Open Championships
Friday-Monday,
July 27-30, 2007
Blodgett Pool,
Sanctioned by: New England Swimming, Inc NE-07-65(TT)
Presented by: Bay and
Entry Cover (Adobe PDF)
Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager (corrected 7/11/07)
Warmup Assignments (Adobe PDF)
Timing Assignments (Adobe PDF) (corrected 7/23/07)
Sessions Report (Adobe PDF)
Results:
Friday: Prelims | Finals
Saturday: Prelims | Finals
Sunday: Prelims | Finals
Monday: Prelims | Finals
Time Trials (all days)
Full Results
Full Results (Adobe PDF)
Team Scores (Note: Team scores announced at the meet were incorrect. These are corrected.)
Open High Point (Adobe PDF)
13-14 High Point (Adobe PDF)
Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager (no time trials)
Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager (time trials only)
Parking: Please note parking will be $10 per day (includes prelims and finals). Please enter through Gate 6 and follow signs to the field behind the hockey rink.
Please note: This meet is now scheduled for Friday through Monday, July 27-30, 2007.
Meet Director:
Tim Murphy (tdmurphy@fas.harvard.edu)
Entry
Chairperson: Carol
Healey (nemeetentries@comcast.net)
781-444-2014, 47 May Street,
Meet Referee: Scott Doty (CSDoty@jcrowe.com)
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Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
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Warm Up Prelims |
7:30 AM |
7:30 AM |
7:30 AM |
7:30 AM |
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Prelims Begin |
9:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
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Warm Up Finals |
5:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
4:00 PM |
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Finals Begin |
6:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
6:15 PM * |
5:00PM |
* Graduating seniors will be
honored on Sunday at the start of the evening session(6 PM). If you will not be
swimming in the meet but will be there for the ceremony, please notify the
MEET FORMAT: The meet will be conducted
in a trials/finals format. In the evening there will be 4 heats: a 13-14 year
old heat of those swimmers not qualifying for any other heats in that event.
Bonus, consolation and final heat in that order in all events except the two
distance events and the relays. The relays will be conducted as timed finals,
swimming fastest to slowest, in the evening and the top heat women and men 800
free and 1500 free will be swum at finals.
SITE: Blodgett Pool features an 8
lane, 50 meter competition course with Kiefer Advantage II lane lines, a fully
automatic Daktronics Timing System with alphanumeric scoreboard, and touchpads
at both ends of the course. There is a diving well area that will be available
for warm-up and warm-down activities. The facility has seating for 1200
spectators. The pool is located near the Harvard Football Stadium, at
COURSE: Long course meters (50
meters). 50-meter events will start at the starting end of the course,
and finish at the turn end of the course. For 200-meter relays, the
second and fourth swimmers may dive from the edge of the pool at the turn
end. There are no starting blocks at the turn end of the pool. The
starting end of the course has a depth of 7 feet. The turn end of the
course has a depth of 3 feet 9 inches.
EVENTS: See attached list.
ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be
2007 New England Swimming registered athletes. Any swimmer registered with New
England Swimming, with qualifying times, is eligible to swim in this meet. 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.
Please contact the New England Swimming Office
for registration information.
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.
ENTRY
INFORMATION:
All entries, hand written, or emailed, must be received by 6:00 PM, Tuesday
July 17, 2007. Email entries with a standard SD3 or CL2 data file of your
team’s entries attached are encouraged, provided a hardcopy of the entry, with
a signed entry cover sheet, arrives on or before the entry deadline of July 21,
2007. Email entries to (nemeetentries@comcast.net).
In the text of the email write all contact information, including team name,
coach name, contact person, email address and phone numbers. Put team initials
somewhere in email subject.
An entry will NOT be accepted without the hard copy
and payment. Payment and hard copy are due by Saturday, July 21, 2007. No fax
entries will be accepted. All hard copies and checks should be sent by US
Postal Service certified mail, or hand delivered. Please check the "no signature required" box on overnight
deliveries.
All entries must be typed or
legibly printed and must include all swimmer's USA Swimming numbers and ages.
The hy-tek entry report should be the entry report “by athlete”, not “by
event”, and should include the proof of times report that identifies the meet
where each qualifying time was achieved. If there is a discrepancy between the
hard copy and the electronic entry, the hard copy will be used as the official
meet entry. Send the hard copy entries to: Carol Healey 47 May Street,
One
check for entries, the swimmer participation fee, and the travel fund surcharge
should be made payable to Mass Bay Marlins.
Please do not ask to change entry times or events after the entry deadline. No deck entries will be accepted. See updated times section below:
UPDATED TIMES: Updated times, NOT NEW CUTS, will be accepted up until Friday, July 20th.
ENTRY FEES: $5.00 electronic entry/
$5.50 hand entry for all individual events. $20.00 electronic relay entry/
$20.50 hand relay entry. In addition, there is a $5.00 swimmer participation
fee and a $2.00 New England Travel Fund surcharge for every swimmer listed on
the entry including relay only swimmers.
