Field Events 5:00 pm, Track Events 5:30 pm, Beginner Events 5:00 PM

Event Description

The Palatine Pack Community track meet offers affordable track and field competition opportunities for all kids in the family. The meet offers a limited slate of events for age groups including Beginner (ages 7 and below), Youth (ages 8-11), Middle School (ages 12-14), and High School (ages 14-18). The entire meet takes place in the evening and lasts 3 to 4 hours. To that end, we ask that athletes limit their participation to a MAXIMUM of two track events and one field event, or one track event and two field events.

Location

The meet is run at Chic Anderson Stadium on the grounds of Palatine High School. Our school is located at 1111 N. Rohlwing Rd., Palatine, IL 60074.

Cost and Registration

Pre-registration is available online via Athletic.net. Entry instructions are available here. The cost is $15 - $13 entry fee plus a $2 service fee from Athletic.net. All athletes in the Beginner age group are FREE. Any athlete enrolled in a Palatine Pack summer program is also FREE. These groups include Youth Track Camp, Early Bird, Palatine Run Club, Palatine Pack TFCC club, and Palatine Pack Pole Vault club. All camp attendees will enroll through their respective coaches.

Meet day registration runs from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Cost for meet day registrants is $20. Accepted forms of payment include cash, checks payable to Palatine Pack TFCC, and credit card processing via Square. If you do not pre-register, we urge you to arrive early as we will cut off walk-up registration at 5:00 pm to prepare the meet program.

Events Offered

For the Beginner age group, we offer the following events:

• Field events - High jump, long jump, softball toss

• Track events - 50 meter dash, 50 meter hurdles. The 50 meter dash and 50 meter hurdles (over mini-hurdles) will be contested on the backstretch at the start of the meet while the 100 and 100/110 meter high hurdles are being run.

For the Youth, Middle School, and High School athletes, we offer the following events:

• Field events - High jump, long jump, discus, triple jump, shot put, pole vault

• Track events - 100 meter dash, 400 meter dash, 300 meter intermediate hurdles, 1600 meter run, 100/110 meter high hurdles, 4 x 100 meter relay, 4 x 800 meter relay.

Depending on registrations, we may combine some of these age groups to minimize heats. We will also combine both genders in age group races. Athletes can feel free to create mixed age group relays as well.

Event Schedule

All track events will run in the “flow of meet” rather than a set time schedule. With open registration, we do not know until the day of the meet how many registrants and heats there will be.

Track Schedule:

• Beginner events (FREE) 8 and under 50 meter dash, 50 meter hurdlers, long jump and Shot Put will begin at 5:00 PM

• 100/110 meter high hurdles (front stretch)

• 4 x 800 meter relay

• 100 meter dash (front stretch)

• 300 meter intermediate hurdles

• 400 meter dash

• 1600 meter run

• 4 x 100 meter relay

• Co-Ed 4x400 (Does not count as an entry, athletes can make teams at the start line)

• Banana 4x100 relay (open to everyone, no registration required)

Field Event Schedule

• Shot put - Youth, Middle School, High School, Open (4 attempts)

• Discus - Softball toss for Beginners (3 attempts) followed by Open, High School, Middle School, Youth (4 attempts)

• Long jump - Beginner (3 attempts), followed by Youth, Middle School, High School, Open (4 attempts)

• Triple jump - Open, High School, Middle School, Youth (4 attempts)

• High jump proceeding from lowest height to highest, regardless of age group

• Pole vault proceeding from lowest height to highest, regardless of age group

We will combine age groups where appropriate depending on number of registrants.

Timing

Palatine Pack Timing will provide Fully Automatic Timing (FAT) services for the entire meet. All results except the Beginner events will be published via Athletic Live and posted to the athlete’s online profile on Athletic.net.

Workers

Palatine Pack coaches will serve as workers at most events along with student volunteers from Palatine High School and Fremd High School. We also anticipate parents helping work some of the events.

Facilities

There are a limited amount of Port-A-Potties on site and no changing facilities. Palatine Pack will provide water on race day, but athletes and parents should also bring their own water. There will be no concession stands on site.

Awards

Medal to 1st place for each gender in each age group (Youth, Middle School, High School). Ribbons to places 2nd-5th.

Questions

Please direct all specific questions to meet managers Chris Quick, Alex Soto, and Mike Nigliaccio at palatinepack@gmail.com. Let us know any special accommodations an athlete may need in order to compete. We will do our best to meet those needs and can best do so if we know in advance. Thanks again for being part of our event!