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

 

IMPORTANT COVID 19 Guidelines:

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

**We will NOT be selling admission tickets. These tickets (Household Members and Grandparents only) must be purchased ahead of time through your school’s Athletic Director. A check must be provided for spectators’ tickets as you pickup your team’s packet.

**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 upon finishing. We are really stressing this due to parking and the number of athletes entered to race.

**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 the bull pen/waiting zone. Spectators will NOT be allowed near starting line or in bull pen/waiting area.

**We will be using TriStateRacer for timing. We will do our best to keep waves limited and on time. We will try to fill each wave with a full 84 runners. Please have runners ready and in team waiting zone to help our process go smoothly and quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

 Races:

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

9:30am -- High School Girls 5K Wave A - Top 3 Runners from each team
                                                9:35    Wave B - Next 4 Runners from each team
                                                9:40    Wave C - JV/remaining runners

                                               

10:15am -- High School Boys 5K Wave A- Top 3 Runners from each team
                                                10:20  Wave B - Next 4 Runners from each team
                                                10:25  Wave C – JV/remaining 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 – Top 3 Runners from each team
                                                11:20   Wave B – Next 4 Runners from each team
                                                11:25   Wave C – JV/remaining runners
                                                                                               

12:00pm -- Middle School Boys Wave A – Top 3 Runners from each team
                                                12:05  Wave B – Next 4 Runners from each team
                                                12:10   Wave C – JV/remaining runners
                                                

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 that should be given to Athletic Director or Coach. The school should provide a check the day of the race. We will have spotters in all areas to help runners, as well as an athletic trainer available.

We WILL NOT be having a concession stand.

We will be using chip timing and computer scoring.

This Meet is sanctioned by WVSSAC.

 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