Team Entry
Team Competition Entry Process
TEAM REGISTRATION FOR THE 2026 CREDIT UNION CHERRY BLOSSOM WILL OPEN ON JANUARY 26, 2026.
Details of the Team Competition appear at the links below. Team registration will close on February 28, 2026. All team members must be accepted into the race by the normal registration procedure (i.e., through the Entry Lottery, by having volunteered in 2025, or by meeting the criteria for special entrant category – Seeded Runner, 100 Mile Club, Charity Runner, or Two-Time Lottery Loser) – to be on a team.
NOTE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEAMS AND LOTTERY BUDDIES. During lottery registration, some people want to be sure that if they get into the race by lottery, their friends and family who registered and entered with them as Lottery Buddies would get in as well (and conversely if they didn’t get into the race, their friends and family wouldn’t either), so we allowed people to register as Lottery Buddies solely for this purpose. Once the lottery is held and Lottery Buddies are either accepted or rejected, the Lottery Buddy affiliations are deleted from the registration database because they were no longer needed. We then hold a separate Team registration from January 26 – February 28, where people who meet the criteria for creating a Team can register their team in the Team competition. The members of these teams must have already been accepted into the race, they just need to fill out a separate team registration form and pay a team fee. If you do not go through the separate Team Registration process after you are accepted into the race, you are not on a team!
Questions?
If you have questions about Team Competition, please email teams@cherryblossom.org.
Good luck going for the team bragging rights within your division!