Ricardo Romo/Six Flags Fiesta Texas Classic information

? Complete information packet (.pdf)

Dates
Friday, Sept. 21 (university/college)
Saturday, Sept. 22 (high school)

Location
Brooks City Base (South San Antonio)

Directions
? Traveling south on IH-37/281 South, go to exit 135
? Head west on Military to South Presa
? Turn south on South Presa
? Turn left on Henderson and enter through the west gate
? You then will be directed to the parking areas
? You can unload your teams by the start, but do not park on Sidney Brooks Drive
(you will be towed)

Distances run
Boys: 3.1 miles
Girls: 2 miles
JV girls & boys: two miles

Course inspection
The course inspection will take place from 3-5:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 and it will be closed for the university/college races from 6-6:45 p.m. The start and finish will be the same as last year. There will be some minor changes on the course this year due to construction.

Packet pickup
Packet pickup will be from 4-7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, and at designated times on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 22 (see schedule below).

Entry fees
The entry fee this year is $10 per athlete and please pay at packet pickup. Due to the fact that we have to rent chips for our timing system, you will be charged for the number that you register/enter and NOT for the number of athletes who run. Please be mindful of this when you submitting your entries.

Submitting entries
We will use Direct Athletics this year. See below for instructions.

How to submit online entries
After all of your athletes

have been added to your online roster (step 2 beiow), you must submit your

roster/entries to the meet by clicking the green “register” link. (step

3 below) Your rosters/entries are not submitted until you complete step

3.

Step 1 - Accessing your Direct Athletics account
Each coach

must have a Direct Athletics username and password for his/her school.

If you don’t know your username and password, you will be able to

create one or retrieve your existing account by following the

instructions below.

Existing users
1) Go to www.directathletics.com
2) In the login box, enter your username and password and click "login" (remember that your password is case-sensitive)

New users
1) Go to www.directathletics.com
2) Click on the link “new user? click here”
3)

Follow onscreen instructions. You will be able to create an account

online or retrieve forgotten information for an existing account.

Note about accounts: Most coach accounts control a school’s men’s and women’s team. You control only one gender at time, so you will complete

the below steps for your men and then switch to your women’s team and

repeat the process (or vice versa). The team you are controlling is

listed on the blue navigation bar across the top of your account.

Example
Sport: Cross Country Team: Trinity College (M)/This

indicates that you are controlling the Trinity College men's

team. To switch to your Women’s team, you would select “Trinity

College (W)”.

Step 2 - Edit/set up your online roster
Before

entering an athlete into a meet, you must add all attending athletes to

your roster. If an athlete is already on your roster (from previous

seasons) you do not need to add him/her again. Most schools will just

need to add new athletes and delete athletes no longer on the roster.

1) Upon logging in, click the team tab

2)

If you have used Direct Athletics before, you will see last year’s

roster. School years have automatically been moved forward one year.

You can click “import track roster” which is listed on the left. You

will be able to add athletes from your track roster to your cross country roster. If you do not see this link or you are new to

Direct Athletics, skip this step.

3) Click the green “add athletes” link under the "team roster" header. Select an approximate

number of athletes you would like to add (you can add more at any

time).

4) Enter your athletes first name, last name and school year and click “submit”

5) You may add, edit or delete athletes on your team roster at anytime by click the "team" tab.

Step 3 - Submit Your Roster/Entries
Once your athletes are added to your roster, you must submit your roster to the meet.

1)

In the "home" tab (under upcoming meets) or in the "schedule" tab, click

the green register button next to the meet you wish to enter.

2)

Check off the box for each athlete you wish to enter. You can check the

“all” box to select (or deselect) your entire roster.

3) When you have completed your entries, click “submit”. You must click “submit” to submit your entries.

4)

You will see your current, submitted entries on the “View Entries”

page. At any time before the entry deadline, you may edit your entries

by clicking the “edit entries” link.

5) For entry confirmation,

simply print the “view entries” page or click the "email confirmation"

link at the top of the “view entries” page. An email confirmation will

be sent to the email address in your account.

Entry deadline
The deadline for submitting entries is noon, on Monday, Sept. 17.

Divisions
1. Gold (elite teams only/only seven per team)
2. 5A-4A-3A-2A-1A
3. JV (only for sophomores and younger/we will allow junior high athletes as well)

Continued divisions
Teams must run in their division or in the gold division. If you choose to move up you can only move seven up and you can still run as many as you want to in your UIL classification.

Chip timing
The meet will again use chip timing and instructions about the chips will be in you packets.

T-shirts
You can purchase meet T-shirts for $10 apiece.

Restrooms
Portable restrooms will be available in the holding start areas for the athletes only. Showers will not be available.

Awards
Special trophies will be awarded to the winning teams and trophies will be presented to the top 20 finishers in each race. Medals will be given to the top 20 finishers in the JV races, but there will not be a team champion in those races.

Award ceremonies
The post-race awards ceremonies will take place at the clubhouse.

Results
All results will be posted at the clubhouse ad will be available on goUTSA.com after 6 p.m. the day of the race.

Other
? This is the same course that will be used for the UIL Region IV Championships
? Concessions will be available

? We will post a map of the course on goUTSA.com before Sept. 7.

Schedule