Bernal Gator Swim Club

Age Group Spring Festival

McDermott Pool, Warwick, RI

May 7-8, 2005

Sanctioned by NE Swimming #NE-05-42(TT)

 

Events List

Entry Cover Page (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager

Results

Results (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager

 

CONTACTS

 

Meet Director            Fran Tocci                    (781)642-1234            f.tocci@verizon.net

                                    Ernestine Lammers       (781)749-5516            elammers@msn.com

Entry Chair                 Tim Ernst                      (781)235-0292            SwimMeetEntry@comcast.net

Referee                      Paul Maker                  (508)384-8480            makerp@comcast.net

 

                       

MEET FORMAT: The meet will be swum as timed-finals.  Each session will be seeded by computer based on positive check-in at the beginning of each session.  Coaches will receive a positive 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.  Copies of heat and lane assignments will be given to coaches when they are ready.

 

SITE: McDermott Pool, Sandy Lane, Warwick, Rhode Island is a 50-meter 6 lane covered pool with non-turbulent lane lines, Colorado Timing System and touch pads. There are no touchpad’s at the turn end of the pool.  There is limited interior seating but with access to outdoor patio spaces.  The finish end of the pool is 10 1/2 feet deep; the turn end of the pool is3 1/2 feet deep. 

The building will not open for the competitors until 8am and all competitors, spectators and volunteers must be out of the facility by 6pm each day.  Please notify your team members and their families of this restriction.  Failure to abide by rules defined in this notice, posted at the facility or determined by the Meet Referee or Meet Director may result in ejection from the facility. Directions may be found later in this document. 

 

COURSE: Long course meters (50 meters).

 

EVENTS and SESSIONS: See attached list.

 

ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 2005 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 encouraged 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 21, 2005.  Entries received before April 21 will be considered received on April 21, 2005.  Entries must be received by Tuesday, April 26, 2005. Make checks payable to Everglades Trust. Mail completed forms (including signed entry cover page and waiver) and payment to the entry chairperson:  Tim Ernst, 3 Middlesex Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.

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 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.”

 

ELECTRONIC ENTRIES:  Electronic entries (such as from Hy-Tek Team Manager or other team management software that are in the CL2 or SD3/SDIF format) may be emailed as an attachment to the entry chairperson, Tim Ernst, at  SwimMeetEntry@comcast.net. 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 the signed entry cover page and waiver) must be received within 4 days, excluding Sundays and holidays, of receipt of the email 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..

 

OTHER ENTRIES: United States Postal Service Overnight Mail is the preferred paper mailing method.  If Overnight Mail is used, indicate that the package be delivered even if no one is there to sign for it.  No fax entries will be accepted.  All fees must accompany the entry. 

 

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

 

ENTRY TIME UPATES: Entry times may be updated until 7 days prior to the first day of the meet.  Entry time updates should be sent via email to the entry chairperson, Tim Ernst at: SwimMeetEntry@comcast.net . Entry time updates must be sent as Hy-Tek format CL2 files with updated times. 

 

ENTRY FEES: Electronic entries: $3.50 for individual events, $10.00 for relays.  Non-electronic entries: $4.00 for individual events, $10.50 for relays.

 

ENTRY TIMES: All entries must be specified in long-course meter times.  Yard times must be converted to meter 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.  If the meet becomes oversubscribed, 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.

 

PROGRAMS: $5.00 for the weekend.

 

ADMISSION: $1.00 per session.

 

WARMUPS: Warm up time is limited.  The pool will open for warm-ups at 8:15am for both Saturday and Sunday morning sessions.  The facility will not be open for the competitors before 8am each day.   Teams will be assigned warm-up lanes after all entries are received.

 

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
  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.

 

RULES: 2005 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 $10.00 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: The meet will not be scored.

 

FOOD: A concession stand will be in operation for the duration of the meet.

 

EQUIPMENT VENDOR: A swimming equipment vendor will be selling suits, goggles, and other accessories for the duration of the meet.

 

MISCELLANEOUS: The Bernal Gator Swim Club assumes no responsibility for lost or stolen property.  Pets of any kind and smoking are not permitted within the facility.

 

PARKING: There is parking available in the parking lot adjacent to the pool and hockey rink.

 

DIRECTIONS:

From the North: Take 95 South into Rhode Island and get off at Exit 12A (Main Street) Route 113 East.  Follow Route 113 East until the end (Route 117).  Take a left at that light and bear to the left.  Take a left at the next light onto Sandy Lane.  The pool will be on the left approximately 300 feet after the light. (Mickey Stevens Complex)

 

LODGING: The following hotels and motels are in the area:

 

COMFORT INN
1940 Post Rd.
(401) 732-0470 | (800) 228-5150

A 200 room hotel next door to the Airport. Complimentary continental
breakfast, 24 hour airport shuttle service, in-room movies, cable TV &
HBO.

 

 

COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT
55 Jefferson Park Rd.
(401) 467-6900 or (888) 236-2427

With 92 rooms spread out over three floors, this hotel has amenities
including swimming pool, whirlpool and data ports in every room

 

CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL AT THE CROSSINGS
801 Greenwich Ave.
(401) 732-6000 | (800) 2-CROWNE

Right off exit 12A on Rt. 95 is Warwick's largest hotel with 266
oversized rooms. Offering airport shuttle service, an indoor pool, a
business center and Remingtons restaurant, serving breakfast, lunch,
dinner and a great Sunday brunch, and Alfred's Library Lounge is also
located within the hotel.

 

EXTENDED STAY AMERICA
245 West Natick Road
(401) 732-2547 | (800) EXT-STAY

 

 

FAIRFIELD INN BY MARRIOTT
36 Jefferson Blvd.
(401) 941-6600 | (800) 228-2800

A 115 room hotel, offering their guests clean, affordable rooms.
Includes airport shuttle service and complimentary continental
breakfast.

 

HAMPTON INN & SUITES
2100 Post Rd.

(401) 739-8888 | (800) 426-7866

173 guest rooms, 47 two-room King suites for extended stay with full
kitchen. Airport transportation, complimentary breakfast, indoor pool,
exercise facility. Located adjacent to the Airport.

 

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS HOTEL & SUITES
901 Jefferson Blvd
(401) 736-5000 | (800) HOLIDAY

147 guest rooms and suites, offering Airport transportation.
Complimentary breakfast buffet, indoor pool, fitness center, business
center, 2-line phones with modem/data ports in every room.

 

HOMEWOOD SUITES BY HILTON
33 International Way
(401) 738-0008 (800) 225-5466

82 studio, one and two bedroom suites. This hotel offers a complimentary
hot breakfast buffet, evening managers reception, indoor pool and spa,
fitness room, sports court, business center, grocery shopping service,
on site convenience store, meeting room, complete in-room kitchenette,
satellite tv with movie channel, dual phone lines with data ports, fireplaces
in 2 bedroom, Hilton Honors Program, and guest laundry room.