Attention East Championship Coaches:

Please read the following thoroughly!

1. Awards: Please instruct all of your athletes that they will need their team warm-up in order to receive their medal for top 12.  We would like to run a very professional meet, therefore we do not want the athletes on the stand in only their suit/shorts.

2. Workouts:  Please discuss firmly/seriously with your divers, prior to arriving in Buffalo, the guidelines they must follow in order to ensure a safe environment during warm-up times.

They must swim back to the wall underneath the board they dove off of!

They must swim back to the wall quickly!

They must listen to the coaching of their dive at the wall!

They must pay attention on platform to the coach who will be calling towers on the microphone!

If they are not sure if their tower was called, they should wait until it is called again!

Very important that they swim back to the wall fast!!

They should notify their coach when they are next up in line, so that the towers are not held up waiting for a coach to watch a dive!

Your complete cooperation on this issue would be greatly appreciated!  We want to have the safest environment possible considering the large number of athletes warming up!!

3.  Additional Pool to use for Warm-up (15-20 minutes away)

I look forward to supplying additional warm up space for your diving competition.  Our (2) three meter and (1) one meter boards will be made available for your competitors. The divers must be accompanied by a certified USA Diving coach and must purchase a $4 day pass before getting on the boards. The facility is located at

Erie Community College

Burt Flickinger Center

21 Oak Street

Buffalo NY 14203

From the UB area

Take the 290 East

190 South

Exit 6 (Elm Street)

The pool is on the left at the foot of the exit ramp, there are parking lots with daily rates on the right.

Divers should stop in room 102 to purchase their $4 day pass each day they come in.  They will then need to present the day pass to the lifeguard on the pool deck.  (Day passes can not be purchased after 6:30 PM even though the boards are available until 7:30 PM on some nights).

The boards will be available

Tuesday            9:30 AM-6PM

Wednesday       9:30 AM-5:30 PM

Thursday           9:30 AM- 7:30 PM

Friday                9:30 AM- 7:30 PM

Saturday            11:30-1:30 PM

4.  Wednesday assigned workouts:

There will be a sign-up sheet available on Monday and Tuesday for Wednesday's workout times:  The times will be drawn at 12pm Tuesday!  To be fair, if you are not here to sign up for a flight, we will place your team in one of the four flights before the times are drawn.  You need to e-mail me by Monday if you would like to split your team into two different workout flights (1 coach: 14 divers) [email-masked]

There will be four flights each having 2 - 11/2 hour workouts!

Flight A, Flight B, Flight C, Flight D

The times are:

8am-9:30am                 AND                2pm-3:30pm

9:30am-11am               AND                3:30-5pm

11am-12:30pm             AND                5pm-6:30pm

12:30pm-2pm              AND                6:30pm-8pm

5. Workout schedule for Thursday through Sunday

Please read through the attached Excel Spreadsheet!  E-mail me if you have any questions/confusion! [email-masked]

Morning

6am-7am OPEN

6. BBQ/ Synchronized diving event:

Due to lack interest/sign-up for the synchronized event and the BBQ, we were forced to cancel them both.  I apologize to the few teams that were interested.  We were unable to wait until next week to let the University's catering service know the exact number of people for the BBQ.  They needed us to guarantee them a number by today.  We only had 25 people signed up so far.  Therefore, we were forced to cancel!  Since there was not a great deal of interest for the Synchronized event, I feel that it is more important to get adequate amount of warm-up time for this JO National qualifying event!

7.  Opening Ceremonies:

All Divers must wear Team warm-up.  We will be lining up all of the athletes at 8pm on WEDNESDAY night outside by the LaSalle parking lot, side door of the pool, to march them in by 8:15-8:20.  We will be marching them in by state and announcing their club name and coach.  We will then play the national anthem for the 4-day competition to commence properly!

8. Coaches Social:

There will be a coaches social on Thursday night at Max's Grill, which is the restaurant attached to the Holiday Inn on Niagara Falls Blvd.  There will be appetizer platters, and some drink specials.     I will hand out directions at the coaches meeting Wednesday night!

The coaches meeting will be Wednesday night after the Opening Ceremonies in Classroom #88 where hospitality will be.  After the coaches meeting, we will be heading over to Hooter's if anyone would like to join us.  Hooters is one of our sponsors for Hospitality.

Suggestions:

Best Wings in Buffalo: Elmo's on N. Forest in the plaza or Duff's on Sheridan Dr. and Milersport Hwy. Both are 5 minutes from the pool!

Niagara Falls:

New Casino in Canada, I heard is incredible

Take your ID and Birth Certificate to cross border

You could park on the US side and walk across Rainbow bridge into Canada!  Might be faster!

Seneca Casino: on US Side in Niagara Falls: Fun!

Team Dinner: Pizzeria UNO's on Maple Rd. is the only restaurant that you can call ahead and make a reservation!

Sincerely,

Kara Sixbury

Head Diving Coach

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