2023 REGION 5B OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

May 19 & 20, 2023 - Gloucester High School Stadium

ROLLING SCHEDULE

Friday May 19, 2023 

12:30 PM        STADIUM GATES OPEN - PACKET PICK-UP

2:00 PM           Certification of Girls/Boys Shot Put; Girls & Boys Pole Vault Poles/Weigh-in

2:15 PM           Coaches Meeting - Next to timing tent (Finish Line)

2:30 PM           Girls Shot Put (Circle #1) & Boys Shot Put (Circle #2)

                         Boys Triple Jump (Pit near Discus Cage) followed by Girls Triple Jump (Pit near Discus Cage)

                         Boys High Jump

                         Girls Pole Vault & Boys Pole Vault run simultaneously

3:15 PM          Girl's 4 x 800 Meter Relay Finals 

                        Boy's 4 x 800 Meter Relay Finals 

4:00 PM         Girl's 100 Meter High Hurdle Semifinals

                        Boy's 110 Meter High Hurdle Semifinals

                        Girl's 100 Meter Dash Semifinals

                        Boy's 100 Meter Dash Semifinals 

                        Girl's 200 Meter Dash Semifinals 

                        Boy's 200 Meter Dash Semifinals 

Saturday May 20, 2023 

8:00 AM         STADIUM GATES OPEN 

8:15 AM         Certification of Girls & Boys Discus 

9:00 AM         Girl's 3200 Meter Run (Unseeded Section) 

                       Girl's 3200 Meter Run Finals (Seeded Section)

                       Boy's 3200 Meter Run Finals (Unseeded Section)

                       Boy's 3200 Meter Run Finals (Seeded Section)

                       Girl's Discus followed by Boys Discus

9:00 AM        Girl's Long Jump followed Boy's Long Jump

                       Girl's High Jump 

10:30 AM      Girl's 100 Meter High Hurdle Finals (33") 

                       Boy's 110  Meter High Hurdle Finals (39")

11:30 AM       NATIONAL ANTHEM & OPENING WELCOME

11:45 AM       Girl's 100 Meter Dash Finals

                       Boy's 100 Meter dash Finals

                       Girl's 1600 Meter Run Sections

                       Boy's 1600 Meter Run Sections

                       Girl's 4 x 100 Meter Relay Sections

                       Boy's 4 x100 Meter Relay Sections

                       Girl's 400 Meter Dash Finals Sections

                        Boy's 400 Meter Dash Finals Sections

                       Girl's 300 Meter Int. Hurdle Sections (30") 

                       Boy's 300 Meter Int. Hurdle Sections (36") 

                       Girl's  800 Meter Run Finals Sections

                       Boy's 800 Meter Run Finals Sections 

                       Girl's 200 Meter Dash Finals 

                       Boy's 200 Meter Dash Finals

                       Girl's 4x 400 Meter Relay Sections

                        Boy's 4 x400 Meter Relay Sections

                        Team Awards to follow all 4x400 Relays

1. Facilities: 400 Meter, 8 Lanes (48") All-weather track,

    (2) Concrete Shot-Put Circles, (1) Discus Cage

(CONCRETE PAD).

    All-weather surfaces on LJ/TJ/PV runways and HJ

surface. 

2. SPIKES: 1/4" pyramid

spikes or less and flats. Spikes will

be checked upon arrival at the clerking area. 

3. Chalk: only on the LJ/TJ/HJ and Pole vault runways.

4. Locker rooms: are not available for team use. Restrooms     are located

on home/visitor sides of the

stadium.

4. Admission: $10.00 each day for

ages 6 and up. VHSCA,     VIAAA, &VHSL principalspasses will be

    accepted. District & faculty passes will not be accepted. Cash or online through gofan.co     https://gofan.co/app/school/VA12891

    Event will also be available on the NFHS

Pixellot system.

5. Athletes: Athletes will be admitted free at the back

gate entrance to the stadium. Athletes will be admitted

    by wearing your school issued uniforms and

wearing issued wristband. Athletes not in school issued uniform or     wearing a

meet issued wristband will have to pay in order to enter the stadium. Athletes must enter

through the     back gate.

6. Equipment: Meet management will furnish starting blocks/batons

only. All other equipment, team or  

    personal must be furnished by the competing

schools. Uniform

rules will be enforced.

7. Weather: In

case of bad     weather (LIGHTNING) the teams will be asked to go into the

school's

    AUXILIARY GYM/MAIN GYM located near the stadium.

8. Rules: 2022-23 edition of NFHS Track & Field rules & VHSL

rules will be enforced.

9. Scoring: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 

10. Awards: Region 5B Policy. Awards will be presented at the

conclusion of each finalized event.

