Meet Information
Teams/spectators should not arrive before 10:00 AM. All spectators should park at the High School and use the ramp/main entrance to Trojan Field. Spectators are not permitted to park in the Elementary School parking lot or the end zone parking lots.
Buses will drop off athletes at the Field House Parking Lot. Coaches who drive separately and officials will park in the North Lot (opposite side of the field).
Please do not seat your team in the stands or on the field. Tents may be set up outside the fence over the portable bleachers or in the grass near the back straightaway. All of the gates to the track will be open except near the finish line.
Admission will be $5 for adults and $3 for youth.
The coaches' meeting will be at 10:45 AM near the scorers' tent.
- The Girls' High Jump, Boys' Pole Vault, Boys Javelin, Girls Long Jump, and Boys Triple Jump will begin at 11:15 AM
- Long and Triple jump pits will be open for 60 minutes and then they will switch to boys or girls.
- Boys Discus and Girls Shot Put will begin after the javelin ends. These events will be followed immediately by the opposite (girls will go to boys and boys will go to girls)
- The track events will start at 12:15 PM.
- The standard order of events will be used. NO TRIALS. All events will be a FINAL.
- Each event will be limited to 3 entries, except for relays - 1 relay team per school-no B relay teams.
- Heats will be run from slowest to fastest, except for the distance events.
- Separate heats will be held for the boys and girls 800 and 1600. The 3200 may be combined depending on the number of entries. This will be determined at the coaches' meeting.
- Throwing and jumping events will be limited to 3 throws/jumps.
- All javelin and discus marks will be measured and rounded down to the nearest inch.
- Short lines may be used for field events, but only after each athlete has one recorded attempt.
- The starting height for the girl's high jump will be 40.5 and the boys will be 50.5.
- The starting height for the girl's pole vault will be 51 and the boys will be 61.
- Medals will be awarded to the top 4 individuals per event and each of the top 3 relay teams.
- We will have a medal stand to recognize the winner upon verification of each events results.
- The winner of each event will be declared that events2024 Section 6-AA Champion.
- Only the winning athletes or their coaches will be permitted to collect medals.
- $250 Per School - Checks payable to: California Area School District Athletics. Send registration payment to: California Area HS, c/o Darwin Manges, 11 Trojan Way, Coal Center, PA 15423
- Live results will be posted to Mileplit. https://pa.milesplit.com/timing/1738/california-area-school-district
Coaches Event Assignments for Section 6-AA T&F Championships
Finish Line/Timing System - California/Charleroi
Pole Vault - Waynesburg
Javelin - Beth-Center /California
Shot Put - Monessen /Waynesburg
Discus - Brownsville/Bentworth/Charleroi
High Jump - Brownsville/Charleroi
Long Jump - West Greene/Charleroi
Triple Jump - California/Bentworth
4x100 Relay Exchange Zones - CALIFORNIA AND ANYONE ELSE WHO IS AVAILABLE