Chicago Hope Academy

Summer Meet #1

Tuesday, June 28 @ Chicago Hope Academy Track

Field Events 5:00 pm, Track Events 6:00 pm

Event Description

This summer community track meet offers affordable track and field competition for all members of the family. The meet offers limited events for age groups including Beginner (ages 7 and below), Youth (ages 8-11), Middle School (ages 12-14), High School (ages 14-18), and Open (18 and above). The entire meet takes place in the evening and lasts 2 1/2 to 3 hours. To that end, we ask that athletes limit their participation to a MAXIMUM of three events.

Location

The meet is run at the Chicago Hope Academy track complex, 721 S. Washtenaw Ave, Chicago, IL 60612

Cost and Registration

Pre-registration is available online via Athletic.net. Entry instructions are available here. The cost is $7 - $5 entry fee plus a $2 service fee from Athletic.net. All athletes in the Beginner age group are FREE.

If you already have an Athletic.net profile set up, you may register at the meet page here.

Meet day registration runs from 4:00-5:00 pm. Cost for meet day registrants is $10. 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 meet day registration at 5:00 pm to prepare the meet program.

Events Offered

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

  • Field events - 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 while the 100 meter dash is being run.

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

  • Field events - High jump, long jump, pole vault

  • Track events - 100 meter dash, 400 meter dash, 800 meter run, 1600 meter run, 100/110 meter high hurdles, 1000 meter steeplechase

For the Open Adult athletes, we offer the following events:

  • Field events - High jump, long jump

  • Track events - 100 meter dash, 400 meter dash, 1600 meter run

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:

  • 1600 meter run

  • 100 meter dash

  • 800 meter run

  • 100/110 Hurdles

  • 400 meter dash

  • 1000 meter steeplechase (introductory at lowest height with 2 barriers per lap, including water jump)

Field Event Schedule

  • Long jump - Beginner (3 attempts), followed by Youth, Middle School, High School, Open (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 after the meet on Athletic.net and included in an athlete’s online profile.

Workers

All event workers will be supplied by Chicago Hope Academy meet management.

Facilities

There are limited bathrooms on site with no changing areas. There is also a drinking fountain with a bottle filling station?

Questions

Please direct all specific questions to Chicago Hope facility manager Dan Daly at dpjd26@gmail.com or 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.