The 70^th Annual
William F. Eddy Jr. Track & Field Meet "The Eddy Meet"

January 2010

Dear Track and Field Coaches:

We personally want to invite you to this year’s 70th Annual William F. Eddy Jr. Track & Field Meet. Currently the Eddy Meet is one of the most competitive events on the east coast and offers some of the best competition for track and field events in the northeast.  It attracts hundreds of top-level high school athletes from around the area.  Much time and energy goes into organizing a meet of this magnitude.  It is one of the oldest and finest interscholastic track and field meets of its kind. The meet will be held on Saturday May 15^th, 2010 at Union College in Schenectady N.Y. The running trials and field events will begin at 9am. There will be a concession stand available during the meet. Commemorative Eddy Meet t-shirts will also be sold. We are using Direct Athletics (www.directathletics.com) entry service. There is nothing to download; just create a username and password to start entering athletes or teams. We will not be putting up seed cut offs on Direct Athletics due to problems in the past. We want to remind all Coaches that this is a quality and competitive meet. Please put your seed times as to what your athletes have actually run. Last year we had a very competitive field and in order to maintain the nature of this meet and continue in that direction, we need accurate seed times. Feel free to look at last year’s results, which you can obtain from www.finishright.com. Keep in mind that last year’s results involved very windy conditions. Due to the high number of jumpers last year we will only be allowing the top 15 Boys and Girls to compete, which flights will be used. The top 15 Boys & top 15 Girls will be posted the day before the meet on www.finishright.com.

Entry fee: $15.00 per individual per event and $30.00 per relay team OR $80.00 for Boys/$80.00 for Girls OR $130.00 combined school.
Purchase order, Voucher, or Check in full must be received by May 15, 2010. MAKE CHECK PAYABLE to the SCHENECTADY PBA. Mail to P.O. Box 460 Schenectady, NY 12301

TIME OF EVENTS: Please see the attachments for order of events and times.

AWARDS: 1^st place trophy to be awarded to the winner of each event. Medals will be awarded to positions 1 through 6 placing in all events. The Guy Barbieri Outstanding Athlete Award presented to the outstanding boy and girl athletes of the meet.  A special award will be presented to any athlete who breaks a William F. Eddy Track Meet record in any event.

SCORING: Six places: 10 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 2 – 1

1. All running events will be in meters

2. We request that spikes be no longer then ¼’’.

Please be sure that all your athletes comply with the spike length rule. Checking this before you arrive at the meet will avoid both conflicts and delays.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Samuel Gonzalez

Meet Director

Paul Steele

Yoni Moskow

Meet Co-Chair

Schenectady Police Benevolent Association

Schenectady, NY

January 2010

The 70^th Annual
William F. Eddy Jr. Track & Field Meet "The Eddy Meet"

Dear Coach,

This is a limited entry meet. In all track and field competition, any team meeting the relay standards may enter all relays. The standards listed are only a GUIDE TO COACHES - meeting these standards does not guarantee acceptance. Please note the standards for both boys and girls events. Competitors may enter up to four different events.

1. Officials will be provided with the entries and seed times from Direct Athletics at 8:00 A.M. to arrange heats and flights. Make sure all your entries are entered through Direct Athletics before the meet (Last date to make entries on the site is May 13, 2010). Any last minute entry or changes on the day of the meet MUST BE IN BY 8:00AM. To make those changes the officials will have the list of entries for each event taped to a table located on the south side of the infield grass (near the high jump area). During the meet if you have any scratches please give ample time to the officials so the heats or flights can be adjusted accordingly.

2. Field events are starting at 9:00 a.m. If field event people are in running events, make sure they

notify the field event officials when they leave and then return on time.

3. No tape may be used on track runways. Chalk may be used.

4. 1/4” spikes will be allowed, nothing longer.

5. Please keep runners off the infield grass. Practice workouts may be taken on the outer fields.

Athletes continually warned to stay off the infield will be disqualified.

6. “Check In Area” will occur at the officials check in desk, which will be located on the south side of the infield grass (near the high jump area).

7. It is the athlete’s responsibility to be at the “Check In Area” on time. All members of relay teams

must report (Relay teams must comply with the uniform rule).

8. All team members must have school issue uniform.

9. There are six awards for each event including Relays. Awards will be given out throughout the meet at the center of the infield grass on the podium. If an athlete can not pick up his or her award we ask that a team representative pick it up for them.

10. Qualifying standards for track and field events have been established from past performances.

11. NO RADIOS WITHOUT EARPHONES WILL BE ALLOWED.

12. The competition area is all that area inside the metal fence and surrounding areas near the Shot and Disc area. NO ELECTRONICS OR JEWELRY IN THE COMPETITION AREA.

