I was amazed last night at how poorly this meet was timed and run. If you are going to hand time an event, at least train your timers well and get people who pay attention to the actual timing. I walked past the timers table at one point and heard one timer say, "Oops, I missed that one", reffering to NOT pushing the plunger for the lane he was responsible for.
Coach's were complaining all night that the times and places posted for their runners were totally wrong.
And to top it all, they actually failed to time the final of the boys 300 hurdles! They scored it as a 7 way tie for 1st!
During the start of the girls 400, the starter was having trouble being heard, so the PA announcer "took over". The poor girls were called to set 4 times because the PA guy didn't know to watch the starter's hands.
It is too bad that a meet like this has become such a low tech fiasco.
If anyone else was there who saw it differently, please correct me, but I saw it as a total train wreck.
Coach's were complaining all night that the times and places posted for their runners were totally wrong.
And to top it all, they actually failed to time the final of the boys 300 hurdles! They scored it as a 7 way tie for 1st!
During the start of the girls 400, the starter was having trouble being heard, so the PA announcer "took over". The poor girls were called to set 4 times because the PA guy didn't know to watch the starter's hands.
It is too bad that a meet like this has become such a low tech fiasco.
If anyone else was there who saw it differently, please correct me, but I saw it as a total train wreck.