Welcome to the web site for SOCAT-Track Officials
Welcome to the Southern Catskill Track Officials Web Site. This is about us.
Our Chapter consists of member officials serving section I schools located in Rockland county and all section IX schools located in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. SOCAT also provides officials for many of the section IX schools located in Dutchess county.
Our basic mission: statement ?? Have a question or need assistance signing-on ?? Contact the webmaster at If you are interested in becoming a Track official, click here.
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Thank you for visiting the SOCAT web site. Have a great 2011 Cross Country and 2011/2012 Indoor season.
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- The Annual and final meeting for the 2012 track and field season will be held on 14 March 2012 (snowdate is 15 March) at 7pm in room 130 at the Monroe-Woodbury high school. Further details can be found in the chapter information menu on the left side of this web page. See item #5. _____________________________________________________________
Chapter and Website news:
- If you have any track and field related documents that would be good for the chapter.. send soft-copy to the webmaster for posting. _____________________________________________________________ 25 Jan 2012: A copy is also on the socat site in the document database. -As you might know, Fred Adler was inducted into the Rockland Country Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2011. Here is an informative biography of Fred as posted at the RCTF web site. - Calendar has been updated with all the Section IX spring invitationals and championship meet dates. Modified invitationals and equivalent Section I meets will be added as soon as those dates are known. (27Jan 2012) date,venue and meet format has changed for the MHAL Championship. See May 19th calendar entry and the email from your UlsterVP. 03 Jan 2012: Section IX members: if you have an interest in working the Indoor State Meet, on March 3rd at Cornell University's Barton Hall, please send your name to our chapter president immediately for consideration. Your name will be forwarded to the state selection committee. Section I (Rockland) members, I believe you must send your name through your county VP. 14 Dec 2011: Urgent need for track officials on Sunday 18 Dec at West Point for a USATF youth/open/masters track and field meet. Details follow... USATF NY is holding a youth, open & masters meet on Sunday December 18 at West Point, Gillis Field-house and is looking for officials. Any level
(HS or USATF) certified official may work. USATF certified officials will get preference. Officials will receive a stipend in the neighborhood of $50.
The meet now starts at Noon and should be over by 5 PM. The meet schedule is found at USATF NY 12-18-11 (the order of events).
If you are interested in officiating this meet please send an email to
Ken Kraft @ craftedkup@verizon.net. 02 Dec 2011: This was approved at the NYSPHSAA October 23-24 Executive Committee meeting. Whether this trickles down to the Section IX leagues remains to be seen. Consider this just an FYI. MODIFIED TRACK and FIELD -Approved with sectional/league approval, the height of the hurdle in the 55m modified boys’ hurdles may be increased from 30 inches to 33 inches and approved with sectional/league approval, a six (6) pound shot put may be used for modified girls’ track and field, rather than a 4K shot put. Also of interest, is that Middletown High School will host the NYS Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 7-8, 2013. 30 Nov 2011: OCIAA has posted their INDOOR TRACK BOOKLET for the 2011/2012 Indoor season. Has key information regarding the scheduled meets. A must read for all those working the indoor meets. Has meet critical information regarding order of events, starting heights, increments, number of throws/jumps, how many to finals.. for all the various meet types being conducted. Also available, is the Section IX Indoor Track Booklet which while mainly for coaches, it has additional details for the Championship meets on 2/17-2/18 and the State-Q meets on 2/24-2/25. First meet is now scheduled for Friday, December 9, 2011 OCIAA "Relay Carnival"– Non Scored (6 pm – 10 pm) . Good Luck to all. 21 Nov 2011: Your Secretary/Treasurer has sent out an email reminder that the dues for the coming indoor/outdoor season are due by 1 Dec 2011. Any checks postmarked on or by 30 Nov 2011 will be considered to be "on time". After that, your dues will be considered late and the fine will be applied if you wish to work either indoor or outdoor season Oct 08,2011: Indoor/Outdoor 2011-2012 Track News: Your SOCAT Calendar of meetings for 2011-2012 Indoor and Outdoor seasons has been posted for all counties EXCEPT Ulster. See calendar entries in October 2011 and March 2012 for specific dates. Ulster meeting(s) are TBD by your Ulster VP. Select link #5 on the left side, under Chapter Information for the complete document and dates for the Indoor and the Annual meetings. Sept 25,2011: Indoor Track News: Check for an email regarding your 2011-2012 Indoor track Availability. This form was sent by Dan Morse of OCIAA. Due date is Oct 10,2011. Click here for the entire availability form, evaluation form and instructions as sent via the email as saved on the SOCAT site. FYI: .. new SOCAT user registration with a login userid has been re-enabled. It's not 100% required, but there are documents you'll NOT be able to view without a userid on the site. Your choice. Sept 26,2011: USATF-New York Officials (formerly Metropolitan), see calendar entry for October 2 for a meeting announcement. Jul 13,2011: The National Federation has issued a press release announcing the new rules for the 2012 season. Here is a link to that press release. These are not the exact wording of the new rule changes, but you'll get the idea of what's changing. Our state interpretor will have more details by the time of our winter meetings.
