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All Schools qualifiers reset for next month
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Posted on Mar 26 2012
Qualifying tournaments for the 2012 PSS/McDonald’s All Schools Championship has been rescheduled next month to give students more time to prepare for the trials.
The qualifiers in running, jumping, and throwing events were originally set to start yesterday at the Oleai Sports Complex, but after meeting with school coaches and officials last week, Northern Marianas Athletics decided to kick off the trials on April 2.
Week 1 of the qualifiers will run from April 2 to 4 and the public is requested to refrain from using the track facility from 3pm to 7pm to give way to student-athletes.
Events scheduled in Week 1, April 2, are the 60m, 100m, long jump, and 4x100m relay and the qualifiers are only for students from Saipan Community School, Dandan Elementary School, Gregorio T. Camacho, and William S. Reyes.
On April 3, Whispering Palms, Oleai, Koblerville, San Antonio, Brilliant Star, Kagman, Saipan International School, Mt. Carmel, San Vicente, Tanapag, and Garapan will compete in the same events.
The April 4 qualifiers will be for junior high and high school students and events to be contested are the same. Schools invited in the last day of Week 1 trials include Marianas High School, Kagman, Saipan Southern, SIS, Whispering Palms, Chacha, Hopwood Junior High School, SCS, Marianas Baptist Academy, and Northern Marianas Academy.
For Week 2, trials will run from April 10 to 13 and events scheduled are 200m and 400m runs, softball throw, mixed medley relay. The April 13 trial for high school and junior high will add 3,000m and discus throw.
Week 3 trials for 800m and 1,500m runs, 4x400m relay, javelin, and shotput will be held from April 16 to 19, while Week 4 qualifiers for 60m, 100m, long jump, and 4x100m relay will run from April 23 to 26.
Eight more qualifying days will take place (April 30, May 1 to 3 and May 7 to 10) before students compete in the All Schools Championship scheduled from May 17 to 19. Only the Top 8 students in each event will qualify for the championship.
