Someone needs to stop smashing fonts and using italics so much, layout wise.
As has been suggested, use school colors or logo.
That thing reads weird as heck, with the red EVENT section in the middle.
Make two seperate signs.
VANGUARD TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS
EVENT NAME YEAR TIME or DISTANCE
I would suggest Omegabond as a substrate, it comes in a 4'x10' size.
Since you could print, you could do something dark as a background and make the names and stuff in white, or on certain columns break it up with a transparancy over the background and make those items in a dark color.
I'd try and use full names rather than an initial.
Or...go really classy and make it look like an old-fashioned honours board.
Polished real wood background, names in gold leaf.
But definitely two signs.
Love....Jill