NJ Short Course Junior Olympics March 2006 Rutgers University

With permission of NJSwimming, we have slightly changed warm up times and start times because of the large number of entries we have had, especially in the older age groups.

The new times are (changes in bold):

Morning:  warm up 7:15-8:15, 8:20 Start

Afternoon:  warm up 1:30-2:30  2:35 start

Finals:  warm up 6-7, 7:00 start

In addition, it may be necessary to move some heats of the final distance events each session from one pool to the other.  That decision will be made as the meet progresses and time lines can be more accurately assessed.  We will both announce and post any changes made.  We will post changes with the heat sheets and on the control room door.

Warmups will be conducted as specified in the meet information.

On Friday and Sunday, Teams whose names begin with A-L will warm up for the first half hour and teams whose names begin with M-Z will warm up for the second half hour.

On Saturday, M-Z will warm up for the first half hour and A-L will warm up for the second half hour.

Pool Assignment

On all three days:

Mornings:

15/19 women and 13/14 men will be in the Main pool

15/19 men and 13/14 women will be in the Dive pool

Afternoons:

11/12 women and 10 & under men will be in the Main pool

11/12 men and 10 & under women will be in the Dive pool

Weather

Our weather policy:  We will run the meet as long as Rutgers is open.  Rutgers only closes if the State of New Jersey declares a state of emergency.  In the case of inclement weather, please leave early because the meet will start on time. 

Individual Meet Entries Report

Junior Olympics  17-Mar-06 to 19-Mar-06 Yards

Location: Rutgers University

NEW JERSEY SHORT COURSE JUNIOR OLYMPICS

Hosted by BERKELEY AQUATIC CLUB

DATES:          Friday, March 17, 2006

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Sunday, March 19, 2006

NJ SWIMMING SANCTION NO.:  #NJS031706SCY

LOCATION:

The pool is located in the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.  The Center's main number is 732-445-0460; this number is for emergencies only.  All calls regarding this meet should be directed to the Meet Director.

The pool is Olympic-sized, divided into two 25 yard 8 lane pools.  One half will be known as the "Main Pool" (nearest the large scoreboard) and the other as the "Diving Pool" (nearest the diving tower).  Both event pools use pedestal-style starting blocks, with non-turbulent lane lines, and a Colorado Timing system.

There are two auxiliary pools, known as "patio pools" (for warm-up and warm-down), and seating for 1,000 spectators, including 400 chair-backed seats.  The remaining seating is bleacher style.

The gymnasium on the ground floor of the Werblin Recreation Center will be available and must be used by the swimmers.  Swimmers' bags will have to go into the gym.  No bags will be permitted in the pool area.

Access to the pool deck will be via the staircase nearest the diving tower end of the pool.  Stairs at the scoreboard end of the pool will only be used by officials, timers, and swimmers exiting the Main Pool.

MEET DIRECTOR:  Nancy King  Contact at rckingjr@aol.com or 973-376-1783

MEET REFEREE:   John Wisinger  Contact at wisinger@optonline.net

ENTRY COORDINATOR:  Nancy King  Contact at rckingjr@aol.com or 973-376-1783

ENTRY DEADLINE:           Entries must be received by Tuesday, March 7, 2006.  Except as noted below for JO qualifying times first achieved at Silver Championships,  no late entries will be accepted.  If you are not emailing your entries, overnight or express mail is recommended, but waive the signature.  It is not necessary to overnight or express mail checks which are sent in support of an emailed entry.

Swimmers that make a  JO time at the Silver Champs will be late entries that are not in the program.  All entries from the Silver Champs held on March 11-12, 2006 must be e-mailed to the Entry Coordinator, Nancy King, by 9:00 AM on Monday, March 13, 2006 (rckingjr@aol.com).  The information provided must be the same as the attached “Master Entry Form”.  An email that includes the swimmer’s name, USA-S ID number, event numbers and descriptions and times is all that is needed.  Please DO NOT send Hy-Tek entry files.   Entry fees for these Silver Championship entries must be paid on the first day of JOs.

