North Shore Swim Club
MIT Pool
120 Vasser Street, Cambridge, Ma. 02139
December 13-16, 2007
Sanctioned by NE Swimming #NE-07-75TF, NE-07-75TFTT
Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager
Results
Results (Adobe PDF)
Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager (no time trials)
Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager (time trials only)
Meet Director: Dan Warner (NSSC1@aol.com, 978-852-3985)
Meet Referee: Paul Burkhardt (paulburkhardt@verizon.net)
Entry Chairperson: Dan Warner (NSSC1@aol.com,
978-852-3985)
MEET FORMAT: The meet will be swum as prelims and finals. Each session will be pre-seeded by computer based on pre-scratches that are due by 6:00 PM the previous evening. Positive check-in will be required for 500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free and 400IM and all relays. Heat sheets will be posted around the pool deck. Coaches will be able to pick up heat sheets for each event at the Clerk of Course table.
SITE: The MIT Competition Pool at the Zesiger Center is two 8 lane, 25 yard competition courses with seven-foot-wide lanes and non-turbulent lane lines and 6 lane, 25 yard warm-up and warm down pool. Fully-automatic Colorado Time System touchpads and electronic display for both pools. Spectator seating for 350. The pool is located inside the MIT Zesiger Center, 120 Vasser Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.
COURSE: Two courses, 10 lane and 9 lane 25 yard competition courses with separate 25 yard 6 lane pool with 3 lanes open for continuous warm up and warm down.
EVENTS and SESSIONS: See attached list.
ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 2007 or 2008 USA Swimming registered athletes. All swimmers must be registered before the entry is submitted. Teams that enter unregistered swimmers will be subject to a fine of $100 per unregistered swimmer. New England teams entering the meet are required to check their entries with the online registration check tool on the New England Swimming web site. Please contact the New England Swimming Office for registration information. Disabled swimmer forms are available from the New England Swimming Office. New England Swimming Office: 20 Cleveland Road, Needham MA 02492, 781-449-0270, office@neswim.com.
ENTRY INFORMATION: Entries will be accepted on and after October 26, 2007. Entries received before October 26, 2007 will be considered received on October 26, 2007. Entries must be received no later than November 21, 2007. Make checks payable to “North Shore Swim Club”. Mail completed forms (including signed entry cover page and waiver) and payment to the entry chairperson: Dan Warner, 19 Fenley Road Gloucester Ma. 01930. All entries must be typed or printed legibly, and must use full names and registration numbers from USA Swimming registration. All entries must include a completed and signed entry cover sheet and waiver. No deck entries will be accepted. No refunds will be given for entries that are accepted, or for entries that are rejected due to improper entry. Any swimmer who is entered with incorrect swimmer information, or an incorrect or no ID, or is unregistered, will be scratched from the meet until corrections are made per the New England policy. Anywhere Aquatic Club will limit the number of swims in the meet to. Anywhere Aquatic Club will reserve 75% for its own team and any other teams (New England and/or out of district) that it may want to invite to the meet. In order to make sure that the meet is neither oversubscribed or undersubscribed, all teams included in the 75% must submit their entry and check at least one week before the date of first acceptance. The other 25% of the swims will be open to other teams to submit entries. If on the first day of acceptance, those meet entries exceed the 25% still available in the meet, there will be a lottery of those teams.
ELECTRONIC ENTRIES: Electronic entries (such as from Hy-Tek Team Manager or other team management software) that are in CL2 or SD3/SDIF format may be emailed as an attachment to the entry chairperson at nssc1@aol.com. Please check that your team name, address, and contact information are listed correctly in this file. For email entries, payment and hardcopy of the entry (including signed entry cover page and waiver) must be received within four (4) days, excluding Sundays and holidays, of receipt of the email entry. If payment is received within four (4) days, excluding Sundays and holidays, of the email entry, the email receipt date will be considered the date of entry. If payment is received more than four (4) days, excluding Sundays and holidays, after the email entry, the payment receipt date will be considered the date of entry.
ENTRY LIMITS: Athletes may enter any amount of events but may swim in a maximum of 3 individual events per day. Relay only swimmers are being accepted.
