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Sanction # NE-02-23
DATES AND LOCATION
Friday, Saturday
&
CONTACTS
Meet Manager: | Walt Meissner | (508) 384-2925 | wcm@bu.edu |
Referee: | Paul Maker | (508) 384-8480 | makerp@fcl-us.net |
For ABF Team information, warm-up
schedules, timing needs, and/or day-of-the-meet weather or emergency
notices, access the ABF web page (www.abfswim.com)
through the US Swim Link City pages
or call the ABF hotline at (508) 761-8992.
SESSIONS
Warm-up |
Start |
|
Friday
Session: |
5:00
PM |
6:00
PM |
Morning
Sessions: |
6:30
AM |
8:00
AM |
Saturday
Afternoon: |
1:00
PM |
2:30
PM |
Sunday
Afternoon: |
12:30
PM |
2:00
PM |
FACILITY
Attleboro High School
has an eight-lane, 25 yd pool with non-turbulent lane lines, Colorado Timing
System (electronic touch pads and scoreboard) and bleacher seating for
spectators (25 yard events use two electronic buttons).
Members of New England Swimming and their families are restricted to
the pool, spectator stands and the concession area.
There is no smoking in the building or within 500 feet of the building.
Failure to abide by these rules may result in ejection from the
facility. Only people with proper
credentials will be allowed on deck.
FORMAT
All events are swum
as timed finals and will be deck seeded after the scratch deadline.
The scratch deadline will be 45 minutes before the start of each
session. Heat and lane
assignments will be posted and handed out to coaches prior to starting each
session. There will be no bullpen.
All other swimmers are to report directly to their lane when their
event is called. Coaches are
responsible for ensuring their swimmers are in the correct heat and lane.
Any swimmer who does not scratch an event but fails to swim will then
be scratched from the remainder of his/her events for that day.
ELIGIBILITY
All swimmers must be
2002 USA Swimming registered swimmers. Please
include USS number on the entry form. Swimmers
may register with Mary Riddell, 20 Cleveland Rd., Needham, MA 02192.
Age eligibility is determined by the age of the swimmer on the first
day of the meet and must be shown on the entry form.
All coaches on deck must be registered with US Swimming and present
their coach membership cards.
ENTRY
INFORMATION
No swimmer may enter
more than 5 individual events per day. A
swimmer 10 & Under, 13 or 14 years old will be allowed to enter the
afternoon open events only if they are taking the SAT examination on
Saturday morning or if the swimmer ages up to the next age group before their
respective NE age group championship and only if their entry does not
cause the morning session to exceed the four-hour time limit.
Acceptance of an entry in the Open age group is at the discretion of
the Meet Manager using this guideline.
Entries must be
submitted to Walt Meissner and will not be accepted any earlier than Monday,
December 3, 2002 or any later than Thursday, January 17, 2002.
All entries arriving on or before December 3 will be counted as
arriving on December 3. NT or no
time entries are not allowed and will be scratched immediately upon receipt
of the entry. If a swimmer does
not have an official time for a particular event, a coachs time must be
used instead. See below for
procedures for declining entries into the meet.
Email
Entries:
Email entries with a standard SD3 or CL2 data file of your
teams entries attached are encouraged but are not counted as received until
payment is received. Entries
(either email or sent overnight mail) will not be accepted until all meet fees
are paid. If you are submitting
your entry via email, you may pay your teams meet fees using Paypal,
a web based payment system that transfers money between two accounts.
If you do not already have a Paypal account and/or you need help paying
by email, you may call or email Walt
Meissner at 508-384-2925 or wcm@bu.edu
Make Paypal
payments to wcm@bu.edu.
Once your Paypal payment and email entry is confirmed, send a hard copy
of your entry with your summary sheet to the address below before January 17
(regular mail is acceptable provided it arrives before January 17).
Other
Entries:
Send a diskette with a standard SD3 or CL2 data file and a
hard copy of your entry, either using the enclosed form, or a computer print
out containing the entry in a similar format, with your summary sheet and
check made payable to Attleboro
Bluefish on or before January 17. United
States Postal Service Overnight Mail is the preferred mailing method.
