NBNO 2025 Registration Details

Due to overwhelming interest and historic participation numbers, late registration for New Balance Nationals Outdoor is now officially closed. In order to ensure a high-quality experience for all participants, we have reached the maximum capacity that the event can accommodate.

All qualified athletes who successfully and fully completed registration (verified and paid) on or before Wednesday, June 11 will be accepted into the event. Unfortunately, no additional late entries can be processed or accepted at this time.

If you have any questions regarding your registration status, please contact us at nbn@trialsofmilesracing.com.

Competition Dates

June 19-22, 2025 Franklin Field

Entry Fees

Individual $50 ($75 late fee)

Decathlon/Heptathlon $175 ($200 late fee)

Relay $200 ($250 late fee)

NBN Backpacks

All athletes will receive an NBNO backpack with their registration. Backpacks will be handed out at packet pickup on event weekend. Backpacks must be picked-up in-person, by the registered individual and will not be shipped out to athletes after the meet. Relay alternates to not receive backpacks. 

 

General Entry Rules

The meet is for athletes currently enrolled in grades 6-12. Athletes below 6th grade
and above 12th grade are not eligible.

Championship Division is for 7th – 12th graders only.
The Freshman Division is for 9th graders only.
The Middle School Division is for 6th – 8th graders only. Middle school athletes may not compete in that division if they are 16 years old or older by June 2025 or have entered high school.

An athlete who is older than 19 years old by June 2025 will not be eligible to compete in this meet.

Meet management reserves the right to close registration at any time if entry limits are reached or capacity concerns arise.

7th & 8th graders can only participate in a championship relay if all of the following are true:

The athlete already competes for their high school team, and

The athlete attends a school in the same district, and

Their state allows 7th and 8th graders to compete in high school events.

** Please confirm with your state association if you have any questions.

Athletes may register under unattached or under their club/team. If the club/team will send a relay team, including your athlete who qualified in an individual event, then the club/team should register your athlete for their individual event on athletic.net. Once the athlete is registered, their unattached or club/team affiliation cannot be switched. Registering with both will result in a duplicate athlete and any duplicate athletes risk disqualification.

Automatic vs. Provisional Entry

In order to create the highest caliber experience for all athletes, coaches, and spectators, we have adopted a new qualification system since 2024. While there will no longer be a rising stars division, we have increased the capacity in the championship division. If you achieve the automatic qualifier in the middle school, freshman, and championship divisions and register correctly, you will be accepted into the meet (the only exceptions are the decathlon/heptathlon (which will cap at the first 16 athletes to enter and pay) and the Mixed 4x400m Relay. If you achieve the provisional standard, you will be kept on a waiting list and we will alert all athletes three weeks prior to the event of their acceptances. If you hit the automatic standard from the provisional list, you will also be accepted into the meet. Provisional list acceptances will be entirely dependent on the number of automatic qualifiers in each event. Note – Meet management reserves the right to close registration at any time if entry limits are reached or capacity concerns arise

Registration

 

All athletes registering on athletic.net are not accepted into the meet upon registration. All entries are verified by the Seeding Committee.

To have a complete individual entry, each entry must include:

  • The athlete’s exact qualifying mark entered under “User Seed”
    • If Athletic.net shows the mark you wish to use on the entry, you may leave User Seed blank.
  • The qualifier you’re using to qualify for the NBNO 2025 event (ex: 1500m for the 1 mile, Weight Throw for Hammer Throw, etc.)
    • You can list the alternate qualifier and the mark used in the comments section.
  • A URL link to the athlete’s results profile that lists the qualifying mark or the specific meet results page from Athletic.net, MileSplit, TFRRS, etc.

To have a complete relay entry, the entry must include:

  • The relay team’s exact qualifying time entered under “User Seed.”
    • If Athletic.net shows the time you wish to use on the entry, you may leave User Seed blank.
  • If you’re qualifying with a relay using composite times, the individual legs require their time and individual URL results links to their qualifying marks/results, which can be added to the individual athlete’s comments sections.
  • If you have a relay team that qualified running the relay time, please provide the URL link to the relay team’s results from Athletic.net, MileSplit, TFRRS, etc.
  • Meet management reserves the right to close registration at any time if entry limits are reached or capacity concerns arise

 

Registration Process

The Seeding Committee will process your entry within 48 hours and then you will receive your first email notification. You will receive a PROVISIONAL/WAITLIST, PENDING, or REJECTION notification. 

If you receive a PENDING notification: This entry is entered and the mark has been verified. This entry will remain pending until payment is made. The athlete is not officially entered into the meet until payment is received. Once payment is received, the athlete will be marked as ACCEPTED and they will be entered into the meet. 

If you receive an ACCEPTANCE notification: The entry has been verified by the Seeding Committee for hitting the automatic qualifying standard and the entry has been paid for. The athlete will be competing in the accepted event. The only further action required would be to update your seed time with a link to the new mark/result if you improve your mark/time throughout the season. 

If you receive a PROVISIONAL/WAITLIST notification: The athlete has been verified by the Seeding Committee for hitting the provisional qualifying standard but not the automatic qualifying standard. You will not yet be able to pay for your entry fees and you are not currently accepted into the meet. You have been added to the provisional list for that event and this list will be organized by seed. The Seeding Committee will begin processing entries on the provisional list starting on May 7, 2025. All provisional seeds must be updated by 11:59 PM on May 29, 2025. On May 30, 2025, we will determine how many open slots are available and process all provisional entries. If an event reaches capacity before May 29 2025, we will no longer pull from the provisional entries and notify everyone immediately. 

