EASTERN ZONE ALL STAR SWIM MEET
NEW ENGLAND SWIMMING
August 9-12, 2006
Erie Community College Flickinger Aquatic Center
and
University of Buffalo Alumni Arena Pool in
Buffalo, NY
New England Summer Long Course
To participate in the zone meet, New England swimmers must complete an application and submit it to the verification table at the 12 & Under meet at Harvard or the Open meet at MIT. Swimmers and parents may NOT enter the meet on their own. This is a New England Team Travel event.
Letter from Coach Laura (8/02)
Zones Trip Itinerary (Adobe PDF) (8/02)
Packing List for Team Members (Adobe PDF (8/02)
Notes for 10 and Under Swimmers (Adobe PDF) (8/02)
Directions to Auburn Mall (Adobe PDF) (8/02)
Meet Application for New England Swimmers (Adobe PDF)
Coach Application for New England Coaches (Adobe PDF) SORI/CORI check required
Chaperone Application for Parents (Adobe PDF) SORI/CORI check required
Time Standards (Adobe PDF)
Order of Events (Adobe PDF)
Official Meet Web Site
Results
List of Qualifiers (updated July 12) Note: this is not an official meet entry or meet registration. Athletes must declare their intent to travel on the team trip by completing a registration form and paying the team fee.
Special Travel Information: The New England Zone Team (all swimmers ages 11 and older) will travel to the meet as a team. All 10 and younger swimmers will travel to the meet with their parents. 10 and under parents will be 100 per cent responsible for food, lodging and transportation for their swimmers. Swimmers must arrive on time for their assigned warm-up each day and will be completely cared for at the meet on deck by the coaches. All parents may volunteer to officiate or time in order to be on deck at the meet. Otherwise, all parents must view the meet from the spectator seating area. Only parents who are assigned New England Zone Team chaperones may be seated with the team on deck.
Dates: August 9-12, 2006 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Location: Erie Community College Flickinger Aquatics Center, Buffalo, NY for 13 and Over prelims and finals for 11-12, 13-14 and 15-18. University of Buffalo Alumni Arena Pool for 10 and Under timed finals and 11-12 prelims.
Facilities: Erie Community College Flickinger Aquatics Center, 21 Oak Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. The Flickinger Aquatics Center has an 8-lane 50-meter pool with a 5-lane 25-yard pool for warm-up and warm-down. University of Buffalo Alumni Arena Pool, North Campus, Amherst, NY, 14226. The Alumni Arena Pool has an 8-lane, 50-meter pool with a 20-yard diving pool for warm-up and warm-down.
Warm-up: Lanes will be assigned to each LSC. We are required to warm-up at our designated time in our designated lane. All swimmers participating in the session, including relays, are to swim in warm-up with the team or risk being scratched from the meet. Swimmers not participating in the session are to attend the entire session, providing great team spirit and support of the New England Team. All 11 and older swimmers will attend finals as a team.
Practice time: The pool will be open for team practices on Tuesday, August 8th. The New England practice time will be determined later. All New England team members will attend our practice session and warm-up as a team.
Volunteer Responsibilities: Each LSC is required to provide one official and two timers per session. All New England chaperones will be required to time or officiate at most of the sessions.
Trials and Finals: For all 11 and older swimmers, the top 8 swimmers from the preliminary sessions will be required to race in finals in the evening. All 10 and under events will be swum as timed finals. All 11 and older relays will be swum at finals at night. All 10 and under relays will be swum in the morning session as timed finals.
Meet Times:
12 & Under Events at University of Buffalo
8:00 a.m. warm-up, 9:30 a.m. meet start
13 & Over Events at Erie Community College
7:00 a.m. warm-up, 8:30 a.m. meet start
Finals (for 11 and Older Top 8 Swimmers from Prelims and 11 and Older Relays) at Erie Community College
4:00 p.m. warm-up, 5:30 p.m. meet start
Programs and Admission: To be determined
Parking: Parking will be available in the college parking lots at the University of Buffalo. Parking will be available at various rates in large municipal lots adjacent to the Flickinger Aquatic Center.
Swimmer Conduct: Proper conduct at all times will be enforced by the coaches, chaperones, parents, meet marshals, and meet directors. Any swimmer found in marked out-of-bounds areas will be barred from the remainder of the meet. All trip rules and regulations will be set at the New England Zone Team Meeting prior to the trip. Swimmers who fail to abide by the trip rules will be subject to immediately dismissal from the trip at the full expense of the child’s family.
Coaches and Chaperones: In order to abide by Massachusetts State Law, all coaches and chaperones will be required to have a SORI/CORI check completed by New England Swimming through the State of Massachusetts.
Zone Team Hotel (the block is reserved for the New England Zone Team travel trip participants. All 10 and Under parents and families traveling separately from the team are required to find their own hotel accommodations):
Holiday Inn Buffalo - Downtown
(716) 886-2121
PLEASE NOTE:
This is a New England Team travel event. All 11 and older swimmers, coaches and chaperones must travel together on the team busses to Buffalo. While in Buffalo, we will travel as a team to all preliminary sessions. All 11 and older swimmers will travel as a team to all finals sessions. Any swimmer who wishes to leave the meet with a parent must submit a written request to the coaches before the start of the trip. No swimmer will be allowed to leave the trip unless it is authorized by a New England coach and the swimmer’s parents.
We will have a team meeting and practice in August.
Swimmers who wish to compete in the Eastern Zone Open Water Swimming Competition may do so at their own expense. New England Swimming will not be responsible for meet entry, staffing or supervision of any kind for this competition.