Palatine Pack Early Summer Meet

Thursday, June 27 @ Fremd High School Track

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

Event Description

This early 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 two track events and one field event, or one track event and two field events.

Location

The meet is run at the track/football stadium on the grounds of Fremd High School. The school is located at 1000 S. Quentin Rd., Palatine, IL 60067.

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, Palatine and Fremd Early Bird, Palatine Run Club, Palatine Pack Throws Academy, and Palatine Pack TFCC club. All camp attendees will enroll through their respective coaches.

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 pm - 4:45 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 meet day registration at 4:45 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 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, triple jump, shot put, discus, and pole vault

  • Track events - 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 800 meter run, 1600 meter run, 100/110 meter high hurdles, 4 x 100 meter relay, 4 x 400 meter relay.

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

  • Field events - High jump, long jump, shot put

  • Track events - 100 meter dash, 1600 meter run

Depending on registrations, we may combine some of these age groups to minimize heats. We may 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:

  • 100/110 meter high hurdles (front stretch) / 50 meter hurdles (back stretch)

  • 100 meter dash (front stretch) / 50 meter dash (back stretch)

  • 800 meter run

  • 4 x 100 meter relay

  • 1600 meter run

  • 200 meter dash

  • 4 x 400 meter relay

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

Field Event Schedule

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

  • Discus - To follow Shot Put (4 attempts)

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

  • Triple jump - To follow Long Jump (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 Live Results and Athletic.net and be included in an athlete’s online profile.

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 working some of the events.

Facilities

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

Awards

TBD

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!