Notes: 2006 NCAA Division III Men's And Women's Cross Country Championships Qualifying Procedures
Qualifying Procedures
from the 2006 Division III Men's And Women's Cross Country Championships Handbook
To be eligible to participate in the 2006 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s
Cross Country Championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective
NCAA regions. [Note: Conference or open meets may not be conducted in conjunction
with NCAA regional qualifying meets.]
Teams (32 per gender) will be selected in the following manner:
• 16 teams will automatically qualify (two per region);
• 16 at-large teams will be selected by the committee to be determined using the criteria
listed below; and
• Only the top five teams in each regional will be considered.
The selection criteria below (not listed in preferential order) will be considered to
select the at-large teams:
• Regional place;
• Late-season performance (meets within the last 25 percent of the season);
• Head-to-head competition with teams already in the championships field and other
potential at-large teams using late-season performance comparisons;
• Gap times amongst runners within a team (one to five runners) at regionals;
• Regional meet results – point gap for places of a team’s finish and total team score versus the team that placed ahead of them and behind them; and
• Late-season meet results - point gap for places of a team’s finish versus the team that
placed ahead of them and behind them.
Individuals (56 per gender) will be selected in the following manner:
• 56 Individuals will automatically qualify (7 per region)
• Remove the team championship qualifiers from regionals and renumber the remaining
individuals (not with a qualifying team) to determine the individual national qualifiers.
Total Competitors (per gender)
32 teams of seven competitors each = 224
Individuals = 56
Total = 280
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