Saturday, May 12, 2007, 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

WHERE:

Legion Field, Grande Prairie
(adjacent to the Composite High School and Leisure Centre Pool)

AGE 
CATEGORIES:

Hershey: Born in 1997/98 or before; 1995/96; 1993/94
High School: Junior (Grade 9, 10) and Senior (Grade 11, 12)
All Comers: post-high school athletes
NOTE: Grade 9 students will compete in the High School Junior category

ENTRY
INFORMATION:

Send entries via fax or e-mail to
Bill Corcoran 
(780) 539-2796 fax or bcorcoran@gprc.ab.ca

• Deadline for entries is Tuesday, May 8 at noon.  Late entries may be accepted up to Friday, May 11 at the discretion of the meet director with a $5 penalty per event.
• Due to overwhelming response, we are not able to accept day of meet entries.  Please get your entries in on time.
  
• Please limit entries to three individual events.  Permission to enter more than three events in the Peace Country Classic may be granted if space is available - an additional entry fee will apply.  (Contact the meet director.)
  

ENTRY FORMS:

Hershey competitors, use this form-2007 HERSHEY ENTRY FORM

All others, use this form - 2007 PC CLASSIC ENTRY FORM (pdf file)
 
 

For high school and all comers athletes:

$12 for first individual event; $15 for two or three individual events; maximum of $35 for an immediate family.  Athletics Alberta members (or equivalent) deduct $3. Relays are free.

Make cheques payable to: Wapiti Striders Track Club 

TECHNICAL
INFORMATION:

• The track and long/triple jump runways are a rubberized all weather surface. 
• Spike length is 7mm for the track and runways. 
• The throwing circles are concrete.  High jump and javelin run ups are on grass. 
• All timing will be hand timed without wind gauges. 
• For field events, participants will be given four trials to be taken within the 30-minute window for the event. 
• All events will be timed finals (even the sprints!!).  If seed times are provided, heats can be seeded.  Age groups will be combined into heats to save time.
 

For Hershey athletes:

• Spikes or starting blocks are not permitted
• Maximum of 3 events per individual (i.e. 2 track and 1 field or 2 field and 1 track) NOTE: The 4 x 100m relay counts as a running event.
• The Long Jump will be a standing Long Jump competition.

HERSHEY
QUALIFIER:

The meet allows serves as qualifier for the Provincial Hershey Final on June 9 in Edmonton.  Hershey competitors finishing in the top 4 of each event will have the opportunity to compete in the Provincial Meet. Details about the Provincial Hershey meet are available on the Athletics Alberta website.

3000m 

1 or 2 heats, all categories 

Standing Long Jump, 97/98, 95/96, 93/94

100m

All

Discus, HS and open

50m 

2 heats, 97/98 only

TBA - Triple Jump, HS and open

Sprint H

3 or 4 heats, HS and open

Shot Put, HS and open

 

200m

All

Ball Throw, 97/98, 95/96, 93/94

1500m 

3 or 4 heats, HS and open only

TBA - Pole Vault, HS and open

400m

5 or more heats

Javelin, HS and open

4 x 100m 

2 or 3 heats

Long Jump, HS and open