Name of Meet

NEW JERSEY SWIMMING’S

SHORT COURSE 13-14 & 15-19 ‘SILVER/BRONZE’

CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2008

Co-Hosted by Elite Swim Club & Morris County Swim Club

 

Meet Sanction #:

New Jersey Swimming Sanction #NJS030108ASC

Date of Meet:

Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2, 2008

Location:

·        The pool is located in the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.  The Center's main number is 732-445-0460; (this number is for emergencies only).  All calls regarding this meet should be directed to the Meet Director.

·        There are two auxiliary pools, known as "patio pools" (for warm-up and warm-down), and seating for 1,000 spectators, including 400 chair-backed seats.  The remaining seating is bleacher style.

 

Meet Director:

Bill Deatly, Meet Director, 32 Prospect Street, Summit, NJ  07901

                        Phone: 908-273-6542  

                             E-mail: eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net   

Meet Referee:

Moya Chew-Lai  973-635-1206  Moya Chew-Lai@prudential.com

Meet Marshal:

Brandy Deatly: brando32@comcast.net

Entry Coordinator:

Bill Deatly, Meet Director, 32 Prospect Street, Summit, NJ  07901

                         Phone: 908-273-6542    E-mail: eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net

                          Ok to call during the day-please call before 10:00 pm

Meet Requirement

Statement:

This meet qualifies, as "one" of the three required short course meets to be eligible for the New Jersey SC Zone Championship Team or for New Jersey National Championship Reimbursement.

Internet Posting:

All meet information will be posted at: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/ & http://www.besmarttinc.com/ in addition to NJ Swimming’s website of http://www.njswim.org/

 

Entry Deadline:

·        No deck entries will be accepted. 

·        Entries must be received, (by e-mail or regular mail) no later than 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday February 20, 2008.

       Please mail entries and fees to Bill Deatly, Meet Director,

               32 Prospect Street, Summit, NJ  07901

            Phone: 908-273-6542    E-mail: eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net   

·        E-Mail entries will be posted on the Meet Website: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/ &

        http://www.besmarttinc.com/

·        If a team does not see their team entries on the Meet Website, then your entries were not received. Please contact Meet Entry Coordinator by email.

·        Not waiving signature of receipt on Express Mail may delay receipt.

·        Entries will be considered accepted when Meet Director receives entries, hard copies of waiver and meet verification and payment.

·        The host club has the right to scratch swimmers and/or teams whose entry fees and waiver forms have not been received prior to start of the meet.

·        NO FAX OR PHONE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Entries:

·        In accordance with NJS policy, team entries may be submitted by E-mail to:  eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net

·        All entries must be Hy-Tek program entries either on a 3 1/2" diskette or as an attached file to an e-mail.

·        The meet entry coordinator will respond to e-mails entries within 48 hours.  If you do not receive an e-mail response within 48 hours, assume that your email has not been received. It then becomes the e-mailer’s responsibility to make sure that the host club's meet entry coordinator receives the e-mail.  If you do not receive an e-mail response, you must contact the entry coordinator by email or phone or mail in your entries.

·        An Entry Summary with a signed NJ Swimming waiver and a check must accompany or follow each mailed entry.

·        Accuracy of seed times is essential.  Incomplete entries will not be accepted.

·        Deck entries will not be accepted.  No phone or faxed entries will be accepted. 

Meet Format

Waiver:

The host club has the right to change the format of the meet with the approval of the administrative chairman and age group or senior chairman.  These changes would be made for a more efficient swim meet for the swimmers and the host club.  Reasons for changes would be:

·        To allow more swimmers to swim.

·        To conform to facility capacity limits or for facility safety concerns.

·        To condense the meet into smaller time frames.

 

Amending Entries Process:

Coaches will be permitted to amend inaccuracies in their meet entries for this meet.  The Entry Coordinator is Bill Deatly, e-mail: eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net  The process shall be as follows:

1.  The Host Team will enter each team into meet database as the entries are received.

2.       The entries for each team will be e-mailed to that team and posted on the 13-19 SilverBronze Champs webpage: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/ www.besmarttinc.com

3.  Upon receipt of the entry list for their team, the coach will be expected to proof the entries for their team.  The coach must respond to the email, either indicating that the entries are accepted as is or amending as explained below. 

4.  After the entry deadline (February 20, 2008) has passed, should a swimmer be missing from the entry list or if a swimmer is missing from an event, then the coach can enter the swimmer through the following process:

·        The coach needs to make a list of the missing entry information:  swimmer's name, USA-S number, event number and entry time.

·        The list of the missing swimmers and their events are then to be e-mailed to the Host Team Entry Coordinator (e-mail: eliteswimclubnj@comcast.net ) no later than 9:00 PM on the Wednesday (February 27) before the start of the meet.  Please do not email a Hy-Tek file.

·        The entry fee for all events entered in this manner will be $10.00 per event and payable before the start of the meet.  Should the entry fee not be paid, then the swimmer(s) will not be permitted to swim in the amended event(s) in the meet.

