Paris Jacobs
703-391-2077
pjacobs10@comcast.net

Thursday Night

4:30 - 5:20 pm

5:30 pm

11 & Over Preliminary Sessions

6:30 - 7:50 am

8:00 am

10 & Under Preliminary Sessions

11:50 am - 12:50 pm

1:00 pm

Finals Sessions

4:50 - 5:50 pm

6:00 pm

Open to all registered Potomac Valley Swimming athletes. A contestant may participate in only his or her own age group.

Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) SCY or LCM times listed. SCY times will be seeded as conforming times. Qualifying times must have been achieved subsequent to February 21, 2005.

Any club that enters an unregistered or improperly registered 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 that club until the said fine has been paid.

All entry times and USA Swimming memberships will be verified via the SWIMS database.  Any athlete not achieving a QT, may be asked to prove the entry time to the Meet Director prior to the start of the meet. 

Entry fees are due with meet entry. Unpaid fees will be reported to the PVS Administrative Office at the conclusion of the meet.

Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet.  Positive check-in is required for all individual and relay events 400 yards and longer.  These events will be seeded on the deck.  Swimmers and relay teams not checked-in will be scratched from that event.  Athletes who have checked in, been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event.

No late entries are permitted for this meet.

Dive-over starts may be used at this meet at the discretion of the Meet Manager and/or Meet Referee.  Coaches are requested to review Guidance for Dive-Over Starts for Coaches.  Officials are requested to review Protocol for Dive-Over Starts.  A determination whether to do so will be made shortly after entries for this meet have been processed.

Coaches are expected to be in compliance with the new USA Swimming Background Screening Program. 

All individual events are trials and finals, except the 11-12 500 Freestyle, 10 & Under 500 Freestyle, and the 1000 & 1650 Freestyle, which will be timed finals. Except as noted above, the 10 & Under events will have 1 final heat. The 11-12, 12 & Under, 13-14, and 14 & Under events will have two final heats which will be swum fastest to slowest. A contestant may compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.

Special Note: It is anticipated preliminaries for athletes age 11 and older will be conducted in separate courses for Men and Women. Athletes should select their events with that in mind.

The 11-12 500 Freestyle, 14 & Under 1000 and 1650 Freestyle events will be swum fastest to slowest. Except for the 10 & Under 500 Freestyle, they will alternate women and men if only one course is used. If two courses are used, the slowest heats may be moved to permit both courses to finish at approximately the same time. The fastest heat of the Women's 1000 and Men's 1650 Freestyle will be swum as the first event of the evening program on Sunday. Positive check-in is required. Verification of time must be submitted with entry.

All relays are timed finals and will be swum in preliminary sessions. Exception: The fastest heat of the 13-14 800 Freestyle Relays will be swum as the last event of Friday evening.

There is no limit on the number of entries per club, but only two relay teams per club per relay event may score.

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".

Medals will be awarded 1st through 8th place for individual events and 1st through 3rd place for relay events. High point awards will be presented to the male and female athlete who have the highest point totals in the following age groups: 10 & Under, 11-12 & 13-14. This will be based on points actually earned in the events swum. (Relay events will NOT be used to determine high point awards.)

Events: 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

All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the Machine Aquatics Officials Chairman, Pamela Starke-Reed, 703-620-4645, ps39p@nih.gov prior to February 26 Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Officials volunteering should sign in at the recording table prior to the start of Warm-ups. Certified officials who have not previously advised of their availability may volunteer their services to the Referee at this time.

Participating clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The meet director will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The host club is required to provide one timer per lane.

Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.

Parents not working the meet as a deck official, volunteer lane timer, or other meet position are not permitted on deck. Only athletes, USA Swimming certified coaches, and deck officials are permitted on the pool deck. Coaches and deck officials are required to display their current USA Swimming card.

There is no admission charge. The meet program will be available for $10.00 and will include a finals program coupon for each finals session. Working Officials will receive a daily program free.

Fees for individual events are $5.00; relay events are $10.00.

