21st Annual Knights Crossing Invitational
Presented by Cave Spring High School
Saturday September 6th
Green Hill Park, Roanoke County
You and your team are invited to participate in the 21st Annual Knights Crossing Cross Country Invitational this fall. This event is held on an all grass and very fast course at beautiful Green Hill Park. Knights Crossing has been ranked as the 3rd best invitational in the state according to MileStat!
If you and your team are interested in attending, please e-mail Tommy Maguire at [email protected] so you can reserve your spot. I will also give you the milesplit password to enter.
* In past years teams attended from: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, & West Virginia
Knights Crossing High School Meet Records:
Men: Bazil Mathes 15:04.30, 2023
Women: Kelsey Harrington 17:13.50, 2019
Green Hill Course Records:
Men: Bazil Mathes 14:51.90, 2023 VHSL State Meet
Women: Kelsey Harrington 16:55.10, 2019 VHSL State Meet
Knights Crossing Open Race Records:
Men: Luke Mussard 15:18.44, 2022
Women: Ashley Craig 19:43.00, 2019
2025 Schedule of Events:
7:00 am Course Opens
Packet Pick-up/Open Race registration
8:00 am Joe LaRocco (open) 5K Team Race for men and women
8:30 am Coaches Meeting at the stage
9:00 am Elementary School Championship 1K Race - (Boys/Girls)
9:15 am Open Race Awards
9:30 am Girls Middle School Championship 4K Race - (Medals to Top 25)
10:15 am Boys Middle School Championship 4K Race - (Medals to Top 25)
The "Red" race is for Virginia public schools and all out of state teams!
10:45 am Girls Red Race 5K - (Medals to top 25)
11:30 am Boys Red Race 5K - (Medals to top 25)
The "Black" race is for all Virginia public and all private schools!
12:00 pm Girls Black Race 5K - (Medals to top 25)
12:45 pm Boys Black Race 5K - (Medals to top 25)
The "White" race is for Virginia public schools runners and all out of state teams not entered in the “Red” race!
1:15 pm Girls White Race 5k - unlimited
2:00 pm Boys White Race 5k – unlimited s
The "Gold" race is for all Virginia public and all private schools’ runners not entered in the “Black” race!
2:30 pm Girls & Boys will race together in Gold Race 5k - unlimited
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* Team entrance fees are $125 per team ($230 if you are bringing a boys and girls team). If a team is sending 4 or less runners each runner is $10
Middle school teams are additional $90 dollars. This includes both men’s and women’s teams.
Some possible entry combinations examples:
- Bring full varsity (men’s & women’s) team plus middle school team total $320.00
- Bring just a middle school team (more than 5 runners of each gender) $90.00
- Bring just a women’s varsity team (more than 5 runners) $125.00
- Bring just 3 men varsity runners and 2 women ($10 a runner) $50.00
Fees should be sent to:
Tommy Maguire, Cave Spring High School
3712 Chaparral Drive
Roanoke, VA 24018.
Please make check payable to Knights Booster Foundation. We will accept the first 110 high school and 65 middle school teams to enter with payment.t
* Submitting Entries: (Please email me for the milesplit password).
We would like to have all entries done through milestat.com. ALL ENTRIES ARE DUE BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st by Midnight.
Information for registering online can be found at www.milesplit.us/pages/Online_Meet_Reg_Instructions or the directions are listed below.
1. Login or Register - You must have a user name and password for Milesplit. To get that, if you don't have one, click register in the top right gray MileSplit bar directly under the Universal Sports logo and search box.
2. Claim Your Team - If you haven't already set this up, you must be registered as a coach or team administrator to register for a meet. In order to get set up, you go to your team page, and at the top right, click ? Claim This Team.? Choose either that you want to be a coach or team admin. Follow the instructions on that page. Apply and submit. Once you do that and are approved (usually within a few hours), you will receive a confirmation email and you'll be set to go to the next step.
3. Update Your Roster - If your team's roster is not already up to date, now is a good time to get any corrections made and add any additional athletes to it. Go to your team page, login, and you will see button that says "Team Administration" to the right of your team's name. Click that and then click roster on left hand toolbar. Enter or update your roster, adding any new athletes. To move graduated athletes to Alumni, simply add their graduation year and hit save.
4. Enter the Meet - Go to the season calendar and click on the green meet registration button of the meet you want to enter. Read and follow the instructions carefully and fill out the form completely. Once entered you'll see all of the available events/races listed out. To put your athletes into these events/races click the "Edit Entries" link by the event. On the following page, check the athletes you want in the race (putting in seed times if applicable), and click the save button at the bottom. Do this for each event/race. You will be able to change and update these entries until the entry deadline. B
* Athletic Trainers: Some space will be available for your team trainers, and we will be providing an athletic trainer for limited assistance.
