All meets will take place at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course located just east of Terre Haute, Indiana. The course was designed to allow spectators easy viewing of nearly all the race course, while affording the athletes an ideal racing environment. The course is NCAA regulation width and has an all grass running lane with gentle up-hills and wide turns. The 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2003, the Great Lakes Regionals took place on the course. A state of the art finish line building was completed in November of 1999. A great deal of additional fencing was added to the course in 2004 and 2005. We began using a new women's 6,000 meter course in 2006. The NCAA Championships were held on the course in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Sycamore Pride Alumni/Intrasquad Run, Saturday, August 30, 2008:
Race Distances: Men (5,000 meters), Women (4,000 Meters)
The women's race will begin at 10:00 a.m. and the men's at 10:30 a.m. By NCAA rules, this is a meet for our alums and current team members only. No outside teams. Any men's or women's alums interested in competing in the meet, please contact Coach John Gartland.
ISU Pre-Nationals, Saturday, October 18, 2008
Race Distances: Men (8,000 meters), Women (6,000 meters)
The first of six races will begin at 11:00 a.m. As has been established, there will be two men's seeded races and two women's seeded races. In 2008, the women's seeded races will go first. Additionally, there will be an open race for the men and for the women for teams who do not wish to be in the seeded races or who do not make the seeded races. The 8th thru 12th runners of seeded teams will also be in the open races. In the past few years, nearly 100 men's teams and 100 women's teams took part in the Pre-Nationals. Please declare your intention to compete in the meet by filling out the bottom of this page. We will again use Direct Athletics for entries, but we ask that you fill out the intent to compete form below to help us keep track of the field.
NCAA Division I Championships, Monday, November 24, 2008
Race Distances: Men (10,000 meters), Women (6,000 meters)
Please check the Indiana State web site and the NCAA Championships web site during the fall for updates about the meet. In 2008, the Women's 6,000 Meter Race will begin at 12:00 noon EST, and the Men's 10,000 Meter Race will tentatively follow immediately after the women's race. Times may be adjusted.
