SEACOAST SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

UNH SPECIALTY MEET

University of New Hampshire Swasey Pool

Durham, NH

October 19-20, 2007

Sanctioned by N.E. Swimming  NE- 07-82 / 07-82 TT

 

SITE:  U.N.H. Swasey Pool, Durham, New Hampshire, is a 6 lane, 25-yard pool with non-turbulent lane lines and fully-automatic Colorado Electronic Timing System. The pool is equipped with a six-lane scoreboard and a diving well warm-up and warm-down area. The starting end is minimum four feet deep. A large viewing area is available for spectators.  Capacity of the pool deck is 206 persons. The pool also has a spectator area with seating capacity of 654.

 

COURSE: Short Course (25 yards)

 

MEET WARM-UP TIMES:

Friday PM Warm-up 4:00 PM

Saturday AM Warm-up 8:00 AM

Saturday Mid Day Warm-up 11:30 AM

Saturday PM Warm-up 3:30 PM

 

MEET DIRECTOR: Tim Paiva  (603) 759-6194

 

ENTRY CHAIR: Harry Hobbs   (603) 431-7696

 

MEET REFEREE:  Hank Dolben  (603) 436-1511

 

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, mailto:office@neswim.com.

 

ENTRY INFORMATION:  Entry and disclaimer forms must be completed and received by October 6, 2007. Entries will be accepted on and after September 18, 2007.  If you do an electronic entry, please do not send a hard copy of the entry.  Make checks payable to Seacoast Swimming Association.  Mail completed forms to:  Harry Hobbs, 489 Sagamore Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-7696. Entries should be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested to insure delivery.  All forms must be typed or printed legibly and must contain swimmers' ages and USS numbers.  There will be no refunds for entries accepted, or entries rejected due to improper entry. All swimmers must be registered with USA Swimming before the entry is submitted. 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.  Seacoast Swimming Association may reserve up to 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.  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.  The New England Swimming Office will run the lottery.  In order to make sure that the meet is neither over subscribed nor under subscribed, all teams included in the 75% must submit their entry and payment at least on week before the date of first acceptance.

 

ELECTRONIC ENTRIES:  If your team has a computerized entry system using the Hy-Tek program, e-mail entry file as an attachment (.cl2 or .sd3 format) to Halloween@seacoastswimming.com.  Insure that team address and contact information are entered correctly in this file, as this info will be used as your team contact for meet information.  Send all e-mail correspondence regarding this meet to the above e-mail address.  For e-mail entries, payment and hard copy of entry must be received within 4 days of receipt of the e-mail entry.  If the payment is received within 4 days of the e-mail entry, the date of receipt of the e-mail entry file will be considered the date your entry for the meet was received by Seacoast Swimming.  If payment is not received within 4 days of the e-mail entry, the entry will be considered received as of the date that the payment and hard copy are received.

 

ENTRY LIMITS: Athletes may enter and swim in a maximum of 5 events per day.

 

ENTRY TIME UPDATES: Entry times may be updated until 7 days before the meet by e-mail file only, provided no new entries are included and no other changes are made to the entry file. Anything but a file identical to the original entry file with times updated will be rejected. If additional entries are to be accepted, a separate file and entry fees must be submitted.

 

CUTS:  If necessary, by team based on date entry received.  If more than one team's entry is received on the date the meet becomes oversubscribed, New England Swimming will run a lottery.

 

ENTRY FEES:  $4.00 per event for electronic entries; $ 4.50 per entry for entries that must be entered by hand.

 

SWIMMER PARTICIPATION FEE: each entry fee must be accompanied by a $3.00 per swimmer,  “Swimmer Participation Fee”.

 

ENTRY TIMES:  All entries must be in yard times or meter times converted to yard times using the conversion .88 times total number of seconds.

 

PROGRAMS:  $2.00 per session

 

ADMISSION:  $1.00

 

MEET FORMAT:  The meet will be swum as timed finals.  The meet will be computer seeded based upon a positive check-in at the beginning of each session.  Swimmers must check in or they will be scratched from the session.  Late arrivals may be un-scratched for remaining unseeded events.  Seeded event sheets will be posted after completion of the bullpen check-in.  Swimmers may swim in no more than five events per day, including time trials.

 

SAFETY:

  1. Diving will be prohibited during warm-ups except in specifically announced one-way sprint lanes.  There will be no diving in the warm-up and warm down areas at any time.  Athletes must, at all times, enter the pool only from the starting block end. This applies to the warm-up area also.
  2. No shaving is permitted at the competition site.
  3. No glass containers are permitted within the facility.
  4. Swimmers must be under the supervision of a coach.  If a swimmer arrives at the meet without a coach, the swimmer should notify the referee before he/she warms up.  The referee will assign the swimmer to a registered coach for warm-ups.
  5. No camera cell phones are permitted in the locker rooms.

 

WARMUPS: Warm-ups may be divided. Warm-up schedule will be distributed to each team participating in the meet. No diving during warm-up except in designated sprint lanes

 

DISABLED SWIMMERS:  Disabled swimmer forms are available from the New England Swimming Office.

 

OFFICIALS AND TIMERS:  Volunteer officials and timers will be appreciated.

 

RULES:  2007 U.S. Swimming rules will govern all competition and decisions by the meet referee will be final, unless a written protest is lodged within 30 minutes of the heat swum.

 

MISCELLANEOUS:  All coaches should check in with the Clerk of Course upon arrival at the pool to pick up coaches' packets.  Coaches are responsible for the behavior of their swimmers at all times.  Any damage to the premises or equipment is the responsibility of those doing the damage.  Seacoast Swimming Association and the University of New Hampshire assume no responsibility for lost or stolen property.  No glass containers are permitted, no pets are permitted and there is no smoking permitted anywhere in the facility.  No one is permitted on deck except, athletes, coaches, timers and officials.

 

DIRECTIONS:  Take the Route 155A exit off of Route 4 in Durham. The pool is in the athletic complex on the right.

 

PARKING: Ample parking is available in the lot across from the athletic complex

 

AWARDS:  Custom ribbons for the first six places.

 

 




EVENTS SCHEDULE

Friday, OCTOBER 19, 2007

 WARM-UP 4:00 PM, MEET 5:00 PM

13 & OVER WOMEN

 

13 & OVER MEN

1

50 FREE

2

5

200 IM

6

 

 

 

12 & UNDER WOMEN

 

12 & UNDER MEN

3

200 IM

4

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007

MORNING WARM-UP 7:00 AM, MEET 8:00 AM

 

 

 

13 & OVER WOMEN

 

13 & OVER MEN

7

200 FREE

8

9

100 BACK

10

11

200 BREAST

12

13

100 FLY

14

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 2007

MID-DAY WARM-UP 11:30 AM, MEET 12:30 PM

12 & UNDER WOMEN

 

12 & UNDER MEN

15

50 FLY

16

17

50 BACK

18

19

50 BREAST

20

21

50 FREE

22

23

100 IM

24

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007

AFTERNOON WARM-UP 3:30 PM, MEET 4:30 PM

13 & OVER WOMEN

 

13 & OVER MEN

25

200 FLY

26

27

100 BREAST

28

29

200 BACK

30

31

100 FREE

32