If Overnight Mail is used, indicate that the package be delivered even
if no one is there to sign for it.
Whether sent using
email or regular mail, all entry forms must be accurate, legible and complete.
No fax, telephone, or deck entries will be accepted and all fees must
accompany the entry. Entries may
not be changed after they are submitted. Exceptions
to this policy are at the discretion of the Meet Manager or Meet Referee.
Seed cards are not required. Meet
fees will not be returned or credited to new entries for scratches or errors
in the entry. PLEASE NOTE: Your
entry must include at least one email address of your teams contact(s).
All future meet information will be sent to this email address.
Your team may have as many email addresses for information distribution
as you wish.
The
entry fee is $2.50 per individual event that are 200 yards or less and $4.00
per individual event that are 400 yards and more when submitting entry in with
a standard SD3 data file as defined by US Swimming.
In accordance with the entry rules specified by New England Swimming,
if an entry is not submitted on computer diskette in a standard SD3
format, the entry fee is an additional $0.50 per individual entry (e.g. $3.00
for events 200 yards or less and $4.50 for events 400 yards or more).
Please mail the hard copy of your entry to:
Attleboro
Bluefish:
c/o Walt Meissner
55 Jennifer Drive
PROCEDURES
FOR CUTTING THE MEET (please read this section carefully)
The number of
entries will be limited so that a given session projects to be within the
required four-hour time limit. If
the meet becomes oversubscribed, entries will be cut by the date the entry and
payment is received. If email
entries are sent without payment, they will be ignored until a Paypal payment
is received or the check for the entry arrives in the mail.
All entries and payments arriving on or before Monday, December 3, will
be counted as arriving on the first day (i.e., December 3).
If the meet should become oversubscribed due to multiple team entries
arriving on that first day or some later day, entries and/or teams will be
denied entry into the meet using the following criteria:
![]() | Teams
who have not paid all required meet fees; |
![]() | Swimmer
entries that have no time or NT; |
![]() | Teams
who submit entries containing errors, not importable, or are illegible; |
![]() | *May
reduce the number of events allowed per swimmer; |
![]() | *May
reduce the number of swimmers in distance events by time; |
![]() | If
still oversubscribed, we may submit teams arriving on the last day when
the meet became full to a lottery. Teams
arriving and paid before the last day will not be subjected to the
lottery. |
*As
a last resort, if any given session exceeds the four-hour time limit, we may
consider reducing the total number of entries per swimmer allowed (e.g., from
five (5) events to four (4) events) and entry fees will be returned.
If the Friday night distance events exceed the four-hour time limit, we
may limit entries to one event per swimmer for that session or establish a
cutoff time for each event.
We will resist
limiting the number of events or cutting by time and will only consider it if
we exceed the time limits due to entries from multiple teams arriving on the
last day before the meet became oversubscribed and it avoids using the lottery
option.
Again, please take
note, we are intent on being fair to all teams attempting to enter this meet,
and entries will not be accepted until payment is received.
UPDATING TIMES
We are mindful of
the fact that entries are usually submitted many weeks before the date of the
meet and that many coaches may not yet have accurate times for their swimmers.
We ask that care be given to submitting good times for swimmers so
swimmers of similar ability, even if of different age, are swimming in the
same heats. Therefore, we are
permitting teams to update times up to January 20, 2002.
This meet will run using the Hy-tek Meet Manager program that allows
times to be updated electronically provided the updated entry file does not
add, subtract, or change events of the swimmers from the original entry.
Please email an updated entry file to Walt Meissner before January 20.
We will manually update times only if the new time differs by more than
:01 for 50 yard, :02 for 100 yard; :04 for 200 yard; or :10 for 400 yard or
longer events.
SCRATCHES AND
POSITIVE CHECK-IN
All scratches and
positive check-in must be submitted to the Clerk of Courses Desk before the
established deadline for the days events.
