Ohio Indoor Rankings & State Meet Qualification

Nov 30, 2016

Ohio's Indoor Track & Field Season has been growing each year. The first meet of the 2017 Indoor season is this weekend at Tiffin. Ohio does not have established Indoor State qualification times or marks. If your a veteran to our Indoor T&F season or if you are new to the system or a freshman, here's a review of what you need to know about Ohio's Indoor season and qualification for the OATCCC Indoor State Meet on March 4th at the University of Akron.

First, the OATCCC runs the Indoor State Meet, not OHSAA. They have a web site that explains the Ohio Indoor season in detail, as well as listing the specific Indoor State qualifying meets. The link is below. Please note that The indoor meet Calendar list is tentative and subject to change. Please contact the host sites for meet information and registration with the exception of the Indoor Championships. Also, some athlete qualifying performances will be accepted from out of State competitions that some athletes may compete at. The goal is to make sure that the best Ohio athletes that are eligible for the Indoor Championships qualify.

The OATCCC Indoor State Championships will be held at the University of Akron this year. The date of the meet is Saturday, March 4, 2016. The Division I meet will begin at 9:30 AM (DI schedule) and the Division II/III meet will begin at 3:30 PM (DII/III schedule). This meet is the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches indoor championship meet and is only open to 2016 paid members of our association.

ELIGIBILITY

At the time of this posting, the State Meet Information is not yet available. However, when it is available it will be on the OATCCC Web Site and all Top 35 Weekly Rankings on Ohio MileSplit will have a link to this information. Please note, that the State Meet information on the OATCCC Web Site will be your official information source. However, here is what is important to know:

For an athlete to be eligible, two major criteria must be met:

First, the following criteria must be met by the athlete and the coach.

"To be eligible to participate in the OATCCC indoor championships an athlete must be a competitor on a high school team where the athlete attends school. The team must be approved and recognized by the local Board of Education (check with your athletic director). All athletes from an approved high school team must meet all of the local eligibility requirements for participation just as they would for participation on any OHSAA recognized athletic teams at that school. The high school team must be coached by a Board of Education recognized coach. The coach must also be a paid member of the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches. The coaches OATCCC membership number is required during all phases of this process. In addition, coaches must print and complete the Verification Form. (link not available yet). No athlete will be permitted to compete if any of the previous criteria are known to have not been met, or if the official coach is not present at the meet or if any of the required "Eligibility Verification" form is not completed. This form must be signed by the high school athletic director or principal."

Note: The official coach "MUST'' be present at the OATCCC Indoor State Championship meet. Club coaches, unless they are the paid, Board of Education recognized coach, are not permitted to coach an athlete.

Second, an athlete must be listed in the TOP 35 in an event on the PERFORMANCE LIST.

"PERFORMANCE LISTS: The lists will reflect the TOP 35 in each event and the TOP 18 entered performances will qualify to the State Championship, an increase of two additional athletes invited to compete.

To qualify for participation in the championship meet any athlete (or relay team) must meet the following requirement. The athlete or relay team must be listed on the final Top 35 Performance List for each event in which they will be entered. Only athletes entered in meets with their official school name are included on the performance list. Athletes listed as unattached or coached by a team not meeting the previously stated criteria are not eligible. No club affiliated or unattached athletes will be listed or are eligible to compete. Abbreviated school names should match known abbreviations used by the OHSAA for the outdoor tournament. Abbreviated school names will not be listed if the school is unknown. Each high school team may only qualify one relay team per event.

"One very common problem that we are having is that there are still high school coaches who do not know if their school recognizes indoor track and field. In some instances, it is only a before week the OATCCC Championship and coaches are attempting to get their school to recognize indoor track and field so that they can compete. Coaches - you need to know in January if your school recognizes indoor track and field. Do not wait until March to know if your school recognizes indoor track and field. It is your responsibility to know if your school board has approved and recognizes indoor track."

NOTE: The Rankings may include an athlete's performance from a meet where they ran "unattached," if the performance was a Top Ohio performance, even in the case where the athlete's school may not be "Board Approved" for Indoor track and the athlete will not be competing in the OATCCC Indoor State Meet. In many instances, the athlete will already have a Top 35 qualifying time or mark. In the case that they are not eligible to compete in the Indoor State Meet, their performance will be removed from the Final Top 35 Rankings. Not every unattached athletes performance or performances, in State or out of State, will be included in the rankings. If it is a Top State and National performance it will be included to give the athlete the benefit of being included in the Ohio MileSplit and National MileSplit Rankings.

The performance lists are generated from the results listed from predetermined qualifying meets. These meets have met standardized criteria in order to be considered a qualifying meet. The OATCCC has no say as to how any of these meets are run or as to who may enter them. In fact, in many cases these meets are "all-comers" meets that the universities use to generate revenue (that is not shared in any way with the OATCCC) for their own athletic programs. The OATCCC will search throughout the results for athletes from known eligible schools to generate the lists. Just because an athlete can enter a qualifying meet does not imply they are eligible for competition in the OATCCC Indoor State Championships. Please read above about athletes eligibility."

Ohio MileSplit generates the Performance Lists from the qualifying meets. We will try to have these posted on the Ohio Milesplit web site every Tuesday. You will also be able to find them on the OATCCC web site. To compete in the Indoor State meet however, ALL of the above cirteria must be met by that athlete to be eligible for the meet. Ohio MileSplit does not approve athletes or coaches eligibility for the meet. We fully support the OATCCC and try to provide them with as accurate as possible performance lists.

NOTE: If you find discrepancies in the performance list, or an athletes "QUALIFYING" performance is missing, please do not post this in the Discussion Forum on the Web site. Please send an e-mail to the Web Mater/Editor whose e-mail is shown at the bottom of the Ohio MileSplit home page.

2016 "Bubble" Qualifying Marks

Want to know what it took to qualify last year for the OATCCC Indoor State Meet. Below is what it took last year to make the Top 35 qualification list to be eligible to compete in the State Meet. These are NOT this year's qualification lists. The times and marks may be similar, but will be based solely on the 2017 athlete performances.

EVENT	BOYS D1	BOYS D2/3	GIRLS D1	GIRLS D2/3
60M	7.21	7.36	8.08	8.36
200M	23.57	23.97	26.99	27.84
400M	52.80	54.38	1:02.34	1:05.29
800M	2:03.77	2:09.28	2:28.55	2:34.33
1600M	4:32.63	4:47.50	5:27.41	5:37.20
3200M	10:11.80	10:32.19	12:19.49	12:34.78
60mH	8.82	9.18	9.98	10.42
4X200M	1:38.49	1:42.10	1:54.67	12:02.49
4X400M	3:45.71	4:16.02	4:26.89	4:54.29
4X800M	8:53.07	9:46.02	10:53.74	12:05.18
HIGH JUMP	5-9	5-6	4-10	4-8
LONG JUMP	19-9.5	19-1	15-7	14-9.5
POLE VAULT	12-0	12-0	9-8	8-6
SHOT PUT	45-4	42-9.5	33-0.5	33-1.5
TRIPLE JUMP	35-7.25	34-2.25	28-8.25	26-1
WEIGHT THROW	29-3.25	29-3.25	29-11.5	29-0.75

OATCCC INDOOR TRACK