This year we are changing the day to Friday afternoon/evening to avoid dealing with soccer games Saturday morning. The idea behind this was to give parents and spectators more room to move and watch the athletes compete. In addition, these times are usually when practices, league, and regionals are.
The course: The spectator friendly course is a mix of grass, gravel, sidewalk and natural dirt surfaces. There are a few hills and the course will have an exciting creek crossing in the second half of the race.
***Please note: there will be an alternate course prepared if weather dictates that creek crossings are not safe.
2:00 pm Lunch available for coaches!
2:30 pm Coaches meeting
3:00 pm JV Girls
3:30 pm JV Boys
4:00 pm Varsity Girls
4:30 pm Varsity Boys
5:00 pm Open boys race (Standard 5k)
5:03 pm Open girls race (Standard 5k)
Awards: 1st and 2nd place trophies will be given to the top two teams in both the JV and Varsity races. Individual places 1-5 will be awarded a unique prize in the JV and Varsity races with places 6-15 receiving ribbons. These will be given during the awards ceremony near the finish.
$150 for individual team / $250 for boys and girls
Any questions please feel free to reach out andrew.koziuk@asd20.org
What is Foxes and Hounds? Foxes and Hounds is a unique style of cross country race that puts runners in situations they may not otherwise get to experience, teaches them to race their own race, and brings out the competitor in the athletes.
How it works is each team in the field submits their top 7 runners in order from 7th-1st. Each runner is then started individually with only the same number runner from each other team.
There are 20 second gaps between each group of runners' starts. So, the first gun will start every teams #7 runner, 20 seconds later the gun will shoot again and each teams #6 will go, then 20 seconds to #5 and so on until finally 2:00 after the #7's started each teams fastest runner will start the race.
All runners will follow the same course and the meet will be scored using each team's first 5 finishers based on actual finish order like any other meet.
If you enter fewer than 7 runners they will start in the later spots (leaving your teams #7 and #6spots etc. open).
Everyone in attendance said it was a lot of fun to run a race in this format and a nice way to mix it up in the middle of the season.
