Meet Information
THE BLUE RIDGE CLASSIC - WNC's Elite Meet!
TIMING- PIERRE TIMING!
Update - 3200 sections: The boys 3200 unseeded section will be at 9:15am, and will include all athletes with seed times over 11:00 or with no seed time. All girls will run in a single section at 9:30am. The boys seeded sections, with all athletes with seed times under 11:00, will run immediately after the girls.
The Blue Ridge Classic welcomes you to the A.C. Reynolds HS track with its 24th edition on April 18, 2026. We look forward of seeing everyone at our great facility with the same high standard of hospitality and competition we always have.
The Blue Ridge Classic has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the best run and most competitive meets in the south, including ALL-TIME NC BESTS in the 4x200 and pole vault in 2023! As always, this will be a great prep meet for regionals and state championships, with prelims in the straightaway races, and qualifying and finals for the field events.
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SANCTION: The Blue Ridge Classic is sanctioned for North Carolina and all bordering states (SC, TN, VA, GA).
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MEET SCHEDULE (tentative - will be finalized after close of entries)
9:15 AM - Boys unseeded 3200 section
9:30 AM - 3200 ELITE SECTIONS - Girls followed by boys
10:00am - field events: long jump, girls PV, girls HJ, girls SP, boys discus
10:00am - prelims: 110m & 100m hurdles, 100 meters
11:15 - 4x800
Noon - MIDDLE SCHOOL EVENTS: 100m, mile, & shot put
1:00pm - running event finals
1:00pm - field events: triple jump, boys PV, boys HJ, boys SP, girls discus
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ENTRY FEE: $100 per single gender team, $175 for both male & female teams together, or $10.00 per individual event. No unattached athletes may enter the meet. An athlete must be entered as a member of a high school team, and eligible for HS competition according to their state sanctioning body. Athletes who first entered ninth-grade prior to July 1, 2022 are not eligible to compete regardless of current scholastic status.
ENTRY STANDARDS: Schools are guaranteed one team per relay and two athletes per individual event. There is no entry standard for these entries. If the first two athletes meet the standards below (based on lifetime best, outdoors or indoors), the school may enter a third athlete in that event who is not required to meet the entry standard.
| Event | GIRLS (3rd entry standard) | boys (3rd Entry standard) |
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| 100 | 13.2/13.44 | 11.2/11.44 |
| 200 | 28.0/28.24 | 23.5/23.74 |
| 400 | 1:06.0 | 54.0 |
| 800 | 2:45.0 | 2:10.0 |
| Mile | 6:10.0 | 5:00.0 |
| 3200 | 13:30.0 | 11:20.0 |
| 100/110H | 18.5/18.74 | 17.5/17.74 |
| 300H | 54.0 | 44.0 |
| HJ | 4'8" | 5'10" |
| PV | 8'6" | 11'6" |
| SP | 28'0" | 40'0" |
| DT | 75'0" | 110'0" |
| LJ | 14'0 | 19'0" |
| TJ | 29'0" | 39'0" |
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Famous Hospitality: Known also for its extraordinary coaches hospitality, breakfast and lunch for coaches at the BRC is provided by over 15 local restaurants, including Asheville's nationally famous BBQ restaurant 12 Bones Smokehouse, Outback Steakhouse and Bojangles.
METHODS OF PAYMENT: By check via mail or at Packet Pickup - check payable to A.C. Reynolds HS. Mail to: A.C. Reynolds HS, ATTN: Blue Ridge Classic, 1 Rocket Dr., Asheville, NC 28803.
BLUE RIDGE CLASSIC MIDDLE SCHOOL EVENTS. Middle school events are back! We will have boys' and girls 100 meters, mile, and shot put. Middle school entry fee is $5 per entry.
| Meet Officials | Schedule of Events |
| 9:00am- Unseeded 3200m Sections | |
| Meet Directors- David Honea/Andy Morgan | 9:30am- 3200m Seeded Sections |
| Head Running Referee- Dave Culp (TCR) | 10:00am- Long Jump |
| Head Field Referee- Danny Williamson (Pisgah) | Girls Pole Vault |
| Starter- Colton Brackett (EH)/Chris Sherrill (Enka) | Girls HJ |
| Timing/Scoring- Jay Pierre (Pierre Timing) | Girls Shot/Boys Discus |
| 10:00am- Prelims: | |
| Games Committee: | 110H, then 100H |
| Andy Morgan (ACR) | Girls 100m/Boys 100m |
| Danny Williamson (Pisgah) | 11:15am- 4x800 Relay |
| Dave Culp (TCR) | 12:00pm- MIDDLE SCHOOL EVENTS |
| 100M/Mile/Shot Put | |
| Trainer- Bryce Banks (ACR) | 1:00pm- Running Event Finals |
| Girls Triple Jump/Boys Long Jump | |
| Announcer- David Honea (ACR) | Boys Pole Vault |
| Awards- ACR Athletes | Boys HJ |
| Boys Shot/Girls Discus | |
| Clerks of Course- Pisgah | |
| After the finals begin at 1:00, we will operate on a ROLLING schedule. | |
| Shot Put- Scott Mead (TCR) | We will procede as quickly as we can between heats and events. |
| Sydney Cooke (TCR) | |
| Discus- Watauga | Exchange Zones/Track Markings |
| West Henderson | 4x800- All Zones (Blue to Blue) Will start 2 in each lane and break after 100m |
| High Jump- Reese Boyd (Pisgah) | |
| Don Page (Pisgah) | 4x200- Zone 1 & 2 (Red to Red) |
| Long Jump- Elyse King (Christ School) | Zone 3 (Yellow to Yellow) |
| Artis Gilmore (TCR) | 4x100- All Zones (Yellow to Yellow) |
| Triple Jump- Bill Taylor (McDowell) | |
| Asheville High | 4x400- Zone 1 (Blue to Blue) |
| Pole Vault- Julie Lovin (TCR) | Zone 2 & 3 (Blue to Blue, Preferential exchange) |
| Jeff Capps (NB) | |
| 300H Assignments (from start line) | |
| Exchange Zone Judges | 1/2 Hurdle- Franklin |
| Zone 1- Franklin/Robbinsville | 3/4 Hurdle- Charlotte Christian/Rabun Gap |
| Zone 2- Tuscola/West Henderson | 5/6 Hurdle- Asheville High/Swain |
| Zone 3- Rabun Gap/Watauga | Put them out after the 800m, raise them 2 notches after girls heats |