2007 NEW ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL ALPINE SKIING CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIPS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2007

HOST: Kimball Union Academy

SITE: Ascutney Mt., Brownsville, VT

Information for participating schools

New: Running Orders

Race Entries:

Entry Form (to print out or copy and paste into e-mail, etc.)

Entries to be e-mailed by Friday February 9th to:

Email: nmcintyre@kua.org

 

• Team size is 3-5 boys, 3-5 girls. Be sure to indicate your racers in desired seed order for all 4 events (boys SL,boys GS,girls SL, girls GS)
• Please list all coaches attending.
• The entry fee is $37 per racer.
• Checks should be made payable to Ascutney Mountain. Please bring check or cash to registration.
• Changes in running order can only be made due to sickness or injury. If changes are necessary, all originally defined seeds will remain the same, with alternate inserted into spot vacated by ill/injured racer. If a running order is not received on time, the school will not be included in the random draw and will be placed on a first come basis at the end of each seed for both runs of all events.
  

General Information:

• Race registration will be open on the third floor of the base lodge on Wednesday morning at 7:00am. There will be a coaches meeting at 8:15am.
• Bibs and running orders will be available at registration.
• Bibs will stay with their respective teams. It will be the coaches’ responsibility to see that the bibs are given to the appropriate athlete for giant slalom and slalom.
• We will race SL in the morning. There will be a reset for the second run of the slalom. The GS will be held after lunch. Running orders will be the same for both runs of each event. All racers, excepting DNF’s, will take a second run.
• Scoreboards for each race will be located near each race’s finish corral.
• At the conclusion of the each run, we will collect the gatekeeper cards, review them with the TD’s and post the DSQ report. Disqualifications for each run will be posted at the scorer’s display near the finish coral of each race. Once the DSQ’s are posted, coaches will have a 15-minute period in which to submit a formal protest. After the protest period has expired, the disqualifications will be applied and the results will become official.
• The goal is to have 2 runs of each event As we all have experienced, there are sometimes obstacles that occur that are out of our control. If course conditions, weather or time constraints dictate, there will be a meeting of race officials and host team organizers to determine a course of action. There will be no grounds to protest any rulings.
• This race will be run in accordance to USSA Race Rules and Regulations. See the USSA Comp Guide for specifics.

BASIC RACE RULES

1. No racers may run, side slip, or shadow the course during their pre-race inspection. To do so risks immediate disqualification.

2. All racers are expected to be at the start at the proper time. Racers who miss their start will run at the end of the order. The running order will be reversed within each seed in the second run (if registration was received on time). 

3. A racer who has a binding release in the course is an automatic DSQ. However, if a racer loses one ski after passing the second to last gate on the course, (s)he may attempt to complete the race on one ski.

4. If a racer misses a gate and chooses to climb, (s)he must cross the horizontal plane on either side of the gate that was missed before continuing down the course. However, if a racer falls, and skis stay on, and (s)he is hiking, they must yield to an oncoming racer or be disqualified.

5. If a racer feels his or her run has been interfered with, (s)he must ski out of the course where the infraction occurs. No protest will be allowed if the racer completes the course and/or crosses through the finish line. The racer must then ski to the finish area and await the decision of race officials as to whether or not a (provisional) rerun will be granted.

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Helmets are mandatory in the Giant Slalom, and recommended for Slalom.

TEAM SCORING

The sum of the placing of each team’s top three finishers for each event will be totaled to determine overall order of team finish. Teams with less than 3 finishers take n + 1 for the placing of the missing racer towards the team score. Individual awards will be given for each discipline, and for team scoring in both events combined, with top three teams receiving plaques. Team scoring will be determined by taking the sum of placings in both Slalom and GS. In the event of a tie for the combined Slalom and GS score, lowest total time for the top three finishers for both GS and Slalom events would then be used to break the tie.

 

Schedule

7:00 AM Registration opens on third floor of the base lodge

8:00 AM Lifts open for course inspection

8:15 AM Coaches meeting

8:30 AM Race Officials and Gatekeepers meeting

9:00 AM Girls’ Slalom begins

12:00 AM Course inspection for afternoon events begins

12:30 PM Girls’ Giant Slalom begins

3:30 PM Awards ceremony