2024 Victorian All Schools Cross Country Relay Championships
May 4 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Date: Saturday 4th May 2024
Entries Close: 11:59am (Midday), Monday 22nd April 2024
Entry Fee: $60 per relay team.
Location: Jells Park, Waverley Road, Wheelers Hill, 3150 (entry Waverley Rd or Ferntree Gully Rd)
We return to Jells Park in 2024. Jells Park will play host to the All Schools Cross Country Relays. The course provides fantastic cross country running with excellent vantage points for schools and spectators to support. The Jells relays are a great day and we encourage all schools to bring branded marquees, flags, banners and plenty of noise!
Athletics Victoria staff are there to help on the day. We will have copies of the course map at the administration marquee so you know where to go and what to do. It’s a great idea to walk the course beforehand if you’re feeling unsure, and of course you can always ask if there’s something you don’t know. Click the button below for a copy of the course map.
If you have issues entering the event please contact Athletics Victoria PRIOR to the closing date. This can be done via email to sportdelivery@athsvic.org.au or by phoning the Athletics Victoria office on (03) 7032 8400. Please leave a message explaining the issues you are experiencing. Athletics Victoria will not accept any late entries. Emails received after the closing date will not be accepted
Event Specific Information
Team Running Order Submissions
Following the successful implementation of Online Team Submissions at our All Schools Relay events last year we will look to once again provide Online Team Submissions for season 2024.
To assist with Schools entering the running order we ask for schools to please provide a list of students that may compete at the event so that we can have them available for a drop down list for eligible athletes in each of your entered teams.
Please download the student submission form HERE, and send to sportdelivery@athsvic.org.au by 5pm Wednesday 1st May. If you do not wish to provide a full date of birth please provide the year of birth as a minimum.
We will then provide the online entry system to schools by 5pm Thursday 2nd of May, of which you can then select running order as well as teams for each athlete. These will be able to be altered up until the conclusion of the event via ResultsHub.
Instructions on how to submit your running order will be available here and distributed to the pre-event contact by 5pm Thursday 2nd of May.
Draft Timetable
Start Time
Age Groups
Runners x Distance
Start Line
10:00 am
U16 Male
4 x 3km
1
10:01 am
U14 Male
4 x 3km
2
10:02 am
U16 Female
4 x 3km
3
10:03 am
U14 Female
4 x 3km
4
11:30 am
U20 Male
4 x 3km
1
11:31 am
U18 Male
4 x 3km
2
11:32 am
U20 Female
4 x 3km
3
11:33 am
U18 Female
4 x 3km
4
Age Groups
Age Group
Year of Birth
Relay Length
Course Laps
U14
2011, 2012 & 2013
4x3km
2
U16
2009, 2010
4x3km
2
U18
2007, 2008
4x3km
2
U20
2005, 2006
4x3km
2
Team Managers
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.
Car Parking
Carparking is available in the allocated parking areas only. There is strictly no parking in the parkland area. Athletics Victoria is not responsible for any parking tickets that may be issued.
School Marquees
Marquees will be located in an allocated area beside the course. Please look for the ‘School Marquees’ sign. All school Marquees must be secured by weights only.
Relay Bibs
Colour coded laminated numbers will be used to identify competitors in each age group:
U14 Girls
U16 Girls
U18 Girls
U20 Girls
Pink
Green
Orange
White
U14 Boys
U16 Boys
U18 Boys
U20 Boys
White
Yellow
Green
Pink
Coded numbers identifying age group will be used, i.e. ‘16’ for U16, ‘20’ for U20 and then the team number will be the ‘1’, ‘2’ – ‘40’ next to the age group number for example 14.1 or 14.40.
All relay identification numbers must be worn on the FRONT and BACK of each competitor’s uniform. Each schools team will have their own bib number with athletes 1 & 3 wearing the same numbers and athletes 2 & 4 wearing the other numbers during their leg of the relay.
Included in the school race pack will be a list of teams and their respective identification number. Please ensure that the correct identification number is distributed to teams.
Teams are expected to return all relay bibs to administration upon conclusion of their race.
Electronic Timing Tags
Each team will be allocated a numerically identified timing tag in their race pack which will be passed between team members like a relay baton.
Included in the school race pack will be a list of teams and their respective electronic timing tag number. Please ensure that the correct electronic timing tag is distributed to teams.
Teams are expected to return all electronic timing tags to administration upon conclusion of their race. Please note that an $90 replacement fee will be invoiced to the school for any electronic timing tags not returned.
There must only be 2 athletes from a team in each age group on the course at the one time (example runner 1 who is running and runner 2 who is waiting in the changeover area). This is for safety reasons for all athletes running through the changeover area.
First Aid
Colmed 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.
Food Vendor
Mocha Monkey will be on site selling coffee, muffins and snacks on the day.
Results
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/
Athletics Victoria has a wet/warm weather policy in place for the upcoming XCR’24 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.
