Meet Information
The meet is full for high school teams and middle teams.
2024 Invited Athlete - We are excited to welcome Connor Mantz, BYU graduate, NIKE sponsored professional runner, and 2024 USA Olympian in the marathon.
Connor will be here to sign autographs, take pictures and help with awards. A few of his PRs and accolades:
3K 7:41 5K 13:10 10K 27:25 Marathon 2:07:47
2020 NCAA Cross Country Champion 10K
2021 NCAA XC Champion 10K in 28:42 a course record
2024 USA Olympic Trials Champion
2024 Paris Olympic Marathon eighth place; fastest American marathon time ever
Admission Fee: Coaches - Please let your parents know.
- $10 per spectator - cash or online via square ( max $40 per car)
- Encourage your parents/spectators to purchase parking ahead of time and have the transaction pulled up on phone to speed up the line coming into the parking lot. they can click on this link:
- https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLMHP9Y91A058/checkout/RX3DXHGWTVQHZW3P33ISEFDC
- Coaches free with GHSA IDs
Schedule of races
6:30 am Packet Pick-up Opens and Course Open for Warm-ups
7:20 am Course Closes for Warm-ups
7:30am Varsity Girls - (max 8 runners per team)
8:00am Varsity boys - (max 8 runners per team)
8:25am JV Girls - (unlimited- please run your non varsity freshman girls in the freshman race)
9:00am JV Boys - (unlimited - please run your non varsity freshman boys in the freshman race)
9:30am Freshman Girls- (use mile split to enter your non varsity girls into this race)
10:05am Freshman Boys - (use mile split to enter your non varsity boys into this race)
10:35 am Middle School Girls -3000m
10:55am Middle School Boys -3000m
11:10am All Races are completed
10:35 Awards started for high school while the middle school races are going.
Timing: The Perfect Timing Group is the timing company for this meet. Each athlete will have a race number with the timing chip in the number. NO show chip.
Results will be posted on www.ga.milesplit.com and www.ptgrouponline.com later on Saturday.
2024 Coach Information Packet - to be emailed to all coaches on Thursday morning before the meet and posted on this site.
Directions to the XC Course - One Church (formerly Heritage Christian Church) - 2130 Redwine Road, Fayetteville, GA 30215 ---- 2 miles from Starr's Mill High School, down Redwine Road
2024 Course Map - Same course as all previous years -
Awards Specifics - We will have an awards ceremony starting at 10:35 (same time as middle school girls start). Awards will be in order of the races. We will not hand out awards in advance. Connor Mantz will be helping with awards.
Varsity Races
Individual Medals for the Top 20 runners
Team Medals for each varsity runner on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams
JV Races
Individual Medals for the Top 20 runners
Team Medals for each JV runner on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams (limited to the top 10 runners)
Freshman Races
Individual Medals for the Top 10 runners
Team Medals for each freshman runner on the 1st and 2nd place teams (limited to the top 10 runners)
3K Middle School Races
Individual Medals for the Top 20 runners
Team Medals for each middle school runner on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams (limited to the top 10 runners)
Excellent facilities for athletes and spectators
- 77 acres, 4 entrances for easy traffic flow (we added an extra exit in 2021)
- 1000+ parking spots, special bus parking area, plus overflow parking
- Plenty of areas for team tents (shaded in the woods)
- Plenty places for warm-up by the course or paved paths
- Plenty of portable restrooms near team team/ warm up area
- Medic/ Trainer's tent
- Course is spectator friendly/go down by the lake and see your athlete run
- Custom AT&T Starr's Mill XC Invitational T-shirts available for purchase;
- Course markers every 200m on the course + additional Clock at the 1 mile marker
- Finish Chute and large clock at the line
Courtesy Rules:
If you have an athlete that cannot run faster than 28 minutes in the VARSITY girls race or 24 minutes in the VARSITY boys race, you should put them in the JV race.
If your athlete must stop to walk during the race, we will ask them to step off the course and not finish.
For the Freshman and middle school Races, we will run the clock for a few additional minutes.
Registration help:
www.milesplit.us/pages/Online_Meet_Reg_Instructions
Note that these instructions are on the US Portal and you will have to return to your state site to actually find your team and enter the meet.