BYU Hosts Robison Invitational

PROVO -- BYU will host the annual Clarence Robison Invitational this week from Wed., April 23 to April 26, at the BYU Track and Field Complex.

The No. 14 BYU women and No. 25 BYU men will compete against the University of Utah, Weber State, UVSC, the University of Nevada, the University of Montana and Southern Utah University.

The meet will kick off with the decathlon and heptathlon Wednesday and Thursday. The other track and field events will continue Friday and Saturday. The meet will conclude with the 4x400-meter relays at 2:25 p.m. Admission to the meet if free.

The Cougar athletes will look to post regional qualifying times and prepare for nationals in Sacramento, Calif. The women's team has already regionally qualified athletes in 10 events and nationally qualified three athletes in the 10,000-meter run. The men have regionally qualified athletes in 13 events.

The Robison Invitational is named in honor of former BYU track athlete and coach Clarence Robison. Robison, who coached at BYU for more than 40 years, was inducted into the United States Coaches Hall of Fame Dec. 7,2002. Next year's invitational will be held April 21 to April 24, 2003.

For any media related issues contact Jeff Reynolds at 422-4909 or jeff_reynolds@byu.edu. He will be taking over as track and field SID for BYU.

BYU CLARENCE ROBISON INVITATIONAL
April 23-26, 2003
Time Schedule
vers. 4 as of 4-11-03
Registration
Heat Sheets	
Results by Event	
Full Results
Multi-Events
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
12:15 Decathlon
12:00 Heptathlon
	
Thursday, April 24, 2003
12:00 Decathlon
2:00 Heptathlon
Field Events
Friday, April 25, 2003
Weigh in 12 noon - 2:30
12:00 Open Pole Vault women NS
12:00 Hammer women
2:00 Javelin men
3:00 Long Jump men & women
2:30 Shot Put men
2:30 Open Pole Vault men
3:00 Open High Jump women NS
3:30 Javelin women
 	
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Weigh in 8:30a - 11:30
10:00 Hammer men
11:00 Inv. High Jump women
11:45 Inv. Pole Vault men 
12:00 Discus women
12:00 Triple Jump men & women
1:00 Inv. Pole Vault women
1:00 Inv. High Jump men
1:30 Shot Put women
1:30 Discus men
Running Events
Friday (Trials) -- April 25, 2003
2:10 100mH women
2:25 110mH men
2:40 1500m men B Race 
2:50 1500m women B Race NS
3:00 400m women
3:10 400m men
3:20 100m women
3:30 100m men
3:40 800m women
3:50 800m men
4:00 400mH women
4:10 400mH men
4:20 200m women
4:30 200m men
4:40 5000m women (final)
5:00 5000m men (final)
    
Saturday (Finals) -- April 26, 2003
12:00 4x100m women
12:05 4x100m men
12:10 3000m Steeple men
12:25 1500m women (seeded 18)
12:35 1500m men (seeded 18)
12:50 110mH men
12:55 100mH women
1:00 400m women
1:05 400m men
1:10 100m women
1:15 100m men
1:20 800m women
1:25 800m men
1:35 400mH women
1:45 400mH men
1:50 200m women
1:55 200m men
2:00 3000m Steeple women
2:20 4x400m women
2:25 4x400m men
Meet Information
Scoring - Women's meet will be scored 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  Men's meet is not scored.
Registration - Registration closes for Decathlon and Heptathlon at midnight, Tuesday, April 22nd.  Registration closes for whole meet at midnight, Wednesday, April 23rd.
Results/Heat Sheets - Heat sheets will be posted Thursday morning.  Results will be posted throughout the meet at the links above.
Entry Fees - Meet entry fees are $75 per team, or $150 per school, $5 per individual not on a team.
800m - The 800m final will be 12 runners.  For the men's 800m the top 8 seeded performers will be given a bye into the final.  The remaining 4 positions will be filled from the 800m heats on Friday.
High Jump/Pole Vault - Athletes are not permitted to participate in both the open and invitational sections of the high jump and pole vault.
Opening heights in vertical jumps	
Minimum throw lines in long throws
Open Pole Vault men	14' 0"/4.27	Hammer men	150'/45.72
Open Pole Vault women	10' 0"/3.05	Hammer women	140'/42.67
Open High Jump women	5' 0"/1.52	Discus men	140'/42.67
Inv. Pole Vault men	16' 0"/4.88	Discus women	125'/38.10
Inv. Pole Vault women	12'  0"/3.66	Javelin men	160'/48.77
High Jump men	6' 2.75"/1.90	Javelin women	125'/38.10
Inv. High Jump women	5' 6"/1.68