The City of Rockville Department of Recreation and Parks

Meet Director:

Mark Eldridge (240) 314-8752,  meldridge@rockvillemd.gov

Referee:

Jim Garner (301) 977-1222, garner@garnerjim.net

Location:

Rockville Municipal Swim Center

355 Martins Lane

Rockville, MD  20850

There is a 50 Meter, 8 lane heated outdoor pool, and an indoor 6 lane 25 yard pool.  A pool will be available for warm-up and warm-down throughout the meet.

Dates and Times:

Friday, May 30, 2008

Warm-up: 4:20 – 5:20 pm  Events: 5:30 pm

Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, 2008

13-14 & Senior Warm-up: 6:50 – 7:50 am      Events: 8:00 am

10&Un & 11-12 Warm-up: 1:30 – 2:30 pm     Events: 2:40 pm

Eligibility:

Open to all PVS registered athletes and invited United States Swimming athletes.  Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable cut-off times.  Entry times and USS memberships are subject to confirmation.

NOTE:  Entries for the 13-14 and Senior 50 Backstroke, 50 Breaststroke, and 50 Butterfly will accepted from any swimmer who has already qualified for either the 100 or 200 event in the respective stroke.

NOTE: Entries for the 11-12 200 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke, and 200 Butterfly will be accepted from any swimmer who as already qualified for the 100 event in the respective stroke.

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 and Manager and the PVS Age Group Chair, Bill Marlin at coach_bill@verizon.net.  The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.

Rules:

Current United States Swimming Rules shall govern the meet.  All events are timed finals.  A contestant may enter no more than four individual events per day and no more than seven individual events for the meet.

No on-deck USA-S registration will be permitted

Seeding:

All individual events will be preseeded with the exception of the 400 Free and 400 IM.  Swimmers in the 400 Freestyle must check in by 5:00 pm on Friday, May 30.  Swimmers in the 400 IM must check in by 7:30 am on Sunday June 1.  Verification of time for 400 Free and 400 IM is required with entry.

PVS Scratch Policy will be enforced.  Athletes who have not checked in prior to the specified time will be scratched from the event.  Athletes who have checked in, have been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event.

Seedings for the 13-14 and Senior 50 Backstroke, 50 Breaststroke, and 50 Butterfly as well as the 11-12 200 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke and 200 Butterfly will be based on 100 yard times in the respective strokes, so please use these times for entries.

Positive Check-In

Positive Check-in Deadlines:

Friday night – Session 1

Events 1-6 5:00 pm

Events 7-10 6:00 pm

Events 11-16 7:00 pm

Saturday morning – Session 2

Events 17-28 7:30 am

Events 29-36 8:30 am

Events 37-48 9:30 am

Saturday afternoon – Session 3

Events 49-58 2:00 pm

Events 59-66 3:00 pm

Events 67-74 3:30 pm

Sunday morning – Session 4

Events 75-82 7:30 am

Events 83-90 8:30 am

Events 91-98 9:30 am

Sunday afternoon – Session 5

Events 99-108 2:00 pm

Events 109-124 3:00 pm

Meet management will distribute positive check-in sheets to each club for each of the sessions being checked-in.  Coaches for each club are responsible for completing the check-ins for their club by the appropriate deadline and turning them in to Mark Eldridge.

Warm-up:

The prescribed Potomac Valley warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed.

Timers:

Clubs will be responsible to provide their fair share of timers, and will be assigned lanes by the meet manager.

Officials:

All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet, please contact the RMSC Officials Chairman, Jim Garner at (301) 977-1222.or garner@garnerjim.net prior to May 20.  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.

Awards:

Individual Events: Medals through third place for 12 & Under events

Relays: Medals for first place, ribbons for second and third in 12 & Under events

Age-Group: High point awards for first place and runner-up in each age-group.

Scoring:

Individual: 20 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Relays: 40 34 32 30 28 16 24 22 20 18 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

No more than 2 relay teams may score for each club in each event.

Supervision:

Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers, both at the meet and in the warm-up/warm-down area.  Inappropriate behavior will be cause for suspension from the meet and the Rockville Swim Center facility.

Admission:

There is no admission charge.  Heat sheets will be available at no charge.

