One Who Knows wrote:
Except that nobody around the country knew of such an event. Were sanctions secured from the NFHS and specific states to accommodate potential out-of-state or national level athletes? Just because it is open to all high school athletes doesn't mean it achieves national stature or should be called pre-nationals. Sounds like a promotional idea to build the participation of an event that had been in-place prior. Support that idea, but I think referring to it either today or in prior years as pre-nats might be a stretch competition wise, but can be called whatever they wish when the event was in Boston. Now with no event in Boston there does not seem to be logic in referring to it as pre-nats. Just my opinion.
This the the third year of the meet and it has been publicized around the country. The meet has been sanctioned by the NFHS and sanctions have been requested from every state in the U.S.. This meet was created when the nationals returned to Boston. The intention was to give potential competitors at March's meet a chance to get in an effort at the site of that meet. Very commendable, if you ask me.
As for no longer calling it a "pre-nat" meet, that makes sense. However with the late withdrawal of the national meet from the Reggie, it is understandable why the meet literature still refers to the meet as a "pre-nat".