2015 NEW ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL ALPINE SKIING CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIPS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015

HOST: HOLDERNESS SCHOOL

SITE: Cannon Mt., Franconia, NH

Information for participating schools

Race Entries:

Entry Form (PDF)

You can save this to your computer and open in Adobe Acrobat Reader and Click "Sign" and then "Add Text" . Then save as YourschoolEntry.pdf and send to Chet Thompson

Entries to be e-mailed or faxed by Sunday, February 8th to:

Submit by email to: chet@franconiaskiclub.com

Race Secretary: Chet Thompson 603 823 7106

• 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 $225 per TEAM. (Schools sending both a girls and boys team would then submit $450.)
• Checks should be made payable to FRANCONIA SKI CLUB. Please bring to the registration desk.
• 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 at the building adjacent to Ernie’s Haus on Wednesday morning at 7:45am. There will be a coaches meeting in the upstairs office 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.
• Your bib is your lift ticket, GOOD ON THE ZOOMER LIFT ONLY. Coaches will be issued a ticket to access the Zoomer Lift.
• Parent Tickets available at registration, good for all lifts $55.00
• We will race GS in the morning on Gary’s trail. There will be separate courses for Ladies and Gentlemen. The SL 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

7:45 AM Registration opens

9:00 AM Lifts open for course inspection. 

8:45 AM in the Finish Area

8:30 AM Race Officials and Gatekeepers meeting on the second floor of Main Base Lodge.

10:0 AM Girls’ Giant Slalom begins on Gary’s. 

12:00 AM Course inspection for afternoon events begins.

1:00 PM Slalom Begins

Two SL courses: Women on skiers left, Men on skiers right. Second run Women on right, men on left.

3:30 PM Awards ceremony in Ernie’s Haus.

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. KUA
10. Middlesex
11. Noble & Greenough
12. Northfield-Mt. Hermon
13. Proctor
14. St. Paul's
15. Suffield