Fall ~ Cross Country

Commitment: Cross Country practices 3 days a week and will participate in 5-6 regular season meets. Preseason practices begin the second week of August.
Practices: M/W/F, 4-5:30pm. Students will meet in the lobby at Beacon and run to the lakefront for easy runs or workouts. Each meet consists of a girls race and a boys race. Distances depend on the meet, but are either 3 miles, 2 miles or 5K (3.1 mile). Our goal is to have a minimum of 5 runners to compete as a full team. Top 5 runners score points based on placing in each race. The team with the lowest score of all 5 runners wins.
Meets: Held on weekdays September through October with some Saturday meets. We use the Beacon bus for transportation, with the exception of Saturday meets, in which everyone uses their own transportation.
League: Cross Country is an IHSA sport played in our Lake Shore Athletic League conference.
Post-Season: Cross Country participates in the conference championship meet, as well as the IHSA State Series. IHSA Regionals are near the end of October. The top 7 teams and top 5 individual athletes not on those teams advance to the sectional meet. At the Sectional Meet, top 6 teams and top 10 individual runners not on those teams advance to the State Meet.

James Weissensel

Cross Country - Head Coach

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