FAQs

Odyssey, CCA, and off campus Student/Athletes

• Odyssey student/athletes

  • You will have an activity bus pick you up from Odyssey and bring you to Liberty.

• Off Campus student/athletes

  • Practices-

    • Please plan to drop off and pick up at Doc Harris Stadium. 3:50-5:15

Practices

• Practices will be at Doc Harris Stadium unless otherwise stated.

• On non-school days, please plan to drop off and pick up at Doc Harris Stadium.

• On school days, please dress as quickly as possible and be to Doc Harris in your attendance line by 3:50, pick up at Doc Harris at 5:15.

Meet Transportation

• Transportation will be provided to and from meets, but you are not required to ride the bus.

• If you do ride the school bus to the meet, and you want to leave the meet (after all of your events are over of course) with your parent/guardian(this is important, it must be your parent/guardian), you must check out with your attendance coach.

• If you do not ride the school bus to the meet, we are expecting you to ride home with your parent/guardian(this is important, it must be your parent/guardian) and as long as you have finished your events, you may leave with them and do not need to check out with your attendance coach(although, it's always nice to say goodbye 😁).

• This policy, boils down to the responsibility for the safety of our participants. When you attend a school sponsored off campus event and we, the school district and its employees, have transported you to the event we are responsible for ensuring your return. If you have been driven to the event, you and your family have the responsibility of your return home.

Why are some times on the schedule estimated?

If you notice, all the estimated times are related to meets. At high level meets, they follow a strict time schedule that is determined in advance by a number of factors. These high level meets also tend to run much longer than middle school and high school meets. In some cases spanning multiple days. Those same factors I mentioned are what make determining the length of our meets a little unpredictable. Some of those factors are, the number of participants, the efficiency and knowledge level of the volunteers running the meet, equipment/technical issues, etc, etc. It is for these reasons and many more that a meet at one location could be under two hours and almost three at another. In most cases, it all comes back to ensuring that everyone is given the opportunity to compete in the events they signed up for. Patience and flexibility is appreciated.

Will I need special shoes for track and field?

A basic running shoe will be fine for most running events. Depending on ability level and strength, sprinters and jumpers might want to consider running spikes. Distance runners, 800m, 1600m might want to think about a distance shoes. As far as throwing events go, pretty much any basic running shoe or even a trainer/basketball shoe would be fine. .

Why are my times different than what I was told?

There are a number of possibilities, but the top two are a mistake and that it has been converted. Human error, a miskeyed entry, difficult to read handwriting(in my case[Mr. Butler], sometimes my own writing), the list goes on and on, but boils down to a plain old mistake. The other much more confusing possibility is that your time has been converted. Does it end in a 4? Like 13.24 or 23.44? Here is a link that explains what happened to your original time (Click Here)

What are the SOPs?

The SOPs are the Standard Operating Procedures that have been created for our league. The specific part of the SOPs that we will often run into is in regard to the limit on the number of participants at meets, specifically in field events(High Jump, Long Jump, Shot Put, and Discus). How it works is, for Long Jump/Shot Put/Discus a total of no more than EIGHTEEN (18) per division are allowed: 18-6th grade girls division, 18-6th grade boys division, 18-7th girls division, 18-7th boys division, 18-8th girls division, 18-8th boys division. This is total between the two schools, so technically we could be limited to only 9 competitors per division. There are even fewer allowed in High Jump, with it being only 12 total between both schools. The rule does allow for either team to fill the total number, so if one school has less that half the total(18 total, but one school has less than 9) the other school may fill any remaining spots.