The Wapiti Striders Track and Field Club present …

2008 Peace Country Track and Field Classic
(includes Peace Country Hershey Meet)
WHEN:
Saturday, May 10, 2008, 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 1998/99 or before; 1996/97; 1994/95
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) 539-2888 fax or bcorcoran@gprc.ab.ca
  • Deadline for entries is Tuesday, May 6 at noon.  Late entries may be accepted up to Friday, May 9 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 - 2008 HERSHEY ENTRY FORM 

All others, use this form - 2008 PC CLASSIC ENTRY FORM (pdf file)
 
 
ENTRY FEE:
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 

For Hershey athletes:

Entries made before the deadline are free 
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 21.  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.
SCHEDULE: See attached.

EVENTS OFFERED



 50m 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m 1600m 3000m Sprint
Hurdles		 Ball
Throw		 HJ TJ LJ Dissus Shot
Put		 Jav 4 x 100
Relay
98/99 x x x x           x     x       x
96/97   x x x x         x     x       x
94/95   x x   x   x     x     x       x
High
School		   x x x x x   x x   x TBA
 x x x x x
Open   x x x x x   x x   x TBA
 x x x x x

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE – (Subject to change – pick up final schedule on meet day)

9:00
3000m 
1 or 2 heats, all categories 
9:00
Standing Long Jump, 98/99, 96/97, 94/95
9:40 1600m 1 heat, 94/95 only 9:05 High Jump, HS and open
9:50
100m
All
9:15
Discus, HS and open
10:55
50m 
2 heats, 98/99 only
10:10
TBA - Triple Jump, HS and open
11:00 800m 5 or 6 heats, all

11:45
Sprint H
3 or 4 heats, HS and open
10:30
Shot Put, HS and open
noon



12:30
 
Break and Catch Up
12:30
Break and Catch Up
1:30
200m
All
1:30
Ball Throw, 98/99, 96/97, 94/95
2:30
1500m 
3 or 4 heats, HS and open only

3:15
400m
5 or more heats
2:45
Javelin, HS and open
4:15
4 x 100m 
2 or 3 heats
3:15
Long Jump, HS and open

For more information contact:

Bill Corcoran
Wapiti Striders Track Club
(780) 539-2735 (work)
(780) 538-2369 (home)
bcorcoran@gprc.ab.ca