Meet Information

Fourteenth Annual

Lafayette Invitational Cross Country Meet

Colmar Manor Park, Bladensburg, MD

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Cross Country Coaches: Your teams are cordially invited to participate in the 14th annual Lafayette Invitational. This year we are happy to be back at Colmar Manor Park. We hope to see you and look forward to seeing your new and returning athletes as they begin the competitive season.

Schedule:

11 am to 11:30 am: Teams arrive to familiarize themselves with the course

12:00 Elementary Boys race

12:30 Elementary Girls

1:00 Middle/JHS Boys

1:30 Middle/JHS Girls

2:15 HS Girls

3:00 HS Boys

Awards:

There will be team and individual awards; more details will be announced soon.

Course: Middle and Elementary courses are the traditional courses used for many years. The current HS course has been used since 2013. Distances: Elementary 3.2 km; Middle 4.1 km; Senior HS 5.0 km. (HS will be 5.0 km; MS and ES courses may be slightly changed from the above, but we will inform you if there is any change).

Entry Procedure: Entry for this event is free, courtesy of the athletic departments of Woodrow Wilson HS and Alice Deal MS. Meet registration is to be done on dc.milesplit.com .

The deadline to register is Monday, September 17, 2018 at 8:00pm. There is no limit to the number of runners a team may enter. We will use standard cross-country scoring: first 5 runners score, next 2 can displace.

Timing and Scoring: Timing and Scoring will be provided by M&D Timing

Contact Information: Robert Thurston, thurret@aol.com; 202.431.0585 (mobile) or Shanice Abrams, shanice.abrams@dc.gov; 202-729-3298