 INTERNET WEBSITE POSTING:

Meet information and a Hy-Tek event list with time standards, importable into Team Manager,  will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic Website:

www.berkeleyaquatic.org

Psych sheets  will be posted on the website no later than the Tuesday before the meet.  Session by session results will be posted at the end of each day and final results, in HTML and Word format will be posted by 5 p.m. the Monday following the meet.  A Hy-tek file of results, including splits, will also be available on the website.

Any changes to the meet format or schedule will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic Website. 

Entries achieved at the Silvers Meet may or may not be included in the posted psych sheets or in the meet program sold at the meet.

MEET REQUIREMENT STATEMENT:

This meet qualifies as "one" of the three required short course meets to be eligible for the New Jersey SC Zone Championship Team or for New Jersey National Championship Reimbursement.

COACHES:

All coaches “on the deck” must be registered with New Jersey Swimming and be members of USA Swimming.

Coaches must show coaching card for entrance to facility.

Coaches must show coaching card before picking up any meet information or scratch sheets.

Coaches must have coaching card visible at all times while on deck.

Coaches must have a visible coaches card when entering hospitality area or when asking for food at concessions.

OFFICIALS:

Participating clubs are requested to provide as many USA-S certified officials as possible.  Please email John Wisinger at wisinger@optonline.net to volunteer.  Please include the days and sessions you are able to work.  Officials working any session of the meet must present their 2006 New Jersey Swimming Official’s credentials, as well as their 2006 USA Swimming membership card:  (1) to admissions when entering the building and (2) to the Meet Referee on deck; otherwise, admission will be charged and the Official will not be eligible to work the meet.

SWIMMER ELIGIBILITY: 

Swimmers must be USA-S registered members of New Jersey Swiimming in order to compete in this meet.  All swimmers must be listed in the team’s official entry file in order to participate in the meet, including relay only swimmers.  Any transfer swimmer(s) must swim unattached for 120 days from their last competition.  Please enter them as a separate team named:  XXXUN where XXX are the first three letters of your team abbreviation.  Entries for swimmers without valid 2006 USA-S registrations will not be entered in the meet.  NJ Swimming performs a registration check a few days after the official deadline and ineligible swimmers will be notified at that time. 

 All swimmers must meet the attached time standards.  Times converted from Long Course  times are not allowed. 

All swimmers are limited to a maximum of 3 individual events + 1 relay per day per session, up to a total of  2 relays per day.  Swimmers must swim only in events in their age group, including relays.  The 800 Free relay is the only event that is an “Open” event.

Age group is determined by the swimmer's age on Friday, March  17, 2006.

Swimmers age 20 and over, that have achieved 2006 USA Swimming Junior Championship  times within the last year, may participate in the morning preliminaries only (can not swim at night).  The 2006 USA Swimming Junior Championship time standards can be found on the USA swimming website (www.usswim.org), in the event section under the 2006 USA Swimming Junior Championship.

MEET FORMAT:

 All 10/U & 11/12 events will be swum as timed finals.  13/14 & 15/19 events will be a trials and finals format with consolation and championship finals (fastest 16 swimmers from preliminaries) held in the evening session.  The 1000 & 1650 freestyle events and all relays will be timed finals.  The top 8 seeded relays in the 13/14 & 15/19 age groups will be swum at night.

The 30 minutes scratch rule will apply to all swimmers qualifying for bonus, consolations and finals.  Clubs will be fined $50 per swimmer who fails to show for Sunday night Finals.

The New Jersey Swimming and USA-Swimming Championship Scratch Procedures as contained in Rule 207.7.9D will apply to all swimmers qualifying for a consolation or final race.

SCHEDULE:

MORNING PRELIMINARIES (13/14 & 15/19):

Warm-Up:  7:15-8:15 a.m.

START:          8:25 a.m.

AFTERNOON TIMED FINALS (10/U & 11/12):

Warm-Up:  1:00-2:00 p.m.

