2008 All-Freestyle Swim Meet
October 11, 2008
Sponsored by Maryland Suburban Swim Club
Sanctioned by USA Swimming
Through Potomac Valley Swimming
Sanction # PVC-09-03
MEET
DIRECTOR:
Christopher
T. Huott
240-417-5569
entries@msscswimming.com
MEET
LOCATION:
Fairland
Aquatics Center
13820 Old Gunpowder Road
Laurel, Maryland
20707
301-362-6060
SCHEDULE: Girls Session: Warm-up 7:00 - 7:50 AM / Events: 8:00 AM
Boys Session: Warm-up 12:00 - 12:50 PM / Events 1:00 PM
The Meet Director reserves the right to combine the Boys Session with the Girls Session if the entry totals are small.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes and teams. All swimmers must be USA Swimming registered athletes. Athletes shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet. An athlete may only compete in his or her own age division.
RULES: Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are timed finals. A contestant may enter no more than four individual events. Seed times are short course yards only.
INCLUSION POLICY: 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.
WARM-UP: The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies for Open warm-ups will be followed.
TIMERS: Participating Clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The Deck Meet Director will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The Host Club is required to provide one timer per lane.
OFFICIALS:
All
certified officials wishing to volunteer to
work this meet please contact Lynne Gerlach at gerlach@msscswimming.com
prior to October 8th. Please include your club affiliation,
certifications held, and sessions you
wish to work. Officials assigned to this meet should sign in at the
recording
table at the start of the Warm-up. Certified officials, who have not
been
contacted, should volunteer their services to the Referee.
SUPERVISION: Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.
ADMISSION: There is no admission charge. Programs for each session will be available for $2.00 per session. Working officials and coaches receive a free program.
FEES: Fees for individual events are $4.00. Neither cash nor telephone entries will be accepted.
ENTRIES: Club entries will be accepted by email. Submission of entries by email must include the following files: the Hy-Tek Commlink II file, The Team Manager Meet Entry Report files (one by SWIMMER and one by EVENT) and an "Entry Cover Sheet." The name and phone number of the Club representative submitting the email must be included. INDIVIDUAL OR UNATTACHED ENTRIES WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED BY delivery to the Post Office Box address below and will not be accepted by e-mail, unless those swimmers are training with a club and that club is submitting their entries in the required above Hy-Tek format. Clubs submitting by email may submit entries to entries@msscswimming.com, in the subject heading type, "MSSC All Freestyle Meet - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks. Evidence of current USA-S registration will be required for deck entries. This can be done by presenting a copy fo yoru USA-S athlete registration card.
Optional: Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and imported into Team Manager. The meet events file can be found at 09-03-events.zip
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.