CIF-SS Ford Unified Track & Field Championships

May 16th, 2020

Trabuco Hills High School

Mission Viejo, Ca.

Special Olympics Unified Sports is dedicated to promoting social inclusion through shared sports training and competition experiences, breaking down the stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities.  Within the context of high school sports, it is the creation of inclusive teams of general education and special education student-athletes who play alongside each other as teammates. Trabuco Hills High School is proud to host the second annual CIF-SS Ford Unified Track & Field Championships. We will have 8 events per gender, working in conjunction with Special Olympics Southern California and the CIF Southern Section. The top finishing participants in selected events at this meet will be invited to participate in the CIF-SS Masters Meet the following weekend at El Camino College in Torrance. The top finishing participants at the CIF-SS Masters Meet in the 100m will be invited to compete at the CIF California State Meet the following week in Fresno. 

Organizational video for those looking to start a Unified Track and Field program

Instructional video for those who are new to Track and Field

Participants:

Athletes need to attend the school that they represent and be eligible to compete for their school. 

• Unified Athlete- any special education student

  • Mild/mod or mod/severe special education designation

• Unified Partner- any general education student who is permitted to be a member of the track and field team at their school but cannot have advanced to CIF competition in any event as a participant or alternate. Unified Partners are not required to be members of their school’s track and field team. 

Unified Sports Track and Field Meet Order of Events

• 4x100m*

• 1600m

• 100m

• 400m

• 800m

• 200m

• LJ

• 4x400m

Bolded events -- top 4 pairs in individual events and a minimum of 4 but up to 9 relay teams* will advance to the CIF-SS Masters meet on May 23rd.

Meet Schedule:

Tentative meet schedule 

Registration is now closed: 

1. From 4/6/2020-5/1/2020 visit EPI Sports

2. Create an account

3. Enter your athletes

4. Complete the School Worksheet for Unified Track and Field

5. Entry fees: $5/event and $20/relay

6. Send a check  made payable to “Trabuco Hills High School ASB” with the memo saying Unified Track and Field to the following address:

Trabuco Hills High School

27501 Mustang Run

Mission Viejo, Ca. 92691

Team structure:

1. Teams will consist of Unified Athletes and Unified Partners from the same school.

2. All athletes must be eligible to participate in athletics under CIF standards

3. Relays shall consist of 2 Unified Athletes and 2 Unified Partners

4. Within each team, “Unified Pairs” made up of 1 unified athlete and 1 unified partner will be created to compete in individual events

Scoring of events:

1. For all timed events, the combined finishing time between the unified pair shall be used as their scoring time.

   1. Each Unified athlete entered by a school will be placed into a heat/flight

   2. Athletes will be seeded based on their entry times

   3. Races run without lane assignments will have a suitable number of pairs consistent with high school track and field meets.

   4. At the end of each event, all of the combined times will be merged and points will be awarded based combined marks.

      1. It is imperative that School Worksheet for Unified Track and Field is completed by May, 5th. 

2. Points will be awarded as follows for the overall team champion: 

   1. 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

 Example of determining placing for all timed events:

100m Girls

100m Girls Combined Results

1. In the long jump, the longest mark for each member of the unified pair shall be combined and used as their scoring mark.

   1. Each Unified Pair representing a school will be placed in the same flight for the long jump

Example of determining placing for all marked events:

Long Jump Girls

Long Jump Girls Combined Results