Meet Location:
Oak Marr Recreation Center
3134 Jermantown Road, Oakton, VA 22124

Facility:
Oak Marr is a 50-meter pool with 21 lanes of short course pool.  We will be running two (2) courses for the meet, one 8-lane course and one 7-lane course.
11 and over preliminaries sessions and the 10 and under sessions will be swum in two courses, finals sessions will be swum in one course. Lanes will be available for continuous warm-up and warm down throughout the meet for the 11 and over swimmers.

Special Note:  Fairfax County Park Authority limits the number of swimmers and overall number of persons in their aquatic facilities for safety reasons.  The Meet Manager reserves the right to limit entries to enforce this policy.  Spectators are not allowed on the pool deck and seating is limited.

Meet Manager:
Karl Hellmann hellmannkj@yahoo.com

Officials:
All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact JC Richards at jc.richards@jer.com prior to Saturday November 11^th. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Officials assigned to this meet should sign in at the Admin table at the start of the Warm-up. Certified officials, who have not been contacted, should volunteer their services to the Referee.

Timers:
Participating clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries.  The meet manager will determine the number of timers per club and any lane assignments.

Schedule:
11 and Older Prelims      Warm-up: 6:30-7:50 AM              Events:  8:00 AM
9-10 Timed Finals           Warm-up: 1:15-1:50 PM             Events:  2:00 PM
11 and Older Finals         Warm-up: 5:00-5:50 PM               Events:  6:00 PM

Warm Ups:
The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed.  For 11 & Older Prelims and 9-10 Sessions, teams will be assigned lanes for warm-ups. Coaches are responsible for monitoring their swimmers during warm-ups and the meet.  For 11 & Older Finals, there will be open warm-ups with assigned sprint and pace lanes.  Note: The Meet Manager reserves the right to modify the warm-ups based on the number of entries.  Coaches will be notified by email in such an occurrence.

Eligibility:
Open to all USA Swimming registered swimmers from the invited teams listed below.
Athletes shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet.
PV Teams – AAC, BWST, HACC, HOYA, MAKO, SNOW, SDS, YORK
VA Teams – QDD, RAYS
MD Teams - RAID
Invitations will be sent via email by the Meet Manager.
Individual Events:
Contestants may enter a maximum of seven (7) individual events and may not participate in more than three (3) individual events per day.  For the 11 & Over Sessions contestants may not swim in more than 2 events on Saturday.
Relays:
Teams may enter two (2) relays per event.  Due to the limited space, relays are only swum in the 9-10 sessions.

Warning:
Any club or individual that enters an unregistered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered swimmer to represent them, will be fined by PVS the sum of $100.00 and no further entries will be accepted from that club until the said fine has been paid.

Inclusion Policy for Swimmers with a Disability:
PVS and host clubs along with their Meet Directors are committed to the Inclusion Policy as adopted by the BOD. Athletes with a disability are welcomed and are asked to provide advance notice of desired accommodations to the Meet Director. The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.

Entries/Fees:
Email entries are preferred. See email address below.  Include the entry file from Team Manager, as well as a report by Swimmer and a report by Event. Teams entering by mail, please send two computer disks (Hy-Tek).  Include one meet entry report by swimmer and one report by event.  Fees for individual events are $5.00; relay events are $10.00.  Each club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team.

Optional:  Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into Team Manager (download “10mm111706.zip”,) unzip it and then go to team manager/file/import/meet events).  To download as a file, you may need in Netscape to right click on the mouse and select “Save Link As” and with Microsoft Explorer right click on the mouse and select “Save Target As”.

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: SDS
Please do not send cash. 

Late (deck) entries are not permitted.

Entry Deadline:
All entries must be received no later than 5:00 PM, Thursday November 9, 2006

Important:
The above date is the deadline for clubs to submit their entries to the Meet Director. Therefore, clubs usually set an earlier deadline to receive entries from their swimmers.  Check with your club for this information.

Email or Mail Entries to:
SDS – Swim and Rock 2006
P.O. Box 650070
Sterling, VA  20165
Email (Preferred): hellmannkj@yahoo.com
Phone:(703) 917-9208 press mailbox #1

Meet Directors are requested to acknowledge receipt by return email within 24 hours.  Clubs submitting entries that do NOT receive an acknowledgement should contact the Meet Director by other than email to confirm receipt.

Competition Rules:
Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet.
For 11-12 Age Group
A Final - Top eight (8) qualifiers from prelims swim in finals.
For 13-14 & 15-18 Age Group
A & B Final - Top sixteen (16) qualifiers from prelims swim in finals.  Order of Finals is B, A.

Exceptions:

• The 14 and Under and 15-18 400 IM will swim as follows:
  14 and Under and 15-18 Age Group, Prelims in Saturday Prelims Session,
  Top eight (8) qualifiers in each age group will swim in the Finals Session.

• The 11-12 500 Free will swim as Timed Finals in the Friday Prelims Session. 

