NEW JERSEY SHORT COURSE JUNIOR OLYMPICS

 

 

Hosted by BERKELEY AQUATIC CLUB

 

DATES:           Friday, March 16, 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012 Sunday, March 18, 2012

 

NJ SWIMMING SANCTION NO.:    NJS031612SC

In granting this sanction it is understood and agreed that USA Swimming shall be free from any liabilities or claims for damages arising by reason of injuries to anyone during the conduct of the event.

 

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 minimum water depth in the competition pools is 6 feet. The main or scoreboard pool is 6 feet deep at the starting end and 6'10” deep at the bulkhead. The dive pool ranges from 7 feet deep in lane 8 to 14 feet deep in lane 1. The competition course has been certified in accordance with 104.2.2C(4). The copy of such certification is on file with USA Swimming.

 

SWIMMERS will be allowed to sit ONLY in the first three rows of the bleachers and not at all in the chair backed seats. There is NOT enough room in the morning and afternoon sessions for swimmers to stay in the pool area all the time. The gymnasium on the ground floor of the Werblin Recreation Center will be available and must be used by the swimmers in the morning

and the afternoons. Swimmers should plan to be in the gym when they are not warming

up/down or swimming. There will be a marshal in the gym to announce when each event is beginning and event and heats will be periodically updated on white boards in the gym. Parents are allowed to bring chairs into the gym but not into the pool area. Parents are welcome to stay with their swimmers in the gym.

 

Swimmers' bags will have to go into the gym in the morning and afternoon sessions. No bags will be permitted in the pool area in the morning and afternoon. The gym will not be used during the evening finals sessions. Parents are not permitted on deck unless they are working at the meet at that time.

 

 

MEET REFEREE: Eric Schott Contact at Eric.Schott@timewarner.com

 

 

 

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RELAY NAMING:

 

When adding relays during the amendment or silvers addition process, you must make sure that each relay you have submitted throughout the process has a unique name.  For example, if you originally submitted two relays in Event 41, they will be your A and B relays.  If you now submit an additional Event 41 relay with your silver entries, your Team Manager will call it the “A” relay.  You must rename it to the “C” relay or this “new” relay will simply overwrite the previous “A” relay.  If you then submit a fourth Event 41 relay with amendments, you must rename it “D.”  If you only want to update the times of your “A” relay with amendments (which will cost $10) then call your relay “A” and the times will be updated without adding a relay. 

 

 

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 & the New Jersey Swimming Website:

 

                                                      http://www.njswim.org/

 

Psych sheets will be posted on the Berkeley website no later than noon on the Wednesday before the meet. These are the final entries and no changes will be made to the entries after the psych sheets are posted unless it is an administrative error on the part of the entry coordinator (see above for examples.) 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 this website.

 

Any changes to the meet format or schedule will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic Website (www.berkeleyaquaticclub.com) and the New Jersey Swimming website (www.njswim.com).

 

Entries achieved at the 13/14 & 15/19 Silver/Bronze Championships may or may not be included in the posted psych sheets or in the meet program sold at the meet.

 

MEET REQUIREMENT STATEMENT:

 

In order to be eligible for the SC New Jersey Zone Championship Team or for NJ Swimming Athlete Reimbursement for sectional and national level meets, NJ Swimming policy stipulates certain participation requirements. As a NJ Swimming sanctioned meet, this meet counts towards those participation requirements.

 

 

AUDIO/VISUAL RECORDING STATEMENT:

 

Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms or locker rooms.

 

 

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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 coach's card when entering hospitality area.

 

OFFICIALS:

 

Participating clubs are requested to provide as many USA Swimming certified officials as possible. Please email Eric Schott at Eric.Schott@TimeWarner.com to volunteer. Please include the days and sessions you are able to work. Officials working any session of the meet must present their 2012 New Jersey Swimming Official's credentials, as well as their 2012 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 Swimming 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 2012 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.

 

 

Any swimmer entered in the meet must be certified by a USA Swimming member coach as being

proficient in performing a racing start or must start each race from within the water. When

unaccompanied by a member-coach, it is the responsibility of the swimmer or the swimmer's legal guardian to ensure compliance with this requirement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ENTRY TIMES:

 

All entry times must be proved upon meet entry. This may be done via the “Include proof of time” option when generating the meet entry report.

 

All entry times must be achieved during the meet qualifying period of January 1, 2011 through the entry date of the meet. (New NJS policy effective 2011 LC season)

 

All entry times must be in short course yards.

 

Swimmers who compete in an event at the Silver/Bronze Championship meets may not compete in the same event at JO’s unless they achieved the Gold time standard at the Silver/Bronze meet, or at another Sanctioned or Approved meet attended in between the Silver/Bronze meet and JOs.

