We had a wonderful time at our team retreat with some hot temps, great training, and amazing memories! We were off to a hot start on Wednesday with a blue team victory in the ski walk followed by the glow run and the first-ever dance jam at Baker led by Becca Rigg! There was back-to-back training magic with most of the team completing the 10K loop the next morning before a fun beach workout and some time to hang out. We also got to work with the Baker staff on survival skills including building structures and starting fires. Some of our teammates would survive in the wild, and others might need a little more preparation. An important takeaway from this experience was the constant need for PMA: Positive Mental Attitude. We will be applying this throughout the season, even if we aren’t building shelters in the wild. We also talked about goal setting, visualized the rest of our season by creating vision boards, had a push-up competition, learned about our teammates, ate s’mores and so much more! We went star-gazing and heard from Coach Kalsey about how we can all contribute to a Total Team Effort. The retreat experience concluded with some epic funky socks, exceptionally clean cabins, and orange team drinking pickle juice in a color team defeat which the black team narrowly avoided.

We are so grateful for this time together as a strong building block for the season, and it would not have been possible without the tremendous support of our parent volunteers. Thank you for making this such a great success! We would also like to thank the captains for all of their hard work preparing for their color teams. Now onto the rest of the season!