Festus Early Bird HS & MS Invitational 2014

Festus, MO

Meet Information

Festus Early Bird Meet

Coaches and Athletic Directors:

Thank you for participating in the 2014 Festus Early Bird Meet.

Date: Friday March 28th and Saturday March 29, 2014

Main portion of meet will be held on Saturday.

Site: Tiger Stadium @ Festus R-6 Campus

Admission: For athletes and coaches free; for Spectators the admission is $1

Time: Field Events start at 9:00 am and running events at 10:30 am.

A brief coaches meeting will begin at 8:30 am in the track shed located at the northeast corner of the track. You will be allowed to only make scratches, no additions. The scratch meeting will end promptly at 8:45 am. Please review the attached starting times for field events.

Awards: Individual/Relay awards (t-shirts) 1st through 3rd place. 1st place plaques for Men/Women total team points.

Scoring: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1

Surface: 8 Lane rubberized track. We allow 3/16 spikes and below on the track and runways. NO TAPE ON THE TRACK!

Seeding: Heats/Flights will be seeded by time and distances entered.

Field Events: There will be a minimum throw line (shot and discus) and a minimum jump line (triple jump and long jump). All competitors will have at least one attempt measured. The throwing areas are NOT located at the track. They are behind the high school. It is within walking distance for athletes. Head coaches please advise jumping

and throwing coaches, so we dont have any confusion at the event. For High Jump and Pole Vault, we will be vaulting the top 20 in each division, boys and girls.

Entry Fees: The entry fee will be $125.00 per girls team and $125.00 boys team for both divisions. Entry fee for Middle school team is $50. Any questions, please contact Athletic Director Mr. Allen (636) 937-5946.

There will be no additions/changes the day of the meet!!!

Miscellaneous:

There are bathrooms available. We DO NOT have locker rooms available at the track for athletes. There will be a concession stand available. There are areas for putting up tents.

ONLY COACHES AND PARTICIPATING ATHLETES (with bib) ON THE FIELD AND AROUND THE COMPETING AREAS. Parents, fans, friends, etc. will not be allowed down on infield, around the pole vault, jumps, or throwing areas. There are observation areas for both the throws and the horizontal jumps. Vertical Jumps will have to be watched from the stands by fans.

No one will be allowed to park inside the gate without authorization. Team tents are NOT allowed inside the infield of track anywhere. No one is allowed to have sunflower seeds on the turf.

Entries. Teams will be allowed to enter 2 athletes in open events (with the exception of the high jump and pole vault; you can enter 2, but we will only jump the top 20 entries) and 2 relays per event.

All entries will be done on MOMILESPLIT.COM . Log on, go to calendar and select the Festus Earlybird meet. Entry deadlines will be listed on the MOMILESPLIT.COM site.

We will be adding some events for this years meet on Friday 3/28/13

4:00 pm

-100 m middle school followed by high school -800m middle school -4x1600 high school girls

-4x100 Varsity -4x100 middle school -4x1600 high school boys - DMR middle school -200m high school -DMR high school

(Middle school Athletes must attend a sanctioned MSHSAA school and be on a middle school team)

Participating spots for middle school athletes is limited. We are taking just a few teams this year as a trial period. If you are interested, call me or email me asap. Entry fee for middle school is $50 dollars a team. Awards are same as varsity.

Any athlete that runs in an open event on Friday cannot run in the same event on Saturday. If you run 2 kids in an event on Friday you cannot turn around and run 2 more in the same event on Saturday. Friday open events are in place for opportunities for athletes that are not ready for the Saturday high level competition or do not meet the cutoff. All events on Friday count as an event. Friday High School RELAY event winners in the 4x1600 and DMR will get the same t-shirt as those relays running on Saturday. Open events will only be awarded for high school on Saturday.

We are looking for the upper level kids to be entered in the middle school show case events.

If you plan on attending, having kids participate in Fridays session of the meet, contact John Crites by email johnjacob775@hotmail.com with any questions.

Friday

-4:00pm

100 m middle school followed by high school
800m middle school -4x1600 high school girls
4x100 varsity
4x100 middle school
4x1600 high school boys
DMR middle school (800-400-400-1200)
200m high school
DMR high school (800-400-1200-1600)

Saturday

Order of Running Events (Girls followed by Boys)

Running events start @ 10:30 a.m.

4x800meter relay

100/110 hurdles

100 meters

4x200 meter relay

1600 meter run

4x 100 meter relay

400 meter run

300 meter hurdles

800 meter

200 meter run

3200 meter run

4x400 meter run

The open mile starts promptly at 9:05 am. This is not a scored event. This is in place to allow more athletes to participate in meet and will not be F.A.T timed. Coaches of individual athletes will be responsible for this.

Field Events start @ 9:00

girls discus followed by boys

boys shot put followed by girls

boys pole vault Followed by girls

girls high jump followed by boys

girls triple jump and long jump run simultaneously

boys triple jump and long jump run simultaneously

Coaches, when you put your entries in you get two in all open eventstwo relay. The Open 1600 will be run at 9:05 am open to any distant runners. Enter your two 1600 people and that is all you need to enter; everyone else we will heat up on Saturday. The open 1600 will not be FAT timed. Coaches will be responsible for their own times in the open 1600. The top 32 times on the performance will be entered in the 1600/3200 and will run at the regular slated meet time. OPEN 1600 will go off at 9:05 am. Please use legit times from this year or last. At the scratch meeting at 8:30 am, we will do scratches for the 1600 and 3200 first. If any athletes scratch, we will allow the next person on the performance list in the race only in the 1600 and 3200.

Again, we will try to save time where we can and not be too restricting. We will not run an extra heat for 1 or 2 people in the longer races. This is a very competitive Varsity Track meet. Please do not just throw kids in an event; it will lengthen the event and force us to have cutoff times. Please do not put an athlete that is not a distance runner in the open 1600.

******Example: if there are 41 entered in the 400, we will run 5 heats; runner 41 will not be entered. ******

We are only running the top 32 people in the 1600 and 3200 and only the top 20 pole vaulters and high jumpers will compete.

We will be throwing the top flighted throwers first. Top seeded throwers heat will throw first.

John Crites (314) 221-0082

Head Girls Track and Field Coach

Festus High School