CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coastal Bend Coaches Association's inaugural Meet of Champions track and field invitational kickstarted the two-day event on Thursday. 5A participated in the prelims at Cabaniss Stadium, 4A at Rockport-Fulton, 3A and 2A at Banquete.
The finals on Friday feature the top 14 athletes in each event, five from 5A, four from 4A, three from 3A and two from 2A. The athletes will compete to see who is the best in the Coastal Bend.
"We want to make track a bigger deal and we want to be able to showcase all of the schools in the Coastal Bend and make it a really big deal for our kids and all of our communities," Mark Chester, Gregory-Portland assistant athletic director, said. "This track meet has 31 schools that are in the Coastal Bend, which is almost every school that we have that is represented here and having everybody competing against each other."
Tickets for the finals all-day access at Cabaniss Stadium will be $7 for adults and $3 for students. Money raised from the meet goes toward the CBCA's scholarships which are awarded to coaches kids at the end of the season.
"We're just really excited for the exposure and we want this to be a really big deal," Chester said. "We'd love to have Cabaniss sold out for the finals."
The field event finals start at 2:30 p.m. and the running finals follow around 6:30 p.m.
Below are the schools that will be participating:
5A
- CC Carroll
- CC Miller
- CC Vets
- CC Moody
- CC Ray
- CC King
4A
- Alice
- Ingleside
- Calallen
- Kingsville
- Rockport
- Orange Grove
- Beeville
- Robstown
- Bishop
- Sinton
- Gregory-Portland
- West Oso
3A & Below
- Banquete
- London
- Ben Bolt
- Mathis
- Falfurrias
- Odem
- Freer
- Premont
- Edna
- San Diego
- Hebbronville
- Santa Gertrudis
- Taft
- St. John Paul II
2023 Coastal Bend Coaches Association Inaugural Meet of Champions Schedule
Field Event Finals - 2:30 p.m.
- Pole vault girls followed by the boys
- High jump boys followed by the girls
- Triple jump girls
- Triple jump boys
- Shot put girls
- Discus boys
4:00 p.m.
- Long Jump girls
- Long Jump boys
- Discus girls
- Shot put boys
5:30 p.m.
- Opening Ceremonies – Presentation of Colors
5:35 p.m.
- Presentation – Meet honorees
5:45 p.m.
- 3200 Meter Run girls followed by the boys
5:50 p.m.
- Presentation of Field Event Awards
Running Event Finals- Will be on rolling schedule (Times may be adjusted)
6:30 p.m.
- 400 Meter Relay girls followed by the boys
6:45 p.m.
- 800 Meter Run girls followed by the boys
7:00 p.m.
- 100 Meter Hurdles girls
7:10 p.m.
- 110 Meter Hurdles boys
- 100 Meter Wheelchair division
7:20 p.m.
100 Meter Dash girls followed by the boys
7:35 p.m.
800 Meter Relay girls followed by the boys
400 Meter Wheelchair division
7:50 p.m.
- 400 Meter Dash girls followed by the boys
8:05 p.m.
- 300 Meter Hurdles girls followed by the boys
8:20 p.m.
- 200 Meter Dash girls followed by the boys
8:35 p.m.
- 1600 Meter Run girls followed by the boys
8:50 p.m.
- 1600 Meter Relay girls followed by the boys
Presentation of all running events awards will be made immediately after each race. The top 6 places in each running even will be escorted to the awards stand immediately following the conclusion of each race.
CORRECTION: Kopp's time was 12.17, not 12.12.
— Pilot Sports (@RPilotSports) March 9, 2023
BIG THANKS to this years sponsor of the Meet of Champions, South Texas Graduation/Herff Jones - Todd Twardowski. Check your emails and make sure you have your information submitted for the meet. It’s coming up fast! @ChrisThomasson7 @LarissaLiska pic.twitter.com/FKp4jqHkZ7
— Coastal Bend Coaches Association (@cbcatx1) February 28, 2023