* T-shirts: will be on sale as well as a concession stand.
Restrooms are limited; however, there will be 50 port-a-johns on site.
* Directions to Green Hill Park:
From I-81(N or S): Take exit 137 (Salem). Take a right at the bottom of the exit ramp. Follow to 1st traffic light. Go right onto Route 460. Go to the 3rd traffic light and take a left onto Duiguids Lane. Cross the railroad tracks and you will come to Green Hill Park on your right. Please follow signs to 2nd entrance down access road.
* Parking Information:
Parking will be available through the second right down the access road. There will be parking for cars and buses, free of charge Gr
* Hotel Information:
Please see the hotel link on knightsrunning.com
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“Your quest to the Championships Season starts here!”
Here are the teams that attended the 2024 Knights Crossing
Knights Crossing Saturday September 7th
High Schools (108)
Abingdon
Alleghany
Altavista
Appomattox
Auburn
Bassett
Blacksburg
Broadway
Brookville
Bruton
Buffalo Gap
Cardinal Gibbons (North Carolina)
Carroll County
Cave Spring
Central
Charlotte Latin (North Carolina)
Chilhowie
Christian Heritage Academy
Christiansburg
Cornerstone Christian Academy
David Crockett (Tennessee)
Dobyns-Bennett (Tennessee)
East Rockingham
Eastern Mennonite
Eastern Montgomery
Eastside
Eastern View
E.C. Glass
Faith Christian
Floyd County
Fluvanna
Fort Defiance
Franklin Co.
Galax
Galileo
George Wythe -Wytheville
Giles
Glenvar
Grace Christian
Graham
Grayson
Greenbrier East (West Virginia)
Hanover
Hargrave Military Academy
Harlan (Kentucky)
Harrisonburg
Heritage
Hidden Valley
James River – Buchanan
Jefferson (West Virginia)
Jefferson Christian Academy
Jefferson County (Tennessee)
Jefferson Forest
John Battle
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lee County
Liberty – Bedford
Liberty Christian Academy
Lord Botetourt
Loudon Valley
Luray
Magna Vista
Marion
Monticello
Mountain View – Quicksburg
New Covenant
North Cross
Northside
Oakton
Parry McCluer
Patrick County
Patrick Henry – Glade Spring
Patrick Henry – Roanoke
PikeView (West Virginia)
Pulaski County
Radford
Redeemer Classic
Riverbend
Roanoke Catholic
Roanoke Valley Christian
Rockbridge
Rustburg
Salem
Shady Spring
Sherando
South County
Spotswood
Staunton River
Stuarts Draft
Sullivan East (Tennessee)
Tazewell
Tennessee High (Tennessee)
Thomas Dale
Turner Ashby
Union
Warren County
Waynesboro
William Byrd
William Campbell
William Fleming
William Monroe
Wilson
Wilson Memorial
Woodrow Wilson
Middle Schools (59)
Alleghany
Appomattox
Andrew Lewis
Auburn
Bassett
Benjamin Franklin
Blacksburg
Breckinridge
Carroll Co.
Cave Spring
Christian Heritage Academy
Christiansburg
Dalton Intermediate
Dunbar
Eastern Greenbrier (West Virginia)
Faith Christian
Floyd Co.
Fluvanna
Forest
Galax
George Wythe - Wytheville
Glenvar
Grace Christian
Graham
Hidden Valley
Lee County
Liberty Christian Academy
Lord Botetourt
Lucy Addison
Luray
James River Day School
James Madison
Jefferson Christian Academy
John Battle
John P. Fishwich
Kate Collins
New Covenant
North Cross
Northside
Parry McCluer
Patrick Henry – Glade Spring
PikeView (West Virginia)
Princeton (West Virginia)
Pulaski
Redeemer Classic
Roanoke Catholic
Roanoke Valley Christian
Rustburg
Sandusky
Shawsville
Shady Spring (West Virginia)
Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy
Staunton River
Stewart
St. John Neuman Academy
Virginia High
William Byrd
Wilson Memorial
Woodrow Wilson (West Virginia)
Elementary Schools (21):
Alleghany
Auburn
Back Creek
Callaghan
Cave Spring
Christian Heritage Academy
Colonial
Faith Christian
Falling Branch
Greenfield
Green Valley
Joseph Van Pelt
Melrose
Oak Grove
Penn Forest
Pulaski
Roanoke Catholic
Roanoke Valley Christian
Salem Montessori
West Salem
Wilson
W.W. Robinson