BTC Youth- Important Information
Parents,
PTF Youth Meet Update
This weekend is the PTF Youth Meet (Liberty High School, Portland, OR). For entries, please click below. If you are registered for an event and do not plan to complete, please message youth@bowermantc.com as soon as possible! There are a lot of athletes competing this weekend. Additionally, you are required to fill out the youth meet event waiver for each athlete. Your athlete will not be able to compete without filling out this waiver below. View this sheet to see if who has NOT filled out a waiver. Also, please see below for the Heat Sheets and the link to live results.
BTC Tent @ PTF Youth Meet
We will have two large red BTC tents at the meet in one of the warm up areas. We will target the warm up area by the large parking lot. This is where your athletes should come to meet the coaches and prepare for their races. We will make sure the athletes warm up, do their drills and get to the check in on time. It is very important that you arrive with plenty of time.
PTF Youth Meet Schedule (“ROLLING SCHEDULE”)
I am still waiting on a confirmed meet schedule. There will be a projected meet schedule that I will send out when received (which should be later today) but parents need to know the schedule is a “Rolling Schedule”. This means the times listed are approximate and athletes and coaches need to “be ready” and listen to the announcer. It is possible that race times may occur up to 60 min earlier than the listed or up to 30 min later than listed.
As of now, running events begin at 9:00am in the order of 3000m, 100m, 800m, 4x100m. As soon as I have a firm schedule, I will send it out.
ATHLETE CHECK - IN
A BTC Coach will walk athletes over in their running event groups to check in! However, please see the information below on which coaches will warm up the group:
Saturday:
Boys 3000m: Emily Pritt & Troy Bash
Girls 3000m: Combined warm up with Boys 3000m
Boys 800m: Cole Hoff & Pete Brefczynski
Girls 800m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos, Dom Arce & Elliott Heath
Sunday:
Boys 1500m: Emily Pritt & Pete Brefczynski
Girls 1500m: Cole Hoff & Elliott Heath
Boys 400m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos & Dom Arce
Girls 400m: Emily Pritt & Pete Brefczynski
Boys 4x400m: Cole Hoff & Elliott Heath
Girls 4x400m: Tim Jantos, Jeanne Jantos & Emily Pritt
RUNNING EVENTS-Running event athletes must check in at the Clerk Circle at first call ......tent located on the west end of the infield.
FIELD EVENT-Field event athletes report directly to the event to check in.
Spikes/BTC Gear
If you were interested in purchasing the 2023 BTC Dragonfly spikes, you can do so online with the discount code BTCYOUTHSPIKES which will take $50 off your purchase. Additionally, we have created a 20% off code for BTC gear under BTCYOUTH2023. Please do not use this code on uniforms or any service. This is meant to help our members purchase discounted gear only.
If you’d like to order spikes to use this weekend, after you place your order please email BOTH accounts at product@bowermantc.com and youth@bowermantc.com to indicate. We can bring the spikes to the meet.
Albina Invitational Sign-Up
Sign up for next Saturday (6/10) Albina Invitational will go out on Sunday night after the PTF youth meet. Sign-up will close on noon Tuesday, June 6th. A reminder that we will send out an announcement with a form for you to fill out indicating which races you’d like your athlete to compete in. We will register your athlete for the races. For the Albina Invitational, you will be able to register for 3 Events for age group 8U 9-10 11-12 and 4 Events for age groups 13-14.
USATF Membership & Age Verification
A reminder, to compete at the USATF meets (State, Regional, National), you must be a USATF member and have age verification. To get a membership please click the link here. To see the date of birth verification information, please click the link here. You must upload these documents through USATF Connect.
The deadline to complete this process is June 10th! The youth membership is good for a calendar year and should run your athlete through the 2023 cross country season as well. Please get on top of this process asap if you are even considering competing at USATF JO State, Regionals or Nationals.