ENTRY TIME UPATES: Entry times may be updated until 7 days prior to the first day of the meet. No new entries will be accepted after the November 21, 2007 entry deadline. Entry time updates should be sent via email to the entry chairperson at nssc1@aol.com Entry time updates must be sent as Hy-Tek format CL2 files with updated times. (New entries will be automatically excluded.)
ENTRY FEES: Electronic entries: $5.00 for individual
events. Non-electronic entries: $5.50 for individual events. Relays
$20.00, non-electronic $20.50.
SWIMMER PARTICIPATION FEE: will be
$10.00 per swimmer.
ENTRY TIMES: All entries must be specified in yards times.
ENTRY CUTS: Entry cuts, if necessary, will be made by the date of receipt. Teams will be notified that they have been accepted or cut from the meet within seven days of receipt of entry. This meet will follow the 75/25 process outlined by NE Swimming policy. The host team may guarantee up to selected teams 75% of the entries for the meet including the host team, if the meet becomes oversubscribed for the last 25%, a random selection of those entries received on the date the meet becomes oversubscribed will be conducted in accordance with New England Swimming guidelines. Teams that are cut from the meet will have their entry fee returned within four days of being cut.
MEET SCRATCH RULE: A) Any swimmer qualifying for a consolation or championship final who fails to compete in said consolation or final race shall be barred from the remainder of the competition. B) Exceptions for failure to compete – no penalty shall apply if: 1) Referee is notified of illness or injury and accepts thereof. 2) A swimmer qualifying for a consolation or championship final upon the results of the preliminaries notifies the referee within 30 minutes after the announcement of the qualifiers for that race. C) It is determined by the referee that failure to compete was caused by circumstances beyond the control of the swimmer.
PROGRAMS: $5.00 per Prelim Pool, $4.00 per Finals session.
ADMISSION: $1.00 per session.
WARMUPS: The pool will open for warm-ups 90 minutes before the beginning of each session. The pool will close five minutes before the beginning of each session. The warm up pool will be open for the entire session. Teams will be assigned warm-up lanes after all entries are received.
OFFICIALS: Anyone interested in officiating at this meet is welcome. Please contact the meet referee Paul Burkhardt at (paulburkhardt@verizon.net)
TIMERS: Swimmers must provide their own timers/watches
for the 500, 1000, 1650 free, 400IM and all relays. Teams may be asked to assist
in timing for some of the sessions if needed.
SAFETY:
RULES: 2007 USA Swimming rules will govern all competition. Decisions by the meet referee will be final unless a written protest is lodged within 30 minutes of the heat swum.
TIME TRIALS: Time trials will be offered at the discretion of the meet referee if time allows. Time trials are $5.00 for individual events and $20.00 for relays.
DECK ACCESS: Only athletes, coaches, officials, and official meet staff are permitted on the pool deck. All non-athletes on the pool deck must display their USA Swimming registration card at all times. Individuals without their USA Swimming registration card will be removed from the pool deck, and will be subject to a fine by New England Swimming.
SCORING: Individual events – Final 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11 Consolation 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Relay events – 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
Final Heat only for 10 & Under, Finals and Consolation for 11-12, 13-14, Bonus, consolation and final for Senior. One final heat only for all 500 free and 400IM. All relays will take place during the prelim sessions.
AWARDS: 12 & under: Individual: Ribbons 1-3
Relays: Ribbons 1-3
Each team must designate a representative to pick up awards for the entire team at prelims the following day. Sunday awards will be available at the end of the finals session.
EQUIPMENT VENDOR: A swimming equipment vendor will be selling suits, goggles, and other accessories for the duration of the meet.
MISCELLANEOUS: North Shore Swim Club and MIT assume no responsibility for lost or stolen property. No glass containers are permitted within the facility. Diving will be prohibited during the warm-up except in specifically announced one-way sprint lanes. There will be no diving in the warm-up and warm-down areas at any time.
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There is metered parking on Massachusetts Avenue. There are a number of lots at which you may park for a fee. These include a lot at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street, “Park and Lock” on Third Street, “Kinney Systems” at 4 Cambridge Center (entrances on Ames Street and Broadway), and “Kinney Systems” at Ten Cambridge Center (entrances from Broadway and Binney Street).
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LODGING: The following hotels and motels are in the area: