Declaration Process and Scoring Limits for Cross Country

Modify the playing rules (Rule 7-3) to require declaration of student-athletes who are eligible to score in a cross country competition, as follows (text to be added in bold):

Rule 7, Section 3: Scoring – Cross Country
Team Scoring
ARTICLE 3.a. Prior to the competition, teams must declare a maximum of nine runners who are eligible to score points toward the team’s finish. Only the first seven runners on any one team from among those declared prior to the competition may be used in scoring places. An order for team-finish placing is established by removing all runners behind the top seven finishers on each team and all runners not declared as part of the team’s potential scorers. Those teams not finishing at least five runners likewise shall not be included in the order of team finish.
b. The score shall be determined by totaling the points (place finish) of the first five runners of each team to finish. The team scoring the lower number of points shall be the winner.
c. Although the sixth and seventh runners of a team to finish do not score points toward their team’s total, their places, if better than those of any of the first five of an opposing team, serve to increase the team score of the opponents.
d. Ties in team scoring shall be broken by comparing in order the place finish of each of the five scoring members of the tied teams. The team with the majority of winning comparisons shall be awarded the higher place.
e. Teams that start at least five runners and have fewer than five runners finish the race shall be listed alphabetically at the end of the team results as Did Not Finish (DNF).