Tennessee Cross Country Coaches Association Meeting

T3CA Board Meeting                                                   Feb. 3, 2007

 

Members present:

 

G. Gibson, S. Roberts, A. Ethridge, D. Milner, M. Smith(ex officio),

 J. Presnell, J. Tyler, R. Lavender, R. Pruitt

 

Items voted on

 

1. Rotate A/AA, AAA, D2 – as previously agreed on    Unanimous

 

2. Have race packet available at course preview              Unanimous

 

3. Run up to 10 in the Region meet                            Unanimous

         allowed by rule 9-5 (p.70), NFHS rule book, definition of team

 

Change tssaa Cross Country Regulation II (definition of team) to the following

 

A team will consist of a minimum of five and a maximum of ten. However, if a school does not have a team it may enter less than five runners in the individual division of the meet. No school shall enter more than ten participants in the regional cross country meet. Should the team qualify for the state meet, any seven of the 10 may run in the state meet.

 

 

Other action – remand suggestion of decreasing number of A/AA regions while still keeping number of teams at state at 24 back to A/AA coaches

 

Recommend that the members of the T3CA board request that the members of the State Track Committee request the establishment of a State Cross Country Committee that would meet yearly with the TSSAA.

Items for this committee to address

         Yearly on-line rules education