Midgets,
Saturday is our practice meet! The purpose of the meet is to train the parent volunteers to run a home track meet and also give the athletes a chance to understand how a track meet works, including event calls, staging and meet flow. Things will probably be a bit bumpy at the start, but this is why we do a practice meet – so the parent volunteers, coaches and athletes are all better prepared when our first meet takes place against another club.
While every event, both track and field, will be ran at this meet, the events that each age group are able to participate in is limited for this meet only. Athletes may participate in up to three events total, with a maximum of two running events. The events that your athlete may participate in this weekend are the Hurdles, the 4×100 relay, the 1600m (mile) run, the 800m dash, the 200m dash, and the shot put. At todays and Thursday’s practices, I will hang up the sign-up sheets on the fence so you or your athlete can sign up for the events they wish to participate in.
We request the athletes be on the field at 8:00. Athletes need to wear their uniform, bring warm clothes, food and water. Make sure you label everything, things do get lost.
Bib numbers: Past meets, all athlete’s received their bib number by having a coach write it on their hand before the meet. This year to speed things up, I would like the athlete’s to have it written on one hand before they get to the meet. Bib numbers will be found on the sign-up sheet at practice. Please try to have your athletes memorize it.
Parent volunteers: you are required to check in between 7:45 and 8:15. If you have not been assigned a volunteer duty yet, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Kris Shah. She can be reached at Kzshah@aol.com or 207-3953.
We are shooting to start the meet at 9:00 and assuming everything goes reasonably well, we should be done by noon. Look for me under the Midgets tent to get your stickers.
Coach Mike