Meet Director:

Sam Burgi
619-212-9853
sburgi@fbswim.org

Meet Location:

Schedule:

Revised

11 & Over Preliminary Sessions
Thursday, Friday and Sunday

6:30 - 7:35 am

7:45 am

10 & Under Preliminary Sessions
Thursday, Friday and Sunday

12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
1:00pm-1:50pm

1:30 pm
2:00pm

Finals Sessions
Thursday, Friday and Sunday

4:50 - 5:50 pm

6:00 pm

6:30pm

Saturday Afternoon

2:00 - 2:50 pm

3:00 pm

Eligibility:

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

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 and PVS Age Group Chairman (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.

Qualifying Times

Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) LCM times listed or the 2008 "AAA" or better short course times. Qualifying times must have been achieved after July 8, 2006.  Short course entry times are non-conforming times and will be seeded after long course entry times.

Warnings:

Any club that enters an unregistered or improperly registered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered coach, or a coach with expired or incomplete certifications 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 are subject to verification. Any athlete not achieving a QT, may be asked to prove the entry time to the Meet Director prior to the end 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.

Rules:

Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are timed finals. A contestant may enter no more than three events per day or six for the meet. Positive check-in is required for all individual and relay events 400 meters 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.

No on-deck USA-S registration is permitted.

Individual Events:

All individual events 200 meters and shorter are trials and finals. All relays and individual events 4

Warm-up 4:50 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

00 meters and longer are timed finals events. For all prelim/final events there will be 1 final heat for 10 & Under events. For all prelim/final 11-12 and 13-14 events, there will be 2 final heats, swum fastest to slowest:  "A" final then "B" final.

A contestant may compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.

Timed finals for:
10/U, 11-12, 13-14 400 Freestyle
14/U 800 & 1500 Freestyle

The 10 & Under, 11-12 and 13-14 400 Freestyle will be swum slowest to fastest.  The 14 & Under 800 and 1500 Freestyle events will be swum fastest to slowest. The 14 & Under 800 and 1500 Freestyle will alternate women and men.  The fastest heat of the Women's and Men's 800 Freestyle will be swum as the first event of the evening program on Thursday.   The 13-14 400 Freestyle will have the two fastest heats swum in finals. 

Positive check-in is required. Verification of time must be submitted with entry.

Swimmers in the 800 and 1500 Freestyle events are responsible for providing their own timer and counter, except for those in the fastest heat being swum as part of Thursdays finals.

Relays:

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".

Awards:

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 with the highest point total in individual events in the following age groups: 10 & Under, 11-12 & 13-14 based on the swimmer's age on the first day of the meet. A swimmer ""swimming-up" will receive points actually awarded in the events they swim. Relay events will NOT be used to determine high point awards.)

Scoring:

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

Warm-up 4:50 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

Relays: 40, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2

Officials:

Each participating club is requested to provide at least one table worker or official (referee, starter or stroke and turn judge) per session if entering 25 or more splashes.

All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the FBST Officials Chairman, Ed Dona, 703-629-9240, edona@cox.net prior to July 8. 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.

Timers:

Participating clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The meet directo

Warm-up 4:50 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

r will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The host club is required to provide one timer per lane.

Supervision:

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

Credentials:

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.

Admission Programs:

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:

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

Meet Entry Procedures:

General Instructions:

• Entries should be submitted using Hy-Tek Team Manager via e-mail.  Events for this meet can be downloaded at 61mm07071708.  Include in the e-mail subject heading "2008 PVS LC SenAge Group LC Championships - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks.  Also include training site if your club submits multiple entries and number of timers being committed.
• Two Team Manager meet entry reports (saved in Word) must also be sent:  (1) by swimmer and (2) by event.
• In body of e-mail give total number of splashes (men, women, total entry) and contact information (name, phone, e-mail address)
• 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.
Each club is requested to remit one check via USPS 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.
   
• All Relay-only swimmers must be listed on the meet entry in order to participate in the meet.

Deadline:

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

Make Checks Payable to:

Send Entries to:

Sam Burgi
3736 Mary Evelyn Way
Alexandria, VA 22309
619-212-9853
sburgi@fbswim.org

Women Event #

NST QT

Events

NST QT

Men Event #

1

2:53.09

11-12 200 Medley Relay

2:59.09

2

3

2:33.19

13-14 200 Medley Relay

2:33.89

4

5

3:08.99

12 & Under 200 Backstroke

3:08.99

6

9

1:31.79

13-14 100 Breaststroke

1:31.89

10

11

46.89

11-12 50 Breaststroke

49.29

12

15

2:27.39

13-14 200 Freestyle

2:25.19

16

17

1:14.59

11-12 100 Freestyle

1:17.09

18

21

1:20.59

13-14 100 Butterfly

1:20.79

22

23

39.49

11-12 50 Butterfly

42.59

24

27 * &

4:48.89

13-14 400 Freestyle Relay

4:39.69

28 * &

29 * &

5:22.09

11-12 400 Freestyle Relay

5:26.89

30 * &

31$ *

10:52.79

14 & Under 800 Freestyle

11:39.79

32$ *