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Desert Sprints

  • Hosted By: Tempe Town Lake Rowing
  • 2016 Registered Regatta

Novice Category's: Participants cannot have started any type of rowing before June 1, 2008.  All Novice events are Open to all participants as long as they fit the 6/1/08 resrtiction. Medals will be awarded for all categories that race in any novice event. For instance if there are novice juniors, and novice collegiate represented                             we will award medals in both categories. If we have more entries than lanes we will separate boats according to categories and run an additional race.  

Lightweight Events:  The Desert Sprints Regatta will use the US Rowing recommended weights for all lightweight events.  Weigh in for an event will open two hours before the scheduled start time of that event and it will close one hour before the scheduled start time of that event. Each athlete will have two opportunities to make weight. After the second try, if they do not make weight, they will not be allowed to participate in that event. If we have more than one racing category represented in any lightweight events, each category will race for medals within the same race. If we have more entries than lanes we will separate boats according to categories and run an additional race.  The weights are as follows:  Lightweight Women: 130 lbs across the board; Lightweight Men: Juniors 155lb. Max, no average, Open: 160lb max, 155lb. boat average, Masters: 160lb max.

Master's Category's: Age Handicap from US Rowing will be used. Minimum age for Masters Participants is they must turn 21 years of age in the year 2009. 

 Points and Awards:   Only Junior Events, including the Junior Category of any Novice Events, will be recognized as point races. Men's and Women's Junior team points will be calculated based on the table below, which is similar to the guidelines used by US Rowing. Programs with multiple entries will only receive points for the highest placed entry. All boats entered in a Junior event or the Junior category of a novice event, regardless of what program they are from, will be counted as boats entered in the event when calculating points.  Crews will be awarded points for where they actually finish among all Junior Crews in an event. Junior Events with entries from only one program will be awarded medals, but will not be awarded points. This also applies to the Junior category of Novice Events. In other words there must be at least two programs in any Junior event to receive points in that event. No points are awarded in the Open, Masters or Mixed events.

Event

1st Place Points

 

# of boats in event

Percentage of 1st place points

1x

10

 

 

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

2-, 2x

15

 

2

20%

 

 

 

 

4+, 4x

20

 

3

40%

20%

 

 

 

8+

30

 

4

60%

30%

5%

 

 

 

 

 

5

80%

40%

10%

5%

 

 

 

 

6

80%

40%

20%

10%

5%

Race Distances: All Junior, Novice and Open/Collegiate races will be 1500M.  All Masters and Mixed races will be 1000M. 

Entry Fee Structure:

1x's: $25.00,  2x's: $35.00,  4x/4+: $55.00,   8"s: $85.00  

Late entries will be accepted at an increased entry fee as follows: 1x: $35.00, 2x: $50.00, 4x/4+: $80.00, 8: $125.00. Late entries will be accepted on Regatta Central until Thursday, March 5, 12:00 midnight PST. Walk up entries the day of the event will be accepted at the same late entry fee at regatta registration.     

There is an entry fee cap of $700.00 for all club/school participants. In order to be eligiible for the cap all boats must be entered under the same team/club name. All late entries must be paid for and do not count against the cap fee.

Boat rental is the same price as the entry fee and would include practice time in the shell.

Scratch deadline:  Monday, March 2. After that no credit or refunds will be given for scratched entries.

Point Championship: There will be a trophy awarded to Men's and Women's Junior Rowing Programs that accumulate the most points at the regatta. Points will only be counted from entries in Junior Events (incliding Novice events that Juniors race in). Points accumulated in Open, Mixed or Masters events will not be counted.

Regatta Cancellation: Due to the nature of water recreation events, wind, weather or water conditions may cause postponement or cancellation of the regatta. In the unexpected case of regatta cancellation No Refunds will be given for entries made.

Bow Numbers: All competitors are responsible for their own bow numbers (1 - 7).