Fees:

Individual Events: $5.00     Relays: $10.00

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.

Warning:

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.

Entries:

Computer disk entries (Hy-Tek) require a meet entry report by SWIMMER and a meet entry report by EVENT from Team Manager.  Also submit a competed “Entry Cover Sheet”.  Signature and phone number of club official must be included with the entry.  Meet director reserves the right to limit entries.

All Relay-only swimmers must be listed on the meet entry in order to participate in the meet.

E-mail entries will be accepted:

• 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 numbers (men, women, total entry) and contact information
• Send to meldridgerockvillemd.gov

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.

Entry Times:

Short course entry times will be considered conforming times for this meet.  Long course entry times must be designated with a capital letter “L”.  These non-conforming times will be seeded after short course times.  Entries that are not submitted on the required forms, are not complete, or are not legible, will not be accepted and will be returned.  The Meet Director will not be held responsible if there is not time to properly resubmit the entry.

Deadline:

All PVS entries will be accepted until Tuesday, May 13 at 6:00 pm.  After that, all entries both PVS and non-PVS will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis until the entry deadline of Tuesday, May 20, or until the meet fills to capacity.  It is strongly suggested that all PVS teams get their entries in by May 13.  Non-PVS teams should submit entries as early as possible.  This meet will fill to capacity.

Mail Entries to:

Mark Eldridge

355 Martins Lane

Rockville, MD  20850

(240) 314-8752

Make Checks Payable to:

RMSC Parents’ Club, Inc.

Girls

No Slower than

No Slower Than

Boys

Event

SCY

LCM

Event Description

SCY

LCM

Event

1

6:09.29

5:29.29

12 & Under 400 Meter Freestyle #

6:05.99

5:26.69

2

3

5:37.89

5:01.59

13-14 400 Meter Freestyle #

5:36.19

5:00.09

4

5

5:15.89

4:41.99

Senior 400 Meter Freestyle #

4:54.59

4:24.79

6

7

11-12 200 Meter Backstroke

8

9

2:31.69

2:50.79

13-14 200 Meter Backstroke

2:24.69

2:43.09

10

11

2:22.59

2:41.09

Senior 200 Meter Backstroke

2:13.29

2:30.39

12

13

28.59

32.69

13-14 50 Meter Freestyle

26.79

30.59

14

15

27.79

31.69

Senior 50 Meter Freestyle

24.49

27.79

16

Positive Check-in required for all events in Session 1
See above

# Use 500 yard freestyle short course times – Verification of time required with entry.

Girls

No Slower than

No Slower Than

Boys

Event

SCY

LCM

Event Description

SCY

LCM

Event

17

2:28.59

2:47.79

13-14 200 Meter Butterfly

2:22.69

2:41.19

18

19

2:23.29

2:43.59

Senior 200 Meter 200 Butterfly

2:14.99

2:31.89

20

21

2:48.59

3:11.19

13-14 200 Meter Breaststroke

2:40.49

3:02.79

22

23

2:45.89

3:08.19

Senior 200 Meter Breaststroke

2:28.89

2:48.89

24

25

1:00.19

1:08.49

13-14 100 Meter Freestyle

58.29

1:06.19

26

27

58.39

1:06.19

Senior 100 Meter Freestyle

52.49

59.69

28

29

13-14 50 Meter Butterfly

30

31

Senior 50 Meter Butterfly

32

33

1:09.99

1:18.49

13-14 100 Meter Backstroke

1:06.09

1:15.19

34

35

1:06.99

1:16.79

Senior 100 Meter Backstroke

1:01.39

1:09.39

36

37

2:27.59

2:47.09

13-14 200 Meter Individual Medley

2:22.49

2:41.39

38

39

2:21.39

2:40.79

Senior 200 Meter Individual Medley

2:07.19

2:23.89

40

41

13-14 50 Meter Breaststroke*

42

43

Senior 50 Breaststroke*

44

45

- - - - -

- - - - -

13-14 200 Meter Freestyle Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

46

47

- - - - -

- - - - -

Senior 200 Meter Freestyle Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

48

Positive Check-in required for all events in Session 2
See above

* Swimmers who have achieved the meet QT for the 100 of 200 in this stroke.  Please enter using 50 times.

