The RITCHIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY TEAM would like to invite your team to the

RITCHIE COUNTY INVITATIONAL

sponsored by West Virginia Insurance

Date: Saturday, October 3, 2020

Location: Cokeley Recreation Area at North Bend State Park

Hosted by RITCHIE COUNTY Cross Country Teams

 Races:

**Please have all runners report to their team waiting zone 10 minutes prior to the first wave in their division. **

9:30am -- High School Girls 5K         Wave A: 5 full teams
                                                9:35    Wave B:5 full teams
                                                9:40    Wave C: 5 full teams
                                                9:45    Wave D: incomplete teams + JV
                                                9:50    Wave E: JV runners
                                               

10:15am -- High School Boys 5K        Wave A: 5 full teams
                                                10:20  Wave B: 5 full teams
                                                10:25  Wave C: 5 full teams
                                                10:30  Wave D: incomplete teams + JV
                                                10:35  Wave E: JV runners
                                                10:40  Wave F:  JV runners

Awards: Top 30 medals: Teams 1st, 2nd, 3rd places
                                                Will be given to coach once results are complete


11:15am -- Middle School Girls  Wave A: 5 full teams
                                                11:20   Wave B: 5 full teams
                                                11:25   Wave C: 5 full teams
                                                11:30   Wave D: incomplete teams + JV
                                               

12:00pm -- Middle School Boys Wave A: 5 full teams
                                                12:05  Wave B: 5 full teams
                                                12:10   Wave C: 5 full teams
                                                12:15   Wave D: incomplete teams + JV
                                               

Awards: Top 20 Medals: Team 1st and 2nd places
                                                Will be given to coach once results are complete

Location:   The course is located in Cokeley Recreation Area at North Bend State Park on the Harrisville side of the park.  The course is viewer friendly and almost entirely a grass surface.  We will have use of the bathhouse facilities at the campground including restrooms and showers.

Directions:

We STRONGLY recommend using the Ellenboro exit from RT 50 and follow the signs to North Bend.   For teams coming from the Parkersburg direction the Cairo exit will be a very unpleasant trip to the course especially on a bus.  The entrance to Cokeley Recreation Area is 6.7 miles from US Rt 50 and approximately 1.5 miles from the intersection of Rt 16 & Rt 31 in Harrisville.

Meet Information: There will be a general admission fee for spectators. We will have spotters in all areas to help runners, as well as an athletic trainer available. We will be selling meet t-shirts (available beside of restrooms / awards area) and there will be a concession stand with prepackaged food/drinks/snacks only. We will be using chip timing and computer scoring. This Meet is sanctioned by WVSSAC.

COVID 19 Guidelines:

 **We will be following or implementing restrictions based on current COVID-19 Guidelines from WVSSAC at the time of the race.

**We will be using TriStateRacer for timing. We will give more specific details the day of the event (see Coach’s packet) once we see what teams/athletes who have registered and are eligible the day of the race. We will do our best to keep waves limited and on time. We will try to fill each wave with a full 35 runners. It could be possible that JV runners can help fill up each wave if there are incomplete teams. Please have runners ready and in team waiting zone to help our process go smoothly and quickly.

**Coaches should encourage athletes to be dressed for the meet prior to arriving.  

**Coaches should remind and encourage all athletes and spectators to wear face masks whenever they are not competing and are not social distancing.  Coaches and athletes will be required to have a face mask while in their team waiting zone.

 

**Coaches should remind athletes to remain with their school and not to intermingle with athletes from other schools. Runners should plan to cool down and leave the event area upon finishing.

 

Entry Fees
$90.00 for both High School teams
$50.00 for one High School team
 $70.00 for both Middle School teams
 $40.00 for one Middle school team
$15.00 per High School runner, $10.00 per Middle School runner.

The top 7 runners will be used for team scoring.

Entries:  Please use www.RaceTimeEntry.com to send entries. (same as STATE MEET)

Deadline: All entry fees and rosters must be received by September 23, 2020.  

Checks should be made payable to Ritchie County High School Athletic Department or Ritchie County Middle School Athletic Department and mailed to the following:           

High School Athletic Director

Ritchie County High School

201 Ritchie County School Road, Suite 1

Ellenboro, WV 26346

 

Middle School Athletic Director
Ritchie County Middle School
201 Ritchie County School Road, Suite 2

Ellenboro, WV 26346

 

 ** FOR QUESTIONS YOU MAY CONTACT: Head Coach, Holli Haddox Vaughan: ritchiexc@gmail.com (cell) (304) 539-3030 (school) (304) 477-3273