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[updated to add additional info and add the Durham Striders meet; and noting that Clemson was cancelled]

So far, here are the big indoor invitational meets in the South East that HS athletes can compete in. Except for the LSU and the Durham meets, you can compete unattached. (Update: Clemson apparently will not host a HS indoor meet this year, although they did announce one; it was subsequently cancelled).

1. Jan 8-9th (F/Sa) LSU HS Classic. Baton Rouge, LA (560 miles 8hr 40 min from Atlanta) PV on Saturday: girls at 11am, boys at 3. Note: you cannot enter unattached, you must be attached to a club or compete for your HS, (note: GA athletes *cannot* compete for their HS in this meet since it is out of season).
Link to meet information PDF: http://www.lsusports.net/fls/5200/asset ... 108ihs.pdf

2. Jan 15/16 (Fri/Sat) Durham Striders HS Invite. (386 mi, 7hr from ATL). http://www.durhamstriders.com/2010%20Du ... tional.pdf. Girls on Friday at 6pm, boys on Sat at 9am. Apparently you *MUST* compete for your HS, so only if your state allows you to (So Ga athletes can't compete).

3. Jan 22-23 (Fri/Sat) the 2010 KTC (aka, Niswonger Invite) in Johnson City, Tn. (300 mi, 4hr 40min from ATL). The HS link is http://www.ktcyouthathletics.org/KTCHSIndoor.html. You can compete unattached. Girls event is Fri at 7pm, boy on Sat at 4:30.

4. Jan 30-31 (Sa/Su) Jimmy Carnes Invite, Gainesville, FL (350 mi, 5hr 50min from ATL). Can be unattached. No schedule yet. (But probably Sat) Last year had age groups (13/14, 15/16, etc). (no Offical Meet link yet, but here's the milesplit page: http://fl.milesplit.us/meets/59748)

5. Feb 20th (Sa) UK HS Invitational, Lexington KY Feb 20th (400 mi, 6hr 25 min from ATL). PV at 10:30 am, girls followed by boys. Entry deadline Feb 10th (via mail). Can be unattached. http://ky.milesplit.us/meets/60543

Good list!

Divalent wrote:the rumor is that Clemson will hold a HS indoor meet on Dec 5th. If so, expect details soon, since it's about 5 weeks away

Not a rumor. They will indeed have a meet Dec. 5th. Also Durham Striders usually hosts a meet in the middle of Jan. (probably 15-16) at UNC Chapel Hill NC.

Divalent wrote:Last year boys competed on Sa, but I'm not sure when the Girls competed (might have been Fri).

HS girls is Friday night and HS boys is Saturday afternoon. This is a good place to vault mondo runway and huge pit. Also Spectator friendly.
Another link for the meet

http://www.etsubucs.com/sports/track/info/niswonger/

Clemson meet is canceled.

UNC usually has a few that are easy for high school athletes to get into, and they have some high school only meets.

UNC is having one i believe its the 2nd weekend in january. not sure if thats the exact date but i know its before reno

good morning .. happy thanksgiving..

if anyone wants to do a free pole vault clinic in Gainesville around the florida meet, Jan 30-31, i'll help set something up..

open to all, coaches and athletes.. RUN - PLANT - SWING..

dj

Well, a poor job by the meet managers at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational last weekend in presenting the event to the spectators. No board displaying the bar height, no PA announcement of the bar height, and the event officials made no effort to inform the spectators of the bar height. (They were running it in metric, didn't use a constant progression: turns out they used +.15, then +.25, then back to +.15 twice, then +.10 from there on out.) Because of the way the arena is laid out, the PV was held two levels down below where spectators could sit (basically what ordinarily would be considered nose bleed section seating; the track was on the intermediate level), so no chance anyone could overhear anything said down on the floor. And from 2 huge levels up, no way to get a proper perspective to estimate by, say, the height of the officials near by.

Lots of friends, relatives and parents of vaults with no clue as how well their favorite atheletes were progressing. (However, the PA announcer did periodically tell us the intermediate times of the relays teams, in case someone couldn't see the clock displayed on one of the 4 huge video screens located in the 4 corners of the arena. He also gave us the performance times of some of the running athletes from their prior indoor meets, in case we had forgotten.)