2011 PREBLE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS

CROSS COUNTRY

PREBLE CROSS COUNTRY: A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE!!!

Please come as often as possible to our meets.  You will be able to appreciate the hard work your son or daughter has been doing, and your presence is a big boost to them even though they may not let you know it.  Cross Country parents are the greatest.  Let us get to know you.

CROSS COUNTRY BASICS

Meets are typically held on/in:
- School Grounds
- Parks
- Golf Courses

Length of courses:
- Girls- 4,000 meters (2.5 miles)
- Boys- 5,000 meters (3.1 miles)

Varsity- the top 7 or 8 runners on a team- usually designated by the previous meets times.
2nd Team Varsity (JV)- everyone else who is not involved in the varsity race.
Freshman- at the Manitowoc Invite there is a 9th grade and under division.  Most freshman will participate in this race unless they are designated Varsity or JV by the coaches.

HOW DO YOU SCORE THIS DARN THING?

Scoring is easy.  The LOW score wins.  In most meets each runner receives a number when they finish.  The first runner in receives no. 1, the second runner in no. 2, and so on.  The score for a team is based on the numbers of the first five runners in for that team so if your first five runners finished 1,3,8,11,15 – your team score would be 38. All of the other team runners act as pushers in helping to inflate the other teams scores by hopefully finishing in front of any of another teams first five runners.