Registration Process

1. Add the meet to your athletic.net calendar. If registering as a part of a team, your coach must add Nike Outdoor Nationals to the team calendar. This must be done first in order to gain access to the registration page. 
2. Review QUALIFYING STANDARDS HERE and ENTRY GUIDELINES HERE.
3. REGISTER
4. Within 24 hours, you will receive an email confirming the status of your registration.

**Important Registration Note: For Nike Outdoor Nationals an athlete must submit all entries under one single affiliation: High School, Club, or Unattached. If you plan compete for a team or on a relay, please submit an entry as either High School or Club, not Unattached. Please ask your coach to add Nike Outdoor Nationals to the team calendar so that you have the option to register as team attached. If you have separate team and unattached bios and you need to merge them, please follow THESE INSTRUCTIONS**  

Eligibility

The NIKE OUTDOOR NATIONALS is a USATF sanctioned event and the meet requirement is simply that students are enrolled in high school or middle school.  Many states do allow student athletes to represent their schools outside the designed season and therefore students must compete unattached or for clubs.  Please check with your school administrator if you have questions about school or club representation. 

Championship and Emerging Elite athletes are:

• Full-time students in grade 6-12 born September 1, 2003 or later.
• Home-schooled athletes who meet the age requirements.
• Full-time students in grades 6-7-8 who are eligible to compete for a high school team in state association competition in winter or spring 2022-2023.
• Graduating seniors are eligible to compete post graduation.
• Students who completed the 5th grade are not yet eligible for the middle school division.

Freshman athletes are:

• Full-time students in grade 9 for the 2022-23 school year.

Middle School athletes are:

• Full time students in grades 6-7-8 for the 2022-23 school year.

The NSAF will determine the maximum field size for all EE, Championship, Freshman and Club sections based on time schedule and safety of the athletes competing.  Once the maximum field size is reached, no further registrations will be accepted.

Any freshman/MS athlete who meets the entry standard for the EE or Championship sections are encouraged to enter those divisions.

All athletes must have been born September 1, 2003 or later. Grade refers to the athlete during the 2023 outdoor season.

For eligibility rules for transgender athletes, please click HERE.

USATF membership is not required.

Entry fees and deadlines

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ATHLETES MEET THE ENTRY GUIDELINE BEFORE THE ENTRY FEES HAVE BEEN PAID.

Normal Entry

• Individual Events: $55 per event
• Decathlon/Heptathlon: $195 per event
• Relays: $220 per relay - includes commemorative customized baton - with team name - per relay team.

ON-LINE ENTRY DEADLINE:             

All entries are due by the above deadline.  Entries after June 11 will not be accepted. 

Athlete gifts

• All registered athletes will receive a commemorative, custom Nike jacket that will be fitted and sized on site.
• Please remember, athletes MUST compete in the meet and the athlete gift MUST be picked up on-site. We are not able to mail these before, during or after the meet. 
• All registered relay teams will receive a commemorative custom baton - with team name - per relay team.

Qualifying from Nike Indoor Nationals

All athletes who competed in the 2023 NIKE INDOOR NATIONALS automatically qualify for the 2023 NIKE OUTDOOR NATIONALS. 

Athletes still need to register and pay for NON and will qualify in the same or comparable event to that of NIN, although not necessarily in the same division.

For example:

• A high jump or 800m participant at NIN qualifies for the same event at NON.
• A 60m participant at NIN qualifies for the 100m 
• A 60m hurdle participant qualifies for the 100/110m hurdles.

Similarly:

• Weight Throw >>> Hammer Throw
• Mile Walk >>> 3k Walk
• Pentathlon >>> One individual event