1. Members Present:
Donald Danser, Assistant Director, NJSIAA
James Camburn
Ed Colona
Lou Fraulo
Wayne Gardiner
Bill Milone
Rich Refi
Carl Rickershauser
Dr. James Sarruda
John Schwartz
Pam Wilson
Frank Calise
John Struck
Marty Holleran
II. Correspondences
1. Adoption
of the NFHS Rule 4 Section 2 Article 4
Several conferences would like the NJSIAA to adopt the
NFHS Rule 4 section 2 Article 4, which states “In dual meets, each school is
entitled to enter three contestants in individual events, but it is recommended
each school be permitted to enter as many contestants as conditions warrant.”
Motion passed to allow leagues or conferences to make conference
rules governing the number of competitors allowed to participate in each varsity
event during regular season competition in dual meets (i.e 2 boys teams OR two
girls teams), double dual meets (i.e. 2 boys teams AND two girls teams
competing at the same time at the same site), three-team dual meets (i.e three
boys teams OR three girls teams where team scoring is done as dual meets where
Team A scores against Team B, Team A, scores against Team C, and Team B scores
against Team C), or double-three-team dual meets (involves three boys teams and
three girls teams competing concurrently)
So that officials will know ahead of time what
competition rules each league will be following, leagues who wish to do so,
must file with the NJSIAA c/o Don Danser their adopted rules regarding varsity
track and field meet participation before
Motion: Lou Fraulo
Second: Ed Colona
Passed: Unanimously
This still requires approval of the NJSIAA Program Review
Committee and the Executive Committee. It will be presented to them in the
fall.
2. Two e-mails concerning seeding at the sectional level.
Committee decided to establishing a sectional seeding sub-committee to look for
ways to prevent unrealistic seeds being submitted at the entry level of the
tournament. Committee members interested in serving on the committee should email
Donald Danser within the coming weeks.
3. Complaint
about the pole vault at the Mahwah sectional involving meet management changing
the starting height of the Group 1 pole vault. This should not have happened.
Tournament directors did not have the discretion to change the starting height
of either the pole vault or the high jump. However, they did have discretion on
whether the field of competition warranted standard bar elevations (2” in HJ 6”
in PV) or double elevations and whether or not to use the double elevation once
or twice, again, depending on the qualify and quantity of competitors remaining
after each height. The main purpose for the double elevation is to limit the
waiting period for the highest seeded competitors. Committee felt there was no
need to change the procedure and directed the tournament director to stress with
the sectional meet directors to follow the tournament regulations.
4. Another
e-mail was concerned that officials were not checking the poles to make sure
they complied with the rules. This e-mail was circulated to all of the meet
directors, who were asked to share it with their pole vault officials.
5. Another
e-mail concerned the seeding the athletes using 2-3-4-5-6-7-1-8 as the
preferred lane assignments instead of the standard lane assignments at Egg
Harbor Group Meet. This meet was seeded by the computers (
6. It was
proposed to change the wild card system to take 6 from each site (making 48
instead of 42 per event in the Meet of Champions) because of the very real
possibility of different weather conditions between the two sites. The Meet of Champions did not end until
7. A
request was made to use other criteria, not just actual performance, for
allowing a Group Winner to be placed higher on the Performance list for the
Meet of Champions. In other words, use the number of victories and converted
times (like the mile converted to a 1600 time, etc) to advance the athlete.
Committee felt the present system is sufficient.
8. Another
e-mail concerned F.A.T. ties. Yes it is possible to have a tie with F.A.T. The referee, however, makes the final
decision whether or not there is a tie when he/she examines the photo of the
finish. Two athletes can have the exact time (to hundredths), but if the photo
shows space between them, and the referee agrees, then one is awarded a higher
place. The system actually times to the thousandth of a second.
9. Finally,
the last correspondence dealt with the discus at the Meet of Champions. We
throw both the boys and girls at the same time. Past experience has taught us
that we can be caught by darkness running the discus back to back, especially
when virtually all 84 eligible competitors appear and if we want to stay with
measuring every attempt. The officials in the three throwing events set up
their flights based on the athlete’s request where they want to be if the
athletic is involved in two or more events.
III. Tournament Regulations
1.
Dates for Spring Track meets:
Sections
Groups
Nof C
No
changes in starting time.
2. Competition Sites for Group Finals:
3. As of
this date, we do not anticipate a change in sites, however, North I will have a
different break down.:
Mahwah
will host Groups 2 and 3; Hackensack Groups 1 and 4.
4. Triple
and Long Jumps: Open pits will be by groups at both Sectionals and Groups, but
will be run traditionally at the Meet of Champions (flights etc)
5. At
Sectionals and Groups have a boys and girls pole vault on Friday and Saturday
(presently girls go on Friday and boys on Saturday) to even out the field
6. With
the approval of the Program Review Committee and the Executive Committee,
Spring Track and Field will adopt the sports-specific classification to be
consistent with cross-country and winter track and for the same reasons these
sports are classified sports-specific.