2010 NEW ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL ALPINE SKIING CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIPS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010

HOST:Deerfield Academy, Northfield Mt. Hermon, and Eaglebrook School

SITE: Berkshire East, Charlemont MA

Information for participating schools

Race Entries

Entry Form

Race Entries

• Please e-mail your team’s entries to Marc Dancer at Deerfield Academy (mdancer@deerfield.edu) by February 5. 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 $63 per athlete. Make check payable to MIRS and mail in advance to Marc Dancer or bring to registration on the morning of the race.
  
  

General Information

• Race registration will take place beginning at 7:30 am in the base lodge. Packets will include tickets, start lists, and bibs.
• 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 8:15 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.
• The slalom courses will likely be single-pole (outside gates only on the first and final gates and any delays gates and vertical combinations) in accordance with the new USSA guidelines. Please be sure your racers are informed regarding the new rules regarding legal passage and hiking for missed gates.
• Disqualifications will be posted at the timing building scoreboard. 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.
  • Helmets are required.
  • Lost ski = DNF
  • Racers who miss their start will run at the end of the start list.
  • 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.

Schedule

7:30 Registration
8:15 Coaches’ meeting (in front of timing building)
8:15 Lift opens, Inspection begins
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
12:30* 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)

Participating teams

1. Avon (boys only)
2 .Belmont Hill (boys only)
3. Cardigan Mt. (boys only)
4. Deerfield
5. Eaglebrook (boys only)
6. Gould
7. Holderness
8. Kents Hill
9. KUA
10. New Hampton
11. Noble & Greenough
12. Northfield Mount Hermon
13. Proctor
14. St. Paul 's
15. Vermont