Crystal Lake South 2013Cross Country Invite.
Where: Veterans Acres Park. Veterans Acres Park is located on Walkup Road, about a ¼ mile north of Rte 176. The course is on grass and paths. Spikes can be worn.
When: Saturday September 7, 2013
Competing Teams: Belvidere North,Belvidere, Cary, Crystal Lake South, Decatur St. Theresa, Dundee Crown, Elgin , Elgin Larkin (Girls),Glenbrook South(Boys), Grant, Hampshire,Harvard, Huntley (Girls), Johnsburg, Lake Zurich (Girls), Marian Central, McHenry, Palatine Fremd (Boys), Rolling Meadows, Streamwood, Vernon Hills(Girls), Wauconda, West Chicago,Woodstock
Schedule of Races:9:00 am F/S girl’s (3400m), 9:30 am F/S boy’s (3400m), 10:00am varsity girl’s (3 miles), 10:40am varsity boy’s (3 miles).
Scoring: The top 5 runners from each school will count toward their teams total points. Runners 6 and 7 from the team will be pushers. All races will be unlimited entries. Any runners from a team that finish after their 7th will not effect the scoring.
Timing: We will be having the meet chipped time by realtiminginc.com
This year we will have INVITATIONAL T -SHIRTS on sale for $20.00. We will also have a concession stand.
Team Awards: Team trophies will be awarded to the 1st through 5thplace teams in each of the four races.
Individual Awards:
Frosh-Soph: Trophies 1st – 10th
Medals 11th – 70th
Varsity: Invite T-Shirts and Trophy 1st - 10th
Medals 11th - 70th
Finish place cards will be handed out for runners 1 – 70 in the chute. Runners 11 – 70 will take their card to a table to pick up their medal. There will be an awards ceremony at the conclusion of the varsity boy’s race for places 1 – 10 and team awards.
The bus will leave LZHS at 6:20am.
Do not miss the bus.
Important information about parking from the host school:
Spectators will not be allowed to park in the parking lot or on the side streets by Veterans Acres. This will be policed by the Crystal Lake police department and people may be ticketed for parking on side streets.
Spectators are to park at Prairie Ridge High School or Crystal Lake Central High School. We will have busses that will shuttle the spectators from the school to the course. The busses will also shuttle the spectators back to the school. These shuttle busses will run constantly from 8:15 until the end of the awards ceremony.
Prairie Ridge High School and Crystal Lake Central High School are both one mile away from Veterans Acres. To get to Prairie Ridge High School the spectators will drive past Veterans Acres and the high school will be on their right about a mile after Veterans Acres. To get to Crystal Lake Central High School the spectators will have to turn south on Walk-up, off of Rte. 176. This is the opposite direction from Veterans Acres. They will run right into the school about a mile down the road.
Please advise the spectators to allow time to be shuttled to the course. They should show up 40 minutes before the race starts. If they want to see the frosh/soph girl’s race they should be at the school by 8:20. If they want to see the frosh/soph Boy’s race they should be at the school by 8:50 and so on. My guess is that Prairie Ridge will fill up first. It is the same ride from Crystal Lake Central. Please advise some of your parents to try and use Crystal Lake Central also.
We appreciate everyone’s help and patience with this new format. The park district has requested this change if we want to continue to use Veterans Acres as a course.