Mayor’s Cup Cross Country Championship
Saturday, October 2, 2004  
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, New York

Meet Information:

This meet will bring together the cross country teams from the PSAL, AISAA and CHSAA for a day of spirited competition for boys and girls. Packets will be available beginning at 8AM at the Broadway finish area. The schedule is below:

10:00 A.M – Freshman Boys

10:15 A.M. – Freshman Boys

10:30 A.M. – Freshman Girls

10:45 A.M. – Freshman Girls

These are team events with awards for each race.  Entry is unlimited and there is no minimum number required for students to compete.  The field will be equally divided after entries close to insure quality competition.

The freshman distance is 1.5 miles.

The top three teams in each race will receive t-shirts.  The top 35 individual finishers will receive medals.

11:10 A.M. – Championship Boys Race

11:30 A.M. – Championship Girls Race

This race is required for the highest finishers from the 2003 team Cross Country championships.  PSAL – top 10, CHSAA – top 7, AIS – top 3 and any other team that wishes to enter this race.  These appeal teams must e-mail Lou Vasquez at Lou@Armorytrack.com in order to enter.

Race distance– 2.5 miles.

The Mayor’s Cup will be awarded to the boys and girls team champion.  The top five teams will receive t-shirts and team medals. The top 40 individual finishers will receive medals.

This race is a team championship, therefore a school must have at least 5 runners on the line in order to start the race.  (There is a maximum of 7 runners allowed per school.)

11:50 A.M. – Boys Varsity Race

12:10 P.M. – Girls Varsity Race

Open to teams that did not participate in the Championship race.  In order to be eligible for the team award a school must have at least five runners finish the course.  There is an entry limit of seven runners per school.

The race distance is 2.5 miles.

The top three teams will receive team medals.  Medals will also be awarded to the first 40 finishers.

12:30 P.M. – Junior varsity Boys

12:50 P.M. – Junior Varsity Girls

Open to those schools that started a seven person team  in either the championship or varsity races.

The race distance is 2.5 miles.

Entry is unlimited.  The first five runners from a school will score, the next two will displace.

The top 50 runners will receive medals.

Other:

The roster deadline for CHSAA (NYC) and AISAA (NYC) schools is 12 noon, Tuesday, September 28, 2004.  These rosters must be e-mailed to SIRunning@aol.com.

The roster deadline for PSAL schools is 12:00 noon on Thursday, September 30, 2004

All races will start and finish on the Broadway side of the course.

There is no entry fee.