USATF Oregon State Meet Recap + Regional Declarations + Practice Time Change
BTC Parents,
Great job to all who competed today! It was so great to see all the BTC athletes and families out in the elements today at State. We had a great day as a team, winning 6 of 8 the races. We also had two individual champions in Nolan Tegenkamp (9-10 boys) and Tristan Bernards (11-12 boys). and many 2nd and 3rd place finishes across all races. We have a lot to be proud of as a club today! We’ll be sending 12 teams to Regionals as well as a few individuals!
Full State Meet Results - CLICK HERE
Below is information and declarations for USATF Regionals. Declarations for Regionals are due Saturday, Nov 12th (11/12) by 10:00pm.
We have an extra week this year to get organized for Regionals but we want to secure our teams as quickly as possible. Please see all of the information below regarding Regionals and don’t hesitate to reach out with questions. It’s very important to us that we have as many athletes who qualified today race at Regionals!
Photos
If any parents have photos to share from today or any other meet this season, please send them to youth@bowermantc.com as we work on collecting photos and videos for the year end banquet! A reminder, that banquet will be held on Monday Dec 12th at 6:00pm at the Nike Tiger Woods Center. Lastly, Jake Willard from Tracktown came out to Stumptown last weekend and was able to capture from photos of our athletes. Please see those photos here.
Practice Time Change!!
A reminder that with Day Light Savings, practice times are changing at each location. Beaverton practice time will move to 5:00-6:15pm for the remainder of the season. Other locations coaches have communicated their time changes to each group.
Regionals Info - Official Website
The regional meet will be held in Tacoma, Washington at Chambers Creek Regional Park. It’s the same course as last year for those who ran it. Drive time is about 2 hours from Portland depending on the part of the city you live in. It is important to us to have as many kids race regionals that have qualified, especially if we only have one team qualified to race. We are considering paying for a bus to go to Regionals if this would help ease the travel burden on families. Please see in the Regional declaration list a location to select this of interest.
Keep this in mind when deciding on travel plans - if you are interested in driving up the day of the race, it it more feasible to do so for some of the older kids that race later in the day.
Where: Chambers Creek Regional Park, Tacoma, WA
When: Saturday, November 19th, 2022.
Schedule:
GIRLS
9:30 AM: 2,000 Meters 8U
10:30 AM: 3,000 Meters 9-10
11:30 AM: 3,000 Meters 11-12
12:30 PM: 4,000 Meters 13-14
BOYS
10:00 AM: 2,000 Meters 8U
11:00 AM: 3 ,000 Meters 9-10
12:00 PM: 3,000 Meters 11-12
1:00 PM: 4,000 Meters 13-14
Regionals Declaration
In preparing for sending our teams to regionals, we need everyone that ran this weekend to declare if they plan to attend regionals or not. For the declaration process, please follow the steps below even if you don't plan to run regionals. We have a little bit of time as Regionals is two weeks away but we want to have our entries finalized as soon as possible, so please declare ASAP!
NOTE ABOUT QUALIFICATION:
Note, only those who ran the state meet this weekend are eligible to run at regionals. In order to qualify for regionals you need to be in the top 35 individually or one of the top 5 teams. Each team that we qualified can have up to 8 people on it. In some age groups we qualified 1-3 teams which means our top 8, 16 or 24 BTC finishers are qualified as part of those teams. I does not matter which BTC team you were registered under for the state meet. If we qualified a team and you were in the top 8 BTC finishers, you have first rights to the team spot.
Step 1: Check Qualifiers List - BOYS LIST / GIRLS LIST
On the Qualifiers List, all names highlighted in GREEN are currently qualified for regionals individually or part of a team. All names not highlighted are not currently qualified, but will be offered a spot on the team in the order they appear if anyone qualified declines their spot at regionals.
STEP 2: Declare Yes or No for Regionals - CLICK HERE
Enter your name and yes or no declaring your plans to attend regionals. As everyone declares, we will update the qualifiers list (may have a couple hours delay in updating once you declare). If you are someone on the waitlist, you can get an idea of your chances of getting bumped up as people in front of you declare. If you have multiple children, fill out the declaration for each of them.
STEP 3: Payment for Regionals -
Payment for Regionals will be set up at a later date for those planning to race. You must pay the entry fee before your athlete is registered. There is an $16 entry fee for the Regional meet.
Nationals Hotel Block
For Nationals, we have reserved a block of 40 rooms so we can have most everyone in the same spot. The hotel is the Aloft College Station. We have a mix of double and single king bed rooms. If you are planning to attend as one parent with one athlete, we ask that you try to reserve the king rooms so we can have families in the double. We’d love to have everyone at the same hotel if possible! We have until Nov 24th before any remaining rooms are released so we recommend booking early as it is first come, first serve. Our block of rooms is reserved for Thursday (12/8), Friday (12/9) and Saturday (12/10).
If you are interested in the hotel block, please visit the link here to book a room.
TEAM HOTEL DETAILS
Aloft College Station
1150 University Dr E, College Station, TX 77840
Cost: $109 + tax per night