We’ll post information soon on our spring track season!

We’re excited to announce our plans for the 2025 cross-country season! Here are some important details:

• If you are new to the team, please be sure to review our parents’ handbook
• We will continue to use TeamSnap to coordinate practice and events. Even if you are not yet ready to register your runner, please contact us and we can add you to TeamSnap so that you don’t miss out on schedule changes.
• Our registration fees and timeline are the same as last year; register here
• We will begin pre-season practice the week of June 9. Initially we will follow this schedule:
  • Monday 7–8:30pm at the American Tobacco Trail New Hill–Olive Chapel parking area. Focus on distance.
  • Thursday 7–8:30pm at Hilltop Needmore Park in Holly Springs. Focus on speed and pacing.
  • Saturday 7:30–9am at Sugg Farm park. Focus on “hills and drills.” Sometimes the gates are not open yet at 7:30 so we park just outside. Note that we will occasionally switch Saturday mornings to a different location for track work; schedule TBD.
• It will be a couple months before we have details about this fall’s meets. As we get details we will post them to TeamSnap and to the meets page here.

Your coaches this year are Jon Noel, Dan Radez, and Josiah Ruhl; and your student coaches are Cortlan McLean and Marion Egen.

Grace and peace to you!

Cary Fire is excited to announce our first ever spring track program for both competitive and non-competitive middle and high school runners!

Track season begins on February 13th and tentatively concludes the first week of May. We plan to offer three practice opportunities each week; while attendance is not mandatory, it will be taken into consideration for our competitive runners when assigning them to events.

Our goal in our first season is to provide athletes the opportunity to participate in 4-6 competitions. This year we will focus exclusively on track and not hurdles or field events. Many of the meets take place on Saturdays. We are still working out what meets we will participate in and whether they are available to both middle and high school.

We are using TeamSnap to coordinate our practice schedule—if you would like to meet our team and coaches for a few practices before deciding to join the team, please reach out and we can add you to as an interested party.

Registration is open on our website at: https://caryfirexc.org/register/

Registration for 2024 is now open and we will be starting our pre–season practices soon! We’ve written a new parents’ handbook this year to answer common questions. If you are new to the team you are welcome to join us for a few practices and talk to our coaches and parents to see if our team is a good fit for you.

For the beginning of the season, our practice plans are as follows, starting the week of June 3:

• Monday 7–8:30pm at the American Tobacco Trail New Hill–Olive Chapel parking area. Focus on distance.
• Thursday 7–8:30pm at Hilltop Needmore Park in Holly Springs. Focus on speed and pacing.
• Saturday 7:30–9am at Sugg Farm park. Focus on “hills and drills.” Sometimes the gates are not open yet at 7:30 so we park just outside.

Evening practice times will move earlier over the course of the season as the sun sets earlier. Occasionally we may switch Thursday practice to Seymour Athletic Fields in Apex or do Saturday track work at Apex Friendship Middle School. We use TeamSnap exclusively to communicate changes to practice location and schedule, so please reach out to us if you are not on TeamSnap currently.

Please also let us know if you are interested and available to assist with coaching this year.

Grace and peace to you!

Brad Hodges
Asher Moonen
Scott Moonen
Josiah Ruhl

Registration for 2023 is open and we are excited to start pre–season practices soon! If you are new to the team you are welcome to join us for a few practices and talk to our coaches and parents to see if our team is a good fit for you. For the beginning of the season, our practice plans are as follows, starting the week of June 5:

• Monday 6–7:30pm at the American Tobacco Trail New Hill–Olive Chapel parking area. Focus on distance. (Note: park closing time shifts with sunset so we may need to end our first couple practices early.)
• Thursday at 6–7:30pm at Seymour Athletic Fields in Apex. Focus on speed and pacing.
• Saturday at 7:30–9am at Sugg Farm park. Focus on “hills and drills.” Sometimes the gates are not open yet at 7:30 so we park just outside.

Occasionally we may try a Durham parkrun, switch to Seymour Athletic Fields in Apex, or do some track work at Apex Friendship Middle School. We use TeamSnap exclusively to communicate changes to practice location and schedule, so please reach out to us if you are not on TeamSnap currently.

Our primary coaches are Karen Adams, Scott Moonen, and Josiah Ruhl. Please let us know if you’re interested and available to assist with coaching in case someone else can’t make it. We’re glad that Eli Ruhl is continuing as assistant coach, Ana María Fraticelli as team manager and assistant coach, and our alumnus Keaton Adams is joining as assistant coach.

As in the past we depend on you to register with USATF for team insurance. Their fee is about $33 this year. You can go ahead and register with them any time; our team is “CARY FIRE (NC – 13-1087).” Fees for team registration this year are:

• High school runner $75 before July 1, $150 after
• Non–high school runner $60 before July 1, $120 after
• For non–competitive runners we request a $30 donation before July 1, $60 after

We welcome kids who are younger than middle school to practice but we need help from parents during practice to ensure they are safe. They won’t be able to run in every race but we will do our best to include them when we can.

Grace and peace to you!

Karen Adams
Keaton Adams
Ana María Fraticelli
Scott Moonen
Eli Ruhl
Josiah Ruhl

We’re excited for our pre–season work to start soon! Here are some details:

Our pre–season practices start Monday, June 6. Our current plan is:

• Monday 7–8:30pm at the American Tobacco Trail New Hill–Olive Chapel parking area. Focus on distance. (Note: park closing time shifts with sunset so we may need to end our first couple practices early.)
• Thursday at 7–8:30pm at the picnic shelter at Seymour Athletic Fields in Apex. Focus on speed and pacing.
• Saturday at 7:30–9am at Sugg Farm park. Focus on “hills and drills.” Sometimes the gates are not open yet at 7:30 so we park just outside.

Occasionally we may try a Durham parkrun, switch to Hilltop–Needmore Park, or do some track work at Apex Friendship Middle School. We’re planning to use TeamSnap exclusively to communicate changes to practice location and schedule, so please reach out to us if you are not on TeamSnap currently.

Our primary coaches will be Scott Moonen, Eli Ruhl, Josiah Ruhl. Please let us know if you’re interested and available to assist with coaching in case someone else can’t make it. We’re glad that Karen Adams and Ana Maria Fraticelli are continuing as our team managers. We’re still working out assistant coaches as well and hope to see some new faces as well as some familiar faces.

As in the past we depend on you to register with USATF for team insurance. Their fee is just under $30 this year. You can go ahead and register with them any time; our team is “CARY FIRE (NC – 13-1087).” We’ll have more details on team registration in early June but our fees this year will be:

• High school runner $50 before July 1, $100 after
• Non–high school runner $30 before July 1, $60 after
• For non–competitive runners we request a $15 donation

We welcome kids who are younger than middle school to practice but we need help from parents during practice to ensure they are safe. They won’t be able to run in every race but we will do our best to include them when we can.

Grace and peace to you!

Karen Adams
Ana María Fraticelli
Scott Moonen
Eli Ruhl
Josiah Ruhl