Outdoor Weekend Meets Open Saturday

senior ryan jank
Ryan Jank is a senior at Dorman High School. (Mike Jank photo)
The first weekend of outdoor track and field meets start this Saturday with 10th Annual Relays in Beaufort, Greenville-Spartanburg Relays at Dorman in Spartanburg, and the Optimist Relays in Sumter. The GSP Relays is celebrating its fifth year.

Scoring at the GSP Relays consists of the same as a normal meet (8 spots) and then the top three schools from each county will be scored as one team. The meet is only open to Greenville and Spartanburg County Schools.

2003 Team Recap
Spartanburg County Boys scored 268 to Greenville County Boys 195 points. Spartanburg High School won the boys team competition with 115 points to Dorman's 101.5 points. Eastside High School rounded out the top three as the first AAA school with 61 points. 13 boys teams from the combined counties competed.

Greenville County girls tallied 233 to Spartanburg County's 225 to win the county competition. Spartanburg (4A) captured the girl's team title over 3A JL Mann. Byrnes (4A) rounded out the top three. 13 girl's teams competed in the meet.

GSP Relays Event Schedule
8:30 – track open for warm-ups/packet-pick up
9:20 – 1500 meter wheelchair race (exhibition, non-scoring event)
9:30 – Boys shot put, Boys Pole Vault, Boys Long Jump, Girls Discus, Girls
Triple Jump, Girls High Jump
9:30 – Girls 4x1600 meter relay
10 – Boys 4x1600 meter relay
11 – Girls mile medley
11:15 – Boys mile medley
11:30 – Boys discus, Boys triple jump, Boys high jump, Girls shot put, Girls pole vault, Girls long jump
11:45 – Girls shuttle hurdle relay
12:05 – Boys shuttle hurdle relay
12:30 – Girls 4x100 meter relay
12:45 – Boys 4x100 meter relay
1 – Girls distance medley
1:20 – Boys distance medley
1:45 – Girls sprint medley
2 – Boys sprint medley
2:15 – Girls 4x200 meter relay
2:30 – Boys 4x200 meter relay
2:45 – Girls 4x800 meter relay
3:15 – Boys 4x800 meter relay
3:40 – Girls 4x800 meter relay
3:50 – Boys 4x400 meter relay
4 – Announcing of final scores
*tentative, subject to change