Is It An NFHS Rule For Kids To Tuck Their Shirts In During A Meet?

You used to have to. I think now all they care about is that you CAN tuck it in.

Is your shirt long enough and are your shorts at the right place on your hips.

No.

However, games committees can make up rules - which is often whatever officials say - that you will need to abide by.

Then what are the point of rules if things can be made up - or stricken - on the spot?!

This is most often related to bring able to see the hip numbers on the shorts of the athlete...makes it easier for the timing official to process results after each race and keep the meet on schedule.

Bad idea wrote:

Then what are the point of rules if things can be made up - or stricken - on the spot?!

No, rules cannot be "stricken", but the additional rules can be added. Technically they must be disseminated ahead of time (usually in the meet instructions).

Some meets require shirts to be tucked so that hip numbers are visible.

It is still strange to be at a HS meet and see jewelry and head coverings. The rule banning that a changed a few years ago. Not sure if it includes shirt tails. Pat of having a uniform is having discipline-and that is sadly going away.

Bad idea wrote:

Then what are the point of rules if things can be made up - or stricken - on the spot?!

You mean like the NFL and NBA?

My high school coach would always tell us, "Tuck in your uniform, this isn't a rap video."

High school officials in New Jersey were usually pretty strict about it on the starting line.

If you like the no-tuck, then only tuck when instructed and immediately untuck once the race starts.

troubled youth wrote:

It is still strange to be at a HS meet and see jewelry and head coverings. The rule banning that a changed a few years ago. Not sure if it includes shirt tails. Pat of having a uniform is having discipline-and that is sadly going away.

Oh my god get over yourself. Records falling left and right and you say that runners now have no discipline. People have been lamenting the next generation's flaws since the 1800's, you're not special.

not your facebook friend wrote:

troubled youth wrote:

It is still strange to be at a HS meet and see jewelry and head coverings. The rule banning that a changed a few years ago. Not sure if it includes shirt tails. Pat of having a uniform is having discipline-and that is sadly going away.

Oh my god get over yourself. Records falling left and right and you say that runners now have no discipline. People have been lamenting the next generation's flaws since the 1800's, you're not special.

I don't think you understand how bad of music the current generation is listening to. It isn't even music, it is just noise. It is causing mass corruption of the youth. The world is going to end.

a high school coach wrote:

I don't think you understand how bad of music the current generation is listening to. It isn't even music, it is just noise. It is causing mass corruption of the youth. The world is going to end.

Thanks everyone for the input. Sounds like technically not a rule, but tough to fight it if some stubborn 90 year old man is demanding a shirt be tucked in and isn't able to hear anything anyone under 50 has to say.

I agree, the world is coming to an end. In about 4 billion years or so.