Internet Website Posting:

Official website for the 13-19 Silver/Bronze SC Championships 2007 is: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/. Duplication information will be posted on BeSmartt’s website:  http://www.besmarttinc.com/  & New Jersey Swimming’s website: http://www.njswim.org/

 

Pre-Meet Information:

·        Meet Information

·        Hy-Tek Meet Events (HYV File)

·        Relay Eligibility Meet Info for Team Manager

·        Team Entry Status

·        Distance Event Information

·        Warm-up Assignments

·        Timing Assignments

Post-Meet Information:

·        Final Results by sessions

·        Hy-Tek Meet Manager Back-up

·        Hy-Tek C-File Results

Coaches Eligibility:

·        All coaches “on the deck” must be members of USA Swimming.

·        Coaches must show coaching card for entrance to facility.

·        Coaches must have a visible coach’s card when entering hospitality area.

Swimmer Eligibility:

·        All swimmers must be members of USA Swimming to enter and compete in this meet.

·        All swimmers must be listed on a team’s official entry form to be eligible to participate in this swim meet in any events including relays.

·        This is a New Jersey Swimming Championship Meet; only New Jersey Swimming athletes may enter and compete in this meet.

Unattached Swimmers.

·        All transfer swimmer(s) must swim unattached for 120 days from their last attached competition.  Swimmers must us an UN- (New Team Alpha Code) as their team affiliation. All Unattached swimmers must be listed on the team’s official waiver entry form.

Age Groups that will be offered.

·        There will be only 13-14 and 15-19 Events.

·        All swimmers must have times slower than the current New Jersey Gold Time Standards.

Individual and Relay Limits:

·        New Jersey Swimming allows swimmers to compete in 3 individual events per day. Swimmers may enter as many events as they qualify for but must scratch down to 3 events prior to the start of the session.  If a swimmer is not scratched down to three events, then ‘first three entered events that swam’ will then be considered as the three events entered.

·        Swimmers may compete in one (1) relay per session.

Age at Meet:

·        Age for this meet is:  Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Entry Exception:

·        12 year old swimmers who turn 13 on or before March 8, 2008, and who have not yet achieved the 13-14 New Jersey ‘GOLD’ Time Standard in an event may enter that event at this meet.

Meet Format:

·        This meet will use both ends of the pool.  See Special Meet Format (below).

·        This meet will be run in accordance to current USA Swimming Rules.

·        This meet will be run as a time final meet.

How seeding will be done.

·        This meet will be deck seeded with coaches checking in/scratching all swimmers.  When the seeding has been posted, swimmers will report to the blocks on their own.

·        Relays will be run as the first event of each session and will be pre-seeded.

Special Meet Format:

Due to expected volume of swimmers at this meet (based upon previous years entries), the meet will be run as follows:

·        All events will be swum in both pools simultaneously.

·        The pools will be divided into “Odd Heat Pool- Scoreboard Pool” & “Even Heat Pool-Dive Pool. Thus, event 1 heat 1 will be swum in the scoreboard pool while event 1 heat 2 will be swum in the dive pool, virtually simultaneously.

·        Heat 1 of an event will not begin until all heats of the previous event have completed.

·        This format will be run for all 6 sessions.

·         If necessary, the Meet Director will arrange for short (5-10 minute) breaks between events to give swimmers rest between events.

Meet Schedule:

·        The building will not open before 7:00 a.m. for swimmers and 7:15 a.m. for spectators.

·        This meet will have three sessions per day.

 

 

Meet Schedule:

 

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Warm-up

Start

Session 1

13-14 Girls Events (including distance)

  7:15 a.m.

  8:30 a.m.

Session 2

15-19 Girls Events (including distance)

12:00 p.m

1:15 p.m.

Session 3

13-19 Boys Events (including distance)

4:15 p.m.

5:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Warm-up

Start

Session 4

13-14 Girls  Events (including distance)

  7:15 a.m.

  8:30 a.m.

Session 5

15-19 Girls  Events (including distance)

12:00 p.m

1:15 p.m.

Session 6

13-19 Boys Events (including distance)

4:15 p.m.

5:30 p.m.

               

 

Warm-up Procedures:

     .All teams will be given a minimum of thirty minutes of warm-ups.

·        Warm-ups will be run under New Jersey Swimming Warm-up and Safety Guidelines.  Warm-ups will include general warm-up lanes, sprint lanes, and pace lanes.

Entry Into Pool:

·        All swimmers must enter the pool from the starting end of the pool.

Host Team Monitoring Warm-ups.

·        The warm-ups will be monitored by the Elite Swim Club & Morris County Swim Club meet marshals.

·        All general warm-up lanes will swim in a counterclockwise direction.

Warm-up Schedules.

·        The warm-up sessions will be two 30-minute warm-ups divided by teams.  There will be designated sprint lanes/pace lanes during the last 10 minutes of each 30 minute warm-up session.

·        Due to the odd/even event format, there will be a 10 minute open warm-up session at the end of each warm-up (extending the warm-up 10 minutes) to allow swimmers to practice turns in each pool

 

Entry Times:

·        New Jersey Swimming does not allow ‘NT’ or ‘No Time’ to be used as an entry time.