Link to the NFHS Press Release: NFHS Press Release.May13,2011: This site's web hosting company as completed transitioning this site to a new and improved platform. However, there is a problem... Only the Mozilla Browser is properly displaying this sites content. I'm trying to determine what is causing this but so far, without success.
In the meantime, you will have to use only the Mozilla browser on your PC to view this site.
This issue has been resolved. thank you for your patience.. Apr 07,2011: Follow this link to the Rockland Country Track and Field Hall of Fame to read about the induction of our very own SOCAT Rockland county VP, Mr Fred Adler. As I understand, this honor is a first for a track official. Congratulations Fred!.
Mar 29,2011: The hosting company of this website has NOT completed a transition to a new hosting platform. Let the webmaster know of any issues. I'm currently seeing an issue when using browser IE-version 8. Suggest you try other browsers as several I have tried display the main page properly. Mar 18 2011:
All meetings have been completed for the spring outdoor season. If you missed any ... contact your county VP.
Mar 14,2011: Please see the "Interpreters" section in the forums for some important information on rolled waist bands. This information will keep us consistent and out of trouble at your soon to start spring track&field meets. Clicking on the link will also take you there.
Mar 03,2011: The hosting company of this website will soon be starting a transitioning to a new hosting platform which will greatly improve security as well as other transparent things. Outages may occur. As that time draws nearer, I'll post the time-frame this site will be "down".
Feb 21,2011: Three Race Walk documents provided by your Chapter President have been placed into the Document database, sub-category entitled "Race Walk Information".
Feb 12,2011: For those working NCAA level meets: a monthly interpretations document is posted on their track and field officials page (see links section). Latest posting is Jan 31,2011. Here is a direct link to that document, but be advised to check the NCAA site every month. NCAA 2010-2011 Interpretations.
Feb 06,2011: NFHS has posted their 2011 Track and Field Interpretations and 2011 Points of Emphasis on their web site.
Follow these links to those documents.
Interpretations.
Point of Emphasis.
Feb 01,2011:Two new documents have been posted. The 2011 Rule Change and Interpretations for NYS by our State Interpreter, as well as a SOCAT roster as of January 2011. A reposting of the NFHS pre-meet guide for 2011 has also been done.
Jan 17,2011:
OCIAA has sent out an email asking for your general availability for OCIAA schools as well as the various 2011 Invitational meets and Championship meets. The attachment did not have all three pages.
Click on this link to the Spring Track Availability pdf found at the Section IX Officials page and you will find all three pages.
I did not see any due back date, so either contact OCIAA or return as soon as possible. I do not know when a general availability sheet for the MHAL will be available.
( 02 Apr 2011)
All Chapter and Website news items prior to Dec 7th,2010 have been moved to the archive. There is still useful chapter and news information that can be viewed there.
See the Chapter Information menu block on the left side of this page.
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