Corporate Running Association

Divisions:

Division 1:
Companies with 10,000 or more employees.

Division 2:
Companies with fewer than 10,000 employees or companies whose pool of athletes is selected entirely from a region with fewer than 10,000 employees.

Divisions 1 and 2 will use the same rules for all events except for the number of scoring runners in the Men's 5K and Women's 5K. Note that Division 2 companies will not compete in the Men's 10K or the Women's 10K.

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Eligibility Standards:

All team members must fall into one of the following six (6) eligibility categories: Employees:
Must have been employed continuously by the corporation forty-five days prior to the start of the meet. They must be working 20 hours or more per week (for each of the six plus weeks leading up to the meet), and be on the corporation's payroll and have taxes withheld by the corporation. An athlete who is an employee of a corporate team competing is not eligible to participate as a member of a Club team.

Contractors:
Must be under contract with the corporation six months prior to the start of the meet. Must be working 30 hours or more per week, for that corporation, for the entire six months. Eligible contractors comprise independent contractors; outsourced former employees who continue to perform the same work for the corporation, and staff who have long-term service commitments with the corporation, who take direction from corporate employees, and who work to fulfill corporate business objectives, even if they are paid through payroll or temporary staffing agencies. Employees of outside consulting firms who are assigned to client corporations on task assignments are not eligible to compete for those client corporations (example: Andersen Consulting employees on assignment to Hughes may not compete for Hughes). Contractors are eligible to compete as alumni if they worked for the company for 24 months. Any contractor who qualifies as alumni under this provision would be part of the alumni rule which caps the number of participants in this category at 5.

Retirees:
Must be pension eligible, former employees of the represented corporation, with five or more years of service to the corporation and whose age plus years of service equals fifty-five years or more. Years of service accumulated with a business divested, sold or spun off from the parent corporation may be included in the calculation. Retirees must not be in the full time employment of another USCAA competing corporation. There is no limit on the number of retirees who may compete for a corporation.

Alumni:
Up to five (5) ex-employees or eligible contractors (see item 2. Contractors) who have previously competed for a team in at least one (1) USCAA National or Regional Track & Field Championship are eligible to compete for that team, provided they are not employed by another competing team. No more than three (3) ex-employees can come from a single company.

Pool Runners:
There is a precedent to allow a limited number of unattached runners to compete. Such "pool runners" (or a team captain/representative in their place) must contact the organizing committee prior to the date of the meet preferably two weeks or more for consideration of placement on a particular team. The organizing committee will make an attempt to place each pool runner with a team in need of any particular aspect unique to that pool runner such as gender, age, distance/event specialty, etc. Pool runners are a separate distinction from Alumni as described above.

Family Members:
Immediate family members of Employees, Contractors, Retirees, and Alumni are eligible. A family member is defined as a spouse/lifetime partner, son, daughter, or parent. A Family Member must be at least 18 years old.

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Competitor Age

For the purposes of age-graded scoring and event eligibility, a competitor's age will be determined by their age in years as of December 31 of the current year. For example, any competitor born in 1970 will be considered to be 48 years old for the 2018 competition, regardless of where in the calendar year their birthday falls.

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Frequency of Participation:

Each athlete may compete in a maximum of 4 events. Each field event will count as 1/2 event against an athlete's tally.
If an athlete is a member of an event team that either DNFs or is disqualified in finals, ALL athletes on that team will be charged for that event toward the event participation ceiling of 4 events.
An individual may not run more than one leg in an event. An individual may not run in more than one age group per Individual Event.
Companies may enter "B", "C", (etc.) secondary teams in any team event. These secondary teams must be designated before the event. Secondary teams do not score nor will they displace any scoring teams for any company.

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Ties and Tie Breakers

Overall team score ties will be broken using the following sequence of tie-breakers:

Head to head wins in common events, which both (all) teams included in their scoring. If more than two teams are tied, continue to use only the events in which each of the tied teams competed and included in their scoring events. In the case of multiple tied teams, score one point for beating the other tied teams, zero points for all other places. In the event that a team has multiple places of the same score, and one or more of those scores will be discarded from their final point total, the last score(s) of the same value will be the discarded score(s).

