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Pre-Cookeville Meet Info

Hello running families! It looks like we're going to have perfect running conditions for a Saturday morning meet! Partly Cloudy with running temperatures in the mid-70's. 

Here's the info copied from TN Milesplit: https://tn.milesplit.com/meets/456389-burnett-invitational-2022#.YyxcmHbMKUk

Site: Cookeville High School Cross Country Course

GPS Address: 497 Whitaker Springs Rd., Cookeville TN

  • 8:00am Course Walk-Through
  • 9:00am MS Girls Race
  • 9:30am MS Boys Race
  • MS Awards will be available at the pavilion
  • 10:00am HS Girls' Varsity Race   - Time cutoff is 36:00 (If a girl runner can not run 36:00 or under they should run the JV race)
  • 10:40am HS Boys' Varsity Race -  Time cutoff is 30:00 (If a boy runner can not run 30:00 or under they should run the JV race)
  • 11:15 HS Combined JV Race
  •  HS Awards will be available at the pavilion  

Awards: MS - Trophies Top 3 Teams, Medals Top 20 Individuals. HS Varsity - Trophies Top 3 Teams, Trophies Top 3 Individuals, Medals 1-20 Individuals HS JV - Medals Top 10 Individuals

VAN: Here's a message about the Van from Tuesday from Coach Segraves: "The van will leave from the Middle School at 7:30AM. We will not meet at the HS. If your parents are going, I would prefer you ride w/ them."


Teams who are registered: 
  • York Institute - Jamestown
  • CSTHEA Patriots High & Middle - Chattanooga
  • Cookeville High & Middle
  • Cumberland High - Crossville
  • Stone Memorial High - Crossville
  • Dekalb County High & Middle - Smithville
  • Lebanon High
  • Livingston Academy
  • Overton County Middle - Livingston
  • Macon High & Middle - Lafayette
  • Red Boiling Springs High & Middle
  • Smith County Middle - Carthage
  • Tucker's Crossroads - Lebanon
  • Upperman - Baxter
  • White County High & Middle

WC XC GOALS from Topher for this Saturday
HS Boys - Previous Best Team Time:  25:00
  • Goals - to beat Vanburen, Upperman, and Livingston Academy.
  • To beat Vanburen, our #4 Runner, Ashton Randolph, needs to shoot for a 24:20 or better. Ashton's previous best was 23:54. He needs to beat Vanburen's #4. Our #6 & #7 runners (Jackson & Blake) need to push Vanburen's #5 runner farther down the list by running sub-28:00 race. 
  • To beat Upperman, who posted a 23:08 team average on 9/17, our #1-#5 boys need to average higher than our previous best of 25:00.  Our #5 runner, John David, needs to run at a 26:00 pace or better.  Our #4 runner, Ashton Randolph, needs to beat Upperman's #4 who ran a 24:10 last race.  All of Upperman's 5 runners are between 22:20 and 24:10 pacing. 
  • To beat Livingston Academy, who posted a 25:34 average on 9/01 here at Cookeville, we should beat them if we run our normal race time, beating a 25:00 average. All of our top 5 runner PR's are  faster than their top 5 runner postings. 
  • Stone Memorial, Red Boiling Springs, & Cumberland County, & Dekalb ran less than 5 runners in their last races. 
HS Girls - Previous Best Team Time: 34:32
  • Every runner needs to be 36:00 to be considered Varsity.  Zoey needs to PR at Cookeville by -2:26. 
  • Better our team average from 34:32 to 34:00. 
  • Have at least 5 Girls to run.  Cumberland, Dekalb, Livingston, & Red Boiling are running less than 5 runners in the last few meets. 

MS Boys - Previous Best Team Time: 17:38
  • Beat Tucker's Crossroads, who posted a 17:06 average on 8/22. Our #5, Sam Burton, needs a sub-18:00 time, and our #3 Ethan Wiles, needs to beat their #3 runner, Axton Green. 
  • Have our #1-4 average higher than the Smith County #1-4.  To do that, we'll need one runner (Colton or Jackson) to break into the 15:00's for the first time and for Tyler to stay Sub-18:00 
  • Overton & Smith County ran less than 5 runners in their last races. 
MS Girls - Previous Best Team Time: 18:19
  • Get our team average below 18:00 for the first time.  For that to happen, Olivia needs sub-18:00, Eva needs below 19:15 and Hannah needs below 19:30. 
  • Our #1-3 average higher than the #1-3 for Dekalb County. Their top 3 averaged 17:40 in their last race. Our highest average for #1-3 is 17:20.
  • Our #1-3 average higher than the #1-3 for Overton County. Their top 3 averaged 17:35 in their last race. Our highest average for #1-3 is 17:20.
  • Our #1-4 average higher than the #1-4 for Smith County. Their top 4 averaged 20:33 in their last race. Our highest average for #1-4 is 17:54.
  • Dekalb, Overton, Red Boiling, Smith Co ran less than 5 runners in their last race.




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