Sectional Meet Information:

 

Date:  Friday May 9, 2008

 

Location:  PBL High School, Paxton

 

Please be familiar with all IHSA Terms and Conditions concerning the sectional meet.

 

1. Time Schedule

 

Weigh in of implements and vaulters:  

3:00 to 3:45

Coaches Meeting/Scratch meeting:

3:30 pm

Field events begin:

4:00 pm

Prelims begin:

4:45 pm

Finals begin:

20 minutes after last prelim/semi final heat

 

2.  Admission--$5.00 (set by IHSA) 

 

3.  Pass lists—please send to John Overstreet by Wednesday May 6th

 

4.  Scoring:  10-8-6-4-2-1 

 

5.  Please only ¼ or less spikes on the track and runways.  All runways and throwing areas are inside the complex.  Long jump and high jump on the east end, pole vault and triple jump on the west end.  Shot and discus rings are behind the south bleachers.

 

6.  NO TAPE on any surface.  Please use tennis balls, chalk and bean bags.  PBL will provide these.

 

7.  Starting blocks.  PBL will provide starting blocks, but you may use your own.

 

8.  Camps:  NO CAMPS INSIDE THE TRACK FENCE.  No camps in the north bleachers.  No camps behind the south bleachers near the shot and discus areas.  You many make camps on the practice fields to the east of the field.

 

9.  Restrooms on field.  There will not be any locker rooms.

 

10.  Staging tent.  All races will stage on the east end, in the tent.  This is also where jumpers should enter and exit the track area.  Please do not jump any fences!  Relay cards:  The names entered online will be used when checking in runners in the tent.

 

11.  PBL plans to use FAT timing for all races.  If the FAT fails during a race with more than one heat/section, then hand-held times will be used for all heats/sections.

 

12.  Bus Parking:  Please park in the north end of the lots and pull into parking spaces not across.

 

13.  Press Box.  We ask that coaches refrain from coming to the press box during the meet.

 

14.  Awards will be available at the conclusion of the meet.

 

15.  Results.  Results will be reported to the IHSA, but also complete results for all throws/times will be online at the sectional meet page shortly after the meet.  PBL will also fax the News-Gazette, Pantagraph, Danville Commercial News and Kankakee Daily Journal.  If you have any other media you would like contacted, please provide the fax number.

 

Any questions contact John Overstreet

Email:  jeo259@hotmail.com

School:  217-379-4331                          

Cell:  217-249-2313