Girls

No Slower than

No Slower Than

Boys

Event

SCY

LCM

Event Description

SCY

LCM

Event

49

3:08.59

3:32.59

10 & Un 200 Meter Individual Medley

3:07.09

3:30.89

50

51

2:40.29

3:01.19

11-12 200 Meter Individual Medley

2:36.29

2:56.69

52

53

11-12 200 Meter Butterfly

54

55

41.39

46.59

10 & Un 50 Meter Backstroke

40.69

45.79

56

57

34.89

39.39

11-12 50 Meter Backstroke

34.09

38.39

58

59

1:41.09

1:54.29

10 & Un 100 Meter Breaststroke

1:41.09

1:54.29

60

61

1:23.89

1:35.19

11-12 100 Meter Breaststroke

1:21.79

1:32.89

62

63

33.59

38.09

10 & Un 50 Meter Freestyle

33.09

37.59

64

65

29.79

33.89

11-12 50 Meter Freestyle

29.29

33.19

66

67

1:28.09

1:39.19

10 & Un 100 Meter Butterfly

1:27.99

1:39.09

68

69

1:14.09

1:23.49

11-12 100 Meter Butterfly

1:12.49

1:21.59

70

71

- - - - -

- - - - -

10 & Un 200 Meter Medley Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

72

73

- - - - -

- - - - -

11-12 200 Meter Medley Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

74

Positive Check-in required for all events in Session 3
See above

Girls

No Slower than

No Slower Than

Boys

Event

SCY

LCM

Event Description

SCY

LCM

Event

75

5:09.19

5:42.89

13-14 400 Meter Individual Medley

5:05.29

5:42.19

76

77

4:55.19

5:30.59

Senior 400 Meter Individual Medley

4:35.29

5:06.89

78

79

1:08.39

1:17.39

13-14 100 Meter Butterfly

1:04.39

1:12.59

80

81

1:04.49

1:12.99

Senior 100 Meter Butterfly

58.29

1:05.89

82

83

13-14 50 Meter Backstroke*

84

85

Senior 50 Meter Backstroke*

86

87

1:18.69

1:29.49

13-14 100 Meter Breaststroke

1:13.19

1:23.29

88

89

1:14.39

1:24.99

Senior 100 Meter Breaststroke

1:08.39

1:17.69

90

91

2:10.79

2:27.99

13-14 200 Meter Freestyle

2:05.39

2:22.39

92

93

2:04.79

2:20.79

Senior 200 Meter Freestyle

1:52.59

2:07.59

94

95

- - - - -

- - - - -

13-14 200 Meter Medley Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

96

97

- - - - -

- - - - -

Senior 200 Meter Medley Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

98

Positive Check-in required for all events in Session 4
See above

* Swimmers must have achieved the meet QT for the 100 or 200 backstroke.  Please enter using 50 times.

Girls

No Slower than

No Slower Than

Boys

Event

SCY

LCM

Event Description

SCY

LCM

Event

99

2:40.09

3:00.89

10 & Un 200 Meter Freestyle

2:37.59

2:58.19

100

101

2:20.19

2:38.39

11-12 200 Meter Freestyle

2:17.29

2:35.59

102

103

11-12 200 Meter Breaststroke

104

105

39.09

44.19

10 & Un 50 Meter Butterfly

39.59

44.39

106

107

32.99

37.59

11-12 50 Meter Butterfly

32.39

36.59

108

109

1:27.79

1:38.89

10 & Un 100 Meter Backstroke

1:25.59

1:36.39

110

111

1:15.79

1:25.39

11-12 100 Meter Backstroke

1:13.39

1:22.89

112

113

44.79

50.79

10 & Un 50 Meter Breaststroke

44.59

50.49

114

115

38.49

43.79

11-12 50 Meter Breaststroke

37.89

43.09

116

117

1:15.79

1:25.69

10 & Un 100 Meter Freestyle

1:16.09

1:26.09

118

119

1:04.59

1:13.39

11-12 100 Meter Freestyle

1:03.19

1:11.79

120

121

- - - - -

- - - - -

10 & Un 200 Meter Freestyle Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

122

123

- - - - -

- - - - -

11 -12 200 Meter Freestyle Relay

- - - - -

- - - - -

124

Positive Check-in required for all events in Session 5
See above