St Pius Track Invitational

St Pius X School, Louisville, KY

Thursday (3/27), Saturday (3/29) & Sunday (3/30), 2008

 

The John Paul II Academy, Mercy Academy and Assumption High School Track and Field teams are proud to invite you to the 11th Annual St Pius Invitational Track Meet.  The track is located behind John Paul II Academy, formerly St Pius school at 3525 Goldsmith Lane.  Contact meet director Barry Haworth with questions by email (bmhaworth@louisville.edu), phone (502-897-0326), or fax (502-459-8272, Attn: Haworth).  Coach Haworth will be out of the country between March 9 and 19, but will have access to email (so please email any questions to him over those dates, rather than call).

 

ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS: JR Boys/Girls: Grades 4-6; SR Boys/Girls: Grades 7-8

 

ENTRY FEES (each School’s entry fee covers one set of JR Boys/Girls and SR Boys/Girls teams):

      $50 per school (if received by Friday, March 21)

      $40 per school for a second team (if received by Friday, March 21)

      $60 per school (late entry – if received on March 22 or later)

      $50 per school for a second team (late entry – if received on March 22 or later)

      $5 per extra individual or extra relay team (must all compete for the same school)

      Schools submitting entries with Hytek Team Manager get a $10 discount per team entry

      (i.e. the entry fee is $40 per school/$30 per second team entry if received by March 21, or $50 per school/$40 per second team entry if received on March 22 or later)

No athletes/teams will be permitted to compete in an event unless their individual/team entry fees are paid.  Registration will be closed at 20 teams.  A small admission gate fee will be charged each day to spectators and non-participants.  The St Pius Booster Club will provide concessions and would appreciate your patronage.

 

Entry paperwork and Entry fees should be sent to: Barry Haworth, Re: St Pius Invitational,

c/o Assumption High School Athletics, 2170 Tyler Lane, Louisville KY 40205

Please Do Not Send Cash.  Make checks payable to: Assumption High School

 

AWARDS:  The top 8 overall finishers in each individual and relay event will receive awards (not the first 8 finishers per heat).  The best three (overall) finishers in each event receive medals, with fourth through eighth place finishers receiving ribbons.  The top two Boys (Girls) teams in each age division receive trophies.  All awards will be presented in as timely a manner as possible after the conclusion of the event/meet.

 

COACHES MEETING:  There will be a mandatory 7:00 pm coaches meeting held on Wednesday, March 26, at Assumption High School in Room C102.  Assumption HS is located on the corner of Bardstown Rd and Tyler Lane, just north of the I-264/Bardstown Rd interchange.  Room C102 is in the gym building and accessible from the school’s back (main) parking lot.  At the meeting, we will discuss meet rules and format, distribute “race packets”, confirm entries, and accept any last minute entry/roster changes or late entries.

 

ENTRY DEADLINE:  All entries sent by US mail should be postmarked by Thursday, March 20, or received in the Athletics office of Assumption High School by Friday, March 21 at 4pm, or they will be considered late.  Coaches may submit new entries or adds as late as the Coaches meeting, but after the meeting we will only accept substitutions and scratches of athletes (no new entries).

 

MEET RESULTS and MEET INFO:  Results, entry paperwork, meet info, a Hytek-TM entry file and so forth will be available through the St Pius Invitational link at http://www.ahsdistance.org.

RULES OF COMPETITION:

1. Each school may enter up to five athletes per individual event and one relay team per relay event.  E.g., a school may enter up to five athletes in the SR Boys 100 yd dash, up to five athletes in the JR Boys 100 yd dash, etc., as these are all listed as separate individual events.

2. Registering a second team (B team) allows the respective school to enter a second set of up to five athletes in each individual event and one relay team in each relay event.  B teams must be registered separately from A teams (i.e. a second set of entry paperwork must be filled out for the B team).

3. An athlete may compete in up to three events, where relays DO NOT count toward the three event limit.  I.e., a runner may compete in three individual events and then run on as many relays as needed.  If an athlete is entered in too many individual events, then the appropriate changes must be made at the Coaches Meeting.  Once the meet begins, our meet software will automatically disqualify athletes competing in too many events.

4. Athletes may compete in their own age division, or compete in an older age division – but no athlete may compete below their age division.  Each athlete must be entered as part of a specific team (JR Boys, JR Girls, SR Boys or SR Girls) and cannot compete as part of two different teams.  E.g., a 5th grade boy may not compete on the JR Boys team and the SR Boys team.

5. In the field events – long jumpers will receive 3 jumps and shot putters will receive 3 throws.  Depending on entries, age groups may be combined in the High Jump (separate Jr and Sr awards will still be given out).  If there are ties, then we will follow the standard NFHS tie-breaking procedure for that event.

6. Athletes/relay teams compete for individual awards and team points on the basis of time across the various sections of each running event except the 100 and 220 yard dash.  In the 100 and 220 yd dash, there will be a prelim and final.  The top 10 performances from each age division prelim will advance to the event final (run-offs will be used to break any ties) in order to determine awards and team points for those events.

7. Team scoring will be based on the top 8 performances per event as follows:  10 – 8 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1.  Only the top two individual finishers and fastest relay team from each school (except in the Medley relays, which are nonscoring) will receive scores that count toward the team competition.

8. The Girls and Boys Medley relays are non-scoring four person relay events that run in the following order: 220-220-440-880.  Each relay team must consist of at least one Junior athlete and at least one Senior athlete.

9. We will follow a rolling event schedule that is subject to change if weather conditions dictate.

10. Coaches and nonparticipants are asked to stay off of the infield area of the track.

 

REPORTING TO EVENTS:

1. All running event athletes must report to the running event check-in clerk starting with the first call for that event.  The running event check-in clerk will be located at the north end of the track.  Any athlete not reporting by the third (final) call may be dropped from that event – all drops are at the discretion of the check-in clerk.

2. All field event athletes will be checked in at the location of their event, starting with the first event call.  Any athlete not reporting by the third (final) call may be dropped from that event.  As with the running events, all drops are at the discretion of the field event official running a particular event.

3. If an athlete is competing in a field and a running event at the same time, then it is the responsibility of that athlete to communicate any potential conflict with the respective field event official and check-in clerk to resolve that conflict (e.g. changing the jump-order so that an athlete can compete in a running event).

 

SECTIONS/HEATS:

1. When heats/sections are run in an event, those heats/sections will tend to run from slowest to fastest.

2. Coaches are strongly encouraged to provide entry performance marks for each of their athletes when entering them on the entry paperwork (rather than leave those spaces blank).  We will seed races on the basis of those marks, and their inclusion greatly helps us in running an efficient meet.  If an athlete is entered without a performance mark, then that athlete will be placed in a slower heat/section.

3. In the 100 and 220 yd prelims, we will make every attempt to avoid having athletes from one school compete in the same heat.  If there are a large number of scratches on race day, our first attempt will be to diversify schools in the faster heats, but cannot guarantee the same “separation” for the slower heats.