If still tied, the winner is determined by the highest number of first place (overall) finishes, then second places finishes, etc. (using only the scored events) until the tie is broken.

If unable to break the tie using these methods, the tie remains.

Track event ties:
If there is a tie in a Team Relay (most events), then the Fully Automatic Times (FAT) will be used (with totals to the hundredths, then thousandths if needed) to break the tie. If there is no FAT, then the official hand times will be added (truncated, no rounding, to the tenths) to break the tie. If a tie still exists, then the place remains a tie.
If there is a tie in a Team Race (Women's 800m Team Race, Men's Mile Team Race), for the team's total time, then the FAT times will be used (with totals to the hundredths, then thousandths if needed) to break the tie. If there is no FAT, then the official hand times will be added (truncated, no rounding, to the tenths) to break the tie. If a tie still exists, then the winning team will be determined by the fastest individual runner in that event.
If there is a tie in an individual race, when timed to the hundredths, then the FAT to the thousandths will be used to break the tie. If there is no FAT, then the place remains a tie.
Each tied team or athlete will receive the points for the tied place. For example, if two teams tied for third place in a Division 1 event, they will each receive third place points. In such a case, the next place receives fifth place points.

Field event ties:
Field event team ties will be broken by using the highest individual point score for a single field event among the scoring team members.

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Uniforms:

Each team should strive to have all participants wear matching jerseys/singlets with the company name prominently displayed on the front of the singlets.

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Protests

If and when a discrepancy is ever found in either individual performances, event races or overall team scores, due to data entry errors or incorrect information given by teams, the official scorer is required to make any such adjustments, updating or revising event and/or team standings in the meet as appropriate, within fourteen days after the results are considered final.

Team Captains have 120 minutes to file a protest after results have been posted.

Any protest will be handled by the Organizing Committee. Team captains should submit their protests on an official Protest Form, and return this form to the Announcers' table, after which the Organizing Committee will be called to order. Protest Forms will not be considered if received more than 120 minutes after posting of the results is announced. When submitting a Protest Form, a $25 deposit (check made payable to the Meet Director) must be submitted concurrently. If the protest is upheld, the $25 will be returned. If the protest is denied, the $25 will be forfeited to the Meet Director. Protests regarding track infractions must have a meet official as a witness in order to be reviewed by the Organizing Committee. Use of video stream may only be used to determine order of finish for track events. Only meet officials' video stream may be used, and only for the express purpose of determining finishing order.

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Track Events - General

All distances will be run in meters, with the exception of the Men's Mile Team Race.
Athletes may compete in their assigned age group or a younger age group. An athlete may not compete in an older age group.
Sign-in forms must be submitted to the check-in area at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the event.
Teams/Individuals must check in at the check-in table at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the event.
Each team must provide its own legal relay baton. A team must have a baton at all times during relay races or may be disqualified.
There will be no disqualifications due to false starts unless, in the judgment of the Meet Official, it becomes excessive.
Anyone exchanging out of the zone may be disqualified if judged by a Meet Official as gaining an advantage that affects the race results.
USATF rules will apply, except where otherwise noted here, and with the proviso that "No material advantage, no foul."
It is the discretion of the Meet Director to use a Box Start or Staggered Start in order to accommodate a single-section final.

Lane Assignments

Standard lane assignments are: 4 - 5 - 3 - 6 - 2 - 7 - 1 - 8
Waterfall lane assignments are: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
Box start lane assignments are: 4/5 - 3/6 - 2/7 - 1/8 - etc. (4/5 - 3/6 ...)

Lane assignments will be selected by random. If a need arises for a second heat in the same age group due to a large team turnout, heats will be selected by random. Every effort will be made to keep all runners in the same heat.

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Team Scoring:

Points awarded for each event are shown in the tables below.

Relays, Field Events and Team Races:

Individual 200m Races:

A team's overall score is the sum of the team's RelayFieldTeam Score plus the team's Individual Score.

A team's RelayTeamField score is computed as follows:
For Division 1, the sum of the fourteen (14) highest Relay, Field Event and Team Race, scores.
For Division 2, the sum of the eleven (11) highest Relay, Field Event and Team Race scores.

