MPSSAA 4A West XC Regional 2018

Gaithersburg, MD

Meet Information

Registration help:

http://md.milesplit.com/pages/Online_Meet_Reg_Instructions

Regional Meet Schedule

State Bullentin

4A West

Watkins Mill HS

November 1 (2:30 p.m.)

Contact ..............Eric DaSilva

School................Watkins Mill

Phone............703-298-2912

III. REGION MEET

A. Meet Organization

1. All MPSSAA member schools are eligible to enter into their respective regional meet. Formal application

of schools entering must be made by submitting an online entry prior to Monday, October

22nd. Any initial entries submitted after the deadline will incur a $100 late fee made payable to

the MPSSAA or the entry will be invalid. In no case will a team be entered into the region meet if

an online entry form is not filled out by 10 a.m. on Monday, October 29th.

2. Schools will have until Monday, October 29th at 10 a.m. to submit final rosters. Schools may

change their initial submitted form as many times as they want up until the 10 a.m. deadline on

October 29th. The entry system will close at 10 a.m. on October 29th and region meets will be set.

3. The following online method for entry must be used. Please follow these directions for submitting

entries.

a. Go to , the site hosting the online entry process.

b. Log in to your coach account.

c. Click on the Calendar tab and select your Region Meet from the list of meets.

d. On the Region Meet page, click on Enter Online Now.

e. Check to make sure you are entering the correct region meet and then click on Enter School.

f. Enter/confirm your contact info and select the gender(s) in which you wish to complete entries

for and then click Enter Team.

g. You are now able to enter a maximum of twelve athletes on the roster for the region meet.

From that roster of twelve, coaches may declare any seven to run in the meet.

h. After completing entries, print a confirmation copy of your entries by clicking on the Print Confirmation

link at the top of your entry summary. The coach must bring a copy of this entry confirmation

to the region meet.

4. The state organizational meeting for district representatives and region meet directors will be Sunday,

November 4th, at Howard HS starting at 9:00 a.m. Meet directors are to bring Region Meet

results in HyTek format to the meeting.

5. Advancement to the state meet

a. The number of teams advancing to the state meet from each region shall be based on the total

number of teams entered by the deadline onto the MPSSAA website with the minimum of five

runners:

REGION MEET TEAMS ADVANCING REGION MEET TEAMS ADVANCING

1..................................1 8 ....................................4

2..................................2 9 ....................................5

3..................................3 10 ..................................5

4..................................3 11 ..................................6

5..................................3 12 ..................................6

6..................................4 13 ..................................7

7..................................4 14 ..................................7

(1) Complete teams will consist of a minimum of five runners and a maximum of seven runners

who have participated in at least two varsity Cross Country meets prior to and including

October 29th.

(2) Official entry application must be submitted by the established deadline.

(3) Boys and girls will be counted separately.

(4) First year schools may compete.

(5) If five individual runners qualify in the region meet from a given school, these five shall be

considered a team in the state meet.

b. Formula used to determine individual qualifiers: 25 percent of the total number of competitors

in the region race that day. A minimum of 15 runners will qualify.

c. Four races for both boys and girls (4A, 3A, 2A, and 1A) will be held as part of the state meet.

Participating teams must have had 20 days of practice prior to the region meet. The race will

include runners from schools that elected to field a separate girls team or who have individual

girls who desire to participate in the meet. Girls may elect to run on the boys team when an

equal opportunity is not provided for a school-sponsored girls team. They may decide at the region

meet and qualify for either the boys race or the girls race.

6. Team and individual awards will be presented