Bay Area Middle School Cross Country Championships 2012

Brandon, FL

Meet Information

Registration help:
http://www.milesplit.us/pages/Online_Meet_Reg_Instructions
Note that these instructions are on the US Portal and you will have to return to your state site to actually find your team and enter the meet.

Individual instructions are at the bottom of the above page.
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Open to middle school kids/upper elementary (4th/5th thru 8th grade). Public school, private school or homeschool.
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Top 7 max per school/team in Championship races.
Open Division unlimited
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Championship Awards:Top 3 boys teams
Top 3 girls teams
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Championship Individuals:
1st thru 10th medals
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Open:
Girls: 1st thru 6th place ribbons
Boys: 1st thru 6th place ribbons.
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This race will also be the championship race for the Tampa Bay Christian Athletic League.
We will produce another set of finishing results for the TBCAL League. Following schools only for the TBCAL awards. FISH Hawks, Tampa Bay HEAT, Foundation Christian Academy, Central Baptist, Bell Shoals Baptist Academy, Immanuel Lutheran, Florida College, Faith Baptist Christian School, Family of Christ, LLT.
#######Top 3 TBCAL girls teams, Top 3 TBCAL boys teams
Top 3 TCAL individual girls, Top 3 TBCAL individual boys.

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Charter School League; will be giving Charter Championship Awards.
Kids Community, Shiloh, Valrico Academy, Advantage Academy, Winthrope
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A TBCAL school may win awards in both the TBCAL and Bay Area Championship.
A CHARTER school may win awards in both CHARTER and Bay Area.
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Schedule of Events.
4:00pm Coaches meeting
4:30pm Boys Championship
5:00pm Girls Championship
5:30pm Open Mixed gender
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Fees:$25 per gender/$50 max
$5.00 individuals
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Please make checks out to Tampa Bay HEAT
and mailed to:
Laura Fredrickson
3016 Folklore Dr
Valrico, FL
33596
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Sydney Dover Horse Trails:
$2.00 parking fee
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Meet director:
Laura Fredrickson laura458@verizon.net
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Chip Timing Procedure.
Chips will be distributed by team for those registered by team, and individually for those who are competing without a team affiliation.
TEAMS
Coaches will check in for the team and sign out the chips for their team. At the conclusion of all the races, the chips are to be returned to the same area as a group. No chips will be accepted on an individual basis.
Coaches who pick up and sign for the racing chips are responsible for their safe return. If a chip is lost or damaged, the coach or team representative who signed out the chips will be charged $20 per timing chip.

INDIVIDUALS
Individuals without a team affiliation will sign out chips singularly. There will be a $20 fee assessed for unreturned or damaged chips.

This meet is a BASIC QUALIFIER FOR THE MS XC CHAMPIONSHIP
http://fl.milesplit.com/meets/119194-flyra-middle-school-state-championship
Qualification Requirements for Teams and Individuals for the FL MS XC CHAMPIONSHIP on Nov. 3rd in Lakeland, FL
Top 25% of Finishing Teams, and Top 10% of Finishing Individuals qualify. Teams numbers will not be rounded up.
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Team Results for the meet: Results will be calculated based on all entries regardless of status of team. I.E. Scholastic Team* or Mixed Club Team.*
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Mixed Club Team: will be defined as a team of runners who go to different schools but have come together to form a team

Scholastic Team: all the runners on the team go to the same school. (Private, public, charter, or homeschool) They can run under their school name or they can use another name. We allow a name change because some county school districts do not allow teams to use the school name outside of the county.
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Determining which teams qualified for the ms champsionship meet: mixed club teams will be taken out of the results and team results recalculated with only scholastic teams. Top 25% of school based teams
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Individual Qualifiers: Top 10% of finishers will be considered qualified regardless of team affiliation. Initial results will be used.

FLYRA's Mission: It is the mission of FLYRA to develop scholastic cross country.