Officiating

 

1)    At the various meets you may be attending (particularly at the Island Series) you may be called upon to assist in officiating at one of the events.  This Section of the Pen Track Website deals with the basics of officiating most of the Events.

 

2)    At the Island meets, Peninsula Track is officially responsible for officiating at the Long Jump and at the Hand Timing of Track Events.  We share this duty with the Victoria Track Club. Therefore it is important that as many parents in Pen Track become familiar with how to officiate these two events as you may be called upon to act as an official at any time.  The more parents who can do this the less onerous a task it becomes for any one person.

 

3)    In the long term the Vancouver Island Athletics Association (VIAA) would like to have many more volunteer officials who are familiar with all the events, not just the ones assigned to their club.  This means they will be able to step in and run any event if called upon to do so.  This is important as clubs who have to travel some distance to attend a meet, may not be able to cover their officiating responsibility for the whole meet. 

 

4)    Over the course of the 2007 season we are running a program at the Island meets of training parents and older athletes in officiating the complete range of events.  Tom Dingle from Pen Track and Diana Hollefreund from Vic Track are in charge of this program. Signup and information packages will be distributed at the Island meets.  Participants are expected to do twelve hours of officiating (not necessarily as head official): two hours at each of six different venues: hand timing, finish line judging, one vertical jump, one horizontal jump, one throw and one other field event.  Upon completion of each these requirements (which are signed off on by Tom Dingle or Diana Hollefreund) the participant will certified as a level 1 BC Athletics official and be well on the way to be a level 2 official.

 

5)     This page will contain information about officiating which is pertinent to the above and also some more general considerations about officiating.

 

6)    I have prepared and am preparing one page outlines containing what I think are the essential basics of the various events:

 

7)    Completed (click on name)

 

a.     Long Jump

b.     Triple Jump

c.     High Jump

d.     Shot Put

e.     Discus

f.       Hammer

g.     Javelin

 

8)    In Preparation:

 

a.     Hand Timing

b.     Finish Line Judging

c.     Results

d.     Marshalling races

e.     Pole Vault

f.       Starting races

 

9)    BC Athletics has a page on their website which deals with Officiating Matters

 

10)                       The IAAF (the international body governing Athletics) has a considerable body of information on their website: www.iaaf.org .  In particular they have a detailed rule book for 2006/2007 in .pdf form which you can download if you want all the gory details about the rules for each event.

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Other pieces of information which we put on the various clipboards at our meets that you might find useful are: Correct Weights for Throwing Events, Correct specifications of Hurdle Races and for the field events #10 on the All Time Top Ten list for JD athletes and BC Records for older athletes.