Meet Information
Region Competition Guidelines and Clarifications
Excerpts from 2022-23 GHSA Constitution (Pp. 85-86)
REGION COMPETITION:
A. Deadlines for posting the Region list of entries will be a Region decision.
1. All entries (rosters) must be made ELECTRONICALLY on the MileSplit site.
2. Posting entries on sites other than MileSplit does NOT fulfill the GHSA requirement for electronic submission.
3. Coaches may alter the list of entries until the deadline established by each Region for their Region meet.
4. All Region Secretaries should communicate their deadline for entries before the "Scratch Meeting" that precedes the Region Meet. Region Secretaries (or designee) must "close" the electronic entries for the deadline established by each Region.
B. The time schedule for the Region Meet shall be given to each competing school prior to the start of the Meet.
1. Events to be contested for Boys and Girls Track (18 events listed in the Constitution).
2. Each school may have three (3) entries in each individual event and one (1) entry in each relay event.
3. Relay teams entered in the Region Meet may list a maximum of eight (8) runners.
(a) The relay names remain the SAME throughout the State Meet Series (Region/Sectional/State Meets) and are the ONLY eligible participants for qualifying relay teams throughout the State Meet Series.
(b) NO replacements may be made in the Relay list of runners advancing from the Region Meet to the Sectional Meet to the State Meet.
(c) Any four (4) competitors listed on a Region Meet relay event entry may run in that event in any round of advancement (Region, Sectionals, State Meet Semifinals and Finals), and in any order desired.
4. In Shot Put, Discus, Long Jump, and Triple Jump, the giving of qualifying and final trials is optional. NOTE: The Region Games Committee may institute a process in which each contestant has three (3) attempts and only the best attempt counts.
5. It is recommended that all Regions conduct the boys and girls competitions on the same dates in order to comply with the GHSA deadline for completion of Region track competitions.
C. When there is a tie in any event involving more contestants than the Region is entitled to enter in the Sectional Meet, the contest must continue or be re-held until the representatives to the Sectional or State Meet are determined, and no points be given for the continued or re-held contest. For possible replacement purposes, all events must determine clear 5th and 6th place finishers.
The following information pertains to a series (Region, Sectional, State):
A competitor shall not compete in more than four (4) events, including relays. Contestants officially become competitors when they report to the clerk of the course or field-event judge for an event in which they are entered. A contestant shall not be entered in more than four events, excluding relays. If a contestant is entered in more than the allowable number of events, meet management shall scratch the contestant from the excess event(s) by following the listed Order of Events.
A contestant may officially participate in:
1. Four individual events - NO Relay events.
2. Three individual events - May be listed on any number of relay events but compete in only one relay event.
3. Two individual events - May be listed on any number of relay events but compete in only two relay events.
4. One individual event - May be listed on any number of relay events but compete in only three relay events.
5. No individual events - May be listed on any number of relay events and compete in all four relay events