This quiz brought to you in the interest of helping everyone be better informed!
1. How many meets (varsity or sub-varsity) are athletes allowed each season in Colorado--exclusive of league and state meets?
2. How far apart are the hurdles in the 300 meter hurdles?
3. How long is a relay exchange zone? How long is it if you include the acceleration zone (which not all relays have)?
4. How long is a regulation baton?
5. What is the maximum allowable assisting wind for a state-qualifying mark in the 100, 200, 100/110H, LJ, or TJ?
6. How wide is a lane on a regulation track?
7. Is it permissible in Colorado to merge a boys and girls heat of a race and run them together?
8. How many consecutive steps (one foot or both feet) on or over a lane line results in a disqualification?
9. At what length does an compression underlayer on the legs become treated as an undergarment and therefore fall outside of the uniform rule?
10. How long does a field event competitor have to complete an attempt once said competitor's name has been called (assume we are not yet down to three of fewer competitors)?
11. By far, which track event experiences the most timing errors and why?
12. What is the ruling if a pole vaulter's pole breaks during an attempt?
13. Under what circumstances may a competitor leave the track to retrieve a dropped baton?
14. By rule, if a competitor assigned to finals in an event scratches his or her place in finals, under what circumstances may the next highest finisher in prelims be brought into finals?
15. What happens if two competitors in a track event have the same time when rounded to hundredths of a second?
Answers will be published in an upcoming article, but you can try your hand in the Comments section below or by making an answers thread on the forum.