Thursday-Saturday, January 21-23, 2021 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY Cadet Field House Please see accompanying .pdf re: “Conducting Safe Indoor Track & Field Meet in 2021 at Cadet Field House” (given Covid-related Restrictions). Cadet Field House at the US Air Force Academy (elevation: 7048'). 6 laps/mile (268m) Proturf polyurethane surface; eight (8) 42” lanes on the straight, six (6) 36” lanes on the oval. See NCAA website for 2021 conversions of qualifying standards, which include indexing for both altitude and track size. (NOTE: 1/4" or shorter spikes are required for all track events, horizontal jumps and pole vault, and will be checked. High Jumpers may use 3/8” spikes). High jump apron, horizontal jump and pole vault runways are also polyurethane surfaces manufactured by APS Tartan. The (2) horizontal jump runways and the pole vault runways are raised. Throwing rings are pre-manufactured Polanik rings, surface consisting of anti-skid plywood. The following NCAA Division I teams (12) have indicated their intent to participate: Air Force, BYU, Cal, Colorado, Colorado State, Nevada, Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, Stephen F Austin, UNLV, Weber State and Wyoming, and DII teams (2) from Colorado Christian, and UCCS. (NEW!) We will have an informational “Virtual Coaches Meeting” via Zoom on Tuesday, January 19, 12:15 MT, to explain our policies, procedures and protocols. and answer questions re: how we’ll attempt to conduct a safe indoor track & field meet in this Covid environment. You will be required to have a representative on this call—this can be any coaching staff member. (Note: your athletic trainers will have a separate teleconference call). You should have received an e-mail message with the following information: Ralph Lindeman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88557769131?pwd=TWgvMWltTEdpYStCRHk5STRpOXJKZz09 Meeting ID: 885 5776 9131 Passcode: 682469 NO spectators will be allowed—PLEASE discourage family & friends from coming to the Air Force Academy and attempting to watch the meet. (NEW!) NO practice available in Cadet Field House on any day—Thursday, Friday or Saturday, besides the 30 or 60-minute warmup period as described prior to the start of each event. Dressing room with showers will NOT be available. Air Force Academy athletic trainers will be stationed in an auxiliary training room on the track level (near SW stairwell/men's restroom). This training room will be for “triage” only, i.e., no preventative or recovery treatments. We will not be able to allow visiting teams to utilize this training room for anything other than emergencies, due to social distance requirements. Additionally, we will not be able to allow visiting athletic trainers to be stationed near the SE corner of the indoor track, i.e., near the women’s restroom. Trainers may station themselves outside your teams’ seating on the Concourse level, or in the Holaday Athletic Center, where team camps will be located and warm-ups will take place. All entries will be submitted online through www.DirectAthletics.com. You will be assigned a secure account for your team(s). Your username and password will be given to you when you enter the site and click to create a new team account. There are no institutional (per team) entry limits. Teams will be allowed to enter one (1) relay teams—no “B” or “C” teams allowed. (REVISED!) Please use the following guidelines for entering your athletes in the field events: a. High Jump: i. Women’s starting height will be 1.60m (5’3”) and be raised initially in 5cm increments. ii. Men’s starting height will be 1.90m (6’2¾") and be raised initially in 5cm increments. b. Pole Vault: i. Women’s starting height will be 3.50m (11’5¾”) and be raised initially in 15cm increments. ii. Men’s starting height will be 4.60m (15’1”) and be raised initially in 15cm increments. c. Men's Triple Jump—take-off board is 42’0” from pit; NO secondary (“taped”) board will be used. d. Women's Triple Jump—take-off board is 34’0” from pit; NO secondary (“taped”) board will be used. $15.00 entry fee per individual or max of $450.00 entry fee per gender ($900.00 for both men's and women's teams). You have the option of paying online at www.directathletics.com or when you pick up your Team Packet. If paying in person, you may use cash or a check payable to AFAAC. Entries must be received by 11:59 pm MT on Monday, January 18. No entries will be accepted by phone. Note: Monday, Jan 18 is Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. Please plan accordingly to get your entries posted on time. Any entry changes (additions, substitutions, change