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Graduated in '87 from an Iowa high school. No AC in the junior high or high school, except for the office. We were only allowed to wear shorts to school IF school officials told us the day before that we had permission.

It's not quite the same. Many events are the same or similar, many others are not. Events common to both High jump Pole vault Long jump Shot put 4x800 4x200 1,600 400 800 200 3,200 4x400 Outdoor only Discus 100 100 hurdles (girls) 110 hurdles (boys) 4x100 300 hurdles Indoor only Triple jump...

The 160-boy cutoff seemed a bit high to me as well.

If a student who lives in a public school district attends a private school, and the private school does not offer a sport the public school does, then that student may play that sport for the public school he/she otherwise would attend.

Micah Hyde — S, Buffalo Graduated from Fostoria High

Graduated from an Iowa high school in 1987. We always had to acknowledge the foul was called on us.

Graduated from an Iowa high school in 1987. We had even numbers of home and odd numbers for away jerseys then.

Grew up and played in a different state. Graduated in 1987. The next year, my alma mater struggled a bit and lost on the first night of the tournament by the glorious score of 10-7. Missed a game-tying 3-point attempt at the buzzer. From what I heard, lots of people at the game were upset about...

Sandusky Bay Conference Lake Division — double Sandusky Bay Conference Bay Division — double Sandusky Bay Conference River Division — double Northern Buckeye Conference — double Northern 10 Athletic Conference — double Blanchard Valley Conference — single

The University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, has the UNI Dome. It opened in 1976 and has a capacity of 16,234. It's used for football, wrestling, indoor track and softball, as well as several other public events and concerts. It was also home to the college's basketball team until a...

It's worse when the original nickname is clearly male and they stick "Lady" in front of it. Lady Rams is one example in my area. Are they confused, or making a transition?

Bill Groman at No. 172 graduated from Columbian (Tiffin), not Columbia (Tiffin)

Do you make state a three-day event, with semifinals on the first two days for all four divisions (actually eight, since its boys and girls), or just start earlier and end later under the lights on both days? And if you go three days, is it Thursday through Saturday, or Friday through Sunday...

Sounds good. Also sounds too logical to be correct.

Update: The meet that wasn't listed on MileSplit has finally been posted to it. Heaven forbid they do that on the first day of the meet, but at least it's there now.