Dear Parent

What a fantastic start of the competition season. Now that you have seen how a track meet runs, hopefully this will help you gage the time of your athletes events. As you can see the meet starts at 8:30 but not all athletes have to be there, unless they are going to run the 4x100 relay (400 meter relay) All athletes must be checked in at 8:30 for coaches to check in for the relays, any late athletes may not be assigned to a relay team or on the team best suited for them. Athletes who are going to compete in the first events of the day should arrive at 8:00 am, (Gremlin Long Jump, Youth Shot Put, Bantam High Jumpers, and all 3000 meter runners). All other athletes are still welcome to pick up tags early. If an athlete misses an event they signed up for, they are free to try another event provided it hasn't already competed and as long as they don't over event (meaning compete in too many events for their age group) Limits explained later in news letter.

We appricate all the volunteers this past weekend, please see below for a clearer understanding of positions needed each week.

This Saturday our track meet will be against the 2nd largest club in the conference (STORM being the largest).

We will need a lot of help with the setup again, and the tear down (I'll send a text alert at the start of the 200s that usually means we have about 30 mins until the end of the meet).

You may sign up to volunteer by clicking here

Pick Up Truck - (Trucks, Vans, SUVs) Meets at 6:30 to load equipment at our storage facility across the street and transports it to the track.

Set up Crew: Moves equipment to where it goes, and setups tents, staging area, hurdles, field events, finish line timing area and tents in the stands. PA System

Volunteer Coordinator - helps on meet days to coordinate volunteers.

Announcer: Makes calls from center to inform people in the stand what events are staging.

Head Tag Puller: this person marks the finish line sheets of what event just ran and places the athletes tags on the sheet for data input.

Results Poster: Will take printed results from the timing tent and post them on the electrical box out in the public area.

Starter: This is the person starts all races.

Lane Manager: Places athletes in their correct lanes that staging has assigned

Staging: Located in the tents at the center of the field, staging arranges the athletes into order of their heats and lane assignments. In most cases Girls will always stage before boys and distances races may be combined girls and boys. Extra help needed during relays:

Hurdle crew: On track during hurdle event to move them to the correct spacing for the age group on the track.

Long Jump: Sign in athletes as they arrive, and help keep them in order, rake and smooth the sand pits after each jumper, and measure the distance of the good jumps. (Fouls are not measured.)

High Jump: Sign in athletes as they arrive, help keep them in order. Help set the cross bar as it is raised throughout the event, and replace cross bar to the standards when it is knocked off.

Shot Put: Sign in athletes as they arrive, help keep them in order. Measure the distance the shot has been Thrown. "shag the shot", which means to roll it back to the shot put ring.

Relay Zone Judges: Place athletes in their proper lane on the track. Hold White flag up when all athletes are in their proper lane to signal that the zone is ready to compete. Watch that handoff is within the zone (Athletes may be out of the zone, baton must exchange within the zone). Signal with a red flag if there are infractions.

Tear Down Crew: Will have move all equipment off track to pickup trucks loading zone to be transported back to storage. Pick up trucks, Vans, SUVs are needed to transport equipment back to storage.

in conclusion we hope this helps you understand what is needed at our meets, we want all new families to enjoy and be comfortable with how a track meet runs.

Please call or email (click name) if there is any confusion so we can answer any questions. So you enjoy the rest of the season.

Elaine Bingham - 661-373-6897

Alan Bingham - 661-755-6197 (works 11:00 am - 7:00pm can't get calls at work).