Thursday, March 10, Prelims 7:30 am (Changed) 8:30 am

Thursday, March 10, Finals 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

Friday, March 11, Prelims 7:30 am (Changed) 8:30 am

Friday, March 11, Finals 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

Saturday, March 12, Prelims 7:30 am (Changed) 8:30 am

Saturday, March 12, Finals 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

Sunday, March 13, Prelims 7:30 am (Changed) 8:30 am

Sunday, March 13, Finals 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

No one will be allowed in the pool deck or spectator area until 15 minutes before the warm up start time.

Start times may be changed once all entries have been received. Teams will be notified of exact times by e-mail and they will be posted on the website meet information.

Four(4) heats (top 30 Swimmers by time and then the next 10 swimmers age 13-14 will come back to finals at night. 13-14 heat, bonus, consolation and finals will be swum in that order.

Individuals swimming the 500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free and 400 IM are responsible for providing their

own counter and timers.

FACILITY

The MIT Competition Pool at the Zesiger Center has a 10 Lane championship 25 yard course and an additional 9 lane 25 yard course as well as a 6 lane 25 yard warmup/ warm down pool.. All competition pools with 7 foot wide lanes and automatic Colorado Timing System touchpads, and electronic display for both pools. Spectator seating for 450 around the competition pools.

EVENTS: See attached list.

FORMAT

The meet will be conducted in a trials/finals format. In the evening there will be 4 heats: a 13-14 year old heat of those swimmers not qualifying for any other heats in that event. Bonus, consolation and final heat in that order in all events except the two distance events and the relays. The relays will be conducted as timed finals in the evening and the top heat women and men 1000 free and 1650 freewill be swum at night.

DISTANCE EVENTS (1000 Free, 1650 Free)

Are timed finals, both events will be swum fastest to slowest with the fastest heat of women and men to be swum at finals. Rest of the heats will be conducted during prelims.

SCRATCHES

A scratch box will be located on the pool deck by the timing platform. Scratch deadlines for Friday, Saturday and Sunday prelim events will be by 5:15 pm the night before. Scratches for Thursday and Friday events only may be made by phone to (978)-852-3985.

SPECIAL SCRATCH NOTES

1. Any swimmer who fails to compete in an individual event heat in which he/she is entered and has not been scratched will be barred from further competition for that day, including relays and time trials. The swimmer will be also automatically scratched from the following day’s events unless the clerk of course has been notified of the swimmers intention to compete by 5:15pm. NOTE: Finals are considered continuation of events starting with trials.

2. Any swimmer who competes in an individual heat and qualifies for Finals and fails to notify the meet referee of his/her intention to withdraw from the finals within 30 minutes of the posting of the results and qualifiers for that event, and does not compete nor is excused by the meet referee, will be barred from all subsequent competition in the meet, including relays and time trials.

3. All relay, 500 Free, 400IM, 1000 Free, 1650 Free events must confirm their intention to participate with a positive check-in by the designated positive check in time.

RELAYS

All relays will be swum as timed finals at the end of the evening sessions. A team may enter a maximum of two (2) open relays of any age and two (2) 13-14 year old relays. A swimmer may not participate in the same event as two different swimmers. Non-qualified relay only swimmers will be allowed to fill a relay for a team that only has one, two or three qualified swimmers entered in the meet for both Open and 13-14 relays. Relay only swimmers must be age 12 or older.

Relay cards must be submitted to the clerk of course by the beginning of the relay warm-ups or if there are no relay warm-ups then by the conclusion of the last individual event. No changes to the composition of the relay or order of the relay swimmers may be made after submission of relay cards to the clerk of course, except for medical or other excuse approved by the meet referee.

ELIGIBILITY

All contestants must be 2005 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

No swimmer may swim more than 9 individual events (maximum of 3 events per day). All relay swimmers must be listed on the official entry form. Entries must be received by Wednesday March 2, 2005 by 5:00pm. E-mail entries will be accepted and must be received by the original cutoff date and a check and hard copy received by Friday March 4 , 2005. . If mailing, United States Postal Service Overnight Mail method is to be used. Indicate that the package can be delivered even if no one is there to sign for it. No fax entries will be accepted. All fees must accompany entry. If submitting entry on a disk a hard copy is still required and must also accompany the disk. If you e-mail the entry a hard copy and check for the appropriate fee must be received by the date listed above in order to be accepted.

Individual entries from swimmers who participate in the New England Senior meet will be accepted by sending the information typed on an e-mail to NSSC1@aol.com by 5:00pm Monday March 7, 2005. Check for additional entries from the Senior meet must be to NSSC by 5:00pm on Tuesday March 8, 2005 for entries to be accepted.

No updated times will be accepted from the Senior meet and NO relays. Teams entering swimmers from the Senior meet must make certain that name and ID are correct. Swimmers with incorrect ID’s will be scratched from the meet with NO opportunity for reinstatement.

MAIL ENTRIES TO: Dan Warner, 19 Fenley Road, Gloucester Ma. 01930 (978)283-4456 and e-mail to NSSC1@aol.com

QUALIFYING TIMES:

Entry times must be achieved between February 13, 2004 through entry deadline. The meet will be seeded in the following order, SCY, SCM, LCM.

WARM UPS:
Will be posted on the website as well as notification to all entered teams by e-mail after all

entries are received.

FEES $5.00 Electronic/ $5.50 Individual events.

$10.00 per relay Electronic/ $10.50 per relay.

