New England Swimming End-of-the-Summer Challenge!
(All age groups offered with Special 8 & Under Sessions)

Proudly hosted by the Greenwood Memorial Swim Club, Inc.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 28- 30, 2006

Greenwood Memorial Outdoor Pool, Gardner, MA

Sanctioned by NE Swimming #NE-06-51 & #NE-06-51 TT

Schedule of Events

Entry Cover Page (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager

Results

Results (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek CL2 Export for Team Manager (no time trials)

Hy-Tek CL2 Export for Team Manager (time trials only)

CONTACTS

Meet Director: Walt & Carol Pryor (603) 532-5997 pryorw@town.jaffrey.nh.us

Meet Referee: Walt Meissner (978)-203-6982 wcm@bu.edu

Entry Chairperson: Rosemarie Meissner (978) 827-4580 remecon@comcast.net

For GMSC Team information, warm-up schedules, timing needs, and/or “day-of-the-meet” weather or emergency notices, access the GMSC web page at: http://www.greenwoodswim.com

MEET FORMAT: This meet was created as an end-of-the-season challenge for all age groups and swimmers with a particular focus is in offering events to the 8 and under age group in their own session. All events will be swum as timed-finals and will be seeded after the positive check-in deadline before the start of the competition session. Coaches and swimmers must check-in with the Clerk of the Course no later than 45 minutes before the session is scheduled to start. Heat and lane assignments will be posted and handed out to coaches prior to the start of competition. There will be no bullpen. Swimmers are to report directly to their assigned lane before their event and heat is called. Coaches are responsible for ensuring their swimmers are in the correct heat and lane.

SESSIONS	Warm-up	Start
Friday Twilight Session:	5:00 PM	6:00 PM
Sat & Sun Morning 9-12 Sessions:	7:00 AM	8:30 AM
Sat & Sun 8&Under Session:	1:00 PM	2:00 PM
Sat & Sun Twilight 13&O Sessions:	5:00 PM	6:00 PM

FACILITY: The Greenwood Memorial Pool is an 8-lane, 25-yard outdoor pool with 7’-wide lanes and non-turbulent lane lines with a fully-automatic Colorado Time Systems electronic timing with touch-pads at the finish end of the pool with single-line electronic display. There are no touch-pads at the turn end of the pool. A section of the pool is reserved for warm-up and warm-down. Spectator seating space is available around the pool. Bring your own lawn chairs, blankets, and tents. The pool is located at the Greenwood Memorial Pool Complex, 69 Park Street, Gardner, MA 01440. Please enter through the gates on Park Street, and not through the indoor pool. Directions may be found later in this document.

COURSE: Short course yards (25 yards).

ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 2006 USA Swimming registered athletes and must be registered before the entry is submitted. In accordance with NE Swimming rules, 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 are required to check their entries with the on-line registration check tool on the New England Swimming website. Please contact the New England Swimming Office for registration information. Disabled swimmer forms are available from the New England Swimming Office, c/o New England Swimming; 20 Cleveland Road; Needham MA 02492; 781-449-0270, office@neswim.com. Age eligibility is determined by the age of the swimmer on the first day of the meet and must be shown on the entry form. All coaches on deck must be registered with US Swimming and present their coach membership cards.

NE OPEN QUALIFIERS: Any swimmer with a NE Open qualifying time in any given event is ineligible to swim that event (timed finals or time trials). In other words, any and all swimmers are eligible to enter and swim in any event in which they do not have a NE Open qualifying time. Time standards for NE Open are at: NE Open Time Standards.

ENTRY INFORMATION: Entries received on or before June 9, 2006 will be considered received on June 9, 2006. Entries must be received no later than Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Make checks payable to “Greenwood Memorial Swim Club,” and mail completed forms (including signed entry cover page and waiver) and payment to the entry chairperson: Rosemarie Meissner at PO Box 886, Ashburnham, MA 01430. All entries must be typed or printed legibly, be complete and accurate 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 (i.e., meet fees will not be returned or credited to new entries for scratches or errors). 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. Deck entries will only be accepted if the meet is not designated as full on or before July 18, 2006 and then only if permitted by the meet director and/or meet referee. Please include the email address of your team’s contact(s) so all future meet correspondences can be sent to this email address.

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 remecon@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 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 and swim in a maximum of 5 events per day.

ENTRY FEES: Electronic entries: $3.50 for individual events that are less than 200 yards in length and $5.00 for distance events (400 yards or longer). Non-electronic entries: $4.00 events less than 200 yards and $5.50 for events 400 yards or longer.

ENTRY TIMES: All entries must be specified in short-course yard (25-yard pool) times. Meter times must be converted to yard times. Entries with “NO TIME” will be rejected, but a coach “best guess” time may be submitted.

