The Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club
The Eastern Zone - Section II of the
Speedo Champions Series

March 15 - 18, 2001
Sanctioned by USA Swimming
Through Potomac Valley Swimming

Sanction #PVZ-01-0315-26

Each team is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Please do not send cash. Entry fees are due with entries.

Entry fees for FAX entries must be received by 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 15. Any FAX entry for which the fees are not received by this deadline will be removed from the meet.

Please make sure the club name is clearly indicated on all checks submitted.

Any club that enters an unregistered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered coach to represent them, will be fined the sum of $100.00, and no further entries will be accepted from the club until the said fine is paid.

Submit a PVS Entry Cover Sheet

Late Entries: Entries for swims from Monday, March 5 through Monday, March 12 which achieve a first time qualifying standard, must be made on the appropriate FAX Entry Form (separate for individual events and relay events) and sent by FAX transmission to the following FAX phone number (301-309-3706). All FAX entries must be completed by the meet director of the meet in which the qualifying swims occurred and must be received no later than 12:01 a.m. (EST) on Tuesday, March 13. FAX entries may not be used to improve the seed time of a previously submitted entry and may not cause the swimmer to exceed the maximum number of events for the meet or for any one day.

The FAX entry deadline is 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13 and is only for swims occurring from Monday, March 5 through the FAX entry deadline.

All warm-up periods shall be supervised by the appointed marshals. Coaches shall not permit their athletes to enter the pool until the marshals have declared the pool open for warm-up. No entry is permitted across lanes, from the pool side, or from the non-start end of the pool, under any circumstances. Marshals shall clear the lane of all swimmers before opening the lane for sprinting. All sprint lanes are one-way only and the swimmer must exit at the opposite end of the pool. The use of kickboards, handpaddles, and similar training devices, are not permitted in open warm-ups.

During warm-ups, periods are divided equally between general and specific programs. The first half of the of warm-up will be dedicated to general warm-up and the last half of the warm-up will be dedicated to specific warm-up. During the general warm-up, no pace work or sprinting will be permitted. During the specific warm-up, the outside lanes will be designated as pace lanes and lanes 2 & 7 will be opened for sprinting in accordance with the procedures outlined above.

The meet director or referee may modify the schedule or lane assignments depending on the pool configuration, the number of swimmers, the availability of separate warm-up facilities, etc., as long as USA Swimming and PVS safety considerations and the equitable treatment of all entered athletes is not compromised. All such changes will be announced and posted throughout the meet venue. Athletes who act in a manner that is injurious to themselves or others will be disqualified from their next event.

Time Trials will be conducted as time permits between the preliminaries and finals session of the meet. Time trials will be open to all registered meet participants including relay-only swimmers. Each swimmer will be limited to a maximum of 2 time trials and must adhere to the daily limit of events. Time trials for the women's 1650 yard freestyle and men's 1000 yard freestyle will be conducted on Thursday evening only following the completion of those events. Time trials for the women's 1000 yard freestyle and men's 1650 yard freestyle will be conducted on one day only and will be scheduled last on the day with the shortest timeline for preliminaries. All other events will be offered each day (time permitting) using the following formula: That day's events, followed by the events of the subsequent days, followed by the events from previous days. That is on Saturday, we will swim Saturday's events, followed by Sunday's events, followed by Friday's events.

The entry fee for time trials will be $10.00 per event (including relays).

Swimmers must sign up for time trials by 30 minutes prior to the scheduled end of each day's session.