18th Annual
VVS Cross Country Invitational

Friday, September 15th(Tentative)

Saturday, September 16th

Due to Rosh Hashanah VVS will have a session Friday evening. Contact us asap if you are interested.  

This session is only for schools that cannot compete on Saturday.  (Must have 15 teams, 25 max)

Hosted by the VVS Cross Country Teams and the VVS Sports Boosters

Location/Facility

VVS Middle/ High School Campus
VVS is located about 2 miles from exit 33 on the Thruway.

Course: 

Our course consists of challenging hills, open fields, and wooded trails. Wooded trails are solid, hills are covered in stone dust, and the open fields are grass. Quarter-inch spikes are highly recommended. Those that have not attended the VVS Invite since 2011 will notice some big changes. A copy of the course map is provided below.

Upkeep: 

The course has been undergoing ongoing updating and maintenance since Sectionals in 2004. Many coaches’ comments and ideas have been taken into consideration to help make this course more runner, coach, and spectator friendly.  Spectators can now see their athletes several times throughout the race with less than 400 Meters worth of walking.

Race Setup:  

To add a bit of variety to our races, we are attempting to “randomly place” teams to reduce some of the repetitive inter-league matchups. All efforts will be made to attempt to keep the races equally competitive. We will have the race assignments posted on Tullyrunners by September 5th.

Timing and Scoring

**Very Important**

Please enter your athletes through MileSplit by Sunday, September 10th. 

We intend on having race assignments posted by the evening of Monday 9/11 (At the latest).  We understand schools need to schedule busing. With random race assignments and the number of teams we expect to have, this is the earliest we can have quality races available for you.

As in previous years, varsity and JV will run together. JV will be scored out of each race. JV teams start with runner #8. The rationale behind this decision is to allow teams to run together. The number of team entries is unlimited. Teams will be given a 12-foot  box and may "negotiate" sharing with the team next to them if that team does not need their full 12 feet of space. 

Schedule

Boys and girls teams from the same school will race in the same race number.

(Subject to some change)

4:00     Opening Ceremonies

Friday Session 

4:15     Girls Varsity A

5:00     Boys Varsity A

8:15     Opening Ceremonies

Session #1

8:30     Girls Varsity 1

9:10     Girls Varsity 2

9:50     Boys Varsity 1

10:30   Boys Varsity 2

Session #2

11:10     Girls Varsity 3

11:50     Girls Varsity 4

12:30     Boys Varsity 3 

1:10       Boys Varsity 4

Event Information

Awards:

Ribbons to Everyone

Top 25 Individual Awards for varsity

Top 5 Individual Awards for JV

Awards to Top 3 Varsity Teams

Award to Top Team JV

Concessions:

Will have food trucks this year to give a better food experience. 

Shirts and Apparel:

Clothing is being done through Fine Designs.  They will be giving athletes a wide range of options with high-quality name brands.