2008 North American Open Entry Form

Registration is CLOSED. The entry form below is for reference purposes only. 

2008 North American Open entry form     (Word)
(entry deadline extended to Wed Nov 12, 2008 - must be postmarked no later than this date)

2008 North American Open entry form    (PDF)
(entry deadline extended to Wed Nov 12, 2008 - must be postmarked no later than this date)

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To all Athletes and Coaches who will be competing in, or coaching at the North American Open from Dec 5-7, 2008:

The deadline to send in your entry form is Tuesday, November 11, 2008. However, since November 11, 2008 is Veteran's Day, a Federal holiday, we are extending the deadline for ALL entries (online, mailed, emailed and faxed) to Wednesday, November 12th. Entries that are being mailed must be postmarked no later than Wednesday November 12th.

Here are all the ways your entry can be submitted:


1) REGISTER ONLINE: IF your competition history includes the meet at which you qualified, and IF your USA Weightlifting membership will be current through at least December 8th, 2008, you can register for the North American Open online. You are responsible for logging into your membership account to make sure that your membership will expire no earlier than December 8th, and that your competition history includes the meet at which you qualified. If one or both of these stipulations is not in place, the system will not allow you to register online.

2) SNAIL MAIL: You can snail mail your entry, postmarked no later than Wednesday, November 12th. Please make sure to mail the entry form to us via CERTIFIED MAIL, with RETURN RECEIPT. Meaning, you keep a copy of the card stating you mailed the entry on that date, and someone here has to sign for it. That way you have proof the entry was mailed, if it somehow gets delayed or lost (which has happened).

3) FAX: You can fax your entry to 719-866-4741. However, please be aware that just because the sender gets a confirmation that the fax went through on their end, does not mean that the fax was RECEIVED on our end. To prove you faxed your entry by the deadline, you must have a confirmation page that shows 1) The CORRECT DATE the entry form was faxed. (We get a lot of faxes with an incorrect date recorded by the sender's fax machine, along the edge of the paper) 2) A statement on the confirmation form that the attempt was successful on your end. 3) A VISUAL IMAGE of the entry form. We cannot accept a confirmation that just shows "something" was faxed - we must have the VISUAL IMAGE of your entry form.

4) EMAIL: A SCANNED (because we must have the image of a parent's original signature, not electronic font, if the athlete will be under 18 at the time of the event) entry form emailed to one or both of the following addresses: usaw@usaweightlifting.org OR moorej@usaweightlifting.org. (Please check with us to make sure we actually received the email.)


PLEASE BE AWARE that if you qualify at a last minute qualifier, there's a very good chance that we WILL NOT have the results from that meet before the deadline. Therefore, you will not be able to register online, because your total from that meet won't be in your competition history. In that case, you must use one of the other methods for submitting your entry.


REMINDERS: All athletes competing, and all coaches coaching an athlete, at the 2008 North American Open must have current memberships through at least December 8, 2008. The easiest way to check that, and/or to renew membership, is to log into your USA Weightlifting membership account online. Also, make sure that if you mail, email, or fax the entry to us, you must include all 4 pages (5, 6, 7 and 8) of the entry form, with the appropriate signatures.


Please contact the National Office if you have any questions:

usaw@usaweightlifting.org  OR 719-866-4508