellent activities
director, Mr. Mark Reiman, I attend these events and try to relay essential information for the
upcoming season in each significant fall sport. Later this fall, I will go through the arts activities and their knowledge as they start after the beginning of the year. However, the next three weeks will focus on those sports that begin before the beginning of the year.
This past Thursday, Coach Jesse Taylor of the Kadoka Cross Country team had his informational meeting for students/athletes. To start, we are so blessed to have a coach with Coach Taylor’s vision and passion for the sport of the cross country. The amount of experience he brings to the job is valued and rare, similar to all our fall sports coaches.
Coach Taylor gave the team his expectations at the evening event and spoke about his vision for success for the program. Practice will start on August 16th, the day before classes begin. Meets will be either Friday or Saturday each week, and on days that there are no meets on either of those days: practices will be held for the team in the local community. He said that he thinks his team needs more work with hills this year, so this group will scale our Badland terrain quite a bit in practice. The team will have team dinners on four Thursday nights and have a family day at Sheridan Lake on August 20th.
We look forward to having our Kougar Cross Country team compete this year. We are so fortunate to have such experienced fall coaches in our sports at KAHS, and it is very comforting as a principal to know that we have such upstanding individuals working with our kids.
Sincerely,
Mr. Lukens