10/30/26 – Cross Country State Championships Ready to Begin in Lexington

October 30, 2026 2026-2027 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 30, 2026

The 2026 Kentucky Beef Council Cross Country State Championships are set to begin on Saturday morning at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

This year’s competition will start with the Class 3A races at 10 a.m. ET (girls) and 10:45 a.m. (boys), followed by the Class 2A races at 12:30 p.m. (girls) and 1:15 p.m. (boys), and end with the Class 1A races at 3 p.m. (girls) and 3:45 p.m. (boys).

Each race will be broadcast live on khsaa.tv to subscribers of the NFHS Network, while tickets are available online only at khsaatickets.org.

2026 KHSAA Cross Country State Championships

• khsaatickets.org
• khsaa.tv
• Kentucky Horse Park Map
• Course Layout
• Entries
• State Championship Program

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization composed of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA crowns 74 team and 275 individual champions at 48 state championship events; funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its nearly 120,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches, and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.