START:          2:10 p.m.

EVENING CHAMPIONSHIPS (13/14 & 15/19):

Warm-Up:       6:00 p.m.

START:         7:00 p.m.

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. - NO EARLIER

WARM UP PROCEDURES: 

Lanes will not be assigned.   Swimming will be in the counter clock wise direction.   Entry shall be from the starting block end of each pool and must be feet first entry.  At the Meet Referee’s discretion, Lane 1 may be designated a pace lane and Lanes 6, 7 and 8 may be designated one way lanes.  Relay starts may not be used.  The warm-up will be conducted in accordance with New Jersey Swimming Warm up Policies.

The warm-up schedule will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic website (www.berkeleyaquatic.org) and emailed to participating clubs not less than 72 hours before the beginning of the meet and each club will be assigned a warm up period.  Warm up times will be divided into two 30 minute periods by CLUB and lanes will not be assigned.  Entry shall be from the starting block end of each pool and must be feet first entry.  At the Meet Referee’s discretion, Lane 1 may be designated a pace lane and Lanes 6, 7 and 8 may be designated one way lanes.  Relay starts may not be used.  The warm-up will be conducted in accordance with New Jersey Swimming Warm up Policies. 

ENTRY TIMES:

 All entry times must meet the attached qualification times.  Times must have been achieved in short course yards and cannot be converted from meter times. 

CHECK-IN:

 The entire meet will be deck seeded.  e signifying the swimmer will swim. 

All check in sheets must be turned into the control room 30 minutes after the start of warm up.  Swimmers that are swimming will have lines through their names.  Swimmers that are being scratched will have their names circled with “SCR” next to the circle.  Swimmers scratching a single event will have a line through their names and the event number circled with “SCR” next to the circle.  Any swimmer who has not checked in will be scratched from their events that day.

DISTANCE EVENTS:

  The 11/12, 13/14 & 15/19 1000 and 1650 freestyles are timed final events.   The heats will be swum fastest to slowest at the end of the preliminary sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Swimmers in the 1000 & 1650 must provide their counters.  Swimmers who enter these two distance events must prove their qualifying time by listing date and name of meet on the entry form.

RELAY CARDS:

 Relay cards will be provided to each team.  The relay cards with names are due 30 minutes before the start of the relay event.  Relays swum in the evening must submit their cards 30 minutes prior to the start of the relay event in the evening.  Relays that have not submitted cards by the specified time will be disqualified.  Please note that in accordance with NJ Championship swimming policy, swimmers are not allowed to “swim up” for relays; they must swim on a relay of the appropriate age group. However, the 800 Free Relay is an open event.  Relays may contain swimmers who are not swimming individual events.  However, those swimmers must be 2006 USA registered swimmers and should be entered in the Team Manager file with the rest of the swimmers, just swimming no events. Exhibition relays are not allowed. 

SCORING:  Scoring for the team title will be through 16 places as follows:  (20,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,9,7,6,5,4,3,2,1) for individual events and for relay events (40,34,32,30,28,26,24,22,18,14,12, 10,8,6,4,2).

AWARDS:  New Jersey Junior Olympic medals will be presented to the top 8 finishers in individual events and to the top 3 finishers in relay events.  Trophies will be presented to three teams accumulating the highest scores.  Individual high point awards will be given to the top individual girl and boy performers in each age group.

ENTRY FEES:          In accordance with the 2006 New Jersey Swimming rules, a non-refundable entry fee of $4.00 per individual event and $8.00 per relay event must accompany the entries.  Make checks payable to "Blue Streak Aquatic".    Entries will not be considered received and accepted without full payment of fees.

ADMISSION

AND PROGRAMS:

 Admission will be $5.00  per morning or afternoon session.

  Programs will be $15.00 for the psych sheets for the entire meet.

  Finals admissions will be $3.00 and will include a heat sheet program.

