Greetings,

In the past 24 hours we have seen our youth membership expand and grow with record numbers for 2013. This welcomed growth has greatly expanded the athlete numbers for our planned Youth Area Meets for June 1, 2013. This is a wonderful concern to have.

The USATF Georgia Association Board and the Youth Committee have added an additional venue to support the large numbers of registered athletes for the USATF 2013 Area Meets (2397 total) originally scheduled across two venues for June 1, 2013.

In order to accomplish this, we will be adding an additional venue; it will be Westlake High School in Atlanta, GA, to accommodate the growing numbers.

 The youth committee has and is working very hard to ensure athlete safety, success and a quality event for all.

The 'new' Areas will be as follows: 

• Area (A) North
• Area (B/C) South
• Area (D) Westlake

A small group of teams are being asked to move to Westlake High School to contest their Area Meet scheduled events. 

• Atlanta Elite Tigers Ben Hill
• Boys & Girls TC
• Cobb County Youth Track league
• Elite Speed TC
• Exchange Zone Athletics
• Full Throttle Elite
• Jackrabbit Track Field Clinic
• Macon Striders TC
• Marietta Pal TC
• Premier Athletics
• Quicksilver TC Inc
• Smyrna TC
• Sprint Athletics TC
• Tachyon TC
• The Heat TC
• Titans TC
• Track Phi Track Elite

We have over 80 teams and 100 unattached athletes competing in our Area meets this weekend. This will allow the meets to be smaller and to run more efficiently while maintaining the quality that USATF Georgia Association strives to maintain.

Your support for this added venue and movement for the new Area location is a testament to your passion and dedication to our Georgia men, women, boys and girls.

We thank the USATF GA Board of Directors for supporting this "very last" minute activity.

Jacqui Collins
Tony Dunning
Eric Merriweather
Wendy Collins

Your USATF Youth Executive Committee '13 

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