2018 NEW
ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL ALPINE SKIING CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIPS
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
HOST:Deerfield Academy and Northfield Mt. Hermon
SITE: Berkshire East, Charlemont MA
Information
for participating schools
Northfield Mt. Hermon :
Greg Leeds
Northfield Mount Hermon
Box 4714, One Lamplighter Way
Mount Hermon, MA 01354
Email: gleeds@nmhschool.org
Office phone: 413-498-3183
Cell phone: 413-834-4636 |
Deerfield Academy :
Marc Dancer
P.O. Box 345
Deerfield, MA 01342
Email: mdancer@deerfield.edu
Home/cell phone: 413-774-6269
School phone (athletics): 413-774-1430 |
Marc will be responsible for all matters related to registration, race entries, results, and awards. Greg will be responsible for all on-hill race details. Please contact either one of us if you have questions.
Printable version of this information
Race Entries
Entry Form
Race Entries
- Please e-mail your team’s entries to Marc Dancer at Deerfield Academy (mdancer@deerfield.edu) by February 9 . We will send you a reminder a few days before this deadline.
- 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 (up to 3 complimentary coaches tickets will be provided).
Entry fee is $55 per athlete. Make check payable to MIRS and mail in advance to Marc Dancer or bring to registration on the morning of the race. If you have a racer competing in slalom only and another racer competing in GS only, the entry fee is required for each athlete.
General Information
- Race registration will take place beginning at 7:30 am in the base lodge. Packets will include tickets, start lists, and bibs.
- T-shirts will be given to all racers.
- Bibs:
- Racers will use the same bib for the afternoon race, thus the boys' SL and girls' GS races (held in the afternoon) will not run in bib order. Please refer to the start lists, which we plan to email to you in advance.
- Bibs will be collected as athletes exit the finish corral, at the end of the afternoon race. A $35 fee will be charged for bibs not returned. Please check with all of your athletes to ensure that they have returned their bibs.
- We will hold a coaches’ meeting at 8:00 in front of the timing building.
- All races will be held on Competition (Upper & Lower), which is clearly visible from the base lodge (Berkshire East is an excellent racing venue for spectators). The GS will run from the top, conditions permitting (224m vertical drop at our target start location), and the slalom will begin midway. The GS should be about 45-55 seconds, with approximately 30 gates, while the slalom is typically 32-38 seconds with 35-40 gates (101m vertical drop).
- Both lifts from the base area serve Upper Competition. Racers who are proceeding to the slalom start are requested to ski down Cloud or Chief (trails to the left of Competition as you look up the hill), then take the crossover to lower Competition, to reduce traffic on Upper Competition (where the GS is set).
- The two races will run simultaneously, with the boys racing GS and the girls racing slalom in the morning. First run will begin at 9:30, and the second run will follow immediately, with no delay or course reset (so, top seed racers must be ready for their second run as the fourth or fifth seed racers are taking their first run). We anticipate each run requiring about an hour, so the morning races should be finished by about 11:30. Courses will be immediately reset for the afternoon races (boys slalom, girls GS), which we plan to begin at 12:30. Once again, second runs will take place immediately following the final racer’s first run.
- Disqualifications will be posted at the timing building scoreboard after the SECOND run of each race. Protests must be filed within 15 minutes of the posting of the later of the two referee reports (to allow coaches time to conclude their duties of both races, since the races will run simultaneously). Racers who DNF or clearly DSQ in their first run shall not take their second run.
- Awards will be held in the base area (outdoors by the timing building, weather permitting) as early as possible following the conclusion of the race.
- Some reminders of NEPSAC ski championships rules and procedures:
- Running order within each seed is drawn at random, and reversed within each seed for the second run.
- Racers who miss their start will run at the end of the start list (not the end of the seed), unless the jury decides otherwise.
- The sum place points of each team's top three finishers in both Slalom and GS will be totaled to determine overall order of team finish. Teams with less than 3 finishers take as a score n + 1 (where n is the number of starters in the event) for the placing of the missing racer towards the team score. In the event of a tie for the combined Slalom and GS score, lowest total time for the top three finishers for both Slalom and GS events would then be used to break the tie.
- We generally follow USSA race rules, with some exceptions. We will have a jury consisting of Chief of Race (Greg Leeds), a TD and Referee for each gender. Referees and afternoon race course setters will be appointed in advance from the pool of coaches attending the race.
- First-run DNFs will NOT be given a second run, due to the large field size in this event.
Schedule
7:30 Registration
8:00 Coaches’ meeting (in front of timing building)
8:00 Lift opens, Inspection begins
9:00 inspection closes at the top
9:30 First run of boys’ GS and girls’ SL begin and run simultaneously
• Second run, same gender, same course, follows immediately (no reset or delay)
11:30* Courses are reset for afternoon races
11:45* Inspection begins
12:45* First run of girls’ GS and boys’ SL begin and run simultaneously
• Second run, same gender, same course, follows immediately (no reset or delay)
3:00* awards ceremony
(* target times; course resets will occur immediately following morning races)
Directions to Berkshire East
Take route 91 to exit 26 (Greenfield), then take route 2 west. Berkshire East is in Charlemont, about 25 minutes from Greenfield.
Map
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Lodging:
The Oxbow Motel is the closest,
but the Days Inn and Hampton Inn in Greenfield are close to several restaurants
(99, Applebees, Friendlys, McDonalds, etc.)
and are only about 20 minutes away from Berkshire East. They are located right at the rotary where Rt 2 meets I-91. |
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Participating teams
1. Belmont Hill (boys only)
2. Berkshire
3. Cardigan Mt. (boys only)
4. Deerfield
5. Eaglebrook (boys only)
6. Gould
7. Holderness
8. Kents Hill
9. Kimball Union
10. Middlesex
11. Noble & Greenough
12. Northfield-Mt. Hermon
13. Proctor
14. St. Paul's
15. St. Sebastian's (boys only)
16. Suffield