ENTRY TIMES: Entry times must be achieved
between July 20, 2006 and the entry deadline of July 17, 2007. Entry times will
be seeded in the following order: LCM, SCY, SCM.
ENTRY LIMITS: A swimmer may swim in a
maximum of 9 individual events with no more than 3 individual events per day,
including time trials. A swimmer may enter as many events as he/she has
qualified for, then scratch down to the allowed maximum 9 individual events for
the meet with a maximum of 3 individual events per day.
RELAYS: All relays will be swum as
timed finals at the end of the evening sessions. A team may enter relays
according to the number of swimmers per sex entered in individual events with a
maximum of 2 relays per team per event, both of which may score. At the Open
meet, a team with 1, 2, or 3 swimmers of the same sex entered in at least one
individual event may enter one relay in each relay event of that sex. If a team has 4 or more swimmers of the
same sex entered in at least one individual event, the team may not have any
“relay only” swimmers for relays of that sex. Relays will be swum fastest to slowest,
alternating heats of women and men.
Relays must be positively
checked-in by 6 PM, the day of the event, and the relay cards must be turned in
by 7:00 PM to the clerk of course. Relay name or order changes may be done at
the clerk of course table until the event is called.
There will be a 10 minute break between events and the
relays.
TIME TRIALS: Time trials will be
available at the discretion of the meet referee and meet director, and if time
allows, after the Trials sessions on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. All time
trial swimmers must provide two timers for their swims. Time trials are $5 for
individual events and $20 for relays.
DISTANCE EVENTS:
The
800 Free and 1500 Free are timed finals. Both events will be swum fastest to
slowest, alternating heats of women and men. The fastest heat of women and men
in the 800 and 1500 Free will be swum at the beginning of the finals on Friday
and Monday. All of the other heats will be conducted during prelims. The meet director reserves
the right to run heats of the 800 and/or the 1500 with 2 swimmers to a lane if
the events are over subscribed. All distance swimmers
must provide at least 2 timers with watches and 1 counter for their swims.
The 400 Free and the 400 IM will have an A and B flight. There will be 5 heats in each A flight. It will be swum slowest to fastest with the women’s event first, followed by the men’s event. The B flight will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating heats of women and men. All swimmers in these two events must provide at least 2 timers. Both of these events will follow the scratch rules below. These will NOT be positive check-in events.
SCRATCHES: Scratch forms will be
located at the clerk of course table on deck. Scratch deadlines for Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday are 6:00 PM the night
before the next day of trials. Scratches for Friday events only need to be
e-mailed to Carol Healey (nemeetentries@comcast.net)
by 6:00 PM on Thursday. Scratches for Saturday
events can be phoned in (if you are unable to be at the pool) on Friday by 6:00
to Mariella Allard (508) 633-8821.
POSITIVE CHECK IN: All 800, 1500 Freestyle
swimmers, and all relays, must confirm their intention to participate with a
positive check-in for those events. The deadline for positive check-ins for the
distance 800 and 1500 Free is 9:00 AM on the day of the individual event. The
deadline for all other events is by 6:00 PM on the night before the individual
event. Relay check-in is by 6:00 PM the day of the event. Failure to check-in
will result in a swimmer or relay being eliminated from the event. Any swimmer
or relay team that affirms his/her/their intent to swim and does not compete,
unless excused by the referee, will be barred from further competition at this
meet, including relays and time trials.
SPECIAL SCRATCH NOTES:
1. Coaches and swimmers are
expected to understand the scratch, verification and relay rules before
the meet begins.
2. Any swimmer who fails to
compete in an individual event heat in which he/she is entered and has not been
scratched will be barred from further competition for that day, including
relays and time trials. The swimmer will
be also automatically scratched from the following day’s events unless the
clerk of course has been notified of the swimmers intention to compete by 5:30
PM. NOTE: Finals are considered
continuation of events starting with trials.
3. Any swimmer who competes in
an individual heat and qualifies for Finals and fails to notify the clerk of
course of his/her intention to withdraw from the finals within 30 minutes of
the posting of the results and qualifiers for that event, and does not compete
nor is excused by the meet referee, will be barred from all subsequent
competition in the meet, including relays and time trials.
4. On Monday, any team whose
swimmer competes in an individual heat and qualifies for Finals and fails to
notify the clerk of course of his/her intention to withdraw from the finals
within 30 minutes of the posting of the results and qualifiers for that event,
and does not compete nor is excused by the meet referee, will be fined $100.
The meet referee may waive the fine, if based on his judgment, the swimmer was
ill or the reason for missing the final was beyond the control of the swimmer.
VERIFICATION
& RULES: There
will be a verification table on deck. At this meet teams must submit to
the verification table a copy of their meet entry with verification of all
times indicated. Teams must also include a copy of any non-New
The 2007 USA Swimming rules will govern except as
otherwise stated herein and the decision of the referee will be final. Disabled
swimmer forms are required by US Swimming and are available from the New
England Swimming Office.
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.
WARM UP:
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.
