Portland Track Youth Meet Sign Up

Parents,

PTF Youth Meet is coming up quickly after the start of the season. There is an early deadline entry on Saturday May 25th at 10:00pm. Please try to complete the sign up by May 25th. Please follow the link below to indicate interest in your athlete racing at this competition. BTC will cover race entry for races between 400m-3000m, 4x400m or 4x800m for up to 3 events 8u,9-10 & 11-12 or 4 events 13-14. Please indicate your athlete’s interest in the sign-up. Requested events (especially relays) are subject to coaches discretion and availability.

If you have yet to sign up for the season, you can do that here.

Practice Information

Practices will be held every Monday and Wednesday evening from 5:15pm-6:15pm at the Michael Johnson Track at Nike WHQ Campus starting TOMORROW, Monday May 20th, and concluding during the last week of July where USATF Junior Olympic Championships will be held at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas or the Bowerman 5k on July 28th.

Please try to arrive at 5:00pm on the first day of practice so we can answer questions and get organized quickly. A few coaches will plan to be around before and after practice to answer questions.

Practice Requirements

Every athlete should show up to practice with running shoes and water bottle (with your full name on it!). We expect athletes to be respectful to all other athletes and coaches and be responsive to coaches instructions. We also ask that you are respectful of the time commitment and arrive at the start of practice and pick up on time. Arriving late to drop off or pick up creates much difficulty on our staff within a limited practice time.

Uniforms

Athletes will receive the new 2024 BTC Uniform which will be in circulation from 2024 onward for the next few seasons. Every athlete who competes will need this new uniform. This uniform will be given out at upcoming races.

USATF Membership & Age Verification

To compete at the USATF meets, 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 comes up quickly! 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.