11. Performance List: The

performance list will be on-line through Blueridge timing and Milestat.com

12. Entries: Each team

will be allowed to enter a maximum of four (4) athletes per event, and 1 relay

team

        per event.

13. Entry Forms: Official Regional

entries must be submitted online via Milestat.com no later than 

     11:59 PM, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Entry

performances must be the better of their Meet

    performance (Trial or Finals) or a

verified Regional qualifying performance from a 2023 Outdoor

    Season Meet of (4) or more teams.

14. Entries Edited: You may edit the

on-line at any time up until 11:59 PM deadline: on Tuesday, May 16,

    2023. Your entries as of this deadline will be

considered final and declared.

15. Declaration: Entries

declared at the deadline on Tuesday will be confirmed as entered. They

will count

    against the athletes maximum allowable events

whether they contest them or not.

16. RELAYS: Relay teams

will be declared on a relay card provided at the meet at the time of event

check-

    in. Declaration: six (6)

athletes may be listed any four (4) of whom may run. The relay will count as an

event only     for those four (4) athletes who actually compete. All relay runners

and alternates must be listed on your online     entry. Note: that the only way to enter an athlete who is only going

to be used as a relay runner is to list them in     one of the (8) slots allowed

for each relay. do not enter more than eight

(8) names for any onerelay

17. WEIGH-INS: The Girls/Boys

Shot Put weigh-in will take place on Friday, May 19th @ 2:00pm

    The Girls/Boys Discus weigh-in will

take place Saturday, May 20th @ 8:15 a.m. (Visitors side Concession

Stand).     All implements not meeting specifications will be impounded until the

end of the meet. Only those implements     properly inspected and so marked may be

used at the meet.

18. CERTIFICATION: The girls

& boys pole vault pole certifications and weigh-in will take place on

    Friday, May 19th @ 2:00pm.

19. STARTING HEIGHTS: Starting heights and progressions will be determined by the game committee.

    The games committee will consist

of each Regional Meet Director.

20. Who Advances: Top (3)

finishers in each event plus anyone who meets the state qualifying

standard in

    the Regional meet, or in a sanctioned meet

involving 10 or more teams (5 or more teams if fully

    automated timing is used). See VHSL Handbook

Section 84 for additional qualifying criteria.

21. Regional T-shirts: Regional

Championships T-Shirts will be sold by MSP.

22. Concessions: Concession

stand will be located under the home side bleachers of the track.

23. Electronic Devices: NO Electronic

devices will be allowed in the competition area.

    Competition area is the fenced areas on the

inside and outside of the track which includes the Shot Put, Discus,     Pole Vault

and Triple jump areas.

24. Team Camps: Team Tent/Camp areas

should be out of the way of any completion spaces. Tents should

    be the top half of either side of the bleachers

so spectators can see. Please be courteous to other

    paying spectators!

25. WARM-UP: Teams will be

allowed to warm-up on the track until the meet starts. There is a

    grassy warm-up area adjacent to the track and

behind the main stadium used once the meet

starts  

    the visitors side of the

stadium will be used for warm-ups also. We ask that you use the blocks/hurdles

provided.     The football field is off limits to all warmups.

26. PARKING: Parking area for

spectators is located just past the main high school entrance, labeled

    student parking lot. Team buses will drop off

athletes in the circle near the Sports Complex

    main entrance. Buses can park on campus after

3:00pm in the student parking lot.

    Handicap parking is available for those with

decals near the stadium. Please do

not park in

    the fire lanes going towards the

stadium. School buses will not be able to safely maneuver through

    this area. Parking lot next to

the stadium is for Meet management, officials and volunteers only!

27. IMPORTANT ENTRY REMINDERS:

    a. All

Regionals Entries must be submitted online via

Milestat.com.

    

b. You may edit your online entries

at any time prior to 11:59 PM on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. After that

time all     online entries will be

considered final and declared and will count against the athletes maximum allowable     events.

    c. ALL athletes including any possible relay alternates must be entered on-line. Do not enter more     than (8) athletes for any one

relay on the Milestat Entry. Please use these slots to enter all athletes who

may be     used on any of your relay teams and are not entered in any individual event at the meet. You will be allowed     to use any athlete

entered in any event on your on-line entry roster on your relay team so long as

it does not put     them over the number

of allowable running events.

    

d. Use only the best meet

Performance (Trials or Finals) or a Regional Qualifying Performance

for each entry.

NO PETS ALLOWED IN THE STADIUM

For questions contact:

Stan

Hundley - Gloucester Head Track & Field

Coach @ stanley.hundley@gc.12.va.us - 804-695-6655

Kristy Hunter - Gloucester Athletics/Activities Director @ khunter@gc.k12.va.us - 804-693-3866

Tickets are $10 EACH DAY - for ages 6 and up. Cash or online at gofan.co