Illinois Lightning Open 2022

Palos Heights, IL

Meet Information

Saturday, June 25th @ Shepard High School

Field Events 9:00 AM, Track Events 9:30 AM

Event Description

This early summer community track meet offers affordable track and field competition opportunities for all members of the family. The meet offers a limited slate of events for age groups including Beginner (ages 8 and below), Youth (Ages 9 -11), Middle School (ages 12-14), High School (ages 14-18), and Open (18 and above). We hope the entire meet lasts 3 hours.

$15 unlimited events (Max of 4 events) - $350 per team limit

Registration deadline Friday 6/24 at 2:00PM

Registrations can be done at this link (Illinois Lightning Athletes will be resistered by their Coaches):

Meet day registration runs from 8:30AM until 9:00AM: only $25 unlimited events option

Accepted forms of payment include cash, PayPal, checks payable to Illinois Lightning Youth Track & Field, and credit card processing via Square.  If you do not pre-register, we urge you to arrive early as we will cut off walk-up registration at 9:00AM  to prepare the meet program.

Events in order (9:30):

4x100 (14-18)

55 Meters (8&Under)

100 Meters  

1500 Meters (Heats will be based upon times not age and can be co-ed)

100 Meter Hurdles

200 Meters

800 Meters

1500 Meter Racewalk (We are hoping this gets everyone out! - Its an Olympic sport)

4x400 Meter Relay (Heats will be based upon times not age and can be co-ed...please enter teammates in box)

Field Events (9:00) 

Long Jump

Shot Put

Discus

Javelin

Turbo Javelin

Triple Jump

High Jump - same as Pole Vault

Pole Vault - proceeding from lowest height to highest, regardless of age group

8&UNDER OPTIONS

55 Meters, 200 Meters, Long Jump, Shot Put, Turbo Javelin

Timing

IL Prep Top Timing will provide Fully Automatic Timing (FAT) services for the entire meet. All results will be published after the meet on Athletic.net and included in an athletes online profile.