about 57,667 highschool atletes run cross country in the US according to athletic.net online
Yes, 5 runners score points.
For high school, the top seven runners are the varsity runners. The top five to cross the finish line are scored for the team. Everyone else is junior varsity.
20-25 minutes for a girl but I don't know for guys
football actually, that's a miconception; the most commonly injured high school athletes are female cross country runners.
For girls it's 2.5 miles, and boys, I think is 3.2 miles. And this is in the high school level.
In Illinois, at least, making All-Conference means that you are one of the top 14 fastest runners in your conference.
Being on my high school cross country team, I have teamates that will run 20 miles in a week sometimes and i also have other teamates that run 60 miles per week sometimes.
Most high school cross country races are 5 kilometers, which is about 3.1 miles.
The Mizuno cross country spikes are a high demand shoe that is usually used for long distance track runners. It is a very high quality product that anyone should consider it.
Darin Shepardson
mid august to november.
The average is about 3 miles.