Club XC Nationals 2010 Info

The 2010 site will probably be announced at the 2009 championships.

Also none of us are currently in a club and I saw that we either have to joinn one or make one of our own. If we all live in different states can we form a cub that will allow us to compete in the team competition?

Also none of us are currently in a club and I saw that we either have to joinn one or make one of our own. If we all live in different states can we form a cub that will allow us to compete in the team competition?

You're supposed to all live in the same region as your club. The only 2 ways to not do this is if you were a part of a club and moved away prior to them making this rule OR if you can prove that the club(s) in your area do not provide the type of membership you are looking for.

I hear North Carolina.....

MK thanks for the help

MK wrote:

You're supposed to all live in the same region as your club. The only 2 ways to not do this is if you were a part of a club and moved away prior to them making this rule OR if you can prove that the club(s) in your area do not provide the type of membership you are looking for.

If you are in a different association, you need to get your current association to release you also. So if you lived in NorCal, then moved to NC and joined USATF you're going to get assigned to the NC association. If the club you form is in the PA-USATF, then NC-USATF needs to release you.

The process is intentionally intended to make "national teams" next to impossible to create. As someone that's held a PA card for nearly 10 years and currently living in North Carolina I think it's somewhat silly and overly complicated.

What USATF is trying to do is discourage the creation of teams that live for the duration of the championship and then disband. This does disrupt established teams and encourages athletes to jump team to team.

I'm sure they could accomplish the same thing by saying join your team and you can compete with that team as long as you maintain continuous membership. If you jump ship skip a season unless the origin and destination teams agree. If your team just formed and disappeared then there's no origin team to approve, so you sit out a season.

Why don't you make some friends and form a club where you DO live??

get it together wrote:Why don't you make some friends and form a club where you DO live??

Have friends and clubs in both, not the point, why be forced to abandon one set due to proximity? In my specific case it's really a moot point. No one would ever consider me a "ringer" nor would be be of any real value unless a team couldn't make numbers. In a more pertinent case let's say Alan Webb had been competing for the same team in Reston his whole career and maintained his membership in that club and association. Even if he had moved to Michigan and then Oregon, if he hadn't ever competed in USATF for someone else why shouldn't he be able to compete with his original club?

That question was for the OP, not you. Sorry for the confusion.

It doesnt matter where the meet will be held, I have a feeling that this team from wisconsin will take down the title

2011 club xc nationals will be in Seattle. 2010?

I heard it's going back to San Francisco.

why not just run unattached?

where in seattle?

Actually there is an exception that would allow the hypothetical Alan Webb you speak of to run with his hypothetical Reston team. I believe that if an athlete has competed for a club for three or more years and subsequently moves to a different association that athlete is allowed to run for his/her previous club team.

Now this rule may have changed, but I know the USATF allowed it as of 2007. I haven't kept up recently.

I heard a Sacramento club(s) is going to put in a bid to host.

I've heard it is pretty much a done deal that they are going to be held in Lincoln Nebraska on December 11, 2010. Hope that helps.

thaddeusiii wrote:

where in seattle?

Jefferson Park Golf Course, December 10, 2011.