Come Join NRXC!

Join NRXC!

We’d love to have you join the funnest team at NHS! If you’re up for having fun, getting in shape, and challenging yourself to improve, come on out and run with us!

It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve played other sports before, come out and give it a shot.

How to Get Started

Fill out our online form or email the coaches at coaches@northridgexc.com. Just tell us you want try running with us. Tell us what grade you’re in, whether you’ve played any sports before, and anything else we should know. We’ll give you the information you need and help you get going.

There is no deadline to start, so you can join early or late -- but we have a lot of fun over the summer, so the sooner the better! We start official training the first or second week of summer. Races usually start the first week of school, or the week before.

Program Expectations

NRXC is a group of friends that have fun running together and are excellent in integrity, teamwork, and fitness.

While we have high expectations for our coaches and athletes, there is no expectation about how fast you run to be a part of NRXC. For us, that’s the least important thing. If you want to join NRXC (and you should!) read the expectations for the athletes and coaches below. If you agree to meet the expectations for athletes, you’re in!

Download Team Standards Contract (PDF)

Teamwork

Personal Excellence

Fun

Standards for NRXC Athletes

As a member of NXRC, we want you to take your role on our team seriously, but to always remember that there are other things that come first, such as school and family. By taking care of these things first, you enable yourself to be the best teammate and runner you can be.

Putting first things first includes completing your academic work on time (and to the best of your ability!) and being a good daughter, son, sister, or brother. If you're ever having a hard time balancing everything, know that you're not the only one. Come talk to us and we'll do what we can to help!

Practice is the time to develop our personal excellence. While we will have fun at practice, and in everything we do, we are there to practice the skills that will help us improve individually and as a team. We expect you to be at practice (absent extraordinary circumstances) and to be there on time. We will begin practice no later than 5 minutes after the designated time to arrive. If you are late we will start without you. While at practice, we expect all to participate. If you are injured or otherwise unable to participate, talk to us and we'll make arrangements. At practice, give your best on the day. That is always enough.

Cross-country is fun, but like any worthwhile endeavor, at times it requires hard effort. Be willing to try hard, and you'll be rewarded with personal development, in your running and generally in life. At the same time, remember that not every day will be your best day, and that your best on the day is all you can give and always enough, no matter where it is compared to your past accomplishments.

Standards for NRXC Coaches

We will be open to, and willing to try, new ideas and philosophies and other ways to do things better. Not only will be consistently reading and learning about new training and coaching techniques, you -- as an athlete -- should always feel able to come and talk to us and suggest another training or team management approach. We'll listen carefully to your suggestion and consider it sincerely and thoughtfully.