05/29/19 – State Tennis, Track and Field Championships Begin Thursday

May 29, 2019 2018-2019 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29, 2019

The 2019 Top Seed Tennis Club/KHSAA State Tennis Championships and the 2019 KHSAA Track and Field State Meet will be contested this weekend in Lexington, with both events culminating on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Advance tickets to each event are available for purchase online at https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA.

The State Tennis Championships (May 30-June 1) begin Thursday morning at 8 a.m. with girls’ matches at Top Seed Tennis Club and the boys’ competition at the UK Boone/Downing Tennis Complex. All remaining tennis matches will move to the UK Boone/Downing Tennis Complex after the first day, with Friday’s competition starting at 8 a.m. Saturday’s action opens with the boys’ and girls’ singles and doubles semifinals at 9 a.m. Championship matches for boys’ and girls’ doubles are slated for 12 p.m., with the finals for boys’ and girls’ singles set for 2 p.m.

Team champions will be determined through an accumulation of points throughout the tournament, with each singles player and doubles team receiving one point for each match victory. Brackets for the state singles and doubles championships are available on the Tennis page at KHSAA.org.

The KHSAA Track & Field State Meet (May 30-June 1) gets underway Thursday morning with the 1A Championship starting things off at the University of Kentucky’s Outdoor Track and Field Complex. The 2A Championship will take place the following day (May 31), followed by the 3A Championship closing things out on Saturday, June 1st. All three meets are slated to begin at 10 a.m. with live webcasts produced by KYtrackXC available on the NFHS Network through a partnership between the KHSAA and MileSplit.

The 2019 state track and field meet is the fifth since the KHSAA partnered with Special Olympics Kentucky to offer Unified opportunities in Track & Field, and will have over 100 student-athletes competing across five Unified events in each class. Live event-by-event results will be available on the Track page at KHSAA.org during the meet.

All weather updates and schedule adjustments for the Tennis and Track championships will be posted to the homepage at KHSAA.org, along with the Association’s Twitter accounts (@KHSAA and @khsaaevents). Results from each event will be posted to KHSAA.org as they become available. Official championship photos will be available within 72 hours of the completion of each event at khsaaphotos.org.

2019 Top Seed Tennis Club/KHSAA State Tennis Championships
Schedule – https://khsaa.org/2019-state-tennis-time-schedule/
Tickets – https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA
Official Program – urlzs.com/WnvER
Boys’ Singles Bracket – http://khsaa.org/tennis/2019/boyssingles.pdf
Boys’ Doubles Bracket – http://khsaa.org/tennis/2019/boysdoubles.pdf
Girls’ Singles Bracket – http://khsaa.org/tennis/2019/girlssingles.pdf
Girls’ Doubles Bracket – http://khsaa.org/tennis/2019/girlsdoubles.pdf

2019 KHSAA Track & Field State Meet
Schedule – https://khsaa.org/2019-state-track-meet-time-schedule/
Tickets – https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA
Live webcast – https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/associations/khsaa
Official Program – urlzs.com/rxPFB
Heat Sheets/Lane Assignments – http://khsaa.org/track/2019/laneassignments.pdf
1A Live Event-by-Event Results – http://khsaa.org/track/2019/1astate/index.htm
2A Live Event-by-Event Results – http://khsaa.org/track/2019/2astate/index.htm
3A Live Event-by-Event Results – http://khsaa.org/track/2019/3astate/index.htm

-KHSAA-

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 280 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 44 state championships in 13 sports and 5 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.