The Regional Meet will be held at Lehigh, although the host school is Muhlenberg. The website for the championships will be found here: Click Here
Information on how regional teams will qualify for nationals:
Selection Criteria.
Effective for the 2007 championships the following at-large selection criteria and procedures will be followed for teams and individuals. (Please note: No changes from the 2006 criteria were approved for the 2007 championships.)
Teams (32 per gender) will be selected in the following manner:
• 16 teams will automatically qualify (two per region);
• 16 at-large teams will be selected by the committee to be determined using the criteria listed below; and
• Only the top five teams in each regional will be considered.
The selection criteria below (not listed in preferential order) will be considered to select the at-large teams:
• Regional place;
• Late-season performance (last 2 regular season meets prior to regionals);
• Head-to-head competition with teams already in the championships field and other potential at-large teams using late-season performance comparisons;
• Gap times amongst runners within a team (one to five runners) at regionals;
• Regional meet results – point gap for places of a team’s finish and total team score versus the team
that placed ahead of them and behind them; and
• Late-season meet results - point gap for places of a team’s finish versus the team that placed ahead of them and behind them.
Individuals (56 per gender) will be selected in the following manner:
• 56 Individuals will automatically qualify (7 per region)
• Remove the team championship qualifiers from regionals and renumber the remaining individuals (not with a qualifying team) to determine the individual national ualifiers.
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