October 26, 2010 Dear Coaches and Athletic Directors, Hyde School (ME) is pleased to host the 2010 New England Division IV Championship Races on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Attached you will find the information necessary to register, the race day schedule, race day information, lodging information, and a course description. Directions to the Hyde School (Bath, ME) campus is on the Hyde School web site (www.hyde.edu) under the Admissions bar and then under directions. In order to participate in the Division IV Championship Meet, your school must be a member in good standing of NEPSTA. If your school’s 2010-2011 dues have not been paid or if you are unsure of your school’s standing with NEPSTA, please call the NEPSTA Treasurer, Livingston Carroll at the Roxbury Latin School (617) 325-3920 or email him at [email protected] . The entry fee for boys’ and girls’ varsity teams are $150 each for a total of $300 if you are sending both a boys’ and a girls’ team. (Note that there is no charge for a boys’ and girls’ junior varsity team.) The checks should be made payable to: NEPSTA-Roxbury Latin, and they should be sent directly to: Livingston Carroll The Roxbury Latin School 101 St. Theresa Ave. West Roxbury, MA 02132 Do not send checks to Hyde School. As of this mailing I have received rosters from most participating schools. If you have yet to submit your rosters, please be sure that your entries are in the following format. It will be very helpful if this is in an Excel spreadsheet. Please fill them in appropriately and email the file to [email protected] no later than November 1, 2010. Use a (C) to indicate a captain after the last name. Leave the Bib # empty. Last Name First Name Year of Graduation School-Gender/Bib # Runner (C) Jill 2010 Brooks-Girls Jogger Robert 2013 Brooks-Boys You may list up to 24 entrants, but only 19 will be allowed to run on November 13. You may choose your seven varsity runners and 12 JV runners on race day; you do not have to designate varsity runners at this time. The runners you choose to race must be one of the 24 runners you have submitted on the entry list. No late entrants or substitutions are permitted. You must enter a full varsity team of seven runners before you can enter any junior varsity runners. There is a maximum of twelve runners for any junior varsity team. We plan to conduct a junior varsity girls’ race, even if the number of entrants is small. Incomplete teams are encouraged to compete in any race, though no team scores will be computed for an incomplete team. The individuals on an incomplete team are, of course, eligible to receive medals and ribbons. For team scoring purposes only, the individuals from incomplete teams are removed from the team places list before scores are computed. NEPSAC declares eligible runners as 19 years old or younger as of September 1, 2009 and listed on the team roster prior to October 1. In addition, a runner must have run in two (2) races prior to the championship. If you would like to preview the course prior to the meet, you are welcome to do so. Please contact Ken Grant or AD Peter Gregory if you would like to visit our course before November 13. IMPORTANT REMINDER: YOUR 24 RUNNERS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. SEND ENTRIES TO [email protected]. If we do not have these materials by November 2 we cannot guarantee that you will have an opportunity to compete in the race. We look forward to hearing from you by November 2 and seeing you and your runners on November 13. Sincerely, Ken Grant Peter Gregory Race Director Athletic Director NEPSTA Division IV Cross Country Championships November 13, 2010 Schedule of Events 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Registration in the Student Center (Dining Hall/Theater) 11:30 a.m. First Walk of the course leaves the start line 12:00 p.m. Second Walk of the course leaves the start line 12:30 p.m. Course Jog leaves the start line 12:45 p.m. Coaches Meeting in the Mansion Living Room 1:25 p.m. Varsity Boys to starting line 1:30 p.m. Varsity Boys Race Begins 2:10 p.m. Varsity Girls to starting line 2:15 p.m. Varsity Girls Race Begins 2:55 p.m. Junior Varsity Boys to starting line 3:00 p.m. Junior Varsity Boys Race Begins 3:40 p.m. Junior Varsity Girls to starting line 3:45 p.m. Junior Varsity Girls Race Begins 4:15 p.m. Buffett Dinner/Refreshments for all in the Dining Hall 5:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony in Theater Division IV New England Cross Country Championships, Saturday November 13, 2010 Teams Participating: Brooks School Cheshire High School Greens Farms Academy Holderness School Hyde School – CT Hyde School - ME Kimball Union Academy Lincoln School (girls) Middlesex School Millbrook School Miss Hall's School (girls) New Hampton School Proctor Academy Newton Country Day School (girls) The Gunnery School The Rivers School The Wheeler School The Williams School Tilton School (??) Vermont Academy Wilbraham & Monson Academy Commemorative T-Shirts We will be selling t-shirts on race day for $12.00 each. If your runners want a t-shirt, please send me a list of sizes by November 5 to [email protected] . Hyde School, Bath, ME 5K Cross Country Course Description Course Records: Men’s Record: 17:37 Seth Pelletier (Sea Coast Christian) – 2008 Women’s Record: 23:32 Kirin DeSmith (Sea Coast Christian) – 2009 The Hyde School cross country course combines both open flats and rolling wooded trails with excellent spectator viewing points at the start, ½ mile mark and finish. The course is safe, well marked but challenging. The course’s wood trailed sections are not paths that runners can blindly cruise along on like they were running on a golf course. As one cross country coach remarked after a course walk, “This is real cross country running!” Flats or spikes (¼” or ⅜”) are recommended. There is about a half mile of paved surface on the entire course. The course begins on the front lawn of Hyde School’s historic Mansion. Runners start down a grassed grade and follow along the lower campus entry road (surfaced) where they loop in front of Hyde’s gym (“The Compass”… spotter here) back on to grass, up a slight grade and back around to the starting line area. This opening loop is exactly a half-mile in length. Runners continue as they did at the start… this time going past the gym (on surfaced road) toward the back end of the campus where they veer left onto grass by the Deckhouse dorm and soon enter the first wooded section. Runners enter the woods and proceed up the largest hill on the course. Just after the crest of this hill is the mile mark. He course turns left down a slight grade (spotter here) then left again (another spotter) up a wooded trail. This trail junctions with another trail (spotter here) where runners turn right and twist down the course’s roughest section. At the bottom, runners proceed straight through a trail crossing (spotter here) over a gentle grade, bearing left after a wood ramp (spotter here). The trail continues down at a slight grade over wood ramps (the course’s wettest area) and finally breaks out of the woods near the back athletic fields. At this point, runners turn left (spotter here) and proceed down a surfaced way toward Hyde’s back soccer field. The trail loops around the perimeter of the soccer field and enters a mowed field area. The mowed field section leads to the second rolling wooded section of the course which twists around for 250+m, breaking out in the upper corner of the soccer field. Runners turn left (spotter here) and proceed on grass to Hyde’s all-surface track where they run clockwise for 200m heading back onto grass and up a short dirt road. The course turns right onto paved surface back to the point where runners broke out of the first wooded section (spotter here... also roughly the two mile mark). Runners turn left here and enter the third wooded section which is a backwards repeat of the first wooded section. As runners complete this wooded section, they proceed straight (spotter here) instead of going down the first wooded up-hill. Runners instead proceed downhill on paved surface turning right (spotter here) back onto the main campus surfaced road. At the Hyde Gym – “Compass” runners turn left (spotter here) and back on to the grass, up a slight grassed up-grade and back around to the front lawn starting line area. Runners proceed past the starting line area again, down the front lawn taking two back-to- back right turns around stakes (spotter here) for the last 100m, up a slight grass grade to the finish line. .