In addition to correctly entering the meet and having equaled or bettered the qualifying standard(s) during the stated qualifying periods, the following criteria must also be met:
Only citizens of the United States who are eligible to represent the United States in all levels of international competition under USATF and IAAF Rules, and who have met the published entry standards as stated elsewhere in this document are eligible to compete in these Championships.
Athletes who have questions concerning their citizenship, including dual citizens, should contact USATF's Legal Affairs Manager, Sarah Austin (Sarah.Austin@usatf.org).
Date of Birth (DOB) and/or Citizenship Verification
Athletes must be at least 14 years old on the day of competition but not turn 20 years old at any time in 2017. All entries must be accompanied by a copy of a legal document (passport or birth certificate) in order to verify date of birth and citizenship. If you have a valid passport at the time of entry, please use a copy of the information page of your passport as verification of citizenship and birth date. These copies will not be returned. You must Scan or FAX a copy of your passport or birth certificate, along with your 2017 USATF Membership number, event, and championship name ("USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships") no later than June 15, 2017.
Scan and email copy as an attachment to: membership@usatf.org or,
Fax to USATF National Office at 1-800-833-1466 (with specific event details).
Athletes may enter an event(s) even if they have not met the qualifying standard for that event(s). However, athletes will not be permitted to compete unless they have:
A 2017 USATF membership
Completed the entry process
Met the entry standard by Sunday, June 18, 2017.
Completed the declaration process
Proof of qualifying performance, if requested, must be submitted to USATF no later than 5:00pm ET, Thursday, June 15, 2017. Submittals received after this date will not be accepted. Please contact stats@usatf.org for verification procedures.
All athletes must be 2017 members of USATF in good standing. USATF memberships may be purchased online or through your local Association office.
Athletes must be bona fide members of a 2017 USATF club in order to represent a club. An athlete's current club affiliation can be viewed in his/her membership profile and as part of the online entry process. Athletes wishing to change club affiliations can make such a request through their local Association (note that this request must be made by the athlete--see Regulation 4 in the USATF Governance Manual). All club affiliations must be finalized by close of declarations on Sunday, June 18th. No club changes will be accepted after this date for the USATF Junior Championships.
In addition to a club affiliation, athletes are able to represent one corporate sponsor. This corporate sponsor must be a registered USATF Corporate Member and be part of the athlete's membership profile. Corporate Membership applications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to membership@usatf.org. All sponsor affiliations must be finalized by close of declarations. No sponsor changes will be accepted after this date for the USATF Junior Championships.
Athletes wishing to represent a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States must be registered with the Membership Committee of their local USATF Association.
The 2017 USATF Junior Track & Field Championships (the “Selection Event”) will be held June 22 – 24, 2017 in Sacramento, CA, and will serve as the selection meet for the 2017 Pan American Junior Championships (the “Pan Am Junior Championships”). The Championships will be held on July 21 – July 23, 2017 in Trujillo, Peru.
In order to be eligible to be a member of the USATF’s Pan Am Junior Championships team (the “Team”), or an alternate, an athlete must:
Be a citizen of the United States and, under USATF and IAAF rules, eligible to represent the USA at all levels of international competition.
Be a USA Track & Field member in good standing at the time of the selection through the end of the Pan Am Junior Championships.
Possess a valid passport that does not expire within six months of the Championships (and must be able to present their passport or a copy of passport at team processing (when applicable).
Sign a USATF Athlete Statement of Conditions for participation.
For each individual event on the Pan Am Junior Championships program of events, up to two (2) athletes per event will select themselves for the Team through head-to-head competition at the 2017 USATF Junior Championships, provided that they finish in the top 8 in their event. In addition to athletes being selected in individual events, USATF will also select up to two (2) additional athletes for each relay team/pool (men’s and women’s 4 x 100 and 4x 400), with this selection to be based on competitive considerations. The events that will be contested at the Pan Am Junior Championships are:
Men’s Track:
100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000St, 5000, 10,000, 110H, 400H, 10kRW
Men’s Field:
HJ, PV, LJ, TJ, SP, DT, HT, JT, Decathlon
Women’s Track:
100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000St, 3000, 5000, 100H, 400H, 10kRW
Women’s Field:
HJ, PV, LJ, TJ, SP, DT, HT, JT, Heptathlon
Men’s Relays:
4x100, 4x400
Women’s Relays:
Athletes will select themselves for a position on the Team based on the rank order of place finish among the top 8 place finishers in each individual event at the 2017 USATF Junior Championships as follows:
In all events at the Championships, the rank order for selection will be based on the place finish in the final of that event.
In each event, if an athlete declines to participate on the Team, USATF will offer that position to the next highest ranked individual meeting all criteria continuing in this order until the two positions for each event are filled from the top 8 place finishers only.
There are no qualifying standards for the Pan Am Junior Championships.
The Pan Am Junior Championships are an age group event, which follows the IAAF regulations on the age of competitors. NOTE: While athletes aged 14 and 15 years of age may compete at the 2017 USATF Junior Championships, only athletes who are 16 to 19 years of age may qualify to compete at the 2017 Pan American Junior Championships. The regulations for the Pan Am Junior Championships are as follows:
An athlete aged 18 or 19 years on December 31, 2017 (born in 1999 or 1998) may compete in any event.
An athlete aged 16 or 17 years on December 31, 2017 (born in 2000 or 2001) may compete in any event. However, the maximum number of events in which an athlete in this age category can compete is two individual events plus one relay. If the two individual events are Track events, only one of these may be longer than 200m.
No athlete younger than 16 years of age on December 31, 2017 (born in 2001 or earlier) may be entered.
No athlete older than 19 years of age (who will turn 20 at any time in 2017) may be entered.