Payable to “North Shore Swim Club”

$1.00 per swimmer Surcharge for every swimmer on your entry
(Make this a separate check payable to: NE Swimming)

VERIFICATION

All Entries must include verification codes. There will be a verification table at the Open Championship on deck. At this meet teams must submit to the verification table a copy of their meet entry with verification of all times indicated. Teams must also include a copy of any non-New England calendar meet results used for entry times. Results will be reviewed by New England Swimming. Any swimmer unable to verify entry time will be barred from the rest of the meet. If several swimmers from one team are unable to verify entry times the swimmers and the coach may be banned from the remainder of the meet.

RULES

2005 US Swimming rules will govern except as otherwise stated herein and the decision of the referee will be final. Disabled swimmer forms are required by US Swimming and are available from the NE Swimming office.

CONCESSION / VENDOR

A refreshment area will be on hand with many favorites at a reasonable cost. A swim vendor will also be on hand to take care of your swim needs.

SCORING

Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Individual 40 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 26 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14

Relay 80 72 70 68 66 64 62 60 58 56 52 44 42 28 38 36 34 32 30 28

Place 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Individual 12 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Relay 24 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

ADMISSION AND PROGRAMS

Admission $1.00 per session, Programs $2.00 per Session. (Separate Programs for Prelims and Finals)

TIME TRIALS:

Will be offered at the discretion of the meet referee if time allows. Time trials are $5.00 per

Individual events and $10.00 per relay.

SAFETY:

1. Diving will be prohibited during warm-ups except in specifically announced one-way sprint lanes.

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.

OFFICIALS AND TIMERS

In accordance with standard NE Championship procedures, all teams entering the meet must provide a prorated share of officials and timers and other required personnel. Work assignments will be based on the number entries per team. Teams will be informed of their assignments prior to the meet. The officials coordinator for this meet will be Paul Burkhardt (paul.burkhardt@hp.com).

Any official interested in helping at the meet should contact Paul.

Officials who sign up by the meet deadline(March 2, 2005) will be included in the number of workers when team work assignments are done.

AWARDS

Medals will be awarded for the first 8 places in Open and 13-14 individual events and first 3 places in relays. Plaques will be awarded to the individual high point winners for both Open female and male and 13-14 female and male top eight places. Individual high point awards for the top 3 female and male swimmers(Open) in the combined distance events (500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free and 400 IM).

Note: Those 13-14 year old swimmers competing in the top 3 heats of the open competition will have their scores included in the tabulation of the 13-14 high point awards.

OTHER MEET NOTES

Coaches are expected to understand the scratch, verification and relay rules before the meet begins. All coaches should check-in at the timing table on the pool deck upon arrival. Coach’s packets will be available at the beginning of the warm-up session from the timing table.

Coaches are responsible for the behavior of their swimmers at all times. Any damage to the premises or equipment is the responsibility of those doing the damage. Swimmers and spectators are restricted to the pool, spectator areas and locker rooms. No smoking is permitted inside the facility. North Shore Swim Club, NE Swimming and MIT will not assume responsibility for lost or stolen articles.

Please do not ask to change entry times or events after the entry deadline. No deck entries will be accepted.

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 USS swimming registration card at all times.

Individuals without their USS swimming card will be removed from the pool deck and will be

subject to a fine by New England Swimming.

PARKING:

Parking in Cambridge and Boston is generally not an enjoyable experience. Whenever possible, park your car at the hotel at which you are staying, and use public transportation to get to the MIT campus. If you must drive to the campus, there are both on- and off-street parking available, but most public parking is not very close to the center of the MIT campus (unless you arrive early in the morning or late in the evening).

There is metered parking on Massachusetts Avenue. There are a number of lots at which you may park for a fee. These include a lot at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street, “Park and Lock” on Third Street, “Kinney Systems” at 4 Cambridge Center (entrances on Ames Street and Broadway), and “Kinney Systems” at Ten Cambridge Center (entrances from Broadway and Binney Street).

DIRECTIONS: From the North (I-95 or I-93)

If you are heading south on I-93, follow I-93 into Boston then follow the I-93 instructions below. If you are heading south on I-95, take the I-93 South exit then follow the instructions from I-93. Alternatively, take the I-90 East exit from I-95 then follow the instructions from I-90.

From the South (I-95 or I-93)

If you are heading north on I-93, follow I-93 (the Southeast Expressway) into Boston then follow the I-93 instructions below. If you are heading north on I-95, take the I-93 North exit then follow the instructions from I-93. Alternatively, take the I-90 East exit from I-95 then follow the instructions from I-90.

From the West (I-90) (Mass Turnpike)

Follow I-90 east to the Cambridge/Brighton exit (exit 18). Following the signs to Cambridge, cross the River Street Bridge, and continue straight about 1 mile to Central Square. Turn right onto Massachusetts Avenue and follow Massachusetts Avenue for about a half mile. The main entrance to MIT will be on your left. If you cross the river again, you have gone too far.

From Route I-93

From I-93, take exit 26, and follow the signs to Back Bay along Storrow Drive West, approximately 1.5 miles, to the exit for Route 2A. The exit will be on the left, just before the Harvard Bridge (more appropriately called the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge). The Charles River will be on your right. As you cross the bridge, you will be looking at MIT – the Great Dome and academic facilities are on the right, the dormitories and athletic facilities are on the left.

LODGING:

Hotel of MIT (walking distance from pool) 617-577-0200

617-551-0312
Groups of 10 or more: contact Ginny

Hyatt Regency Cambridge (walking distance from pool)
617-492-1234 (identify for NSSC Meet)

1-800-233-1234