• The 13-14 and 15-18 500 Free will swim as follows:
  13-14 and 15-18 Age Group, Prelims in Sunday Prelims Session,
  Top eight (8) qualifiers in each age group will swim in the Finals Session
  Scoring will be through Top 16 for the 400 IM and the 500 Free 

Withdrawing from Finals:
PVS scratch rules apply for swimmers scratching finals.  If a swimmer fails to properly scratch from a final event and does not appear for the final, he/she will be barred from further competition for the remainder of the meet, unless excused by the Referee.

PVS Positive Check-in Policy:
Athletes who have not been checked-in prior to the specified time will be scratched from the event.  Athletes who have been checked-in, have been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event, unless excused by the Referee.

Positive Check-in:
All events 200 and up will be positive check-in.  Positive check-in times may be adjusted.

Friday

• Events # 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 – 7:30AM
• Events # 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 – 8:15AM
• Events # 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 – 8:30AM

Saturday

• Events # 31, 32, 33, 34 – 7:30AM
• Events # 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 – 8:00AM
• Events # 103, 104 – 1:15PM

Sunday

• Events # 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 – 7:30AM
• Events # 75, 76, 77, 78 – 8:15AM Will swim fastest to slowest in Prelims session.
• Events # 117, 118 – 1:15PM
• Events # 127, 128 – 1:45PM

Awards:
All swimmers entered in an individual event will receive a swim cap.

Individual Events:
Medals 1^st through 8^th place and ribbons 9^th through 16^th place.
Relays (9-10 Sessions Only):
Ribbons 1^st through 8^th place for relays.

Scoring:
Individual: 20, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Relays: 40, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2

Friday 11-12, 13-14 & Seniors Session

Girls and Boys Prelims on separate courses, Finals on One course

Prelims Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 AM  Events: 8:00 AM

Finals Warm-up: 5:00-5:50 PM  Events: 6:00 PM

Girls Event #

Event

Boys Event #

1

11-12 100 Fly

2

3

13-14 100 Fly

4

5

15-18 100 Fly

6

7*

11-12 200 Breast

8*

9*

13-14 200 Breast

10*

11*

15-18 200 Breast

12*

13*

11-12 200 Free

14*

15*

13-14 200 Free

16*

17*

15-18 200 Free

18*

19*

11-12 200 IM

20*

21*

13-14 200 IM

22*

23*

15-18 200 IM

24*

25

11-12 50 Breast

26

27*@

11-12 500 Free

28*@

Positive Check-In event, see Meet Announcement for closing time.

@ - Timed Finals swum fastest to slowest in prelims session.

Saturday 11-12, 13-14 & Seniors Session

Girls and Boys Prelims on separate courses, Finals on One course

Prelims Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 AM  Events: 8:00 AM

Finals Warm-up: 5:00-5:50 PM  Events: 6:00 PM

Girls Event #

Event

Boys Event #

29

11-12 100 IM

30

31*%

14 & U 400 IM

32*%

33*%

15-18 400 IM

34*%

35

11-12 50 Free

36

37

13-14 50 Free

38

39

15-18 50 Free

40

41*

11-12 200 Fly

42*

43*

13-14 200 Fly

44*

45*

15-18 200 Fly

46*

47

11-12 100 Back

48

49

13-14 100 Back

50

51

15-18 100 Back

52

% - The top 8 qualifiers will swim in the finals session.

* - Positive Check-In event, see Meet Announcement for closing time.

Saturday 9-10 Timed Finals Session

Girls and Boys on separate courses

Timed Finals Warm-up: 1:00 - 1:30 PM  Events: 1:45 PM

Girls Event #

Event

Boys Event #

101

9-10 200 Medley Relay

102

103*

9-10 200 Free

104*

105

9-10 100 Breast

106

107

9-10 50 Back

108

109

9-10 100 Fly

110

111

9-10 50 Free

112

113

9-10 100 IM

114

* - Positive Check-In event, see Meet Announcement for closing time.

Sunday 11-12, 13-14 & Seniors Session

Girls and Boys Prelims on separate courses, Finals on One course

Prelims Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 AM  Events: 8:00 AM

Finals Warm-up: 5:00-5:50 PM  Events: 6:00 PM

Girls Event #

Event

Boys Event #

53

11-12 50 Fly

54

55*

11-12 200 Back

56*

57*

13-14 200 Back

58*

59*

15-18 200 Back

60*

61

11-12 100 Free

62

63

13-14 100 Free

64

65

15-18 100 Free

66

67

11-12 100 Breast

68

69

13-14 100 Breast

70

71

15-18 100 Breast

72

73

11-12 50 Back

74

75%*

13-14 500 Free

76%*

77%*

15-18 500 Free

78%*

% - Top 8 qualifiers in will swim in the finals session. Swum fastest to slowest in prelims session.

* - Positive Check-In event, see Meet Announcement for closing time.

Sunday 9-10 Timed Finals Session

Girls and Boys on separate courses

Timed Finals Warm-up: 1:00 - 1:30 PM  Events: 1:45 PM

Girls Event #

Event

Boys Event #

115

9-10 200 Free Relay

116

117*

9-10 200 IM

118*

119

9-10 50 Breast

120

121

9-10 100 Free

122

123

9-10 50 Fly

124

125

9-10 100 Back

126

127*

9-10 500 Free

128*

* - Positive Check-In event, see Meet Announcement for closing time.