I am a new coach at a small high school. I am currently writing rules and lettering requirements. Can the LetsRun community help me out? What did you have as high school lettering requirements? What worked, what didn't?
Thanks for the help.
I am a new coach at a small high school. I am currently writing rules and lettering requirements. Can the LetsRun community help me out? What did you have as high school lettering requirements? What worked, what didn't?
Thanks for the help.
Score X number of points during the varsity season or Y number of points at the district meet.
My HS was score 5 points in dual meet season or qualify for divisionals. XC it was top 7.
Basically anyone who could qualify for divisionals got the 5 points in a dual meet but it worked out well. 15-20 or so kids got letters in track.
At mine it was score 5 points during the season in varsity competition. We had a strong team in a strong league so it was pretty tough to do as a 9th grader or if you were totally without talent, but it seemed to work well. Pretty sure our coach also lettered a few guys as seniors who had maybe not scored the points but had been on the team all 4 years and had put in a lot of effort.
At my HS we had multiple ways to letter:
1. Hit the lettering time for an event
100 - 11.7
200 - I don't remember
400 - 54.00
800 - 2:07
1500 - 4:30
3000 - 9:45
As you can see the longer distance times are softer
2. Score 10 points in the duel meet season
3. Score points at the district championship
Hi!
At my school it was five points too! My sophomore year i must have scored at least over 80 points. In my career i would say over 350 points for my teams, including xc, though it gave me a small amount of points since i would finish near first or first.
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I am a new coach at a small high school. I am currently writing rules and lettering requirements. Can the LetsRun community help me out? What did you have as high school lettering requirements? What worked, what didn't?
Thanks for the help.
We did a point system. Score 18 points (any combination of dual and invitationals) and you lettered. This is fine, but I recommend that you also have time goals to meet. What, for example, do you do if you have 5 guys who run the 3200 in 9:30 or faster? Only 1 or 2 can run in the Saturday invitationals. Need to be able to have a carrot out there for people to aim for, especially if it's tough to crack into the Saturday invitational group. Maybe it's 9:50 or 9:45. Whatever. Give's the 5th guy and even further down the chance to run 9:50 in a dual meet and letter. Also gives the kid who was injured for half the season a chance to letter.
I also like the idea that if you score at all at Districts or beyond that you letter. Let's say the 4x800 relay team qualifies at districts for the regional meet but then one of the gets injured. Replacement runner comes in and the team scores in the regional meet. That team member should letter in my opinion.
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