Meet Information
2016 UIL Region IV Cross Country Championship:
Date: Saturday October 29, 2016
Location: Islander Cross Country course on the grounds of the TAMU-Corpus Christi Dugan Track and Soccer Stadium, 700 Nile St. Corpus Christi, TX 78412
Meet Schedule:
Directions to Course: From I-37. Exit Highway 385 SPID (South Padre Island Drive) and go south. Exit Highway 385 at Nile St. exit and go left. Meet site is two stop signs up Nile. See map section for alternative routes to the course to avoid traffic.
Entry to meet: All schools are responsible for entering their qualified athletes into the Regional meet. DO NOT EXPECT the District Chairman to enter your athletes. Each coach is responsible for entering his or her qualified athletes. Entry is done through: www.directathletics.com If you have a qualified team you may enter up to 10 athletes. At packet pickup you must turn in chips for non-competing athletes. Only 7 may compete.
District Chairmen: You are required by email or by fax to send your UIL District meet results form prior to the entry deadline of 10/26/16 at 3pm: to the Regional meet director-Shawn Flanagan. The email address is: shawn.flanagan@tamucc.edu Fax number is 361-825-3218. Further if you are making payment for your District qualifiers to the Regional meet you must follow the payment guidelines below in a timely manner to assure your District entrants are allowed to compete.
Entry Fees: Entry fees are $140 per team and $20 per individual entry. Entry fees must be received at packet pick up or earlier. DO NOT MAIL ENTRY FEES.
Entry Deadline: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 3pm.
Packets will not be distributed without payment or proof of payment.
Payment of entry fees by an individual school: If an individual school is paying for its entries then cash, check or credit card payment may be used. Payment must be at time of packet pick up or earlier. Do not mail payment.
Payment of entry fees by District Chairman for all District Qualifiers: At packet pick up payment fro all qualifiers in the district you are chairman of must be received in the form of cash, check or credit card. At the time of payment please present a form showing all the team and individual qualifiers you are paying for. Do not mail payment.
Individual Schools who are having their entry fees paid by their District chairman must have the name, telephone number and email address of the District Chairman responsible for paying your entry fees on a form to be given to the packet pickup personnel at the time you pick up your packet.
Packet pick up will be at the ticket office of the Dugan track and soccer stadium. Times of packet pick up are noted on the meet time schedule.
W-9 or CIQ forms: If your school needs a W9 or CIQ form contact the meet director at: shawn.flanagan@tamucc.edu.
Chip timing: Each athlete will have chips and a bib number in the packet. If you have qualified a team and have entered more than 7 runners, you must turn in the chips of all runners not competing. Only 7 may compete.
Parking: there is no fee for parking.
Team Parking and handicapped parking will be in the parking lot of the track stadium and at the intramural field parking located across Nile from the track stadium. Spectator Parking will be in one of two places depending on the weather.
If weather is dry and fields are dry then parking will be in the fields located across from the tennis courts on Nile.
If weather is wet and we are unable to safely park cars on the grass then parking will be in the main parking lots on the TAMUCC campus. Signs will direct you to the on campus parking areas and shuttle buses will shuttle you back and forth from campus to the cross country course.
Admission: there is no admission fee.
Team Camps will be on the grassy areas adjacent to the stands. No participants or spectators will be allowed on the track or into the track infield.
T-shirt sales: Meet t-shirts will be for sale at packet pickup on Friday and all day during the meet on Saturday. They will be provided by Fine Design. They will individualize your t-shirts.
Concessions will be available behind the track stands.
There are no dressing or shower facilities available.
Toilets under the stands and porta pots are available.
Inspection of the course:
On Friday October 28, the entire course is open from 2pm to 5:30pm. At 5:30pm the last 800 meters of the course will close in preparation for a collegiate womens soccer match that will begin at 7:30pm. Additionally, all personnel will be cleared from track and stands area at 5:30pm. The part of the course that is outside of the stadium fence will remain open all evening.
On Saturday October 29, the course will be open for inspection from 7am until the conclusion of the meet. Right away on the course must be given to races that are in progress throughout the day.
Distances of races: see meet schedule
Starting boxes will be posted at packet pickup
Meet results will be posted on the machine shed behind the track stadium stands. They will also be posted on line at www.goislanders.com and www.chuckscore.com
All protests of results must be received by the meet referee, who will be in the finish line area, within 30 minutes of results being posted.
UIL Uniform rules will be strictly enforced.
State Qualifiers: The top four teams and top 10 individuals not on a qualifying team will qualify for the UIL state meet.
Awards and award/recognition ceremony: The top 3 teams and the top 10 overall individuals in each race will receive an award. Also at the awards ceremony the fourth place team and all individual state qualifiers not in the overall top 10 will be recognized but will not receive an award. See meet schedule for awards and recognition times.
MEET SCHEDULE and Packet Pick up times:
Friday October 28: Packet pick up for All Divisions: 2pm to 5:30pm. Packet pickup may continue past that time but access to the stadium and track area will be closed in preparation for a womens collegiate soccer match. Athletes may continue to warm up on the majority of the course which is outside the track stadium fence.
