Below is a breakdown of what we have seen as of 09/10 in 2016 for CC.

Happy to announce we are now using a Live Web scoreboard for all of our meets. 

live.finishtiming.com

 This allows anyone to open the web page on their web enabled phone or device and see a running clock and also the live results and team scores as you would see on a scoreboard on site.  This will be showing what ever event is currently active at a meet.  Follow the Live Results links on each meet page to get you to the Real Time Scoreboard.

**CANCELLED**

Warren County Cross Country Festival

Co-hosted by Warren County CVB, Wilmington College Cross Country and Finishtiming

 The Golf Center at Kings Island

For GPS: 6042 Fairway Dr., Mason, OH. 45040

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Time Schedule

High School Girls 5k                         9:30 a.m.

High School Boys 5k                        10:15 a.m.

College Womens  5k                      11:00 a.m.

College Mens  8k                            Noon

Middle School Girls 2 mile            1:00 p.m.

Middle School Boys 2 mile            1:30 p.m.            

*Both high school and both middle school races could be divided into a small school/big school race if there is enough demand.

Wilmington College hosted the 2014 NCAA Division III National Championship at the golf Center at Kings Island and in 2015 The Big East Cross Country Championship was hosted on the same course.  The course is an outstanding Spectator Course and runs very fast with rolling terrain and great footing for your athletes.

Entry Fees:         High School girls  $100                                              

                            High School boys  $100

                             Middle School girls  $75        

                             Middle School boys $75

                             College Men $100

                             College Women $100

                             Unattached Athletes (College Races Only) $25        

For high schools and middle schools (Teams consist of 50 or less athletes. Every 50 is considered a team.)

Example: 80 boys on a team is considered 2 teams, 150 boys and girls is considered 3 teams.

You may pay in cash or check; make check payable to Wilmington College Cross Country.

There will be a parking charge of $5 per car for spectators.

Entries:  Entries for high school and middle school races will be available at www.finishtiming.com and the registration for the College races will be available at www.directahtletics.com (Search Warren County Cross Country Festival or Wilmington College to add to your schedule on DA).  Entries for both races are due by Wednesday, October 5^th at 10pm.

Athletic Training:  There will be certified athletic trainers and student trainers on hand to assist with injuries and emergencies.  We will also have a life squad and EMTs at the finish.

Restrooms:  The restrooms at the Lindner Family Tennis Center will be available to Spectators and participants.  The locker room facilities will not be available for showers after the race. 

Timing:  The Finishtiming crew will be on hand to chip time all races.  The plans are to have splits at 2 different points on the course and there will be a scoreboard at the finish line.  There will also be LIVE results available if you have a Smartphone.

Awards:  In each race the top teams will receive a plaque and the top 25 in each race will receive water bottles.

T-Shirts:  Event specific t-shirts will be sold on site.  We will have t-shirts, hoodies etc. available.  Prices vary. 

Concessions:    Concessions will be available and KONA Ice will have a truck on site selling items.

Course maps:  Will be available on the cross country page at www.wilmingtonquakers.com and www.finishtiming.com  We will have those available in the coming weeks.  The 8k course for College men will be the same course that was used for the 2014 NCAA III National Championship and the 2015 Big East Championship.  The 5k course for high school and the college women will be the course used in those championship races but the final loop will turn early across the 1^st fairway to head back to the finish.   The Middle school course will also utilize the NCAA Championship course.

Questions:  Please contact Ron Combs (Meet director) at 937-218-3220 or by email at ron_combs@wilmington.edu

Coaches, Athletes, Parents, and Fans

This is to explain why our results are not formatted to Milesplits site.  First of all Finishtiming is not associated with Milesplit.  It is not our responsibility to provide results to them for their use.  They are a pay site and have people pay them to see their rankings and they use (steal) results from timers.  They figure putting our logo on the results is enough compensation for our work and then if we do not they tell all the coaches and parents to call and email us to ask why (thinking this will make us give them what they want). 

We used to provide them with our results as a courtesy until we started getting calls and coaches coming to us (at the meet) saying our results were not right.  They were already posted to milesplit before we were even done with the meet. 

We have sponsors also that need to have traffic driven to them, so if everyone was going straight to milesplit then we were missing those people.  We worked a deal with milesplit that they were to hold results for 48 hours and we would provide them with all results.  They were told as soon as a result was posted before the 48 hour period it was over.  It took approximately 1 week for them to break this agreement.  We spent a lot of money to make our live results system work the way it does and it is a very easy system to use with mobile device or computer and is very fast.  All meets that use our online entry system and use hytek to score their meet can see a complete rankings list at www.trackstatsohio.com .  Our rankings site is free and coaches can add their athletes times even if they were not timed by us, by simply logging in and entering a leader entry. 

We are a business and we have tried to add more and more experiences to the meets to make them more exciting for the fans and athletes alike.  We have more items available to you than most do and have always added these things without raising prices for 15 years.  We have started to get sponsors to help with our rising costs and if we give our results to another company this defeats our sponsorship.

Sincerely

Mike Chatfield

Finishtiming (Owner)

We are pleased to announce that Finishtiming will now be 1 of 3 USA distributors of the New Trident RFID Timing Systems.  All of our current Cross Country meet and Road Races will be seeing the new equipment.

A link to the announcement is HERE