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Thank you all for a great day on Saturday!! The kids did awesome and we were a good visiting team. A special thank you to all our Long Jump Volunteers! Our meet this weekend is a two day Invitational where all VYC teams are invited. All athletes can attend this meet and it will be very competitive.
I know many of you may be out next week for spring break. You can still compete on either day, and next week!
PLEASE READ ALL EMAILS CAREFULLY
At this weeks meet we will only be allowed 2 tents per club in the stands on the front side, If you would like to have a personal tent or umbrella you will need to set up on the back side bleachers, as there will be 14 teams there.
This will be a very large Invitational held over 2 days. It will be very long on the Saturday, and events will be spilt up so please see the flyer below. Sunday will be much quicker, about 2:00. Some athletes will not like this meet as it is very competitive, but all are invited!
Please Sign Up to Volunteer This week we will have timing duties, data input, finish line, relay judges and escort duties at the meet.
Please down load the flyer for your reference!!
Invitational Meet Schedule
This Week's Track Meet
This week is a 2 day called The Valley Youth Conference Invitational held at Simi Valley High School. Please copy the event schedule so you will know the order of events. The top 8 athletes in the 100 and the 4X100 relay will return on Sunday to compete in a finals. We do have a new event on Sunday. The 4X800 relay will be ran for this week !!
Medals are awarded at the meet to the Top 3 over all finishers in each event, (not in each heat) at the meet, with all others getting their ribbons at practice. This is the only time that all 14 teams will compete in an open meet. It is a very competitive event and not all athletes will enjoy it. It is a a great meet to get P.R.’s, but it is extremely long and competitive, and some athletes may not be ready for it.
No Coaches or parents will be allowed in staging or on the field except, Sub Gremlins and Gremlin Coaches can escort their athletes to staging, all others will need to be more independent with no help to staging so please decide if your athlete is ready for this type of competition. Please check with the coaches if you are unsure.
Saturday will start promptly at 8:30 am and last until about 6:00 pm if you do the 200 meters. This is a very long day but you will not have to be there all day depending on the event you choose. Parking will take extra time. the relays will be later than usual so your do not have to be there first thing in the morning. It will be very hard to judge the time frame but here is a rough estimate. we will be doing 100 meters races on both sides of the fields so Juniors will start their 100's at the same time as the Sub Gremlins right after the Hurdles!
Arrival time
3000 meter - 7:30
Hurdles 8:30 warm up
100 meter 9:00 - Sub Gremlin, Gremlin and Bantams on the backside starting during the Hurdles
100 meter 9:30 - Juniors , youth, 15-18 front side
800 meter - 11:00 - all athletes
4x100 - All athletes -12:00
200 meter 1:30 - all athletes
Field event times are on the flyer Long Jump and Shot put will be open pits that your athletes can start at anytime during the hours listed High Jump will run in regular age group order starting with Bantams
As I said these are very rough arrival times and I do encourage you do get to the event earlier than estimated times as this is a very fun meet to watch!
Sunday will start at 8:30 and be finished around 2:30 pm.
Sub and Gremlin Long Jump - 8:00
1500 meter - 8:00
Javelin - 8:30 am -12:00 - open for all age groups
4x100 finals - 9:00 for the top 9 teams from Saturday prelims Check with your coach if you should be there
4x 800relay - 9:30
400 meter 10:00
100 meter finals - 11:00 for the top 9 athletes from Saturday prelims Check with your coach if you should be there
4x400 relay - 11:30
NO PARENTS OR COACHES ALLOWED ON THE FIELD. This will be an extremely competitive meet. Sub and Gremlin Coaches will be allowed to escort their athletes to staging.
Field events are timed open pit, which means that athletes must compete within the time slots for that event. They can go anytime during their open time.
Please note there are restrictions in the amount of events each athlete can compete in.
Your child is limited to 2 individual events and a relay, or 2 relays & 1 individual event. Intermediates 15-18 may compete in 3 Individual Events.
ATHLETES WHO OVER EVENT WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM ALL THEIR EVENTS AT THE MEET.
Invitational Meet Schedule
Results for all meets can be found on our website under on top of the web site. We also will be updating results during the meet to livetrackresults.com this week! we are a member of the Valley Youth Conference (VYC) You can find results for all the league teams on that web site valleyconference.org
All Storm records and top 10 is also under the track and field page on runstrom.org, and will be updated later this week!
If you think there is a problem with any result please contact Alan by Sunday evening so he can review it. alan@runstorm.org Most issues can be reviewed and fixed if needed, but we need to make all changes by Monday to get the ribbons out in time.
Events can be changed at the meet if needed.
If you have any questions about the number of events please ask your coach. The conference has a very strict policy about over events, the athlete will be Disqualified in all events of the day if they compete in too many events at a meet.
Here is a brief description of what we need this Saturday and Sunday:
Volunteer Sign up
https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/33776D807A0CDECC42-trackfield1
Finish line helpers - help athletes on and off the track
Escorts at Staging- take athletes from staging to start line
Data Input - help under the timing tent
Relay zone judges - help athletes on the track in their zone and report if they pass out of the zone
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