•At the State tournament, the top two finishers in each heat automatically qualify for the finals. Then the next five fastest finishers will qualify to the finals regardless of which semifinal heat or their finish place in that heat. The NFHS rules indicate that there should be one more competitor in the finals than there are places. At the State tournament there are nine lanes available to satisfy this NFHS rule and thus, five athletes should qualify to finals based on time
However.. no triple jump this year.
this information is from the oatccc.com web site
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