Meet of Champions: Initital Invites

The First Ever Mock Meet of Champions

22 Teams + 70 Individuals = 224 Total Runners

 

Date: November 15^th, 2014

Location: Big Spring High School

Timing System: Run High

 

Note: Unfortunately, this is not technically possible this year because the Mideast Regional Championships are being held at Big Spring, but I like the idea of the meet being here so let’s jut pretend.

 

This is an invite only meet, meaning that if a team does not want to compete, it can decline the invitation and open up another spot for another team. Because the invitations come out on the Monday after the state meet, there should be sufficient time for both a first and second round of invitations.

 

Initial Invites Criteria: Team

Note: Once a team has qualified under one criteria, they are disqualified for consideration under the next. For example, if the District 7 champion and runner-up are both Top 4 Teams in AAA (criteria one), the third place finisher at District 7 is invited to the MoC (under criteria two).

 

1. Top 4 States AAA Team, Top 3 AA Team, Top 2 A Team (9 Teams)

2. Best Team @ 1, 3, and 7 AAA and Independent League Champions (13 Teams)

3. Best Team @ PreStates (best average time all divisions), Paul Short (Brown Race), and Carlisle (Challenge Race) (16 Teams)

4. 6 Wild Cards

 

Note: At the discretion of the committee, Criteria 3 may not be invoked in 2014 because there had not been prior documentation that these meets would be qualifying meets. The qualifying meets may be changed in future seasons, but the committee must announce any changes by March 1^st.

 

Wild Cards will be selected based on a number of factors.

1. Team Finish in the most important three meets of the season, i.e. States/Independents, Districts, Leagues

2. Wins against Pre Qualified teams at major invitationals to include, but not limited to, States/Independents, Districts, Leagues, Carlisle, PreStates, Paul Short etc.

3. Discretion of the committee, considering factors including, but not limited to, momentum, previous injuries, unfortunate circumstances at inopportune times, potential and talent

 

In extreme circumstances where the committee cannot come to an agreement on teams, they may choose to add up to two extra wild card entrants. The field will have an absolute cap of 24 teams.

 

Initial Invites Criteria: Individuals

1. Non-Team Qualifiers in Top 25 AAA, Top 20 AA, Top 15 A, Top 10 Independent (Max of 70)

2. Wild Cards to fill field

 

Again, Wild Cards will be selected on a number of factors, similar to those listed for teams. The absolute cap on the number of individuals is 70.

 

If you have any questions please direct them to committee chair Jarrett Felix at jarrettfelix1130@gmail.com or at www.therealtrain.blogspot.com.

 

 

Team Invites for the 1^st Meet of Champions

 

Criteria One Qualified Teams:

1. North Allegheny (AAA 1^st Place)

2. York Suburban (AA 1^st Place)

3. Winchester Thurston (A 1^st Place)

4. Conestoga (AAA 2^nd Place)

5. Grove City (AA 2^nd Place)

6. Sewickley Academy (A 2^nd Place)

7. Cardinal O’Hara (AAA 3^rd Place)

8. Scranton Prep (AA 3^rd Place)

9. Downingtown West (AAA 4^th Place)

 

Criteria Two Qualified Teams:

10. Malvern Prep (Independent League Champs)

11. West Chester Henderson (District One Runner-Ups to #4 Conestoga)

12. Hempfield (District Three Champions)

13. Canon-MacMillan (District Seven Runners Up to #1 North Allegheny)

 

Criteria Three Qualified Teams:

14. Mount Lebanon (3^rd PA Team at Pre States behind #7 and #1 qualifiers)

15. Cumberland Valley (2^nd at Paul Short behind #10 qualifier)

16. LaSalle College High School (4^th PA Team at Carlisle behind #2, #9 and #11 qualifiers)

 

6 Wild Cards

Confirmed Wild Card Invites:

17. Easton (AAA 5^th Place at States)

18. Central Bucks West (AAA 6^th Place at States)

 

Teams to be selected by fan vote (normally the committee would decide all the teams, but since this is a mock meet for the fans enjoyment, I figured you guys should have a say in who is involved).

