SEACOAST SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

SEACOAST SEASON OPENER

Jenny Thompson Competition Pool

Dover, NH

June 7-8, 2008

 

Sanctioned by N.E. Swimming  # NE-08-55/ NE-08-55TT

 

MEET DIRECTOR:  Tim Paiva  603-759-6194

MEET REFEREE:  Hank Dolben  603-436-1511

ENTRY CHAIR: Harry Hobbs  603- 431-7696       

 

MEET FORMAT:  The meet will be swim as timed-finals.  The meet will be computer seeded based upon a positive check-in at the beginning of each session.  Coaches will receive a check-in sheet before each session, which must be returned no later than 30 minutes before the beginning of the session.  Heat sheets will be posted around the pool deck.  Swimmers may swim in no more than five events per day, including time trials.

 

SITE:  Jenny Thompson Competition Pool at Guppey Park, Dover, New Hampshire.  An outdoor heated 6 lane, 50 meter pool, with non-turbulent lane lines.  Fully-automatic Colorado Electronic timing system with Aqua-Grip touch pads at starting end, and touch pads at both ends of pool.  A Diving well warm-up and warm-down area will be available throughout the meet. Starting end is five feet deep.  Large spectator area; bring lawn chairs for personal comfort. Being an outdoor facility, we occasionally have delays due to thunderstorms, but we will make all efforts to complete all of the scheduled events. 

 

ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 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 April 19, 2008.  Entries received before April 19, 2008 will be considered received on April 19, 2008.  Entries must be completed and received by May 25, 2008.  If you do an electronic entry, please do not send a hard copy of the entry.  Also, include your team initials in the subject of any email relating to this meet.  Make checks payable to Seacoast Swimming Association and mail with disclaimer form 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. Teams that enter unregistered swimmers will be subject to a fine of $100 per unregistered swimmer.   Seacoast Swimming Association will reserve 75% of the swims 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 allowable number of entries available in the meet, there will be a lottery of those teams.  The lottery will be run by the New England Office.

 

 

COMPUTER ENTRIES:  If your team has a computerized entry system using Hy-Tek program, email entry file as an attachment (.cl2 or .sd3 format) to june7@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 email entries, payment must be received within 4 days of receipt of the email entry.  If the payment is received within 4 days of the email entry, the date of receipt of the email 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 email entry, the entry will be considered received as of the date that the payment and hard copy are received.

 

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, a random selection of those teams received on the date the meet is declared closed will be conducted by the meet directors to determine which teams will be entered in the meet.

 

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 meter times or yard times converted to meter times using the conversion 1.14 times total number of seconds. Please use a coach time in place of an “NT”.

 

PROGRAMS:  $2.00 per session

 

ADMISSION:  $1.00

 

 

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 and no pets are permitted within the confines of Guppy Park.
  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 posted on the web and distributed to each team participating in the meet. No diving during warm-up except during 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.

 

REFRESHMENTS:  Seacoast Swimming Association will operate a food concession on site.

 

EQUIPMENT VENDOR:  An equipment vendor, Action Accents, will be on-site for the duration of the meet.

 

RULES:  2008 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 City of Dover 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 park.  No one is permitted on deck except, athletes, coaches, and officials.

 

DIRECTIONS:  Take exit 8E off Spaulding Turnpike in Dover.  Follow signs for Route 4 East through downtown Dover.  Jenny Thompson Competition Pool at Guppey Park is approximately two miles on Route 4 (also known as Portland Ave.), on the left at the top of the hill.  Pool phone:  743-6085

 

PARKING:  Ample parking is available at the Guppey Park facility, and on public streets where parking is permitted.  Improperly parked cars will be towed at owner's expense.

 

TIME TRIALS:  Time trials ($5 per event) will be held, time permitting.

 

AWARDS:  Custom ribbons for the first six places for all 12 & Under Events, and for the first six places by request for all other events.

 

LODGING: Information is available on the Seacoast Site, http://www.seacoastswimming.com/CommonFiles/HotelList.htm

 

 

EVENTS SCHEDULE

SATURDAY

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

13-14 WOMEN

 

13-14 MEN

1

200M BACK

2

7

100M FLY

8

13

100M BREAST

14

17

200M FREE

18

 

 

 

9-10 WOMEN

 

9-10 MEN

3

50M BACK

4

9

50M FLY

10

15

100M BREAST

16

19

100M FREE

20

 

 

 

8&U WOMEN

 

8 & U MEN

5

50M BACK

6

11

50M FLY

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFTERNOON WARM-UP APPROXIMATELY 12:30 PM, MEET 1:30 PM*

SENIOR WOMEN

 

SENIOR MEN

21

200M BACK

22

25

100M FLY.

26

29

100M BREAST

30

33

200M FREE

34

 

 

 

11-12 WOMEN

 

11-12 MEN

23

50M BACK

24

27

50M FLY

28

31

100M BREAST

32

35

100M FREE

36

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY

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

 

 

 

13-14 WOMEN

 

13-14 MEN

37

100M FREE

38

43

200M BREAST

44

49

50M FREE

50

53

100M BACK

54

57

200M FLY

58

 

 

 

9-10 WOMEN

 

9-10 MEN

39

50M FREE

40

45

50M BREAST

46

51

100M BACK

52

55

100M FLY

56

 

 

 

8&U WOMEN

 

8&U MEN

41

50M FREE

42

47

50M BREAST

48

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFTERNOON WARM-UP APPROXIMATELY 12:30 PM, MEET 1:30 PM*

SENIOR WOMEN

 

SENIOR MEN

59

100M FREE

60

63

200M BREAST

64

67

50M FREE

68

71

100M BACK

72

75

200M FLY

76

 

 

 

11-12 WOMEN

 

11-12 MEN

61

50M FREE

62

65

50M BREAST

66

69

100M BACK

70

73

100M FLY

74

 

 

 

 

*Specific warm-up schedule and afternoon start times will be posted on the Seacoast web site at seacoastswimming.com after the meet is seeded and timed.