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Netters:
Bowing to the ethreat of a lawsuit, the New Jersey State Interscholastic
Athletic Association has announced the "phasing in" of the girls' PV
as a standard event by the 2003 season. The same goes for the boys and girls
triple jumps.
Without going into details, it adds up to this: The girls' PV has been conducted
the past three years as a "special" event at the outdoor all-group
meet (there are neither boys nor girlks PVs,. not LJs, nor TJs at the indoor
meet), with no scoring. The TJs were added last year with all qualkifying done
at the sectional meets.,
Now
the event will, in steps, be held at the sectionals, then in the groups without
scoring until 2003. Local leagues and county meets will be able to make their
own decisions, but are likely to follow suit.
The
triple jump will provide more meet management problems in the long run. NJ has
very few sites with double pits for the horizontal jumps, so we could wind up
with some three-day sectional and group meets to accommodate an event which will
draw, in the long run (pun intended) far more competitors then we will ever see
in the girls' PV.
As for the
scoring impact, I can think of one sectional meet this year where the decision
would certainly have been affected by the addition of the girls'
PV.
Ed Grant
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