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Varsity Cross Country

See the current roster, rankings, scheduled meets and results for the Cross Country teams here: 

2025 PLP XC Schedule
Week by week: in season
(Subject to change) 

7/28 7/30 First official practice
7/31 Run & Carrigan Farms swim

8/4 Practice/No race

8/16  3rd Annual Cheerwine Invite (time trial) 

8/23 Ballantyne Ridge XC Invite 2025

8/25 Practice/No race         

8/29 no practice

9/1 Labor Day

9/5 Friday Night Lights

9/12 Wolverine QuadCo 4 x 2.5K 2025

9/13 SAT

9/20 Adidas XC Challenge (overnight trip)

9/22 Practice/No race

9/23 No school

10/1 Lake Norman XC Meet (girls only)

10/4 Wendy’s Invite (boys only)

10/2 No school
10/4 SAT

10/6 Practice/No race

10/14 Conference

10/15-17 Fall Break

10/25 Regional Meet: Tryon International Eq. Center, 25 International Blvd, Mill Spring, NC 28756

10/24 Homecoming

11/1 State Meet

11/6 2025 xc end of season banquet

11/ 10 Indoor TF start-Varsity (JV may start sooner)

11/15 Dash for Doobie

11/29 Foot Locker South

Gary fravel headshot
Head Coach: Gary Fravel
Gary Fravel has been the upper school head distance coach (cross country and track & field) for the last two and half years and coached one season of MS cross country at PLP. Gary has been coaching distance running for 15 years through different clubs and teams. Both of Gary’s sons ran as youth and in high school, with his oldest running Division I college track & field.