REGISTRATION

Thursday, June 19, 5pm-9pm, Friday, June 20, 9am-8pm, Saturday, June 21 7:30am-5pm, all at Irwin Belk Track, North Carolina A+T University, Greensboro, NC

Your packet is filed alphabetically via school name.   Since biographical information is now entered on line, there is no longer any necessity to fill out a bio card.

USATF card - you must have a valid USATF card in order to pick up your packet.   If you do not have one, you may purchase one at registration or at the USATF web site, www.usatf.org .   If you have a valid USATF card, but for some reason do not have it with you, you may fill out a waiver stating that fact.

Each school receives one coach's admission bracelet for coach or adult accompanying athletes.    Any additional passes may be purchased at Registration on Thursday night, or at the Admission area during and before competition hours.

COMPETITOR NUMBERS/IDENTIFICATION ARE TO BE WORN ON THE FRONT ONLY, EXCEPT FOR 5000m, POLE VAULT AND THE ANCHOR OF THE RELAYS (EXCEPT FOR THE 4XMILE RELAY). RELAY ANCHORS WILL BE GIVEN A TEAM NAME BIB TO WEAR ONTHE FRONT, AND THEIR INDIVIDUALLY NAMED BIB IS TO BE WORN ON THE BACK. FOR THE 5000m AND THE 4XMILE RELAY, THE CLERK WILL ISSUE YOU A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 25. THAT IS TO WORN ON THE FRONT, AND THE COMPETITOR NUMBER IS TO BE WORN ON THE BACK.

RELAY CARDS

All coaches must fill in relay cards prior to their teams' relay check-in.   This allows for accuracy in reporting relay members in the results. These will be handed in to the clerk.

RELAY BATONS

All teams must use a souvenir baton given to them at the starting line.   The baton does not have to be returned and is a gift from the NSSF and M-F Equipment.   For those qualifiers from the 4x100 meter relay on Friday night who will be participating in the Finals on Saturday, please retain the baton given to you on Friday and use that on Saturday.

HOTEL SHUTTLES TO THE TRACK and REGISTRATION

There will be a continuous shuttle between both meet hotels and Irwin Belk Track. (Thursday from 4:30-10:00pm, Friday from 8:30am-11:00pm, and Saturday from 7:30am-10:00pm).

ADMISSION TO THE IRWIN BELK TRACK

• ATHLETES - Admission is via the competition number AND wrist band (both must be worn).   Athletes are to enter only through the Athletes' gate.
• COACHES - Enter through normal General Admission gate and show admission bracelet.
• All others must purchase admission bracelets and enter through the General Admission Gate.

SPIKES - 1/4" Pyramid Only

Only ¼" Pyramid spikes are allowed.

ACCESSIBILITY TO TRACK PRIOR TO MEET

Athletes are welcome to use the track and field facilities during non-competition hours, beginning at 3pm, Thursday, June 19.

ELECTRICAL DEVICES

Athletes will not be permitted to use any type of electrical devices in the competition area, including cell phones.

WARM-UP DURING MEET

Athletes may warm up in the field on the east end of the stadium.    While the hammer and discus competition is being contested, all warm-ups must be done between the flagged area surrounding the discus/hammer sectors and the fence behind the visitors' stands.

TENTS

Teams may place tents in top 10 rows on the visitors side of the track (the stands not on the press box side).   Tents cannot be placed in the walkway areas, on the press box side of the bleachers or outside the gates leading into the track.

THROWING EVENT IMPLEMENT CHECK-IN

Athletes must submit throwing implements for inspection no less than 1 hour prior to the scheduled starting time of the event. Implement inspection will be available from 9am- 4pm on Friday and 8am-5pm on Saturday. Implement inspection will be located under the bleachers behind the backstretch.

START LISTS

Preliminary start lists will be posted at registration Thursday evening. Start lists for the 5000meters on Thursday evening, June 19 (Day 1), will be available at registration that day. Start lists for Day 2 (Friday) will be available on Friday morning at registration. Start lists for Day 3 (Saturday) will be available Saturday morning at the track. Start Lists will also be available at www.nationalscholastic.org and dyestat.com.

Seeding and specific race assignments will be posted at registration and the web sites, above by June 19 at noon. Only one section (seeded) of the DMR will be run on Saturday night (7:10pm), and the fastest 2 sections of the 800m and mile will be run at 5:55pm and 6:30pm on Saturday night, respectively. Only the fastest section of the 400m Hurdles will be run on Saturday night (5:25pm). The top 2 sections of the 400m will be run at 6:15pm; the top 2 sections of the 4x400m relay will be run at 7:35pm. All other sections of these events will be run prior to the opening ceremonies which will take place at 5:15pm. Unseeded sections will be held as listed in the meet schedule of events.

FINALISTS AND AWARDS

Immediately after your race, please go to the awards area. Unless you feel that you were definitely not in the top 6, you must proceed to the awards area.

Championship rings will be awarded to each winner (including relays). Medals will be issued to the first six places. The first six places will be named NSSF All Americans. All-American Certificates will be distributed at the awards ceremony.

SECURITY

We will maintain an area for the temporary storage of your articles of clothing while you are racing. It will be a secured area. Please do not leave any of your personal items unattended.