If you receive a REJECTION notification: The Seeding Committee processed the entry and rejected the entry for one (or more) of the following reasons: (1) The entry does not satisfy the automatic or provisional standard, (2) The entry does not satisfy the qualifying rules stated below, (3) The entry was incomplete for longer than 24 hours. 

Note: Once an entry has been rejected, an athlete can reapply only if and when they hit the automatic standard. 

Please do not register for an event with a blank mark. Only register for an event when you have the standard.

Qualifying Rules

Qualifying marks should be made in official meets using USATF, NFHS, or college rules.

Virtual meet marks are not accepted. Projected marks and time trial marks will be rejected. Dual meet marks are only acceptable if there is FAT (fully automated timing) and complete results available online.

No hand times will be accepted for any event/division at NBNO 2025.

Our seeding committee will verify all marks using various online ranking sites. Whenever possible please include the meet name, date, location and if possible a link to results. Asking meet directors and timers to submit results to Athletic.net would be much appreciated and save all of us a lot of time. The best links for our seeding committee to review will be the direct online result to the athlete’s mark, their MileSplit or Athletic.net profile that lists the relevant mark, or the full results to the meet they qualified at, in that order.

Relay Entry Rules

All relay team members must attain the same high school or be on the same high school team. THERE WILL BE NO ALL-STAR RELAYS AT THE NEW BALANCE NATIONAL OUTDOOR MEET. Teams will be disqualified if they run a relay with athletes from different high schools.

Relay teams should qualify with marks made from either indoor 2024-2025 or 2025 spring track.

Relay composite times will be accepted in all relay events if the individual marks were made after December 2024. In order to use composites for a relay, marks must be run in open races. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT RELAY SPLITS FOR A COMPOSITE MARK. The ONLY exception to this rule is we are allowing teams to use a 1200m relay split to assist with a composite DMR. This 1200m split must be FAT and verifiable in online results. The 1200m leg in the DMR can also be a projection using the Runnerspace Purdy Conversion using a 1000m, 1500m, 1600m, or 1 Mile time. To find the 1200m time, you’ll need to enter 1200m times until you arrive to the matching 1000m, 1500m, 1600m, or 1 Mile time in the Purdy column. Our seeding committee reserves the right to adjust the time.

When calculating composite relay times, no adjustments can be made for athletes having running starts. You simply have to add up the fastest FAT times they have from open races.

Meet management reserves the right to close registration at any time if entry limits are reached or capacity concerns arise.

Individual Entry Rules

The Seeding Committee will make altitude adjustments for marks over 5000ft in elevation and will only be considered for the Championship 1 mile, 2 mile, and 5000m events. The calculator we use can be found here.  To make sure we convert your mark please email meet management with the subject “altitude” or note that the mark was at altitude on your entry.

FAT 4×8 Relay splits may be used to enter the 800m. 1600m relay splits from a DMR can be used to enter the mile. No other relay splits will be allowed.

Entries by the same athlete in the same event are not allowed, as in the Championship and Freshman 400m. If an athlete’s mark is superior to the championship standard, that is where they should compete. The seeding committee reserves the right to move athletes up and down accordingly.

DECATHLON/HEPTATHLON ENTRY: The first 16 athletes who achieve the decathlon or heptathlon automatic standard, register, and pay for that event will be accepted. If you have the standard, we recommend registering as soon as possible!

5000M: We will not accept cross-country times for the 5000 meters.

Seeding

Seeding is done with preference given to marks made during the current outdoor season.

Lane preference in relays will be given to teams with actual marks from this season as opposed to composite times or times from previous seasons.

If a composite time is significantly faster than an actual time the seeding committee may use the composite time instead.

The seeding committee reserves the right to use an extraordinary mark in a similar race distance for seeding purposes (i.e. an athlete who is ranked top 3 in the US in the 800 may be considered for the seeded section the 1 mile).

Priority will be given to teams who have run the actual relay vs. using a composite. We will weigh composite marks more heavily in the DMR, Shuttle Hurdles and 1600 SMR, specifically in states where the events are run infrequently or not at all.

 

Conversions For Seeding

The seeding committee will use the RunnerSpace Purdy Calculator when needed. The committee reserves the right to determine when a conversion is needed.

Any questions about seeding should be sent to meet management.

 

Transgender Athlete Policy

Eligibility rules for transgender athletes are in line with current USATF and World Athletics rules.

For any USATF competition or events operated using USATF rules [which includes New Balance Nationals Outdoor] as part of a USATF sanction and where age-group awards and/or prize money are at stake, an affected competitor(s) who has a valid reason to question the accuracy of the entry information of a prize- or award winning athlete may protest, either orally or in writing, against the prize- or award-winner with the referee during the respective meet, in accordance with the applicable rules for that event. If the matter cannot be immediately resolved, and all applicable appeals have been exhausted, the affected competitor may file a grievance within USATF, following the procedures described in Regulation 21 of the USATF Bylaws and Operating Regulations.