Seven Lakes High School runners compete at the levels of Open, Freshmen, Junior Varsity and Varsity.
OPEN RACE-2 Miles
Any runner not making the Freshmen, Junior Varsity or Varsity teams can run in this event.
FRESHMEN TEAM, RACE-2 Miles
Only the fastest 7 Freshmen runners from the school race, and in that race only the fastest 5 runners count. Your two slowest runners do not score. Only Freshmen can run Freshman races.
JUNIOR VARSITY TEAM, RACE-5k or 3.1 miles and sometime 3 miles
Only the 8th -14th fastest runners from the school race, and in that race only the fastest 5 runners count. Your two slowest runners do not score. Freshmen, Sophmores and Juniors can qualify. Seniors are not allowed.
VARSITY TEAM, RACE-5k or 3.1 miles and sometime 3 miles
Only the fastest 7 runners from the school race, and in that race only the fastest 5 runners count. Your two slowest runners do not score.
Freshmen, Sophmores, Juniors and Seniors can qualify.
TEAM VARIATION
Each team can vary on who is running with it each week based on attendance, health, competition and more. Example, if a team we are facing has a strong JV team, Coach may run only 5 Varsity runners, moving runners 6 & 7 down to JV to win both divisions. Coaches can place any number of runners in any race, from 0 to 7, based on the coaches decisions. (A few meets allow your top 10 runners). Some meets has a gold division, then Varsity goes to Gold, JV goes to Varsity, Open runners go to JV, and Freshman stay Freshman.
MEETS
Runners compete at local meets and the Season ends with the District Meet, Then the Regional Meet, and finally the State Meet.
DISTRICT MEET
Our district is made up of 8 area schools. Freshman, JV & Varsity teams compete. This meet officially ends the Freshmen and Junior Varsity season. Team are awarded First, Second and Third. Varsity teams must finish in the top 3 to move forward to the Regional Meet.
The top 10 runners in the District meet at each level are placed on the "ALL-DISTRICT TEAM". At the Freshmen & JV level this is just an Honor, but at the Varsity level it means that if our Varsity team did not make it to Regionals, the runner awarded "ALL-DISTRICT TEAM" will move forward to the Regional Meet to compete with out his team.
REGIONAL MEET
Our Region is made up of Districts 17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24. About 70 School (See DIST 19 button in menu). Qualifying Varsity teams and "ALL DISTRICT TEAM" runners compete. Teams are awarded First, Second and Third. Varsity teams must finish in the top 3 to move forward to the State Meet. The top 10 runners in the Regional meet are placed on the "ALL-REGIONAL TEAM". At the Varsity level it means that if your team did not make it to State, the runner awarded "ALL-REGIONAL TEAM" will move forward to the State Meet to compete with out his team.
STATE MEET
Only the Best. The state meet is made up of Every high school in texas. Texas has 1721 High schools with 1.266 Million Kids(2009-2010). Top 3 teams are awarded and the Top 15 Runners are awarded "ALL-STATE TEAM".