ENTRIES:     In accordance with NJS policy, entries may be submitted by Email to rckingjr@aol.com or may be mailed to Berkeley Aquatic Club.  All entries must be HyTek program entries either on a 3 1/2" diskette or as an attached file to an email.   The meet entry coordinator will respond to emails within 48 hours.  If you do not receive an email response within 48 hours, assume that your email has not been received.  It is the emailer’s responsibility to make sure that the email is received by the entry coordinator.  If you do not receive an email response, you must contact the entry coordinator by email or phone or mail in your entries. An Entry Summary with a signed NJ Swimming waiver and a check must accompany or follow each mailed entry.  Entries must be submitted in yard times only.  Accuracy of seed times is essential.  Incomplete entries will not be accepted.  Deck entries will not be accepted.  No phone or faxed entries will be accepted.   Since this is a championship meet, all entries which meet the time standards and are received by the deadline, which is after the Bronze Championships, will be accepted.

NOTE:            Fed-Ex , Airborne and other carriers cannot deliver to P.O. boxes.  If you mail your entries directly to our facility and not to our P.O. Box, we may not receive it in a timely manner.   Please send mail only to our  P.O. Box.  

 Entry fees must be paid at the time of entry. Please mail all entries to:

Berkeley Aquatic Club - NJJO's

P.O. Box 215, Berkeley Heights, NJ  07922

Telephone:  (908) 464-0574 

AMENDING PROCESS:  Coaches will be permitted to amend inaccuracies in their meet entries for this meet.  The Entry Coordinator is Nancy King, e-mail: rckingjr@aol.com.   The process shall be as follows:

1.  The Host Team will enter each team as the entries are received.

2.  The entries for each team will be e-mailed to that team (each team must provide an e-mail address for this purpose) on Tuesday, March 14^, 2006. 

3.  Upon receipt of the entry list for their team, the coach will be expected to proof the entries for their team.  The coach must respond to the email, either indicating that the entries are accepted as is or amending as explained below. 

4.  Should a swimmer be missing from the entry list or if a swimmer is missing from an event, then the coach can enter the swimmer through the following process:

A. The coach needs to make a list of the missing entry information:  swimmer's name, USA-S number, event number and entry time.

B.  The list of the missing swimmers and their events are then to be e-mailed to the Host Team Entry Coordinator (e-mail rckingjr@aol.com) no later than 9:00 AM on the Wednesday before the start of the meet.  Please do not email a Hy-Tek file.

C.    The entry fee for all events entered in this manner will be $10.00 per event and payable before the start of the meet.  Should the entry fee not be paid, then the swimmer(s) will not be permitted to swim in the amended events in the meet.

RESULTS:

Results will be posted at www.berkeleyaquatic.org each evening.  Results in Word, HTML and a Hy-tek file, including splits, suitable for downloading into Team Manager will be posted the day after the meet.

TIMERS:

 Participating clubs are required to provide volunteer timers, with watches.  In event not enough timers have volunteered, the Meet Director may require participating clubs to provide timers based on number of athletes entered.  The timer lane assignments will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic website no later than the Wednesday before the meet.

TIME TRIALS:

 New Jersey Swimming will hold Time Trials, for the purpose of qualifying for USA-S Senior Nationals, on each day after the morning session, TIME PERMITTING.  Athletes wishing to time-trial in an event must:

1.         Have been entered in the same event during the Junior Olympics.

2.       Must have a best time not slower the 2006 USA Swimming Junior Championship times which are posted on the USA swimming website.

3.         Provide their own timers.

4.         Sign up during the meet and pay an entry fee of $4.00 to swim.

5.         A time trial is considered an event and each athlete is limited to 3 individual events per day.

HOST CLUB  RESPONSIBILITIES:

A hospitality room will be maintained for coaches and officials.  It is located behind the control room on the pool deck.

PARTICIPATING CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Participating clubs are encouraged to provide as many officials as possible.  Contact John Wisinger at wisinger@optonline.net.

Participating club parents must stay off the pool deck.

