16^th Annual Wisconsin State Cross Country Championship for Lutheran Schools

When:  Saturday, October 10, 2026

Where:  Concordia University Wisconsin – Course is across the street from main campus (south of campus)

Scheduled Times:  Boys at 12:00 PM  Girls at 1:00 PM,  In the case of inclement weather the girls’ race may be moved up to immediately follow the boys’ race

Race Distance: 2 miles

Course:  Flat and very spectator friendly - one lap plus on a large open field.

Divisions:  All runners of all grades will race in their respective division (girls/boys) and count toward team scoring and individual awards.  There is no limit to the number of runners on each team.  Team scoring will count the top 5 placing runners for each team.  It is not required that a school has a complete team to have runners compete for individual awards.  There is not a required qualifying time, but coaches are asked to use discretion by limiting entries to runners who can reasonably be expected to complete the 2-mile course in 25 minutes or less. 

Qualifying for National Meet:

On October 24^th , the National Lutheran Cross Country Championships will be hosted at Concordia University, Wisconsin.  The state meet will be the qualifying meet.  Runners must run in the state meet to be eligible for the national meet.  The number of teams that qualify for the national meet will depend on the number of teams that participate in state meet.  Most years have had the top 4 or 5 girls’ and boys’ teams qualify.  Up to 7 individuals in each age division (7-8^th grade and 6^th grade and under) who are not on qualifying teams can qualify to run as individuals.  Individual qualifiers for 7-8^th grade must finish in the top 25 overall at state meet.  Individual qualifiers for 6^th grade and under must finish in the top 35 overall at state meet.    National Meet director is Russ DeLap who can be contacted at russell.delap@cuw.edu.

Awards: The top two teams in the state for boys and for girls will receive a team trophy.  The top seven runners on the state champion team and state runner up team will receive team medals.  Overall (all grade levels) individual awards will be given for first team all state (runners 1-7), second team all state (runners 8-14), and third team all state (runners 15-21).  All participating runners receive a commemorative T-shirt.

Entry Fee:  $18 per runner entered into athletic.net by the entry deadline.  (Late Entries - $30 per runner.)  Make check payable to LSA Wisconsin and send to the address below prior to the meet.

Parking:  Please park in the lots north of Highland Road (across the street from the course).  Parking is not allowed on Highland Road.  Parking will be limited due to numerous university activities scheduled for this day.

Concessions:  There will a limited selection of concessions available at the meet. 

Deadline to request a free commemorative T-shirts for runners is noon September 23.  Please submit shirt requests for each runner and up to 2 coaches per school by completing Google form that is available at https://www.lsawi.org/.  Size options are Youth S, M, and L and Adult S, M, L, and XL.  There will not be a late order of shirts placed after the meet.  Please submit request by 9/23 so runners get shirts.

Deadline to register is tentatively 8PM on Tuesday October 6.  Entries will be completed on Athletic.net race management website.     Entries are expected to be open by September 15.  See https://www.lsawi.org for link to entry portal.  Runners who are not entered in the race on athletic.new by the deadline must pay the $30 late entry fee. 

Website:  lsawi.org

Race Director:  Kevin Riemer  kevinriemer@aol.com, 262-424-7016

LSA Wisconsin mailing address for entry checks:

LSA Wisconsin

W170 N8736 Edgewood Pl
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-2715