A team's Individual Score is computed as follows:
For Division 1, the sum of the six (6) highest Individual Race Scores*
For Division 2, the sum of the five (5) highest Individual Race Scores*

* If a team enters two scoring runners in an Individual Race, then it is considered two Individual Scores, not one.

A team can enter up to two (2) scoring runners in each Individual Race (e.g.,200m Men 30+). Any additional runners for that team are non-scoring runners as noted in the Individual Races section.

A team that enters two scoring runners in an Individual Race receives two Individual Race Scores (they are not combined into one score). Each of these Individual Race Scores will independently be either included in the team score or discarded.

A team that enters one scoring runner in an Individual Race will receive two Individual Race Scores (one for the scoring runner and zero (0) for the absent second runner). Each of these Individual Race Scores will independently be either included in the team score or discarded.

If a team has multiple places of the same score, and one or more of those scores will be discarded from the team's overall score, the last score(s) of the same value will be the discarded score(s). Scores are sorted by the date and time of the corresponding event with the oldest event first.

Teams must start an event with a legal team to receive the participation point.

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Individual Races:

200m Men 18+
200m Men 30+
200m Men 40+
200m Men 50+
200m Men 60+
200m Men 70+

200m Women 18+
200m Women 30+
200m Women 40+
200m Women 50+
200m Women 60+
200m Women 70+

Each team can enter up to two (2) scoring runners in each Individual Race. If a team enters more than two runners, then they must designate their scoring runners before the race. If before the race, a team later wants to change the status of any of their runners from a non-scoring runner to a designated scoring runner, then the team captain must inform the clerk of this change at least ten (10) minutes before the start of the race. For example, a team originally enters three runners in an individual race, Runner A, B, and C, and designates Runner A and Runner B as their scoring runners. Later, Runner B decides not to participate in that race so only Runner A and Runner C show up to start the race. Runner C will not count as a scoring runner for that team unless the team captain had reported the change in status of Runner C to the clerk at least ten minutes before the start of that race.
Non-scoring runners do not displace any scoring runners for any team. All Individual events will use standard lane assignments (see above).

Athletes may compete in their assigned age group or a younger age group. An athlete may not compete in an older age group. An athlete cannot run in more than one age group per individual event.

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Relay Races

4x100m Relay:
Four runners, with at least one woman and at least one other runner 40 years of age or older, and at least one other runner 50 years of age or older, each running 100m. The woman, if 40+ or 50+, cannot count as both as a 40 year old or a 50 year old AND a woman.

4x200m Relay:
Four runners, with at least one woman and at least on other runner 40 years of age or older, and at least one other runner 50 years of age or older, each running 200m. The woman, if 40+ or 50+, cannot count as both as a 40 year old or a 50 year old AND a woman.

4x400m Relay:
Four runners, with at least one woman and with at least one runner 40 years of age or older, at least one runner 50 years of age or older, and at least one runner 60 years of age or older, each running 400m. The woman, if 40+, 50+, or 60+, does fulfill that age requirement.

Executive Relay:
Three runners, each at the level of manager of managers (or the equivalent) or above, and all age 30 or older, with at least one woman, running in order: 800m, 400m, 400m.

Master's Plus Relay:
Five runners, all 40 years of age or older, with at least one woman AND one runner 50 years or older (in addition to the minimum one woman), running in order: 800m, 400m, 800m, 200m, 200m. Note: A typical team make-up is one 40-year-old woman, one 50-year-old man, and three 40-year-old men. The woman, if 50, cannot count as both a 50 year old AND a woman.

Senior's Relay:
Five runners, all 50 years of age or older, with at least one woman and one runner 60 years of age or older running the opening leg, running in order: 200m (60+), 400m, 200m, 600m, 400m.

Sub-Master's Sprint Medley Relay
Four runners, all 30 years of age or older, with at least one woman, running in order: 200m, 200m, 400m, 800m.

Three-Lap Sprint:
Four runners, with at least one woman, running in order: 200m, 200m, 400m, 400m.

Distance Medley Relay:
Four runners, with at least one woman and one master (40 years of age or older), in addition to the one woman, running in order: 1200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m.