of event) the day of the meet will be allowed only on a space- available basis, and will be charged an extra $15.00 late entry fee. Entry procedures for the Men’s Heptathlon (Thursday-Friday) and Women’s Pentathlon (Thursday) will be exactly the same as your entry for all other events. (REVISED!) NO open or unattached athletes will be allowed in the meet, unless they (a) are entered as “Unattached – Institution” along with their institution’s entry, (b) have met all Covid-testing requirements, and (c) are confirmed as part of their institution’s medical authorities’ signing of the “Mountain West Conference Attestation Form. NO EXCEPTIONS! Note: The Holaday Athletic Center will NOT be available on Thursday for the Combined Events. Participants in the Heptathlon and Pentathlon, their coaches and trainers will check-in at the East doors to the Field House beginning at 10:30 am on Thursday to receive their wristbands. Please enter USAFA at the North Entrance (I-25, exit 156) only. You will be e-mailed a “Visiting Team Entry Authorization” for which you can print out as many copies as you need for the number of vehicles (buses, vans, even personally-operated vehicles) you have. Fill in the name of your institution and the dates of competition (21-33 Jan 2021) on each form used. Every individual entering the base must be prepared to show a picture ID to the guard at the North Gate and designate their destination as the Cadet Field House for indoor track meet. Each person should have picture ID with them at all times (except during their competition). More details about “access” can be found in the accompanying “Safe Indoor Track Meet” .pdf. Team buses and vans will drop off competitors at the West side of Holaday Athletic Center, our Indoor Football Practice facility (NOT at the East side of Cadet Field House, which we have used in the past). Buses and vans can then proceed in a loop past the athletic fields and turning right on Academy Drive, past the “Overlook”, turning right again on Parade Loop and circling back to park on the East side of Cadet Field House where they’ll be allowed to park. Team packets may be picked up on Thursday if you have competitors in either of the combined events, or we can deliver to your hotel on Thursday evening. Late packet pick-up will be at the West entrance to the Holaday Athletic Center when you arrive on Friday. If not paid online, you must pay your entry fee at the time of your packet pick-up. On arrival at the West side of Holaday Athletic Center, have a member of your coaching staff or athletic trainer go to the West doors (there will be plenty of signs) ahead of your team, stop at the table inside the doors, submit the hard copy of your Teams’ “Attestation Form”, and pick up wristbands to distribute to your entire travel party. We will NOT distribute your teams’ wristbands to individuals, as we’ve normally done in the past. YOU must distribute them. Each staff should develop an effective way to distribute your allotment of wristbands to each member of your team and staff. Every participant who you’ve identified as a member of your team and staff and for whom it has been attested they have been Covid-tested to meet the Mountain West Conference guidelines, will be issued a red wristband. Nobody will be admitted to either the warm-up/team camp area in the Holaday Athletic Center or to the competition track and infield in Cadet Field House without a red wristband. Each team will also be issued a reasonable number of blue wristbands for coaches, trainers and student-managers. These wristbands will allow access to the warm-up area on the East end of the Infield of the track, as well as the limited seating on the Mezzanine (middle) level of the Field House. Coaches will not be allowed on the infield in the field event areas except in the active warm-up area on the East end of the infield. There will be no coaches’ seating at track-level. (NEW!) There will be areas roped off for each team in the Holaday Athletic Center, size dependent on your number of competitors. You will be expected to enforce your team members’ social distancing (6’) in your assigned area. (Note: Holaday Athletic Center does not have HVAC and can get very cold—prepare accordingly). Early warm-up (jogging & stretching) can be done in the Holaday Athletic Center There will be NO throwing of any implements in the Holaday Athletic Center, nor will there be any polyurethane lanes or runways. Hurdles will be available. Final warm-up and preparation can be done on the east end of the infield, on the FieldTurf surface, or for field events, per the schedule under “ATHLETE FLOW” below.