Program Overview:

Avon Cross Country is a large and diverse program with runners competing at all skill levels.  It is our goal to inspire young men to become lifelong runners.  We offer a program focused on character development, mental toughness, and discipline.  It is our belief that the trials faced in training, and racing contains countless opportunities for personal growth and achievement.  Each season offers new challenges to veteran runners and novices alike.  Our boys spend their afternoons testing their mettle on our trails and hills, and each weekend punishing the competition.

Each year we compete against the best teams in New England prep school running.  In our regular season, we compete locally including races against Hotchkiss, Kent, Suffield, and Westminster. Our season culminates with the Founders’ League championship followed by the Division 1 New England Prep School Championship where our boys compete at the highest level of high school cross country.  

Our boys train on Avon’s own expansive network of trails and around the Farmington River valley. Each year our boys run to Heublein Tower in Simsbury, and log countless miles on the Farmington Valley Greenway.  We have even traveled as far as Tolland for the opportunity to train on a new trail. We are blessed to live in an area full of running trails, and steep hills. There is no better place to forge talented runners.