Nobody wants a one-day state championship meet. It’s not fair to the athletes, it’s not fair to the coaches, it’s not fair to anybody. But this is the reality, so here we go.
For the first time since 1983 at Rutgers University in Piscataway, the New Jersey state championships will be a one-day affair on Saturday. The NJSIAA turned the two-day meet into a one-day meet – eliminating 100 and hurdles trials and eliminating field event finals – because of concerns about air quality Friday [which was fine mid-afternoon when the meet was scheduled to start]. For the record, NJSIAA baseball, softball and lacrosse state championship tournament games were all played Friday.
But the show must go in, and here’s our link dump with everything you need to follow along from Delsea or Franklin or remotely if you can’t get to either meet.
Any errors or bad links lemme know in the comment section! Good luck everybody!
Updated Time Schedule [still not posted on NJSIAA awful web site]: Click here.
Performance lists
[I edited the NJSIAA’s jumbled mess of performance lists and whittled them down to each group]
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Parochial A
Parochial B
Live Results
From Delsea [Groups 2, 3 and B]: Click here
From Franklin Township [Groups 1, 4 and A]: Click here
Meet Program
[with all 12,384 pages of ads deleted]: Click here
Meet Records
Click here: Meet records
All-Time Team Champions
Click here: All-time team champions
New Jersey Air Quality chart [it’s fine and the meet could have been run today]: Click here.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 