Phone: 317-846-6601
Fax: 317-575-4244 Website:
www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress, Commissioner
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MEDIA INFORMATION
May 14, 2007
Contact:
E-mail: jwille@ihsaa.org
GIRLS
TRACK AND FIELD SECTIONALS TUESDAY, BOYS THURSDAY
The spring sports tournament season officially begins this week with
sectional competition in both girls and boys track and field.
Thirty-two sites will host girls sectional
competition on Tuesday, May 15, while another 32 will serve as sites for boys
sectionals on Thursday, May 17. Qualifying teams and individuals will advance
to regional competition next week. Girls regionals are scheduled for Tuesday, May 22. Boys regionals are Thursday, May
24.
Warren Central’s girls and boys teams will both look defend their
respective state championships from 2006. The Warriors girls
team will compete at the Shelbyville Sectional on Tuesday while the boys team
will serve as hosts two days later.
Official results from each site will be posted to
ihsaa.org as they become available this week.
Girls
Track & Field Notables
Date: Tuesday,
May 15.
Admission: $5.
Advancement from Sectionals to Regionals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place sectional winners in all
individual events and relays plus any individual or relay team meeting the 3 Participant Standard in the sectional finals of their
event. An individual or relay team shall not advance to the regional from the
sectional finals unless the time is recorded by fully
automatic timing (FAT).
Defending
Sectional Champions
Ben Davis,
Benton Central, Bloomington South, Brownstown Central, Castle, Center Grove,
Chesterton, Connersville, East Central, East Noble, Elkhart Central, Floyd
Central, Fort Wayne Bishop Luers, Fort Wayne Northrop,
Gibson Southern, Hamilton Southeastern, Huntington North, Jasper,
Jeffersonville, Kokomo, Lake Central, Lawrence North, Merrillville, Mt. Vernon
(Fortville), Muncie Central, Penn, Plainfield, Plymouth, Terre Haute North,
Valparaiso, Warren Central, West Lafayette.
Most
Consecutive Sectional Championships
15 years: Lake Central, 1992-present;
13:
Forest Park, 1993-2005.
11:
10:
Active
Sectional Championship Streaks (Three or more years)
15 years:
9:
7:
Chesterton, East Central, Warren Central.
5:
4:
3:
Ben Davis,
Boys
Track & Field Notables
Date: Thursday,
May 17.
Admission: $5.
Advancement from Sectionals to Regionals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place sectional winners in all
individual events and relays plus any individual or relay team meeting the 3 Participant Standard in the sectional finals of their
event. An individual or relay team shall not advance to the regional from the
sectional finals unless the time is recorded by fully
automatic timing (FAT).
Defending
Sectional Champions
Bloomington
South, Brown County, Carmel, Center Grove, East Noble, Elkhart Memorial,
Evansville Reitz, Floyd Central, Fort Wayne Northrop, Fort Wayne Wayne, Jeffersonville, Kokomo, Lafayette Jefferson, Lake
Central, Marion, Merrillville, Muncie Central, New Albany, Northeast Dubois,
Pendleton Heights, Pike, Plainfield, Plymouth, Portage, Richmond, Rushville,
South Bend St. Joseph’s, South Knox, Southport, Terre Haute North, Tri-County,
Valparaiso, Warren Central.
Most
Consecutive Sectional Championships
34 years:
30:
Elkhart/Elkhart Central, 1944-1973.
27:
19:
North Central (
16:
Active
Sectional Championship Streaks (Three or more years)
34 years:
16:
13:
8:
East Noble,
7:
5:
NEW
CREDENTIAL POLICY FOR TRACK STATE FINALS
News media
interested in covering the IHSAA Girls and/or Boys Track and Field State Finals
will be required to apply for credentials to this year’s events on June 1-2.
The generic state finals media credential issued earlier this year will NOT allow admission as in
previous years – no exceptions.
