April 8-9, 2005

June 17-18, 2005

ARCADIA INVITATIONAL XXXVIII
FINAL MEET DETAILS/INSTRUCTIONS

Dear Coaches… Welcome to Arcadia Invitational XXXVIII !!!

Please review the following information so that you are up to speed this weekend!

SCRATCHES:
If for any reason one or your selected athletes/relays cannot participate this weekend, please notify the Clerk of the Course immediately so that we may enter an alternate. This will ensure full fields in each event.
REMINDER: SCRATCHES AT THIS TIME WILL STILL BE CHARGED AN ENTRY FEE.

CREDENTIALS:
This team packet (credential) contains your gate passes, your team’s event listings, final instructions, heat sheets, bib numbers, safety pins, spaghetti dinner tickets, etc. Spaghetti meal tickets are for athletes participating in the Saturday evening session of the meet only (plus two coaches). All others who wish to eat dinner can do so by paying $3 at the cafeteria door. There is no spaghetti dinner on Friday.

Remember, credentials will not be issued and athletes cannot compete unless entry fees are paid.

ATHLETE’S ADMISSION:
Only Athletes and Coaches are allowed to enter through the participant’s entrance. All others must enter the stadium through the regular admission gates. Please have your gate passes ready for collection. If you need to exit and re-enter the stadium area, you must have your hand stamped at the exit.

SPECTATOR ADMISSION:
Spectators may only enter through the gate antrances adjacent to the ticket booths. No spectators will be allowed in the Participants Area.  Admission prices for Friday are $5 for adults, student and children. Ages 3 and under are allowed free. Admission prices for Saturday (good for all day) are $12 for adults. $7 for high school students with ID, and $5 for children. Anyone age 3 and under is allowed free. Color souvenir programs with event entries, schedules, event previews and photos are on sale for $5.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
See enclosed UPDATED time schedule. In particular, note that the boys’ and girls invitational pole vault on Saturday now have new start times.

DRESSING FACILITIES:
Locker rooms are not available. Restroom facilities are provided.

SPIKES:
3/16” needle or pyramid spikes are required on our synthetic track and runway facilities. Spikes will be checked at the Athlete’s Gate, and a second time at the Field Event and/or Starting Line. If needed, 3/16” spikes will be on sale near the Participant’s Entry Gate.

CLERK OF THE COURSE:
The Clerk of the Course check-in for athletes is located at the oversized (30 feet by 50 feet) white tent just outside the southwest corner of the track fencing. Field event athletes must enter the field through this Clerk of the Course check-in area also. Track athletes are responsible for checking-in with the Clerk by the last call of their event. Field event athletes are responsible for checking in directly with the head judge at their field event area by the last call for their event. If this is not done, an athlete will be scratched and replaced by an alternate. Please have your athlete or a coach, listening for these calls from the Clerk of the Course area.

CALL SCHEDULE:
20 minutes prior to an event - first call
15 minutes prior to an event - second call
10 minutes prior to an event - third call and check-in with clerk
(Alternates will be entered in the race if athletes have not reported by this third and final call)

We have assigned alternates who will replace athletes who do not show up by the final call. Athletes in BOTH a field event and a running event must keep up on the time schedule and calls for their events. A field event athlete must return and check in with the Clerk of the Course, who will direct them to the staging area also included in the over-sized white tent. At the staging area, athletes will be assigned lanes, given hip numbers for the automatic timing, and then taken to the start area. Athletes may keep their warm-ups on until they reach the infield. A reminder: Spikes will be checked again at the starting line. Exit from the track will be allowed only through the southwest gate.

STAGGERS:
ALLEYS: The 800’s, Miles, Two-Miles and distance relays will use a one-turn stagger with 5-9 individuals in a three lane
alley. As will be explained by the starter, athletes may break to the pole at the beginning of the backstretch. yellow flag). Mile/2-Mile: The mile and two-mile races held during the night meet will be started using a waterfall start or alleys, depending upon the size of the field. If using a waterfall start, athletes may break immediately, as long as safe to do so.

1600 RELAY STAGGER: As preparation for championship meets, the Arcadia Invitational will be using “three turn staggers” for the 1600 meter relay races. This means that the #1 runner will run his entire leg in the team’s assigned lane, with the #2 runner lining up at the starter’s direction in the team’s lane. The #2 runner will need to stay in the team’s assigned lane until the “break point” at the beginning of the backstretch. (Yellow flag).

STARTING HEIGHTS:
Starting Heights for the 2005 Arcadia Invitational vertical jumps are as follows:
Friday Men’s High Jump – 5’10” Open Men’s High Jump – 6’0” Invite Men’s High Jump – 6’3”
Friday Women’s High Jump - 4’6” Open Women’s High Jump -4’10” Invite Women’s High Jump – 5’1”
Friday Men’s Pole Vault – 12’6” Open Men’s Pole Vault – 13’4” Invite Men’s Pole Vault – 14’3”
Friday Women’s Pole Vault - 8’6” Open Women’s Pole Vault – 9’6” Invite Women’s Pole Vault – 10’9”

THROWS, LONG JUMP, TRIPLE JUMP: For these events, the fields will be broken into flights. The athletes
In each flight will rotate in, taking three trials each. Nine athletes will qualify for the finals. Each athlete
who qualifies will then have three additional attempts in the finals, in reverse order of the trials performance.

NOTE TO ALL POLE VAULTERS: You must have a pole rating release form signed by your coach PRIOR TO
reporting to the event. The release forms should be in your packet and are also available in the Credentials
Area.