An athlete who is to be nominated to the team by USATF may be removed as a nominee for any of the following reasons, as determined by USATF:
Voluntary withdrawal: An athlete may choose to decline a position on the team, should they become eligible, by completing the necessary paper work during team processing at the Selection Event. Should an athlete choose to withdraw subsequent to the Selection Event, they may do so by submitting a written letter via e-mail to Kimberly Sims, Manager of International Teams at Kimberly.Sims@usatf.org.
Injury or illness as certified by a physician (or medical staff) approved by USATF: If an athlete refuses verification of his/her illness or injury by a physician (or medical staff) approved by USATF, his/her injury will be assumed to be disabling and he/she may be removed.
Violation of the USATF Athlete Statement of Conditions.
Criteria for a Legal Meet
Qualifying Window: All events except below-Wednesday, June 24, 2016 to Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT. 10,000/race walks/multi’s-Thursday, January 1, 2016 to Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT
Events in bold will be contested at the Championships. Events listed directly below those being contested may be used as alternates for qualifying. See Qualifying Guidelines below for full details.
* F.A.T is the only method of timing acceptable for qualifying marks for events listed with an asterisk. Times submitted in hudredths of a second must be fully automatic times.
** A manual time may be used for qualifying in events with a double asterisk only if no fully automatic qualifying time exists for the individual in that event during the qualifying period. A manual time may not supercede any fully automatic qualifying time for an event. Qualifying manual times, for eligible events, not already listed, are always the FAT qualifying time without the last zero. Manual times will be converted for seeding purposes using USATF Rule 76. Go to Top
Criteria for a Meet/Event to be acceptable for qualifying for 2017 USATF (Senior) Championships and USATF Junior Championships. In order for a mark from a meet or single event to be accepted for qualifying for the USATF T&F Championships, USATF Junior T&F Championships or U.S. Olympic T&F Trials – as well as for USATF to be able to validate the mark(s) to the IAAF for World Championships qualifying purposes, the following criteria apply:
The meet/event must appear on an organization’s previously published calendar of events.
Meets that are to be held in the first three (3) weeks of June, and which are not on an organization’s previously published calendar of events, must be reported to USATF at [duffy.mahoney@usatf.org] or (317-713-4673) not later than Thursday, June 1, 2017.
Doing so will permit the USATF staff member designated by the Sports Committee Chairs, to review the proposed meet/event. If the meet/event were then approved, this would give sufficient time for meet information to be disseminated to as wide a range of interested athletes as possible.
Failure to adhere to this protocol will likely result in the performance(s) being disallowed for qualifying for these Championships.
The meet/event must be sanctioned in advance by USATF or the Governing Body of another nation. While they might not be sanctioned by USATF, high level collegiate and high school meets, such as a high school or college invitationals, championships, relay carnivals, etc., will be recognized as valid meets for qualifying provided all other criteria are met.
The meet/event must be held on a legal facility as per USATF and/or IAAF rules.
USATF certified or recognized officials must officiate at the meet/event.
In the 100m, 200m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles, only marks made using FAT (full automatic timing to the hundredth of a second [.01]) will be accepted for QUALIFYING PURPOSES. The provisions of USATF Rule 165 shall apply for video tape timing.
In the short sprints (100m & 200m), short hurdles (100m & 110m), horizontal jumps (long jump & triple jump), a wind gauge must be used and reported. A mark made with a wind reading exceeding 2.0 meters per second or higher will not be acceptable for qualifying.
At least five (5) competitors must participate in each event. All such athletes must be of the same gender, and may not be a mix of masters and/or youth athletes.
In throwing events, all implements must be officially measured and certified according to USATF and/or IAAF rules.
Mixed competitions for events inside the stadium are generally not acceptable. However, in field events and races of 5000m or longer, mixed competition may be approved by the respective Sport Committee - this approval being needed in advance of the event.
Trials-finals, qualifying-finals, rounds in running events, etc. must be run according to USATF and/or IAAF rules & regulations. Duplicate events on the same day, unless following the World/Olympic same-day qualifying & finals format, will not be acceptable for qualifying purposes.
Meet results for each jumping and throwing event, including field event recording sheet(s) and throwing implement verification sheets, may be requested and sent/faxed (317-261-0514) to the USATF National Office, attn: Duffy Mahoney.
Meet results should always be faxed or e-mailed to: USATF at [stats@usatf.org] and T&F News at [stats@trackandfieldnews.com].
Please bring passports to National Team Sign-Up!* The 2017 USATF Outdoor Championships and the 2017 USATF Junior Championships will serve as the selection events for the international competitions listed below for Open athletes. All athletes are required to complete team processing in order to be eligible for 2017 USA National Teams. Those who fail to complete team processing during the timeframes listed below will forfeit their rank for selection to national teams for the 2017 season. The following teams will draw their rosters from the 2017 USATF Outdoor Championships and 2017 USATF Junior Championships:
2017 Thorpe Cup (July 29 – 30; Dusseldorf, Germany)
2017 Pan American Junior Championships (July 21 – 23; Trujillo, Peru)
2017 IAAF World Championships (August 4 – 13; London, UK)
2017 USA vs Canada Junior Race Walk (August 20; Rome, Georgia, USA)
Athletes should bring the following to team processing:
Travel and competition plans for the summer
Valid U.S. passport*
Necessary information to complete forms (contact information for agents, coaches, etc.)
* Athletes must have a current passport good for at least six (6) months after the return date from the National Team event. Reminder: without exception, those not completing team processing will not be eligible for 2017 outdoor national teams.
Athletes will be directed by a 2017 National Team staff member to the team sign-up area located in the Grand Nave Ballroom in the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel (1230 J Street, 13th and J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814) immediately after the final of their event.