No pets are allowed on the deck or in the stands.

CONCESSIONS:     

Rutgers University will provide a varied menu of hot and cold refreshments throughout the competition.

VENDOR:                 

The Metro Swim Shop will be located at the opposite end of the Concourse from the spectator entrance.

Directions to Sonny Werblin Recreation Center

Address: 656 Bartholomew Rd, Piscataway
Campus: Busch Campus

Garden State Parkway Southbound

Turn off at Exit 129 for the New Jersey Turnpike and head south. Turn off at Exit 9, bear right after the tollbooths and follow signs for “Route 18 North – New Brunswick.” Stay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. Proceed along Route 18 North, crossing the Raritan River (approximately 3.7 miles). Continue on Route 18 North. Proceed up Route 18 to the Campus Rd. exit ramp on the right. Follow Campus Rd. until you come to the circle and take the first right off the circle onto Bartholomew Rd. The Recreation Center will be the first building on the left.

Garden State Parkway Northbound

Turn off at Exit 105 and follow signs for Route 18 North. After approximately 24 miles, you will pass the entrance for the New Jersey Turnpike. Proceed along Route 18 North, crossing the Raritan River (approximately 3.7 miles). Continue on Route 18 North. Proceed up Route 18 to the Campus Rd. exit ramp on the right. Follow Campus Rd. until you come to the circle and take the first right off the circle onto Bartholomew Rd. The Recreation Center will be the first building on the left.

Interstate 287

Turn off at Exit 9 “Bound Brook/Highland Park." Proceed East on River Road toward Highland Park. Continue on River Road and you will pass under the overpass for Route 18. Make the next left onto Route 18 North. Proceed up Route 18 to the Campus Rd. exit ramp on the right. Follow Campus Rd. until you come to the circle and take the first right off the circle onto Bartholomew Rd. The Recreation Center will be the first building on the left.

New Jersey Turnpike

Turn off at Exit 9, bear right after the tollbooths and follow signs for “Route 18 North – New Brunswick.” Stay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. Proceed along Route 18 North, crossing the Raritan River (approximately 3.7 miles). Continue on Route 18 North. Proceed up Route 18 to the Campus Rd. exit ramp on the right. Follow Campus Rd. until you come to the circle and take the first right off the circle onto Bartholomew Rd. The Recreation Center will be the first building on the left.

US Route 1

Turn off at exit marked “Route 18 North-New Brunswick." Proceed along Route 18 North, crossing the Raritan River (approximately 3.7 miles). Continue on Route 18 North. Proceed up Route 18 to the Campus Rd. exit ramp on the right. Follow Campus Rd. until you come to the circle and take the first right off the circle onto Bartholomew Rd. The Recreation Center will be the first building on the left.

NEW JERSEY SHORT COURSE JUNIOR OLYMPICS

FRIDAY, March 17, 2006

SESSION 1                      WARM-UP           7:15AM                       START:  8:25AM

SESSION 2                      WARM-UP           1:00PM                                   START:  2:10PM

FINAL PROGRAM EVENT ORDER: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & TOP  8 QUALIFYING ENTRIES FOR 17 & 18.

NEW JERSEY SHORT COURSE JUNIOR OLYMPICS

SATURDAY, March 18, 2006

SESSION 3                            WARM-UP     7:15AM                                   START:  8:25AM

SESSION 4                            WARM-UP     1:00PM                                   START:  2:10PM

FINALS PROGRAM EVENT ORDER: 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 & TOP 8 QUALIFYING ENTRIES FOR 61, 62, 63 & 64.

NEW JERSEY SHORT COURSE JUNIOR OLYMPICS

SUNDAY, March 19, 2006

SESSION 5                            WARM-UP     7:15AM                                   START:  8:25AM

SESSION 6                                      WARM-UP       1:00PM                  START:  2:10PM

FINALS PROGRAM EVENT ORDER: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104 & TOP 8 QUALIFYING ENTRIES FOR 105, 106, 107, 108.