Viking Track and Field: May 2013

The Sectional Meet will be held at Antioch Community High School on Saturday, May 11th.
The bus will leave Viking at 7:45 AM.
Girls running events and boys field events will go first, starting at 9am, followed by boys running events and girls field events.
Parents should park at the high school and not at the track.
The meet is expected to end at about 5:00 and the bus should arrive back at Viking at about 5:30.
The 1st and 2nd place finishers in each event will qualify for the Illinois State Track Finals in East Peoria next Friday and Saturday. You can also qualify by meeting the qualifying standards on the back of this sheet. If you qualify, don’t leave the meet without getting a State Track Finals packet from Mr. Elman or Mr. Piha.
Sectional t-shirts will be sold at the meet for $17.
Concessions will be available at the meet. If you eat there, be sure to leave enough time to digest before you run!
If you do not qualify for the State meet, please return your uniform to your coach within the next week.

Please be aware of the following rules:

No jewelry allowed, including bracelets and watches.
For relay teams, if any number of runners wears anything under the uniform, the color must match. Three with and one without or two with and two without or one with and three without are all ok. It is supposed to be a single solid color, but stripes are ok, even if they are different.
The only spikes allowed are 1/4” pyramids.
Runners should relax at the starting line until they hear “On your marks”. Then runners should step up to the line or in their blocks. At the command “Set” runners should move to their final starting position and HOLD STILL and MOTIONLESS.
Runners should stay in their lane after making a relay exchange.
For the 4x100 and 4x200, runners may use the acceleration zone before the triangle. For the 4x400, runners MAY NOT use the acceleration zone, and should line up ON OR IN FRONT OF THE TRIANGLE.
During the 800 and 1600, runners will be lined up in alleys and not on the waterfall line. They must stay in their alley until they pass the cut-in line.
After finishing a relay, HOLD YOUR BATON. Then hand it to an adult. DO NOT DROP IT EVEN AFTER YOUR RACE.
Finals will be held for the long jump, discus, and shot put after the regular competition. The top 8 competitors will each get 2 additional attempts.
Participants may not be coached by any adult inside the fenced track area.
No electronic devices (cell phones, cameras, iPads, etc.) are allowed inside the fenced track area.