13. Please write in two alternates on relay cards – six names allowed.

14. Please bring your own starting blocks, it is unknown if Union College will have any to provide.

15. The uniform rule will be enforced.

16. We DO NOT have trainers at the meet, but The Schenectady Fire Department and Mohawk Ambulance Service paramedics will be at the meet to assist with any injuries. They are volunteering their time, along with many off duty Police Officers from Schenectady, so please thank them. We still recommend that all teams bring their own first aid kits.

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70^th ANNUAL WILLIAM F. EDDY JR. TRACK & FIELD MEET

May 15^th, 2010

ORDER OF EVENTS

Preliminary Events Begin at 9:00 A.M. Qualifying Times

1. Girls 400-Meter Relay Semi (6 Fastest to Finals) …………………………………………….. 55.00

2. Boys 400-Meter Relay Semi (6 Fastest to Finals)………………………………………………47.00

3. Girls 1500m-Run Non-Seeded………………………………………………………………… 05:00

4. Boys One Mile Run Non-Seeded…………………………………………………………….... 04:35

5. Boys 110- Meter High Hurdles Trials…………………………………………………………. 16.2

6. Girls 100-Meter Hurdles Trials………………………………………………………………....17.10

7. Boys 100-Meter Dash Trials……………………………………………………………………11.30

8. Girls 100-Meter Dash Trials……………………………………………………………………13.10

9. Girls 800 Meter Non-Seeded (2 Sections)……………………………………………………...02:26

10. Boys 800 Meter Non-Seeded (2 Sections)…………………………………………………….. 02:03

11. Boys 3200-Meter Run Non-Seeded…………………………………………………………… 10:00

12. Girls 200-Meter Dash Semi (6 Fastest times advances to Finals)……………………………...27.6

13. Boys 200-Meter Dash Semi (6 Fastest times advances to Finals)……………………………...23.45

14. Girls 3000-Meter Run Non-Seeded…………………………………………………………….11:00

15. Boys 110-Meter High Hurdles Semi

16. Girls 100-Meter Hurdles Semi

17. Boys 100- Meter Dash Semi

18. Girls 100-Meter Dash Semi

FINAL EVENTS

Qualifying Times

1. Boys 110 Meter High Hurdles

2. Girls 100-Meter Hurdles

3. Boys 100-Meter Dash

4. Girls 100-Meter Dash

5. Girls 800-Meter Run

6. Boys 800-Meter Run

7. Girls 400-Meter Dash (6 Sections by Time)……………………………………………..01:02

8. Boys 400-Meter Dash (6 Sections by Time)…………………………………………….52.00

9. Boys 400-Meter Int. Hurdles (6 Sections by Time)……………………………………..01:02

10. Girls 400-Meter Int. Hurdles (6 Sections by Time)……………………………………..01:12.6

11. Girls 400-Meter Relay…………………………………………………………………..55.00

12. Boys 400-Meter Relay ………………………………………………………………….47.00

13. Girls 1500-Meter Run Seeded

14. Boys Invitational One Mile Run

15. Girls 200-Meter Dash

16. Boys 200-Meter Dash

17. Girls 3000 Meter Run Seeded

18. Boys 3200 Meter Run Seeded

19. Girls 3200-Meter Relay (Sections by time)………………………………………………. 10:05

20. Boys 3200-Meter Relay (Sections by time)………………………………………………. 08:20

21. Girls 1600-Meter Relay (Sections by time)………………………………………………. 04:15

22. Boys 1600-Meter Relay (Sections by time)……………………………………………….03:33

FIELD EVENTS BEGIN AT 9:00 AM

(ALL FIELD EVENTS FLIGHTS – 3 JUMPS – 3 THROWS – MORE IN FINALS, BEST 9 GO TO FINALS)

Qualifying Standards

1. Pole Vault- Starts 9:30 AM (Girls Pole Vault followed by Boys)…………………..7’6’’ / 12’

2. Boys Discus- Starts at 9:30 AM……………………………………………………..130’

3. Girls Shot Put- Starts at 9:30 AM…………………………………………………...31’

4. High Jump- Starts at 9:30 AM (Girls High Jump followed by Boys)………………4’10’’ / 6’

5. Long Jump………………………………………………………………………..…19’ / 15’

6. Boys Shot Put……………………………………………………………………….45’

7. Girls Discus…………………………………………………………………………90’

8. Triple Jump………………………………………………………………………....40’ / 32’

We will be using flights this year.

Opening Heights will be the following (Based off the standards):

Boys High Jump 5' 8"

Boys Pole Vault 11' 0"

Girls High Jump 4' 6"

Girls Pole Vault 6' 6"

Please inform your athletes in these events, especially if they are in both.

Nothing will be measured under the qualifying standards.