2025 Victorian All School Cross Country Championships

*U12 (born 2014) & U13 (born 2013) athletes will compete for the Victorian U14 All Schools championship in line with previous seasons.

These athletes will be eligible for their relevant age group at the National Cross Country Championships based the Selection Policy available above.

*U12 (born 2014) & U13 (born 2013) athletes will compete for the Victorian U14 All Schools championship in line with previous seasons.

These athletes will be eligible for their relevant age group at the National Cross Country Championships based the Selection Policy available above. Athletes must be born in 2014 or earlier to be eligible to compete at these championships.

Athletes competing up an age group will not be eligible for selection at the National Cross Country Championships. Athletes must be competing in their above age group to be eligible for selection.

Athletes are only eligible to compete in one age group. This includes both individual and team competition.

The first four athletes to finish from the same school count for team awards.

AV require mobile numbers of all team managers to allow contact if any changes to the event need to be made due to the forecasted weather conditions. Please submit your team managers names and contact numbers via sportdelivery@athsvic.org.au

If portions of the course are deemed unsafe due to the weather conditions, shorter race distances may be implemented.

AV will review the weather forecast Friday evening as well as completing a review of weather and course conditions Saturday morning. Any changes to the competition due to conditions will be communicated via text message to the provided Team Manager contacts.

We encourage all participants to arrive EARLY as there will be a premium on parking and access within Bundoora Park with the All Schools Championships running in the morning.

We encourage carpooling where possible with Public Transport also available via Tram 86 running every 15 minutes from Southern Cross Station, with a stop approx. 15 minute walk from the start line.

All marquees must be secured by weights. The Marquee zones can be seen below and will be marked out on the day.

Schools that registered as a group are to collect Bibs from the Administration Area and distribute to their students.

Athletes that registered as individuals are to collect your bibs from the administration area separately. Please do so 30 minutes prior to event start time to ensure you are ready for the race!

Please see here (sorted by schools) on where to collect your bibs!

All registered athletes are required to wear the approved school sports uniform, or a plain black/white top.

All athletes must wear allocated School XCR bibs on their front and back.

All athletes are required to wear two Athletics Victoria competition bibs; one with an affixed timing chip must be pinned to the front of the athlete’s competition uniform, the other to the back.

Athletes will be running in an anti-clockwise direction as noted in the Course Map (can be viewed below via link)

Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with the course and any alternate directions required as part of the 3km, 4km, 6km & 8km courses.

Athletes are not to warm up on any part of the course. Please ensure where possible athletes physically distance while warming up.

Course Map (Coming Soon)

Footwear

Most of the course will be run on grass. There are a couple of road crossings on asphalt in the 4km loop (approx. 10m each) (U17-U20) and a couple of crossings across gravel paths on all loops. You should be OK to wear spikes. Spikes can be needles, Christmas Trees (or new variations of this type), or Pyramid shape. 9mm is recommended for this course. If the weather is extremely wet prior to the day, then you can use up to 12-15mm spikes.

Warm up/Cool down Etiquette.

There is a lot of open space in the parklands not being used for the course. We respectfully ask that you do not warm up/warm down on the course proper.  There are a lot of races throughout the day, and we want to ensure the course is in its’ best condition throughout.  If you are warming up, please cover your race bibs so that officials & other athletes are aware you are not in the current race on the course.

Please contact Craig Morrow (craig@athsvic.org.au) if you have any questions regarding communicated school helper duties. Officials and club helpers are required to sign in at administration by 9.15am with the first race to commence at 10.00am. All helpers will be given a voucher for the coffee van upon sign in, with light snacks made available.

There will be two briefings by the Competition Director for officials & team Managers at the Finish line:

Course Marshals – 9:15am If your club is allocated to a marshal point, please ensure that this person attends the briefing.

School Managers & all other Officials – 9:30am One representative from each school will need to attend the Team managers briefing and this is the time to ask any questions regarding the day to the competition director.

First Aid will be on site throughout the day. They will be situated at the start/finish line. If anyone needs first aid, please ask an official/club helper to radio through and first aid will be out to help.

To Be Confirmed

Results, including live results and team results, will be published through out the All Schools XCR season on the Athletics Victoria ResultsHub webpage – https://athsvic.resultshub.com.au/

2024 Overall Results

Athletics Victoria has a wet/warm weather policy in place for the upcoming XCR’25 season. Please note we will let Team Managers know any information regarding this before the day or make announcements on the morning of the event. Please listen out for these throughout the day for any extreme weather announcements.