(v)BCSSCCTFA Insurance Fee – School’s must pay and register with the provincially governing body by March 1st in order to be eligible for the Provincial Championship Meet (see link http://www.bcsscctfa.bc.ca/main.html )

(vi) Coaches must ensure that athletes are accurately registered with BC School Sports before Spring Deadline, usually end of April in order to be eligible for the Valley Championship Meets (see link www.bcschoolsports.ca )

(vii) Pole vault will not be offered at any meets unless trained officials are present to run the event.

B) Scoring

(i) Points - For both the Valley Championship Meets, scoring systems shall be:

1st - 10 pts, 2nd - 8 pts, 3rd - 6 pts, 4th - 5 pts, 5th - 4 pts, 6th - 3 pts, 7th - 2 pts,

8th - 1 pts.

C) Age Classification - all ages are as of December 31 preceding meets.

(i) Grade 8

a) 14 and under and in grade 8 for the first time

b) NOTE: There are no grade 8 events, boys or girls, for the 3000m, the 300m hurdles, the steeplechase, the pole vault, or the hammer throw

(ii) Junior

a) 16 and under and in grade 9 or 10.

(iii) Seniors

a) students must be under nineteen (19) years of age as of December 31st of the current school year, and be in no more than their fifth year of eligibility (Article 10 section 3.7.1)

D) Valley Championship Meets - the following are rules for entry:

i) two competitors from each zone shall enter the gr.8 Valley Championship Meet in each event.

ii) Four competitors from each zone shall enter the Junior Valley Championship Meet in each event.
iii) Three competitors from each zone shall enter the Senior Valley Championship Meet. The Okanagan has three berths per event at the BC Championships. (AGM ‘91)
iv) There are no Open Zone entries into the Valley Championship Meets; athletes must have competed in that event at their Zone meets.
v) All members of any relay team must be from the same school.
vi) Substitutions must be the athlete who placed next in the event at the zone meet of the zone involved. Substitutions must be submitted to the Valley Championship Meet Director, by the zone chairman only, at least 1/2 hour before the meet begins.
vii) Entries for the Valley Championship Meets must be FAXED, EMAILED, or sent by COURIER to the Meet Director to be received no less than THREE days before the meet for the zone to eligible for competition. (i.e. Saturday meet, receive by Wednesday).
viii) A grade 8 may NOT participate as an individual in the Junior Valley Championship in events which already exist at the grade 8 level.

E) Uniforms

Contestants shall wear the uniforms of the school which they represent. If a school does not issue uniforms, the contestant will wear a white T-shirt and athletic shorts. Cut-offs are not allowed. Spandex, which are black or the school colour, may be worn. (A.G.M. ‘93) Failure to wear the prescribed uniform may result in disqualification.

F) Spike Length - Max. for Track Events 5mm (1/4“)

For Horizontal Jumps 7mm (5/16“)

For Javelin and High Jump 9mm (3/8”)

Checks will be made and offenders will be required to remove over-sized spikes. No allowance in time schedule will be made.

G) Provincial Qualifying - The Senior Championship Meet shall be a qualification meet of the Provincial Championships and all athletes who wish to attempt to advance to the Provincial Championships must compete at the zone and Valley Championship Meets. The only exception is noted below in section H. Coaches at the Senior Valley Championships whose athletes may have qualified for the Provincial Championships, must register and pay the Valley Commissioner or Meet Director the day of the Senior Valley Championships.

H) Open Zone — Entry to the Provincial Championships may be made through the Open Zone and may be gained by an athlete in the following ways only:

a. Providing that an athlete competes in the Senior Valley Championship Meet and exceeds a minimum standard established as the median of the eighth place time, height or distance in the last three Provincial Meets (see alternate list link at http://www.bcsscctfa.bc.ca/webs/track/track.html )

2. Providing that the contestant was injured or sick or there were extenuating circumstances and therefore did not compete in the Senior Valley Championships, and that this contestant has achieved the minimum standard in (a), and that his standard was achieved since May 1st of the current school year, in either a championship school meet and its trials, or a meet sanctioned by the B.C. Athletics.
3. Application for qualification through the Alternate List with full particulars must be made to the Valley Commissioner the day of the Senior Valley Championship.
4. No school may have more than two scoring contestants in any one event at the Provincial Championships.