2012 NEW ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL ALPINE SKIING CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIPS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

HOST:Proctor Academy and Cardigan Mountain School

SITE: Proctor Ski Area, Andover, NH

Race Entries

Entry Form

Race Entries

• Please e-mail your team’s entries to Josh Norris (norrisj@proctornet.com) by February 10. 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.
  
• Entry fee is $55 per athlete. Make check payable to Proctor Academy and mail to Josh Norris 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:
  • Teams will use the same set of bibs 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.
• The GS should be about 35-45 seconds, with approximately 25 gates, while the slalom is typically 35-45 seconds with 30-35 gates.
• 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 AM, 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 delay gates and vertical combinations) in accordance with the USSA guidelines. Please be sure your racers are informed of the rules regarding legal passage and hiking for missed gate.
• Disqualifications will be posted at the timing building scoreboard. Protests must be filed within 15 minutes of the posting of the latter 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. Hard ears for GS, while soft ears are alright for Slalom.
  • Lost ski = DNF; however, if the racer loses ski(s) between the last gate and the finish, any part of the body or equipment can stop the timing and give the racer a time.
  • Racers who miss their start will run at the end of the start list.
  • Team scoring is top 3 of the 5 racers (combined times).
  • If a racer feels their run has been interfered with, they must ski out of the course immediately where the infraction occurs. No protest will be allowed if the racer completes the course and/or crosses 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.
  • We generally follow USSA race rules, with some exceptions. We will have a jury consisting of Chief of Race, a TD and Referee for each gender. Referees will be appointed in advance from the pool of coaches attending the race.

Schedule

7:30 Registration
8:00 Coaches’ meeting
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. Loomis-Chaffee
11. New Hampton
12. Noble & Greenough
13. Northfield-Mt. Hermon
14. Proctor
15. St. Paul's
16. White Mountain