2008 New England Long Course Meters Championship
June 20-22, 2008 at Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Hosted by Middlebury Muffintops Masters Swim Club
Sanctioned by NE-LMSC for USMS, Inc.: Sanction Number 039-004-SLCM
http://www.middleburymuffintops.org/lcmchamps
Meet Info: Download a printable
copy of the meet info.
Pool: The Natatorium at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont,
is a 50 meter by 25 yard pool with electronic timing and scoreboard, and seating
capacity of 1,000.
Directions:
The Natatorium is located in the Peterson Family Athletics Complex on South Main
Street (Route 30) approximately 1 mile from downtown Middlebury (Route 7 / Route
30 intersection). Complete directions to Middlebury College can be found
at
http://www.middlebury.edu/admissions/campusvisits/directions.
Hotels: Discounted lodging rates for meet participants available
at the Courtyard by Marriott (802-388-7600) and the Middlebury Inn (802-388-4961).
Book early! Rooms and discounted rates only held until May 20! Other lodging opportunities
can be found on the
Lodging page.
Eligibility: 2008 registered United States Masters Swimming (USMS)
swimmers 18 years or older as of June 20, 2008, and 2008 registered masters swimmers
from other countries. New England LMSC swimmers must be USMS registered no later
than May 20, 2008.
Rules: 2008 USMS rules apply, with dive-over starting. If more
time is needed to exit the pool, please notify the starter before your heat.
Entries: Please enter a maximum of five individual events per day,
plus relays. Mail entry form, copy of your 2008 USMS card, and check payable to
Middlebury Muffintops to:
NE LCM Championship
321 N Bingham St.
Cornwall, VT 05753
Incomplete and/or incorrect entry forms will not be considered as official entries
until all discrepancies have been corrected. Please check the meet website to ensure
that your entry was processed and that you are not on the problem list. There will
be no refund of accepted entry fees.
Entry Deadline: All entries must either be postmarked by Saturday,
May 31, 2008 or received by Tuesday, June 2, 2008.
Late Entries: Late entries accepted with an additional $15 penalty. Late entries must be received by 6:00
p.m. on Saturday June 14th.
Meet Entry Cap: Swimmers may enter both the 800 Free and the 1500 Free on Friday, but entries for those events will be processed on a first-come,
first-serve basis and the meet directors reserve the right to reject entries for
either or both events due to time restrictions. If, in the judgment of the meet directors, the
event timeline for the entire meet approaches the limitations of pool availability, no further entries
will be accepted. Please enter early.
Social Event: There will be a BBQ social held Saturday night, June
21, at 6 pm at Roland’s Place in New Haven, VT (5 miles north of Middlebury
on Rte 7). Cost is $20 per person and includes dinner. Family
members are welcome (children under five are free). Cash bar. It is important that
we have an accurate count of people attending the social by the meet entry deadline,
so please include your payment for the social when submitting your entry form.
SEED TIMES: Please submit long course meters seed times. An online
time converter is available at:
http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/results/conversions.asp. The meet directors
reserve the right to change seed times that are obviously incorrect. Entries without
seed times will not be accepted.
Heat Seeding: All events are timed finals. Heats will be seeded
by gender from slowest to fastest. There will be alternating heats of women and
men for both the 800 and the 1500, and genders may be combined in the slower heats of the 800 and 1500.
Positive Check In required: All events will be deck seeded from
entry form times. Events will close for check-in and be seeded approximately one
hour before they start. When you arrive at the pool, be sure to visit the check-in
table immediately to check-in for your events. The first event each day will close
for check-in 45 minutes before the session starts. Heats will be seeded and posted
approximately 30 minutes before the event starts.
Relays: Relay swimmers must be entered in at least one individual
event. Relays will be deck entered at the meet and must be submitted by the deadline
announced at the meet – approximately one hour before the event. There is no fee
for relays. Swimmers may be entered in one relay for each relay event; swimmers
may not swim in both the single-sex and mixed-sex relay of the same relay event.
All swimmers on a relay must be affiliated with the same USMS team. Swimmers from
different NEM workout groups may create “NEM-Unattached” relays, which will not
score points. The relay age groups, which are determined by the sum of the ages
of the four participants, are: 72-99, 100-119, 120-159, 160-199, 200-239, 240-279,
280-319, and 320-359.
SCORING: The first eight places in each individual age group
will score in the following sequence: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. The top eight relays in each
age group event will score double points. Team scores will be calculated separately
for NEM workout groups and non-NEM USMS clubs.
Awards: Awards will be given for male and female high point winner
and for the top three Large (16+ swimmers), Medium (7-15 swimmers), and Small (1-6
swimmers) NEM workout groups and the top three non-NEM USMS clubs. Workout group
size is based on the number of swimmers entered in the meet.
Warm-up/Warm-down: The entire pool will be available for warm-up
for one hour before the start of each session: Friday, June 20, noon-1pm; Saturday,
June 21, 8am-9am; and Sunday, June 22, 8am-9am. At least one lane (and possibly
two) will remain open throughout the meet for warm-up/warm-down. If time permits,
there may be scheduled breaks for full pool warm-up/warm-down.
Meet website:
http://www.middleburymuffintops.org/lcmchamps. The website will provide current
meet information, psych sheets, timelines, and a list of entry problems.
More information: Please contact
lcmchamps@middleburymuffintops.org.
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