Deadlines are:
Positive
check-in is required for the 400 IM and 500-Free held on Friday, January 25
and must be confirmed at the Clerk of the Courses Desk before 5:15 PM.
All
scratches for each subsequent days events (Saturday, January 26 and Sunday,
January 27) must be submitted to the Clerk of the Courses Desk at least 45
minutes before the session begins (i.e. 7:15 AM for morning sessions, 1:45 PM
for the Saturday afternoon session and 1:15 PM for Sunday afternoon sessions).
Any swimmer who fails to compete in an individual event in which he/she
is entered and did not scratch before the session deadline will be barred from
further competition for that day and will also be automatically scratched from
the following days events unless the Clerk of Course has been notified of
the swimmers intention to compete by 5:00 PM the evening before the next
days events.
AWARDS
This meet
is your last chance to improve times before the February short course
championship meets. Therefore, the
event schedule has been revised to offer swimmers and coaches the flexibility
to swim a greater variety of events. We
expect that there will be a significant number of swimmers who will switch
between age groups, 14 & Under and OPEN events as needed, so therefore, we
are not awarding High Point. Ribbons
will be awarded for the first 8 places in the individual events for each
event.
RULES
Current 2002 USA
Swimming rules will govern all competition and the decisions of the referee
will be final unless a written protest is lodged within 30 minutes of the swim
heat being protested. Disabled
swimmer forms are required by USA Swimming and are available from the New
England Swimming office.
OFFICIALS
AND TIMERS
All teams
are asked to provide an appropriate share of officials and timers.
Please include with your entry a list of your teams eligible
officials, their phone numbers, and the session(s) they are available to work.
The Referee for this meet will be Paul Maker, and officials are
encouraged to contact Paul at (508) 384-8480 or email at makerp@fcl-us.net
before the meet. Team warm-up lane
assignments and timer goals will be posted on the ABF website, included in the
coachs packet, and noted in the program.
SAFETY, BEHAVIOR AND IMPORTANT
RULES TO NOTE
All team
and individual warm-ups and warm-downs shall be under the direct supervision
of the respective swimmers' coach, or individual designated by the referee.
Any swimmer participating in the meet without a USA Swimming registered
coach must report to the referee before the warm-up for the session.
Diving will be prohibited during warm-ups with the exception of the
sprint lanes when they are announced. Glass
containers are prohibited in the pool area and in the locker rooms.
There is no smoking in the building or within 500 feet of the building.
Failure to abide by these rules may result in ejection from the
facility. The
Attleboro Bluefish Swim Team and the Attleboro Bluefish Booster Club IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST OR STOLEN ITEMS.
In accordance with
New England Swimming policy, There will be no shaving at any New England
Calendar meet or at any other competition receiving a New England Swimming
sanction. Therefore, no shaving
is allowed in the showers, locker rooms, on the pool deck, or in the
bleachers.
Meet
officials will watch for swimmers or
meet spectators who violate facility privileges.
Horseplay will not be tolerated. Parents
must supervise younger children in attendance at the meet.
Officials have the authority to dismiss swimmers and spectators from
the facility. Coaches are
responsible for communicating this to both swimmers and parents.
ADMISSION
![]() | Admission: none
(we will not charge an admission fee to this meet) |
![]() | Programs: $2.00
for each session; $7.00 for entire meet (5 sessions) |
CONCESSIONS
Refreshments will be available for
all sessions.
DIRECTIONS
Attleboro High School is located
on Rathburn Willard Drive in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Take I-95 to the Attleboro Exit #3A, Route 123 towards Attleboro
Center. Immediately after exiting
off I-95, take a left at the Texaco gas station onto Lathrop Drive.
Follow approximately one mile and take a right onto Rome Blvd.
Rome Blvd will curve to the right and then
back to the left before becoming Rathburn
Willard Drive. Attleboro High
School will be on your right. Enter
the first large parking lot next to the School.
On this route, look for signs indicating the way to the high school.
Often at Attleboro High School,
parking may be difficult due to a number of other activities at the school.
We suggest to those attending the meet that they carpool whenever
possible. Thank you.
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