2023 Trials of Miles XC Opening Night: Info

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Please arrive at DeMatha no later than 12:45pm. The bus will depart from DeMatha promptly at 1:00pm. It is, approximately, a 75-minute drive to Morven Park in Leesburg, Va.

Note the following meet details:

Location
Morven Park Grounds
17339 Southern Planter Lane
Leesburg, VA 20176

Meet Schedule
3:00p - Course Opens for preview
4:20p - Middle School Girls & Boys combined 2-Mile
4:35p - Freshman Boys 2-Mile (9th grade only)
4:50p - Freshman Girls 2-Mile
5:05p - JV Boys 5k (Unlimited entries)
5:35p - JV Girls 5k
6:05p - Open Race 5k (Friends/family/coaches may enter at this link - $20 per entrant)*
6:35p - Varsity Boys 5k
7:05p - Varsity Girls 5k

*Athletes not listed below are welcome to register themselves and run in the open race. I will not be able to get mile/2-mile splits for these athletes and they will not race in the team uniform, but if they break 30 minutes they will meet our performance standard for the 2023 season.

Registered athletes*
Our Varsity team at Trials of Miles will consist of Graham Fenn, Daden Grogan, Tarik Harris, Chase Lopez, Jalen Neptune, Brandon Smoot, and Roman Zentek

Our JV entries at Trials of Miles consist of Nicholas Berry, Peter Brown, Brendan Dougherty, Tyler Ellis, Maxwell Ellison, William Herman, Jesse Holland, Williams Jackson, Cameron Lamb, Joseph LeGloahec, Aidan Lopez, Chase Lopez, Ryan Pickett, Xavier Raymond, Andrew Righi, Aleko Rodousakis, and Tyson Woods

Our entries in the Freshman Boys 2-mile will be Phillip Marshall and Renaud Williams.

*Meet registration closes at midnight on August 30. Some athletes listed above are not currently cleared. Any athletes who remain uncleared by noon on August 30 will be removed from our entry list.

Awards
It is not clear whether there will be a ceremony at the end of the meet, but the following awards will be distrubuted:

Estimated return to DeMatha

9:30pm (give or take depending on traffic and whether there is a post-meet awards ceremony)

Athletes:

Additional Important Details

If you have any questions, contact Coach Puffett directly.