EASTERN ZONE ALL STAR SWIM MEET

NEW ENGLAND SWIMMING

August 6-9, 2003

University of Pittsburgh Trees Pool, Pittsburgh, PA

New England Summer Long Course

Zone Team Information

 

To participate in the zone meet, New England swimmers must complete an application and submit it to the verification table at the 12 & Under meet at Harvard or the Open meet at Brown.

 

Meet Application for New England Swimmers (Adobe PDF)

Time Standards (Adobe PDF)

Order of Events (Adobe PDF)

Official Meet Web Site

 

Dates: August 6-9, 2003  (Wednesday – Saturday)

 

Location: University of Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, PA

 

Pool: Joseph Clifton Trees Pool, Darragh and Allequippa Sta., Pittsburgh, PA 15261

 

Facilities: 8-lane 50-meter pool with a 6-lane 25-yard pool for warm-up and warm-down.

 

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 are to swim in warm-up with the team or risk being scratched from the meet and relay for the day.

 

Practice time: The pool will be open for team practices from 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5th.  The New England practice time will be determined later.

 

Volunteer Responsibilities: Each LSC is required to provide one official  and two timers per session.  All New England parents in attendance will be asked to either time or officiate for at least one session.

 

Trials and Finals: For all 11 and older swimmers, the top 8 swimmers from the preliminary sessions will be required to race in finals in the evening.  All 10 and under events will be swum as timed finals.  All 11 and older relays will be swum at finals at night.  All 10 and under relays will be swum in the afternoon session as timed finals.

 

Meet Times:

13 and older     7:00 a.m. warm-up       8:30 a.m. meet start

12 and under    12:15 p.m. warm-up     1:45 p.m. meet start

Finals               5:30 p.m. warm-up       6:30 p.m. meet start

 

Heat Sheets: Daily heat sheets will be available for preliminaries ($5.00) and for finals ($2.00).

 

Parking: Parking will be in the OC lot next to the swimming complex.

 

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.

 

Hotel Blocks:

 

Westin Convention Center (formerly the Double Tree), Downtown Pittsburgh (10 minutes from the pool)

1-800-367-7478 reserve under New England Zone Team Block

30 double and king rooms at $99.00

 

Wyndham Garden Hotel, University Place (three blocks/ 2 minutes from the pool on Forbes Avenue)

412-683-2040 reserve under New England Zone Team Block

12-15 double and king rooms at $79.00 + $5.00 per day to park