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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Additional newbie questions:

What is the difference between a meet and an invitational?

At meets or invitationals, is there a limit to the number of runners a high school team can enter (the seven best runners or whatever) or does everyone on the team get to run?
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Most schools will have dual or three-way meets once during the week. Two or three schools compete. Every kid on the team will get to run. Often, just two races. Boys' 5K, Girls' 5K.

Then there will be invitationals many Saturdays. There are several different formats, but typically, there's a varsity and a JV heat. Sometimes a freshman race. If this is the case, most coaches will send 7 kids for varsity, 7 for JV, and 7 for freshman. So the coach would typically pull out the 7 fastest freshmen, then the 14 fastest runners would make up varsity and JV.

The spots can be malleable. Some kids move up from JV as they get faster. Depends on how deep the team is and how competitive the coach is.

If you're not one of those 21 runners (or 42 if you add boys and girls together, you don't go. That can be an incentive, too. One of my kids ran for a very competitive program, and getting invited to invitationals was a sign of his progress. [/quote]

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