FIELD EVENT TIME LIMIT:
The NFHS time limits in the field events will be strictly enforced. The only exceptions will be when an athlete obtains an official’s permission to leave for another event. The athlete must return to compete within ten minutes. The high jump of pole vault bar will not be lowered for a returning athlete.

THROWING SECTORS:
A 40-degree throwing sector is being used in both the shot put and the discus.

SHOT AND DISCUS WEIGH-IN:
All implements must be checked and certified prior to the event. Any implement failing the certification will be impounded until the conclusion of the event. The weigh-in area is next to the clerk of the course.

BATONS:
ALL Relay teams will be required to use Invitational meet batons. They will be issued to your #1 runner at the starting line and collected from the #4 runner. No other relay batons will be allowed.

UNIFORMS:
NFHS requires that all athletes compete in school issued uniforms that comply with NFHS rules. Athletes not wearing school uniforms may be denied the opportunity to compete by the officials.

OFFICIAL PROGRAM:
The open and Invitational Program is available for $5.00 at the ticket booths. (Coach’s packets will contain a printout of the weekend’s updated heats sheets as well).

AWARDS:
There will be no team scoring or team trophies. Customized Arcadia Invitational Nike ID watches will be presented to the first place finishers in all “Invitational events”, and to each member of winning “Invitational” relay teams. Additionally, Nike ID/Arcadia Invitational watches will be presented to the runner-up athlete/relay in a select few featured events. The top five competitors in each non-relays heat (including the winners of all “Seeded” and “Open” events) will receive medals for the field events and individual track events. For the relay events, custom batons will be presented instead. Immediately after the conclusion of their event, all first through fifth place winners are to report to the awards area to receive their medals. It will be in the white tent located at the West end of the stadium on the warm-up field. If the athlete/relay is the winner of the Invitational heat, they are to claim their Nike ID watch at the interactive Nike ID display. IMPORTANT: Due to the recent addition of several heats to accommodate the overwhelming volume of entry requests this year, recipients of medals for the first four heats in Event #1 and Event #2 will only go three deep We apologize for this inconvenience, but we felt it imperative to add extra heats to accommodate all the excellent athletes entering this year.

ATHLETE OF THE MEET AWARD:
At the end of the “Invitational Session” Meet, special certificates for custom-made Nike ID spikes will be presented to the male and female Athlete of the Meet. These outstanding “Invitational” meet athletes will be selected by members of the working press just before the start of the 1600-meter relays.

PARTICIPANTS AREA:
All participants must remain in the south stands during the meet. The warm-up area will be on the grass areas outside the main track on the west and south sides. No warm-up will be permitted on the infield. Porta-potties will be located near the warm-up areas.

ALTERNATES:
Should you have an athlete or relay team listed as an alternate, they need to report to the alternate holding area well BEFORE the third and final call that is given ten (10) minutes prior to an event’s start. This alternate holding area will be marked with a sign at the Clerk of the Course. The Clerk of the Course will not call over the public address system for an alternate. BE SURE TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF AN ALTERNATE RELAY TEAM IN THIS AREA BEFORE THE LAST CALL FOR AN EVENT. Be aware that if your athlete is listed as an “alternate” that they are an alternate for ALL RACES OF THAT DISTANCE in their section of the meet.

RESULTS:
Results are displayed on the results boards at the northeast end of the warm-up field. Results will also be listed online after the meet at www.dyestat.com , www.dyestatcal.com and www.arcadiainvitational.org

INVITATIONAL SOUVENIRS:
T-Shirts, Hats, Sweatshirts, Backpacks, Spike Bags and other official Nike meet apparel will be sold at the “Nike Truck” retail display located in the northeast corner of the stadium, adjacent to the snack bar.

NIKE SOUVENIR BACKPACKS/GYMSACKS FOR ATHLETES!: Through a special arrangement with Nike, this weekend’s athlete participants will be receiving either a Nike/Arcadia Invitational backpack or gymsack. The backpacks are for those athletes competing in the SATURDAY NIGHT Invitational or Seeded heats or Friday’s Invitational heats. The gymsacks are for those athletes competing in the Saturday Open (day) portion of the meet or the non-invitational heats in Friday’s portion of the meet. There will be only one item per athlete. These athlete items can only be claimed by the head coach and only during the hours of 3:45 and 5:45 p.m. on Friday and 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday. Any items not claimed during these hours will not be available afterward.

RAIN:
There is NO rain make-up date. If rain does occur, the meet will continue with all events that can safely proceed.

NIKE RETAIL TRUCK & VENDOR BOOTHS: Nike will have its popular mobile retail display on site to showcase and sell the official Arcadia Invitational meet apparel. Leading track and field equipment and uniform suppliers will be hosting booths in our Vendors’ Expo Area, located on the northeast corner of the stadium. Please visit their booths to pick up a catalog and make your purchases of sport-related items!

NIKE’S ELITE ATHLETE LOUNGE & NIKE ID INTERACTIVE DISPLAY: Meet sponsor Nike will be hosting an Elite Athlete Lounge in the warm-up, where athletes can interact with Olympians in attendance. Be sure to drop by! Also, a Nike ID interactive booth will be set up, where you can design your own custom Nike apparel for purchase!

SNACK BAR: A full snack bar will be open throughout the meet, with all items reasonably priced. The snack bar is located on the northeast corner of the facility, adjacent to the Vendors’ Expo Area.

NIKE ATHLETES: Nike elite athletes Joanna Hayes and either Dathan Ritzenhein or Meb Keflezhigi are tentatively scheduled to be present and available on Saturday to sign autographs at the “Nike Truck” retail display. Please listen for scheduled appearance times to be announced over the public-address system.