New Prairie Cross Country Invitational

07/22/2020

Voting is now open for MileSplit Indiana’s Course Madness Competition! Head over to their website to vote for New Prairie! Voting closes July 24th at noon.

It is time to find out who has the best cross country cross in Indiana!

07/21/2020

What’s your favorite high school cross country course in Indiana? (We might be biased.) Head over to MileSplit IN to vote in their Course Madness poll!

It is time for the the Final Four of What is the Best Cross Country Course in Indiana!

09/11/2019

Calling all NPCC Alumni and Cross Country fans! We are less than two weeks away from the 52nd running of the New Prairie Invitational. There will be a special dedication ceremony at 7:45 AM in which the course will officially be named for former NPCC Cross Country Coaches Doug Snyder and Thom Smith. We hope to see you all there and would love to get a picture of the alumni with their former coaches! First race starts at 8:10.

09/13/2018

Starting Box Assignments! Let's get excited!

09/13/2018

Come out this Saturday for the 51st annual New Prairie Cross Country Invitational. We have over 100 schools competing in 8 races throughout the morning/afternoon. You don't want to miss it!

09/17/2017

The Gary Post Tribune also covered the event...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/sports/cross-country-20170916-story.html

Valparaiso's boys and girls teams took first place in the Class AAA races at the New Prairie Invitational.

09/17/2017

Here's the Michigan City News-Dispatch article...
http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/sports/article_9b066988-39c2-58c7-8d98-9cd51da2d21a.html

NEW CARLISLE — Varied results. That’s what Saturday’s New Prairie Cross Country Invitational offered area teams.

09/17/2017

Another day brings more newspaper articles. Some of them are accompanied by photo galleries a well. Here's the one that ran in the South Bend Tribune today...
https://www.southbendtribune.com/sports/high_school/near-misses-order-of-day-for-runners/article_970e1e7a-6635-54f9-9cc4-b652aae32500.html

NEW CARLISLE — So close, so far away.

09/17/2017

Here's a recap of how region teams fared today...
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/cross-country/valpo-boys-and-girls-morgan-girls-fleming-bakker-take-titles/article_149a455b-f3cb-56b1-8286-95b5827fb36e.html

NEW CARLISLE -- For each of the nearly 3,000 runners traversing the New Prairie campus Saturday, there is a story of how they started in the sport.

09/17/2017

Here's another great article:
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/columnists/jim-peters/jim-peters-new-prairie-still-a-special-place-for-pinkowski/article_4730e3bb-8074-5657-b4c1-9a4e093cc4e1.html

NEW CARLISLE — It's been 43 years since the 1974 boys state cross country championship and Carey Pinkowski remembers it like it was yesterday.

09/17/2017

There have already been so many great articles written about the meet today! We will share as many of them with all of you as we can!

http://www.heraldargus.com/sports/gorch-on-the-porch-nifty-for-new-prairie-invite/article_f4d302eb-5dc0-5f58-a7bb-f164bc2f3ae9.html

NEW CARLISLE — You know an event is a big deal when you have an airplane with a banner behind it flying above in honor of the occasion.

09/16/2017