The competition portion of the indoor track & field season gets underway this weekend at the Reggie Lewis Center with the MSTCA Winter Festival Large and Small School meets.
But that’s not all.
There are two more meets where are Bay Staters will showcase their talents, one on the oval and one on the up-and-down terrain more than 3,000 miles away. At Wheaton College’s Hass Athletic Center, we have the inaugural Mercury Indoor Games. In San Diego, five of our top cross-country stars will be locking horns with some of the country’s finest at the Foot Locker Nationals.
The Large Schools kick off the Winter Festival at Reggie on Saturday. Small Schools compete on Sunday. Both meets begin at 10 a.m., with the field events and the 55-meter dash and hurdles. The remaining running events, beginning with the mile, start at 11. Click on links below for entries and live results. The meets will include a full slate of events.
WiINTER FESTIVAL- LARGE SCHOOL ENTRIES, LIVE RESULTS
WINTER FESTIVAL – SMALL SCHOOL ENTRIES, LIVE RESULTS
TIME SCHEDULE
Field Events – 10:00 a.m.
Shot Put: Boys followed by Girls.
High Jump: Check in begins on the infield at the conclusion of the 55m dash. Two jumping pits in use; Boys and Girls compete simultaneously.
Long Jump: Open runway. See long jump section below for information.
Infield – 10:00 a.m. – Boys followed by Girls
Hurdles Trials: Boys followed by Girls. Serpentine seeding. Fastest 16 advance to a two-section Final.
Dash Trials: Boys followed by Girls. Serpentine seeding. Fastest 16 advance to a
two-section Final.
Hurdles Finals: Boys followed by Girls
Dash Finals: Boys followed by Girls
Oval – 10:45 a.m. – Boys followed by Girls
One Mile: Sections on time. Fastest section first.
600 Meters: Sections on time. Fastest section first.*
1000 Meters: Sections on time. Fastest section first.
300 Meters: Sections on time. Fastest section first. In lanes the entire race.*
Two Mile: Sections on time. Fastest section first.
4 x 200m Relay: Sections on time. Fastest section first. Three-turn stagger.*
4 x 800m Relay: Sections on time. Fastest section first.
4 x 400m Relay: Sections on time. Fastest section first.*
*Lane Preference for these events: 5-6
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Save for a few relays, the Mercury Games on Sunday will feature most of the events that are contested at the championship meets, plus a little more. In addition to the standards, there will also be a Freshmen Mile, Sprint Medley Relay and Weight Throw. The doors open at Hass at 9 a.m. The field events begin at 10. The runners hit the track at 11. Click on the links below for a full list of entries and live results.
SCHEDULE
Field Events – 10 a.m.
Girls’ long jump (10 a.m.), followed by boys’ long jump (11:30 a.m.)
Boys’ high jump (10 a.m.), followed by girls’ high jump (11:30 a.m.)
Boys’ shot put (10 a.m.
Girls’ shot put (10 a.m.)
Weight throw following conclusion of shot put (12 p.m.)
Track Events – 11 a.m.
(Girls followed by boys)
11 a.m. – 55-meter dash
11:25 – Freshmen Mile
11:40 – Mile
12:15 p.m. – 55m hurdles
12:35 – 600m
12:50 – 1,000m
1:15 – Hurdle finals
1:20 – Dash Finals
1:25 – Freshmen 300m
1:35 – 300m
2:00 – 2 Mile
2:30 – 4x200m
2:45 – 4x400m
3:00 – SMR
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Best of luck to our five runners that will be out in sunny California for Saturday’s Foot Locker Nationals at Balboa Park. Qualifying for trip out west to face the nation’s best are Westford Academy’s Paul Bergeron and Jack Graffeo, Philips Academy’s Tamrat Gavenas, Belmont’s Ellie Shea and Cambridge Rindge & Latin’s Aoife Shovlin. The girls will answer the gun at 12:15 p.m. EST, while the boys are set to go off at 1 p.m. EST.
