Inter-Regional Rumble 2025
Hosted by Oberlin College Cross Country
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Meet Information
**** Entry to the Rumble is by invite only through Direct Athletics. Before adding this meet to your schedule, please contact Meet Director, Izzy Alexander (ialexan2@oberlin.edu). Teams who are not on the invite list in Direct Athletics will not have the ability to enter into the meet. ****
**** Unattached athletes wishing to enter into the Rumble must contact the Meet Director before 12pm Monday, October 13. ****
Location
Oberlin College North Athletics Fields and Community Trail
Oberlin College Athletics
200 Woodland Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Fields are located north of the athletics facilities
CAMPUS MAP
Course Maps
Competition Shoes
Coaches are responsible for knowing if their athletes' shoes comply with the NCAA Shoe Rule (Rule 22-3.5).
Coaches can check if an athlete's shoes is on the World Athletics Approved Shoe List here:
https://certcheck.worldathletics.org/
Time Schedule
10:30am - Women's Varsity 6,000m (top-10 only)
11:15am - Men's Varsity 8,000m (top-10 only)
12:00pm - Women's Open 6,000m (all other runners)
12:45pm - Men's Open 8,000m (all other runners)
Runners must be at their assigned starting box 20 minutes prior to the race to be checked in by the clerk.
NOTE FOR MEN'S VARSITY RACE: if you have runners who may run over 30:30, please place them in the Open section, even if they are in your top-10. This will provide those athletes with a better competitive experience and prevent confusion and congestion due to lapping.
Unattached runners must contact the Meet Director before 12pm Monday, October 13. Unattached runners wishing to run in the Varsity section must provide evidence they are capable of running under 27:00 for a Men's 8k or under 24:30 for a Women's 6k.
Live Results
Gingerbread Timing
https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/
Entries
All entries are to be done through Direct Athletics.
Please be sure to double check your rosters and entries.
Entry Deadline is Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 11:00pm ET.
The entry fee is $300.00 per team for a team of 10 or more runners. Individual entries are $30.
If you are entering both a Men's team and Women's team you will need to pay $600.00.
Payments can be made with a credit card in Direct Athletics.
Cash will be accepted.
Checks can be made payable to "Oberlin College Cross Country". If mailing a check, please mail to:
Oberlin College Cross Country
200 Woodland Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Packet Pick-Up
Packet pick-up will begin on Saturday morning at 8:30am and end at 10:30am.
It will take place at the table located by the finish line.
Please have your payment ready when you pick up your packet if it is outstanding.
Team Camps
Our field house and indoor facilities will NOT be available for team camps. Teams will need to bring their own tent.
Teams are to set up their tents and team camp areas on the athletic fields so long as they do not obstruct the course.
Chip Return
We are using reusable shoe chips - one chip per runner. Teams will be issued a box containing all the shoe chips for their entered athletes during packet pick-up. Teams must collect all their chips at the conclusion of the meet and return them to the packet pick-up table in the box that was issued. Teams will be billed for missing chips.
The Course
Consisting mainly of two large loops, half the course is on grass around the perimeter of athletic fields with two ~300m sections on crushed gravel and the other half the course takes place on 8-10 ft wide wood chip paths. The course is completely flat and, even on a rainy day, should run very fast. Even when wet, 1/4" to 3/8" spikes should suffice on the course.
Parking Instructions
PARKING MAP
Buses should drive north on Woodland Street, proceed through the gates to our athletics complex and bear right to head north up Goldsmith Lane. Buses should drop off teams by our softball field and then pass the Grounds Office to exit onto North Professor Street.
Buses may park on the west side of North Professor Street facing south.
Additional bus parking can be found 1 mile from the course at 297 South Main St. and 1.5 miles from the course at 225 West Hamilton Rd.
Buses may return to pick up teams where they dropped them off at the end of the meet.
Buses are not allowed to park in the lots by the athletics building and facilities.
Van and spectators in cars may park in the Philips Lot, the Student Lot off of North Professor Street, and the lot by Woodland Hall (see Parking Map). Additional parking for vans and spectators can be found in the lot behind Kahn (#12) and Stevenson Halls (#15) as seen on the CAMPUS MAP
Trainers
Our Athletic Training Room is the brick building connected to Williams Field House.
The Athletic Training Room will be open for pre-race treatment from 8:30am-10:00am. All athletic trainers will be out on the course beginning 30min prior to the start of the race.
Anyone needing treatment/taping must have a note from their athletic trainer outlining the treatment requested. It is preferred that they email it ahead of time to Christine Schwartz at cschwart@oberlin.edu. They must also provide the supplies from their medical kit. There is heat available during that time before the first race begins. No athlete will be receiving electrical stimulation or ultrasound unless their AT is present to administer the treatment.
There will be water and ice provided at the finish line. Any athlete needing ice post-race may take it from the finish line area.
There will be University Hospitals medical support stationed at that finish line as well.
If you have an athlete who usually passes out after finishing or has a syncope episode, please be at the finish line waiting for that athlete to assist the trainers.
Awards
Both the Varsity races and Open races will be scored.
T-Shirts will be awarded to the top-20 finishers in the Varsity races.
Trophies will be given to the top three teams in the Varsity and Open contests.
The awards ceremony will be held at the finish line after the last race of the day concludes.
Any athlete who achieves a new personal best for 6,000m or 8,000m will be able to pick up a commemorative sticker at the awards table.
Results
We will have a live scoreboard at the finish line. Complete results can be found at https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/ and will be posted on GoYeo.com,TFRRS, and Athletic.net at the conclusion of the meet.
Showers
Showers will not be available.
Bathrooms
Portable rest rooms will be available adjacent to the course. You may also use the restrooms located at the ground level of Knowlton Football Stadium. The bathroom in our training room facility will be off limits to teams, coaches and spectators.
