4x200 Relay Selection Procedure

Subject to change by the Masters Track and Field Committee of USATF

General Information

1. The relays will take place on Saturday, March 6, presumably in the afternoon.
2. If you intend to run the relay, please check the box on the supplemental entry form.
3. Philip Greenwald will have relay declaration forms Kamloops. Please note that if you sign-up and are placed on a team, you are expected to compete; your team-mates will be depending on you.
4. The USATF Masters Committee set the guidelines for the selection of relays. Relay competitors are selected from among the 200 meters dash competitors in Kamloops, with some discretion on the part of the Team Manager.

Declarations
To avoid last minute scrambling for relay team members and to avoid any "pick-up team" selection process, everyone interested in being on a relay team should have indicated their interest on the USA Supplemental Entry Form, however this is not mandatory   The Team Manager will post draft rosters on the USA Information Board in the TIC as the rosters evolve.

In Kamloops, there will be a formal declaration form for each athlete to sign, indicating that if he or she is selected for a team (including alternates), he/she will be at the track ready, willing, and able to run.  If a commitment is made and an athlete is selected as a relay team member or alternate, it is expected that they will adjust their travel schedules to be at the venue on March 6.  Declarations are due to the Team Manager three hours before the Team Manager must file the Final Relay Declaration for the United States with the meet organizers (this time has not been announced). Athlete declarations can be withdrawn any time up to two hours before the filing time; otherwise all selected runners (and alternates) are expected to be at the venue ready, willing, and able to run.

Sanctions
The sanction for declaring but not competing (other than for sudden injury or accident) is that the athlete will be placed at the bottom of the relay pool for the next two WMA competitions (2011 outdoors and 2012 indoors).

Team Selection

1. Highest priority to athletes of the age group who compete in the 200m in Kamloops in order of performance. Selection will be from the top 50 percent performers (overall) in the first round of competition.
2. The Team Manager will also consider athletes of the age group who compete in the 60, 4000 and hurdles races. Selection will be from the top 50 percent performers in the first round of competition (or equivalent pentathlon times.
3. The Team Manager will then look for athletes in a older age group not needed as a runner or first alternate there (either because there are too many runners or insufficient runners).
4. Age groups are merged when two or more age groups do not have at least four athletes in the first two categories. Merged categories are then treated as one pool.
5. The Team Manager shall take everything into consideration but the selection of relay team members, including alternates, shall be made by the Team Manager and shall be final.

Injuries
The Team Manager will also take injuries into consideration. After consultation with any injured selected relay member and other team members, including alternates, the Team Manager will make the final decision, just prior to the athletes reporting to the Call Room, whether or not to replace any injured relay member with an alternate.

Teamwork
The Team Manager will do everything possible to coordinate as many baton practices as possible.  Relay members who do not make every effort to attend practice risk being replaced by an alternate, should the Team Manager decide it is in the best interest of the relay team.