10/15/24 – KHSAA Indoor Track & Field State Meet Updates

October 15, 2024 Track and Field Blog Updates

As previously announced, the KHSAA Indoor Track & Field Meet is set for March 4-6, 2025 at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center, Louisville.

• Class 2A will compete on March 4
• Class 1A on March 5
• Class 3A on March 6

A complete time schedule is being developed and will be posted on the KHSAA website once available. 

For 2025, the top 24 performances (max 2 per school) in each event will be preliminary state qualifiers (prior to the scratch deadline) with the expressed intent, where possible, of having a full field for each event. The deadline for any qualifying performances will be February 23rd at 9:00 PM. 

At the Board of Control meeting in August, the indoor events were approved for the 2025 season. After that release, the KHSAA received additional helpful feedback from its member schools and coaches as well as consulting with a variety of other states about some of the fine-tuning that was suggested. A good deal of the feedback and suggestions dealt with conversions for certain events, especially given the minimum number of facilities that are able to handle indoor competition.

KHSAA staff has collected information from indoor meets from bordering states and others that have conducted indoor track championships for many years, as well as a comprehensive review of the meets that KHSAA member schools attended in 2024 in their attempts to qualify. Like Kentucky, several bordering states do not have a plethora of indoor facilities which limits the opportunities for athletes to compete and qualify. In addition, with the geographic diversity of our schools, we wanted to further review options that might exist so that we could ensure that schools in all areas had options and were not bound to attend meets at a limited number of facilities regardless of travel concerns. 

We have also consulted with the KHSAA’s exclusive provider of online registration (Milesplit) as the use of their tools was viewed as advantageous to ensure that coaches had quick feedback as to performance comparisons in the case of additional scheduling being deemed necessary.

After looking at all of those factors, it is readily apparent that it is in the best interest of the member schools and athletes to allow the automatic conversions that the Milesplit platform already provides. Due to these tools available, for 2025, conversions would be permissible in the following specific events as a service to our schools: 

• 60m High Hurdles to 55m High Hurdles 
• 60m Dash to 55m Dash
• 1-mile to 1600m Run
• 2-mile to 3200m Run

These will be the only events where conversions will be permitted, and all other qualification performances must come from the specific event (i.e., 1500m times and 3000m times would neither be converted nor accepted for qualification). As a reminder, the events for the 2025 KHSAA Indoor Track & Field meet based on the NFHS Track & Field Rules Book are below.

Standard Indoor Track Events:

• 4x800m Relay
• 55m High Hurdles
• 55m Dash
• 4x200m Relay
• 1600m Run
• 400m Dash
• 800m Run
• *200m Dash
• 3200m Run
• 4x400m relay
  • *due to facility

Standard Indoor Field Events:

• High Jump
• Long jump
• Pole vault
• Shot put
• Triple Jump

We are quite certain that Indoor Track and its state championship will continually evolve, and we look forward to the continued growth of this great event for students.

– 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 289 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 72 teams and 270 individuals in 21 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.