Mei’s Typhoons Swim Club

Specialty Meet

July 4-5, 2009

Springfield College Art Linkletter Natorium, Springfield, MA

Sanctioned by NE Swimming #NE-09-52 & 09-52 TT

 

JUNE 30 NOTE: Saturday and Sunday sessions have been combined into a single session each day. Please see revised events schedule.

 

Events and Time Standards (updated 6/30/09)

Entry Cover Page (Adobe PDF) (corrected 6/07/09)

Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager (updated 6/30/09)

Results

Results (Adobe PDF)

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

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

 

CONTACTS

Meet Director

Mei Han

(413) 567-0276

meihanli@verizon.net

Referee

Bryan Joyce

(413) 566-3149

joyster600@charter.net

Entry Chairperson

Luanne McCloskey

(413) 283-6000

mtscswim@verizon.net

 

MEET FORMAT: The meet will be swum as timed-finals.  This session will be seeded by computer based on positive check-in at the beginning of each session. Heats may be combined in order to save time for all events. 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. Swimmers should report directly to the blocks for their events.  Coaches are responsible for ensuring their swimmers are in the correct heat and lane.

 

SITE: The Competition Pool is a 6-lane, 50 meter pool with seven-foot-wide lanes and non-turbulent lane lines. The pool is equipped with fully automatic, Colorado Time Systems electronic timing with touch pads at the start end of the pool with six-line electronic display.  The finish end of the pool is 12 feet deep; the turn end of the pool is 4 feet deep. Spectator seating is for 500. The pool is located inside the Springfield College Athletic Complex, 263 Alden Street, Springfield MA 01109.

The competition course has been certified in accordance with 104.2.2C(4). The copy of such certification is on file with USA Swimming.

 

COURSE: Long-Course (50 meters)

 

EVENTS and SESSIONS: See attached list.

 

ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 2009 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 June 6. 2009 (date of first acceptance).  Entries received before June 8, 2009 will be considered received on June 6, 2009. Entries must be received no later than June 20, 2009.  Make checks payable to “Mei’s Typhoons Swim Club”.  Mail completed forms (including signed entry cover page and waiver) and payment to Mei Han, 86 Green Meadow Drive, Longmeadow, MA  01106.  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 deck entries will be accepted.  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.  Mei’s Typhoons Swim Club will reserve up to 75% of the swims in the meet 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 25% still available in the meet, there will be a lottery of those teams.  The lottery will be run by the New England Swimming  Office. In order to make sure the meet is neither oversubscribed nor under subscribed, all teams included in the 75% must submit their entry and check at least one week before the date of first acceptance.

 

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 mtscswim@verizon.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 individual events per day.

 

ENTRY TIME UPATES: Entry times may be updated until 7 days prior to the first day of the meet.  No new entries will be accepted after the June 20, 2009 entry deadline.  Entry time updates should be sent via email to the entry chairperson at mtscswim@verizon.net. Entry time updates must be sent as Hy-Tek format CL2 files with updated times.  (New entries will be automatically excluded.)

 

ENTRY FEES:  Electronic entries: $4.00 for individual events.  Non-electronic entries: $4.50 for individual events.  The Swimmer Participation Fee is $10.00 per swimmer.

 

ENTRY TIMES: All entries must be specified in long-course meter times. Yard times must be converted. (Entries with “NO TIME” will be rejected.)

 

TIMERS:  Volunteer timers are needed for all events.  Sign-up sheets for volunteers will be at the admission table. Volunteer timers will receive free admission.

 

ENTRY CUTS: Entry cuts, if necessary, will be determined according to the date of entry receipt.  Teams will be notified that they have been accepted or cut from the meet. If an event is oversubscribed, entries will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. 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.

 

TIME TRIALS: Time trials will be available at the discretion of the meet referee and meet director, and if time allows. All time trial swimmers must provide two timers for their swims. Time trials are $5 for individual events.

 

PROGRAMS: $3.00 per session.

 

ADMISSION: $1.00 per session

 

WARMUPS: The pool will open for warm-ups one hour before the beginning of the session.  The pool will close ten minutes before the beginning of the session.  

 

SAFETY:

 

1.      Diving will be prohibited during warm-ups except in specifically announced one-way sprint lanes. 

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: 2009 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.

 

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.

 

ATTENTION: Per Springfield College Management, there is to be no FOOD on deck. Please have your swimmers take their food upstairs to eat.

 

SCORING: The meet will not be scored.

 

AWARDS: There will be heat winner awards for this meet.

 

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.

 

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ISCELLANEOUS:  Mei’s Typhoons 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 ample parking available in the parking lot adjacent to the Springfield College Art Linkletter Natatorium.

 

DIRECTIONS: The Springfield College Art Linkletter Natatorium is located at 263 Alden Street, Springfield MA 01109.

From points east and west:  Take Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit 6.  Turn left to Rte. 291 West.  Proceed one mile to Exit 5 (East Springfield Indian Orchard). After you turn right at the end of the exit ramp onto Rte. 20A, get into the left lane on Rte. 20A.  Take immediate left at traffic signal onto Roosevelt Avenue.  Proceed three miles to Alden Street. Turn right onto Alden Street and proceed one-half mile to campus.  The pool is on the right.

From points north:  Take Rte. 91 South. Exit onto Rte. 291; take Rte. 291 to Exit 5B.  Then follow the above directions from Exit 5.

From points south:  Take Rte. 91 North. Exit onto Rte. 291; take Rte. 291 to Exit 5B.  Then follow the above directions from Exit 5.

 

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

 

Hilton Garden Inn, 800 W. Columbus Ave, Springfield, MA (413-886-8000)

Springfield Marriott, 1500 Main Street, Springfield, MA (413-781-7111)

Sheraton Springfield, One Monarch Place, Springfield, MA  01103  (413-781-1010)

Holiday Inn Springfield, 711 Dwight, Springfield, MA  (413-781-0900)

Crown Plaza Hotel, 1 Bright Meadow Blvd, Enfield, CT  06082 (860-741-2211)

Red Roof Inn, 5 Hazard Ave, Enfield, CT  06082 (860-741-2571)