Mountain Empire District Championship 2026

Pearisburg, VA
Hosted by Giles

Meet Information

MED District Championship

Wednesday, May 20th

at Giles High School

Coaches Meeting 9:30

Meet starts at 10:00

Timing: FinishLynx Timing System - Giles High School

Location:
Giles High School
1825 Wenonah Ave
Pearisburg, VA 24134

Entries:

Please make entries on the Mile Stat website to help with operating an efficient meet. 

Limits are 4 entries per event per team and 1 relay team.  Individuals may put more individual athletes IF they have already regionally qualified in that event.  If more than 4 individuals are entered, all must have met regional qualifications.  

The Top 6 advance to Region.

Submitting Entries: All entries will be done through milestat.com. Any additional regionally qualified entries entries MUST be FAT timed OR, if manually timed, MUST be adjusted.  ALL HANDHELD TIMES must be rounded up to the slower one-tenth of a second and .24 MUST BE ADDED.  

ALL ENTRIES ARE DUE BY Tuesday, May 19th by 8 AM. Late entries will NOT be entered.

ADMISSION: There will be a $8 admission fee to all spectators.

Rubber Track for running and jumping events- spikes may be worn.

Field Events    Will start at 10:00

Long Jump       (Triple Jump To Follow)

High Jump (Girls 1st, Boys 2nd)

Shot  (Boys 1st , Girls 2nd)                 

Discus (Girls 1st, Boys 2nd)                 

Running Events  Will start at noon.

Girls run first, then boys:

4x800 Relay 
Boys 110m Hurdles
Girls 100m Hurdles
100m
1600m
4x100m Relay
400m
300m Hurdles
800m
200m
3200m Run    
4x400m  
** Pole Vault will be held at Auburn High School

            1650 Auburn School Dr.
            Riner, VA 24149

COACHING ASSIGNMENTS:

Auburn: High Jump, Pole Vault

Bland: High Jump

Fort Chiswell: Long/Triple

Galax: Long/Triple

George Wythe: Discus

Giles: Timing, Discus, Shot

Grayson: Shot

NOTES:  Schools will be asked to help officiate field events.
All events will be timed finals and there will be no preliminaries. 
Scoring will be for the top 6 places, scored 10-8-6-4-2-1
Heats will be seeded and ran slowest to fastest.
Team camps will be set up in the bleachers on the home side (OPPOSITE OF PRESS BOX) of the stadium.
The Press Box side will be for spectators.
Warm up areas will be behind the team camp bleachers and athletes are only allowed on the football field after their event has been called.
Athletes and coaches can only enter the track at the gate near the team camp bleachers.