USATF Alabama Association Indoor Track Season

By Tim Loreman / January 24, 2008 10:35 PM

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! Thanks to the hard work of a lot of individuals and, especially, the folks at Celebration Arena and the City of Decatur, there will be Indoor Track in Priceville, Alabama, each Saturday in January 2008! Here are the details to date. We will be following USA Track & Field rules, including uniforming requirements. Any exceptions to USATF rules will be published prior to the meet. Please check this website prior to your meet to see if there are any changes. We will post any changes by Friday before the meet. Since these meets are open to athletes from multiple states, we will not interpret high school federation rules, nor will we enforce them. It is up to each athlete to know and follow their State’s rules. USATF’s website and rules can be found at: http://www.USATF.org.

Schedule

Jan. 5     Youth Division – open to ages 13-18. Athletes will be competing as a combined age group.
Complete Results / Entries: Excel Format / HTML Format

Jan. 12   Open – open to all USATF age groups. Athletes will compete within their age groups. Meet Management reserves the right to combine events if needed.
Complete Results / Entries: Excel Format /

Jan. 19    Youth Division – CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

Jan. 26    USATF Alabama Association Championship – open to all USATF age groups. Athletes will compete within their age groups. Meet Management reserves the right to combine events if needed. Awards will be given in each age group.
Entries: Excel Format /

Entries

All athletes must be current members in USATF. Membership cards can be purchased online at www.USATF.org. Entries will be done as individuals or USATF Club Team on Coach O (http://www.coacho.com/meet/entry/al_usatf/ – the website will guide you through the entry process). The cost is $10.00 per athlete up until 7:00 p.m. on the Wednesday before the meet. Entries after 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday up until 7:00 pm on Friday before the meet will be $15.00 per athlete. No entries will be allowed after 7:00 p.m. on Friday. No exceptions. Midget and Bantam age groups are limited to a maximum of 3 events. Youth, Intermediate, and Young Men and Young Women age groups are limited to a maximum of 4 events. Men / Women and Masters are not limited to the number of events they may enter.

A relay counts as one event. Relay teams must be from a USATF Club Team – no exceptions. USATF Club Teams can be found online at www.usatf.org.

Download information on the meets here -- REVISION #4 - 12/31//07.
Purchase equipment after the 2008 Indoor Season!- Information
AHSAA Announcement Concerning 2007-2008 USATF Meets: Here

Comments

ShaqL92 / 4 Years Ago

i have a question about athlete's attire. in the usatf rules it tells us that the front and back have to be the same color. lets say you want to wear usatf merchandise to compete in, their competition wear is navy blue on the front and red on the back, would someone be allowed to wear that or not?????

geds / 4 Years Ago

USATF attire is acceptable

AVise08 / 4 Years Ago

I have a jersey that is solid yellow but has blue writing on the front and back. Could anyone tell me if this jersey would be ok to race in?

geds / 4 Years Ago

USATF Rule 143 on athletic attire Paragraph 1, says: "In all events competitors must wear clothing that is clean, designed and worn so as not to be objectionable. The clothing must be made of a material that is not transparent even if wet. The competitors must not wear clothing that could impede the view of the judges. athletes' vests should have the same color on the front and back. This rule shall be enforced by the Clerk of Course for track and road events and the Chief Judge of each field event."

Rule 143 goes on to define rules pertaining to shoes and spikes. The Games Committee has already decided and published that ONLY 1/4 inch Pyramid spikes will be allowed and NO SPIKES will be allowed in the 1500M and 3000M races.

Rule 302, Section 3 - Relays, Paragraph (b) says: All participants shall wear a top of the same color. ...The Games Committee shall assign an individual to review colors of team uniforms in the clerking area.

loremtr / 4 Years Ago

AVise.... I might be wrong on this, but it seems I read that wording is ok in USATF...without any objectionable grammar....seems the example I read was "A Coors Light singlet would not be allowed."

Im not too "up" on USATF uniform regulations though.

bwillis / 4 Years Ago

Is the order of events for the meet on the 6th set in stone? Is there any way the 3000 or the 1500 will be moved so that athletes can be in both events?

davidhudman / 4 Years Ago

I second the 3000, 1500 move

WKU76 / 4 Years Ago

Good points Willis and Hudman. If there's no change in the schedule for the 3000, 1500 and 800, what would be the timespan between events? If there's not a large number of entrants, would the events be one right after another or a specific time to run allowing some rest? I know from the past Indoor meets that if there's the usual number of flights in either of these events, there was enough time for rest and recovery. Any thoughts about changes in the schedule?

davidhudman / 4 Years Ago

yeah, what about state? how are people going to be able to do the 800, 1600, 3200 all in one day? much less 2-3 hours.

geds / 4 Years Ago

As far as the schedule of events goes - we will operate under the published schedule for the first meet. We'll evaluate how things went after the meet and may revise the schedule for subsequent meets.

Bear in mind that this is a one day event - if we move the 1500 then folks wanting to double or triple with the 800 and 4x800 will complain. There is no way to please everyone, so my advice is to choose the events you want to focus on and do your best in them. If that means rotating events week to week, do what you need to do.

Also bear in mind, the rest time is directly impacted by the number of participants in the events. Things are looking like we will have a lot entries - and many from outside our state. I just got an email from someone signing up from Charlotte, NC and have received calls from coaches in MS, TN, GA, and even one from St. Louis!

Good Luck!

ShaqL92 / 4 Years Ago

is jewelry allowed?

geds / 4 Years Ago

As long as it does not pose a threat to injure you or someone else it is not prohibited.