WILLIAMS CROSS COUNTRY
PURPLE VALLEY CLASSIC
Date:Saturday, September 28, 2013
Site:Mt. Greylock Regional High School, Rt. 7
Time Schedule:11:30 Freshmen & Sub-Varsity Men's and Women’s 5K
(simultaneous)
12:00 Men's Varsity 8K
12:45 Women's Varsity 6K
Awards:Men's 8K and Women's 6K Races:
1-20 T-Shirts
Team Trophies 1st, 2nd and 3rd Men's and Women’s 5K
1-5 T-Shirts
Team Trophies 1st and 2nd
Awards Presentation: will follow right after the final race. Results will be posted on board at meet, copies available, and for view online at and at
Course:Grass flat playing fields, grass/dirt/wood chip trail loops in woods with rolling hills. Spikes permitted.
Entry Fee:$100 per men's or women's team ($200 maximum).
Please remit to: Williams College, Athletic Dept.
22 Spring St. Williamstown, MA 01267
attn: Judy Fraser
Entries: The NCAA wants all teams to enter rosters in TFRRS, so we are assuming you will do so. Entry excel template attached. Info on it; entries due by Monday Sept. 23 11:59pm, to (Assistant Coach Lance Harden)
Course Tours:After 10:00 race day course available for self-guided tours. Course well marked easy to follow.
Team Size:Unlimited.
The 5K race is coed and open to any freshmen, and those upperclass athletes not currently in team's top 7. This race offers a competitive opportunity over a challenging 5K course.
Particpating M&W Teams: Williams, Middlebury, Springfield, Manhattanville, Colby, Tufts, Oneonta, MIT, St. Rose, Manhattanville, Buffalo State, Christopher Newport, US Coast Guard, Hartwick, Mt. St. Mary College, S. New Hampshire, St. Anselm’s, Vassar, Albany College Pharmacy
August 28, 2013
Dear Coach:
Hope you’re ready to roll into XC season!. We welcome you and your team(s) Saturday September 28 to our Williams Cross Country “Purple Valley Classic”. As always we plan to provide good competition, a well-run meet, and a fun, relaxed atmosphere. This year will be the fifteenth on our great course at Mt. Greylock Regional High School (4 miles south of Williamstown on Rt. 7). The varsity races will cover the 6k and 8k courses. There is an additional 5k race. It is a scenic true x-country course, with many passes through the center for spectator viewing, and we know you and your runners will enjoy it! Attached you will find a meet information sheet. For motel or restaurant information please contact us.
The course has a mixture of grass, dirt, and chips, including trails and playing fields. There is no pavement. Spikes are permitted if desired. This year we will again run one men’s varsity race and one women’s varsity race (unlimited entries). In addition there will be a coed 5k (freshmen and non-top-7 runners eligible).
There is a large parking lot in front of the school. Facilities and locker rooms will be available in the gym. There are also locker rooms with showers available at Chandler Gym on Williams campus. Please respect school property. We do invite you to pack a lunch, as on a nice day it is a beautiful setting. Just be sure to pick up all your trash afterwards, and recycle bottles/cans!
Entries: submit your rosters to TFRRS as mentioned on our meet info sheet. More to come on that about Sept. 13. Your packet with numbers and course maps will be available when you arrive at the meet.
Awards Presentation: will follow right after the final race. Results will be posted on board at meet, copies available, and for view online at and at
Please be sure that both your Men's and Women's Coaches receive this information. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us.
Directions to the course:
4 miles south on Rt. 7 from Williamstown.
From Rt 2 east, after you go thru campus bear left on 7, go south 4 miles.
From Mass Turnpike take exit #2 for Rt. 20 north into Rt 7 north, continue 1 mile north on 7 after intersecting Rt. 43 in south Williamstown.
From west on Rt 2 go east over Petersburg Pass, down to Rt 7, right (south) one mile.
Park in front lot, come to the back right of the school for start/finish area.
See you on the 28th,
Pete Farwell
Men’s and Women’s X-C Coach
413-597-3249
Asst Coach Lance Harden 413-597-4654
INSTRUCTIONS: Please fill out the form in the format shown below. NCAA programs: Once you have registered your roster in TFFRS, you can download all names and TFRSS ID's in an easily cut-and-pastable form to speed the entry process. We will post meet results to TFFRS. Non-NCAA teams may disregard the TFRRS ID column. SAVE THE DOCUMENT with your school name as the title, and forward entries to Lance Harden () by Monday 9/23 at 11:59pm.First Name / Last Name / School / Gender / TFRRS ID / Class/Elig Year
Joe / Smith / Williams / m / 242724SMI*JOES / So-2