Veritas Cross Country

Grades: 5th-10th, boys and girls (physically mature 4th graders allowed) 

Practice/Meet Schedule: Practices will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays at Treaty Park from 3:30p-4:45p. Meets will typically be held on weekends. The first practice of the season will be August 18. 

The Veritas Cross Country team is led by Coach Cathy Accurso. Coach Accurso began running competitively in high school, eventually placing 9th in the 400m at the New York state high school track championships.. She continued her athletic career in the sport of Duathlon and was the 1998 Women’s National Duathlon Champion. She later competed professionally and rose to be the 12th-ranked Duathlete in the world. Coach Accurso graduated from the University of Connecticut, where she studied sports medicine and physical therapy . She has been a physical therapist for over 25 years and has supported her local athletic community by teaching classes on injury prevention and peak performance, as well as sponsoring triathlon and running clubs in her previous home of Miami. 

For more information, please contact:

Coach DellaVecchia— pdellavecchia@veritasclassicalschool.org

*Veritas Athletics invites all current Veritas students to participate in our sports offerings. If you are a homeschool student and are eligible to play, please contact our Athletics office prior to registering.

Thank you.

Mr. Peter DellaVecchia
Director of Athletics
pdellavecchia@veritasclassicalschool.org