Maps:
Date: Saturday October 29, 2016
Location: Islander Cross Country course on the grounds of the TAMU-Corpus Christi Dugan Track and Soccer Stadium, 700 Nile St. Corpus Christi, TX 78412
Meet Schedule:
Directions to Course: From I-37. Exit Highway 385 SPID (South Padre Island Drive) and go south. Exit Highway 385 at Nile St. exit and go left. Meet site is two stop signs up Nile. See map section for alternative routes to the course to avoid traffic.
Entry to meet: All schools are responsible for entering their qualified athletes into the Regional meet. DO NOT EXPECT the District Chairman to enter your athletes. Each coach is responsible for entering his or her qualified athletes. Entry is done through: www.directathletics.com If you have a qualified team you may enter up to 10 athletes. At packet pickup you must turn in chips for non-competing athletes. Only 7 may compete.
District Chairmen: You are required by email or by fax to send your UIL District meet results form prior to the entry deadline of 10/26/16 at 3pm: to the Regional meet director-Shawn Flanagan. The email address is: shawn.flanagan@tamucc.edu Fax number is 361-825-3218. Further if you are making payment for your District qualifiers to the Regional meet you must follow the payment guidelines below in a timely manner to assure your District entrants are allowed to compete.
Entry Fees: Entry fees are $140 per team and $20 per individual entry. Entry fees must be received at packet pick up or earlier. DO NOT MAIL ENTRY FEES.
Entry Deadline: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 3pm.
Packets will not be distributed without payment or proof of payment.
Payment of entry fees by an individual school: If an individual school is paying for its entries then cash, check or credit card payment may be used. Payment must be at time of packet pick up or earlier. Do not mail payment.
Payment of entry fees by District Chairman for all District Qualifiers: At packet pick up payment fro all qualifiers in the district you are chairman of must be received in the form of cash, check or credit card. At the time of payment please present a form showing all the team and individual qualifiers you are paying for. Do not mail payment.
Individual Schools who are having their entry fees paid by their District chairman must have the name, telephone number and email address of the District Chairman responsible for paying your entry fees on a form to be given to the packet pickup personnel at the time you pick up your packet.
Packet pick up will be at the ticket office of the Dugan track and soccer stadium. Times of packet pick up are noted on the meet time schedule.
W-9 or CIQ forms: If your school needs a W9 or CIQ form contact the meet director at: shawn.flanagan@tamucc.edu.
Chip timing: Each athlete will have chips and a bib number in the packet. If you have qualified a team and have entered more than 7 runners, you must turn in the chips of all runners not competing. Only 7 may compete.
Parking: there is no fee for parking.
Team Parking and handicapped parking will be in the parking lot of the track stadium and at the intramural field parking located across Nile from the track stadium. Spectator Parking will be in one of two places depending on the weather.
If weather is dry and fields are dry then parking will be in the fields located across from the tennis courts on Nile.
If weather is wet and we are unable to safely park cars on the grass then parking will be in the main parking lots on the TAMUCC campus. Signs will direct you to the on campus parking areas and shuttle buses will shuttle you back and forth from campus to the cross country course.
Admission: there is no admission fee.
Team Camps will be on the grassy areas adjacent to the stands. No participants or spectators will be allowed on the track or into the track infield.
T-shirt sales: Meet t-shirts will be for sale at packet pickup on Friday and all day during the meet on Saturday. They will be provided by Fine Design. They will individualize your t-shirts.
Concessions will be available behind the track stands.
There are no dressing or shower facilities available.
Toilets under the stands and porta pots are available.
Inspection of the course:
On Friday October 28, the entire course is open from 2pm to 5:30pm. At 5:30pm the last 800 meters of the course will close in preparation for a collegiate womens soccer match that will begin at 7:30pm. Additionally, all personnel will be cleared from track and stands area at 5:30pm. The part of the course that is outside of the stadium fence will remain open all evening.
On Saturday October 29, the course will be open for inspection from 7am until the conclusion of the meet. Right away on the course must be given to races that are in progress throughout the day.
Distances of races: see meet schedule
Starting boxes will be posted at packet pickup
Meet results will be posted on the machine shed behind the track stadium stands. They will also be posted on line at www.goislanders.com and www.chuckscore.com
All protests of results must be received by the meet referee, who will be in the finish line area, within 30 minutes of results being posted.
UIL Uniform rules will be strictly enforced.
State Qualifiers: The top four teams and top 10 individuals not on a qualifying team will qualify for the UIL state meet.
Awards and award/recognition ceremony: The top 3 teams and the top 10 overall individuals in each race will receive an award. Also at the awards ceremony the fourth place team and all individual state qualifiers not in the overall top 10 will be recognized but will not receive an award. See meet schedule for awards and recognition times.
MEET SCHEDULE and Packet Pick up times:
Friday October 28: Packet pick up for All Divisions: 2pm to 5:30pm. Packet pickup may continue past that time but access to the stadium and track area will be closed in preparation for a womens collegiate soccer match. Athletes may continue to warm up on the majority of the course which is outside the track stadium fence.
Maps: