01/16/24 – Indoor Track & Field State Meet Updates

January 16, 2024 Athletic Department Blog Updates

The inaugural KHSAA indoor Track and Field state championships will take place the first weekend in March at the Norton Healthcare Indoor Track Complex in Louisville. It is important that we get you qualifying details while the final logistics and scheduling are being completed in the next couple of weeks. Details that have been determined are below, additional details will be distributed once finalized. A finalized schedule should be released in the next ten days.

YOUR SCHOOL’S NEXT STEP IS CRITICAL AS WE NEED YOU TO BE SURE THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR HAS DESIGNATED THAT YOU WILL HAVE A TEAM, HAS LISTED COACHES, AND HAS LISTED ATHLETES ON THE KHSAA ROSTER.

STATE ENTRIES AND QUALIFYING

• Due to the lack of indoor facilities across the state of Kentucky to conduct regional qualifying meets, the KHSAA will utilize documented regular-season indoor performances to be considered for state qualifiers as follows:
• The best 24 times/performances (while representing a KHSAA member school) including ties per class to be considered qualifiers for the dashes and runs
  • There will be a limit per school of 2 individuals and 1 relay per event.  
• The best 24 times/performances (while representing a KHSAA member school) plus ties to be considered qualifiers for the field events.
  • There will be a limit per school of 2 individuals per field event.  
• To accomplish this task, the following steps were approved:
  • The KHSAA will continue to utilize Milesplit as the exclusive, official source of entry/qualifying.
  • Coaches and designated representatives would need to be sure times are submitted by a specific deadline (TBD) to an athlete’s profile on Milesplit. 
  • All athletes must have a qualifying time/mark while representing the KHSAA member school.
  • Additional details about how meets count can be found in Bylaw 23.
  • All qualifying performances must be from an indoor meet in 2024 within the limitation of seasons, January 8 – the deadline for entry. 
  • Athletes in all events, including pole vault, must have at least one performance time/mark to qualify for state (while representing the school).  

Additional information will be released to member schools as it becomes available. Contact Assistant Commissioner Sarah Bridenbaugh (sbridenbaugh@khsaa.org) should you have any questions. 

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 59 teams and 178 individuals in 13 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.