RACE INFORMATION

Registration:

An Electronic Registration Form can be obtained by emailing sherwoodparkxcountry@gmail.com

REGISTRATION
Athletes are registered by their school or coach. Schools may enter as many athletes as they wish.  To register students, complete the entry form including all members of your team as well as school information and send to: sherwoodparkxcountry@gmail.com There will not be on‐site registration.

ENTRY FEES
The entry fee this year will be $7.00 per student per race. All schools will be billed after the last race based on the number of athletes from their school that participated in races. An electronic invoice will be sent to the Coach approximately 2 weeks after the last race.

RACE FORMAT
The Sherwood Park X‐Country cross‐country series consists of three meets for students with races for Grades 3 to 9.   Grade 2 students are welcome to compete in the Gr. 3 race category. Depending upon registration numbers, grade races will be combined, but results will be separated into gender. The meets make up a series in which students earn points for themselves (in the individual competition), and for their grade and team (in the team competition). Awards are given for the combined results of the three meets. Elementary students must participate in all three meets to be eligible for the individual awards.  Gr. 7-9 students must participate in 2 races to be eligible for the individual awards.  Race distances will vary from about 1200 m to 2800 m.  The first race will start at 5:00 with races beginning approximately every 10-15 minutes after that.

Race Order:

For all meets the race order and approximate start times will be:

• Grade 7,8,9 boys & girls – 2500                      5:00 pm

• Grade 6 girls and boys – 1500m                      5:15 pm

• Grade 5 girls and boys – 1500m                      5:30 pm

• Grade 4 girls and Gr. 4 boys – 1250m             5:45 pm
• Grade 3 girls and boys – 1250m                      6:00 pm

PARK LOCATION

A map to the race site can be found on the Sherwood Park X‐Country website under the heading of “Maps and Directions”: http://sherwoodparkxcountry.blogspot.ca/

PARKING:  There will be limited parking available, so bussing or carpooling is suggested when possible. For your convenience, we have posted suggestions for parking locations on our website: http://sherwoodparkxcountry.blogspot.com/p/parking.html

RESULTS

All runners will be provided with their placement for their run. Results (times, places and points earned) will be posted on the Sherwood Park X‐Country website as soon as possible following the meet. We aim to have the results posted within 48 hours of the meets.

REGISTRATION LABELS

We will supply registration labels for the athletes to stick to their shirt. Please arrange to send a list of all possible participants using the attached spreadsheet to sherwoodparkxcountry@gmail.com the 12:00 NOON THE DAY BEFORE the first race of the season.  (You will only be charged for those that compete, so please include all runners in your group.  Subsequent races will only require notification of new runners.) By using this spreadsheet, it will allow us to directly import your students into our computer and thus save hours of data entry and the typos that occur with such a task. Labels will be printed for all students and results will also be available much sooner after the meet. Labels will be available to be picked up at the registration area by school coaches. Please DO NOT bring your own labels.  Sherwood Park X‐Country volunteers at the finish line will remove each runner’s labels. Please stress to your athletes that they should not remove their name labels until they are at the finish line and are asked to remove them by the Sherwood Park X‐Country volunteers. Labels that are missing, crumpled or illegible cause considerable delay at the finish line and may result in inaccurate finishing results.

AWARDS

1)  TOP TEN - Place ribbons will be given to the top ten finishers in each race at each event.

2)  INDIVIDUAL SERIES AWARDS - The meets are organized as a series, with runners earning points for each race. First in each race earns 1 point, 2^nd earns 2 points, 3rd earns 3 points etc. MEDALS will be awarded to the lowest five accumulative point earners in each category (e.g. grade 4 girls etc.) Elementary runners must compete in ALL THREE races to be eligible for these awards.  Gr. 7-9 runners must compete in TWO races to be eligible for awards.

3) TEAM SERIES AWARDS – Award plaques are also given to the top combined male/female team in each grade category on an accumulative point basis. Schools must have complete teams for each race.  Teams are made up of the first three men and first three women finishers from each school, and need not be the same individuals for all three races.  Runners finishing 7^th or greater on their team shall not displace the scores of other teams’ runners for the team standings.

4) TEAM AWARDS – Trophies will be awarded to the top elementary and junior high schools based on top 10 finisher point totals from all races.  The school with the lowest totals from the top 10 results will be awarded the trophies.

5)  PARTICIPATION AWARDS – All athletes who compete in all three races of the series will receive a participant ribbon.

CANCELLATION DUE TO WEATHER
Cross country races usually run regardless of the weather. However, there are times when the race may have to be cancelled to prevent injury to athletes. All information pertaining to the race will be posted on the Sherwood Park X‐Country website ‐ http://sherwoodparkxcountry.blogspot.ca/ . If there is a question as to whether or not the race will be on, the Sherwood Park X‐Country website will be updated by midnight the night before the race.