Women's Relay: Three women runners whose combined ages total 90 years or more, running in order: 800m, 400m, 400m.

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Track and Road Team Races

Women's 800-Meter Team Race:
Two female runners, each running 800m, with the sum of both runner's time determining place.

Men's Mile Team Race:
Two male runners, each running one mile, with the sum of both runner's time determining place.

Men's & Women's 5K Team Race:
Age Groups: 18 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, 35 to 39, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, 55 to 59, 60 to 64, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, and 75+.

Men's: Unlimited number of male runners, each running 5K. Team score is the sum of the best five (5) age group places in Division 1. The team score is the sum of the best three (3) age group places in Division 2.

Women's: Unlimited number of female runners, each running 5K. Team score is the sum of the best four (4) age group places in Division 1. Team score is the sum of the best three (3) age group places in Division 2.

Men's & Women's 10K Team Race (Division 1 only):
Age Groups: 18 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, 35 to 39, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, 55 to 59, 60 to 64, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, and 75+.

Men's: Unlimited number of male runners, each running 10K. Team score is the sum of the best five (5) age group places.

Women's: Unlimited number of female runners, each running 10K. Team score is the sum of the best four (4) age group places.

Teams are ranked in order from lowest team score to highest team score. Any ties in team scoring will first be broken by comparing the best finishing place among the scoring runners of each tied team and continuing to the next best finishing place if necessary until the tie is broken. If all the individual places of the scoring runners are identical, then the tie will be broken by using the fastest finishing time among the scoring runners for each tied team.

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Field Events

Flight assignments will be based on random draw, as will athlete competing order. Requests for flight reassignment will be considered when an athlete will be competing at the same time in another event. Field event officials, when requested, will make as much accommodation as possible to all athletes in allowing them to make up throws/jumps while competing in their flight if a change of flight is not granted.Field athletes with competing track events will be given sufficient time after their competing event concludes to recover and warmup before resuming their field event.

Field event athletes should be pre-registered at least one week prior to the meet. Any changes must be made at the sign-in table at least 45 minutes prior to the start of the flight.

Athletes should check in at the event site 30 minutes prior to the start of the flight.

USATF rules will apply, except where otherwise noted here.

Individuals on a team may compete without a partner.

For safety purposes in the long jump, temporary take-off (or "board") markings on the runway are allowed; a facility's existing runway markings need not be the only markings used for take-off board/foul, and measurement purposes.

Team High Jump:
Up to three athletes per team, each competing in the high jump, using decathlon-type scoring on an age and gender-adjusted scale, with the summed score of the two best athletes determining a team's score. The team with the highest score wins.

The high jump will start each flight at one of the two heights (3' or 5'). Each athlete can select which flight to enter in the high jump. Heights will be increased by 2" increments at all intervals. Athletes may pass at any height. Each athlete stays in the high jump competition until they have three consecutive misses.

Team Long Jump:
Up to three athletes per team, each competing in the long jump, using decathlon-type scoring on an age and gender-adjusted scale, with the summed score of the two best athletes determining a team's score. The team with the highest score wins. Each athlete will be allowed four attempts in the long jump.

Team Shot Put:
Up to three athletes per team, each throwing the adjusted Shot weight for age and gender (shown in the table below), using decathlon-type scoring on an age and gender-adjusted scale, with the summed score of the two best athletes determining a team's score. The team with the highest score wins.

Each athlete will be allowed four throws in the shot put.

Team Discus Throw:
Up to three athletes per team, each throwing the adjusted Discus weight for age and gender (shown in the table below), using decathlon-type scoring on an age and gender-adjusted scale, with the summed score of the two best athletes determining a team's score. The team with the highest score wins.

Each athlete will be allowed four throws in the discus throw.

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Decathlon Scoring

(Shotput, Discus, High Jump, Long Jump):
To score the field events, take the distance or height and convert to inches. Divide this mark by the record (in inches) shown in the table below, multiply the results by 1000, and truncate any fraction remaining. The result is the decathlon point score.

In other words:
(your mark in inches) / (inches for you in chart) * 1000 = (your score, after truncating any fraction)

Shot Put: Discus:
High Jump:
Long Jump: