October 14, 2020 at 12:20 p.m.
WIAA Board approves track and field rules; non-school competition accommodations
WIAA Board approves track and field rules; non-school competition accommodations
The Board supported adding language to the state association recommendations section of the track and field season regulations that reads in part "...for relay exchanges that do not occur in assigned lanes...the line-up position is determined and maintained when the incoming runners reach the straightaway before the exchange."
The other track and field recommendation approved by the board extends the sunset clause - approved by the board in 2017 - for determining divisional placements.
This will allow for the required second year of data collection, which was unable to be compiled because of the cancellation of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The board is providing COVID-19 pandemic accommodations for nonschool competitions and will allow those events during the WIAA culminating events for 2020-21 on a sport-specific basis.
The existing rule allows student-athletes in all sports to play in two nonschool events.
Boys' soccer, boys' volleyball and girls' volleyball teams during the alternate fall season in the spring will be allowed a total of four nonschool events to be played during either the regular season or during the WIAA culminating events.
Baseball and softball teams in the spring will be allowed a total of three nonschool events to be played during either the regular season or WIAA culminating events. Girls' soccer teams will be permitted to play their two allowed nonschool events during either the regular season or culminating events.
The board also ratified a culminating event attendance policy that is being shared with the membership. The Board also approved the Winter Sports Guidelines for conducting interscholastic activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was shared with the membership.
Other discussions included continuation of the fall season culminating events, a review of the 2020 postponed constitutional amendments and the potential new amendments for the 2021 Annual Meeting, a membership request to revisit a competition committee, a review of the virtual Area Meetings, and a review of the preliminary audit report.
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