MIAA Tournament Committee News:

 

At our recent MIAA Tournament Committee the following changes were voted into effect immediately.

 

  1. Entry Limits:  2 running and 1 field  or 2 field and 1 running(relays count as a running event)
  2. Scoring: 8places indoor divisional meets, indoor All State Meet, outdoor divisional meets, already done in the outdoor All State Meet
  3. Indoor advancement to All State: top 3 in each division automatically move on and the next 12 best performances.
  4. Outdoor stays the same
  5. All State Meet Starting Times: 3:00 p.m. ( Eastern Mass Site)

Pole Vault and implement check-in starts at 1:30p.m.

  1. Indoor elimination of admitting times from the 50,300,600, 1,000yds as qualifying times that meet the MIAA standards.
  2. Flip Flop boys and girls yearly on going first for all events for the MIAA indoor meets.
  3. The Indoor All State Meet will follow a printed time schedule.
  4. Advancement process from trials to finals should be on the entry form.

 

Also being looked at is how to handle athletes in two field events in the same flight in the MIAA meets. An example if an athlete is in the 3rd flight in the javelin and discus, how do you handle this? Answer as of now: call the meet director before the meet and make a change in one event. An example would be athlete A would move from flight three in the discus to flight one and remain in flight three in the javelin. This would give the athlete a change to get in three throws without running back and forth between the events in the trials.

 

MIAA Sub-Committee looking at the future of track and cross country in Massachusetts will meet on 8/16. If you have any ideas about changes in the MIAA format that is used as a guideline for the state tournaments please pass them onto Dick Baker at the MIAA as soon as possible. A few examples would be where does the high jump go in the indoor schedule of events?  Should it stay where it is or should be have hurdles and dash events before the high jump?

Where should the 2 mile go in the order of events if we are starting the all state meet at 3:00? Should we have a two day All State Meet?