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We had a great Home meet this week! We had so much help from all of you, Thank You Parents!! We had some great competition and there was 5 new Storm all-time records broken, we will award batons on Monday!! With Spring Break this week we know many of you will be gone, if you get back in time you can still compete in the meet this weekend! We do not have a lot of volunteer duties this week, so please be sure to sign up.
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This Saturday and Sunday will be a very large Invitational held over 2 days. You do not have to attend both days but please read the Meet event schedule for the events held on each day!
It will be very long on the Saturday, and events will be spilt up so please see the flyer. Sunday will be much quicker, starting at 9:00, arrive by 8:00 and ending about 2:30. Some athletes will not like this meet as it is very competitive, but all are invited! There will be an event T-shirt available near the concession stand !
About This Week's Track Meet
This week is a 2 day meet, The Valley Youth Conference Invitational held at Birmingham High School. Please copy the event schedule below so you will know the order of events. It is very different than the regular meet schedule The top 8 athletes in the 100 and the 4X100 relay will return on Sunday to compete in a finals. We do have a new event on Sunday. The 4x800 relay will be ran for this week only!!
You can choose events on either, or both, days but athletes will be restricted to 2 events and a relay or 2 relays and 1 event.
Medals will be awarded at the meet to the Top 3 over all finishers in each event, (not in each heat) , with all others getting their ribbons at practice. This is the only time that all 17 teams will compete in an open meet.
It is a very competitive event and not all athletes will enjoy it. It is a a great meet to get P.R.’s, but it is extremely long and competitive, and some athletes may not be ready for it. Please decide if you want to try this meet.
No Coaches or parents will be allowed in staging or on the field except, Sub Gremlins and Gremlin Coaches, they can escort their athletes to staging, all others will need to be more independent with no help to staging so please decide if your athlete is ready for this type of competition. Please check with the coaches if you are unsure.
Saturday will start promptly at 8:30 am and last until about 5:00 pm if you do the 200 meters. This is a very long day but you will not have to be there all day, depending on the event you choose, The 100 meters will be earlier than usual and The 4x100 relays will be later than usual so your do not have to be there first thing in the morning. It will be very hard to judge the time frame but here is a rough estimate of when you should arrive. Athletes will need to check in with coaches and pick up a bib, they must wear this bib for all races
We will be doing 100 meters races on both sides of the fields so Juniors will start their 100's right after the Hurdles -Sub Gremlins, Gremlins and Bantam will start right after the 3000 on the opposite side of the filed ! This is a great meet to see some fantastic racing so plan to come early and enjoy!!
Approximate Arrival time, not race times
3000 meter - 7:30
Hurdles 8:30
100 meter 9:00 - Sub Gremlin, Gremlin and Bantams on the backside starting after the 3000 during the Hurdles, We will be running 100 meters on both sides of the track
100 meter 9:30 - Juniors , youth, 15-18 front side
800 meter - 11:00 - all athletes
4x100 - All athletes - 11:00
200 meter 1:30 - all athletes
Field event times are on the flyer Long Jump, Javelin and Shot put will be open pits that your athletes can start at anytime during the hours listed High Jump will run in regular age group order starting with Bantams at 8:30
As I said these are very rough arrival times and I do encourage you do get to the event earlier than estimated times as this is a very fun meet to watch!
Sunday will start at 9:00 and be finished around 2:00 pm.
Sub and Gremlin Long Jump - 8:00
1500 meter - 8:00
4x100 finals - 8:30 for the top 8 teams from Saturday prelims Check with your coach if you should be there arrive at 10:00
4x800 relay - 9:00
400 meter 9:30
100 meter finals - 10:30 for the top 8 athletes from Saturday prelims Check with your coach if you should be there
4x400 relay - 11:00
NO PARENTS OR COACHES ALLOWED ON THE FIELD. This will be an extremely competitive meet. Sub and Gremlin Coaches will be allowed to escort their athletes to staging.
Field events are timed open pit, which means that athletes must compete within the time slots for that event. They can go anytime during their open time.
Please note there are restrictions in the amount of events each athlete can compete in.
Your child is limited to 2 individual events and a relay, or 2 relays & 1 individual event. Intermediates 15-18 may compete in 3 Individual Events.
ATHLETES WHO OVER EVENT WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM ALL THEIR EVENTS AT THE MEET.
Invitational Meet Schedule
Results for all meets can be found on our website under on top of the web site. We also will be updating results during the meet to livetrackresults.com this week! we are a member of the Valley Youth Conference (VYC) You can find results for all the league teams on that web site valleyconference.org
All Storm records and top 10 is also under the track and field page on runstrom.org, and will be updated later this week!
If you think there is a problem with any result please contact Alan by Sunday evening so he can review it. alan@runstorm.org Most issues can be reviewed and fixed if needed, but we need to make all changes by Monday to get the ribbons out in time.
Events can be changed at the meet if needed.
If you have any questions about the number of events please ask your coach. The conference has a very strict policy about over events, the athlete will be Disqualified in all events of the day if they compete in too many events at a meet.
Volunteer Sign up for this week
Finish line management
Data Input
Staging escorts
Relay zone judges
Hurdle crew
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