District

3-AAAA

VI.           CROSS COUNTRY

 

A.         GENERAL

 

1.          Member schools will make every effort to foster good and pleasant relations between schools.

 

2.          Each member school is responsible for adhering to University Interscholastic League rules and regulations when submitting eligibility rosters or contest entry forms.

 

3.          The home team is responsible for keeping and maintaining order.

 

B.             SITES

 

       The District 3-AAAA executive committee shall select the site for the boys and girls district cross country meet .  Site to be selected annually.

 

C.             SUBSTITUTIONS

 

A substitution may be made in existing entries, with guidelines set by the district in regard to injury, illness, or ineligible athletes.

 

D.             MEET DIRECTOR

 

             1. The District Executive Committee shall select a meet director for District 3-AAAA meets or may allow the host schools to select a meet director.

 

             2.          The host schools shall notify the district chairman and district members as to who the meet director will be.

 

             3.          The meet director shall be responsible for organizing the meet at the host school and is the final authority on how the meet is organized within the confines of the UIL Constitution and Contest Rules and District 3-AAAA rules.

 

E.         PROTESTS

                

Protests shall be made to the meet director or person designated by the meet director and his/her decision shall be final. This final decision does not prohibit protests to the District Executive Committee on items covered in UIL Constitution and Contest Rules which go beyond the actual play, except for the place of finish which is handled by the clerk of the course.

 

F.              ENTRIES

                

Entry blanks for varsity entries can be found in the UIL Cross Country Coaches Manual.  Entry blanks for freshman and junior varsity entries will be mailed to coaches from the cross country director’s school.

 

G.         CHAMPIONSHIP STRUCTURE

 

A maximum of two teams and five individuals shall qualify from district to regional. An individual qualifier may also be a member of a qualifying team. Additional individuals are not moved into the top five qualifiers if any of the first five qualifiers are also on a team.  Only varsity competitors will advance.

 

H.             DISTANCE

 

             Girls cross country competitors will run approximately two miles (3,200 meters).

            

Boys cross country competitors will run approximately three miles (5,000 meters).

 

I.          ENTRY LIMITATIONS

 

             1.          A minimum of five participants and a maximum of seven participants shall constitute a team.

 

             2.          The first five finishers on each team will count for the total team score.

 

             3.          A school may enter less than five; however, it cannot compete for the team title.

 

             4.          A school may enter only one varsity team of boys and one varsity team of girls in the district meet.

 

             5.          Two teams may be permitted to enter in freshman and junior varsity divisions.

 

J.          UNIFORMS

 

             1.          The cross country uniform consists of a minimum of school-issued jersey and shorts, which are not objectionable, and shoes, which may be supplied by the contestant.

 

             2.          Team members shall wear the same color and design school uniform (jersey and shorts).  When other apparel is worn under the jersey, or leotards or body suits are worn under the shorts by more than one team member (two or more), that apparel must be the same color.

 

             3.          A contestant must wear the assigned competitor number when numbers are used.

 

K.         RULES

 

The cross country rules found in the current National Federation Track and Field Rules shall be enforced at the district meet.

 

L.         DETERMINING TEAM SCORES

            

             Place at finish                             1st            2nd           3rd           4th            5th            etc.

             Points                            1               2               3               4               5               etc.

 

          1.  Competitors finishing the race shall be ranked and tallied in accordance with the above table. The team score shall be determined by totaling the points scored by the first five finishers of each team. The team scoring the fewest number of points is the winner.

 

             2.          If less than five competitors from a school finish, the places of all the competitors from that school are disregarded in determining the team scores, and the team scores are reranked. Although the sixth and seventh place finishers do not score points toward the team total, the place is counted in determining the scores of the other teams.

 

             3.          Ties in team scoring shall be resolved by comparing the sixth place finishers from the two teams.  The team with the best sixth place finisher shall prevail.  If one team does not have a sixth place finisher, the team with a sixth place finisher shall prevail.  If only five competitors of tying teams finish, the scoring shall be resolved by totaling scores of the first four finishers.

 

M.        MEET OFFICIALS

 

The meet director will be responsible for securing all necessary meet officials.

 

 

 

N.         AWARDS

 

Varsity—The top fifteen finishers will each receive medals.  Team trophy will be awarded to the first place team.

 

O.         SELECTING ALL DISTRICT

            

The top fifteen medal winners will be designated as All‑District.