Meet Information
Dear Coaches and Athletic Directors,
Saturday,May 2018
TMSAA North East Small Division Sectional Championships
*Note on Entry Fees: Whether entry fees have been paid or not is between Schools and TMSAA. I was told that some schools paid while paying membership dues and some did not. We do not have any record of who has paid or not and was told not to direct all questions to school administrators and/or TMSAA.
Coaches Meeting at 10:00am on center of in-field
Field Events will start at 10:30am.
Implement Weigh-In will be at the far end of stadium near throwing areas and start / finish line
beginning at 9:30am
$ 4.00 admission for spectators.
Use gate in lower lot by field house.
Gate will open at 9:00 am.
10:30am
Boys High Jump
Girls Long Jump
Boys Discus
Girls Shot Put
All Running Events will be on a Rolling Schedule with 1st, 2nd and 3rd
calls as current field events come to a completion. Plan to start running events at the half hour after field events are completed.
Running events on a Rolling Schedule Immediately after all Field Event Competition
100 Meter LH
110 Meter LH
100 Meter Dash
4x200 Meter Relay
1600 Meter Run
4x100 Meter Relay
400 Meter Dash
800 Meter Run
200 Meter Dash
4x400 Meter Relay
Awards
will be given out to the Top 2 in all events and the Top 2 teams in all Divisions.
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Track
Regulations
I.
TSSAA Uniform Rule
All
uniforms must follow the NFHS Rules. The referee will warn every
participant prior to the meet that they must compete in a legal
uniform, and if a contestant competes in an illegal uniform, then
that contestant is disqualified from that event. There are no team
warnings or individual warnings after the meet begins. Officials
should use preventative officiating as much as possible.
II.
Number of Events Open to Participants
No
contestant may participate in more than three events in any meet.
This regulation applies to all track competition regular-season meets
as well as invitational, conference, sub-sectional, sectional,
regional, and state meets.
A
school may enter no more than three girls or three boys in any
individual event and no more than one team in a relay.
III.
Sectional
In
middle school track, there will be two classifications: small and
large. Classification can be found here.
Four
Sectionals (Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Johnson City, and Memphis)
will be held across the state with the qualifiers advancing to the
State Championships. There will be 16 qualifiers in each event from
each classification to the State Championships from the Sectional
meets. There will be a fee of $50 for a girls team and $50 for a boys
team for each school in the Sectional meet and
paid to TMSAA. Schools may have paid through portal during membership
fee process.
Sectionals must be completed by May 13, 2017.
IV.
State Meet Information
Running Events All lane assignments will be based on the athletes qualifying
performance.
The following scoring system shall be used in the state meet
10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
The Middle School Track & Field State Championships will be held May
20, 2017 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.
Meet Director: Len Jeffers,
lenjeffers@hotmail.com
423-612-0650