Does anyone have a link to the qualifying rules for nationals from the different regions for DI cross country?
Does anyone have a link to the qualifying rules for nationals from the different regions for DI cross country?
You need to seee this:
http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=27408
So which teams make up that field? The easiest to understand is the automatic qualifying. ...
That’s the easy part, because there’s no analysis or decision-making involved. But filling out the fields with 13 more teams and two additional individuals is where things get dicey. ...
“It’s a really fair system, without any backroom politicking,” says Dartmouth men’s coach Barry Harwick, who also serves as President of the NCAA Division I Cross Country Executive Committee. “We’ll run our meet on Friday and the guys will be getting results from the other regions on the trip home, and by the time we get back we’ll pretty much know who the 13 at-large qualifiers are, before they’re announced...
The selection process is somewhat complicated, but here is a brief overview of how it works:
• The subcommittee begins its work by placing the third- and fourth-place teams from each of the nine regions onto a board. Then they review the season performances of those 18 teams, to determine “wins” they might have against the 18 automatic qualifiers during a maximum of seven competition opportunities.
[read the rest at the source, they deserve the hits for providing the info in a clear exposition.