United Age Group Track Coaches Association

2010 All-Comer Meet Information

You must be pre-entered in order to participate in any of the UAGTCA meets.  You must be entered by Midnight the Thursday preceding each meet. There will absolutely be no entries accepted on the day of the meet. Past participation levels have been very high and we anticipate similar numbers in 2010. Please register and have your athletes verified early. Once you have submitted and confirmed your entry no changes are permitted and you are required to pay for the entry regardless of participation. There are no fee refunds or transfers unless an event is cancelled by the UAGTCA, in which case a credit may be issued. You can only enter the meets using our online entry system and users are encouraged to get a user ID now and enter their athletes into the system. You don't have to enter any of the meets at this point but you can start building your roster immediately and have your athletes verified in order to avoid any problems that might arise later.

REMEMBER: The age of all Youth athletes, 18 & under, must be verified prior to competing. Unverified athletes must submit their proof of age documentation to Stacy Peterson, our birth date verifier, at the address below or send her an e-mail by clicking on her name. Unverified athletes will not be allowed to compete, no exceptions!

Meet Results: Results will be provided on this site by the Tuesday following each meet. New for 2010 is the ability to get  Real-Time Meet Results by following the link in the order of events section below for each meet.

Meet Administrator: Ron Jackson
Telephone: 215-402-9292

Meet Directors: Daryl Murphy      Lincoln Townsend

Telephone: 484-904-2387              610-532-5626

Statistician: Leslie M. Stokes

Registration & Birth Verification Requirements: (please read carefully)
All athletes must be registered with the UAGTCA. They must appear on the roster of a valid system user. An unattached athlete can be a valid system user with a personal ID and also be in control of a roster in which case they must enter their name on the roster. The birth date of all youth athletes must be verified by our Birth Date Verification Coordinator. Teams must provide documents verifying the age of all youth athletes under 19 years of age prior to their entering any meet. Send documentation to Stacy Peterson at the address above. Verification must be done in advance of your entering athletes into a meet. If you do not verify them in advance they will be shown as unverified on your roster and when you attempt to enter them into a meet they will not be accepted. Athletes first and last names should be entered as they appear on their Birth Certificates. Middle initials should only be used to distinguish between athletes with exact same names and birth dates. The same applies to Jr. & Sr. Use only if both are competing. Please do not fax Birth Certificates for verification unless instructed to do so by the verifier. We recommend that you submit them as a PDF or image document as an e-mail attachment. If your athletes appear as verified on your roster, you don't need to submit another birth certificate.

All actual meet entries must be made via our online entry system. You can enter online right here.  Paper entries or e-mailed entries will not be accepted.  There have been reported difficulties with some computers not using the Internet Explorer Browser. We will work with you to resolve any problems you may experience but we will not accept that as a reason that online entries cannot be completed.

If you are not with a club (i.e. Unattached), you must still enter Online and select “I Compete Unattached” when securing your UserID.  All athletes will be assigned a Competition Number that must be worn throughout the series.  Do not confuse the computer ID number that is assigned when you initially register with the physical competition number that is assigned later by another system and issued at the meet. You will pick up your competition number at the meet registration table when you arrive.  You must save your number for reuse after each meet. Only UAGTCA assigned competition numbers may be used.  If your number is lost it must be replaced at the next meet. Missing, lost or misplaced numbers will be reissued at a cost of $1.00 per number. Currently this practice only applies to the 5 outdoor meets in this series.

All Entries must be confirmed by Midnight the Thursday before each meet. Only Entries Confirmed and Paid For by the Entry Deadline will be processed. There will be no exceptions to this rule.

Meet Fees:
$1.00 for the Initial Competition Number. This one time fee is invoiced and collected separately. It may be paid online or in cash at the registration table on meet day. You must pay for all new competitor numbers provided.
$1.00 for replacement of lost competition numbers. (Only UAGTCA issued numbers may be used)
$ 4.00 Per Individual Event
$16.00 Per Relay Event
(An athlete may enter a maximum of 3 events 1 of which must be a field or relay event. You may enter no more than 2 individual running events.)

Meet Results:
Every effort is made to post meet results online as quickly as possible. In most cases this is done in real time at the meet. after the conclusion of the meet, however, our target is to have them posted on this site by the Monday following the meet.  We normally will have them available much sooner.  All errors in the results must be reported within one week of their being posted on our website.  Any error not reported within this time frame may not be included for championship qualification or seeding.

Special Awards:
The top three (3) Outstanding Male and Female Athletes in each division will be honored at the Championship meet based on points earned during the four preliminary meets only. Points are earned for each event on a 10-8-6-4-2-1 point basis for 1st - 6th place finishes respectively. Relay points are awarded to the top 3 teams on a 12-8-4 point basis and are split equally among team members. In addition, 10 bonus points are awarded for any performance that breaks (not ties) the current UAGTCA Meet Record for that event. If multiple athletes break the current record then each is awarded bonus points. If no current record exists then no bonus points are awarded regardless of the performance.

Age Divisions: Age Determination as of December 31, 2010

Championship Qualifying:
An athlete must complete an event at least once ( i.e. you must have made a valid mark and not have been disqualified ) during one of the four preliminary meets in order to qualify for that event in the Championship meet. Although we attempt to schedule events twice during the preliminary meets, we make no guarantee that all events will be run twice.  We strongly advise all athletes to participate in the event that they intend to run in the championship the first time it is offered.  Seeding for the Championship will be based solely on marks achieved in our preliminary meets. We do not accept outside marks. The UAGTCA event limitations (shown below) will be in effect for all meets. Alternates to relays are the only athletes who are permitted to compete in the Championship meet without having competed previously. However, all other participation criteria must be met. These athletes will only be permitted to participate on a relay if the team has previously qualified for that relay in one of the 4 preliminary meets. All athletes must be registered and appear on the team's roster. An athlete cannot have switched affiliation or competed unattached after meet 2.

Ø     Results for each meet will be posted on this site by the following Tuesday. All discrepancies must be reported  within one week of the posting of the results. Mistakes in results older than one week will not be corrected thereafter.

Click Here for a full set of UAGTCA Rules. Except where the UAGTCA Rules state differently, these meets are governed by the current USATF Rules of Competition.