Interested
media should fax a request on company letterhead to IHSAA Sports Information
Director
Approved
requests may be claimed at media will-call at the Robert
C. Haugh Track & Field Complex in Bloomington that
weekend. As a friendly reminder, the IHSAA does not issue credentials to
sectional, regional or semi-state competitions. In those cases, please contact
the host school’s athletic department.
GIRLS
TENNIS STATE TOURNAMENT BEGINS THIS WEEK
Also
beginning this week is the 33rd Annual Girls Team Tennis State Tournament
Series. Schedules from each of the 64 sites will be posted by mid-week on the girls tennis page of the IHSAA website following the coaches
meetings this evening. Sectional winners will advance to one of 16 regionals scheduled for May 22-23. Match scores will be updated daily as they become available.
Park Tudor,
the two-time defending champion and top-ranked team in the latest state coaches poll, will begin its quest for a third straight
state title and a 10th consecutive sectional crown at Pike this
week.
Following
the team sectionals, any No. 1 singles player or doubles team undefeated in
post-season action will advance to the Individual Singles and Doubles State
Tournament May 22-26. Those matches will be played
concurrently at the team regional sites.
State Tournament Information: Team | Individual
Team Sectionals
Dates: Thursday,
May 17; Friday, May 18; Saturday, May 19.
Admission: Free.
Pairings: To be drawn by sectional tournament managers on Monday, May 14.
Defending
Sectional Champions
Anderson, Avon, Batesville, Bellmont, Benton
Central, Bethany Christian, Bloomington South, Carmel, Carroll (Fort Wayne), Castle,
Center Grove, Columbus North, Crown Point, Culver Academies, DeKalb, Delta, East Noble, Elkhart Central, Evansville
Central, Evansville Memorial, Floyd Central, Fort Wayne Concordia, Franklin
Central, Franklin County, Hammond, Highland, Homestead, Indianapolis Cardinal
Ritter, Jasper, Jennings County, Kokomo, Lafayette Central Catholic, Lawrence North,
Logansport, Loogootee, Manchester, Marion, Merrillville, Michigan City, Mishawaka
Marian, Muncie Central, Munster, New Albany, New Palestine, North Central
(Indianapolis), Northview, Park Tudor, Perry
Meridian, Plymouth, Providence, Richmond, River Forest, Rockville, Seymour,
Shelbyville, Shenandoah, Silver Creek, South Bend St. Joseph’s, Terre Haute
North, Valparaiso, Vincennes Lincoln, Warsaw, Wood Memorial, Zionsville.
Active Sectional Championship
Streaks (Three or more years)
30:
20:
17: Jasper.
16: North
Central (
15:
11:
Batesville, Center Grove.
10: Castle.
9:
7:
6:
5: Lawrence
North,
4: Carroll (
3:
Top 10 All-Time Sectional
Championships
31:
25:
23:
22:
21: Center
Grove,
Pairings for the 41st
Annual IHSAA Baseball State Tournament Series will be drawn Thursday, May 17,
beginning at 8 am ET / 7 am CT in the Assembly Room of the IHSAA Office in
Sectional play begins Monday,
May 28 (Memorial Day) and continues through Saturday, June 2.
NEWS & NOTES FROM AROUND THE STATE
Have an interesting note? Please e-mail IHSAA Sports
Information Director
Delta hired
Stan Daughtery
as its new Athletic Director beginning July 1. Daughtery
has been the men’s basketball coach at
DeKalb softball coach Steve Harp gained his 200th career win when the Barons defeated
North Harrison Athletic Director Keith Oppel is retiring at the end of
the school year after 18 years on the job and 40 years of teaching at the
school. Rick Gunter will be the new athletic director at
Mitchell girls basketball coach Ross Simpson has resigned at Mitchell
after 10 successful years and a 163-60 coaching record. Simpson led the Bluejackets to the school's first sectional title in 2002
and first regional championship in 2007.
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