Track & Field and Cross-Country Bulletin for Jun 18, 2015
The Time Has Come!
New Balance Nationals Outdoors
June 19-21, 2015
North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC
Its time to throw down! NBN Outdoors starts Friday. Packet pickup opens at 3pm on Thursday along with the New Balance retail store at the track. So you can get all of your essentials, shop and get your bags customized starting brtween 3 and 8 pm Thursday!
NBNO FAQs
There are a few things to bear in mind as you complete your journey to the largest and hottest NBNO ever!
Waivers: Waivers must be completed by each athlete and must be signed by a parent or legal guardian for all athletes under 18 years of age. Athletes will NOT be able to receive their competition packets or souvenir bags without their signed Waiver. Waivers can be printed here.
Final Instructions for coaches and athletes
Starts Lists/Heat and Lane Assignments
Competition Schedule- The schedule has been revised to accommodate the large number of competitors
Check-in Procedures - don't miss your event
Answers to your question about how we seed the meet
Live Webcast: We will be broadcasting live from North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina Friday through Sunday, June 19 through 21 on NBNationals.com. Separate broadcasts will be available for running and field events with on demand videos uploaded to NBNationals.com throughout the weekend. There will be separate broadcasts of the track and field events so you will get the total experience.
BioCards Help our announcers with a little information on what makes you You. Fill out our online BioCard here.
Souvenir Bags If you did not complete your registration by June 1st you are not guaranteed to receive the souvenir bag and have been placed on a list with priority based on entry date and time. Our bags are custom-made for the meet and have to be ordered well ahead of meet day. We have made all efforts to ensure that everyone receives a meet bag but all will not receive the original NBNO souvenir bag unless you completed registration by the guarantee deadline. Please read all information on our NBNO Information Page carefully.
Eastbay Discount cards and lanyards Our Presenting Sponsor, Eastbay is giving all athletes and coaches a discount card that can be used to shop at their online store. Cards are strung on cool Eastbay lanyards. Be sure to get yours at packet pickup. And then use them to shop for New Balance gear on Eastbay
Start Lists Make NBNationals.com your homepage. Each week our Steve Underwood has been profiling athletes you'll see at NBNO. Check it out and see who we're talking about this week.
Coaches Hospitality- Stop by the Chancellor's Suite in the A&T Press Box Thursday - Sunday from 11am - 2pm. Light refreshments will be served and you can unwind, cool off and watch the meet from the inside. Limited to 20 coaches at any given time. You must sign in at the entrance to the Press Box by the elevator. The Coaches Hospitality is being generously sponsored by USA Track and Field.
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate- We're expecting several meet records this weekend and the high temperatures may be one! Temperatures will be in the 90's each day. Please, please be sure to drink plenty of water to avoid heat stroke and other dangerous heat distress symptoms. Athletes, please fill up your water bottles at the Primo Hydration Stations around the track and facility.
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro is a place that you simply must visit while you are here. All NBNO athletes with their bib number and coaches with wristbands will receive a $2.00 discount on the price of admission. Students of the NBNO host facility NCAT&T were at the heart of a Woolworth’s sit-in protest there. Taking the tour is enlightening, uplifting, and humbling as history comes alive before you. It is a personal and educational experience that you will treasure!
Special Event Schedule
Project Javelin Gold is hosting a Javelin Clinic with Jeff Gorski and Barry Krammes Saturday June 20th at 3:30pm on the outside javelin runway area. It is FREE and anyone with interest in the javelin may attend. Jeff and Barry are the lead coaches for the NSAF's Project Javelin Gold, our elite development javelin program.
The UCS Shot Put Clinic is scheduled for Saturday morning June 20th at 9:30 at the shot put area. Shelton Harrison's hands-on presentation is always packed so get there early. He will also be giving away two shot puts provided by our friends at UCS.
The National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA), our Official Scouting Organization and Provider of Recruiting Serviceswill have two of their lead recruiting coaches at NBNO to present their popular "College Recruiting Simplified" seminars for parents, coaches and athletes. There will be several each day held in the Chancellor's Suite of the A&T Pressbox at the track. Here is the full schedule. Each session is limited to 20 participants so get there early to sign-up
Join Join David Emeott in the Chancellor's Suite in the press box on Saturday from 2-3pm as he talks about "How to Use NBN to Build A Sustainable Track and Field Program." David has over 20 years of coaching experience and has been the head coach at East Kentwood High School in Michigan for the past 10 years. This is his second appearance as a presenter at NBNO.
NBNO is the Selection Meet for ChicagoLand Throwers
NBNO will be our primary qualifier for selection of Team NSAF for ChicagoLand Throwers. We will select the top two (male and female) in each throwing event at the meet for full sponsorship to the ChicagoLand Throwers at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois on July 10-11th. We will select a third athlete in each discipline (male and female) on an at-large basis. The 24 athletes will be invited at NBNO and will be required to make their decision to accept at that time. Team NSAF will be fully funded by the NSAF through its Performance Clinics and Select Meet programs. Chicagoland Throwers is unique in that it offers our team a chance not just to compete in the same meet as Olympians and other elites, but WITH them.. Learn more here.
OTHER NEWS
An Amazing Experience in Cuba- Our Team NSAF of 28 athletes returned from competitng at the Caribbean Scholastic Invitational in Cuba last week. It was the most phenonenal experience ever for everyone and definitely life-changing. There are tons of videos of both the competition events and interviews on our Facebook Page as well as on milesplit. We will continue to add more videos and photo albums.
American JavFest
Javelin throwers and coaches of all levels- mark your calendar for Friday-Sunday, July 24-26, 2015 This will be our inaugural JavFest in East Stroudsburg, PA. The weekend will include competition and clinics from some of this country's most knowledgeable javelin coaches. Full details at the American JavFest site.
NSAF Development Grants
Applications for the Cedric Walker Development Grants are now open and will be awarded in the Fall. Please read the grant requirements carefully before submitting your application and bear in mind that these are development grants and not travel grants.
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