General Instructions:

• Entries may be submitted (1) manually, (2) by sending a disk to the meet director or (3) via e-mail.
Follow the instructions under the appropriate heading below. The immediately following rules apply regardless of method chosen.
• Each club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Please put the club name on the entry check (if not a club check) and note the number of entries. Please do not send cash. Meet directors have been instructed not to accept telephone or fax entries.
• Entries not submitted on the required forms, not complete, not legible or not in the required electronic format, will not be accepted and will be returned. The Meet Director will not be held responsible if there is no time to properly resubmit the entry.
• Individual or unattached entries will only be accepted by manual entry sent to the address listed below or by e-mail containing all the particulars required by the master entry sheet.
• NEW: All Relay-only swimmers must be listed on the meet entry in order to participate in the meet.
• Optional: Before preparing your entries, events and SCY/LCM QT's for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager (go to team manager/file/import/meet events). The file IS NOW available zipped. "31mm030107.zip"

• Manual entries must be submitted on the PVS master entry sheet. Also submit a completed "entry cover sheet". Signature and phone number of a club official must be included with entry for validation of entries. Short course entry times must be designated with a capital letter "Y".
• There will be a $1.00 surcharge per athlete for manual entries of 10 or more.

• Submit the Hy-Tek commlink II file along with an "entry cover sheet." The team manager meet entry report files must also be sent one by swimmer and one by event. The name and phone number of the club representative submitting the email must also be included.
• All relays may be submitted in Hy-Tek (commlink II file) or on PVS master entry sheet.

• Club E-mail entries will be accepted provided the transmission time is prior to entry deadline.
• Attach one report by event, one by name (save as Word for Windows in Team Manager)
• Attach commlink file
• In body of e-mail give total number of splashes including relays (men, women, total entry) and contact information (name, phone, e-mail address)
• Remember to also send entry fee check via USPS
• Clubs submitting by email should submit entries to Paris Jacobs at pjacobs10@comcast.net, in the subject heading type, "2007 PVS JO SC Age Grp Champs - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks. Clubs submitting multiple entries should also indicate the training site.
• Meet Directors are requested to acknowledge receipt by return e-mail within 24 hours. Clubs submitting entries that do NOT receive an acknowledgement should contact the Meet Director by other than e-mail to confirm receipt.

The meet director must receive all entries for this meet no later than

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.

By mail to: Paris Jacobs
P.O. Box 7490
Arlington, VA  22207-0490
703-391-2077
By e-mail to: Paris Jacobs at pjacobs10@comcast.net

1 $ *

6:07.99

5:28.39

11-12 500 Free

6:08.29

5:28.69

2 $ *

3 $ *

20:29.99

21:26.69

14 & under 1650 Free

14 & under 1000 Free

11:59.99

10:47.09

4 $ *

5

2:14.99

2:23.49

11-12 200 Medley Relay

2:19.99

2:38.19

6

7

NT

NT

13-14 200 Medley Relay

NT

NT

8

9

2:38.99

2:59.69

12 & Under 200 Backstroke

2:42.99

3:04.19

10

11

1:16.59

1:26.59

13-14 100 Breaststroke

1:13.89

1:23.49

12

15

38.09

42.99

11-12 50 Breaststroke

38.99

44.09

16

17

2:06.89

2:23.39

13-14 200 Freestyle

2:03.89

2:19.99

18

21

1:02.89

1:11.09

11-12 100 Freestyle

1:03.39

1:11.59

22

23

1:07.99

1:15.69

13-14 100 Butterfly

1:05.69

1:14.19

24

27

32.99

37.29

11-12 50 Butterfly

33.29

37.59

28

29 *

5:09.39

5:49.59

14 & under 400 Individual Medley

5:07.99

5:57.09

30 *

33

2:38.89

2:59.59

11-12 200 Individual Medley

2:41.49

3:02.49

34

35 $ *

9:30.99

10:45.19

13-14 800 Freestyle Relay

9:30.99

10:45.19

36 $ *