Montana High School Association - Cross Country

The Montana High School Association (MHSA) administers boys’ and girls’ high school cross country in Montana. The programme provides rules and regulations, handbook provisions, forms, coaches’ clinics, schedules, postseason information, qualification forms, state-meet maps, results and championship archives. Boys’ cross country was introduced in Montana in 1964 and girls’ cross country became a sanctioned sport in 1971; athletes now compete over five kilometres in Classes AA, A, B and C. The 2026 MHSA State Cross Country Meet is scheduled for 24 October at Amend Park in Billings. The official postseason page supplies the order of competition, awards schedule, sportsmanship statement, map and separate boys’ and girls’ qualifying forms, with live results available through Competitive Timing and Athletic.net. The programme publishes MHSA and NFHS cross-country changes and information and requires sport-specific rules-clinic compliance through Arbiter for coaches. MHSA maintains detailed class-specific boys’ and girls’ championship archives and its 2026–27 handbook includes the governing cross-country section alongside membership, by-laws, rules and event dates.