Eastern Zone All Star
Swim Meet
New England Swimming
August 12-15,
2009
This year’s meet will be run all in one pool: 13 & Overs trials in the mornings, 11-12 trials and 10 & Under timed finals in the afternoons, and 11 & Over Finals in the evenings at Penn State.
Two buses will leave from the Auburn Mall, MA on Tuesday, August 11th at 8:00am. One will return in the evening on Saturday, August 15th (between 11:00pm and 12 midnight) and the other much later Saturday or early Sunday (approx. 4:00am).
Meet Application for
Coach Application for New England Coaches (Adobe PDF) (Current USA Swimming Certification and Background check REQUIRED)
Chaperone Application for Parents (Adobe PDF) (Current CORI check REQUIRED)
Time Standards (Adobe PDF)
Order of Events (Adobe PDF)
Official Meet Information Page (Adobe PDF)
Letter from Coach Sherry Wingfield
Directions (Adobe PDF)
Team Itinerary (Adobe PDF)
NE Entries List (by event) (Adobe PDF)
NE Entries List (by name) (Adobe PDF)
Notes for 10 & Under Swimmers and Parents (Adobe PDF)
Packing List (Adobe PDF)
Bus Assignment List (Adobe PDF)
Directions to Bentley College (Adobe PDF)
Special Travel Information: The New England Zone Travel Team (all swimmers ages 11 and older) will travel to the meet together, leaving from the Auburn Mall at 8:00am on Tuesday morning August 11. All 10 and younger swimmers will travel to the meet with their parents.
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 12-15, 2009 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Location: State College, PA
Facilities: Penn State
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. All 11 & Over 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 assigned team practices on Tuesday, August 11th. 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. Other volunteers for timing may be needed, also.
Trials and Finals: For all 11 & older swimmers, the top heat of swimmers from the preliminary sessions will be required to race in finals in the evening. All 10 & under events will be swum as timed finals. All 11 & older relays will be swum at finals at night. All 10 & under relays will be swum in the morning session as timed finals.
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. Swimmers must abide by all trip rules and regulations; swimmers who fail to do so will be subject to immediately dismissal from the trip at the full expense of the child’s family.
Rooming Assignments: Swimmers (11 & over) will be assigned to sleep 3 or 4 swimmers to a room. Swimmers will be sharing beds with one another and may prefer to bring a sleeping bag to sleep in on the bed. Swimmers will likely be sharing a room with swimmers from other New England teams in the same age-group.
Zone Team Travel Trip Hotel
Atherton Hotel
125 S Atherton St.
State College, PA 16801-3896
(814) 231-2100 (there is a block reserved for the New England Zone Team travel trip participants as well as a block for parents/10 & Under families on first-come, first serve basis, with a special group rate of $95/night, so please identify yourself as NE Zone Team when you call to reserve).
From the hotel:
RESERVATION METHOD: We understand that your guests will be making their own reservations directly with our Reservation Department by calling (814) 231-2100 or (800) 832-0132. These reservations must be received no later than July 11, 2009. Please advise your guests to mention when they make reservations that they are with your group so that they will receive the preferred group rate. Reservations received after this date will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.
GUARANTEE POLICY: Individual reservations must be changed or cancelled 24 hours prior to arrival or the reservation is subject to full charge of all nights' room and tax revenue. Early departure will result in an Early Departure Fee of $50.00. Please inform your participants of this policy.
This is a New England Team travel event. All 11 & older swimmers, coaches and chaperones must travel together on the team busses. While in PA, we will travel as a team to all preliminary sessions. All 11 & older swimmers will attend 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 try to schedule a team meeting and practice in August.