Dakota Ridge XC Track and Field

 A quick Camp RECAP…. Team Camp once again proved to be fantastic for our team. Congratulations to Team 7…..”Jump” Kris Kross Probst, Chris Desmond, Evan Lunsford, Dana Oryschyn,Sydny Kurtz, Hannah Simon Straub Straub, Ethan In what was once again a fun and tough Lip Sync Battle, they prevailed. Sydny becomes a back to back champion in the event and Chris Probst kept the title in the family, winning as his brother did a year ago. At camp this year we discussed a couple of things we will refer to as the year moves along. First, we talked about Confronting the Brutal Facts and how the Stockdale Paradox will be a key feature of our process this season. As a reminder, the Stockdale Paradox… and a couple of other food for thought quotes from Jim Collins… “ Stockdale Paradox: Retain Faith that you will prevail in the end regardless of the difficulties AND at the same time confront the most brutal facts or your current reality, whatever they may ...

Get the right people first.  ...Then go somewhere.  According to James Collins before you go anywhere with an organization, business or in our case team you first need to get people. Not just any people. The right people. It is not about having people in general, it is having the right people that makes the difference. Once you have the right people you can then decide on where to go. In our context, we are not a business with positions like sales associate, manager or CEO. We don’t hire people. In fact, we don’t even cut people from the team as they do in other sports. Instead we have whomever decides to come out for Track and Field/ Cross Country. However, if we want to go from “Good to Great”, like any team we do need the right people. "Good to great companies first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus (or in the right seat) and then figured out where to drive it." ---Jim Collins  Who do we want as part of Tra...