 

All swimmers must meet the attached SCY time standards. Times may be converted using Team

Manager from LCM and SCM times but must be submitted in SCY. The acceptable conversion

factors are:

 

Proof of Time

Conversion Factors in Team Manager:

Conversions must use the Hy-Tek Default factors built into Team Manager. In Team

manager, go to set-up, then conversions. Make sure that:

The Yard to SC Meters must be set to: 1.11

The Freestyle Turns = 0.8, that Backstroke Turns = 0.6, that Breaststroke Turns = 1, that

Butterfly Turns = 0.7, and Individual Medley Turns = 0.8

500 yd. Free to 400 m. Free and 1000 yd. Free to 800 m. Free = .875 and 1650 yd. Free

to 1500 m. Free = 1.006.

DO NOT SET THE STRAIGHT CONVERSION FACTOR TO ANY PERCENT

FACTOR!

 

 

ENTRY LIMITS:

 

All swimmers are limited to a maximum of 3 individual events per day + 1 relay 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.

 

Swimmers entered in more than three (3) individual events in a preliminary or timed final session who fail to scratch down to this number before the check-in/scratch deadline established for the session will be eligible to swim only in the first three (3) events for which the swimmer was entered in that session.

 

Age group is determined by the swimmer's age on Friday, March 16, 2012.

 

Age-Up Exception:

 

For a swimmer who ages up during the period between a previous New Jersey championship meet and the Junior Olympics AND was too fast to swim those events at the previous championship for the younger age AND had achieved qualifying times in certain events for the younger age group for the Junior Olympics but that time does not qualify for those events in the older age group at the Junior Olympics, that swimmer will be permitted to enter those same events in the Junior Olympics in the older age group using the older age group cut-off time as the swimmer‘s entry time to allow for automatic seeding of the event.

 

This applies to:

 

9-10 Silver/Bronze Meets - Regions A & B: 

Teams: BAC, BB, BMS, CAT, CBGC, CCC, DESC, EAG, ESC, FSPY, GBCY, HAC, JFAC, JG, LHY, MAY, MCSC, MCY, MEY, MYM, NJBL, NJW, NPR, OTT, PIAC, PSC, RHSC, RUT, RY, RYVM, SAY, SCY, SDSC, SHU,  SKYY, STVN, SVY, TWST, WAVE, WEY, WFY, WMY, WY

 

Swimmers who turn 11 between March 4 and March 16, 2012, inclusive

 

9-10 Silver/bronze Meets - Regions C & D:

Teams:  BWTD, CJAC, EEX, HACY, HCY, JCSC, MB, NJRC, OBY, OCY, PAA, PENN, PPST, PTAC, PUST, RBY, SAC, SHY, TAC, WW, XCEL, YWMC

 

Swimmers who turn 11 between March 3 and March 16, 2012, inclusive

 

11-12 Silver/Bronze Meets - ALL Regions:

Swimmers who turn 13 between March 11 and March 16, 2012, inclusive

 

13-14 Silver/Bronze Meets - ALL Regions:

Swimmers who turn 15 between March 11 and March 16, 2012, inclusive 

 

 

SWIMMERS AGE 20 AND OVER:

 

Swimmers age 20 and over, who have achieved 2012 USA Swimming Junior National Championship times (either the LCM or SCY meet) since January 1, 2011, may participate in preliminary and timed final individual events only.

 

 

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The 2012 Junior National Championship time standards can be found on the USA swimming

website (www.usaswimming.org), in the event section under the 2012 Junior National Championships.

 

 

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. All 1000 and 1650's will be swum in the morning for 13/14's and 15/19's and the afternoon for 11/12's. The top 8 seeded relays after morning check-in in the 13/14 & 15/19 age groups and the top 8 seeded relays after morning check-in in the Open 800 Free relays will be swum at night.

 

 

SCHEDULE:

 

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

Warm-Up: 7:15-8:15 a.m.

START:            8:20 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:

 

 

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.berkeleyaquaticclub.com) and emailed to participating clubs not less than 1 week 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. Swimming will be in the counter clockwise 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/or 8 may be designated one way lanes in the Main (scoreboard) pool and Lanes 1, 2 and/or 3 may be designated as one way lanes in the Dive pool. Relay starts may not be used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHECK-IN:

 

The entire meet will be deck seeded. All check in sheets must be turned into the control room 30 minutes after the start of warm up. Swimmers who are swimming will have lines drawn through their names. Swimmers who 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 may be scratched from their events that day.

 

The top-8 13/14, 15/19 and Open relays are swum with finals. Teams may opt to swim in the morning session even if they are seeded in the top 8 relays. A RELAY CHECK IN SHEET will be posted in the control room during the morning scratch time. The sheet will list each relay for the day and coaches can indicate that the relay will be scratched, that the relay will be swum but will only be swum during the morning session or that the team is willing to swim the relay morning or evening. If a team does not check in at the sheet by 1 hour after the end of warm up, they may be scratched.  If a team does not indicate that they only want to swim in the morning and the team is seeded to swim a relay at night whether by original seeding or by seeding after scratches, the team must swim at night or they will be disqualified. There will be no changes to this am/pm decision after 1 hour after the end of warm up of the day of the relay.

