Cross-country runners heading south to Foot Locker Regionals

November 28, 2009 – Some of the top high school, middle school and elementary school cross-country runners from West Virginia will be heading south to North Carolina in a few weeks for the Foot Locker South Regional Cross Country Championships, scheduled for Saturday, November 28^th, at Mc Alpine Creek Park. This meet will be an opportunity for local-area runners to race against their counterparts from sixteen other Southern States. States Competing In The South Regional: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. citizens in Overseas Military Installations.

The Foot Locker Cross Country Championships are a series of annual cross country running races held in various regions of the United States to determine the premier cross country runner in various age groups, but mainly serves to find the best prep (high school) cross country athlete in the country.

There will be Junior Races - 10 & under boys and girls and 11& 12 boys and girls they will run 3000 meters. 13 & 14 boys and girls will run 5000 meters. Open Race and Masters Race they will run 5000 meters. The Open race is for any runner eighteen years old and over. The Masters Race is open to any runner forty years old and over.

“I would love to see West Virginia send a contingent of runners from around the State to the Foot Locker South Regional Meet,” said Coach McMillion of McMillion Racing.

For more information on the Foot Locker South Regional contact Meet Director Max Mayo at 843-227-1208 or at footlockermax@yahoo.com or contact FLCCC headquarters at 212-720-4435 or at www.footlockercc.com.