AA QUALIFYING STANDARDS STARTING IN THE SPRING OF 2009

The following will serve as procedures for implementation:
1. All meets that teams compete against another school will be used as qualifying
2.If a qualifying standard is met it is the responsibility of the athltete's coach to maintain documentation of the mark and the AD will certify this mark from documentation that includes official meet results or news clipppings. All qualifying standard times must be electronic times or hand converted times.
3. All coaches who wish to use an athletes' qualifying standard or not use an athletes' divisional mark for entry into the state meet must submit this information to the MHSA office via a form supplied prior to the state meet. The MHSA shall receive this form no later than Monday, the week of the state meet at 8:00AM.
4. Seeding for state will be determined by time from divisonal meets or other meets in which a qualfying standard has been set.
5. Times will be listed from fastest to slowest and athletes will be placed in heats according to standard seeding in Hytek Meet Manager.
6. Preliminaries will be run for the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 100 meter hurdles, and the 400 meter relay. The preliminary will only be run if the total number of qualifyiers exceeds 10 runners in an event.
7. Final entries for the preliminary races will be determined by place first followed by times.
8. In a preliminary race with 11 competitors, there will be two heats. The first heat will have 5 runners and the next heat will have 6 runners.
9. By averaging the last 7 years of the state AA events first place and sixth place in each event will assist in establishing qualifying marks.
10. Once established, the qualifying standards will remain consistent from year to year. Standards may be changed via the AA change process.