SECTION VIII BOYS & GIRLS WINTER TRACK
2005-2006
REMINDERS FOR CROSSOVER MEETS; SEEDING;
FARMINGDALE HS DEVELOPMENT MEETS
ALL OF THIS INFO IS LISTED IN THE TEN PAGE HANDOUT FROM THE NOVEMBER MANDATORY COACHES MEETING AT CLARKE HS.
1- Teams must sit in buses until 30 minutes before meet time. Do not enter the building unless we are allowed in.
2- All 3x5 cards must be put in the egg crate boxes as soon as you enter.
3- Cards must contain: NAME, NUMBER, SCHOOL, EVENT, GRADE,
CONFERENCE, SEED-IF APPLICABLE, AND SITE OF PERFORMANCE. ORDER OF EVENTS
4- This is a two event per athlete meet. There are penalities.
5- The field events format is listed in the ten page handout.
6- Keep your team in one place no roaming the halls.
7- No food or drink in the gym, except for water. Violators will be put out of the gym are. Teams are asked to clean up their area. No chairs, no spikes, or spike shoes without spikes that have protruding plastic or metal ribs.
8- All clerking is done in the hall adjacent to the dash start.
9- Athletes must report on time. No events will be re-clerked. Late entries will run unseeded.
10- Clerks will makeup heats with assistance of meet management.
11- Coaches must time their own athletes, but we will try to time many athletes, or provide a time tape for unseeded heats.
12- Seed performances will be evaluated by site where possible (armory-NCC, outside..etc) We will assist in balancing out seeds performances.
13- All athletes must run their Section VIII number pinned with four pins on the front of the game jersey. No weak substitute numbers.
14- We will try to run frosh/soph as separate seeded sections.
15- Only one category will be called to the clerk at a time, boys, girls, open, unseeded, frosh/ soph
16- Order of events for development meets in on page 9 of 20 pages in guide.
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THE FIRST MEET IS ALWAYS HARDER, AND RUNS LONGER. EVERYONE MUST HELP BY STAYING ALERT, HELPING THE ATHLETES, AND STAYING IN THE AREAS DESIGNATED FOR THEM. WE HAVE A COACHES ONLY AREA BY THE LONG JUMP/FINISH AREA. NO MANAGERS OR SPECTATORS. INFORM PARENT TO UTILIZE THE BLEACHERS.
