Menu:

Meet Date:

June 6, 2007
@ 5 PM
Waasis Track & Field
(across from the High School)
Waasis Road,
Oromocto, NB

Sponsors:

Please visit the Sponsors page and make sure to thank them for their participation.

Meet Information

Participant

Hershey's Track & Field Games introduces kids to physical fitness and healthy lifestyles through basic track and field events. At these Games, every child is a winner. While all participants will leave a Hershey's meet with a newfound sense of accomplishment, a select few will advance on to the provincial meet, or even the annual North American Final Meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Registration Form

Please download and bring the completed registration form with you to the track. Registration will be from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm.

Click Here to download in .pdf format
(requires Adobe Reader)


Facts And Figures

What: Hershey’s Track & Field Gams (29th Anniversary)

Who: Boys & Girls ages 9 to 14 (as of December 31, 2007)

Where: Waasis Road Track and Field, Oromocto, NB

When: June 6, 2007 @ 5 PM

Why: To promote physical fitness, participation, friendship and sportsmanship.

General: The Hershey Youth Program has been a US event and more recently a North American event for the past twenty-eight (28) years. Initiated as a playground track and field program in 1975 in Charleston, WV, by Dr. Donald P. Cohen. Hershey’s Track and Field Games has become the largest youth sports program of it’s kind in North America. The program was offered on a state-wide level in West Virginia in 1976, became a 10-state regional event in 1977, and offered across the US in 1978. Participants from Ontario join the first North American Final in 1996. New Brunswick joined the program in 2000. Today, participants representing all provinces and territories of Canada are eligible to qualify for the North American Final.

More Facts:
• Over 400,000 children compete in the Hershey’s Track & Field Games annually.
• 550 participated in the 2005 North American Final Meet.
• 3 Olympic medalists have competed in the Hershey’s Track & Field Games North American Final Meet: Monique Henderson (2004 Olympic 4x400m gold medalist), Justin Gatlin (2004 Olympic 100m Gold Medal Winner) and Joanna Hayes (2004 Olympic 100m Hurdles Gold Medalist).
• 2007 marks the 30th year of the Hershey’s Track & Field Games
• In 1998, the program expanded to include all Canadian provinces/territories.
• In 1983, The Hershey Company took over as funding sponsor and the program moved to Hershey, Pa.
• In 1978, the first National Final meet took place on August 5.
• In 1975, the first local All-Corners Meet and Clinic was held in West Virginia.

Track Events:
50 meter dash
100 meter dash
200 meter dash
400 meter dash
4x100 meter relay
800 meter run
1600 meter run

Field Events:
Standing Long Jump
Softball Throw

Local Organizer Contact Information

Robert Vinet
4 Doyle Dr.
Oromocto, NB
E2V 2V3

Phone: (506) 357-4368
Email: