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USATF OFFICIALS BEST PRACTICES

Pole Vault Head Official Protocols

(Created for national championship meets; modify as necessary for other competitions)

1. E-mail to crew soon after selection announcement (congratulate crew on their selection)

- Intro yourself as the event head; if any issues, questions, or physical limitations call or e-mail me right away;

reminder for crew to confirm selection as directed by the National Officials Cmte

2. E-mail to crew 2-3 months prior to event

- Send event procedures; crew assignments (if set); contact info for crew; meet schedule & meet web address

- Specify days & times of our events (if known); also meeting time & place, including venue set-up time

- Reminders - officials’ uniforms; review rulebook & materials for the event in the Best Practices library

- Equipment/gear to bring; have sunscreen, cold weather or rain gear

- Proficient with 5-alive or not? Any limitations on what you can do at the event?

3. Contact with Officials’ Coordinator

- Review crew assignments; obtain info on individuals not known by the head

- Confirm equipment provided by meet mgmt: cross bars, bar lifters, extenders measuring device, timing

device, steel tape measure, cloth tape measure (runway), broom, cone, performance board, standards

setting board, officials’ chairs, athletes benches, flags (1 red, white, & yellow), water container/bottles, wind

indicator, pennants/barriers, metric conversion chart, clipboards, pencils, athletic tape, pole rack, towels,

shims, chalk dish & chalk, tacks, Weather Writers, distance markers

- Based on the above, confirm items the head may need to bring: stopwatches, flags (1 red, white, & yellow),

metric conversion chart, clipboards, pencils, rule book, level, plumb bob & string, tacks, wrench/vise grip,

Weather Writers, markers for steps, shims

4. Pre-meet head officials’ meeting

- Get answers to the questions on the last page of this document

- Meet w/Referee(s), Clerk, Electronic Recorder - learn their location, radio channels, cell #, procedures

5. Pre-meet crew meeting

- Share info from the head officials’ meeting - - answers to questions on the last page

- Crew assignments & expectations; pre-event show time & place; post-event meeting time & place

- Safety - general considerations

- Event head and flight coordinator will go to Clerk’s area to pick up & brief athletes

- We’ll generally keep a quiet venue – using hand signals; and will generally remain seated (except Flight Coord)

- Pit boss/flagger - stand on runway until certain pit & standards are ready - bar is centered, snug to standard &

steady, standards settings are correct, then step off; have a height progression cheat sheet

- Flagger – be in position to see both timer and zero line fouls; eyes on box first, then bar, no flag until certain

that bar will remain up; catch steps for all athletes during warm-ups

- Timer – start clock when flagger or pit boss steps off runway; stop, reset clock only after white or red flag; find

out & relay info on bar/no bar/bar height during warm-ups; return equipment after event

- Flight coordinator – Get opening heights & passes; check bibs & spikes; immediately advise recorder of all

passes; review 5-alive procedures

- Recorder(s) – assist with bar during warm-ups; be aware of records; compare results with electronic recorder

after each round; check ties – jump-off needed?

- Standards judges - escort athletes to mixed zone after event

- What we’ll do in the event of a protest & in the event of a record

- If you see an apparent problem, get my attention right away; keep hydrated; have sunscreen, raingear

- Clean up venue after event, before departure

PV Head Ofcl Protocols, USATF Best Practices, Sep 13 (Credit: R. Schornstein, S. Halik)

Pole Vault Head Official Protocols Template

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