 

Nominees for selection:

Carlisle, Central Bucks East, Council Rock North, GFS, Hershey, JP McCaskey, Knoch, Lower Dauphin, Pennsbury, Pottsgrove, Northeast Bradford, North Hills, Red Land, State College, Twin Valley

 

Voters may choose to place votes for up to 4 teams. Voters may choose to vote for a team not listed, but in these special circumstances, must provide evidence to suggest what key performances warrant inclusion.

 

As mentioned in the above criteria, in the event of a team outside of the top 4 vote getters receiving a significant amount of support, the committee may choose to include up to two additional teams.

 

Please make all votes by commenting on this post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Invitations

 

Criteria One Qualifiers

Note some teams that have not officially been invited will have individuals who are included here that may later qualify with their teams. They are denoted with an “*”.

1. Jake Brophy, CB East (1^st AAA)*

2. Dominic Hockenbury, Lake Lehman (1^st AA)

3. Griffin Molino, South Williamsport (1^st A)

4. Sam Ritz, Germantown Academy (1^st Independent League)

5. Jack DiCintio, Wyomissing (2^nd AA)

6. Sebastian Curtin, Mercyhurst Prep (2^nd A)

7. Daniel Green, James Buchanon (3^rd AA)

8. Simon Smith, Towanda (4^th AA)

9. Nick Dahl, GFS (4^th Independent League)*

10. Kyle Shinn, Wyomissing (5^th AA)

11. Colten Trimble, South Side (5^th A)

12. Gabriel Allgayer, Mercersburg Academy (5^th Independent League)

13. Casey Comber, Hatboro Horsham (6^th AAA)

14. Sean Hilverding, Waynesburg Central (6^th AA)

15. Matt Murray, Dunmore (6^th A)

16. Josh Herman, Germantown Academy (6^th Independent League)

17. Sam Webb, Pennsbury (7^th AAA)*

18. Nathan Morgan, Lakeland (7^th AA)

19. Domenic Peretta, Beaver Falls (7^th A)

20. Alex Kim, The Haverford School (7^th Independent League)

21. Cody DiVecchio, Burgettstown (8^th A)

22. Joe Newman, GFS (8^th Independent League)*

23. Zach Brehm, Carlisle (9^th AAA)*

24. Jack Tidball, Tunkhannock (9^th AA)

25. Blake Beheny, Camp Hill (9^th A)

26. Grayson Hepp, GFS (9^th Independent League)*

27. Will Kachman, Bedford (10^th AA)

28. Paul Power, Spring Ford (11^th AAA)

29. Kyle Gonoude, Salisbury (11^th AA)

30. Noah Curtin, Mercyhurst Prep (11^th A)

31. Zach Skolonevich, Quaker Valley (12^th AA)

32. Brian Hackman, St. Joesph’s (12^th A)

33. Nathan Henderson, JP McCaskey (13^th AAA)*

34. Andrew Maxwell, Slippery Rock (13^th AA)

35. Julian Degroot-Lutzner, Masterman (13^th A)

36. Zach Seiger, Red Land (14^th AAA)*

37. Jonathan Condloy, Jim Thorpe (14^th AA)

38. Devan Cavanaugh, Coudersport (14^th A)

39. Dylan Gearinger, Berwick (15^th AA)

40. Phoenix Meyers, Seneca (15^th A)

41. Alex Milligan, State College (16^th AAA)*

42. Jake Susalla, Plum (17^th AAA)

43. Matt Kravitz, North Pocono (17^th AA)

44. Jason Heid, Valley View (18^th AA)

45. Aiden Demko, Hershey (19^th AAA)*

46. Jacob Toczko, Tunkhannock (19^th AA)

47. Sean Weidner, Lower Dauphin (20^th AAA)*

48. Dan Filler, Gettysburg (20^th AA)

49. Brian Arita, Council Rock North (21^st AAA)*

50. Mike Kolor, Seneca Valley (23^rd AAA)

51. Drew Wilkinson, Red Land (25^th AAA)*

 

The committee will add wild card entries to fill the field once the team invitations have been finalized. There will likely be around 20-25 wild cards. Suggestions for these will be considered, but there is no voting system currently in place.