Wilmington Middle School Cross Country Relay Invitational 2015

Wilmington, PA
Hosted by Wilmington

Meet Information

MIDDLE SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY RELAY INVITATIONAL
Who: Middle School students only. This will be a small meet. I will only accept up to 8 schools.
What: Cross country relay (teams of three runners each run one mile of the cross country course)
When: Friday, October 9th, 2015, 5:00pm
Where: Wilmington Area campus (start and finish at the baseball fields, parking near stadium)
Why: The goal is to provide a fun, athlete-centered meet for middle school athletes.
How: Each school can run up to five scoring relays. Each relay will consist of three runners. The first two runners will run 1 mile. The third runner will run 1.1 miles. Runners will run with and exchange a track baton. Teams are responsible for bringing their own batons.
How much: $25 per team (includes both boys and girls). I am just charging enough to cover the cost of awards. I am doing this because I wanted to provide a fun meet for our middle schoolers. Obviously, with this price tag, we wont be hiring a timing service, so everything will be hand timed.
How to enter: Fill out the attached form and email it to mbabroad124@gmail.com before September 25th. Checks made out to the Wilmington Area Cross Country Boosters are also due by September 25th. Names of runners requesting combo teams must be submitted by email to the same address by Oct. 5th.
Awards: Awards will be provided for the top three relay teams in each race. The winning relay team in each race will receive gold (gold colored not real gold!) batons.
In addition to the individual relay awards, there will also be a team competition. For this competition, relay teams will be treated as individual runners. The first relay team to finish will earn one point, the second relay will earn two, etc. The scores of the top three relays from the same school will be added up. Fourth and fifth relays from the same school will count as displacers. The low score wins. Depending on the number of teams participating, I may add more than one team award and more than three individual relay awards. There will be an awards ceremony.
Other notes: If you do not have enough athletes for a full team, please email me the names of your athletes. If I can, I will put athletes on combo relay teams, combining runners from different schools into a relay on a first-come, first-serve basis. This will allow as many athletes as possible to participate in a team relay. Runners on a combo team are eligible for individual relay awards, but not for team score awards. This will be a short meet, so you probably dont need a tent, but if you want one, you can set it up inside the fenced baseball fields near the start/finish.
Anticipated Schedule:
4:30 Coaches meeting
5:00 Middle School girls race
5:45 Middle School boys race
6:30 Awards ceremony
MIDDLE SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY RELAY ENTRY FORM

SCHOOL: ______________________________________________________________________

COACHS NAME: ________________________________________________________________

COACHS CELL PHONE NUMBER: ___________________________________________________

NUMBER OF ANTICIPATED BOYS RELAY TEAMS: ____________

NUMBER OF ANTICIPATED GIRLS RELAY TEAMS: ____________

NUMBER OF ANTICIPATED EXTRA RUNNERS IN NEED OF A COMBO TEAM: ___________

Please remember to bring enough batons for your teams.
Please remember to send your check by September 25th.