Magnus Aquatic Group

October Distance Meet

Wheaton College, Norton, MA

October 5, 2008

Sanctioned by NE Swimming # NE-08-80, NE-08-80 TT

 

Events List

Entry Cover Page (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek Events File for Team Manager

Results

Results (Adobe PDF)

Hy-Tek CL2 File for Team Manager

 

Meet Director: Jack Beasley (jbeasley@magsouth.org) (978) 758-0381

Meet Referee: John Brunelli  (jpbrunelli@aol.com)  (508) 337-8773

Entry Chairperson: Ann Marie Beasley (ambeasley@magsouth.org) (508) 243-7839

 

For the most up-to-date information about warm-up schedules, timing needs and/or “day of the meet” weather or emergency notices, access the MAG-South web page at www.magsouth.org

 

MEET FORMAT: The meet will be swum as timed-finals.  Each session will be seeded by computer based on positive check-in at the beginning of each session.  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.  Coaches will be able to pick up heat sheets for each event at the control office. 

 

SITE: The Balfour Natatorium contains an 8-lane, 25-yard indoor pool with non-turbulent lane lines, adjacent warm-down area and gallery seating for approximately 375.  The pool has fully-automatic Colorado Time Systems electronic timing with touchpads at the finish end of the pool and an eight-line electronic scoreboard.  There are no touchpads at the turn end of the pool.  The finish end of the pool is 12 feet 2 inches deep; the turn end of the pool occurs at a bulkhead that separates the competition from the warm-down area, and is 9 feet deep.  The Balfour Natatorium is located inside the Haas Athletic Center, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766.  Directions may be found later in this document.  Between events swimmers will wait with their teams in the field house.  Swimmers and spectators are not allowed in any other athletic facilities including, the indoor track, weight rooms and training areas.

 

COURSE: Short course yards (25 yards).

 

EVENTS and SESSIONS: See attached list.

 

ELIGIBILITY: All contestants must be 2008, or 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 September 19, 2008.  Entries received before September 15, 2008 will be considered received on September 19, 2008.  Entries must be received no later than September 29, 2008.  Make checks payable to “Triton Aquatics, LLC.”  Mail completed forms (including signed entry cover page and waiver) and payment to the entry chairperson: Ann Marie Beasley, c/o Triton Aquatics, P.O. Box 573, Mansfield, MA 02048-0573.  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.  All email entries must be submitted to Ann Marie Beasley (ambeasley@magsouth.org) – see Electronic Entries section below.  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.  Checks returned due to insufficient funds will have a $25 processing fee attached to their entry fee.    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.   Magnus Aquatic Group will reserve 75% for its own team and any other teams (New England and/or out of district) that it may want to invite to the meet.   In order to ensure that the meet is neither oversubscribed nor under subscribed, all teams included in the 75% must submit their entries and checks at least one week before the first day of first acceptance (September 12, 2008).  If on the first day of acceptance, the meet entries exceed the 25% still available in the meet, there will be a lottery of those teams.  The New England Office will run the lottery.

 

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 ambeasley@magsouth.org.   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.  Include ‘MAG October Distance Meet” in the email subject line.   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 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 September 29, 2008 entry deadline.  Entry time updates should be sent via email to the entry chairperson at ambeasley@magsouth.org. 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: $5.00 for individual events. Non-electronic entries: $5.50 for individual events.   The Swimmer Participation Fee is $7.00 per swimmer. 

 

ENTRY TIMES: All entries must be specified in short-course yards (25- yard pool) times.  (Entries with “NO TIME” will be rejected.)

 

ENTRY CUTS: 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:  Volunteer officials and timers from each team are encouraged and appreciated.  Please include with your entry a list of your team’s eligible officials expected to be available, their phone numbers and the session(s) they will work.

 

TIMERS: All swimmers must provide their own timer for all events and a counter where needed.

 

PROGRAMS: $2.00

 

ADMISSION: $1.00 per session.

 

WARMUPS: The pool will open for warm-ups one-hour before the beginning of each session.  The pool will close five minutes before the beginning of each session.  Teams will be assigned warm-up lanes after all entries are received. The shallow end of the pool will be available during the meet for continuous warm-up and warm down.  .

 

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
  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 flash photography at the start of any race.
  7. Absolutely no swimming under the bulkhead at any time.
  8. Absolutely no meet participant, swimmer, coach or observer is allowed in the field house (track) or gym unless authorized by meet or Wheaton College personnel
  9. Swimmers will not be allowed to stand on the bulkhead during the competition

 

RULES: 2008 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.

 

SCORING: The meet will not be scored.

 

AWARDS: Ribbons will be awarded to the top eight finishers in each individual event. Heat prizes will be awarded to the first place finisher of each heat.

 

FOOD: A concession stand will be in operation for the duration of the meet.

 

EQUIPMENT VENDOR: will not be available

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Magnus Aquatic Group, MAG-South Swim Club and Triton Aquatics, LLC assume 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 Haas Athletic Center, or across from the complex on the left.  Do not park along the roadway, or you will be towed.

 

DIRECTIONS: Wheaton College is located in Norton, MA about ten minutes from Great Woods and seven miles from the southern intersection of Routes I-95 and 495.  From this intersection, about halfway between Route 128 and Providence on Route 95, take Route 495 South to exit 10, Wheaton College.  Turn right at the end of the ramp onto Route 123.  Take a left onto Pine Street before Wheaton College.  Follow the signs for the Athletic Center.

 

LODGING: The following hotels and motels are within fifteen minutes of the pool:

 

Marriott Courtyard, 35 Foxboro Boulevard, Foxboro, MA 508-543-5222

Comfort Inn, 4 Fisher Street, Foxboro, MA 508-543-1000

Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA 508-339-2200

Red Roof Inn, 60 Forbes Boulevard, Mansfield, MA 508-339-2323.