7th David Cannon Memorial Polar Bear Invitational

Saturday, December 7th, 2024 - George C. Marshall High School - Falls Church, VA

Teams Attending: Holy Cross (MD), Dominion, DeMatha Catholic HS (MD), Madison, Justice, Chantilly, Langley, St. Marys, Edison, Robinson, Paul VI, Trinity Christian (VA),

The entry deadline is Thursday, December 4th, 2024 at 11:00PM.

$300.00 Per School Payments Entry Fees payable - Single Gender is $150.00.

Payable to Marshall Boosters

Attn: Track Coach Clifford Wong

7731 Leesburg Pike

Falls Church, VA 22043

Once meet limit is reached or Entries are closed, entry fees are due and not refundable regardless of weather. Please email Coach Clifford Wong for the entry password - headcoachwong@yahoo.com.

Entry Limits - 5 per individual events, 4 relays and 10 individuals in field events.

Field events will go for 90 minutes.

Reminder if you would like to compete in pole vault - please email me.

Additional Entries maybe will be allowed based on numbers of entries per event.

Running Events: ALL FINALS This will be FAT (Windsor Running, LLC) - MD, DC & VA Sanction.

General Admission: $5.00: Concession will be open. T-shirts will be on sales.

Temporary bathrooms will be available, and the building will be open at Door #5. There will be no access to the Locker room.

Coaches Meeting: 8:00am

Field Events begin at 8:30 AM

8:30AM - Boys LJ, Girls TJ, Girls Shot Put, Girls High Jump (4ft 4in)

10:30 AM - Girls LJ, Boys TJ, Boys Shot Put, Boys High Jump (5ft 4in)

We will have a parent 1600m run between the 300m and 4x400m - Max 2 per school per Gender - please email your parent name & Gender.

Running Entries on Rolling schedule start at 8:30am

Girls then Boys

3200m Mackenzie Haight (15)

1600m Race Walk - Exhibition

4x800m Relay Dave Watt (72)

55M Hurdles Dusty Kuzma (76) & Wanda Morton (80)

55m Dash Kim Alcorn (95)

1600m Run John Herborts (66) & Heather Holt (17)

4x200m Relay Brittany Johnson (10)

500m dash Jacqueline Hargrove (07)

1000m John Gross (84)

300m Dash John Lee (84)

Parent 1600m Run

4x400m Relay Elizabeth Johnston

Field Events

Long Jump Chris Gates (80)

High Jump Dale Wallace (78)

Triple Jump Melanie Burgess (96)

Shot Put Joe Swarm (90)

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This meet is in honor of David Cannon. Class of 1974. Varsity for all 12 Track & Field and Cross-Country seasons between 1970-74. 12-Time District, 8-Time Region, 3-Time State Medalist (including State Runner-Up), 2-Time State Team Champion and All-Met in Cross-Country. Still holds GCM 2-mile record. Ran at James Madison University, now a USATF Masters Champion. CEO of Activated Content in Bellingham, Washington, and is training for age group World Indoor mile record. David passed away on October 24th, 2016 of Pancreas Cancer.

https://www.runnersworld.com/masters/age-group-ace-david-cannon

http://masterstrack.com/dave-cannon-dies-60-ran-middle-distances-masters-nationals/