Hello All,
 
We are looking forward to hosting everyone at the New England Open this weekend at MIT in Cambridge.
The meet looks to be fast and should provide the opportunity for all the swimmers to have great swims.
Listed below is some general information, changes and reminders for the meet:
 
 
1)    Warm Up schedule is posted online at the website, we have changed the warm up
        times have changed to 7:30-8:30 AM broken into 2 (30 minute sessions) utilizing the 10
        lane championship pool and the 9 lane scoreboard pool. The 6 lane pool will not be
        used at all during the morning warm up sessions. All finals sessions will be open
        warm ups utilizing the pools and lanes that are open during that session.
 
2)    Pool Breakdown, we will be swimming all events men and women in the championship
        10 lane pool with the 9 lane scoreboard pool open for warm up and warm down. The
        1000 free on Thursday and the 1650 free on Sunday will be run in 2 pools. Top heat
        of both women and men will swim at finals and the remaining heats will swim fastest
        to slowest. All women's heats will be in one pool and all the men's heats in the other
        pool. In the 9 lane scoreboard pool we will compete in lanes 1-8 and leave lane 9 of that
        course open for warm up/ warm down for those event swimmers only.
        
3)    Scratches must be turned in to the clerk of course by 6 PM the night before by
        completing the appropriate scratch form.
 
        Thursday ONLY scratches can be e-mailed by 6 PM Wednesday to nssc1@aol.com
        or by calling 978-852-3985 and leave the scratch on the voice mail. No scratches
        will be accepted after 6 PM.
 
        Friday, Saturday and Sunday scratches can only be done by utilizing the scratch
        form at the clerk of course table.
 
4)    Positive Check In for the following :
 
        Thursday  - 1000 free by 10:00 AM
 
        Friday      - 400 IM by 9:00 AM
 
        Saturday  - 500 free by 9:00 AM
 
        Sunday    - 1650 free by 9:00 AM
 
        All Relays by 6:00 PM and relay names by 7:00 PM
 
5)    Time Trials will be offered on Friday and Saturday only at the end of prelims. All time
        trials must be turned in at the clerk of course by 9:00 AM and are $5.00 each, $10.00
        for relays. We will run time trials to approximately noon each of these days.
 
6)     Web site has psyche sheets, team warm up schedule, team work assignments,
        general info, time lines, results etc.
 
7)     Parking on Thursday and up to 3 PM on Friday is street parking and wherever you can.
        Parking permit can be downloaded from the web site and then the parking garage will
        be open for Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday free of charge.
 
8)     Review Psyche Sheets and get any issues to me as soon as possible.
 
9)     Timers Meeting, Please let your parents know that we will be having a timers       
        meeting 20 minutes prior to the start of each session. If they can be ready and get down on deck
        we can get things started on time and running smoothly. Timers are responsible to
        stay till the completion of the session unless otherwise noted.
 
10)    All Swimmers must provide their own timer and counter for the 1000 free and
        1650 free.
 
        Please let me know if you have any questions.
 
        I look forward to seeing you all on the weekend.
 
        Dan Warner / Tony Padvaiskas
        North Shore Swim Club

                                                            3/8/05