6. No coolers will be allowed in the pool.
AWARDS: Medals will be awarded, upon
request, for the first 8 places in individual events, for both the 13/14
swimmers and the open swimmers finishing in the top 8 of the event. Medals will
be awarded for the first three places in relays.
The top eight
Note: Those 13-14 year old swimmers competing in the
top 3 heats of the open competition will have their scores included in the
tabulation of the 13-14
Scoring: 1-8 9-16 17-24
Individual
32-29-28-27-26-25-24-23
20-18-17-16-15-14-13-12
9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Relays 64-58-56-54-52-50-48-46
40-36-34-32-30-28-26-24 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
Please
note that only finals, consolation and bonus heats will be scored for team
awards and open
The
awards ceremony will consist of only announcing the results of the Championship
Final heat immediately upon completion of that event. Awards for all events
will be available at the designated awards table upon request of the swimmer
during the meet.
RESULTS: Event results will be posted
on the pool deck and in the spectator area immediately after each event.
ADMISSION: $1.00 per session.
PROGRAMS: $3.00 per heat sheet. Full
meet psych sheet for $6.00
HOSPITALITY: Coaches and officials will
be served food during Trials and Finals sessions. Cold drinks and snacks will
be available throughout the meet.
VENDOR: A swimming equipment vendor
will be selling suits, goggles, and other accessories for the duration of the
meet.
FOOD: A concession stand will be
in operation for the duration of the meet.
TIMERS AND
OTHER WORKERS: According to New England Swimming policy, BOSS will make timing
assignments for this meet based on the size of your team’s entry. Please be
cooperative and punctual. We need the full cooperation of all teams, large and
small, to adequately run this meet. All teams will be given timing/work
assignments based on the number of entries. Teams treating this meet as a team
travel meet need to assure that they have enough parental workers at the meet
to fulfill their team obligation. The timing assignments will be posted on the
web page with ample time to get workers.
All swimmers in the 800, 1500, 400 free and 400IM
are reminded that they must provide at least 2 timers and 1 counter for the
distance events.
OFFICIALS: Officials are requested to help with the pre-meet
planning for this meet by stating their availability to help as soon as
possible. Please provide the information requested on the Application to
Officiate for this meet (available on NE Swimming web site, also linked below).
Host Team officials are reminded that they also need to submit an application.
All applications that are received by the meet entry deadline, July 17th,
will count towards the work requirements for the official's team. Applications
to officiate that are received at least ten days prior to the meet, and declare
a commitment to serve at all or most of the meet, will be given priority
consideration in deck assignments. Please do not submit an application within
three days of the meet. "Walk-on" officials are always welcome and
will be assigned to positions that are not filled.
Officials should note that the New England
Officials Committee has applied for approval of this meet as a National
Qualifying Meet for N2 and N3 advancements and re-certifications. This
meet will be publicized as such regionally for USAS officials in nearby
LSC’s. Officials that seek evaluation for National Certification purposes
are required to complete and submit a request form (available on NE Swimming web site, also linked below). Please note that there are practical limitations both
to the number of Evaluations that National Evaluators may be able to perform
and to the number of individuals assigned to referee, starter and chief judge
positions. The sooner that you submit an application, the greater are
your chances of assignment and evaluation for assigned positions.
Officials: Application to Officiate (Adobe PDF)
Officials: Request for National Certification Evaluation (MS Word) (you must first submit an application to officiate)
Officials: Request for National Certification Evaluation (Adobe PDF)
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. Swimmers, parents,
coaches, and spectators are restricted to the pool, spectator stands and
concession area. No glass bottles are allowed in the pool areas or locker
rooms. No smoking is permitted inside the building.
DIRECTIONS: The street address for
Blodgett Pool is
From the West: Take the Massachusetts
Turnpike east to Exit 18 (Allston/Cambridge). After paying toll, bear left at
fork towards Allston. Turn right at second set of lights onto
From the North: Take I-93 south to
From the South: Take I-95 north to I-93
north. Follow I-93 to Exit 20 (
Via M.B.T.A. (subway/bus): The Red Line subway stops at
PARKING: All parking will be located in the baseball field
around the Harvard Football Stadium for a fee of no more than $10 per day. Any
vehicles parked illegally will be towed. Street parking is available if you are
lucky enough to find a legal and free space.
LODGING: Provided are some hotels in
the area.
Hyatt Regency
617-492-1234
1.8 miles to
pool
[ Hotel web site ]
[ Map ]
[ Directions to pool ]
Doubletree
Guest Suites
400 Soldier's
617-783-0090
1.0 mile to
pool
[ Hotel web site ]
[ Map ]
[ Directions to pool ]
Days Inn
1234
Soldier's
617-254-1234
0.9 miles to
pool
[ Hotel web site ]
[ Map ]
[ Directions to pool ]
Residence Inn
by
6
617-349-0700
2.2 miles to
pool
[ Hotel web site ]
[ Map ]
[ Directions to pool ]
Hilton Garden
Inn Hotel in
781-890-0100;
$99.00 quad
8.1 miles to
pool
[ Hotel web site ]
[ Map ]
[ Directions to pool ]