ENTRY TIME UPATES: Entry times may be updated through 6pm on Friday, July 21, 2006. No new updates will be accepted after that date. (New entries will be automatically excluded). Entry time updates should be sent via email to the entry chairperson and must be sent as Hy-Tek or comparable format CL2 file with updated times.

METHOD FOR CLOSING THE MEET: 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.

OFFICIALS AND TIMERS: As this season ending meet conflicts with the NE Open, New Swimming has granted permission to assign a prorated number of officials and timers from each team entered in the meet. The meet will be permitted to proceed only if a sufficient number of officials and timers are present as determined by the Meet Referee. Please include with your entry a list of your team’s eligible officials, their phone numbers, and the session(s) they are available to work. The Meet Referee for this meet will be Walt Meissner, and Officials from your team who intend to officiate must email him at wcm@bu.edu by no later than July 26 if they are to be included in the prorated number of volunteers assigned to your team. Officials who do not register with the Meet Referee by July 26 will not be counted in the prorated number of volunteers for your team. Team warm-up lane assignments and timer goals will be emailed to team contacts prior to the meet, posted at the meet, and included in the coach’s packet.

PROGRAMS: $2.00 for each session; $8.00 for entire meet (7 sessions)

ADMISSION: $1.00 per adult (non-swimmer over 18 years).

WARMUPS: The pool will open for warm-ups at 7:00 AM for the morning session, approximately 1:00 PM for the afternoon session and at 5:00 PM for twilight sessions. Teams may be assigned warm-up lanes after all entries are received, and a warm-up schedule posted and distributed prior to the day of the meet. The pool will be cleared approximately 10 minutes before the start of competition.

SAFETY, BEHAVIOR, IMPORTANT RULES & SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Diving is 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. Jumping into the pool is prohibited at all times during the competition.
3. No shaving is permitted at the competition site.
4. Glass containers are prohibited on the grounds, especially on the pool area and in the restroom area.
5. 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.
6. No camera cell phones are permitted in the locker rooms.
7. No flash photography at the start of any race.

Failure to abide by these rules and any other rules that may be announced or posted by meet officials during the meet may result in ejection from the facility. Meet officials will watch for swimmers or meet spectators who violate facility regulations. Horseplay will not be tolerated. Parents must supervise younger children in attendance at the meet. Meet officials have the authority to dismiss swimmers and spectators from the grounds. Coaches are responsible for communicating this to both swimmers and parents. No pets of any kind are permitted within the gated area. The Greenwood Memorial Swim Club and the City of Gardner are not responsible for lost or stolen items.

RULES: 2006 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 at the end of each session. Time trials are $5.00 for individual events.

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 AND AWARDS: This meet is an end-of-the-summer meet designed to be fun and the season culminating meet for mid-level and younger swimmers. Swimmers may use short-course yard times to qualify for New England Swimming age group championship meets. For age groups 9 and over there will be individual high point awards, medals awarded to the first three places; and ribbons awarded for places 4 through 8. The 8 & Under sessions will include a
“goody bag” for all swimmers, best time ribbons, and winning ribbons for places 1 through 8.

FOOD & EQUIPMENT VENDOR: A concession stand will be in operation for the duration of the meet, and possibly, a swimming equipment vendor will be selling suits, goggles, and other accessories at times during the meet if arrangements can be made.

PARKING: There is ample parking available in the streets adjacent to the Greenwood Memorial Bath House Complex.

DIRECTIONS: From the North and South: Follow Route 128 or 495 to Route 2 West. Take the first Gardner exit (#23). At the end of the ramp, which feeds into a rotary, take the first right underneath a railroad bridge. At the first traffic light, turn right onto Elm Street. Follow until you come to another rotary. Enter the rotary and exit it at 9 o’clock -- this is Central Street, which you follow until it forks. You bear right at the fork, which is Park Street. The pool is on the right, after approx. 0.2 miles.

From the East: Take Route 2 West and follow the above instructions.

From the West: Take Route 2 East; to second Gardner exit (#23), and follow the above instructions.

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

Super 8 Motel, 22 Pearson Blvd, Gardner, MA 01440, Tel. 978-630-2888 (At exit 23 off Rte 2.)

Wachusett Village Inn, 9 Village Inn Rd., Westminster, MA Tel. 978-874-2000 (Off Rte 2 at exit 27)

Clarion Colonial Hotel, 625 Betty Spring Rd, Gardner, MA 01440, Tel. 888-214-4991 toll-free or 978-630-2500. (Leave Rte 2 at exit 24, take Rte 140N, then take the third left after about a mile.)

Rodeway Inn, 183 Main St., Westminster, MA Tel. 978-874-5951 or toll-free at 800-286-5951

Sheraton Four Points, 99 Erdman Way, Leominster, MA Tel. 800-325-3535

The Maguire House, 30 Cobb Rd., Ashburnham, MA Tel. 978-827-5053

MainFare Bed & Breakfast, 82 Main St. Ashburnham, MA, Tel. 978-827-6005