The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Coaches
2021 93rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
NOTE TO ALL COACHES
Entries will only be accepted online via the Direct Athletics website at directathletics.com. Detailed instructions will be included in your team packet and are available below. Questions regarding entry instructions should be emailed to support@directathletics.com.
See also Event Entry Procedures.
Accessing your Direct Athletics team account
Each coach must have a Direct Athletics username and password for his/her school. If you don't know your username and password, you will be able to create one or retrieve your existing account by following the instructions below. You will use the same account to enter all meets run through Direct Athletics.
In the Collegiate and High School Divisions, all athletes must be entered using a TEAM account. Individual entries made by anyone not affiliated with the coaching staff or school administration will not be accepted into the meet. Please designate one coach or staff member to process your entry information. Only one team account and password will be provided per team.
If you already have a DirectAthletics account for your track and field team and know your username and password:
1. Visit directathletics.com.
2. In the login box, enter your username and password and click Login. (Remember that your password is case sensitive.)
If you DO NOT know your username and password, proceed as follows:
1. Visit directathletics.com.
2. Click on the link "New User? Click HERE."
3. Follow the on screen instructions. You will be able to create a new TEAM account online or retrieve forgotten information for an existing account.
About Direct Athletics accounts
Most coach accounts control a school's men's AND women's team. You control only one gender at time, so you will complete the below steps for your men and then switch to your women's team and repeat the process (or vice versa). The team you are controlling is listed on the blue navigation bar across the top of your account.
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE COACHES
In the prelims of the University/College Men's and Women's 100/110-Meter Hurdles and 100 Meters, the men and women will run simultaneously. The women will use the west straight, and the men the east straight. We will alternate races back and forth between straights, so please have your athletes ready to compete. All finals will be held on the east straight. We will prepare a time schedule for preliminary events after scratches have been received. You are responsible for knowing the time schedule, but be aware that it is a guideline only. We do this to keep the meet running on schedule.
To help verify marks and establish fields for the following Men's and Women's events that have a limited number of entries, you will be required to input the date and location of the meet where the mark was achieved when you submit your entries online. Please use best verified times/distances from the 2019 - 2021 seasons when entering your athletes/relay teams.
All NCAA coaches: The TFRRS results reporting system will be used to research and accept Texas Relays Qualifiers. Best times/marks MUST be verified through TFRRS (from the 2019 - 2021 seasons), given your athlete(s)/relay team(s) have competed in the entered event(s) prior to the entry deadline. Please make sure you fill out your relay cards in correct full name/relay order to ensure correct results for TFRRS system.
HIGH SCHOOL COACHES
• Entry fees are for the total number of athletes who qualify for the meet.
• Preferred method of payment is check, money order or credit card (on site).
• To figure entry fee: Based on the Texas Relays final qualifiers list (released Tuesday, March 23 by Noon Central), take your TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCEPTED ATHLETES AND ALL ALTERNATES X $20 PER ATHLETE.
High School Scratch/Declaration Policy: There will be no High School online declaration process at www.directathletics.com, as in the past. If you have scratches (after the qualifiers are posted Thursday, March 18), you will need to either email texasrelays@athletics.utexas.edu or use the High School Scratch Form found on TexasSports.com to verify those scratches. This must take place from 10 p.m. Thursday, March 18 to noon Monday, March 22. If Texas Relays has documented scratches from you (during that time frame) of athletes you DO NOT intend to compete, you will not be responsible for their $20 entry fee. If we don't receive documentation during that period, you will incur the standard $20 athlete fee based off the qualifiers list. An email confirmation from Texas Relays will serve as your proof of scratching an individual or relay team.
• We will begin High School Division events at 8:20 p.m. on Thursday, March 25 and 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 26.
• High schools are allowed a maximum of two athletes per event and one relay team per school (if qualify).
• Due to time constraints, starting blocks will not be used in the prelims of the Boys and Girls 4x400-Meter Relays. We will run the finals with blocks.
• High school athletes must compete for their school. No unattached or club athletes will be allowed to compete in the High School Divisions.
• A 34.92-degree sector will be used for all throwing events.
• To help verify marks and establish fields for the following High School events that have a limited number of entries -- All field events, 100 Meters, 100- and 110-Meter Hurdles, 1,600 Meters, and 3,200 Meters -- coaches are required to input the meet name and date where the performance was achieved. Please use best time/distances from the 2019 – 2021 seasons.
• In the prelims of the High School Boys and Girls 100/110-Meter Hurdles and 100 Meters, the boys and girls will run simultaneously. The girls will use the west straight, and the boys the east straight. Division I will precede Division II. We will alternate races back and forth between straights, so please have your athletes ready to compete. All finals will be held on the east straight. We will prepare a time schedule for preliminary events after scratches have been received. You are responsible for knowing the time schedule, but be aware it is a guideline only. We do this to keep the meet on schedule.
• Entered times for High School 4x100s, 4x200s, and 4x400s, must be attained during the 2019 – 2021 season.
• High School athletes will not be allowed to double in the 1600/3200 meters. Please enter your athletes in one of those events only.
High School sanction
The Texas Relays has submitted for sanction of an interstate athletic event to the National Federation of State High School Associations. The University Interscholastic League (UIL) has approved the Texas Relays for state of Texas Association Member Schools (but does not govern private schools in the state of Texas). Texas high schools that are NOT members of the UIL or TAPPS, may be asked to submit letters of eligibility. The letters must be submitted by the principal or headmaster of the non-member school and the letter must be on school letterhead. The letter should state that all of their students participating in the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays meet the eligibility requirements of either their state association or the UIL.
Check with your state high school activities association if you have any questions before entering the Texas Relays. You can check for information on your state and Texas Relays sanctioning at NFHS.org/sanctioning.
ATTENTION ALL COACHES
Relay teams and individuals should only be entered if they are capable of achieving the standards listed beside each event. Please use good judgment when entering athletes. Honesty is the best policy. The sizes of the fields listed beside each event are approximations and may be adjusted as circumstances require. Event starting times are subject to change.
Scratching qualified athletes
After the initial list of Texas Relays qualifiers has been posted, all University/College/Post-Collegiate coaches with athletes or relay teams that have qualified, are asked to scratch athletes or relay teams that will NOT be competing, via the Direct Athletics website (same as entries). From 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, 2021 through noon on March 22, coaches may log into their TEAM account at directathletics.com to view and scratch qualifiers. No additions or updates may be made at this time -- scratches only! This will help with the heating and seeding of the events.
If athletes are NOT scratched, we will assume that they will be competing in the events that they have qualified in. If you have no scratches, no action is necessary and all qualifiers will be considered declared. A final list of Relay competitors (after all scratches have been received) will be posted on TexasSports.com by noon on Tuesday, March 23.
High School Coaches: Please see the High School Scratch/Declaration Policy under "High School Coaches" above.
Initial List of Qualifiers
A listing of qualifiers for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays will be posted (alphabetically, by event) online at TexasSports.com on Thursday, March 18, 2021, by 10 p.m. Central for ALL ATHLETES. Each coach is strongly advised to review the list to see which of their athletes and relay teams have qualified to compete in the Relays. If your athlete or relay team is NOT listed, they HAVE NOT qualified.