2008 BYU HS Indoor Track Meet Information

All events will be held in the BYU Smith Field House. The Field House has a 352 yard (5 lap per mile), 4 lane, Mondo Super X track. The track surface is in great shape, having been installed in 2007. All field events will be held on Friday evening. All running events will be held on Saturday.

Welcome to the meet information page. This will be the 6th year of the meet! In 2009 we had almost 1200 athletes in the meet. 2007 Results, 2008 Results and 2009 Results are posted online. FAT will be utilized for all running events, using two Etherlynx 2000 digital imaging systems. A projection scoreboard system will be used to display start lists and results for all running events. Electronic display boards will display results for all field events.

Registration - Registration will only be accepted on-line. Click here for Registration. Registration will close promptly on Friday, January 15th at noon MST. Pre-registration is $4 per event and $16 per relay team. Registration is available for both teams and individuals. Registration fees must be paid when you arrive at the Fieldhouse. Athletes or teams that register or add events at the meet will be charged late registration fees, which are $10 for the first event in the meet (if the athlete is not in the meet at all) and $6 for additional events up to four total. Please make checks payable to BYU Track.

Spikes - Spikes are permitted on the track. Spikes must be 1/4" or less in length, pyramids recommended, no needles, no christmas trees.

Awards - Medals will be given to the top 3 finishers in each event. T-shirts will be given to the top 6 finishers in each event. Medals will be given to the top team in the relays. T-shirts will be given to the top 3 teams in each relay. The outstanding Athlete of the Meet awards will be presented to the top male and female, track and field athletes.

Participation - Athletes may participate in up to 4 individual events. Relay team members must be from the same school/club.

Check In - All athletes must check in when they arrive at the fieldhouse to pay their fees and pickup their wrist band. Please check-in early to minimize the lines. We would encourage a coach or representative to check in for an entire team, pay the complete fee and pick up a wrist band for each athlete. Team check-in would best be done on Friday.

Reporting for events - Athletes that do not report when called will be scratched. Please arrive early and report for your event when you are called. Events will be seeded after check-in so that we can reduce the number of empty lanes. If you are scratched for not checking in, you will not be allowed to compete. Please check in!

Rules - Rules will be fully enforced. Athletes that commit lane violations will be disqualified.

Admission - Admission for spectators is only $2 for adults and non-participating students each day.

Awards Ceremonies - Awards Ceremonies will be held immediately following each event. Please have your athletes available!

Records - A list of the track records is posted, thanks to Roger Buhrley.

Coach's Mile - We have received a request to hold a Mile for the coaches. If there is sufficient interest, we will hold a single co-ed race. There must be at least 4 participants on the line for us to hold the race. Recruit your friends!

Map - A map to the Smith Fieldhouse on the BYU campus is available here. Map

Coaches Meeting - We will hold a quick coach's meeting at 8:50 am on Saturday at the finish line. Please be in attendance. If you can not attend, please send a representative. We will discuss rules and request the support of everyone in keeping competition areas clear.

Protocols -

Check-in to the meet was our biggest challenge last year. This year we would like to request that each coach, or a representative, help with the process, which will make it much simpler for everyone. Please follow these steps as a team or organization:
1. Please log back into your account and remove any of your athletes that will not be able to participate, if you know before noon on Friday.
2. Please bring a printout of your registration from RunnerCard.
3. Please arrive, or have a representative arrive, on Friday after 4:00 pm to process check-in for your team, to pay for your team as a group and to collect the wristbands for all of your athletes. If you are not able to have someone arrive on Friday, then you will have to fight the crowd on Saturday morning. Doors will open 90 minutes before the first scheduled event.
4. Please remind your athletes that they will need their wristband to enter the facility each day, both Friday and Saturday.
It will be much easier to process your team as a group rather than as individuals.
5. Please request your athletes to be tidy and pickup after themselves at the meet. Our custodial costs were one of our largest expenses last year due to the large cleanup job after each day.

Check-in will take place at the east doors, where we will process teams or individual athletes, accept payment and distribute the wristbands. Entrance to the facility for participants, coaches and spectators is at the middle doors at the east end of the parking lot. All other doors will remain locked.

Please remind your athletes to avoid competition areas during warm-up and between competitions. While the fieldhouse is not the best competition facility, the track is world class. We will have a great meet! Athletes must report when they are called. Please instruct your athletes to pay attention to the order of events and be ready to report when they are called, which will usually be one or two events before their scheduled event. Athletes that do not have their name marked on the list after final call will be scratched. We have too many races to run with empty lanes. Each event will be seeded after the last call and the scratches are processed. Once an athlete reports, you must stay in the clerking area until your race.

We are looking forward to a great meet! Last year we had some of the top athletes in the intermountain area, which included athletes from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado!

See you at meet!

Doug