 

SCRATCH RULE:

 

The Scratch Rule for championship finals, as specified in the New

Jersey Swimming Policy Handbook, will be followed for the Evening

Championships. In addition, failure to show on Sunday night will result in a $50 fine.

 

 

DISTANCE EVENTS:

 

All of the 1000 and 1650 freestyles are timed final events. The 13/14 & 15/19 1000’s and 1650’s will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating heats of men and women, at the end of the preliminary sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The 11-12 distance events will be swum slowest to fastest. Swimmers in the 1000 & 1650 must provide their own counters and one timer. Berkeley Aquatic Club will provide a second timer.

 

RELAY CARDS:

 

Procedures for scratching or for indicating that a relay will only be swum in the morning are given

above under Check In.

 

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 may be disqualified. Relays should check in with the timer in their lane to

 

 

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make sure the correct names in the correct order are listed. Changes can be made with the timer

or with the computer operators until the heat has stepped up. NO CHANGES will be made after that time. 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, with the exception of the 800 Free Relay which is an open event. Relays may contain swimmers who are not swimming individual events. However, those swimmers must be 2012 USA registered swimmers and must 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 the three

teams accumulating the highest scores. Individual high point awards will be given to the top individual male and female performers in each age group.

 

ENTRY FEES:   In accordance with the 2012 New Jersey Swimming rules, a non-

refundable entry fee of $5.00 per individual timed final event, $6.00 per individual prelim/final 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 $6.00 per morning or afternoon session. Programs will be $15.00 for the psych sheets for the entire meet. Finals admissions will be $5.00 and will include a heat sheet program.

 

SILVER ENTRY PROCESS:  Swimmers who make a JO time at the 13/14 and 15/19 Silver/Bronze Champs will be late entries that are not in the program. All entries from the Silver/Bronze Championships held March 10-11, 2012 must be e-mailed in a Hy-Tek file that contains ONLY entries from the 13/14 and 15/19 Silver/Bronze Championships to the Entry Coordinator, Nancy King, by 1:00 PM on the Monday before the JO meet.   (bacmeetentries@berkeleyaquaticclub.com) A TM file called NJJO 2012 from 13/14 and 15/19 Silver-Bronze is available on the Berkeley Website and the New Jersey Swimming Website for this purpose. Files containing any other entries, including the original entries or entries from other meets (such as Sectionals or Y States) will not be accepted and those entries will have to be resubmitted under the amendment process. Entry fees for these Championship entries must be paid on the first day of JO's.

 

RESULTS:

 

Real Time Results will be available during the meet, barring any technical difficulties. 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. The timer/lane assignments will be posted on the Berkeley Aquatic website and the New Jersey Swimming Website no later than the Wednesday before the meet.

 

TIME TRIALS:

 

Time Trials will be conducted in compliance with the New Jersey Swimming Time Trial Policy as specified in the New Jersey Swimming Policy Handbook. Time trials will be conducted only if time allows.

 

HOST CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

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

 

The Host club will provide one timer per lane and two back up timers during the morning and afternoon sessions, including all distance sessions, and all timers during evening finals.

 

The Host club will provide timing assignments and warm up assignments to each participating club by email and will post on the websites within 1 week of the start of the meet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PARTICIPATING CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Participating clubs are encouraged to provide as many officials as possible. Contact Eric Schott at Eric.Schott@timewarner.com

 

Participating clubs must provide timers at the request of Berkeley Aquatic Club. Swimmers in the 1000 and 1650 must provide their own counters and one timer. Berkeley Aquatic Club will provide an additional timer.

 

Participating club parents must stay off the pool deck unless they are timing or officiating.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

13 and Over Preliminary Sessions

 

Women’s Event Number	Qualifying Time	Event	Qualifying Time	Men’s Event Number
1	1:57.99	15/19 200 Free	1:49.29	2
3	2:04.59	13/14 200 Free	1:58.39	4
5	1:02.39	15/19 100 Back	56.79	6
7	1:05.29	13/14 100 Back	1:02.89	8
9	1:11.29	15/19 100 Breast	1:04.99	10
11	1:04.79	13/14 100 Fly	1:01.59	12
13	4:50.09	15/19 400 IM	4:31.19	14
15	2:22.49	13/14 200 IM	2:14.19	16
17		Open 800 Free Relay		18
19	11:37.29	13/14 1000 Free	11:14.49	20
21	11:12.09	15/19 1000 Free	10:27.29	22