Weather and Refund Policy

The Delaware League strives to put on world class events and provide all of our constituents with the best resources possible. To achieve the best resources, we make a financial investment to cover insurance, training, and planning activities. Those expenses are continuously incurred and are only partially covered by the participation fees into the league. In order to maintain the sustainability of the Delaware Interscholastic Cycling League, it is necessary we implement a NO-REFUND policy.

We greatly appreciate you being a part of our family and look forward to seeing you at the next event.

Below are the guidelines for how the Delaware League will conduct league events in the event of challenging weather. Our primary considerations are the safety of student-athletes, staff, coaches , and potential damage to the event venue (trails and infield).

Delaware League Weather Guidelines:

  • Events are held on their scheduled dates unless the course on the day of the race is deemed un-rideable and dangerous.
  • The League will have the option to delay the start of an event from the published times if the weather has created dangerous conditions.
  • Courses and/or lap lengths may be altered or shortened because of weather conditions. Changes will be broadcast to riders at the start of each wave by the Race Announcer.
  • The League will develop wet-weather course alterations in case of extremely wet conditions that threaten the trails used for the event.
  • All riding will stop immediately in the presence of lightning as signified by the Chief Referee or Event Director .
  • Re-starting a race that has been stopped due to lightning;
    • Depending on schedule and number of laps completed, the race may be declared over.
    • If time permits, racers will be able to resume laps beginning from the lap line.
  • Communication of delays, changes in start time, courses, and so on will be made by the League as follows:
    • on the league web site (prior to the race day, if possible).
    • on the public address system on the race day.
    • via forms of social media.

Note: Weather Policy is standard NICA League policy.

Race points:

  • If a race is canceled (not able to be moved or rescheduled):
    • No team points will be awarded and the race will not be included in the season overall team point standings.
    • No individual points will be awarded and the race will not be included in the season overall individual point standings.
  • If a race is partially completed (some fields complete their race and others do not):
    • No team points will be awarded and the race will not be included in the season overall team point standings.
    • Individual points will be awarded in all of the fields that completed their race and those fields will proceed through the season as normal.
    • No individual points will be awarded in the fields where races were not completed and the race will not be included in the season overall individual point standings.

Any decisions regarding canceling, postponing, or altering race start times, race lap length, number of laps, etc. will be made jointly by the Delaware League Director, Chief Course Marshal, and Land manager. Often this decision cannot be made until the day of the event due to the unpredictable and emergent nature of wet or stormy weather. That said, we will do our best to make the call to cancel, change venue or reschedule a race by noon the Friday immediately preceding race weekend.

The Delaware League will make every attempt to notify the racing population via email (addresses taken from rider, parent, and coach emails entered when registering in the Pit Zone online registration system), social mediaFacebook, and website updates as early as possible.

Questions?

Contact Delaware Event Director, Scotty Roberts, scotty@delawaremtb.org