This week’s meet is agains the Ojai Roadrunners at Nordhoff High School. The start time is at 1:00 pm and will go until roughly 7:00 pm (just an estimation). The order of events is listed here: https://www.venturatigres.org/order-of-events/
There isn’t a time schedule, meaning you can not say when a certain event will be run, but knowing the order of events should give you a rough idea.
Here is some important info regarding event sign ups:
- The sign up clipboards are located at the Midget coaches bag (on the field) all 5 days of practice each week. They are not clipped to the fence like the Bantams or Gremlins.
- We give reminders to the athletes at our Monday and Wednesday meetings to sign up for events and go over the process each time.
- It is the athlete’s responsibility to sign up for their events. We understand that sometimes an athlete will miss practices all week, but in general, this is something the athlete needs to be responsible for, not the parents.
- Athletes can sign up for a maximum of 4 events. At most, 3 of those events can be running events. That does not mean they are required to do 4 events or they are required to do 3 running events. Those are the maximums. As an example, they could do 2 field events and 1 running event. If they participate in too many events, all results will be disqualified for that meet.
- The 4×400 relay is not counted towards their event totals – it is a ‘FREE” event. Tigres loves the 4×400 relay. We have always done really well at it and had more 4×400 teams than any other club. We take pride in running for our team when we are tired!!! 🙂
- Please remember that if an athlete signs up for a relay (4×100 or 4×400), there are 3 other runners counting on them showing up. DO NOT sign up for a relay if you can not attend or have to leave before the event. It causes a ton of confusion and scrambling by the coaches and athletes to shuffle teams, etc. We also understand that things happen – illness, etc. If for some reason an athlete has signed up for a relay, but can’t make it, please give us us much notice as possible. Email (midgets@venturatigres.org) or call/text (650-678-3681)
- High Jump and Hurdles are two events that athletes need to be cleared before participating in meets. For High Jump, they need to clear opening height in practice and for Hurdles, they need to be cleared by the Hurdle coaches (it’s for their safety).
- Please encourage athletes to try as many events as possible. You never know what they might enjoy or do well in, if they don’t give it a try!