NAXC This Week (Week 5)

All week - Fall Mum Fundraiser continues: Orders for the Harvest Mum Buddies Sale are open until September 15. Click here for all the details. 

All week - Sign up to donate food for the runners' snack table at the Boardman Invitational. Your student can bring the food donation to the team bus pick-up at the Baierl Center on Saturday morning.

September 9 - Mars meet: The meet begins at 3:30 pm at Adams Township Park. Team buses leave Beattie at 1:15 pm; leave NAI at 1:15 pm, and leave the Baierl Center at 1:30 pm.

September 12 - Team Pasta Party: From 6-8 pm at Overlook Pavilion at Knob Hill Park. Donate food here!

September 13 - Boardman Invitational: The invitational is at Boardman High School in Ohio. The boys' race is at 12:30 and the girls' race at 1 pm. Team buses leave the Baierl Center at 9:30 am.

Upcoming Fundraisers

NAXC Car Magnets - we have this year's car magnets available for $20 each. If you'd like to order one, email us at naxcboosters@gmail.com and we'll be in touch!

NAXC Team Photos - Pavely Photography has our team photos ready! Use the gallery link NA2025 to see your athlete's photos. More information is available in the flyer below.

Fall Mum Fundraiser: Orders may be placed for the Harvest Mum Buddies Sale through September 15. Click here for all the details. Pick up your mums on October 7 at the Peigh family's home in Wexford.

September 16 – Chipotle in Wexford: From 4-8 pm, mention the fundraiser when you order in-store with a flyer (see bottom of this email) or online with Promo Code AV2EHCG and a portion of the proceeds benefit NAXCBA. 

Soergel Orchards Build Your Own Essentials - All season long, simplify family meal planning while supporting NAXC! Soergel Orchards will donate $20 from each purchase of a Soergel Essentials meal package to NAXC. Just enter the code “20FORNAXC” at checkout. Place your order at www.soergels.com.

Snap! Raise Fundraiser: Congratulations! In two weeks, families participating in our Snap! Raise fundraiser secured nearly $13,000 for NAXC Boosters! Haven't created a Snap! Raise account yet? It's not too late to make a lasting financial impact for our NAXC athletes. With minimal effort, submitting just 20 email addresses of family, friends, neighbors, or co-workers to your account, you are doing so much for our program. We only have two more weeks to go. Please confirm the emails entered are accurate, up-to-date, and free of spelling errors. Many thanks to everyone who has participated thus far.

Save These Dates 

Team Pasta Party: Friday, September 12 from 6 - 8 pm at Overlook Pavilion at Knob Hill Park. Donate food here!

NAXC Parent/Athlete Fun Run: Friday, October 17 at 4 pm at North Park NAXC team course.

NAXC Senior Recognition Night: Friday, October 17 from 5 - 8 pm at McKnight Elementary.

Upload Your Pics from Meets

Do you have some great images from 2025 XC meets? Upload them to our team account at Shutterfly. This is an account for everyone, so feel free to share and download pictures! If you order pictures, please be sure to order them from your personal Shutterfly account and not from the team/group account.

Username: NAXCBoosters@gmail.com

Password: NAXCBoosters2025! (case sensitive)

Volunteer with Us

Interested in helping out the Boosters? Check out these volunteer opportunities:

Pasta Parties: Help to set up and take down these parties that fuel our athletes with delicious carbs! Our next pasta party is September 12 - Donate food here. Contact Jodie Anderson for more information: jodieapril@hotmail.com. 

Invitational Food Table at the Boardman Invitational: Sign up to donate food or host the snack table. Your student can bring the food donation to the team bus pick-up at the Baierl Center on Saturday morning.

Senior Recognition Night Volunteers: There are many opportunities to help our athletes celebrate the season at Recognition Night – contact Jill Goetz goetzjpr@hotmail.com if you are interested!

Future Board Members: Let us know if you are interested in joining the board.  We’d love to have you follow along this year to learn the ropes. 

Don't forget - we are still collecting shoes for the Soles4Souls Shoe Drive! Please donate any new or used shoes in any condition to the drive! Shoes can be dropped off at practice. Any questions can be directed to Andrew Peigh or Tess Pagnotto. Thanks for all of the support!

Promote Your Business as an NAXC Sponsor

If you have a business and are interested in sponsoring our Cross Country Team for the 2025 season please follow our sponsorship link on our website www.nacrosscountry.com or send us an email to naxcboosters@gmail.com 

We have multiple sponsorship opportunities and as a thank you for your support, any business who sponsors us and has a child on the program will have their first child’s Booster fees waived for the season.

Our team appreciates our community's support and would love the opportunity to promote your business or service. Thank you to this year's sponsors:

Thanks for reading all the way to the bottom! We wanted to give you a really good cross country pun this week but seriously, we're running out of them.

We’re looking forward to another great NAXC season. Please feel free to reply to this email with questions.

Your NAXC Booster Association Board:

Tony Pizon (President)

Stephanie Lucas (Vice President)

Josh Peigh & Pilar Peigh (Co-Treasurers)

Rachel Handel (Secretary)