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>It would seem much better to qualify in the same year as the World meet. A
>lot of things can happen to a kid in a year.
That's why the athletes were required to prove fitness at either Decatur or
the Juniors. If they weren't fit they were pulled.
Patrice
Edward Koch wrote:
> The issue of matching the World Youth meet age group is recent since the
> first such meet was held in 1999 on very short notice. If USATF qualifying
> moves to the same year of the World meet, I would expect the USATF Youth
> Committee may consider proposals to change th
I'll add a personal observation to Ed's
comments. In the early 1980's the first few National Scholastic Indoor meets
were organized by the Metropolitan Athletics Congress (MAC) which is the NYC
Association of USATF (then TAC) but held in Princeton because the Armory was in
bad shape and
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Date: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
Patrice Wilson wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 7/19/01 -0500, Wayne T. Armbrust wrote:
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> >I have never been involved in Youth Athletics, so please excuse what
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> From: Tom Fleming
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> on 7/19/01 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Title: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
Ritz & Webb both chose the
National Scholastic Meet over the Junior Nationals, amongst other national
caliber athletes.
T&FN didn't even print results of
the USATF Youth Nationals. Weren't the results available, or did Nationa
du'
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It may sound asinine, but it is completely
accurate in my experience. And I don't consider it an insult. Most
(say, 80%) high school coaches are solely focused on the 2 or 3 high
school seasons. They don't want their k
Title: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
on 7/19/01 4:50 PM, Tom Derderian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Fleming et al,
The local high school track coach lives across the street and has no track and field interest beyond the team's win/loss record and not the lightest curiosity in the Gr
Andy, Tom et. al,
Go back and read what Wayne wrote. He didn't write
that "all high school coaches are idiots and know
nothing about the national team selection process."
He wrote that in HIS experience, most don't have that
knowledge. I can tell you that his experience goes
back quite a way an
Title: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
Tom Fleming et al,
The local high school track coach lives across the
street and has no track and field interest beyond the team's win/loss record and
not the lightest curiosity in the Greater Boston Track Club and the caliber of
athletes who co
Wayne T. Armbrust, Ph.D was right on the mark. Sorry, Andy, it's your rebuttal
that's asinine.
malmo
>In a message dated 7/19/01 9:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>> my experience that most high school coaches are oblivious to anything
>> that occurs outside the h
Patrice Wilson wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 7/19/01 -0500, Wayne T. Armbrust wrote:
>
> >I have never been involved in Youth Athletics, so please excuse what may be a
> >dumb question, but has anyone ever proposed aligning our age groups with the
> >international age groups, i.e., making Young Men and
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on 7/19/01 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/19/01 9:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my experience that most high school coaches are oblivious to anything
that occurs outside the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 7/19/01 9:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>
>> my experience that most high school coaches are oblivious to
>> anything
>> that occurs outside the high school framework or even outside their
>> own
>> conference. I won
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In a message dated
7/19/01 9:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my experience that most high school coac
At 10:59 AM 7/19/01 -0500, Wayne T. Armbrust wrote:
>I have never been involved in Youth Athletics, so please excuse what may be a
>dumb question, but has anyone ever proposed aligning our age groups with the
>international age groups, i.e., making Young Men and Young Women unable to
>turn
>18
In a message dated 7/19/01 9:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my experience that most high school coaches are oblivious to anything
that occurs outside the high school framework or even outside their own
conference. I wonder if half of them even know there is such an
o
Patrice Wilson wrote:
> Netters:
> First I'm surprised that so many of you were unaware of the
> qualification process for the world youth games. It was highly publicized
> last year at both the Youth Athletics Nationals and at the Junior Olympics
> meet in Buffalo. Much of the problem
efore I got them.
>
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>To: 't-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:01 AM
>Subject: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
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> > That again goes back to your association. I'm both a high school coach
> and
> > club coach as well as youth chair
> That again goes back to your association. I'm both a high school coach
and
> club coach as well as youth chair. We regularly have mass mailings as
well
> as word of mouth. We pass out literature at the high school coaches
> association meeting and that association even has a seat on our board
ED,
As to your points:
1. I agree that it is better to have qualifying in the same
year. To do so, however, would probably require a June meet and how do you fit
that in a schedule that already has too many meets in that month. If
it were piggybacked on the Junior nationals this year it w
be in the high school arena.
>-Original Message-
>From: Patrice Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ed Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; track net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:34 AM
>Subject: Re: t-and-f: Junior qualifying
>
>
> >Ne
Netters:
First I'm surprised that so many of you were unaware of the
qualification process for the world youth games. It was highly publicized
last year at both the Youth Athletics Nationals and at the Junior Olympics
meet in Buffalo. Much of the problem lies in the ages of the competit
>2) Whatever meet(s) are used, something has
to be done about the abysmal failure (and not just for junior meets) of too many
>local USATF units to properly emply the local media to get the word
around.
Having been involved with this on the ground level, the solution is simple
- the local
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